Growing out of a series of articles written over a 15 year period, and illustrated with over 100 photos, this volume offers a narrowed focus examination of various performing traditions that rely on the expressive power and imagination of masks. It explores the redefinition of self into "other," when the mask is worn, and examines actors and their performances in Papua New Guinea, Orissa, India, and Bali.

"John Emigh and Lesley K. Ferris explore the role of masks in theater, whose roots lie in ritual performance. Cara McCarty looks at the ways in which masks are featured in the medium of film as well. But these artistic examples are not the only masks found in industrial societies. McCarty also discusses the proliferation of masks for physical protection, in areas such as military combat, sports competitions, and space exploration."--BOOK JACKET.

Brett and his dog Herman walk to the library, and on the way they learn about figures of speech such as "growing like a weed" and "selling like hotcakes" from neighbors, merchants, and other people in the community.

Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States, the first of two volumes, examines the influence of social formations on censuses from the medieval period through current times. The authors argue that relative influence of states and societies is probably not linear, but depends on the actual historical configuration of the states and societies, as well as the type of population information being collected. They show how information gathering is an outcome of the interaction between states and social forces, and how social resistance to censuses has frequently circumvented their planning, prevented their implementation, and influenced their accuracy.

An autistic boy named Brett struggles with the questions "who," "what," "when," "where," "why" and "how" when he loses his shoe.

Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States , the second of two volumes, uses historical and comparative methods to analyze censuses or census-like information in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy, starting in England over one-thousand years ago.

A member of the London Chess Club has dropped dead during a game, supposedly of a heart attack. An officer of the Club believes he was murdered by his opponent's evil eye. Holmes finds that his death was not caused by an evil eye, but -- was it or was it not poisoned jelly beans?

This book examines the history of racial classifications in Puerto Rico censuses, starting with the Spanish censuses and continuing through the US ones. Because Puerto Rican censuses were collected regularly over hundreds of years, they are fascinating “test cases” to see what census categories might have been available and effective in shaping everyday ones. Published twentieth-century censuses have been well studied, but this book also examines unpublished documents in previous centuries to understand the historical precursors of contemporary ones. State-centered theories hypothesize that censuses, especially colonial ones, have powerful transformative effects. In contrast, this book shows that such transformations are affected by the power and interests of social actors, not the strength of the state. Thus, despite hundreds of years of exposure to the official dichotomous and trichotomous census categories, these categories never replaced the continuous everyday ones because the census categories rarely coincided with Puerto Rican’s interests.

The ESL Safety Book is a fifty unit reproducible reading and discussion text. The articles in The ESL Safety Book are short and written at a beginner level. The articles are complemented by a variety of exercises, with attention paid to the different skills areas. What could be more important than teaching your esl class about safety? This textbook does just that! The ESL Safety Book is a fifty unit reproducible reading and discussion text. The articles in The ESL Safety Book are short and written at a beginner level. The articles in this esl book are complemented by a variety of exercises, with attention paid to the different skills areas. These ESL materials are a great way to teach your esl students about safety!Topics include: Smoke Alarms; Avoiding Victimization; First Aid Kits; Swimming Pool Safety; Automobile Passenger Safety; Dealing with the Police: Heimlich Maneuver; Playground Safety; and School Bus Safety.Topics in The ESL Safety Book are:# Insect Bites# Personal Information# A.I.D.S./H.I.V.# Asthma And Children# Drinking Water Safety# Bicycles# Choking# 911# Earthquakes# Electrical Fires# Smoke Alarms# First Aid Kits# Fainting And Fever# Car Passenger Safety# Fun In The Sun# Communicable Diseases# Halloween Safety# Avoiding Victimization# Christmastime Safety# Drug And Vitamin Labels# Myths About Seatbelts# Safety For Disabled People# Playgrounds# School Safety# Protecting Your Ears# Animal Bites# Protecting Your Eyes# Fire Exits# Poisoning# Pedestrian Safety# Stress# Visiting A Doctor# The ABCs of Fire Extinguishers# Drowning Prevention# Tornadoes# Automobile Maintenance# The Fight Against Cancer# Dealing With The Police# The Heimlich Maneuver# Product Labels And Expiration Dates# The Internet# Boating Safety# Tips For Babysitters# Immunizations# The School Bus# Swimming Pool Safety# Frostbite# Emergency Evacuation Procedures# Work Safety Organizations# Air Travel Safety.

In The Undevelopment of Capitalism, Emigh argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies--especially the rural economy of Tuscany. As this highly developed urban market penetrated rural regions, it actually erased rural market institutions that rural inhabitants had used to organize agricultural production and family life. Thus, an advanced economy at the time of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance "undeveloped" over time. The economic development of this region in Italy was delayed as it failed to keep pace with the rest of Europe. Using a negative case methodology to show how urban and rural markets change, Emigh employs methods of historical sociology and sectoral theories to examine how markets can prosper and suffer at the same time. She shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets.