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European Valuation Practice
Theory and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The variability of valuation practice within Europe is perceived as a problem within the globalization of property. This edited textbook examines the practice of real estate valuation in selected countries in Europe. The focus is on countries with well developed real estate markets in which both international...
by Craig S. Brantley, Catherine Dickson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Part of the immensely popular 10-Minute TOEIC series, this work is useful for students, professionals and others. Designed for advanced students (or beginners who want to challenge themselves), this work contains 5 complete TOEIC Part 6 sets (60 questions).
Answer keys follow each set....
Loyalist Literature
An Annotated Bibliographic Guide to the Writings on the Loyalists of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
This highly readable guide is more than a bibliography. Written in a narrative style, it is as well a short history of the Loyalists: who they were, why they left, where they settled, and what their legacy is.
by John S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Jazz is a music formed from a combination of influences. In its infancy, jazz was a melting pot of military brass bands, work songs and field hollers of the United States slaves during the 19th century, European harmonies and forms, and the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean. Later, the blues and...
Sight-Reading
For the Contemporary Musician
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
So what is sight-reading? Sight-reading is the ability to take a piece of music for the very first time and play it through as if you knew it your whole life. So when do you master Sight-Reading? Being a good reader is only half way there, you master Sight-reading when you are able to read anything...
Martial Talk With Sensei Buddha
Myths, Masquerades, Malevolence and Mayhem in the Martial Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
We decided to write this book because the martial arts world is being led astray by a bunch of fabricators, pretenders, mean-spirited jerks, and gossip mongers. We can’t just sit idly by while something that we love so much is left in poor hands. Martial artists of the world please take a good look...
The Transformation of American Abolitionism
Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked...
Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams
Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture...
Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance
Whiteness as Status Property
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The effort to win federal protection for dance in the United States was a racialized and gendered contest. Picart traces the evolution of choreographic works from being federally non-copyrightable to becoming a category potentially copyrightable under the 1976 Copyright Act, specifically examining Loíe Fuller, George Balanchine, and Martha Graham.
From the Lighter Side to the Dark
A Book of Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book is a collection of poems that takes you on a journey from the lighter side of life to the dark. It is full of raw emotions and feelings as the author bares her soul to tell a story of her personal experiences through love, everyday life, overcoming obstacles, and loss. The readings create...
by Mable S. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
You know, a personal relationship with a mate or spouse, can be very trying at times. It can make you think youre going to lose your mind. This story is about any woman who goes through a lot of trials and tribulations that women may go through. This book will make you smile, laugh out loud and cry...
Jews in Gotham
New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments...
by Jeremy S. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. The composer is noteworthy and controversial because of his radical early works, his interest in non-Western...