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This short guide to the timely topic of state creation and secession illuminates the legal, poltical, and practical matters of secession and state creation on a global scale.

In this no-nonsense guide, author Amy Rogers Schwartzreich offers crucial advice for every stage of the musical theatre college audition.

In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims.

Slave-holders, Nazis, and psychopaths are indisputably bad people. But the ways in which they attempt to justify their actions provide uncomfortable parallels with our own moral deliberations. Moral philosophy provides tools for examining and evaluating our moral deliberations, and so serve an important function in moral education.

Democracy Inside develops a grounded theory of democratic change, citizen agency, and institutions as fields of action. The book investigates contemporary participatory innovations in K-12 education, criminal justice, and city government that share power over tasks and decisions commonly treated as professional matters.

How are our ability and motivation to be creative shaped by the world around us? Becoming Creative compares experiences of classical, jazz, and traditional musicians in South Africa, Finland, and the US to reveal how beliefs, learning methods, relationships, institutions, and inequalities enable or inhibit the development of creativity.

This Too is Music inspires teachers to foster playful settings where young students can thrive as improvisers, critical listeners, performers, and composers. Told through anecdotes and illustrated with examples, the book quells any doubts teachers may have regarding their abilities to create an environment where children can grow as musicians.

Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Aimed at a wide audience including educators, scholars, and project leaders, the Guide presents an in-depth approach to researching community artistic practices and to developing arts-based projects that address locally-defined needs.

Playing with Ease is a book about ergonomic technique for the guitar, as well as other instruments. Renowned classical guitarist David Leisner offers an introduction to the basic anatomy of movement, advice on relieving unnecessary tension, pioneering ideas about engaging large muscles, and tips for practicing and concert preparation.

In Sonidos Negros, readers learn how Flamenco's sensuality, quixotic idealism, and fierce soulfulness echo with contests that trace the rise and fall of the Spanish empire. From Inquisitional certifications of blood purity to Christmas pageants staged throughout the Americas, flamenco's Janus-faced stage Gypsy walks a knife's edge between Blackness and Whiteness.

Moving Otherwise offers a fascinating look at how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires enacted politics within political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. It is the first book on Argentine contemporary dance and it introduces a breadth of choreographers and practices to an English speaking audience.

More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a single contemporary ontology which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. Being and Motion sets out to remedy this lacuna in contemporary thought by providing a historical ontology of our present: an ontology of movement.

Communities that Care provides an in-depth examination and illustrative examples of how communities can increase their capacity to engage in evidence-based, community-driven approaches to improve public health and prevent youth behavior problems.

Teacher Evaluation in Music: A Guide for Music Teachers in the U. S. aims to help music teachers navigate the controversial terrain of teacher evaluation. This book is intended to help music teachers thrive within evaluation, find balance between advocating for themselves and their programs, and use teacher evaluation to improve teaching.

Bangkok Is Ringing is an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with dissidents in Bangkok and beyond, the book analyzes how political dissidents must be sensitive to the ways that their sounding is constrained and channeled.

This book is written specifically for band, choir, and orchestra teachers at all levels to help them use music-centered assessment in their teaching. Filled with practical advice and examples, Better Music Ensembles Through Assessment is a resource for improving performance and helping ensemble music educators deepen and document student learning.

The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest health system on the planet. And it is changing fast. Through Goldberg's interviews with changemakers in government, private industry, academia, and nonprofits, this book takes a panoramic and in-depth look at how these leaders are driving a revolution.

Preceded by Field epidemiology / edited by Michael B. Gregg. 3rd ed. c2008.

Get Close gives filmmakers new practical tools to make documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time.

Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent.

Transatlantic Television Drama looks at how serial dramas like Black Mirror captivate US audiences, and what this reveals about the ways Americans and Brits relate to each other on and off the screen.

The Exchange of Words is a philosophical exploration of human testimony, specifically as a form of intersubjective understanding in which speakers communicate by making themselves accountable for the truth of what they say. This account weaves together themes from philosophy of language, moral psychology, action theory, and epistemology, for a new approach to this basic human phenomenon.