The 5,000-year struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days.

With original texts and translations on facing pages, this collection of works by French-speaking women poets contains over 600 poems from 54 different pens, from the twelfth century Marie de France through Albertine Sarrazin, who died in 1967. It provides a window into the development and evolution of French poetry from the Middle Ages onwards.

Presents an overview of the history of UK initiatives designed to encourage girls and women into non-traditional fields such as science, engineering, technology, construction, and the trades. This title explores the aims and frameworks of the initiatives, examines the practices developed, and comments on the mixed results achieved.

Focuses on fifty women who have made significant contributions to professional directing during the twentieth century. This book contains biographical details and directing data on each woman, including information on training and career path, notable productions, critical reception, directing style, major awards, and bibliographic materials.

Offering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs. It provides an insight into immigration, work, family and social life, and the longstanding fight for equality and inclusion.

Helps leaders make sense out of mounting dilemmas. This book includes a map to the decade of dilemmas that we can already taste in events, drawing from the Ten-Year Forecast by Institute for the Future - which has a thirty-eight year track record.

This volume examines several influential theories of adult development and investigates biblical and Christian perspectives on covenant and vocation. Bringing these investigations together it proposes that becoming adult and becoming Christian both involve an ongoing process of conversion.

Young people in America today face a crisis of character. Traditional role models continue to disappoint the public, falling short of expectations and fostering cynicism rather than idealism. As a result, many young people struggle to distinguish right from wrong and seem indifferent to whether it matters.

An account of the development of Greek art in the Classical period about 480-320 BC.

A group of competitive intelligence experts discusses such topics as resources, models, and analytical techniques to help businesses stay ahead of the competition.

Challenges what you thought you knew about competing in the crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe from growth.