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This handbook addresses the performance problems specific to 20th-century music, most of which centre around rhythm and counting. As well explaining the rhythmic complexities in question, the text provides exercises for mastering them.

An account of Cambodian history from World War II up to 1979, focusing on the civil war period and the revolutionary excesses of the Pol Pot regime. Chandler considers why the revolution happened and how it related to Cambodia's earlier history and to other events in Southeast Asia.

A bilingual edition of the more than 300 sonnets, madrigals and other poems produced by Michelangelo over his long career. The poems reveal much of the artist's inner feelings about such universal themes as love, death and redemption.

Scholars in the area of social action present new theories about this process, fashioning a social psychology of social movements that goes beyond theories currently in use.

"Haggai and Zechariah 1-8, Volume 25B" in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible" part of the Scripture known as the Minor Prophets, were written during a critical period in Israel's history, the momentous return of the Jews from Babylonian exile. This book considers the "Book of Haggai" and the "Book of Zechariah" in a linguistic, and social context.

Examines the psychological make-up of the participants in an adult heterosexual X-rated video, "Stairway to Paradise". The book includes interviews with performers, writers, directors, producers and technicians, and provides insight into the porn industry's view of the video's intended audience.

A series of essays that aim to elucidate how the unconscious awareness of self and gender we develop from earliest infancy continues to shape both our experiences as men and women and the patterns of inequality and difference that permeate our society and culture.

In this text Denis Donoghue presents an account of his engagement with the works of T.S. Eliot. Whether writing about Eliot's poetry or confronting the poet's often contentious prose, Donoghue demonstrates what it means to read and to hear a master of the language.

The public journalism movement emerged after the 1988 presidential election as a countermeasure against eroding trust in the news media. This volume recalls the history of the movement and explains how its innovations offer an opportunity to revitalise the press and improve civic life.

Can men mother? Can women be breadwinners? This is an investigation of single fathers, married baby boom mothers, and heterosexual egalitarian couples and their children, to discover how family relationships can flourish without gender as the central organizing mechanism.

Michael Walzer is widely regarded as one of the world's leading political theorists. This book brings together some of Walzer's important work to provide a wide-ranging survey of his thinking and the vision that underlies his responses to contemporary political debates. It also includes a essay on human rights.

A discussion of the production, circulation and use of books in early Christianity. This book covers areas such as the relation between oral tradition and written materials, books' transcription, publication and dissemination, and how Christian libraries were formed and how they were used.

Presents more than 300 poems written by 65 different poets, all translated into modern English. The book covers the three watersheds in Chinese poetry - the early years before civil war, the Taiwan phase from the 1950s to the 1970s, and finally the post-1970s with the avant-garde movement.

The first comprehensive collection of the shorter poems since the Variorum minor poems of the 40s. Cloth edition ($55.) not seen by R&R. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.