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Making Waves
Authors: Silver Brian L 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
My mother taught me to enjoy light waves, my father to enjoy sound waves. My mother was the eldest of four sisters born at the turn of the century in Gomel, in what is now called Byelarus. Her earliest memory was of being hidden under an inverted tin bath in the house of an old colonel, during an attack by cossacks engaged in their national sport of slaughtering Jews. Years later, in London, I found out that when my father went to work in the East End, and I had gone to school, my mother would often take the Underground to central London and wander around the pricey, fancy art galleries.
The Cosmos and Peeping Tom
Authors: Silver Brian L 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1682 the writer Ihara Saikaku published his Life of an Amorous Man. Saikaku was not one to be bound by convention. In a country where the cherry blossom is almost sacred he started one story, “I was so bored with cherry blossoms that I stayed away from the capital all spring.” The flfty-four chapters of his book recount the erotic adventures of one Yonosuke, from the age of seven. By the age of fifty four, he had had encounters with 3742 women and 725 men, which is suggestive of an unstoppable attack of hiccups rather than of promiscuity.
The Impossibility of Creation
Authors: Silver Brian L 
Published: November 2023

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As a ten-year-old child I lay in bed and sweated out my nightly terror of death. It was not hell that worried me, but oblivion. I didn’t believe in life after death. My reason refused to be humiliated by a cowardly compromise with my fears. But in the Slough of Despond I found hope: the complete inexplicability of the Creation. l asked John Donne’s question: How can something appear out of nothing? For itf that was possible, which it appeared to be, then anything was possible-even life after death. The fear of death faded, but I remain, as most of us do, mystifled by the fact of the Creation. The Bible didn’t help me.
Getting Started in Ballet
Authors: Paskevska Anna 
Published: November 2023

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Many children dream of being a ballerina. Chin raised with purpose, arms high above head, they twirl clumsily around the living room and leap tirelessly in the air. Sooner or later they're bound to say, "I want to dance." Now what do you do? How do you know if the time is right? Where's the best place to start? In Getting Started in Ballet, Anna Paskevska draws from her training at the Paris Opera Ballet School and and the Royal Ballet School in London and her career as a professional dancer and teacher to offer a step-by-step introduction to dance education for parents with children starting ballet. Paskevska begins with a historical overview of dance and discusses the fundamental virtues and many life-long skills it imparts. Dance teaches children how to cooperate and support each other's efforts; encourages them to work in harmony with others; helps establish a child's spatial relationships; and promotes discipline and responsibility. Paskevska outlines the proper sequence for training in ballet based on a child's physical and mental development. She clearly demonstrates how ballet's early training, focusing on repetition of simple motion such as exercises at the barre and basic jumps, establish pathways for all later movements not only in ballet, but in modern dance, jazz, and tap as well. Written in a clear and accessible style and full of anecdotes from Paskevska's long professional dance-related career, Getting Started in Ballet offers helpful information on types of dance schools and how to select the right school for your child. Included is valuable information on choosing a dance instructor, the role both parents and teachers should play in a child's learning experience, and the qualities the ideal teacher should possess. Also discussed are more practical matters such as the appropriate clothing to wear while practicing, the importance of shoes that fit properly, how to secure pointe shoes, tips for avoiding injury, and how to balance training and performing experience during the formative years. A special chapter covers proper diet, eating disorders, and ways to recognize symptoms of imbalance. Finally, Paskevska touches upon the professional world of dance, attending college as a dance major, and advice on choosing careers that benefit from a background in dance. With forewords by Violette Verdy, a preeminent ballerina affiliated with the New York City Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, and Sybil Shearer, a pioneer of American modern dance, as well as an extensive appendix of performing arts schools and dance programs throughout the United States, Getting Started in Ballet gives parents the advice they need to make their child's dance experiences both enjoyable and constructive.
The Adverbial Theory
Authors: Butchvarov Panayot 
Published: November 2023

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In recent American philosophy, discussions of perception often contain expressions such as ‘being aware here-ly’, ‘is appeared to redly’, ‘senses redly’, ‘senses rhomboidally’, ‘sensation of the of-a-red-triangle kind’, ‘senses a-pink-cube-ly’. We owe this innovation in philosophical terminology to the so-called adverbial theory.1 But, the adverbial theory of what? The answers usually given are: of appearing, of sensing, of sense impressions, of sensation. But, as we saw in chapter 1, all these terms are suitable in this context only if understood as technical terms, of unclear sense and uncertain reference, not as they would be understood in common discourse. And the adverbial theory is precisely a theory of that which is supposed to require their introduction as technical terms and an explanation of how they should be understood. Therefore, it is not with a statement of the adverbial theory that we can begin a discussion of the adverbial theory. We must begin with the conceptual roots the theory must have in common discourse if it is to be even intelligible.
The New Healers
Authors: Clark William R 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Human beings have on the order of 100,000 different genes encoding the molecules needed to build and operate the human body; defects in any one of them can lead to disastrous consequences. There are an estimated 4,000 genetic diseases, which can be every bit as devastating as the diseases caused by bacteria or viruses, and in one way they are much worse: we pass them on to our children, generation after generation after generation. The New Healers is the story of the devastation these diseases cause, and the scientific researchers and doctors who struggle to combat them. Science and medicine have provided us with clues to the treatment of a few genetic diseases, although by their very nature they have never been considered curable. But, as William R. Clark shows, that is about to change through one of the most profound revolutions in modern medicine: gene therapy, a branch of the new field of molecular medicine. Clark takes us to the laboratories which have been able to isolate human genes, to make billions of copies of them, and to reintroduce healthy genes into unfortunate individuals who have inherited damaged or functionless genes. He also shows us how this same technology, turned around on itself, can also be used to deliberately introduce "bad" genes to attack and destroy unwanted cells, such as cancer cells or those infected with the AIDS virus. Molecular medicine will be a major part of our lives in the new millennium. The New Healers outlines the powerful and compelling logic behind molecular medicine: that everything we know about molecular biology tells us that it can work, and that it will work. Clark introduces us to the scientists working now to map out the entire human genome, easily the medical equivalent of going to the moon, taking human beings to a completely new level of understanding of our biological selves. Clark also helps us to begin thinking about how we will manage that understanding, and how we will use the information we gain. The New Healers is a clear and compelling introduction to this important new frontier of human medicine, outlining for readers all the basic elements of molecular biology necessary to understand molecular medicine, and illustrating the fascinating stories of those doctors and patients already a part of this exciting future -- a future as full of promise as anything we have witnessed in this past century of remarkable progress.
Aural Skills Acquisition
Authors: Karpinski Gary S 
Published: November 2023

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This book is a hands-on investigation of the stages musicians go through as they learn to hear, read, and perform music. It draws on the latest research in music perception and cognition, music theory, and pedagogy, along with centuries of insight from music theorists, composers, and performers. The first part explores the development of music listening skills, including such broader activities as dictation and transcription, and specific abilities such as meter perception, short-term musical memory, and tonic inference. The second part then examines the skills involved in reading and performing music. It looks at such physical skills as vocal production and eye movements and at such complex integrated tasks as sight-singing transpositions and modulations. Throughout the book the author presents these skills in their musical contexts and emphasizes their roles in the general development of musicality. Aural Skills Acquisition builds important bridges between music theory, cognitive psychology, and pedagogy. It subjects ideas from music theory to the rigors of psychological testing and combines findings from the psychology of learning with ideas and methods of contemporary music theory. It will prove an invaluable guide for music teachers, music theorists, and psychologists interested in music perception and cognition.
The Cowboy and the Dandy
Authors: Meisel Perry 
Published: November 2023

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What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this adventurous new study of music, literature, and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins Romanticism and the blues tradition by focusing on the preoccupation with boundaries that are common to both--the boundaries between freedom and irony, country and city, and cowboy and dandy. Meisel traces the emergence of rock and roll out of jazz and Romantic culture alike as he examines, in a series of juxtaposed chapters, rhythm and blues, Emerson and the cowboy, urban blues, the dandy and psychedelia, Willa Cather, Miles Davis, Virginia Woolf, and 1960s rock. In the process, Meisel shows how the presumable difference between high and mass or pop culture disappears when both turn out to have similar structures. He also reveals how canons emerge inevitably within all traditions rather than being imposed upon them from without.
The Touchstone of Life
Authors: Loewenstein Werner R 
Published: November 2023

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No one can escape a sense of wonder when looking at an organism from within. From the humblest amoeba to man, from the smallest cell organelle to the amazing human brain, life presents us with example after example of highly ordered cellular matter, precisely organized and shaped to perform coordinated functions. But where does this order spring from? How does a living organism manage to do what nonliving things cannot do--bring forth and maintain all that order against the unrelenting, disordering pressures of the universe? In The Touchstone of Life, world-renowned biophysicist Werner Loewenstein seeks answers to these ancient riddles by applying information theory to recent discoveries in molecular biology. Taking us into a fascinating microscopic world, he lays bare an all-pervading communication network inside and between our cells--a web of extraordinary beauty, where molecular information flows in gracefully interlaced circles. Loewenstein then takes us on an exhilarating journey along that web and we meet its leading actors, the macromolecules, and see how they extract order out of the erratic quantum world; and through the powerful lens of information theory, we are let in on their trick, the most dazzling of magician's acts, whereby they steal form out of formlessness. The Touchstone of Life flashes with fresh insights into the mystery of life. Boldly straddling the line between biology and physics, the book offers a breathtaking view of that hidden world where molecular information turns the wheels of life. Loewenstein makes these complex scientific subjects lucid and fascinating, as he sheds light on the most fundamental aspects of our existence.
Syndromes with Craniosynostosis: General Aspects and Well-Known Syndromes
Authors: Gorlin Robert J , Cohen M Michael , Hennekam Raoul C M 
Published: November 2023

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The craniosynostoses are etiologically and pathogenetically heterogeneous. Premature sutural fusion may occur alone or together with other anomalies, making up various syndromes. Over 90 syndromes are known. Several reviews are available (1–4), the most exhaustive review being that of Cohen and MacLean (4).
Syndromes of Abnormal Craniofacial Contour
Authors: Gorlin Robert J , Cohen M Michael , Hennekam Raoul C M 
Published: November 2023

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Anencephaly is a congenital anomaly characterized by an open neural tube in the cephalic region with an exposed mass of degenerate neural tissue on the skull floor. The cranial vault is absent, producing characteristic bulging of the eyes and absence of the neck. Both the membranous neurocranium and the chondrocranium are grossly malformed (Figs. 16–1 and 16–2). Anencephaly is classified anatomically as meroacrania if the defect does not involve the foramen magnum, holoacrania if the defect extends through the foramen magnum, and holoacrania with rachischisis if spina bifida accompanies anencephaly (31).
Syndromes with Gingival/Periodontal Components
Authors: Gorlin Robert J , Cohen M Michael , Hennekam Raoul C M 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Gingival fibromatosis and its syndromes
Gingival fibromatosis may exist as an isolated abnormality due to genetic or environmental causes or as part of a syndrome (19,25,40). As an isolated finding, it is often sporadic but may exhibit autosomal dominant inheritance (34,37) or rarely autosomal recessive inheritance (21,25,35,37). There appear to be two genes on chromosome 2, one in the 2p21 p22 region and the other at 2p13–p16, that can be mutated (20,23,23a,36).
Writing Without Teachers
Authors: Elbow Peter 
Published: November 2023

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In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get ‘‘stuck’’ or blocked in their writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as reports, lectures, and memos. The core of Elbow’s thinking is a challenge against traditional writing methods. Instead of editing and outlining material in the initial steps of the writing process, Elbow celebrates non-stop or free uncensored writing, without editorial checkpoints first, followed much later by the editorial process. This approach turns the focus towards encouraging ways of developing confidence and inspiration through free writing, multiple drafts, diaries, and notes. Elbow guides the reader through his metaphor of writing as ‘‘cooking:’’ his term for heating up the creative process where the subconscious bubbles up to the surface and the writing gets good. 1998 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Writing Without Teachers. In this edition, Elbow reexamines his program and the subsequent influence his techniques have had on writers, students, and teachers. This invaluable guide will benefit anyone, whether in the classroom, boardroom, or living room, who has ever had trouble writing.
Metaphors For Priming The Pump
Authors: Elbow Peter 
Published: November 2023

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This chapter contains metaphorical questions that will help you produce more ideas, perceptions, and feelings about a topic. These questions will help you see more aspects of what you want to write about and also see the limits or blind spots in your accustomed point of view. Suppose, for example, you are preparing to write a case study or report or essay about someone you have known or worked with. “Describe --- as two people and tell how these two people work together (or don’t work together).” “What would never happen to ---? If it did, what would be the result?” “Describe --- as a bad person.” “Tell the three or four most important sounds that come to mind in connection with ---.” If you try quickly answering these questions about someone you know, you will figure out things you didn’t know or only half knew before.
Writing and Magic
Authors: Elbow Peter 
Published: November 2023

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I seem to have drifted into a magical view of writing. In the last two chapters about experience I say that you must have a real experience for the words to have power, but it is almost as though I am saying that you must magically devour what you are writing about if you want to put a successful hex on the reader-must enter into the thing or merge your soul with the soul of the thing. In the two voice chapters I say you must be in the right relationship with yourself, but it is almost as though I am saying you must purify yourself in a blameless holy rite or else your words will not have grace. When you have gotten all the steps right in the magic dance, bang, your words have life, they “take.” When you miss some step in the dance, you can’t find the right words, or else you find the right words, but they lack inner juice and just buzz buzz fog static in the reader’s head. I seem to talk, in short, as though what’s important is not the set of words on the page-the only thing that the reader ever encounters-but rather something not on the page, something the reader never encounters, namely the writer’s mental/spiritual/characterological condition or the way she wrote down the words. A given set of words can be powerful or weak, can “take” or not take, as with a potion, according to whether the writer did the right dance or performed correctly some other purification ceremony before writing them down.
The New Cultural “War” And The French Musical World
Authors: Fulcher Jane F 
Published: November 2023

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Few historians of France would dispute that the political landscape experienced seismic shifts in the traumatic, tumultuous period during and after the Dreyfus Affair; a new range of political tactics, comportments, practices, and actors made their debut in-to switch to an equally apt metaphor-the new “theater” of French politics. Now making their dramatic appearance on the national stage in this seminal period were political leagues and parties, new social groups, and new forms of propaganda.1 It is one particular variety of the latter that demands our special attention here because its impact on the musical world in France was to be direct and profound: born in the wake of the Affair, its nexus was the milieu of those defeated-those who refused to capitulate in the struggle for the principles they had defined in the course of the conflict. With the triumphant Third Republic stolidly in control of political discourse, the cynosure of their propagandistic effort henceforth was culture and, above all, the arts.
Proliferating Factions, Issues, and Skirmishes
Authors: Fulcher Jane F 
Published: November 2023

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Between 1905 and World War I France experienced the increasing politicization of almost all fields of culture, together with a proliferation of ideological groupings and political factions. The year 1905 marked the ending of the resolutely anticlerical Combes ministry, the legal separation of Church and state, and a new collaboration of Radicals and Moderates in the government. With the evolution of the political situation, existing groups shifted their cultural emphasis, while others entered the dialogue, introducing new social goals and their own aesthetic conceptions. Movements of both the Right and the Left quickly learned how to use French culture to expand the political debate and to communicate their distinctive political visions; they also introduced new means of infiltrating various cultural realms, which resulted in an even more thorough “occupation” of the arts in France. As cultural ideologies, discourses, and tactics proliferated among competing French political factions, so did musical ideologies, along with associated musical programs. Now the boundaries between political initiatives using music and those belonging to the “professional world” grew vague, and frequently French musicians crossed the lines.
Interfaces in Oxide Fiber-Oxide Matrix Ceramic Composites
Authors: Goettler Richard W , Sambasivan Sankar , Dravid Vinayak , Kim Steve 
Published: November 2023

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For fiber reinforced ceramic composites to perform appropriately, i.e., to exhibit high fracture toughness and large strains-to-failure, there must be weak bonding along the fiber-matrix interface. This weak bonding allows interfacial debonding to occur in the presence of the stress field created at the front of a propagating crack. This interfacial debonding allows crack deflection along the fiber and an effective blunting of the crack. In addition, the interfacial debonding allows frictional sliding to occur between the fiber and the matrix leading to high fracture toughness of the material.
Specific Counseling Situations and Counselees
Authors: Weil Jon 
Published: November 2023

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The previous chapters present a general approach to the theory and practice of genetic counseling. This chapter discusses specific counseling situations and categories of counselees.
Prenatal diagnosis counseling represents a substantial proportion of the total reported genetic counseling caseload, and it is the primary professional focus of many genetic counselors (Schneider & Kalkbrenner, 1998). It is characterized by a reasonably well defined sequence of steps and decision points. These, rather than previously discussed principles, are the primary focus of this section.
The purpose of preprocedure counseling is to provide both the information and the psychosocial support upon which an informed decision can be made concerning whether or not to have prenatal diagnosis.
The Ethnocultural Imperative
Authors: Weil Jon 
Published: November 2023

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As with all aspects of life, health care beliefs and practices, reproductive decisions, and the meanings attributed to children and family are profoundly influenced by the culture of the individuals involved and by counselees’ experiences as members of ethnocultural communities. Thus, consideration of the psychosocial aspects of genetic counseling must take culture and ethnic identity into account. The perspectives of the preceding chapters are based primarily on the dominant culture of the United States. Thus, they include, although not without discussion, such fundamental assumptions as the primacy of scientific understanding and the control of natural processes and the potentially healing value of expressing and sharing emotional experiences with professional health care providers. However, these and myriad other values and beliefs relevant to genetic counseling are not, in fact, common to all cultures and communities. It is a principle of fundamental fairness in human interactions and equity in the provision of genetic counseling services that genetic counselors be sensitive to and knowledgeable about ethnocultural issues and be competent in working with individuals from diverse backgrounds.