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Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination

An Illustrated Journey

By: John Pfordresher

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Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination

An Illustrated Journey

By: John Pfordresher

Authentic hope is the gift Rebecca Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci offer readers of EcoJustice Education.... We learn what it means to recover the ancient arts and skills of cultivating commons, common sense, and community collaborations in our hard times." Madhu Suri Prakash, Pennsylvania State University "EcoJustice Education should become a core part of teacher education programs across the country as it provides both the theory and examples of classroom practices essential for making the transition to a sustainable future." C. A. Bowers, author, international speaker, and retired professor Designed for introductory social foundations or multicultural education courses, this text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world. The Companion Website for this book (www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415872515) offers a wealth of resources linked to each chapter.

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Paulist Press

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0809144530

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The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

By: John Pfordresher

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The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

By: John Pfordresher

The surprising hidden history behind Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Why did Charlotte Brontë go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authorship from her family, close friends, and the press? In The Secret History of Jane Eyre, John Pfordresher tells the enthralling story of Brontë’s compulsion to write her masterpiece and why she then turned around and vehemently disavowed it. Few people know how quickly Brontë composed Jane Eyre. Nor do many know that she wrote it during a devastating and anxious period in her life. Thwarted in her passionate, secret, and forbidden love for a married man, she found herself living in a home suddenly imperiled by the fact that her father, a minister, the sole support of the family, was on the brink of blindness. After his hasty operation, as she nursed him in an isolated apartment kept dark to help him heal his eyes, Brontë began writing Jane Eyre, an invigorating romance that, despite her own fears and sorrows, gives voice to a powerfully rebellious and ultimately optimistic woman’s spirit. The Secret History of Jane Eyre expands our understanding of both Jane Eyre and the inner life of its notoriously private author. Pfordresher connects the people Brontë knew and the events she lived to the characters and story in the novel, and he explores how her fecund imagination used her inner life to shape one of the world’s most popular novels. By aligning his insights into Brontë’s life with the timeless characters, harrowing plot, and forbidden romance of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature’s most beloved heroines and her passionate creator, and arrives at a new understanding of Brontë’s brilliant, immersive genius.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393248887

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9780393248883

The Oxford Handbook of Singing

By: Graham Welch,David Howard,John Nix

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The Oxford Handbook of Singing

By: Graham Welch,David Howard,John Nix

Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent European-based data suggest that more than 37 million adults take part in group singing. The Oxford Handbook of Singing is a landmark text on this topic. It is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the pluralistic nature of singing. In part, the narrative adopts a lifespan approach, pre-cradle to senescence, to illustrate that singing is a commonplace behaviour which is an essential characteristic of our humanity. In the overall design of the Handbook, the chapter contents have been clustered into eight main sections, embracing fifty-three chapters by seventy-two authors, drawn from across the world, with each chapter illustrating and illuminating a particular aspect of singing. Offering a multi-disciplinary perspective embracing the arts and humanities, physical, social and clinical sciences, the book will be valuable for a broad audience within those fields.

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1200

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Oxford University Press

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0192576089

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Focal Impulse Theory

Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body

By: John Paul Ito

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Focal Impulse Theory

Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body

By: John Paul Ito

Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing "focal impulse theory," Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contours. Change the dance of the performer's body, and you change the dance of the notes. As Focal Impulse Theory deftly illustrates, bodily movements carry musical meaning and, in a very real sense, are meaning.

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Indiana University Press

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0253049946

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9780253049940

England in Literature

By: John Pfordresher

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England in Literature

By: John Pfordresher

A textbook tracing the development of English literature from 450 A.D. to the 1950's.

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1150

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0673270823

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9780673270825

Sensation and Perception

By: Bennett L. Schwartz,John H. Krantz

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Sensation and Perception

By: Bennett L. Schwartz,John H. Krantz

Sensation and Perception is a cutting edge and highly readable account of modern sensation and perception from both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, authors Bennett L. Schwartz and John H. Krantz offer readers the most relevant topics in the field of sensation and perception. Rich in examples and applications to everyday life, the text includes an emphasis on areas of interest to students, namely, music, clinical applications, neuropsychology, and interesting animal perception systems. Updates to the Third Edition include revised chapters throughout, new science, and interactive video links. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your Sage representative to request a demo. Learning Platform / Courseware Sage Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It’s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in Sage Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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835

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SAGE Publications

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1544398913

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9781544398914

The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality

By: John C. Hirsh

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The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality

By: John C. Hirsh

This volume deals with the ways in which religious Faith was communicated and adapted during the late medieval period and after, and with the ways in which spirituality, culture, written texts and gender interacted during the same period. Drawing on texts like the Book of Margery Kempe, popular prayers, romances and devotions, well-known devout practices, mystical and visionary writing, and devout representations like the Arma Christi, the book addresses the ways in which these both informed and were informed by attitudes towards Faith and Belief which continue today. Subjects include: the development of religious attitudes; devotion to Christ's blood; the influence of mysticism on literary texts; Chaucer's feminism; Eastern sources; and the transmission of medieval spirituality into the New World.

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BRILL

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9004477675

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9789004477674

Ecological Psychoacoustics

By: John Neuhoff

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Ecological Psychoacoustics

By: John Neuhoff

Ecological Psychoacoustics" outlines recent advances in dynamic, cognitive, and ecological investigations of auditory perception and ties this work to findings in more traditional areas of psychoacoustics. The book illuminates some of the converging evidence that is beginning to emerge from these traditionally divergent fields, providing a scientifically rigorous, "real world" perspective on auditory perception, cognition, and action. In a natural listening environment almost all sounds are dynamic, complex, and heard concurrently with other sounds. Yet, historically, traditional psychoacoustics has examined the perception of static, impoverished stimuli presented in isolation. "Ecological Psychoacoustics" examines recent work that challenges some of the traditional ideas about auditory perception that were established with these impoverished stimuli and provides a focused look at the perceptual processes that are more likely to occur in natural settings. It examines basic psychoacoustics from a more cognitive and ecological perspective. It provides broad coverage including both basic and applied research in auditory perception; and coherence and cross referencing among chapters.

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BRILL

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0080477445

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Dynamic Thinking

A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory

By: Gregor Schöner,John P. Spencer

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Dynamic Thinking

A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory

By: Gregor Schöner,John P. Spencer

This book describes a new theoretical approach--Dynamic Field Theory (DFT)--that explains how people think and act"--

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Oxford University Press

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0199300569

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9780199300563

It's Absence, Presently

By: John McGreal

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It's Absence, Presently

By: John McGreal

It’s Silence, Soundly, It’s Nothing, Seriously and It’s Absence, Presently, continue The ‘It’ Series published by Matador since The Book of It (2010). They constitute another stage in an artistic journey exploring the visual and audial dialectic of mark, word and image that began over 25 years ago. In their aesthetic form the books are a decentred trilogy united together in a new concept of The Bibliograph. All three present this new aesthetic object, which transcends the narrow limits of the academic bibliography. The alphabetical works also share a tripartite structure and identical length. The Bibliograph itself is characterised by its strategic place within each book as a whole as well as by the complex variations in meaning of the dominant motifs – nothing/ness, absence and silence – which recur throughout the alphabetical entries that constitute the elements of each text. It’s Nothing, Seriously, for example, addresses the amusing paradox that so much continues to be written today about – nothing! The aleatory character of the entries in the texts encourage the modern reader to reflect on each theme and to read them in a new way. The reader is invited as well to examine their various inter-textual relations across given conventional boundaries in the arts and sciences at several levels of physical, psychical & social reproduction.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1785892223

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9781785892226

Student Advantage Guide to the Best Medical Schools 1997

The Buyer's Guide to Medical Schools

By: Andrea Nagy,John Katzman

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Student Advantage Guide to the Best Medical Schools 1997

The Buyer's Guide to Medical Schools

By: Andrea Nagy,John Katzman

This bestselling annual guide is acclaimed every year as the best source for valuable insights into the top programs in the country. The guide contains everything aspiring medical students need to know about the best medical schools in the country.

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Princeton Review

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0679771247

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9780679771241

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

By: John Pfordresher

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By: John Pfordresher

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The Life and Letters of John Fiske;

By: John Spencer Clark

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The Life and Letters of John Fiske;

By: John Spencer Clark

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1376729512

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9781376729511

The Journal of John Woolman. with an Introduction by John G. Whittier

By: John Woolman,John G. Whittier

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The Journal of John Woolman. with an Introduction by John G. Whittier

By: John Woolman,John G. Whittier

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Book's by John Pfordresher

Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination

Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

The Oxford Handbook of Singing

The Oxford Handbook of Singing

Focal Impulse Theory

Focal Impulse Theory

England in Literature

England in Literature

Sensation and Perception

Sensation and Perception

The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality

The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality

Ecological Psychoacoustics

Ecological Psychoacoustics

Dynamic Thinking

Dynamic Thinking

It's Absence, Presently

It's Absence, Presently

Student Advantage Guide to the Best Medical Schools 1997

Student Advantage Guide to the Best Medical Schools 1997

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

The Life and Letters of John Fiske;

The Life and Letters of John Fiske;

The Journal of John Woolman. with an Introduction by John G. Whittier

The Journal of John Woolman. with an Introduction by John G. Whittier

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