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Wagner and Venice

By: John W. Barker

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Wagner and Venice

By: John W. Barker

Explores Wagner's lengthy stays in Venice, his death there, and the meaning of his works -- and his death -- for that great city and its mystique.

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University Rochester Press

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158046288X

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9781580462884

Performance Practice

A Dictionary-guide for Musicians

By: Roland John Jackson

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Performance Practice

A Dictionary-guide for Musicians

By: Roland John Jackson

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415941393

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9780415941396

Dwight's Journal of Music. A Paper of Art and Literature

By: John Sullivan Dwight

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Dwight's Journal of Music. A Paper of Art and Literature

By: John Sullivan Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385379369

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9783385379367

Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition

By: John P. Anders

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Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition

By: John P. Anders

In this first full-length study of male homosexuality in Cather's short stories and novels, John P. Anders examines patterns of male friendship ranging on a continuum from the social to the sexual. He reveals how Cather's work assumes an unexpected depth and complexity by drawing on both the familiar tradition of friendship literature inspired by classical and Christian texts and a homosexual legacy that is part of, yet distinct from, established literary traditions. Anders argues that Cather's artistic achievement is distinguished by her sexual aesthetics, an elusive literary style inextricably associated with homosexuality. His analysis demonstrates how a homosexual ethos and eros helped Cather develop a sensitivity to human variation and a style to accommodate it and thus became the objective correlative of her art, dramatizing the diversity of human nature as it deepens the mystery of her work.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803210531

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9780803210530

A History of Cigarette and Trade Cards

The Magic Inside the Packet

By: John Broom

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A History of Cigarette and Trade Cards

The Magic Inside the Packet

By: John Broom

How trading cards captured the popular culture—from war to sports, science to celebrities—with tips on how to start and develop your own collection. The collection of picture cards has fascinated generations of children and adults since the late nineteenth century. Between 1900 and 1940, cartophily, as the hobby became known, became widespread as hundreds of millions of attractive cards were issued, usually with packets of cigarettes. These cards give us a unique insight into the cultural history of the period. Although the production of cigarette and other trade cards has declined in recent decades, millions of people worldwide now collect trading cards and stickers issued by the likes of Topps and Panini. This attractive and extensively illustrated guide to collecting cigarette and other trade cards gives the reader a lively history of the hobby, and offers the collector some valuable advice on how to begin and maintain a collection. The wide variation of themes of card issues is explored, with many of the stories behind the cards revealed. It will appeal to novice and established card collectors, and those with an interest in twentieth century social and cultural history.

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Grub Street Publishers

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1526721759

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The New Apostolic Reformation

History of a Modern Charismatic Movement

By: John Weaver

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The New Apostolic Reformation

History of a Modern Charismatic Movement

By: John Weaver

From Justin Bieber, to Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, to the controversial documentary Jesus Camp (2006), the New Apostolic Reformation's influence can be seen everywhere in mainstream America. Beginning with an examination of the Latter Rain, Church Growth and Shepherding movements, this book explores how the new Reformation has become one of the most powerful movements in modern evangelical Christianity and a major influence on American political and cultural life. The author describes the New Apostolic Reformation's organization, how the movement spread and its national and international objectives.

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McFarland

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0786499567

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9780786499564

Dwight's Journal of Music, A Paper of Art and Literature

Vol. 33

By: John S. Dwight

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Dwight's Journal of Music, A Paper of Art and Literature

Vol. 33

By: John S. Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385252857

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9783385252851

Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century

By: John Ling

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Debating English Music in the Long Nineteenth Century

By: John Ling

Situates the controversial narrative of 'The English Musical Renaissance' within its wider historical context.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783276169

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Wagner Beyond Good and Evil

By: John Deathridge

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Wagner Beyond Good and Evil

By: John Deathridge

John Deathridge presents a different and critical view of Richard Wagner based on recent research that does not shy away from some unpalatable truths about this most controversial of composers in the canon of Western music. Deathridge writes authoritatively on what Wagner did, said, and wrote, drawing from abundant material already well known but also from less familiar sources, including hitherto seldom discussed letters and diaries and previously unpublished musical sketches. At the same time, Deathridge suggests that a true estimation of Wagner does not lie in an all too easy condemnation of his many provocative actions and ideas. Rather, it is to be found in the questions about the modern world and our place in it posed by the best of his stage works, among them Tristan und Isolde and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Controversy about Wagner is unlikely to go away, but rather than taking the line of least resistance by regarding him blandly as a "classic" in the Western art tradition, Deathridge suggests that we need to confront the debates that have raged about him and reach beyond them, toward a fresh and engaging assessment of what he ultimately achieved.

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Univ of California Press

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052093461X

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9780520934610

Music in the Works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka

By: John Hargraves

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Music in the Works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka

By: John Hargraves

This study examines the ironic influence of Friedrich Schlegel and Arthur Schopenhauer's ideas of music's primacy among the arts on three of the most important modern writers of German: Hermann Broch, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

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Camden House

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1571132082

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Wagner and Venice Fictionalized

Variations on a Theme

By: John W. Barker

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Wagner and Venice Fictionalized

Variations on a Theme

By: John W. Barker

The first account of how Wagner's last years and his death in Venice have been mythologized in novels and other works of the creative imagination. The vast literature about Richard Wagner and his works includes a surprising number of fictional works, including novels, plays, satires, and an opera. Many of these deal with his last years and his death in Venice in 1883 -- andeven a fabricated eleventh-hour romance. These fictional treatments -- many presented here in English for the first time -- reveal a striking evolution in the way that Wagner's character and reputation have been viewed over more than a century. They offer insights into changing contexts in Western intellectual and cultural history. And they make clear how much Wagner's associations with Venice have become part of the accumulated mythology of "thefloating city." John Barker's Wagner and Venice Fictionalized: Variations on a Theme will be of interest to all lovers of opera, Venice, and European culture generally. John W. Barker is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in medieval (including Venetian) history. He is also a passionate music lover and record collector, and an active music critic and journalist.

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University Rochester Press

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1580464106

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9781580464109

Surrogate Endpoints in Medicine

By: John A. Wagner

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Surrogate Endpoints in Medicine

By: John A. Wagner

A review of the use of surrogate endpoints and biomarkers in drug development, validation and qualification of biomarkers, pharmacogenic biomarkers, and novel approaches to biomarker discovery. It also discusses specific biomarkers including QTc prolongation and biomarkers of early stage cancer.

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IOS Press

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158603247X

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9781586032470

Pharmacokinetics for the Pharmaceutical Scientist

By: John G. Wagner

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Pharmacokinetics for the Pharmaceutical Scientist

By: John G. Wagner

Major presentation of pharmacokinetics by a leading international expert. Methods for: estimating drug disposition parameters from data obtained after intravascular or extravascular drug administration, estimating rate and extent of drug bioavailability, and comparing rate and extent of drug availability following administration of several different dosage forms of a drug.

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Routledge

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1351425129

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9781351425124

Old Scores and New Readings

By: John F. Runciman

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Old Scores and New Readings

By: John F. Runciman

Many years ago, in the essay which is set second in this collection, I wrote (speaking of the early English composers) that "at length the first great wave of music culminated in the works of Tallis and Byrde ... Byrde is infinitely greater than Tallis, and seems worthy indeed to stand beside Palestrina." Generally one modifies one's opinions as one grows older; very often it is necessary to reverse them. This one on Byrde I adhere to: indeed I am nearly proud of having uttered it so long ago. I had then never heard the Mass in D minor. But in the latter part of 1899 Mr. R.R. Terry, the organist of Downside Abbey, and one of Byrde's latest editors, invited me to the opening of St. Benedict's Church, Ealing, where the Mass in D minor was given; and there I heard one of the most splendid pieces of music in the world adequately rendered under very difficult conditions. I use the phrase advisedly—"one of the most splendid pieces of music in the world." When the New Zealander twenty centuries hence reckons up the European masters of music, he will place Byrde not very far down on the list of the greatest; and he will esteem Byrde's Mass one of the very finest ever written.

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Publio Kiadó Kft.

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9633819318

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9789633819319

The Definitive Diva

The Life and Career of Maria Callas

By: John Louis DiGaetani

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The Definitive Diva

The Life and Career of Maria Callas

By: John Louis DiGaetani

Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage, and her fame extended to the public consciousness of many parts of the world. Even after her mysterious death in 1977, her singing and acting continue to thrill new generations of opera fans thanks to her many recordings and her fascinating life. This new biography of Callas tells her story from difficult beginnings as the daughter of Greek immigrants to New York City in 1923 to her wonderful performances at La Scala, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera. Callas was quite a diva and a master at creating a captivating public image. She also became notorious because of her very public affair with Aristotle Onassis, the wealthy ship-owner who left Callas to marry Jacqueline Kennedy.

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McFarland

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1476643407

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9781476643403

Hiking with Nietzsche

On Becoming Who You Are

By: John Kaag

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Hiking with Nietzsche

On Becoming Who You Are

By: John Kaag

A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of Fall A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about the human condition. Just as Kaag’s acclaimed debut, American Philosophy: A Love Story, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold, intimate, and rich with insight, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing, and through the inevitable missteps, that one has the chance, in Nietzsche’s words, to “become who you are.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374715742

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9780374715748

Pierre Monteux

By: John Canarina

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Pierre Monteux

By: John Canarina

But ultimately it was his students - including Marriner, Maazel, Kunzel, Previn, Zinman, and author John Canarina - who would be his dearest successes, along with the living legacy of the conducting school he founded in Hancock, Maine, in 1943."--BOOK JACKET.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1574670824

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9781574670820

Principles of Inventory Management

When You Are Down to Four, Order More

By: John A. Muckstadt,Amar Sapra

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Principles of Inventory Management

When You Are Down to Four, Order More

By: John A. Muckstadt,Amar Sapra

Inventories are prevalent everywhere in the commercial world, whether it be in retail stores, manufacturing facilities, government stockpile material, Federal Reserve banks, or even your own household. This textbook examines basic mathematical techniques used to sufficiently manage inventories by using various computational methods and mathematical models. The text is presented in a way such that each section can be read independently, and so the order in which the reader approaches the book can be inconsequential. It contains both deterministic and stochastic models along with algorithms that can be employed to find solutions to a variety of inventory control problems. With exercises at the end of each chapter and a clear, systematic exposition, this textbook will appeal to advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students in operations research, industrial engineering, and quantitative MBA programs. It also serves as a reference for professionals in both industry and government worlds. The prerequisite courses include introductory optimization methods, probability theory (non-measure theoretic), and stochastic processes.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387689486

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9780387689487

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