Author: William G. Battaile Jr.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: studies, evaluation, support, imf, operations, bank, independent, group, world, initiative, strategy, findings, country, poverty, case, reduction
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2005-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0821362194
ISBN-13: 9780821362198

The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the World Bank�independent units reporting to their respective institutions’ Executive Boards�recently completed parallel evaluations of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Initiative, with particular attention to the role and effectiveness of World Bank and IMF support. A key source of evidence for the evaluations was a set of 10 country case studies, most completed in the second half of 2003, of countries that had completed a Poverty Reduction Strategy

Authors:Werner Wolf, Walter Bernhart,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: studies, music, word, ann, amp, arbor, conference, international, cycle, song, defining, field, second, proceedings, essays
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2001-01
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 9042015756
ISBN-13: 9789042015753

This volume assembles twelve interdisciplinary essays that were originally presented at the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, MI, in 1999, a conference organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA).The contributions to this volume focus on two centres of interest. The first deals with general issues of literature and music relations from culturalist, historical, reception-aesthetic and cognitive points of view. It covers issues such as conceptual problems in devising transdisciplinary histories of both arts, cultural functions

Author: England) Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies 200
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: studies, byzantine, university, college, oxford, march, promotion, exeter, byzantium, fifth, thirty, spring, symposium, rhetoric, papers
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2003-11
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0754634531
ISBN-13: 9780754634539

This text explores the ways in which rhetoric functioned in Byzantine society - as a tool for the effective communication of ideas and ideologies, but at times also a barrier that inhibited the expression of real feelings and everyday realities, and imposed a burden of decoding on outsiders. After an introduction on the practical and textual background to Byzantine rhetoric, the essays are grouped in five sections. The first two deal with the basis of rhetoric in Byzantium and its public uses, principally in imperial and ecclesiastical ceremonial. The next sections look at how rhetoric affects

Author: Alain Frogley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: studies, composer, cambridge, vaughan, williams
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1997-01-28
List price: $116.00
ISBN-10: 0521480310
ISBN-13: 9780521480314

Despite Vaughan Williams’ seminal importance in British music, international stature as a symphonist, and wider significance as an icon of Englishness, very little new research on his life or music has been published since the mid-1960s. The ten essays presented here examine diverse subjects such as the place of Vaughan Williams in the construction of English national identity in this century, the role of rhythm in his symphonies, music for propaganda films, and his unpublished early orchestral pieces; major works such as the Tallis Fantasia and the Fifth Symphony are analyzed in depth.

Author: G.S. Pappa
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: studies, epistemology, philosophical, new, knowledge, justification
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 1979-10-31
List price: $81.50
ISBN-10: 9027710244
ISBN-13: 9789027710246

Author: Elline Lipkin
Publisher: Seal Press
Keywords: studies, seal, girls
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1580052487
ISBN-13: 9781580052481

Professors and students alike are taking interest in Girls’ Studies�the socialization of girls versus boys�and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America’s girls. Girls’ Studies tackles socialization and gender expectations, body image, and media impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our girls for a brighter future.

Author: Robert L. Brow
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: studies, series, tantric, suny, god, asian, ganesh
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 1991-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0791406563
ISBN-13: 9780791406564