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A Genealogical Diary and Autobiography of David Michael Latouche

By: David M LaTouche

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A Genealogical Diary and Autobiography of David Michael Latouche

By: David M LaTouche

I have written my personal diary and autobiography in memory of my dear and departed mother, Mary Maxine Roome (maiden name). Even though I never had the pleasure of knowing her, I have been told that her greatest desire was to write her story. Since she wasnt able to achieve this, I am making an effort to gratify her desire by explaining how I came to be, while honoring both my father, Galen Arthur LaTouche, and my mother, Mary Maxine Roome, whom I surely would have loved so very much if I had been given the chance. From having been a ward of the courts and the State of Indiana upon my birth and being placed in foster homes and orphanage homes, as well as state mental institutions, during my younger years, I experienced many frustrations of not knowing who or where my natural family was.

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A Genealogical Diary and Autobiography of David Michael Latouche

By: David M LaTouche

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South Africa in Transition

New Theoretical Perspectives

By: Aletta J. Norval,David Howarth

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South Africa in Transition

New Theoretical Perspectives

By: Aletta J. Norval,David Howarth

South Africa in Transition utilises new theoretical perspectives to describe and explain central dimensions of the democratic transition in South Africa during the late 1980s and early 1990s, covering changes in the politics of gender and education, the political discourses of the ANC, NP and the white right, constructions of identity in South Africa's black townships and rural areas, the role of political violence in the transition, and accounts of the democratization process itself.

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Springer

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1349268011

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William the Conqueror

The Norman Impact Upon England

By: David C. Douglas

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William the Conqueror

The Norman Impact Upon England

By: David C. Douglas

Both a study of Anglo-Norman history based upon long and detailed research and also the biography of a man whose personal career was spectacular.

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Univ of California Press

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0520003500

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Neuroinflammation

New Insights into Beneficial and Detrimental Functions

By: Samuel David

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Neuroinflammation

New Insights into Beneficial and Detrimental Functions

By: Samuel David

Neuroinflammation has long been studied for its connection to the development and progression of Multiple Sclerosis. In recent years, the field has expanded to look at the role of inflammatory processes in a wide range of neurological conditions and cognitive disorders including stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and autism. Researchers have also started to note the beneficial impacts of neuroinflammation in certain diseases. Neuroinflammation: New Insights into Beneficial and Detrimental Functions provides a comprehensive view of both the detriments and benefits of neuroinflammation in human health. Neuroinflammation: New Insights into Beneficial and Detrimental Functions opens with two chapters that look at some fundamental aspects of neuroinflammation in humans and rodents. The remainder of the book is divided into two sections which examine both the detrimental and beneficial aspects of inflammation on the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves, on various disease states, and in normal aging. These sections provide a broad picture of the role neuroinflammation plays in the physiology and pathology of various neurological disorders. Providing cross-disciplinary coverage, Neuroinflammation: New Insights into Beneficial and Detrimental Functions will be an essential volume for neuroimmunologists, neurobiologists, neurologists, and others interested in the field.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118732774

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Augustin Pajou

Royal Sculptor, 1730-1809

By: James David Draper,Augustin Pajou,Guilhem Scherf

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Augustin Pajou

Royal Sculptor, 1730-1809

By: James David Draper,Augustin Pajou,Guilhem Scherf

This examination concentrates on the beginnings of Neoclassicism and explores the philosophical and scientific underpinnings of the Enlightenment, in which Pajou played an important part.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870998404

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The Films of Jean-Luc Godard

Seeing the Invisible

By: David Sterritt

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The Films of Jean-Luc Godard

Seeing the Invisible

By: David Sterritt

The Films of Jean-Luc Godard examines the work of one of the most versatile and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. With a career ranging from France's New Wave movement in the early 1960s to a period of political experimentation in the late 1960s and 70s, and, currently, a contemplative period in which Godard has explored issues of spirituality, sexuality, and the aesthetics of sound, image, and montage, the filmmaker's work defies easy categorization. In this study, David Sterritt offers an introductory overview of Godard's work as a filmmaker, critic, and video artist. In subsequent chapters, he traces Godard's visionary ideas through six of his key films, including Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend, Numéro deux, Hail Mary, and Nouvelle Vague formats. Linking Godard's works to key social and cultural developments, The Films of Jean-Luc Godard explains their importance in modernist and postmodernist art of the last half century.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521589711

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Broadway Musicals

A Hundred Year History

By: David H. Lewis

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Broadway Musicals

A Hundred Year History

By: David H. Lewis

Musicals have been a major part of American theater for many years, and nowhere have they been more loved and celebrated than Broadway, the theater capital of the world. The music of such composers as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Berlin, the Gershwin brothers, Lerner and Loewe, Steven Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber continues to run through people's minds, and such productions as South Pacific, Cats, My Fair Lady, The Phantom of the Opera, Guys and Dolls, Rent, and West Side Story remain at the top of Broadway's most popular productions. This book is a survey of Broadway musicals all through the 20th century, from the Tin Pan Alley-driven comedy works of the early part of the century, to the integrated musical plays that flourished in the heyday years of midcentury, and to the rock era, concept musicals, and the arrival of British mega-musicals late in the century. It also profiles some of the theater world's leading composers, writers, and directors, considers some of the most unforgettable and forgettable shows, illustrates the elusive fragility of the libretto, explains the compensating nature of production elements, and examines representative shows from every decade. An extensive discography offers a brief critique of more than 300 show cast albums.

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McFarland

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0786481145

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Reed and Bush Warblers

By: Peter Kennerley,David Pearson

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Reed and Bush Warblers

By: Peter Kennerley,David Pearson

This detailed and comprehensive identification guide follows in the mould of Sylvia Warblers and Pipits and Wagtails. It primarily covers the genera Acrocephalus, Locustella, Cettia and Bradypterus, together with a few smaller related genera. To the uninitiated, these are the archetypal 'little brown jobs' and as if they weren't hard enough to identify anyway, many of them are hard to see as well! This authoritative handbook covers their identification in breathtaking detail, illustrated with line drawings, sonograms, wonderful colour plates and photographs. It is destined to become the ultimate reference for these challenging birds.

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A&C Black

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1408134012

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Transplant Infections

By: Raleigh A. Bowden,Per Ljungman,David R. Snydman

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Transplant Infections

By: Raleigh A. Bowden,Per Ljungman,David R. Snydman

Transplant Infections is a practical, clinically focused reference covering the common and more unusual bacterial, viral, and fungal infections affecting patients who have received stem cell or solid organ transplants. It provides a comprehensive review of the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of opportunistic infections and presents strategies for infection prevention and control. Highlights of the Third Edition include a chapter on new immunosuppressive agents and expanded coverage of tropical infections and West Nile virus.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451148097

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Classic American Popular Song

The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000

By: David Jenness,Donald Velsey

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Classic American Popular Song

The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000

By: David Jenness,Donald Velsey

Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000 addresses the question: What happened to American popular song after 1950? There are numerous books available on the so-called Golden Age of popular song, but none that follow the development of popular song styles in the second half of the 20th century. While 1950 is seen as the end of an era, the tap of popular song creation hardly ran dry after that date. Many of the classic songwriters continued to work through the following decades: Porter was active until 1958; Rodgers until the later 1970s; Arlen until 1976. Some of the greatest lyricists of the classic era continued to do outstanding and successful work: Johnny Mercer and Dorothy Fields, for example, continued to produce lyrics through the early '70s. These works could be explained as simply the Golden Age's last stand, a refusal of major figures to give in to a new reality. But then, how can we explain the outstanding careers of Frank Loesser, Cy Coleman, Jerry Herman, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Fred Kander and John Ebb, Jule Styne, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and several other major figures? Where did Stephen Sondheim come from? For anyone interested in the development of American popular song -- and its survival -- this book will make fascinating reading.

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Routledge

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1136797459

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Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research

By: David Collett

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Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research

By: David Collett

Hugely popular textbook on survival analysis for graduate students of statistics and biostatistics, mainly due to its accessibility and breadth of examples. This is a standard course on graduate programs in biostatistics and statistics, and this is one of the most popular textbooks. Updated with modern methods covering Bayesian survival analysis, joint models, and more.

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1000863107

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Analysis of Communication Networks: Call Centres, Traffic and Performance

Call Centres, Traffic, and Performance

By: David R. McDonald,Stephen Robert Edward Turner

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Analysis of Communication Networks: Call Centres, Traffic and Performance

Call Centres, Traffic, and Performance

By: David R. McDonald,Stephen Robert Edward Turner

This volume consists of the proceedings of the Workshop on Analysis and Simulation of Communication Networks held at The Fields Institute (Toronto). The workshop was divided into two main themes, entitled "Stability and Load Balancing of a Network of Call Centres" and "Traffic and Performance". The call centre industry is large and fast-growing. In order to provide top-notch customer service, it needs good mathematical models. The first part of the volume focuses on probabilistic issues involved in optimizing the performance of a call centre. While this was the motivating application, many of the papers are also applicable to more general distributed queueing networks. The second part of the volume discusses the characterization of traffic streams and how to estimate their impact on the performance of a queueing system. The performance of queues under worst-case traffic flows or flows with long bursts is treated. These studies are motivated by questions about buffer dimensioning and call admission control in ATM or IP networks. This volume will serve researchers as a comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference source on developments in this rapidly expanding field.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821819917

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Treatment of Leukemia and Lymphoma

By: David A. Scheinberg,Joseph G. Jurcic

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Treatment of Leukemia and Lymphoma

By: David A. Scheinberg,Joseph G. Jurcic

New Treatments of Leukemia and Lymphoma describes the most important advances in the therapy of hematopoietic cancers that have been derived from recent discoveries in cancer cell biology, kinase biochemistry, and immunology. Detailed descriptions of the large number of new and effective agents that have recently become available for the treatment of leukemias and lymphomas as well as an understanding of their mechanisms of action and their integration into current therapy are provided. A number of experimental drug reagents currently in clinical investigation are also discussed. The therapies include conventional anti-metabolites, monoclonal antibodies directed to cell surface receptors, antibodies tagged with toxins and radiopharmaceuticals, inhibitors of specific kinases, stem cell transplants, and engineered T-cells designed to selectively target hematopoietic cancers. The contents of the book will allow practitioners and investigators alike to understand what is current and state of the art as well as what to look for in the future.* Provides an up-to-date, state of the art discussion of a rapidly changing field * Great breadth covering conventional chemotherapeutic agents, biologic agents such as antibodies, novel small molecule inhibitors and genetically engineered cells * Written by international experts in each of the fields

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Elsevier

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0080490409

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Sample Sizes for Clinical, Laboratory and Epidemiology Studies

By: David Machin,Michael J. Campbell,Say Beng Tan,Sze Huey Tan

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Sample Sizes for Clinical, Laboratory and Epidemiology Studies

By: David Machin,Michael J. Campbell,Say Beng Tan,Sze Huey Tan

Ein fundiertes Referenzwerk zu den statistischen Instrumenten und Softwareprogrammen, die für das Design und die Planung klinischer Studien erforderlich sind. Die erweiterte 4. Auflage von Sample Sizes for Clinical, Laboratory and Epidemiology Studies beinhaltet eine Sample-Size-Software (SSS), Formeln und nummerische Tabellen für die Gestaltung valider klinischer Studien. Das Fachbuch behandelt ebenfalls Labor- und epidemiologische Studien und stellt die Informationen zur Verfügung, damit Studien einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur medizinischen Forschung leisten. Die Autoren, allesamt anerkannte Experten des Fachgebiets, erläutern und untersuchen Schritt für Schritt die vielfältigen Überlegungen bei der Festlegung geeigneter Stichprobengrößen und helfen so bei der Planung von Studien. Bereitgestellt werden ebenfalls Stichprobentabellen mit Erläuterungen und aussagekräftige Beispiele auf der Basis von Echtdaten. Darüber hinaus enthält das Fachbuch ein Literaturverweise und Angaben zu weiterführenden Referenzen zur Unterstützung der vorgestellten Prinzipien. Diese überarbeitete 4. Auflage - ist das bislang einzige Referenzwerk mit einem Softwareprogramm für die Gestaltung und Planung klinischer Studien. - enthält neue und erweiterte Kapitel mit einer Vielzahl neuer und aktualisierter Beispiele. - erläutert verständlich die angewandten Prinzipien und Methoden anhand von Beispielen aus der Praxis. - präsentiert auf nachvollziehbare Weise ein komplexes und dennoch wichtiges Thema, damit die richtigen Methoden verwendet werden und fundierte Ergebnisse veröffentlicht werden können. - bietet Hilfestellung von einem Team international anerkannter Statistikexperten im medizinischen Bereich. Sample Sizes for Clinical, Laboratory and Epidemiology Studies richtet sich an medizinische Forscher aller Disziplinen sowie an Medizinstatistiker. Die aktualisierte 4. Auflage ist ein wichtiges Referenzwerk für die Gestaltung und Planung verlässlicher, evidenzbasierter klinischer Studien.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118874927

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Forging Nations

Currency, Power, and Nationality in Britain and Ireland Since 1603

By: David Blaazer

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Forging Nations

Currency, Power, and Nationality in Britain and Ireland Since 1603

By: David Blaazer

In Forging Nations, Blaazer studies the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the first attempts to unify their currencies following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. Through successive crises spanning four centuries, Forging Nations examines critical struggles over monetary power between the state and its creditors, and within and between nations during the long, multifaceted process of creating the United Kingdom as a monetary as well as a political union. It shows how and why centuries of monetary dysfunction and conflict eventually gave way to the era of the sterling gold standard, when elite and popular beliefs about money converged around a set of almost unassailable monetary dogmas that transcended differences of nationality, party, and class. Sustained by a mixture of historical myths and imperial hubris, this consensus effortlessly reinforced the authority and served the interests of the monetary elite, even after its economic foundations had collapsed under the pressure of war and international competition. The book concludes by showing how the end of the UK's global hegemony and the prospect of Scottish independence have resuscitated historical differences between England, Ireland, and Scotland in attitudes to currency's role in defining national identity, while the Global Financial Crisis has revived forgotten debates over the nature of money and monetary power.

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Oxford University Press

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0192887025

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Rethinking Tourism and Development

By: Richard Sharpley,David J. Telfer

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Rethinking Tourism and Development

By: Richard Sharpley,David J. Telfer

Rethinking Tourism and Development provides a critical analysis of the tourism industry's impact on development and the environment. While tourism contributes significantly to the global economy, it also generates environmental costs that can no longer be ignored. This book challenges the conventional paradigm of sustainable tourism development and proposes a radical new approach to address the negative impacts of tourism centred on degrowth.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1802205977

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The New Broadway Song Companion

An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style

By: David P. DeVenney

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The New Broadway Song Companion

An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style

By: David P. DeVenney

This is a completely revised and expanded second edition of The Broadway Song Companion, the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every song from over 300 Broadway shows, including at least 90 more than the first edition. Organized by show, each song is annotated with the name of the character(s) who sing(s) the song, the vocal range, and a style category, such as uptempo, narrative ballad, swing ballad, moderate character piece, etc. Several indexes are supplied, organizing the songs by voice type (soprano, baritone, etc.) and song style, vocal arrangement (duets, trios, chorus, etc.), and composer and lyricist, allowing increased access to the repertoire. For instance, a soprano looking for a ballad to sing will find every song in that category in the index. All solos, duets, and trios are indexed in this manner, with quartets and larger ensembles listed by voice type. Furthermore, the instant breakdowns (how many lead characters, who sings what song, and the range requirements of each character) will be a valuable resource to directors and producers.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810869446

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A Century of American Popular Music

By: David A. Jasen

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A Century of American Popular Music

By: David A. Jasen

First Published in 2002. A Century of American Popular Music is an annotated index to over 2,000 of the most popular, best remembered, historically important and otherwise influential and interesting popular music, from the landmark publication of Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag to the latest rap hit. It provides information all in one place that is available no where else: song title, composer, lyricist, publisher, date of copyright and genre. The annotations include, where possible, a discussion of the history of the song, how it was written, who popularized it, notable recordings with their original issue numbers, as well as covers and other versions that helped keep the song in public attention. Also included are indices by composer, publisher and year of publication.

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Routledge

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1135352712

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The Broadway Song Companion

An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style

By: David P. DeVenney

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The Broadway Song Companion

An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style

By: David P. DeVenney

The Broadway Song Companion is the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every song from over 210 Broadway shows, giving the name of the character(s) who sing(s) the song, its exact vocal range, and categorizing each by song style (uptempo, narrative ballad, swing ballad, moderate character piece, etc.). A number of indexes to the volume list titles of songs, first lines, composer's and lyricist's names, and each song by voice type. For instance, a soprano looking for a ballad to sing will find every song in that category in the index. All solos, duets, and trios are indexed in this manner, with quartets and larger ensembles listed by voice type. Furthermore, the instant breakdowns (how many lead characters, who sings what song, and the range requirements of each character) will be a valuable resource to directors and producers.

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0585040192

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9780585040196

The Growth of the Medieval City

From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century

By: David M Nicholas

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The Growth of the Medieval City

From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century

By: David M Nicholas

The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (It is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being published simultaneously.) In it, Professor Nicholas traces the slow regeneration of urban life in the early medieval period, showing where and how an urban tradition had survived from late antiquity, and when and why new urban communities began to form where there was no such continuity. He charts the different types and functions of the medieval city, its interdependence with the surrounding countryside, and its often fraught relations with secular authority. The book ends with the critical changes of the late thirteenth century that established an urban network that was strong enough to survive the plagues, famines and wars of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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1317885503

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Jacques-Louis David

New Perspectives

By: Jacques Louis David

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Jacques-Louis David

New Perspectives

By: Jacques Louis David

Well-known specialists in art history, gender studies, French literature, and aesthetics address a wide range of issues and problems pertaining to the intersection of art and culture that have profound implications for artistic and historical developments in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century France and Europe. The essays present new historical, archival, and interpretative material from diverse methodological vantage points in clear and lucid prose that makes the volume particularly accessible to a broader public interested in learning more about the artist and his time. The text is complemented by seventeen black-and-white plates and fifty-five figures."--Jacket.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874139309

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Finite Elements and Fast Iterative Solvers

With Applications in Incompressible Fluid Dynamics

By: Howard C. Elman,David J. Silvester,Andrew J. Wathen

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Finite Elements and Fast Iterative Solvers

With Applications in Incompressible Fluid Dynamics

By: Howard C. Elman,David J. Silvester,Andrew J. Wathen

This book describes why and how to do Scientific Computing for fundamental models of fluid flow. It contains introduction, motivation, analysis, and algorithms and is closely tied to freely available MATLAB codes that implement the methods described. The focus is on finite element approximation methods and fast iterative solution methods for the consequent linear(ized) systems arising in important problems that model incompressible fluid flow. The problems addressed are the Poisson equation, Convection-Diffusion problem, Stokes problem and Navier-Stokes problem, including new material on time-dependent problems and models of multi-physics. The corresponding iterative algebra based on preconditioned Krylov subspace and multigrid techniques is for symmetric and positive definite, nonsymmetric positive definite, symmetric indefinite and nonsymmetric indefinite matrix systems respectively. For each problem and associated solvers there is a description of how to compute together with theoretical analysis that guides the choice of approaches and describes what happens in practice in the many illustrative numerical results throughout the book (computed with the freely downloadable IFISS software). All of the numerical results should be reproducible by readers who have access to MATLAB and there is considerable scope for experimentation in the "computational laboratory" provided by the software. Developments in the field since the first edition was published have been represented in three new chapters covering optimization with PDE constraints (Chapter 5); solution of unsteady Navier-Stokes equations (Chapter 10); solution of models of buoyancy-driven flow (Chapter 11). Each chapter has many theoretical problems and practical computer exercises that involve the use of the IFISS software. This book is suitable as an introduction to iterative linear solvers or more generally as a model of Scientific Computing at an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

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