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Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall is an historical, cultural, and analytical study of the album by the same name. Recorded in 1957, but lost until 2005, it is a particularly interesting lens through which to view jazz both as a historical tradition and as a contemporary cultural form....

As part of the Core Text Series, Intellectual Property Law provides students with an overview and clear understanding of the principles of this exciting area of the law. It covers the six key areas of patents, copyright, industrial designs, confidential information, and unregistered and registered trademarks, whilst also placing intellectual...

A Socio-Psychological ApproachEmotions vary extensively between cultures, especially in their eliciting conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and co-extent of terminology. Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens examines the sensation, expression, and literary representation of these major emotions in Athens. Previous scholarship has...

Understanding and AssessmentOffenders convicted of violent crimes accounted for almost 15,000 (7.5%) of the federal inmate population in recent reports; and, despite the public&'s perception that the overall crime rate is down, there are indications that rates of violent crime may actually be increasing in certain geographic areas and populations....

Social Engineering and Private LivesWhen the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the FAhrer, Adolf Hitler. The concept of Volksgemeinschaft - &'the people&'s community&' - enshrined the Nazis&' vision of society&'; a society based on racist, social-Darwinist,...

A Strengths-Based Common Factors ApproachFunders of mental health services to youth and families have increasingly required providers to use treatments deemed to be "e;evidence-based."e; There are several evidence-based family treatment (EBFT) approaches found to be effective with the same types of presenting problems and populations. All...