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Phoenix: Operation parrot

By: Francesca rossini

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Book description: Europe 1983 - At the heart of the cold war, love, jealousy and murder set the stage for Operation: PARROT - a deadly plot to trigger World War Three. The enigmatic CIA agent Clay Nathan Hobbs operates on the fringes of the European intelligence community, known only by his code name: Blue Shadow. Hobbs stumbles across a beautiful nurse who holds the key to a terrifying new Soviet intelligence plot masterminded by the KGB master spy Egor Vinogradov. Operation: PARROT is designed to thrust the world to the brink of nuclear war. Can the Blue Shadow untangle a web of lies and murder in time to stop the plot? And what are the motives of the seductive British agent Rebecca Doyle - is she friend, or the deadliest kind of foe?

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1507116349

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Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

By: Pamela Karantonis,Francesca Placanica,Pieter Verstraete

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Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

By: Pamela Karantonis,Francesca Placanica,Pieter Verstraete

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde composers, Cathy Berberian went on to embody the principles of postmodern thinking in her work, through vocality. She re-defined the limits of composition and challenged theories of the authorship of the musical score. This volume celebrates her unorthodox path through musical landscapes, including her approach to performance practice, gender performativity, vocal pedagogy and the culturally-determined borders of art music, the concert stage, the popular LP and the opera industry of her times. The collection features primary documentation-some published in English for the first time-of Berberian’s engagement with the philosophy of voice, new music, early music, pop, jazz, vocal experimentation and technology that has come to influence the next generation of singers such as Theo Bleckmann, Susan Botti, Joan La Barbara, Rinde Eckert Meredith Monk, Carol Plantamura, Candace Smith and Pamela Z. Hence, this timely anthology marks an end to the long period of silence about Cathy Berberian’s championing of a radical rethinking of the musical past through a reclaiming of the voice as a multifaceted phenomenon. With a Foreword by Susan McClary.

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Routledge

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1317169115

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Phoenix: Operation parrot

By: Francesca rossini

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Phoenix: Operation parrot

By: Francesca rossini

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Networking Operatic Italy

By: Francesca Vella

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Networking Operatic Italy

By: Francesca Vella

Stagecrafting the City -- Florence, Opera, and Technological Modernity -- Funeral Entrainments -- Errico Petrella's Jone and the Band -- Global Voices -- Adelina Patti, Multilingualism, and Bel Canto (as) Listening -- "Ito per Ferrovia" -- Opera Productions on the Tracks -- Aida, Media, and Temporal Politics circa 1871-72.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226815706

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9780226815701

Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

By: Francesca Brittan

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Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

By: Francesca Brittan

The centrality of fantasy to French literary culture has long been accepted by critics, but the sonorous dimensions of the mode and its wider implications for musical production have gone largely unexplored. In this book, Francesca Brittan invites us to listen to fantasy, attending both to literary descriptions of sound in otherworldly narratives, and to the wave of 'fantastique' musical works published in France through the middle decades of the nineteenth century, including Berlioz's 1830 Symphonie fantastique, and pieces by Liszt, Adam, Meyerbeer, and others. Following the musico-literary aesthetics of E. T. A. Hoffmann, they allowed waking and dreaming, reality and unreality to converge, yoking fairy sound to insect song, demonic noise to colonial 'babbling', and divine music to the strains of water and wind. Fantastic soundworlds disrupted France's native tradition of marvellous illusion, replacing it with a magical materialism inextricable from republican activism, theological heterodoxy, and the advent of 'radical' romanticism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108326358

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9781108326353

Italian All-in-One For Dummies

By: Antonietta Di Pietro,Francesca Romana Onofri,Teresa L. Picarazzi,Karen Antje Möller,Daniela Gobetti,Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni

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Italian All-in-One For Dummies

By: Antonietta Di Pietro,Francesca Romana Onofri,Teresa L. Picarazzi,Karen Antje Möller,Daniela Gobetti,Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni

Learn to speak Italian like a native? Easy. Italian All-in-One For Dummies appeals to those readers looking for a comprehensive, all-encompassing guide to mastering the Italian language. It contains content from all For Dummies Italian language instruction titles, including Italian For Dummies, Intermediate Italian For Dummies, Italian Verbs For Dummies, Italian Phrases For Dummies, Italian Grammar For Dummies, and Italian For Dummies Audio Set. Offers readers interested in learning Italian a valuable reference to all aspects of this popular language The content appeals to students, travelers, and businesspeople who visit Italian-speaking countries An online companion site allows you to download audio tracks allows for more practice opportunities, as well as additional content empowering you to speak Italian like a native Whether you're a pure beginner or have some familiarity with the language, Italian All-in-One For Dummies, with downloadable audio practice online, is your ticket to speaking, and writing, Italian.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118510607

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The Women of Quyi

Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies

By: Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson

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The Women of Quyi

Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies

By: Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson

Drawing substantially on original ethnographic fieldwork from the 1980s and 1990s, Lawson demonstrates how the women of quyi - a community of Chinese female singers in Republican Tianjin - successfully negotiated their sexuality and vocality in performance. Owing to their role as third-person narrators, the women of quyi bridged the gender gap in Chinese performance, creating an androgynous persona that allowed them to showcase their voices on public stages; places that had been previously unwelcoming to conventional female performers. This is a story about female storytellers who sang their way to respectability and social change by minimizing their bodies to allow their voices to be heard.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315307863

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9781315307862

Statistical Methods for Environmental Epidemiology with R

A Case Study in Air Pollution and Health

By: Roger D. Peng,Francesca Dominici

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Statistical Methods for Environmental Epidemiology with R

A Case Study in Air Pollution and Health

By: Roger D. Peng,Francesca Dominici

As an area of statistical application, environmental epidemiology and more speci cally, the estimation of health risk associated with the exposure to - vironmental agents, has led to the development of several statistical methods and software that can then be applied to other scienti c areas. The stat- tical analyses aimed at addressing questions in environmental epidemiology have the following characteristics. Often the signal-to-noise ratio in the data is low and the targets of inference are inherently small risks. These constraints typically lead to the development and use of more sophisticated (and pot- tially less transparent) statistical models and the integration of large hi- dimensional databases. New technologies and the widespread availability of powerful computing are also adding to the complexities of scienti c inves- gation by allowing researchers to t large numbers of models and search over many sets of variables. As the number of variables measured increases, so do the degrees of freedom for in uencing the association between a risk factor and an outcome of interest. We have written this book, in part, to describe our experiences developing and applying statistical methods for the estimation for air pollution health e ects. Our experience has convinced us that the application of modern s- tistical methodology in a reproducible manner can bring to bear subst- tial bene ts to policy-makers and scientists in this area. We believe that the methods described in this book are applicable to other areas of environmental epidemiology, particularly those areas involving spatial{temporal exposures.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387781676

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9780387781679

Staging 'Euridice'

Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence

By: Tim Carter,Francesca Fantappiè

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Staging 'Euridice'

Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence

By: Tim Carter,Francesca Fantappiè

Euridice was one of several music-theatrical works commissioned to celebrate the wedding of Maria de' Medici and King Henri IV of France in Florence in October 1600. As the first 'opera' to survive complete, it has been viewed as a landmark work, but its libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini and music by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini have tended to be studied in the abstract rather than as something to be performed in a specific time and place. Staging “Euridice” explores how newly-discovered documents can be used to precisely reconstruct every aspect of its original stage and sets in the room for which it was intended in the Palazzo Pitti. By also taking into account what the singers and instrumentalists did, what the audience saw and heard, and how things changed from creation through rehearsals to performance, this book brings new aspects of Euridice to light in startling ways.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009041967

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The Awkward Age

A Novel

By: Francesca Segal

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The Awkward Age

A Novel

By: Francesca Segal

A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own." —Nick Hornby “A spry and accomplished comedy of manners.” —The New York Times Book Review “They've chosen the one thing that will make our family life impossible. It's genius really, when you think about it. It's the perfect sabotage.” Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness. This is a moving and powerful novel about the modern family: about starting over; about love, guilt, and generosity; about building something beautiful amid the mess and complexity of what came before. It is a story about standing by the ones we love, even while they make mistakes. We would give anything to make our children happy. But how much should they ask?

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Penguin

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0399576479

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Strange Sisters

Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century

By: Francesca Orestano

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Strange Sisters

Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century

By: Francesca Orestano

This collection of essays stems from the conference 'Nineteenth-Century Literature and Aesthetics', which was held at the University of Milan in 2006 and organised by the editors of this volume. The interface between word and image covered in these essays embraces the fields of literature, architecture, painting, photography, music and art criticism. The authors stress the role of aesthetics in a number of contexts ranging from the early 1830s to the fin de siècle and beyond, as far as the last influences of Victorian taste on the early years of the twentieth century. During the nineteenth century the ancient interaction between literature and aesthetics was challenged and criticised by Martineau, Rossetti, Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Beardsley, Cameron and Carroll, among others: their awareness of the complexity of visual perception problematised the existing categories of realism, artistic conventions, discourse of description, translation and representation. The essays cover almost a century of debate between literature and aesthetics. They focus on the intersection of word and image by emphasising transgressions in art hierarchies, forms and languages, which restyle existing categories and project them into new aesthetic dimensions beyond the conventional idea of the sister arts.

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Peter Lang

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3039118404

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9783039118403

Italian For Dummies, Enhanced Edition

By: Francesca Romana Onofri,Karen Antje Möller,Teresa L. Picarazzi

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Italian For Dummies, Enhanced Edition

By: Francesca Romana Onofri,Karen Antje Möller,Teresa L. Picarazzi

The fun and easy way to take your Italian language skills to the next level The tips, techniques, and information presented here give students, travelers, and businesspeople a primer on how to speak Italian. Complete with updates, a bonus CD, and the traditional For Dummies user-friendly format, this new edition of Italian For Dummies gives you reliable lessons, practice, and language learning techniques for speaking Italian with ease and confidence. Featuring a revamped, user-friendly organization that builds on your knowledge and ability, Italian For Dummies offers expanded coverage of the necessary grammar, major verb tenses, and conjugations that beginners need to know. Plus, you'll get a fully updated and expanded audio CD that includes real-life conversations; a refreshed and expanded mini-dictionary; more useful exercises and practice opportunities; and more. Builds on your skills and ability as you learn Covers the grammar, verb tenses, and conjugations you need to know Includes a mini-dictionary Audio CD includes real-life conversations If you're looking to reach a comfort level in conversational Italian, Italian For Dummies gets you comfortably speaking this Romantic language like a native.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118258762

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9781118258767

Sentinel

The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty

By: Francesca Lidia Viano

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Sentinel

The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty

By: Francesca Lidia Viano

The story of the improbable campaign that created America’s most enduring monument. The Statue of Liberty is an icon of freedom, a monument to America’s multiethnic democracy, and a memorial to Franco-American friendship. That much we know. But the lofty ideals we associate with the statue today can obscure its turbulent origins and layers of meaning. Francesca Lidia Viano reveals that history in the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life. Our protagonists are the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and his collaborator, the politician and intellectual Édouard de Laboulaye. Viano draws on an unprecedented range of sources to follow the pair as they chase their artistic and political ambitions across a global stage dominated by imperial rivalry and ideological ferment. The tale stretches from the cobblestones of northeastern France, through the hallways of international exhibitions in London and Paris, to the copper mines of Norway and Chile, the battlegrounds of the Franco-Prussian War, the deserts of Egypt, and the streets of New York. It features profound technical challenges, hot air balloon rides, secret “magnetic” séances, and grand visions of a Franco-American partnership in the coming world order. The irrepressible collaborators bring to their project the high ideals of liberalism and republicanism, but also crude calculations of national advantage and eccentric notions adopted from orientalism, freemasonry, and Saint-Simonianism. As entertaining as it is illuminating, Sentinel gives new flesh and spirit to a landmark we all recognize but only dimly understand.

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Harvard University Press

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0674916344

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9780674916340

The Appian Way

From Its Foundation to the Middle Ages

By: Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio,Francesca Ventre

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The Appian Way

From Its Foundation to the Middle Ages

By: Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio,Francesca Ventre

The Appian Way was the first great artery from Rome to southern Italy and the model for all roads originating in the ancient capital. Conceived by Appius Claudius in 312 B.C., the thoroughfare provided easy access to Capua, the most important junction in southern Italy, and facilitated Roman expansion into the southern peninsula. Paved in black basalt, the road was flanked by level pedestrian footpaths and bordered by tombs, villas, and pleasant rest and refreshment areas along its 365 miles, which could be walked in thirteen to fourteen days. The Ancient Appian Way provides an engaging account of the Appian Way's origins and historical context. The structure of this lavishly illustrated book mirrors the traveler's route south from Rome, making it an ideal guide to the legendary road for all those with an interest in exploring ancient Rome.

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Getty Publications

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0892367520

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9780892367528

History of the World in 100 Modern Objects

Middle-class stuff (and nonsense)

By: Francesca Hornak

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History of the World in 100 Modern Objects

Middle-class stuff (and nonsense)

By: Francesca Hornak

Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'. Featuring a different iconic object each week, the column explores contemporary middle-class life through the objects we fetishise. Each column is a little vignette about a different character, such as Izzy, who's 26 and interns at Kelly Hoppen and gets into a spat with her flatmate about a twee Oliver Bonas cake stand, Nick, 40, who's considering the safety aspects of his children's bike trailer and remembering his old DJing days, and Philippa, 64, who's tussling with her Sky TV remote after her divorce. Funny, charming and sometimes poignant, each column is an evocative slice of modern life. The columns are accompanied by crisp, colourful illustrations by the illustrator James Joyce, which make the book into a design object itself.

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Portico

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191104205X

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9781911042051

Truly Funny Stories Vol. 1

Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space

By: Lisa Scottoline,Francesca Serritella

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Truly Funny Stories Vol. 1

Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space

By: Lisa Scottoline,Francesca Serritella

The collections from beloved mother-daughter writing duo Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are among the best reviewed humor books published today and have been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Here for the first time in a fabulous eBook bundle are two of their witty and warm collections. Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog This one's for you, extraordinary ordinary women everywhere! Here Lisa Scottoline shares a hilarious collection of scenes from her real life, and she bets her life sounds a lot like yours...if you crave carbs, can't find jeans that fit, and still believe that these two things are unrelated. My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space Lisa and Francesca give their mother-daughter perspective on everything from blind dates to empty calories, as well as life with the feistiest octogenarian on the planet, Mother Mary. Three generations, triple the laughs-and the love.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250100038

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9781250100030

Italian For Dummies

By: Francesca Romana Onofri,Karen Antje Möller,Teresa L. Picarazzi

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Italian For Dummies

By: Francesca Romana Onofri,Karen Antje Möller,Teresa L. Picarazzi

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118138694

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30-Minute Italian Cookbook

Classic Recipes Made Fast and Easy

By: Francesca Montillo

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30-Minute Italian Cookbook

Classic Recipes Made Fast and Easy

By: Francesca Montillo

Authentic Italian dishes ready in 30 minutes Cooking classic Italian recipes at home doesn't have to mean chopping, stirring, and standing over a stove for hours on end. The 30-Minute Italian Cookbook makes it simple to create authentic Italian dishes using straightforward methods and easy-to-source ingredients. Join expert culinary tour guide Francesca Montillo on a journey through the regional cuisines of Italy from Milan to Catania. With recipes that take no more than 30 minutes from start to finish, she'll show you how easy it is to enjoy a full Italian meal any day of the week. Authentic recipes—Serve up soups, risottos, pastas, poultry and meat entrees, seafood dishes, sweet treats, and more. The Italian kitchen—Minimize time and effort by knowing how to equip your kitchen and stock your pantry to cook quality Italian meals anytime. Perfect pairings—Round out your meals with suggested wine pairings, along with tips for putting together an impressive antipasti platter. Enjoy hearty Italian food on a moment's notice with this quick and easy cookbook.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1638071438

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9781638071433

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