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Music, Performance, Meaning: Selected Essays (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers On Critical Musicology Ser.)
This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to the point that, by the end... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Music: A Very Short Introduction
What is music? How is it constructed? How is it consumed? Why do you enjoy it at all? Nicholas Cook invites us to really think about music and the role it plays in our lives and our ears. Drawing on a number of accessible examples, the author prompts us to call on our own musical experiences in orde... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Taking it to the Bridge: Music as Performance
The overriding aim of this groundbreaking volume--whether the subject is vocal ornamentation in 19th-century opera or the collective improvisation of the Grateful Dead--is to give new recognition to performance as the core of musical culture. The collection brings together renowned scholars from pe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture (Cambridge Companions to Music)
The impact of digital technologies on music has been overwhelming: since the commercialisation of these technologies in the early 1980s, both the practice of music and thinking about it have changed almost beyond all recognition. From the rise of digital music making to digital dissemination, these ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music
From the cylinder to the download, the practice of music has been radically transformed by the development of recording and playback technologies. This 2009 Companion provides a detailed overview of the transformation, encompassing both classical and popular music. Topics covered include the histo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction probes the adaptation and appropriation of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels in the long eighteenth century, from the period of Daniel Defoe and Eliza Haywood through to that of Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Major author... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The State We're In: Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles (WYSE Series in Social Anthropology #3)
What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power (The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia)
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. The book works ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Life's Work: Mike Krzyzewski
by Timothy Butler • Mike Krzyzewski • Karen Harris • David Harding • A. G. Lafley • Adi Ignatius • Roger L. Martin • Ian C. Macmillan • Rita Gunther Mcgrath • Hal Gregersen • Brent Adamson • Ron Ashkenas • Scott Cook • Scott Berinato • Leslie K. John • Nicholas Toman • David Champion • Alison Beard • Martin Ihrig • Michael Mankins • Mitchell Lee Marks • Philip Mirvis • Anthony Heyes • Cristina Gomez • Daniel Mochon • Doug Mcmillon • Erik Roelofsen • Frederic Cumenal • Janet Schwartz • Jorgen Vig Knudstorp • Oliver Emrich • Samina Karim • Steven Prokesch • Tao YueThe famous Duke University basketball coach discusses his four-decade career, how he recruits and disciplines his players, the difference between college basketball and Olympic basketball, and how he views retirement.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage (CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series)
by Stephen Newton • Angela Carr • Nigel Bond • Matthew Cook • Luke Howie • Alissa Burger • Brian J. Hill • Alexandra Coghlan • Dane Munro • Nitasha Sharma • Müjde Bidec • Geraldine Anne Tan • Danielle Johannesen • Boža Grafenauer • Lea Kužnik • Katheryn Wright • Nuša Basle • Donna Comtesse • Janna R. Caspersen • Scott K. Esplin • Julie Hartley-Moore • Jennifer Hayes • Jacie L. Jones • Kathy Knox • Sonja Sibila Lebe • Cecelia R. Lewis • Sonia Mileva • Lidija Pliberšek • Jodi M. Thesing-Ritter • Nicholas J. Walkowiak • Peter J. Ward • Yachen Zhang • Joseph DonicaIn recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion: From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama (Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy)
The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of demo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Neuropharmacotherapy in Critical Illness (Updates in Neurocritical Care)
by Gretchen Brophy • Teresa A Allison • Karen Berger • Kathleen A. Bledsoe • Jennifer Bushwitz • Amber Castle • Katleen Chester • Aaron M Cook • Emily Durr • Olabisi Falana • Jose Guzman Garcia • Haley Goodwin Gibbs • Kristy N Greene • Jimmi Hatton-Kolpek • Teresa Human • Lisa Kurczewski • John J Lewin • Norah Liang • Kathryn A Morbitzer • Christopher Morrison • Ron Neyens • Viet Nguyen • Nicholas G Panos • Denise H Rhoney • A. Shaun Rowe • Ted Siindlinger • Eljim P TesoroThe field of research related to neurocritical care has grown significantly in recent years, and the clinical demands for current and dependable expertise has followed suit. It can be a challenge for the neurocritical practitioner to keep up with cutting-edge evidence-based research and best practic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Household Balance Sheets
by Todd Groome • Nicolas Blancher • François Haas • Yoon Sook Kim • William Lee • Shinobu Nakagawa • Rupert ThorneThis is the third and final installment of a series of chapters in the Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) discussing the transfer, reallocation, and management of financial risk. Throughout this series we have highlighted the flow and reallocation of risks throughout the financial system, and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs: More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
by Jack London • H. L. Mencken • Carl Hiaasen • Molly Ivins • Peggy Noonan • Murray Kempton • Mitch Albom • Richard Wright • Steve Lopez • Pete Hamill • Nicholas Kristof • John Avlon • Damon Runyon • Jesse Angelo • Errol Louis • Dorothy Thompson • Leonard Pitts • Shirley Povich • Mike Ryoko • Ruben Salazar • Mary McGrory • Mike BarnicleAn anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—“engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise” (Kirkus Reviews). Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America’s greatest unsung ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Aspects of Global Asset Allocation
by Todd Groome • Nicolas Blancher • Yoon Sook Kim • William Lee • Shinobu Nakagawa • Oksana Khadarina • François Hass • Christoper WalkerA report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
The Influence of Credit Derivative and Structured Credit Markets on Financial Stability
by Todd Groome • Nicolas Blancher • François Haas • Yoon Sook Kim • William Lee • Shinobu Nakagawa • Parmeshwar Ramlogan • Oksana Khadarina • John Kiff • G. Edwin SmithA report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops
by Maria Luisa Badenes • Patrick Brown • Nicolas Roux • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Vicente Vicente • Óscar Martínez • Eddo Rugini • Luciana Baldoni • Alain Rival • Magda-Viola Hanke • Henryk Flachowsky • Julie Graham • Luis A. Cañas • Dennis J. Gray • Stephen Adkins • J. R. Botella • Leandro Pena • Ossama Kodad • Pedro Martínez-Gómez • Abhaya Dandekar • Sadanand A. Dhekney • Yuval Cohen • Kate Evans • Nuria Alburquerque • Pedro M. Barros • A. T. Basford • Muhammad Ajmal Bashir • Diego Silva Batista • Julianne Biddle • Manuel Blasco • Lorenzo Burgos • John E. Carlson • Elisabeth Carmona • David Chagné • Rekha Chaudhury • Elisabeth Chevreau • V. E. Chhatre • Yelda Özden Çiftçi • C. Claflin • Elena Corredoira • Valerio Cristofori • Niccolò Cultrera • Maurecilne Lemes da Silva • Leo D’Souza • Ofere Francis Emeriewen • M. Faize • Fábio Gelape Faleiro • Ana Paula Farinha • Yolanda Ferradás • Antonio Figueira • Maureen M.M. Fitch • M. Foale • Svetlana Y. Folimonova • María Victoria González • Isabel María González-Padilla • Smitha Hegde • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Uma Jaiswal • Nikki Jennings • Hülya Akdemir Koç • Nerea Larrañaga • Chuck Leslie • Z. J. Li • Amanda De Lopes • Carlos López-Encina • Rodolfo López-Gómez • Jorge Lora • Zheng-Rong Luo • S. K. Malik • Roberto Mariotti • Antonio J. Matas • José Mercado • Scott Merkle • Sara Montanari • Gloria Moore • Soraya Mousavi • Isabel Narváez • María Del Naval • Q. T. Nguyen • Shashikiran Nivas • M. Margarida Oliveira • Ahmet Onay • Guillermo Padilla • Elena Palomo-Ríos • Andreas Peil • Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente • Cesar Petri • Paula M. Pijut • Marcos Vinícius Pinheiro • Clara Pliego • Fernando Pliego-Alfaro • Simon H.T. Raharjo • Manoj K Rai • Manuel Rey • Gabino Ríos • Diego Ismael Rocha • M. B. Rosenberg • M. Rouard • D. Ruiz • J. Sardos • Danielle Camargo Scotton • Cristian Silvestri • Michael K Smith • Guo-Qing Song • Veysel Süzerer • Alicia Talavera • Ryutaro Tao • Takuya Tetsumura • Engin Tilkat • Pablo Ric Varas • Wagner Vendrame • Francisco Javier Viéitez • Hazel Wetzstein • Roxana Yockteng • Qing-Lin ZhangThis book covers the biotechnology of all the major perennial fruit and nut species. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, there has been significant progress in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation for many of these species. This book covers these biotechnolo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020