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PrefaceIntroductionPART ITribe Teacher and EducationEducation of the Tribes: A GlimpseEducational Research: An Anthropological ApproachResearch Trends in Tribal EducationMethod to Study the Teachers from Tribal DenominationPART IIStatus of Tribe Teachers Empirical Observations Profession Experience ... More

Well respected in both America and Europe for his lively and often satirical pieces, Washington Irving is best remembered for his wonderful supernatural tales, most notably "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Also included in this collection are "The Spectre Bridegroom", "Westminster... More

Come November, the eighth century town of Pushkar turns into an unusual combination of the spiritual and temporal. Even as its narrow lanes bustles with groups of pilgrims heading for sacred waters, not far away preparations begin for the world's largest camel fair.Pushkar lies seven miles from Ajme... More

Creative Unity (1922) contains some of Tagore's occasional essays and lectures delivered abroad. Published after his third visit to America (1920-21). these essays reveal his fundamental tenets of art and aesthetics, of life and religion and of 'the religion of the poet.'One of India's most cherishe... More

The Canter text appeals mainly to Civil Engineering students taking course work in environmental assessment practice or impact assessment, usually taught at the junior/senior level as a popular elective. Some chemical and environmental engineers take the course as well. The author has specifically b... More

Tim Ramteke has spent years developing this modern introduction to voice and data networks. He has combined current industry standards with the courses he teaches in advanced electronic communications technology. The result is this insightful text. Divided into four separate parts, the book provides... More

Avoid Shutdowns, Fines, or Worse ...What You Need to Know About Operating and Maintaining Environmental Permits . . Environmental Permitting Handbook. . It's a jungle out therea jungle of environmental restrictions, requirements, mandated impact statements, and most of all, necessary permits. But wh... More

A self-described migrant provocateur with a "hyper-Mexican mustache and loungy sideburns," Guillermo Gomez-Pena performs as he lives and travels -- from America through Europe, Asia, and North Africa -- making his border crossings and crosscultural misencounters into art. He reflects in Spanish, Eng... More

This is it A book that offers you a practical guide with a child-centered approach for students who are preparing to work with children in Kindergarten through third grade classrooms. This updated revision is your key to information on topics such as special needs, multicultural activities, music a... More

A psychologist analyzes the vision processes and argues that all thinking is perceptual in nature... More

Integrates the latest theory, methodology and applications related to the design and analysis of repeated measurement. The text covers a broad range of topics, including the analysis of repeated measures design, general crossover designs, and linear and nonlinear regression models. It also contains ... More

A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while ... More

Fin-de-sie cle France was a period of unrest, with strikes, demonstrations, and anarchist terrorism reflecting deep social and political differences. Yet at the same time, this decade produced a vibrant visual culture-- monumental sculpture, mural decoration, avant-garde painting, posters, illustrat... More

What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest ... More

In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional c... More

A charismatic stage and screen actress. A model whose beauty inspired some of the most arresting images of the twentieth century. A visionary photographer. A revolutionary with deep commitments to communism. A woman whose life, loves, and death were controversial. Tina Modotti (1896-1942) was all of... More