Connections. We all want them. We seek them in our everyday lives, in our rel ationships with people, places and things. Emotion is at the heart of any meanin gful connection, and how we talk to each other taps into it. Our character, brou ght to life through our voice, is the most powerful tool we have to connect with people, especially when it comes to connecting on an emotional level.In the past, a transactional relationship with customers was sufficient. A simple experience tha...

Originally published in 1978, Medieval Music explores the fascinating development of medieval western music from its often obscure origins in the Jewish synagogue and early Church, to the mid-fifteenth century. The book is intended as a straightforward survey of medieval music and emphases the technical aspects such as form, style and notation. It is illustrated by nearly one hundred musical examples, the majority of which have been transcribed from original sources and many of wh...

« I l y a des années, je donnais des cours particuliers à une élève qui avait desdifficultés à l’école. Un jour, elle me demanda : “Comment fait-on pour apprendre l’Histoire ?” Prenant sa question tout à fait au sérieux, je lui ai répondu : “Je pense que tu me poses en fait deux questions : la première, comment puis-je en apprendre plus sur l’Histoire, et la deuxième, comment puis-je obtenir de meilleures notes en Histoire à l’école ? La première chose qu’il faut comprendre, c’est qu’il s’...

This is a reprint of John Holt's controversial book about the rights of children and how adults and children can live and learn together more enjoyably and transparently by rethinking their relationships. Under the guise of care and protection, children are kept in the walled garden of childhood, outside the world of human experience, for longer periods than ever before in human history. But for many children and parents, the walled garden of childhood is more like a prison, where authorit...

La Guerre de Sécession aux États-Unis se nourrit d'un conflit idéologique cristallisé autour de quelques personnages clés. L'Histoire retient que le Nord eut Abraham Lincoln, elle oublie trop souvent que le Sud eut John Calhoun. Aristocrate philosophe, penseur engagé, politicien hors pair et défenseur acharné de la cause sudiste, Calhoun mourut quelques années avant le déclenchement d'un conflit qu'il jugeait inéluctable et dont il avait prédit l'implacable barbarie. Le présent volume prés...

This updated edition includes fatigue and sleep definitions as well as strategies for the measurement and assessment of fatigue. The aviation performance, mood, and safety problems associated with sleep restriction and circadian disruptions in operational settings are highlighted. The biological bases of fatigue are discussed so that the reader can understand that it is a real physiological phenomenon and not 'just a state of mind'. Both traditional and newly-developed scientifically-valid...

British music in the era from the death of Henry Purcell to the so-called 'Musical Renaissance' of the late nineteenth century was once considered barren. This view has been overturned in recent years through a better-informed historical perspective, able to recognise that all kinds of British musical institutions continued to flourish, and not only in London. The publication, performance and recording of music by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British composers, supplemented by criti...

In the 1950s and 1960s, boxers John Caldwell and Freddie Gilroy reached the very pinnacle of their sport and brought immense pride to Belfast and Ireland. This is their story of friendship and rivalry, of glory and pain, of riches and poverty. Belfast is world-renowned for her glovemen. Best of Enemies explores the careers of two of the city's finest exponents of the noble art of boxing. As friends, they won Olympic medals for Ireland. As professionals, they quickly became bitter adversari...

Always Adventure (Semper Odyssey)Colonel John Caldwell is a second-generation Marine and a first-generation politician. Combat experiences that earned him a Bronze Star and other awards are preceded by youthful escapades and followed by unexpected career twists. A daring jump from a moving freight train... A nearly fatal encounter with a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake... not to mention the labor and delivery countdown of his firstborn on an insane interstate trek ...

This gripping narrative is an in-depth study of the valiant men of General John Caldwell’s Union Division during the Gettysburg Campaign. Caldwell’s Division made a desperate stand against a tough and determined Confederate force in farmer George Rose's nearly 20-acre Wheatfield. Ready for harvest, the infamous Wheatfield would change hands nearly six times in the span of two hours of fighting on July 2, becoming a trampled, bloody, no-man's land for thousands of wounded soldiers.S...

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.

In "John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College," Frederick Douglass delivers a powerful and impassioned tribute to the abolitionist John Brown, articulating the moral imperatives of his actions in pursuit of justice and equality. Douglass employs a rhetorical style that is both eloquent and persuasive, drawing on historical context to situate Brown's struggle within the broader tapestry of the fight against slavery. This address not only highlights the sacrifices of t...