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Molto Agitato

The Mayhem Behind the Muisc at the Metropolitan Opera

By: Johanna Fiedler

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Molto Agitato

The Mayhem Behind the Muisc at the Metropolitan Opera

By: Johanna Fiedler

If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertaining account of its tumuluous history. Fiedler chronicles the Met’s early days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, and Caruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years when haughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of a company that would emerge as America’s premiere opera house. She takes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent years as well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances and scandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler’s portrayals of James Levine and Joseph Volpe and their practically parallel ascendancies—Levine rising from prodigy to artistic director, Volpe advancing from stagehand to general manager—and their once strained relationship. Weaving together the personal, economic, and artistic struggles that characterize the Met’s long and vibrant history, Molto Agitato is a must-read saga of power, wealth, and, above all, great music.

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1400032318

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9781400032310

Psychology for the Classroom

By: Johanna Turner

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Psychology for the Classroom

By: Johanna Turner

Originally published in 1977, Psychology for the Classroom is offered as an aid to people who are learning themselves and helping other people to learn: that is, to parents, students and particularly to teachers. The activity of teaching, to be successful, requires the teacher to understand the behaviour of the learner as fully as possible. Some of the insights into human behaviour gained by psychologists may prove helpful to the teacher in complementing his or her experience and intuitive understanding, and it is with this in mind that the topics covered in this book have been selected. Section one deals with cognitive aspects, an understanding of which his essential since cognitive processes are the means by which individuals are able to make sense of their environment. Section two considers the social situation in which knowledge and understanding develop, i.e. the way in which social interaction affects learning. Section three focuses on the individual, stressing that academic achievement depends not only on hard work but is intimately related to an individual’s personal development and personality. The book will be valuable to psychology students, student teachers and teachers on in-service courses, for its coverage of relevant psychological research and the description of pertinent experiments and studies of the time. Its originality lies in the way in which it communicates the importance of teachers using psychology as a basis for forming hypotheses which they can test for themselves – not necessarily as researchers, but in a mood of personal exploration.

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239

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Routledge

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1351806394

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9781351806398

Sweet Dreams

Contemporary Art and Complicity

By: Johanna Drucker

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Sweet Dreams

Contemporary Art and Complicity

By: Johanna Drucker

Surveying a wide range of exciting and innovative artists, Drucker demonstrates their clear departure from the past, petitioning viewers and critics to shift their terms and sensibilities as well.

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326

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University of Chicago Press

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0226165051

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9780226165059

In the Presence of Each Other

A Pedagogy of Storytelling

By: Johanna Kuyvenhoven

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In the Presence of Each Other

A Pedagogy of Storytelling

By: Johanna Kuyvenhoven

In the Presence of Each Other is a brilliant ethnography that examines the educational benefits of the use of oral storytelling in the classroom and the ways in which non-print literacy enhances children's overall language and communication capacities.

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257

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University of Toronto Press

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0802099157

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9780802099150

SpecLab

Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing

By: Johanna Drucker

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SpecLab

Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing

By: Johanna Drucker

Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia’s SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists’ Books Online to the as yet unrealized ’Patacritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, SpecLab functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker’s contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.

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263

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University of Chicago Press

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0226165094

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9780226165097

Search for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector

Probing Final States of Missing Energy and an Energetic Jet or Top Quarks

By: Johanna Gramling

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Search for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector

Probing Final States of Missing Energy and an Energetic Jet or Top Quarks

By: Johanna Gramling

This book discusses searches for Dark Matter at the CERN’s LHC, the world’s most powerful accelerator. It introduces the relevant theoretical framework and includes an in-depth discussion of the Effective Field Theory approach to Dark Matter production and its validity, as well as an overview of the formalism of Simplified Dark Matter models. Despite overwhelming astrophysical evidence for Dark Matter and numerous experimental efforts to detect it, the nature of Dark Matter still remains a mystery and has become one of the hottest research topics in fundamental physics. Two searches for Dark Matter are presented, performed on data collected with the ATLAS experiment. They analyze missing-energy final states with a jet or with top quarks. The analyses are explained in detail, and the outcomes and their interpretations are discussed, also in view of the precedent analysis of theoretical approaches. Given its depth of coverage, the book represents an excellent reference guide for all physicists interested in understanding the theoretical and experimental considerations relevant to Dark Matter searches at the LHC.

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290

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Springer

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3319950169

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9783319950167

Molto Agitato

The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera

By: Johanna Fiedler

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Molto Agitato

The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera

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Molto Agitato

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Psychology for the Classroom

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In the Presence of Each Other

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SpecLab

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Search for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector

Search for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector

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