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The Extra Man

By: Jonathan Ames

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THE EXTRA MAN begins as Louis Ives's career as an English teacher is abruptly curtailed when he is caught wearing a colleague's bra in the staff room. Escaping to New York he moves into a flat share with Henry Harrison, an aging gentleman-about-town who teaches Louis how to operate and survive - scamming opera tickets, obtaining free food - and how to make money escorting wealthy older women around New York. Louis embarks on an exploration of his sexuality in the bars and clubs of Midtown while developing a deep, but platonic, attachment to the older man.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471105520

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9781471105524

Watch This!

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By: Jonathan L. Walton

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Watch This!

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By: Jonathan L. Walton

An analysis of African American televangelists as cultural icons Through their constant television broadcasts, mass video distributions, and printed publications, African American religious broadcasters have a seemingly ubiquitous presence in popular culture. They are on par with popular entertainers and athletes in the African American community as cultural icons even as they are criticized by others for taking advantage of the devout in order to subsidize their lavish lifestyles. For these reasons questions abound. Do televangelists proclaim the message of the gospel or a message of greed? Do they represent the "authentic" voice of the black church or the Christian Right in blackface? Does the phenomenon reflect orthodox "Christianity" or ethnocentric "Americaninity" wrapped in religious language? Watch This! seeks to move beyond such polarizing debates by critically delving into the dominant messages and aesthetic styles of African American televangelists and evaluating their ethical implications.

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301

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NYU Press

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0814794688

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9780814794685

Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror

By: Dieter Grass,Jonathan P. Caulkins,Gustav Feichtinger,Gernot Tragler,Doris A. Behrens

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Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror

By: Dieter Grass,Jonathan P. Caulkins,Gustav Feichtinger,Gernot Tragler,Doris A. Behrens

Dynamic optimization is rocket science – and more. This volume teaches researchers and students alike to harness the modern theory of dynamic optimization to solve practical problems. These problems not only cover those in space flight, but also in emerging social applications such as the control of drugs, corruption, and terror. This volume is designed to be a lively introduction to the mathematics and a bridge to these hot topics in the economics of crime for current scholars. The authors celebrate Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle – that crowning intellectual achievement of human understanding. The rich theory explored here is complemented by numerical methods available through a companion web site.

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552

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540776478

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9783540776475

Chopin's Polish Ballade

Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom

By: Jonathan Bellman

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Chopin's Polish Ballade

Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom

By: Jonathan Bellman

Chopin's Polish Ballade examines the Second Ballade, Op. 38, and how that work gave voice to the Polish cultural preoccupations of the 1830s, using musical conventions from French opera and amateur piano music. This approach provides answers to several persistent questions about the work's form, programmatic content, and poetic inspiration.

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OUP USA

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0195338863

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9780195338867

The Utopian Globalists

Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919 - 2009

By: Jonathan Harris

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The Utopian Globalists

Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919 - 2009

By: Jonathan Harris

THE UTOPIAN GLOBALISTS “Crossing continents, historical periods and cultural genres, Jonathan Harris skilfully traces the evolution of utopian ideals from early modernism to the spectacularised and biennialised (or banalised as some would say) contemporary art world of today.” Michael Asbury, University of the Arts, London The Utopian Globalists is the second in a trilogy of books by Jonathan Harris examining the contours, forces, materials and meanings of the global art world, along with its contexts of emergence since the early twentieth century. The first of the three studies, Globalization and Contemporary Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), anatomized the global art system through an extensive anthology of over 30 essays contextualized through multiple thematic introductions. The final book in the series, Contemporary Art in a Globalized World (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell), combines the historical and contemporary perspectives of the first and second books in an account focused on the ‘mediatizations’ shaping and representing contemporary art and its circuits of global production, dissemination and consumption. This innovative and revealing history examines artists whose work embodies notions of revolution and human social transformation. The clearly structured historical narrative takes the reader on a cultural odyssey that begins with Vladimir Tatlin’s constructivist model for a ‘Monument to the Third International’ (1919), a statement of utopian globalist intent, via Picasso’s 1940s commitment to Soviet communism and John and Yoko’s Montreal ‘Bedin’, to what the author calls the ‘late globalism’ of the Unilever Series at London’s Tate Modern. The book maps the ways artists and their work engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism, throughout the eras of the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and the increasingly globalized world of the past 20 years. In doing so, Harris explores the idea that the utopian -globalist lineage in art remains torn between its yearning for freedom and a deepening identification with spectacle as a media commodity to be traded and consumed.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405193018

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9781405193016

Soft Methodology and Random Information Systems

By: Miguel Concepcion Lopez-Diaz,Maria Angeles Gil,Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski,Olgierd Hryniewicz,Jonathan Lawry

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Soft Methodology and Random Information Systems

By: Miguel Concepcion Lopez-Diaz,Maria Angeles Gil,Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski,Olgierd Hryniewicz,Jonathan Lawry

The analysis of experimental data resulting from some underlying random process is a fundamental part of most scientific research. Probability Theory and Statistics have been developed as flexible tools for this analyis, and have been applied successfully in various fields such as Biology, Economics, Engineering, Medicine or Psychology. However, traditional techniques in Probability and Statistics were devised to model only a singe source of uncertainty, namely randomness. In many real-life problems randomness arises in conjunction with other sources, making the development of additional "softening" approaches essential. This book is a collection of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS’2004) held in Oviedo, providing a comprehensive overview of the innovative new research taking place within this emerging field.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540444653

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9783540444657

The Wisden Collector's Guide

By: Jonathan Rice,Andrew Renshaw

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The Wisden Collector's Guide

By: Jonathan Rice,Andrew Renshaw

The Wisden Collector's Guide is the definitive companion to one of the world's most important sporting publications. It begins with an overview of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, introducing the original John Wisden and describing the history of the publication. The next section contains highlights and information from each of the 147 editions, including bibliographic details (page extent, price, reprints etc), excerpts from the best articles, cricketers of the year, obituaries, and noteworthy events and matches. There is also additional information of interest to collectors and historical context in the form of news 'headlines' from each year. The guide concludes with a section dedicated to the serious collector. Covering everything from reprints to rebinds and from pagination to publishers, it is a vital resource for collectors. Affording a glimpse of the cricketing and historical landscape of the last 147 years, this is an accessible and fascinating volume for cricketing fans generally and a must-have item for Wisden collectors.

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A&C Black

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1408165279

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9781408165270

Program Music

By: Jonathan Kregor

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Program Music

By: Jonathan Kregor

Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions by groups of composers in Russia, Bohemia, the United States, and France. In this accessible Introduction, Jonathan Kregor explores program music's ideas and repertoire, discussing both well-known and less familiar pieces by an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers. Setting program music in the context of the intellectual debates of the period, Kregor presents the criticism of writers like A. B. Marx and Hanslick to reveal program music's growth, dissemination, and reception. This comprehensive overview features numerous illustrations and music examples and provides detailed case studies of battle music, Shakespeare settings, and Goethe's Faust.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316239845

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9781316239841

The Thieves of Pudding Lane

A story of the Great Fire of London

By: Jonathan Eyers

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The Thieves of Pudding Lane

A story of the Great Fire of London

By: Jonathan Eyers

Gripping historical adventure set during the Great Fire of London. A young boy orphaned by the Plague learns to survive as a thief on the streets of London - until fire breaks out... London, 1666. Orphaned by the Great Plague, Sam is soon starving on the streets - and desperate enough to steal some bread. He's quickly recruited as one of sinister Uncle Jack's children, and taught to pick pockets. If he gets caught by the law, the punishment will be death - and if he crosses Uncle Jack, it could be just as bad. Still, it's a living for Sam and his fellow thief Catherine... until the long, hot London summer means a blaze at the Pudding Lane bakery runs out of control... and they learn that Uncle Jack's schemes are far more evil than they knew. Running for their lives from thiefmasters, thieftakers and the Great Fire of London itself, can two reluctant criminals save an innocent life - and their own skins?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472903196

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9781472903198

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The Extra Man

The Extra Man

Watch This!

Watch This!

Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

Chopin's Polish Ballade

Chopin's Polish Ballade

The Utopian Globalists

The Utopian Globalists

Soft Methodology and Random Information Systems

Soft Methodology and Random Information Systems

The Wisden Collector's Guide

The Wisden Collector's Guide

Program Music

Program Music

The Thieves of Pudding Lane

The Thieves of Pudding Lane

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