New Releases by Ann Thomas

In the Bellum Catilinae Sallust portrays Catiline in a variety of ways. The result is that the protagonist emerges as a balanced individual, not as the villain that Cicero presents. The explication of Catiline''s character is of paramount interest to Sallust, who desires to evoke the moral climate that could produce people like Catiline and his co-conspirators - figures who, despite their revolutionary tendencies, are nonetheless products of training in the old Roman virtues. Furthermore, it is possible that Sallust - aware of the parallels between himself and Catiline in terms of political careers, aspirations, and moral weaknesses - chose the attempted conspiracy of 63 BCE as his topic in part because of his interest in analyzing the social, moral, and political climate in which both he and Catiline were immersed.

This study addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a second language. The data are based on two related experiments. The first examines the interpretation of English reflexive pronouns by native speakers of Japanese and of Spanish. The second experiment examines the interpretation of the Japanese reflexive zibun by native speakers of English and of Chinese. Three hypotheses are evaluated: (a) that UG is unavailable, and that processing strategies or other non-linguistic principles guide second language acquisition; (b) that UG is available only in the form in which it is instantiated in the learner''s native language; (c) that UG is fully available, including the ability to re-set parameters to UG-sanctioned values not instantiated in the learner''s native language.The results show that learners observe constraints defined by Manzini and Wexler''s parameterized version of Principle A of the binding theory and support the proposal that adult learners have access to universal grammar. A final chapter reviews the experimental data in the light of recent accounts of cross-linguistic variation in the grammar of anaphors which reject parameterization of the binding principles in favor of a u0093movement to INFLu0094 analysis.

Catalogue about Lisette Model, artist name of Elise Amelie Felicie Seybert.

A family of archaeologists explores a dig at a Hopi ruin. The mother of the family tells a tale of four very different Indian tribes.

This report conveys the findings from a cross-site analysis of seven school districts that were implementing a discipline-based approach to visual arts education. A discipline-based approach incorporates four art disciplines in the classroom--art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art production. The study sought to identify the factors that generate support for a strong, substantive art education program in a district''s curriculum, and what factors influence districts and teachers to maintain a discipline-based art education program. The study''s findings suggest that to become "academically respectable" and support the factors necessary for change, a visual arts program must have these basic characteristics: an articulated conceptual base and a written, sequential curriculum that reflects this base.