Raby and Tarrow's book provides a needed challenge to the predominant idea that higher education development in developing countries must be conducted in traditional four-year colleges and universities. This edited volume contains chapters describing successful and innovative education development programs in Asian and African countries. Along with successful program models, critical perspectives about program failure are also provided. Readers seeking adaptable models will find many ideas to replicate in different settings. This book can also serve as a good reference to donor organizations interested in suporting relevant higher education initiatives at a lower cost than is typically the case with university-affiliated programs. Many project management organizations are described in detail along with their project development experiences. Of particular interest are the innovative programs intiated by and managed in association with US community colleges. As scholars of higher education know (although it may not be as evident to development policy professionals) community colleges have become leaders in program responsiveness and innovation. This volume reveals that community college innovation reaches beyond US borders via institutional cooperation in program development internationally.

This is a very informative collection of articles covering many aspects of South Asian music. It includes articles about North and South Indian classical traditions, folk traditions, dance, and popular music. There are also many articles about the role of music in society, women in music in South Asia, and South Asian music worldwide. Each region of South Asia is also covered with individual chapters. Many of the musical concepts and structures are exemplified in the accompanying CD; the relevant CD tracks are clearly noted in the text.

Living in Dubai, I have found myself immersed in South Asian culture, and recently started studying carnatic music on the veena, simply because it was here. Lacking all knowledge of the contexts in which the veena is played, I found myself floundering in my studies. The first teachers I worked with here either haven't had enough English or enough music theory studies to explain the music. I searched on the Net for information about carnatic music, but found that most of the information was written by Indians for Indians, using terms that I don't understand or can't make sense of. What makes this book different is that it is written for Western audiences, and the Indian terms are fully explained. As a result, this book has been a tremendous resource for me in explaining the music theory that I was struggling with, as well as the context of the music in Indian society. I've never read an encyclopedia cover to cover before, but once I got started reading this one, I couldn't stop.

i used this story in my 2nd grade classroom for a lesson on predictions. My class was glued for 40 minutes waiting to see if their predictions came true, and to see what would happen to Electra when her mother found out she had eaten all the cream off the pastries meant for her mother's tea party. It's a great story about snowball effect, honesty, and unconditional love.

Dr. Kutzer does an incredible job unearthing the motivations present in British children's literature during the late 1800s. The book is very well researched, and rivals any other author's work on the subject. I highly recommend this book as wonderful reading that exposes the most human side of all literature.

This encyclopedia is the best one of all enkyklopaidiai on the topic=homosexuality. Very well documented and researched , in addition well edited. I recommend the encyclopedia for everybody. Howevwer, I hope Mr. Dynes will edit a new revised-version of "THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HOMOSEXUALITY", because many books about homosexuality have been published since 1991 and I'd like to read more comprehensive & world-wide articles of histories, literatures , customs & traditions of all of the world.

A good first hand account of what it takes to create a training program for budding entrepreneurs. Written by someone who obviously knows her topic.

With Arthurian Romances seemingly always staging a comeback, how nice to have a fast-read, "words-a-poppin" translation of the very first Arthurian Romance, written in Old French around 1170. What I found most intriquing was that the book essentially wrestles with the ways in which men and women define themselves when becoming partners. Erec's rather pig-headed forcing of Enide to lead the way in the forest and never speak to him has odd contemporary overtones. But they are sweet compared to the couple they meet in Erec's final quest in the book - wait until you find out who "The Joy of the Court" is. Burton Raffel's translation, even if you don't like poetry, reads like a smooth silver skate. I gave the book a "9" instead of "10" because it doesn't have any illustrations. I know it's a University Press, but come on folks, with a story about knights couldn't you throw in at least one old woodcut or something

As always, the Garland Guides to Research are inestimably valuable, gathering all the available bibliographical materials into one reference work. Dr. Kushner's annotations add commentary that makes the sifting through of these voluminous materials a far more enjoyable task.

Shocking and stunning as usual. Legendary series by Lane is precise, honest, disturbing. Having read all his books, I can only say that I wish he was wrong. Dealing with reality is no fun. Lane's books are the standard reference for true seakers and scholars. Especially Sant Mat.

Rosemarie Garland Thomson has written a book that is groundbreaking and essential reading for anyone interested in the fields of disability theory, disability studies, and literary criticism. She has skillfully examined how the figure of the disabled body has been used in literature in different periods as a marker or boundary line for defining what the "normal" body is or should be. The disabled figure operates to displace anxiety from more "normal" folks, and in the process shows how what we consider to be normal functioning changes across historical periods and cultures. Thomson also compares the disabled figure to the cyborg, as both are figures that are not seen as "natural," and both are places/signifiers where we can then interrogate what the natural is, has been thought to be, and what it could include. This is an excellent book, and should not be missed.