Explores the policy and practice in relation to the need for better financial knowledge, understanding and skills, especially for older people. This policy discussion paper brings together two studies in which older people talk of their knowledge, concerns and skills in managing money.
Myths and misconceptions about the impact of ageing on the ability, need and will to learn have been with us for a long time. This book faces some of the these myths, presents the evidence to refute them, or at least improve our knowledge of the issues, and considers what the truth means for those in education and elsewhere.
Based on NIACE's Older and Bolder programme of work, this book aims to encourage wider awareness of the factors obstructing fair access to learning opportunities for older people aged 50 and over. It makes the case for more and better provision targetted towards this age group, for work as well as personal fulfillment.
A look at 500 of Route 66's most significant past and present sites in seven categories, illustrated with hundreds of photographs and specially commissioned maps"--
This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music—from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Reich, as well as writings by lesser-known but equally innovative composers such as Jack Beeson, Richard Maxfield, and T. J. Anderson, this collection covers a broad range of styles and approaches. Here you will find Busoni's influential "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music"; Partch's exploration of a new notation system; Babbitt's defense of advanced composition in his controversial "Who Cares If You Listen?"; and Pauline Oliveros's meditations on sound. Now updated with fifteen new composers including Michael Tippet, György Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Ben Johnston, Sofia Gubaidulina, and William Bolcom, this important book gathers together forty-nine pieces—many out of print and some newly written for this volume—which serve as a documentary history of twentieth-century music, in theory and practice. Impassioned, provocative, and eloquent, these writings are as exciting and diverse as the music they discuss.
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