College students, Bryan Morgan and Martin Stevenson, have created their own sophisticated camera, unmatched in 1963, and they are eager to test it out. What better place than the presidential parade, as President John F. Kennedy aims to win over political opponents in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963?Things escalate quickly when the President is shot, and Bryan and Martin catch it all on film. The chase is on to avoid those who conspired in the President's assassination, and it m...

Since the original publication of this seminal work, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has come into its own as a widely practiced approach to helping people change. This book provides the definitive statement of ACT--from conceptual and empirical foundations to clinical techniques--written by its originators. ACT is based on the idea that psychological rigidity is a root cause of a wide range of clinical problems. The authors describe effective, innovative ways to cultivate psycholo...

Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative work. In this inventive and revealing work, Steven Ridgely examines Terayama's life and art to show that a conventional notion of him does not do full justice to the meaning and importance of his wide-ranging, often playful body of work.Ridgely places Terayama at the center of Japanese and global counterculture and finds in his work a larger story...

Goldilocks is hopping and skipping through the woods one day when she comes across a quaint cottage. She goes inside to investigate the odd little house, with three bowls of porridge, three chairs, and three beds. What happens when the owners of the house come home? Find out as this classic fairy tale comes to life with music and full-color illustrations. This hardcover book comes with CD and online music access.

A new look at the 1937 abduction of a wealthy wife and mother, based on previously classified FBI documents—includes photos.When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island's wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months.J. Edgar Hoover personally assigned his best FBI agents to the case, and within a short time, Pa...

The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.As a literate Christian, entrepreneur, and wife of an Anglican clergyman, Mary was one of a small number of "mixed blood" Indians to achieve a position of prominence among English colonists. Born to a Creek mother and an English father, Mary's bicultural heritage prepared her for an eventful adulthood spent in the rough and tumble world of Colonial G...

‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Amr al-Awza‘i (c.707–774) was Umayyad Syria’s most influential jurist, part of a generation of scholars who began establishing the first formal structures for the preservation and dissemination of religious knowledge. Following the Abbasid revolution, they provided a point of stability in otherwise unstable times.Despite his close ties to the old regime, al-Awza‘i continued to participate in legal and theological matters in the Abbasid era. Although his immediate...

A boy who seeks feathers for his collection finds a baby bird. While he is climbing a tree to return the bird to its nest, he accidentally falls, but to his surprise is rescued by an angel. The event begins his journey of helping others and finally leads to transforming him into a higher being. This book invites the reader to find feathers hidden in the color illustrations as they read.

Aerospace physiology (sometimes called flight or aviation physiology, human factors, or aeromedical factors) is the scientific discipline studying the effects of flight conditions on human physiological and cognitive systems, teaching aviators to work and function at peak efficiency in the abnormal environment of flight. This information is introduced to pilots throughout their initial training including hypoxia, spatial disorientation, visual illusions, fatigue, trapped gases, and many ot...

At a time when Yemen has been ravaged by a decade of war and subject to myriad political and military interventions, the essays in this collection serve as a timely reminder of the need for grounded anthropological study in even the harshest of circumstances. From tribesmen to refugees, revolutionaries to farmers, state workers to charity workers, intellectuals to the unemployed and the destitute, we learn of the everyday political languages through which people in the country live their l...

During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music. Indeed, revered contemporary film composers like John Williams and Danny Elfman use the same techniques that Steiner himself perfected in his iconic work for such classics as Casablanca, King Kong, Gone with the Wind, ...

The Smart Campus Manifesto: Transforming IT and OT for the AI‑Enabled Sustainable Smart Campus is a leadership guide for institutions navigating the convergence of Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT), and the built environment. Written for executive leaders in higher education and other complex campus settings, this Manifesto reframes the Smart Campus not as a collection of technology projects, but as a new institutional operating model. As campuses be...