Few details are known about the life of Henry Purcell. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the most obvious documentary evidence of Purcell's career - the music manuscripts of his own hand and those copied by his colleagues. Robert Shay and Robert Thompson offer a richly illustrated study of Purcell's sources, examining in detail the physical features of the manuscripts as well as their musical content. Their survey sheds light on the chronology of composition and copying of Purcell's works and reassesses the place of extant autographs in his musical development. Major sources are fully catalogued, providing information about the context in which Purcell's music was collected and performed, and his handwriting is more closely examined than ever before. The book represents a significant reference tool for scholars, applying a forensic approach that greatly enriches our knowledge of the composer and the music of his time.
This book is one that relates real-life stories and moves a person through an emotional roller-coaster of laughter, thought, and tears. The writings make you think of what is possible. It is an upbeat, enjoyable, and thoroughly entertaining read for the person who is looking for something different to challenge themselves about people and life in general. The emphasis is on the reader to conceptualize answers that challenge their thought processes, and social morals. The book is light, in-depth, it bridges politics and social issues, it encourages the reader analyze the material on a different level, it makes you look at your values and your goals and reassess both.. The book is a well written, and thought provoking work of art by the author in his first publication at the age of 70.
The Brunswick Valley soccer team isnt just bad -- theyre terrible. The worst. So awful, in fact, that their coach gives up and quits. No one is more surprised than they are when they make it to the playoffs, but who will coach them now?
A comprehensive survey of the methods and theories of linear elasticity, this three-part introductory treatment covers general theory, two-dimensional elasticity, and three-dimensional elasticity. Ideal text for a two-course sequence on elasticity. 1984 edition.
Please see the book's website at http: //demonwitch.com --- In childhood, they are the closest of friends. In a moment of peril, each offers up her life for the other. But each girl is faced with a choice between good and evil. They choose differently. Her husband abducted by pirates for bloodsport, the demonwitch rescues him by sorcery. But will he still love her? Escaping betrothal to a man she loathes, the priestess discovers that she is in love, a forbidden love, with the witch's husband. Can she overcome her impure motives before they lower her, too, into the black abyss of witchcraft? Then, unexpectedly, the women, and the two men, must confront a common enemy, whom they can conquer, but only if they can refrain from destroying each other first. Witch and warrior, priestess and bandit, the uneasy alliance will test each character to the core of their souls.
The eleventh-century philosopher and physician Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. A.D. 1037) was known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna. An analysis of the sources and evolution of Avicenna's metaphysics, this book focuses on the answers he and his predecessors gave to two fundamental pairs of questions: what is the soul and how does it cause the body; and what is God and how does He cause the world? To respond to these challenges, Avicenna invented new concepts and distinctions and reinterpreted old ones. The author concludes that Avicenna's innovations are a turning point in the history of metaphysics. Avicenna's metaphysics is the culmination of a period of synthesis during which philosophers fused together a Neoplatonic project (reconciling Plato with Aristotle) with a Peripatetic project (reconciling Aristotle with himself). Avicenna also stands at the beginning of a period during which philosophers sought to integrate the Arabic version of the earlier synthesis with Islamic doctrinal theology (kalam). Avicenna's metaphysics significantly influenced European scholastic thought, but it had an even more profound impact on Islamic intellectual history—the philosophical problems and opportunities associated with the Avicennian synthesis continued to be debated up to the end of the nineteenth century.
The soccer-mad gang from Brunswick Valley School featured in Robert Rayner's two previous books for this series is back, gathering every Saturday afternoon to play a friendly game against friends from a neighboring town. A well-meaning adult spots potential in some of the players and offers guidance, inspiring parents of the other side to get their own coach. As the games become more structured, they become more serious -- and less fun. It's up to the kids to find a way to reclaim the spirit of the sport. Just for Kicks is another comical installment in the series that includes Walker's Runners and Miss Little's Losers. [Fry Reading Level - 4.1
In the late 19th century, railroads played a crucial role in the development of Montana's economy. Robert A. Schalla examines early efforts to bring rail transport to the New World Mining District near the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park and Red Lodge-Bear Creek Coal Field in south-central Montana. The saga began with a chance discovery in 1866 and follows the exploits of individuals who worked to bring rail transport to the mines of southern Montana. Starting with Northern Pacific's unsuccessful efforts to build a railroad through Yellowstone, this story follows the struggles of various privately financed schemes to develop the vast mineral wealth of these two regions. A youthful entrepreneur from Milwaukee succeeded in financing a railroad to the coal fields, but his plan to extend the line to the national park runs afoul of Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific, who was determined to drive him out of business. The story dives into the motivations and background of these individuals and their ultimate triumphs and failures. The completion of the Montana, Wyoming & Southern Railroad (MW&S) in 1906 resulted in the creation of three new towns and six separate mining operations. The MW&S was one of the few privately owned lines in Montana that, despite forces aligned against it, maintained its independence until it was abandoned. For nearly fifty years it formed an important part of the state's economy as the Bear Creek mines supplied private, commercial, and industrial consumers with some of the highest-quality coal in the state.
The Liberator Fleet from Angel Bay crosses the ocean searching for a place to settle and restock. With thousands of lives to protect, they find a new land with both allies and enemies waiting for them. After gathering information, the fleet’s leaders realize continuing forward means taking even more risks. Separating from the fleet, one group heads out seeking information while those that remain carefully watch over their crew. Uncertain and difficult choices lie ahead in the next part of their journey. On the other side of the ocean, hunters from Sanctum feel defeated with only questions and no answers. Their struggle leads them on a mission to discover the origin of the Marshlands’ chaos. What they learn will take them to a place they never imagined. The mission takes a new direction that will test their skills and bonds like never before. A struggle between strangers, friends, and family continues with each navigating both physical and mental challenges. A new phase in survival, leadership and emotions begins for all.
The Commonwealth Prize-winning author of Divina Trace “has boldly recast Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises as a harrowing tale” set in the West Indies (Booklist, starred review). Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Americas. His novel Carnival—”easily his most engrossing, direct work to date”—takes readers on a journey from contemporary New York City to the glitter of Trinidadian Carnival, and deep into the island’s mountainous interior (Miami Herald). Aspiring novelist William Fletcher has come to New York to escape his affluent West Indian roots, but a chance meeting reunites him with two of his childhood companions: Laurence, who escaped poverty to become a scholar and poet, and Rachel, William’s second cousin and first love. Making good on a liquor-soaked pledge to return to Trinidad for Carnival, they soon find themselves sliding into a fog of ganja, alcohol, and sensual rhythm. But their hedonistic homecoming has also brought them face to face with the demons of history, prejudice, and violence they’ve spent their lives trying to forget. “Carnival is an appropriately heady and wild novel, in which the air is suffused with dope smoke, calypso drumming and menace” (Independent on Sunday).
This book documents how HP's successive CEOs have contributed to the company's process of corporate becoming. The strategic leadership frameworks used to illuminate these contributions will be helpful for theory development and offer practical tools for founders of new companies and CEOs and boards of directors of existing companies.
They are powerful men living in diverse cultures on different continents. Yet, they share one thing in common. They've crossed people willing to pay six figures to hire the Cabbage Head. Patrick O'Fallon is the Cabbage Head. Once he is set loose, there is no man cunning enough to escape. Patrick will find him and murder him with ruthless efficiency. Patrick is a man consumed by the past. A warped and unbelievably abusive relationship with his psychotic mother left Patrick wholly incapable of having meaningful relationships with women. They terrify him as much as his mother did. Yet, he worships them and secretly wishes for the maternal love he was denied. When he discovers the Internet, Patrick is transformed. His fingers do not stutter. Until the weekend tryst with a psychotic sadist. Tortured, but left alive, Patrick gives up the Internet, and the hope of a permanent relationship. But when a young widow comes to Patrick's rescue, he is faced with a choice. Can he give up the intrigue for the quiet suburban life? And will his secretive employers allow it? "The Cabbage Head takes you on a twisted odyssey through the mind of a sociopath. Even more amazing, McClain makes you care about this ruthless killer for hire. With his terse, seamless prose, McClain actually makes writing look easy." --M. F. Korn, author of Rachmaninoff's Ghost, and Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear.
A young black boy with a genius IQ and photographic memory is captured and sold into slavery just before the onset of the Civil War to an Alabaman plantation. He vows vengeance on the white man using the white man's rules. His sole threat comes from a prophesy by a shaman in his old African village in which his life would be ruled by cats, which does not necessarily mean feline. Can he recognize them and bend them to his will in order to progress in his control of people?
This book can help you to find your true spiritual path, and then show you how you can align with your truest nature and most authentic self to find the peace, joy, and love we all crave.
Here is a comprehensive analysis of rearmament under the Baldwin and Chamberlain governments. It reveals the primary determinants of events and provides important new information regarding the principal considerations underlying Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. The author concentrates on a problem that was of central concern to the government. For this reason, and because he draws on the recently opened Cabinet and Treasury papers at the Public Record Office in London, he is able to offer a broader view than that of the existing studies. He describes in detail the interaction of the Cabinet, Treasury, and Armed Services, and the influence of the financial and industrial communities. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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