New Releases by Russell Lee

A highly detailed book on Balanchine technique, written by one of his former principal dancers, now a leading teacher at the School of American Ballet. When still a young dancer in the New York City Ballet, Suki Schorer was chosen by Balanchine to lecture, demonstrate, and teach--he recognized in her that rare dancer who not only performs superbly but can also successfully pass along what she knows to others. Now, she commits to paper the fruit of her twenty-four-year collaboration with Balanchine in a close examination of his technique for teachers, scholars, and advanced students of the ballet. Schorer discusses the crucial work at the barre as well as center work, port de bras, pointework, jumps, partnering, and more. Her recollections of her own tutelage under Balanchine and her brilliant use of scores of his remarks about dancing and dancers lend both authority and intimacy to this extraordinary analysis of Balanchine''s legacy to the future of dance. Profusely illustrated throughout with instructional photographs featuring members of the New York City Ballet, this book will serve as an indispensable testament to Balanchine''s ideas on technique and performance. From the Preface At Balanchine''s instigation I began to teach in the early 1960s while still a member of the corps de ballet . . . One day, as I was adjusting a tendu front in a class of nine-year-olds, Balanchine walked into the studio with Lincoln Kirstein, the school''s longtime president. As they left, I heard Mr. B say to Lincoln, "I knew she would get down on the floor and fix feet . . ." I believed in Balanchine. Seeing and then dancing in his ballets made me believe in his aesthetic. Sharing the life of his company and school made me believe in his approach to work and to life in general. In my teaching, in my lectures, in my writing, and in videos on the technique, I have tried to convey not only his aesthetic, but also his beliefs about how to work, how to deal with each other, and how to live . . . My purpose in writing this book is to record what I learned from him about ballet dancing and teaching ballet, insofar as that is possible on paper . . . By helping others deepen their understanding of Balanchine''s art, I hope to contribute in a small way to the preservation of his unique and extraordinary legacy.

This thesis critically analyzes two common methods of interpretation that occur on the historic landscape and offers an alternative method. The first method is the Formalist convention which identifies and interprets the historic landscape based on dates, designer, function, origin or other fact which locates the site within a stylistic sequence of similar landscapes. The second method is the ubiquitous use of text panels and guide books as the main interpretative medium. The alternative focuses on the experience of the landscape design as the main interpretative method. This alternative method is then applied to the landscape of Homestead National Monument of America, located in southeast Nebraska, through a conceptual interpretative design.

The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook is an original cookbook by, for, and about the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.

A pretty little book on the domesticated birds with good descriptions, advice on management, breeding, feeding, and good color photos. No bibliography. As much a history of aviation as a biography of Sikorsky. Many illustrations and diagrams support the text. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

"The New Deal and Folk Culture Series. 86 of the 250 photographs taken by Lee for the Farm Security Administration, July 1940. Remarkable portrait of the villagers, village life, adobe construction, handicrafts. Essays on Lee and the villages by Wroth (former curator of Taylor Museum), Charles L. Briggs (Vassar), Alan Fern (National Portrait Gallery).The thoughtfulness and thoroughness that went into the development of this book make it extraordinarily valuable"--Fern Lyon, New Mexico Magazine, from alibris.com.

This thesis explores the impact and importance of public opinion in the American strategic/political planning process. It begins with a discussion of the special role of public opinion in the United STates, how it has changed, and how it effects policymakers. After a general consideration of the uniqueness of that relationship, the role of public opinion in determining the national interest is examined. Two case studies are then presented. The first deals with how a knowledge of existing public opinion on such general areas as support for defense spending could be used by the Executive branch to obtain support for a particular strategic policy, specifically; arms sales to foreign countries. The second case deals with how a complex strategy related to nuclear deterrence (deployment of the MX missile) was apparently adjusted to gain public opinion support. The thesis concludes with a consideration of the implications of the case study findings. (Author).

"The research project director at a college or university has few, if any, of the traditional management tools that are available for other forms of management, especially in performing the early, crucial stages of planning. This is particularly distressing since managing a program in this type of environment can be very difficult, due to bureaucratic red tape and interdepartmental concerns. The purpose here is to develop an aid for managers with these problems, for more effective research management in a university environment. After developing a general model for a typical research project at a university, the Gasification Research On Wood (GROW) project, which is currently in progress at the University of Missour--Rolla, was used to show its applicability with emphasis on the conceptual and planning phases. The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was used to computerize the total project management system. The results show that although there are problems in applying PERT technique fairly, and without emotion, it can be concluded that the experienced project director should find the model extremely useful as a planning aid"--Abstract, leaf ii.

A brief biography of the photographer followed by his photographs of people and places.