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Written in Stone

Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic The Ten Commandments

By: Katherine Orrison

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Written in Stone

Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic The Ten Commandments

By: Katherine Orrison

From concept stage through production in Egypt to release of the film: Katherine Orrison carefully recreates the behind-the-scenes story of Cecil B. DeMille's beloved epic.

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Vestal Press

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1461734819

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9781461734819

Opera for the People

English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America

By: Katherine K. Preston

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Opera for the People

English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America

By: Katherine K. Preston

Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.

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Oxford University Press

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0190690119

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9780190690113

Windows to the Brain

Insights From Neuroimaging

By: Robin A. Hurley,Katherine H. Taber

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Windows to the Brain

Insights From Neuroimaging

By: Robin A. Hurley,Katherine H. Taber

Windows to the Brain is the only book to synthesize neuroanatomical and imaging research as it pertains to selected neuropsychiatric diseases, containing all of the "Windows to the Brain" papers published from 1999-2006 in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. These reader-friendly summaries by more than sixty contributors present modern imaging techniques that assist in the diagnosis of neuropsychiatric illness, enhanced by easily understood color graphics of the neuroanatomical circuits of behavior, memory, and emotion. They provide a basic understanding of how to apply a variety of imaging techniques to the study of adult neuropsychiatric disease and how to use neuroimaging to assist in diagnostic work-ups for conditions ranging from sleep disorders to epilepsy to borderline personality. Integrated, color-coded graphics present functional anatomical information in a manner that promotes understanding and use in clinical practice, while the text encompasses a wide range of diseases and injuries across the adult lifespan. The book is organized into four sections that will help readers increase their appreciation of the wide range of research and clinical applications for imaging in neuropsychiatry: chapters on imaging techniques discuss underlying principles, strengths and weaknesses, and applications; chapters on specific diseases demonstrate a range of investigative techniques; anatomy/circuit chapters focus on particular brain structures or functional neuropsychiatric circuits; and final chapters present image-based approaches to understanding or selecting treatment options. Some of the applications described are: Use of fMRI in posttraumatic stress disorder to reveal the delicate balance between the structures of the emotion and memory tracks; Use of high-resolution MRI and nuclear imaging to distinguish between panic disorder and simple partial seizure disorder; Use of functional imaging studies to detect corticobasal degeneration, as a means of better understanding dementia; Use of newer imaging techniques in identifying progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, to enable more rapid and reliable tailoring of individual therapy for HIV; Use of functional neuroimaging in the study of fear, in order to better understand and treat anxiety-based psychiatric disorders; Use of neuroimaging studies in conversion disorder, showing implications for the disruption of selfhood in dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia; Use of FDG-PET scans to look for predictors of treatment response in childhood-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. Windows to the Brain can help bring less-experienced readers up to speed on advanced imaging and anatomical details that pertain to the modern practice of neuropsychiatry. It is must-reading for specialists in neuropsychiatry and cognitive/behavioral neurology, or for general psychiatrists with an interest in neuroimaging.

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266

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American Psychiatric Pub

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1585628816

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9781585628810

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield

Volume 5: 1922

By: Katherine Mansfield

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The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield

Volume 5: 1922

By: Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield's letters are as finely written as her stories and prized by ordinary readers as much as by literary critics and feminists. The fifth and final volume of this celebrated edition reveals Mansfield's courage, wit, independence, and honesty in the final year of her life.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198183992

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9780198183990

Katherine Mansfield

Selected Letters

By: Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick,Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield

Selected Letters

By: Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick,Katherine Mansfield

This completely new selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence draws from the five volumes of her Collected Letters currently being published by Clarendon Press, and ranges from the period of her adolescence to shortly before her death twenty years later. The letters, many of which are to John Middleton Murry, Lady Ottoline Morrell, S.S. Koteliansky, the painters Anne Estelle Drey, and Dorothy Brett, as well as her own family, literary friends, and chance aquaintances chart her wide range of writing styles and reveal the vitality, warmth, and wit that places Mansfield among the most poignant and entertaining of modern letterwriters.

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396

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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

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0198185928

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9780198185925

Journal of Katherine Mansfield

By: Katherine Mansfield

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Journal of Katherine Mansfield

By: Katherine Mansfield

Journal of Katherine Mansfield' is one of the great classics of 20th century literature. Compiled by her husband John Middleton Murry soon after she died and published in 1927, it consists of fragments of diary entries, unposted letters, and scraps of writing.

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1903155592

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9781903155592

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Written in Stone

Written in Stone

Opera for the People

Opera for the People

Windows to the Brain

Windows to the Brain

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

Journal of Katherine Mansfield

Journal of Katherine Mansfield

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