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Contest Winners for Two is a series of five graded collections of original, time-tested piano duets. Over the years Alfred, Belwin, and Myklas produced an extensive catalogue of quality elementary and intermediate supplementary piano duets. The pieces that are included in this volume represent the three companies' most popular and effective duets drawn from festival and contest lists. Book 1 consists of elementary pieces, placed in approximate order of difficulty. Titles: * Black Key Suite: Echo Waltz, Blue Licorice, Fanfare (Robert D. Vandall) * Chickadee Waltz (Kathleen Massoud) * Jon Peter Polka (David Karp) * Thinking of You (John Robert Poe) * Turkey Trot (David Carr Glover)

Contest Winners for Two is a series of five graded collections of original, time-tested piano duets. Over the years Alfred, Belwin, and Myklas produced an extensive catalogue of quality elementary and intermediate supplementary piano duets. The pieces that are included in this volume represent the three companies' most popular and effective duets drawn from festival and contest lists. Book 1 consists of elementary pieces, placed in approximate order of difficulty. Titles: * Black Key Suite: Echo Waltz, Blue Licorice, Fanfare (Robert D. Vandall) * Chickadee Waltz (Kathleen Massoud) * Jon Peter Polka (David Karp) * Thinking of You (John Robert Poe) * Turkey Trot (David Carr Glover)

Set internationally and spanning two decades, Annisa is an intricate portrait of a young Afghan girl's struggle to survive after the Soviet invasion in 1979. Her harrowing escape to America, and her fatal decision to return to her people in Afghanistan, evokes insight into a society torn apart by terrorism, drug smuggling, and bitter conflicts over the role of its women. Her friendship with a Russian deserter and a volunteer American doctor dramatizes the different forces in her life. But it is her love for a captain in the Afghan army that drives her. The novel ends with the bitter events of 9/11, and the role Annisa's fundamentalist and Western-educated brother may have played in that tragedy.

There are currently over 100 stateless nations pressing for greater self-determination around the globe. The vast majority of these groups will never achieve independence. Many groups will receive some accommodation over self-determination, many will engage in civil war over self-determination, and in many cases, internecine violence will plague these groups. This book examines the dynamic internal politics of states and self-determination groups. The internal structure and political dynamics of states and self-determination groups significantly affect information and credibility problems faced by these actors, as well as the incentives and opportunities for states to pursue partial accommodation of these groups. Using new data on the internal structure of all self-determination groups and their states and on all accommodation in self-determination disputes, this book shows that states with some, but not too many, internal divisions are best able to accommodate self-determination groups and avoid civil war. When groups are more internally divided, they are both much more likely to be accommodated and to get into civil war with the state, and also more likely to have fighting within the group. Detailed comparison of three self-determination disputes in the conflict-torn region of northeast India reveals that internal divisions in states and groups affect when these groups get the accommodation they seek, which groups violently rebel, and whether actors target violence against their own co-ethnics. The argument and evidence in this book reveal the dynamic effect that internal divisions within SD groups and states have on their ability to bargain over self-determination. Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham demonstrates that understanding the relations between states and SD groups requires looking at the politics inside these actors.

A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups. Few observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia, after seventy years of forced communist atheism. Muslims do not inevitably support Islamism, a modern political ideology of Islam. Yet, Islamism became the dominant form of political opposition in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In Politicizing Islam in Central Asia, Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements-first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobilization, she explains the strategies and relative success of each Central Asian Islamist movement. Collins argues that in each case, state repression of Islam, by Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, together with the diffusion of religious ideologies, motivated Islamist mobilization. Sweeping in scope, this book traces the dynamics of Central Asian Islamist movements from the Soviet era through the Tajik civil war, the Afghan jihad against the US, and the foreign fighter movement joining the Syrian jihad.

Crazy Algerian inspired poetry. Barbes and North African inspired soul baring poetry with a mix of Khaled, Edith Piaf and Dahmane El Harrachi. Algeria and all its crazy wonderful essence

Creative solo exercises to develop sightplaying at the piano.

Kinetic and mechanistic studies were carried out on the thermal decomposition of three chlorinated monosilanes, H3SiCl, H2SiCl2, and HSiCl3, using low-pressure pyrolysis and quadrupole mass spectrometry. Reaction temperatures ranged from 806 to 921K. Construction and development of the low-pressure pyrolysis/mass spectrometry system was an initial research goal and reaction product identification and kinetic quantification of the homogeneous primary decomposition process for each chlorosilane was the major research goal. Kinetic data were sought in order to provide both insight into the mechanistic steps of the pyrolyses and to utilize in the determination of high-pressure Arrhenius parameters for these reactions. The Arrhenius parameters of interest were the activation energy Ea, and the frequency factor A, as given in the Arrhenius equation. The Arrhenius parameters resulting from this study were determined by application of Rice Ramsperger Kassel Marcus (RRKM)2 theory to the rate constant data. At reaction temperatures, dichlorosilylene formed in the dichlorosilane and trichlorosilane decompositions unexpectedly reacted with the methane bath gas to form quantifiable amounts of methyldichlorosilane. The thermal decomposition of this product (methyldichlorosilane) was also studied by low-pressure pyrolysis and quadrupole mass spectrometry. These results were used in conjunction with thermochemical kinetic techniques to determine thermodynamic parameters for reaction intermediates (such as chlorinated disilanes and silylenes which cannot be observed directly in this system). Results of these studies showed unimolecular elimination reactions to be the primary decomposition step. These reactions and the associated high-pressure Arrhenius parameters are: 1. H3SiCl == H2 + :SiClH E[subscript a]=60.41 ± 1.5 Kcal A=1014.39 ± -65 [subscript s]−1, 2. H2SiCl2 == H2 + :SiCl2 E[subscript a]=65.62 ±1.7 Kcal A = l013.55 ± .4 [subscript s]−1, 3. HSiCl3 == HC1 + :SiCl2 A=1Q14.52 ±.44 [subscript s] −1, E[subscript a]=71.39 ±1.6 Kcal. 4. MeSiCl2H == CH4 + :SiCl2 A=1013.19 E[subscript a]=65.62 kcal (estimated from rate data at one pressure) The decomposition products for each compound are: H3SiCl: H2, H2SiCl2, HSiCl3 H2SiCl2 : H2, HSiCl3, SiCl4, MeSiHCl2 HSiCl3 : HC1, SiCl4, MeSiHCl2, HSiCl3 MeSiHCl2 : CH4, HSiCl3l MeSiHCl2, SiCl4 Products not shown in reactions 1 - 4 are formed from secondary reaction steps via silylene (:SiX2) insertion reactions into other silanes or the methane bath gas.