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Maurice Ravel

A Guide to Research

By: Stephen Zank

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Maurice Ravel: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and theorist.

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1135173516

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Irony and Sound

The Music of Maurice Ravel

By: Stephen Zank

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Irony and Sound

The Music of Maurice Ravel

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An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.

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University Rochester Press

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1580461891

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Island of the Son

A Belizean Journey

By: Stephen Krueger

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Island of the Son

A Belizean Journey

By: Stephen Krueger

Island of the Son is the story of a young mans four year journey through Belize in the 1970s. One day, out of the blue, Steves father left America behind and moved his family to in island with no electricity or running water. What followed was Steves journey from an outcast in Belize, to a runaway and rogue within his own family. Throughout his journey he was guided by a Belizean family which couldnt have been more different than his own. Island of the Son is a moving, yet hilarious journey into the heart of a young man and Belize.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479709158

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The Matilda Hunter Murder

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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The Matilda Hunter Murder

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." -- Neil Gaiman It all began with a mysterious black satchel stitched closed with silver wire. Mrs. Matilda Hunter, Jerry Evans’ landlady, finds the satchel and leaves it in his room -- and then is heinously murdered. Before long, Jerry finds out about the contents of the satchel -- a device known as the Michaux Death Ray -- and he's off on an odyssey!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479425591

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Automorphic Representations, L-functions and Applications

Progress and Prospects : Proceedings of a Conference Honoring Steve Rallis on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, the Ohio State University, March 27-30, 2003

By: Stephen Rallis

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Automorphic Representations, L-functions and Applications

Progress and Prospects : Proceedings of a Conference Honoring Steve Rallis on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, the Ohio State University, March 27-30, 2003

By: Stephen Rallis

This volume is the proceedings of the conference on Automorphic Representations, L-functions and Applications: Progress and Prospects, held at the Department of Mathematics of The Ohio State University, March 27-30, 2003, in honor of the 60th birthday of Steve Rallis. The theory of automorphic representations, automorphic L-functions and their applications to arithmetic continues to be an area of vigorous and fruitful research. The contributed papers in this volume represent many of the most recent developments and directions, including Rankin-Selberg L-functions (Bump, Ginzburg-Jiang-Rallis, Lapid-Rallis) the relative trace formula (Jacquet, Mao-Rallis) automorphic representations (Gan-Gurevich, Ginzburg-Rallis-Soudry) representation theory of p-adic groups (Baruch, Kudla-Rallis, Moeglin, Cogdell-Piatetski-Shapiro-Shahidi) p-adic methods (Harris-Li-Skinner, Vigneras), and arithmetic applications (Chinta-Friedberg-Hoffstein). The survey articles by Bump, on the Rankin-Selberg method, and by Jacquet, on the relative trace formula, should be particularly useful as an introduction to the key ideas about these important topics. This volume should be of interest both to researchers and students in the area of automorphic representations, as well as to mathematicians in other areas interested in having an overview of current developments in this important field.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110179393

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The Mind of Christ

Humility and the Intellect in Early Christian Theology

By: Stephen T. Pardue

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The Mind of Christ

Humility and the Intellect in Early Christian Theology

By: Stephen T. Pardue

This book brings a variety of theological resources to bear on the now widespread effort to put humility in its proper place. In recent years, an assortment of thinkers have offered competing evaluations of humility, so that its moral status is now more contentious than ever. Like all accounts of humility, the one advanced in this study has to do with the proper handling of human limits. What early Christian resources offer, and what discussions of the issue since the eighteenth century have often overlooked, is an account of the ways in which human limits are permeable, superable and open to modification because of the working of divine grace. This notion is especially relevant for a renewed vision of intellectual humility-the primary aim of the project-but the study will also suggest the significance of the argument for ameliorating contemporary concerns about humility's generally adverse effects.

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A&C Black

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0567220354

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9780567220356

Vincenzo Bellini

A Guide to Research

By: Stephen Willier

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Vincenzo Bellini

A Guide to Research

By: Stephen Willier

This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies. 2001, the bicentennial anniversary of Bellini's death, saw several concerts and recordings of his work, raising his academic profile. This volume aims to meet the research needs of all students of Bellini in particular.

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Routledge

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1135845336

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Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: Stephen Downes

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Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: Stephen Downes

In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into sentimentalism’s place in musical constructions of emotion, taste, genre, gender, desire, and authenticity. The contexts encompass diverse musical communities, performing spaces, and listening practices, including the nineteenth-century salon and concert hall, the cinema, the intimate stage persona of the singer-songwriter, and the homely ambiguities of ‘easy’ listening. Interdisciplinary insights inform discussions of musical form, affect, appropriation, nationalisms, psychologies, eco-sentimentalism, humanitarianism, consumerism, and subject positions, with a particular emphasis on masculine sentimentalities. Music is drawn from violin repertory associated with Joseph Joachim, the piano music of Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, sentimental waltzes from Schubert to Ravel, concert music by Bartók, Szymanowski and Górecki, the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of The Remains of the Day, Antônio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova, and songs by Duke Ellington, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Barry Manilow and Jimmy Webb. The book will attract readers interested in both the role of music in the history of emotion and the persistence and diversity of sentimental arts after their flowering in the eighteenth-century age of sensibility.

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0429837410

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9780429837418

Germany, Europe and the Persistence of Nations

Transformation, Interests and Identity, 1989-1996

By: Stephen Wood

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Germany, Europe and the Persistence of Nations

Transformation, Interests and Identity, 1989-1996

By: Stephen Wood

Published in 1998, this book is an articulate and densely documented account of political, cultural and historical forces and tensions involved in contemporary European integration; most especially concerning Germany. In doing so it provides an effective fusion of a vast array of material from what are normally separate disciplines. The book investigates contemporary resonances of identifications and conceptions of political boundaries that appeared in Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. It argues that within a ‘supranationalising’ Europe, national identity and nationalism have not disappeared as cultural and political phenomena. Rather they persist and manifest themselves in variable forms at popular and elite levels. This is the basis for Europe’s condition of far from completed unity, at the centre of which is now a reunited Germany, more sure of itself but less sure of the world around it.

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0429850875

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Understanding and Preventing Falls

A Guide to Reducing Your Risks

By: Stephen Z. Fadem

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Understanding and Preventing Falls

A Guide to Reducing Your Risks

By: Stephen Z. Fadem

Despite the fact that elderly persons have a 33-35% chance of falling and becoming injured, most are ill-prepared. According to the World Health Organization, falls cause over 50% of accidental injuries and 39% of fatal injuries in the elderly. They are the fifth leading cause of death in the general population. Falls can be either non-mechanical, related to underlying illness or debilitation, or they can be mechanical, related to accidental trips and slips and caused by environmental factors such as poor lighting, surprise steps, lack of grab bars, and slippery bathroom floors. Non-mechanical falls can be related to cognitive disorders, such as stroke or dementia, or to frailty. They can also be related to over-medicating with sedatives, diabetic medications, or blood pressure therapy. Falls can be the consequence of aging or chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, or cancer. Patients with any of these disorders may have poor muscle tone, walking disorders, or a loss of equilibrium. Mechanical falls may be completely avoided by fall-proofing the home environment. This book outlines several practical tips for eliminating potential home hazards and reviews each of the major causes of falls to help the patient and his or her caregiver, as well as the health provider, prevent falling by adapting one's lifestyle. The book also covers exercise programs and community programs that can be established and used to minimize the risk of falling in the elderly. Given that falls are common and that the majority of persons who fall are ill-prepared, this book will raise awareness of fall-prevention measures that can help reduce falls and fall-related injuries.

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Springer Nature

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3031391551

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Paul Hindemith

A Research and Information Guide

By: Stephen Luttmann

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Paul Hindemith

A Research and Information Guide

By: Stephen Luttmann

Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a musician and teacher. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources.

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Irony and Sound

The Music of Maurice Ravel

By: Stephen Zank

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The Music of Maurice Ravel

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An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.

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Zimbabwe

By: John Parker,Stephen Adams

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Zimbabwe

By: John Parker,Stephen Adams

John Parker was born an Ayrshire farmers boy on the 1st of January 1964 in the West of Scotland. After travelling the world, mainly by himself, he now prefers to divide his time between his home in Scotland and his house on La Isla de la Juventud, Cuba. Parkers interests are writing comedy, travelling and photography. While preferring to tutor himself in his writing dexterity or any other intellectual allegiance, he acquired a handy knowledge of various languages to assist him on foreign shores. As he backpacked all over the world, this bilingual adroitness gave Parker a different perspective and outlook on the many places he saw and the people he met along the way. Zimbabwe is the second of Parkers books after writing Escape Route, which is about the many ridiculously comical tight spots he experienced during his backpacking journeys. On one of Parkers many digressions he sojourned all over Africa, and his observations there, along with his farming background, inspired him to write this book. Zimbabwe is a fictional book of satirical humour about a country ruled by a dictator. The story denotes a wry and often cruel dnouement regarding the consequences of dictatorships, and also presents a supposition on how the lives of the citizens within them are affected. The humorous characters within the literary composition will tend to veer the reader towards the hypothesis that both black and white people are guilty of a slightly tribal built-in prejudicial disposition, and it also reveals how fickle the human race can be. However, its all written in the name of comedy, and the moral of the book is to demonstrate the instability in character that makes up the human psyche and to find the humour that lies beneath. Many literary critics are now commenting that there isnt enough humour being written nowadays. Zimbabwe is unique and others who have read it thought it was hilarious, written by an author with a sharp sense of humour, you will have a laugh or two if you read on.

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Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Irony and Sound

Irony and Sound

Island of the Son

Island of the Son

The Matilda Hunter Murder

The Matilda Hunter Murder

Automorphic Representations, L-functions and Applications

Automorphic Representations, L-functions and Applications

The Mind of Christ

The Mind of Christ

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini

Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Germany, Europe and the Persistence of Nations

Germany, Europe and the Persistence of Nations

Understanding and Preventing Falls

Understanding and Preventing Falls

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith

Irony and Sound

Irony and Sound

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

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