Michael Rose

A girl coming of age during America's Great Depression, Eunice Ritter was born to uncaring alcoholic parents and destined for a life of low-wage toil--a difficult, lonely existence of scant choices. This epic novel—which spans decades—shows how hard work and the memory of a single friendship gave the indomitable Eunice the perseverance to pursue redemption and forgiveness for the grievous mistakes she made early in her life.

The Sorting Room

Beyond a Thousand Words

Fighting for Peace

Martyn Rawson

Martyn Rawson, author of Waldorf Education and Find Your Child's True Potential, here considers how pre-school children can be prepared for starting school.

From Birth to School Readiness

Ready to Learn

A vivid journey back into Atlanta's past revealing some of the city's most grievous losses to the wrecking ballOld theaters, hotels, ballparks, civic buildings, and the early transport system of Atlanta are recalled in this book written by an Atlanta historian and his colleagues at the Atlanta History Center. Listed in chronological order the losses stretch back to 1821 and the Creek Indians. Major events in Atlanta history are covered, such as the Civil War destruction of 1864, the Cotton States International Exposition of 1896, the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 right though to 1996 and the dismantling of key venues after the 1996 Olympic Games. Sites include: Georgia State Capitol, Ponce de Leon Springs, Jacob's Pharmacy, Candler Race Track, Union Passenger Depot, Kimball House Hotel, Atlanta Crackers, Buttermilk Bottom, Hebrew Orphanage, Henry Grady Hotel, Plaza Park, 1904 Atlanta Terminal Station, The Omni, the Greyhound Bus Terminal, Fort Hood and the Ponder House, Pidemont Hotel, Lake Abana, the Howard Theatre, and ferries across the Chattahoochee.

Lost Atlanta

"BIPOLAR WELLNESS" is a breakthrough book giving the keys to recovery from Bipolar Disorder. Twenty action steps are fully explained, including a newly researched nutritional supplement that can decrease a person's need for medication. Engaging as a memoir, inspiring as a self-help book. A must-have book for families and patients.

How to Recover from Bipolar Illness

Bipolar Wellness

Michael Rose geht der Frage nach, wie die Interessen zukünftiger Generationen trotz der Gegenwartsfixiertheit der Demokratie in den heutigen politischen Entscheidungsprozess eingebracht werden können. Nach Schaffung der demokratie- und repräsentationstheoretischen Grundlagen identifiziert, typologisiert und analysiert der Autor 29 reale Institutionen, die sich als sogenannte Proxys qualifizieren. Wie sich herausstellt, haben nur wenige davon ein hohes Wirkungspotenzial und ein breites Spektrum an Politikinstrumenten zur Verfügung, jedoch können sie auch unter widrigen Rahmenbedingungen institutionalisiert werden.

Theorie und Praxis der Proxy-Repräsentation

Zukünftige Generationen in der heutigen Demokratie

If you or a loved one suffer with Bipolar Disorder, you are holding the keys to hope. This book offers five gifts to help achieve recovery: · Practical tools for recovery including worksheets that help you go beyond mere survival to wellness—even happiness · Comprehensive and understandable explanations of how to create Bipolar Wellness from Bipolar Illness. · A nutritional approach that is being tested at advanced psychiatric facilities. · The author’s personal story of being stuck in a dark pit, finding his way out, and creating this book as a roadmap for you · Most of all, a new mindset to help you find a happy, steady reality in the Mid-Polar Zone between mania and depression, with clear tools on how to get back there whenever your pendulum is swinging wildly. “There are virtually no books that include an organized system for life-long recovery from bipolar illness. Michael Rose has done just that. Bipolar Wellness is written from the ground up by one who suffered many years with the problems of bipolar illness” Phillip Springer, M.D., Psychiatrist

The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition. Through a deft compilation of primary sources—letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and performers—Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and Mozart to Puccini and Berg, each chapter focuses on a well-known opera and tells the story that lies behind its creation. Rather than retreading familiar ground with pages of historical and musical analysis, Rose places each opera firmly in the context of the composer’s life and provides an engaging text in which the varied and colorful personalities involved are seen to discuss, comment, and contribute in one way or another to the progress of its composition. The reader will find Mozart with a new and flamboyant librettist tackling the risky enterprise of Le Nozze di Figaro; Wagner confessing his hidden love for the woman who inspires him as he creates the passionate drama of Tristan und Isolde; Verdi deep in Shakespearian discussion with Boito as they remodel the tragedy of Otello; and Debussy coming almost literally to blows with Maeterlinck over the soprano to take the leading role in Pelléas et Mélisande. Throughout, Rose offers his readers the most direct possible link to events that have often become twisted or obscured by operatic myth, and in so doing he captures the bizarre interactions of chance, genius, practical necessity, and dogged determination that accompanied the making of some of opera’s most enduring masterpieces.

The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

In Living Literacy Michael Rose maps out how our command of the written word is threatened by inappropriate electronic media and fundamental flaws in the education system. He investigates the nature of literacy and how it relates to child development, and examines what really works in preparing for and teaching literacy. His wise and thoughtful book will help teachers and parents to prepare children for the transition to literacy through conversation, story, song and play, ensuring that formal reading and writing are introduced in a relevant and living way.

Living Literacy

The single most significant cause of motivation problems can be a lack of basic day-to-day recognition. Taking recognition seriously can soon have a major impact on the effectiveness of your business. A Guide to Non-Cash Reward takes the reader through the different types of recognition and teaches you how to implement recognition programmes. With key learning points from public and private sector organizations, it gives valuable advice on: the value of recognition, how and when you should recognize people, use of non-cash rewards, prizes and gifts to incentivize, costs and budgeting, how to implement strategies, pitfalls to avoid.With case studies from powerful international companies, A Guide to Non-Cash Reward is an essential read at a time when salaries are under pressure and staff are more important than ever.

A Guide to Non-cash Reward

General Sir Michael Rose tells the inside story of one of the toughest challenges of his career, as Commander of the UN Protection Force in Bosnia in 1994. Amidst scenes of inhumanity not witnessed in Europe since the Second World War, he describes how he dealt with individuals who would stop at nothing, even the sacrifice of their own people, to fulfil their personal and political agendas. He sets the record straight on his handling of crises such as the sieges of Sarajevo, Gorazde and Bihac, and portrays the other hazards of his command: the often conflicting objectives of NATO and the UN, the political sensibilities of the troop-contributing nations, the historic loyalties and lobbies of the US administration and the manipulation of international opinion by the media.

Fighting for Peace, Bosnia 1994

Over the past 40 years, life in Timor-Leste has changed radically. Before 1975 most of the population lived in highland villages, spoke local languages, and rarely used money. Today many have moved to peri-urban lowland settlements, and even those whose lives remain dominated by customary ways understand that those of their children will not. For the Atoni Pah Meto of the island's west, the world was neatly divided into two distinct categories: the meto (indigenous), and the kase (foreign). Now things are less clear; the good things of the outside world are pursued not through rejecting the meto ways of the village, or collapsing them into the kase, but through continual crossing between them. In this way, the people of Oecussi are able to identify in the struggles of lowland life, the comforting and often decisive presence of familiar highland spirits.

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