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Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance MusicIn spite of their widely disparate uses, Marian prayers and courtly love songs        from the Middle Ages and Renaissance often show a stylistic similarity. This book        examines the convergence of these two styles in polyphonic music and its broader        poetic, artistic, and...

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Between 1982 and 1983, in the name of anti-communism the military government of Guatemala prosecuted a scorched-earth campaign of terror against largely Mayan rural communities. Under the leadership of General Efrain Rios Montt, tens of thousands of people perished in what is now known as la violencia, or 'the Mayan holocaust.' Rios Montt,...

Written in clear, concise prose,    Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research offers essential guidance for those who evaluate educational policies. Using numerous examples of high-quality studies that have evaluated the causal impacts of important educational interventions, the authors go beyond the...