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Piano starts here : the young Art Tatum
Regardless of whether they have heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful, energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and his acute memory for any sound that he heard drove him to become a virtuoso who was revered by both classical and jazz pianists alike. Included in the back matter is a biography and bibliography.
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IS ANYBODY LISTENING? THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRUST IN AN AUDIO MEDIUM
This exploratory study was undertaken to investigate the long term effects of group interaction in an audio medium upon the development of trust among group members. Whereas previous research has tended to focus on short-term interactions in relatively controlled settings, the present study examined groups in a naturalistic setting and over a relatively long (40 day) period of time. A review of the literature suggested that there has been considerable disagreement about what \"trust\" actually is, and that this disagreement reflects underlying differences in the meta-theoretical assumptions which different theorists have used to provide a context for their theorizing and research. Insufficient attention to these differences has caused confusion by, for example, leading researchers to use inappropriate instruments in their investigations. Subjects were volunteers, about half of whom were limited in their mobility by physical handicaps. Approximately half the subjects (N = 19) had citizen's band radios installed in their homes, which they used to communicate with each other. The other half (N = 22) constituted the control group. Dependent measures included Gibb's TORI Self-Diagnosis Scale and several other instruments which measured \"trust\" within different theoretical perspectives. The measures which were used to examine both group trust (in an experimental design) and the TORI Scale (in a correlational design) from these different points of view. In addition, descriptive data was also collected. The results suggest that TORI trust is more closely related to Rosenberg's constructs of self esteem and faith in people, and to Christie and Geis' machiavellianism, than to Rotter's locus of control or to Marlowe and Crowne's social desirability. The TORI Self-Diagnosis Scale shows relatively high reliability and construct validity but it requires further refinement before it will be acceptable as a clinical measure of trust-related variables. Finally, the development of trust appeared to have been severely hampered in the groups studied here; apparently something essential to trust formation could not be conveyed through the audio medium represented by CB radio.
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Grandfather Tang's story
Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.
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Stowaway
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
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Who was Albert Einstein?
Traces the life and work of the famous physicist, from his childhood in Germany through the development of his theories of relativity to his campaign for peace after World War II.
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من هو ألبرت أينشتاين ؟
يتناول هذه الكتاب ويحكي عن قصة العالم العبقري ألبرت أينشتاين ويتناول الكتاب من أين هو وبم يفكر والمحطات التي كانت في حياته وهي قصة حياة العظماء الذين كانوا روادا في السياسة والثقافة والإبداع الفني والاختراع أولئك الذين أضاؤوا للإنسانية دروب الحياة، ويعد هذا الكتاب للشباب والفتيان وغير المتخصصين الذين ينشدون المعرفة من القراء الآخرين البالغين.
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