For Victor Cox, a professor of film history, the Hollywood films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are more real than his daily life. When his wife is found drowned, Cox is the first murder suspect. He falls in love with a student who looks like the 1920s film star Louise Brooks, but she disappears at a Belgian seaside resort. Smeared in lipstick in their hotel room are the words "No Sale," the same words Elizabeth Taylor wrote on a mirror in Butterfield 8. Subsequently, a ser...

How can teachers use the comprehension strategies put forward in books like Strategies That Work and Mosaic of Thought to help students become not just better readers and thinkers but also better test takers? The four authors of Put Thinking to the Test have spent years pursuing that question and have developed a groundbreaking approach, as their colleague Ellin Keene writes in the foreword to the book:

In What Music Did, experimental filmmaker and violinist Tony Conrad explores in depth the relationship between music and mathematics. A work of decades that was left unfinished at the time of his death in 2016, Conrad’s expansive history of the interrelationship of music and mathematics is published here for the first time. Editor Patrick Nickleson describes Conrad’s method as that of an anarchic, interarts haberdasher; much of the research comes from musty and out-of-print source...

Tinnitus - Raus aus dem Schneckenhaus Weißes Rauschen gegen Tinnitus zum Überdecken der Ohrgeräusche Bestimmte Geräusche, wie das weiße Rauschen, können beim Menschen eine therapeutische Wirkung entfalten. So wird der sogenannte "White Noise" unter anderem in der Psychoakustik zur Behandlung von Tinnitus eingesetzt. Aber auch bei Schlafstörungen und zur Beruhigung von Babys hat sich das Verfahren tausendfach bewährt. Weißes Rauschen ist ein leicht unregelmäßiges, breitbandiges Zischen, wie...

Among the many challenges confronting the liberal arts today is a fundamental disconnect between the curricula that many institutions offer and the training that many students need. Discipline-specific models of teaching and learning can underprepare students for the kinds of interdisciplinary collaboration that employers now expect. Although aware of these expectations and the need for change, many small colleges and universities have struggled to translate interdisciplinarity into progra...

The Frontier: the line between civilisation and the unknown where pioneers rely on a strong will and a dead eye not big city laws.A land where the sweat you shed makes a place yours, whatever lines the government draws on a map; where everyone knows putting on a badge doesn't make a sheriff better than everyone else; where the divide between legend and reality isn't always where it seems.From aging settlers who miss the days when the town only had one stree...

Over the last several decades, academic discourse on racial inequality has focused primarily on political and social issues with significantly less attention on the complex interplay between race and economics. African Americans in the U.S. Economy represents a contribution to recent scholarship that seeks to lessen this imbalance.This book builds upon, and significantly extends, the principles, terminology, and methods of standard economics and black political economy. In...

Examining Jesus's Resurrection Through Three Realities: Truth, Goodness, and BeautyJesus's resurrection happened centuries ago, but evidence shows it is at the center of everything that is true, good, and beautiful today. These 3 attributes—or transcendentals—provide a simple framework for understanding reality, including Christ's victory over death and why it matters for your life.In this approachable study, New Testament scholar ...

Joseph Conrad schildert in seinem berühmten Meisterwerk die Reise von Kapitän Marlow in den Kongo, in das "Herz der Finsternis": Mit seinem kleinen Dampfboot fährt Marlow im Auftrag einer belgischen Handelsgesellschaft den Kongo-Fluss hinauf zu einer fernen Außenstation im Inneren des Landes. Dort trifft er den düsteren und zwielichtigen Elfenbeinhändler Kurtz, der mit dem Tode ringt. Als Leiter der Außenstation der Handelskompanie verkörpert Kurtz den perfiden, skrupellosen und rassistisc...

Sean Patrick Sayers peels away the veneer of society in this chilling account of a world in crisis and without order as the reader meets characters adeptly forged from years of hardship and a never ending winter. Follow Conrad Scott as he emerges from a tragic accident to discover that the modern age has ended and the survivors have succumbed to savage acts of brutality. Conrad must survive the winter to search for his daughter while overcoming the worst of humanity. But, it is through the...

Reconnecting with such authors as Seth Godin from Guerrilla Marketing Handbook, The Father of Guerrilla Marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson, and coauthor Jeannie Levinson, present fans and new guerrillas with the first book to deliver the best of Guerrilla Marketing—a combination of the latest secrets, strategies, tactics, and tools from more than twenty-five top selling Guerrilla Marketing books. Learn how to reshape your approach to branding, advertising, social media, networking and...

Solange er zurückdenken kann, führt Prinz Dirion einen aussichtslosen Krieg. Gegen einen Dämon, dem kein Sterblicher gewachsen ist. Und nun soll es gerade sein jüngerer Bruder Aldrin sein, der den düsteren Dämon schlagen kann und damit der Befreier des Königreichs Albenbrück wird? Als Dirion von seinem Vater auf ein weiteres Himmelfahrtskommando entsendet wird, beschließt er, sein Schicksal endlich selbst in die Hand zu nehmen, um sich und seine Verlobte zu retten! - Ein packends Fantasyab...