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Monarch of the Flute

The Life of Georges Barrère

By: Nancy Toff

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Monarch of the Flute

The Life of Georges Barrère

By: Nancy Toff

Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance. Barrère's story is a musical tale of two cities, and this book uses his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management, personnel, and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician, including the increasing power of musicians' unions; the role of patronage, particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium. A student of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire, by age eighteen Barrère played in the premiere of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. He went on to become solo flutist of the Concerts Colonne and to found the Sociètè Moderne d'Instruments á Vent, a pioneering woodwind ensemble that premiered sixty-one works by forty composers in its first ten years. Invited by Walter Damrosch to become principal flute of the New York Symphony in 1905, he founded the woodwind department at the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). His many ensembles toured the United States, building new audiences for chamber music and promoting French repertoire as well as new American music. Toff narrates Barrère's relationships with the finest musicians and artists of his day, among them Isadora Duncan, Yvette Guilbert, André Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Albert Roussel, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. The appendices of the book, which list Barrère's 170 premieres and the 50 works dedicated to him, are a resource for a new generation of performers. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories in both France and the United States, this is the first biography of Barrère.

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Oxford University Press

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0199883556

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Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work

A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

By: Nancy L. Green

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A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

By: Nancy L. Green

The story of urban growth, the politics of labour, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who have come to work on the sewing machines of the women's garment industry over the last century. This book is of interest to a range of scholars, including those engaged in labour, immigrant, and women's history.

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Duke University Press

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0822318741

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The Merchant Houses of Mocha

Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port

By: Nancy Um

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The Merchant Houses of Mocha

Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port

By: Nancy Um

Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal India. Merchants and shipowners from Asian, African, and European shores flocked to the city to trade in Arabian coffee and aromatics, Indian textiles, Asian spices, and silver from the New World. Nancy Um tells how and why Mocha's urban shape and architecture took the forms they did. Mocha was a hub in a great trade network encompassing overseas cities, agricultural hinterlands, and inland market centers. All these connected places, together with the functional demands of commerce in the city, the social stratification of its residents, and the imam's desire for wealth, contributed to Mocha's architectural and urban form. Eventually, in the mid-1800s, the Ottomans regained control over Yemen and abandoned Mocha as their coastal base. Its trade and its population diminished and its magnificent buildings began to crumble, until few traces are left of them today. This book helps bring Mocha to life once again.

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University of Washington Press

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0295800232

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Shipped but Not Sold

Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee

By: Nancy Um

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Shipped but Not Sold

Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee

By: Nancy Um

In the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a bustling community of merchants who sailed to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the east and the west, seeking and offering a range of commodities, both luxury and mundane. In Shipped but Not Sold, Nancy Um opens the chests these merchants transported to and from Yemen and examines the cargo holds of their boats to reveal the goods held within. They included eastern spices and aromatics, porcelain cups and saucers with decorations in gold from Asia, bales of coffee grown in the mountains of Yemen, Arabian horses, and a wide variety of cotton, silk, velvet, and woolen cloth from India, China, Persia, and Europe; in addition to ordinary provisions, such as food, beer, medicine, furniture, pens, paper, and wax candles. As featured in the copious records of the Dutch and English East India Companies, as well as in travel accounts and local records in Arabic, these varied goods were not just commodities intended for sale in the marketplace. Horses and textile banners were mobilized and displayed in the highly visible ceremonies staged at the Red Sea port of Mocha when new arrivals appeared from overseas at the beginning of each trade season. Coffee and aromatics were served and offered in imported porcelain and silver wares during negotiations that took place in the houses of merchants and officials. Major traders bestowed sacks of spices and lavish imported textiles as gifts to provincial governors and Yemen’s imam in order to sustain their considerable trading privileges. European merchants who longed for the distant comforts of home carried tables and chairs, along with abundant supplies of wine and spirits for their own use and, in some cases, further distribution in Yemen’s ports and emporia. These diverse items were offered, displayed, exchanged, consumed, or utilized by major international merchants and local trade officials in a number of socially exclusive practices that affirmed their identity, status, and commercial obligations, but also sustained the livelihood of their business ventures. Shipped but Not Sold posits a key role for these socially significant material objects (many of which were dispatched across oceans but not intended only for sale on the open market) as important signs, tools, and attributes in the vibrant world of a rapidly transforming Indian Ocean trading society.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824866436

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9780824866433

The Imperial Trace

Recent Russian Cinema

By: Nancy Condee

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The Imperial Trace

Recent Russian Cinema

By: Nancy Condee

The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means foreclosed on Russia's enduring imperial preoccupations, which had extended from the reign of Ivan IV over four and a half centuries. Examining a host of films from contemporary Russian cinema, Nancy Condee argues that we cannot make sense of current Russian culture without accounting for the region's habits of imperial identification. But is this something made legible through narrative alone-Chechen wars at the periphery, costume dramas set in the capital-or could an imperial trace be sought in other, more embedded qualities, such as the structure of representation, the conditions of production, or the preoccupations of its filmmakers? This expansive study takes up this complex question through a commanding analysis of the late Soviet and post-Soviet period auteurists, Kira Muratova, Vadim Abdrashitov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei German, Aleksandr Sokurov and Aleksei Balabanov.

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Oxford University Press

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019045122X

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9780190451226

Life in Early Medieval Wales

By: Nancy Edwards

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Life in Early Medieval Wales

By: Nancy Edwards

Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The period c. AD300—1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. Life in Early Medieval Wales considers how people lived in late Roman and early medieval Wales, and how their lives and communities changed over the course of this period. It uses a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on the growing body of archaeological evidence set alongside the early medieval written sources together with place-names and personal names. It begins by analysing earlier research and the range of sources, the significance of the environment and climate change, and ways of calculating time. Discussion of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries focuses on the disintegration of the Roman market economy, fragmentation of power, and the emergence of new kingdoms and elites alongside evidence for changing identities, as well as important threads of continuity, notably Latin literacy, Christianity, and the continuation of small-scale farming communities. Early medieval Wales was an entirely rural society. Analysis of the settlement archaeology includes key sites such as hillforts, including Dinas Powys, the royal crannog at Llangorse, and the Viking Age and earlier estate centre at Llanbedrgoch alongside the development, from the seventh century onwards, of new farming and other rural settlements. Consideration is given to changes in the mixed farming economy reflecting climate deterioration and a need for food security, as well as craft working and the roles of exchange, display, and trade reflecting changing outside contacts. At the same time cemeteries and inscribed stones, stone sculpture and early church sites chart the course of conversion to Christianity, the rise of monasticism, and the increasing power of the Church. Finally, discussion of power and authority analyses emerging evidence for sites of assembly, the rise of Mercia, and increasing English infiltration, together with the significance of Offa's and Wat's Dykes, and the Viking impact. Throughout the evidence is placed within a wider context enabling comparison with other parts of Britain and Ireland and, where appropriate, with other parts of Europe to see broader trends, including the impacts of climate, economic, and religious change.

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Oxford University Press

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0192888382

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Genes and Signal Transduction in Multistage Carcinogenesis

By: Nancy H. Colburn

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Genes and Signal Transduction in Multistage Carcinogenesis

By: Nancy H. Colburn

This book describes the identification and characterization of genetic loci that determine susceptibility to liver, mammary, or skin carcinogenesis in rodents. It focuses on protein kinases and phospholipases, and stress-related signal transduction.

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486

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CRC Press

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1000147274

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9781000147278

Multiple Arts

The Muses II

By: Jean-Luc Nancy,Simon Sparks

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Multiple Arts

The Muses II

By: Jean-Luc Nancy,Simon Sparks

This collection of writings by the renowned French critic and poet Jean-Luc Nancy delves into the history of philosophy in order to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi, representing a mix of philosophical essays, writings about artworks and the author's own artistic creations.

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Stanford University Press

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0804739544

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Headhunters and How to Use Them

A Guide for Organisations and Individuals

By: Nancy Garrison Jenn

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Headhunters and How to Use Them

A Guide for Organisations and Individuals

By: Nancy Garrison Jenn

When firms need to fill management positions, when experienced managers want a new challenge, or when MBA graduates are looking for their first senior management role, they often turn to headhunters or, more formally, executive search consultants. This guide provides a clear overview of the executive search market, with specific guidelines on using headhunters effectively, both for individuals looking for a job and organizations looking to fill a role. Headhunters offers advice on what’s important in the selection of an executive search firm and provides invaluable networking tips on getting the best search consultants interested in you as a candidate. With the global job market more uncertain than ever, the need for quality career guidance has grown considerably. This new addition to The Economist series helps fill the void for all those looking for a new job—or a new employee.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1861977344

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9781861977342

After the Revolution

Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art

By: Eleanor Heartney,Helaine Posner,Nancy Princenthal,Sue Scott

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After the Revolution

Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art

By: Eleanor Heartney,Helaine Posner,Nancy Princenthal,Sue Scott

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" asked the prominent art historian Linda Nochlin in a provocative 1971 essay. Today her insightful critique serves as a benchmark against which the progress of women artists may be measured. In this book, four prominent critics and curators describe the impact of women artists on contemporary art since the advent of the feminist movement.

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Prestel Verlag

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3641108217

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9783641108212

The Tumultuous Fifties

A View from the New York Times Photo Archives

By: New York Times Photo Archives,Douglas Dreishpoon,Alan Trachtenberg,Luc Sante,Nancy Weinstock

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The Tumultuous Fifties

A View from the New York Times Photo Archives

By: New York Times Photo Archives,Douglas Dreishpoon,Alan Trachtenberg,Luc Sante,Nancy Weinstock

A collection of two hundred duotone photographs from the "New York Times" which capture the spirit of the United States in the 1950s.

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Yale University Press

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0300088213

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9780300088212

Cybercrime

An Encyclopedia of Digital Crime

By: Nancy E. Marion,Jason Twede

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Cybercrime

An Encyclopedia of Digital Crime

By: Nancy E. Marion,Jason Twede

This important reference work is an extensive, up-to-date resource for students who want to investigate the world of cybercrime or for those seeking further knowledge of specific attacks both domestically and internationally. Cybercrime is characterized by criminal acts that take place in the borderless digital realm. It takes on many forms, and its perpetrators and victims are varied. From financial theft, destruction of systems, fraud, corporate espionage, and ransoming of information to the more personal, such as stalking and web-cam spying as well as cyberterrorism, this work covers the full spectrum of crimes committed via cyberspace. This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the most noteworthy attacks while also focusing on the myriad issues that surround cybercrime. It includes entries on such topics as the different types of cyberattacks, cybercrime techniques, specific cybercriminals and cybercrime groups, and cybercrime investigations. While objective in its approach, this book does not shy away from covering such relevant, controversial topics as Julian Assange and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It also provides detailed information on all of the latest developments in this constantly evolving field.

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370

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216070603

The History of Modern Fashion

By: Daniel James Cole,Nancy Deihl

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The History of Modern Fashion

By: Daniel James Cole,Nancy Deihl

This exciting book explores fashion not simply from an aesthetic point of view but also as a manifestation of social and cultural change. Focusing on fashion from 1850, noted fashion historians Daniel James Cole and Nancy Deihl consider the evolution of womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear, decade by decade. The book looks at the dissemination of style and the mechanisms of change, at the relationship between fashion and the visual, applied, and performing arts, the intertwined relationship between fashion and popular culture, the impact of new materials and technology, and the growing globalization of style. With photographs of costume from museums and images from the fashion press including editorial photography, illustrations, and advertising, the book will include insights into icons of fashion and the clothes worn by “real people”, providing a valuable visual reference for the reader.

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480

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Laurence King Publishing

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1780677979

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9781780677972

Ivanhound

By: Nancy Holder

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Ivanhound

By: Nancy Holder

Wishbone imagines himself as a knight in twelfth-century England.

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Barney Publishing

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1570644314

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Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Nutrition, Botany and Use

By: Harriet Kuhnlein,Nancy J Turner

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Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Nutrition, Botany and Use

By: Harriet Kuhnlein,Nancy J Turner

First published in 1991, Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of a wide variety of traditional plant foods used by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Comprehensive and detailed, this volume explores both the technical use of plants and their cultural connections. It will be of interest to scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including Indigenous Peoples with their specific cultural worldviews; nutritionists and other health professionals who work with Indigenous Peoples and other rural people; other biologists, ethnologists, and organizations that address understanding of the resources of the natural world; and academic audiences from a variety of disciplines.

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Routledge

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1000092321

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9781000092325

Sweet Home

By: Nancy Guilbert,Oriol Vidal

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Sweet Home

By: Nancy Guilbert,Oriol Vidal

Birdie et son frère ignorent ce que leur mère fuit, à bord du van dans lequel ils écument les routes d’Irlande. Ce qui est certain, c’est qu’ils n’iront pas plus loin : leur fidèle véhicule est tombé en panne et ils sont coincés au fin fond de la campagne. Quand un éleveur de chiens taciturne et son mystérieux petit-fils Siam leur offrent l’hospitalité, les coïncidences et les non-dits réveillent la méfiance de Birdie. Quels secrets cachent la mélancolie de sa mère ? Qui est vraiment Siam, ce garçon qui semble la comprendre mieux que personne ? En décidant de mener l’enquête, Birdie ne sait pas encore qu’elle n’a jamais été aussi proche d’une vérité qui pourrait bouleverser sa famille à tout jamais...

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Didier Jeunesse

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2278129007

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9782278129003

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Monarch of the Flute

Monarch of the Flute

Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work

Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work

The Merchant Houses of Mocha

The Merchant Houses of Mocha

Shipped but Not Sold

Shipped but Not Sold

The Imperial Trace

The Imperial Trace

Life in Early Medieval Wales

Life in Early Medieval Wales

Genes and Signal Transduction in Multistage Carcinogenesis

Genes and Signal Transduction in Multistage Carcinogenesis

Multiple Arts

Multiple Arts

Headhunters and How to Use Them

Headhunters and How to Use Them

After the Revolution

After the Revolution

The Tumultuous Fifties

The Tumultuous Fifties

Cybercrime

Cybercrime

The History of Modern Fashion

The History of Modern Fashion

Ivanhound

Ivanhound

Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Sweet Home

Sweet Home

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