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Death on the Down Beat

An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection

By: Sebastian Farr

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Death on the Down Beat

An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection

By: Sebastian Farr

A one-of-a-kind treat from the golden age."— Kirkus Reviews From music conductor turned crime fiction novelist, Sebastian Farr, comes an epistolary tour de force that hits the perfect murderous crescendo for music and crime fiction aficionados alike. During a performance of Strauss' tone poem 'A Hero's Life', the obnoxious conductor, Sir Noel Grampian, is shot dead in full view of the Maningpool Municipal Orchestra. He had many enemies, musicians and music critics among them, but to be killed in mid flow suggests an act of the coldest calculation. Told through the letters of Detective Inspector Alan Hope to his wife, he puzzles over his findings, and other documents such as the letters of members of the orchestra and musical notation holding clues to the crime. This addition to the Crime Classics series is an immersive musical mystery, featuring diagrams of the orchestra arrangement and four pages of musical notation with relevance to the plot. First published in 1941 but out-of-print since, this is by a lost writer of the genre, Sebastian Farr (a pseudonym for Eric Walter Blom), a prolific Swiss-born and British-naturalised music lexicographer, music critic and writer.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1728278600

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9781728278605

Frequency-domain Approach To Hopf Bifurcation Analysis: Continuous Time-delayed Systems

By: Franco Sebastian Gentile,Jorge Luis Moiola,Guanrong Chen

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Frequency-domain Approach To Hopf Bifurcation Analysis: Continuous Time-delayed Systems

By: Franco Sebastian Gentile,Jorge Luis Moiola,Guanrong Chen

This book is devoted to the study of an effective frequency-domain approach, based on systems control theory, to compute and analyze several types of standard bifurcation conditions for general continuous-time nonlinear dynamical systems. A very rich pictorial gallery of local bifurcation diagrams for such nonlinear systems under simultaneous variations of several system parameters is presented. Some higher-order harmonic balance approximation formulas are derived for analyzing the oscillatory dynamics in small neighborhoods of certain types of Hopf and degenerate Hopf bifurcations.The frequency-domain approach is then extended to the large class of delay-differential equations, where the time delays can be either discrete or distributed. For the case of discrete delays, two alternatives are presented, depending on the structure of the underlying dynamical system, where the more general setting is then extended to the case of distributed time-delayed systems. Some representative examples in engineering and biology are discussed.

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393

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World Scientific

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9811205485

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9789811205484

A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

By: Anton Sebastian

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A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

By: Anton Sebastian

This is a unique, extensively illustrated dictionary of terms, people, events, and dates spanning the entire history of medicine. It is a monumental work of scholarship totaling some 700 double-column pages with a large number of rare and exceptional illustrations from many original sources painstakingly compiled over years of far-searching inquiry involving more than 5,000 books and hundreds of journals. It is a major resource of hard-to-find information about notable medical figures, instruments, conditions, procedures, and dates and a storehouse of captivating anecdotes and background material. The book contains a wealth of material for concise historical introductions to a broad range of subjects and is the sine qua non authority on both well and little known facts of medical history. With this single volume-an unprecedented tour de force representing more than 7,000 hours of exhaustive research-clinicians and researchers from all fields of medicine can quickly and easily find authoritative, detailed definitions and descriptions, with dates, of medical terms and of the people and events contributing to the development of medicine from earliest times to the present day. The entries range widely from such as abacterial pyuria to zygote, including Latin and Greek origins of terms, compact biographies with dates, eponymic information of all kinds, and rarely seen drawings and photographs of antique medical instruments and little-known conditions.

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1016

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Routledge

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1351469991

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9781351469999

Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life

By: Philip Pearce,Sebastian Filep,Glenn Ross

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Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life

By: Philip Pearce,Sebastian Filep,Glenn Ross

The recent surge in positive psychology has tremendous potential to augment current tourism study. This book examines the linkages between tourists, tourism and positive psychology and will interest those who study and practise tourism as well as scholars in a range of disciplines such as psychology, business and sociology.

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243

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Routledge

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1136930272

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9781136930270

A Manual of Trade-Mark Cases

By: Rowland Cox,Lewis Boyd Sebastian

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A Manual of Trade-Mark Cases

By: Rowland Cox,Lewis Boyd Sebastian

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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510

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368862936

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9783368862930

Hybrid quantum system based on rare earth doped crystals

By: Probst, Sebastian

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Hybrid quantum system based on rare earth doped crystals

By: Probst, Sebastian

Hybrid quantum circuits interfacing rare earth spin ensembles with microwave resonators are a promising approach for application as coherent quantum memory and frequency converter. In this thesis, hybrid circuits based on Er and Nd ions doped into Y?SiO? and YAlO? crystals are investigated by optical and on-chip microwave spectroscopy. Coherent strong coupling between the microwave resonator and spin ensemble as well as a multimode memory for weak coherent microwave pulses are demonstrated.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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373150345X

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9783731503453

Is Star Trek Utopia?

Investigating a Perfect Future

By: Sebastian Stoppe

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Is Star Trek Utopia?

Investigating a Perfect Future

By: Sebastian Stoppe

Star Trek has transcended science fiction through its use of elements that have crucial roles in classical utopian tradition. New technologies change a civilization, a miniature society unfolds on a spaceship, and an android teaches humanity. Star Trek has been answering many questions about our own world for 50+ years, and since the days of Captain Kirk, the franchise has become one of the world's best-known cultural phenomena. This book documents what the Star Trek franchise has in common with classic utopias. Chapters analyze how technology changes society and how the Federation embodies utopian ideals. Also explored are the political relations among alien species that reflect past and present conflicts in our real world and how the Borg resembles an anti-utopian society.

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205

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McFarland

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1476646686

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9781476646688

Health in a Post-COVID World

Lessons from the Crisis of Western Liberalism

By: Sebastian Taylor

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Health in a Post-COVID World

Lessons from the Crisis of Western Liberalism

By: Sebastian Taylor

What part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare? How can we judge the validity of these – the founding principles of Western liberalism – and the policies they shape, as the recipe for progress? At a time of global ‘permacrisis’, Sebastian Taylor applies his extensive frontline experience working with health systems and healthcare in the Global North and South to assess the concrete impact of contemporary liberal values on our welfare, development and environmental survival. Drawing on research from around the world, he uses health as an objective metric to assess how effective these policies are for individuals and society as a whole.

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Policy Press

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1447368398

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9781447368397

The Reinvention of Spain

Nation and Identity since Democracy

By: Sebastian Balfour,Alejandro Quiroga

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The Reinvention of Spain

Nation and Identity since Democracy

By: Sebastian Balfour,Alejandro Quiroga

Unravelling the debate about the Spanish nation and its identity in the new democracy, this book looks at the issue as both a historical debate and a contemporary political problem, particularly complex due to the legacy of the Francoist Dictatorship which deeply eroded the legitimacy of Spanish nationalism. During and since the transition Spanish nationalist discourse has evolved to meet the challenge of new concepts of nation and identity. These formulations argue very different configurations of the relationship between nation and state. While the Constitution of 1978 defines Spain as a nation of nationalities, many politicians and intellectuals now claim that Spain is a nation of nations, others that it is a nation of nations and regions, or a post-traditional nation state, or post-national state. For the peripheral nationalists, it is merely a state of nations and regions. What is at issue is not whether Spain exists or not as a nation; rather, it is the traditional ways of seeing Spain from both the centre and the periphery that are being challenged. The Reinvention of Spain examines the ways in which Spanish and regional identities are projected and how influence the external actions of the Spanish state. It also analyses the dynamic of comparative grievance and competition between regions deriving from the peculiar architecture of the state in Spain, and their effect on social and political cohesion. Finally, it examines scenarios of change that might foster solutions but asserts that Spain will continue to reinvent itself.

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256

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OUP Oxford

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019152574X

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9780191525742

A Grammar of Mian

By: Sebastian Fedden

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A Grammar of Mian

By: Sebastian Fedden

Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea. Mian has approximately 1,400 speakers and is highly endangered. This grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on primary field data consisting of a text corpus that covers different genres of the oral tradition, namely myths and ancestor stories, historical accounts, accounts of the initiation ritual, conversations, and procedural texts. The corpus was recorded by the author during a total of eleven months of field work from 2004 to 2008. The book provides a thorough description of all areas of Mian grammar and gives an in-depth analysis of many points of typological interest, such as the complex system of lexical tone, the interaction between a gender system and a system of classificatory prefixes on verbs of object movement, manipulation or handling, which allows the highlighting of certain characteristics of a referent in a given situation, the complex verbal morphology which allows fine-grained tense-aspect-mood distinctions, and a switch-reference system in which switch-reference suffixes on medial verbs are homophonous with and derived from suffixes functioning as tense and aspect markers in final verbs. The book is rounded off by a collection of traditional and contemporary texts (fully glossed and translated) and a word list comprising some 1,600 items, giving lexical tone, word class and meaning.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110264196

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9783110264197

Debt, Trust, and Reputation

Extra-legal Finance in Northern India

By: Sebastian Schwecke

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Debt, Trust, and Reputation

Extra-legal Finance in Northern India

By: Sebastian Schwecke

Starting in the late nineteenth century, colonial rule in India took an active interest in regulating financial markets beyond the bridgeheads of European capital in intercontinental trade. Regulatory efforts were part of a modernizing project seeking to produce alignments between British and Indian business procedures, and to create the financial basis for incipient industrialization in India. For vast sections of Indian society, however, they pushed credit/debt relations into the realm of extra-legality, while the new, regulated agents of finance remained incapable (and unwilling) of serving their needs. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches, the book questions underlying assumptions of modernization in finance that continue to prevail in postcolonial India, and delineates the socioeconomic responses they produced, and studies the reputational economies of debt that have emerged instead – extra-legal markets embedded into communication flows on trust and reputation that have turned out to be significantly more exploitative than their colonial predecessors.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009082043

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9781009082044

Elder Latimer Is in Love

By: Sebastian Michael

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Elder Latimer Is in Love

By: Sebastian Michael

Elder Latimer is here to talk about the truth.But when the young Mormon lands in London fresh from the States, his world of absolutes starts to crumble. He falls in love with Dina, a young Muslim who's even more convinced of her faith than he is of his, and questions of love, truth and faith take on a whole new meaning. While he is beginning to see things in the new light of a new city, Dina's determination to do what she knows is right has no limits.Can love conquer all? Can reason?Sebastian Michael's new play is an explosive adventure of hearts and minds. 2009. This is the combined official programme and playtext edition of the World Premiere production which opens at Arcola Theatre, London, on 10th September 2009.

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Lulu.com

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1409297055

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9781409297055

OpenGeoSys Tutorial

Computational Hydrology II: Groundwater Quality Modeling

By: Agnes Sachse,Erik Nixdorf,Eunseon Jang,Karsten Rink,Thomas Fischer,Beidou Xi,Christof Beyer,Sebastian Bauer,Marc Walther,Yuanyuan Sun,Yonghui Song

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OpenGeoSys Tutorial

Computational Hydrology II: Groundwater Quality Modeling

By: Agnes Sachse,Erik Nixdorf,Eunseon Jang,Karsten Rink,Thomas Fischer,Beidou Xi,Christof Beyer,Sebastian Bauer,Marc Walther,Yuanyuan Sun,Yonghui Song

This book explores the application of the open-source software OpenGeoSys (OGS) for hydrological numerical simulations concerning conservative and reactive transport modeling. It provides general information on the hydrological and groundwater flow modeling of a real case study and step-by-step model set-up with OGS, while also highlighting related components such as the OGS Data Explorer. The material is based on unpublished manuals and the results of a collaborative project between China and Germany (SUSTAIN H2O). Though the book is primarily intended for graduate students and applied scientists who deal with hydrological modeling, it also offers a valuable source of information for professional geoscientists wishing to expand their knowledge of the numerical modeling of hydrological processes including nitrate reactive transport modeling. This book is the second in a series that showcases further applications of computational modeling in hydrological science.

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Springer

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3319528092

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9783319528090

The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain

Discourse between Attacks and Authority

By: Sebastian Domsch

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The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain

Discourse between Attacks and Authority

By: Sebastian Domsch

This study tries, through a systematic and historical analysis of the concept of critical authority, to write a history of literary criticism from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century that not only takes the discursive construction of its (self)representation into account, but also the social and economic conditions of its practice. It tries to consider the whole of the critical discourse on literature and criticism in the time period covered. Thus, it is distinctive through its methodology (there is no systematic account of the historical development of critical authority and no discussion of the institutionalization of criticism of such a scope), its material of analysis (most of the many hundred texts self-reflexively commenting on criticism that are discussed here have been so far virtually ignored) and through its results, a complex history of criticism in the 18th century that is neither reductive nor the accumulation of isolated aspects or author figures, but that probes into the very nature of the activity of criticism. The aim of this study is both to provide a thorough historical understanding of the emergence of criticism and as a consequence an understanding of the inner workings and power relations that structure criticism to this day.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110362066

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9783110362060

Cantata No. 125 -- Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin

Choral Worship Cantata

By: Johann Sebastian Bach

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Cantata No. 125 -- Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin

Choral Worship Cantata

By: Johann Sebastian Bach

A Choral Worship Cantata in SATB with ATB Soli voicing, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Alfred Music

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1457483823

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Book's by Sebastian Farr

Death on the Down Beat

Death on the Down Beat

Frequency-domain Approach To Hopf Bifurcation Analysis: Continuous Time-delayed Systems

Frequency-domain Approach To Hopf Bifurcation Analysis: Continuous Time-delayed Systems

A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life

Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life

A Manual of Trade-Mark Cases

A Manual of Trade-Mark Cases

Hybrid quantum system based on rare earth doped crystals

Hybrid quantum system based on rare earth doped crystals

Is Star Trek Utopia?

Is Star Trek Utopia?

Health in a Post-COVID World

Health in a Post-COVID World

The Reinvention of Spain

The Reinvention of Spain

A Grammar of Mian

A Grammar of Mian

Debt, Trust, and Reputation

Debt, Trust, and Reputation

Elder Latimer Is in Love

Elder Latimer Is in Love

OpenGeoSys Tutorial

OpenGeoSys Tutorial

The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain

The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain

Cantata No. 125 -- Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin

Cantata No. 125 -- Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin

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