Julie Brown: 24 books
by Julie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal works, as well as his theoretical writings and a range of previously unexplored archival documents, Julie Brown argues that Schoenberg's revolutionary...
Writers on the Spectrum
How Autism and Asperger Syndrome have Influenced Literary Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale characters to Lewis Carroll's Wonderland and Emily Dickinson's poetic imagery, the writings and lives of some of the world's most celebrated authors indicate signs of autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Through analysis of biographies, autobiographies, letters...
Bartók and the Grotesque
Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24,...
by Julie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
"In those sacred moments with Him, with one sovereign gift of a silver Mantle of Purity, Jesus revealed the depth of the redeeming work of the Cross, sufficient to bring His People forth in shining glory as the Bride and, as the pinnacle of the Created Order itself.” “At a time when global...
The Psychedelic Gospels
The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Reveals evidence of visionary plants in Christianity and the life of Jesus found in medieval art and biblical scripture--hidden in plain sight for centuries
• Follows the authors’ anthropological adventure discovering sacred mushroom images in European and Middle Eastern churches, including...
Our Stories, Our Voices
21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including...
by Cherie Reich, Catherine Stine, Angela Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Enter our mysterious realms where the stories are as varied and rich as the types of soil on this and other planets. Enchanted forests are knotted with roots and vines. Dreaded paths take us through strange, unexplored places.
Investigate new worlds and houses frequented by ghosts. Come across...
Fellowship of Prayer
2014 Lenten Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Clean. Fresh. Renewal. Psalm 51:10 says, “Create in me a clean heart.” Isn’t that part of what Lent does for us? “Create in me a clean heart.” The reflection of Lent helps us live into that prayer and the intent to change every day of our lives. In Fellowship of Prayer 2014, author Julie...
Great Escapes
An Avon Summer eBook Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Great Escapes: An Avon Summer eBook Sampler
Celebrate summer love and sunny skies! Avon Books is delighted to present this free e-book sampler, which includes excerpts from classic Avon tales as well as eight new or upcoming Avon and Avon Impulse novels, and a special introduction from bestselling...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
Cultivating Food Justice
Race, Class, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.
Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement...
Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...
Active Support
Enabling and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with more severe disabilities, and is of growing interest to those...
Authentic Movement
Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...
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