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 David W. Montgomery, "Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding " English | ISBN: 0822946785 | 2022 | 728 pages | PDF | 26 MB Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as being difficult to access. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available. Combining thematic chapters with case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching-off point for further research.  Carla Bley By Amy C. Beal 2011 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0252036360 | PDF | 2 MB This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist. With fastidious attention to Bley's diverse compositions over the last fifty years spanning critical moments in jazz and experimental music history, Amy C. Beal tenders a long-overdue representation of a major figure in American music. Best known for her jazz opera "Escalator over the Hill," her role in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, and her collaborations with artists such as Jack Bruce, Don Cherry, Robert Wyatt, and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, Bley has successfully maneuvered the field of jazz from highly accessible, tradition-based contexts to commercially unviable, avant-garde works. Beal details the staggering variety in Bley's work as well as her use of parody, quotations, and contradictions, examining the vocabulary Bley has developed throughout her career and highlighting the compositional and cultural significance of her experimentalism. Beal also points to Bley's professional and managerial work as a pioneer in the development of artist-owned record labels, the cofounder and manager of WATT Records, and the cofounder of New Music Distribution Service. Showing her to be not just an artist but an activist who has maintained musical independence and professional control amid the profit-driven, corporation-dominated world of commercial jazz, Beal's straightforward discussion of Bley's life and career will stimulate deeper examinations of her work.  Marcel Martel, "Canada the Good: A Short History of Vice since 1500" English | ISBN: 1554589479 | 2014 | 196 pages | EPUB | 4 MB To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco industry, knowing it sells a deadly product? And what social responsibilities do investors bear with respect to compulsive gamblers who have lost so much money that suicide becomes an attractive option?  Busoni as Pianist By Grigory Kogan, Svetlana Belsky 2010 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 1580463355 | PDF | 5 MB Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and the most monumental piano concerto in the repertory (some eighty minutes long, with male chorus in the finale). But Busoni was also renowned in his day as an author and pedagogue and, most especially, as a pianist. Busoni's recordings of pieces by Chopin and Liszt -- and of his own arrangements of keyboard works by Bach and Beethoven -- are much prized and studied today by connoisseurs of piano playing. Yet even his most important biographers have cast only a cursory glance at the pianistic aspect of Busoni's fascinating career. Grigory Kogan's book Busoni as Pianist (published in Russian in 1964, and here translated for the first time) was and remains the first and only study to concentrate exclusively on Busoni's contributions to the world of the piano. Busoni as Pianist summarizes reviews of Busoni's playing and his own writings on the subject. It also closely analyzes the surviving piano roles and recordings, and examines Busoni's editions, arrangements, and pedagogical output. As such, it will be of interest to pianists, teachers and students of the piano, historians, and all who love piano music and the art of piano playing. Grigory Kogan (1901-1979) was a leading Soviet pianist and music critic. A conservatory professor at the age of twenty-one, Kogan created the first-ever course in Russia dealing with the history and theory of pianism. Through his brilliant lectures, his concert performances, and his many books, articles, and reviews, Kogan influenced an entire generation of Soviet pianists. Svetlana Belsky is a teacher and performer, and is coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Chicago.  J. Bradford Bowers, "Bound by Steel and Stone: The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960 " English | ISBN: 1646421272 | 2021 | 306 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Bound by Steel and Stone analyzes the Colorado-Kansas Railway through the economic enterprise in the American West in the decades after the supposed 1890 closing of the frontier. In it, J. Bradford Bowers weaves a tale of reinvention against the backdrop of the newly settled West, showing how the railway survived in one form or another for nearly fifty years, overcoming competition from other railroads, a limited revenue base, and even more limited capital financing.  Bostwick's Plastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery - Two Volume Set 4th Edition by Glyn E. Jones 2021 | ISBN: 162623812X | English | 1478 pages | EPUB | 328.5 MB Few surgical texts are able to provide readers with a level of descriptive and visual detail sufficient to be considered a primary manual for surgical procedures. Surgeons typically face the daunting task of extensive research through various texts to piece together a picture comprehensive enough to guide them through a new procedure. This prospect is especially formidable in the field of plastic and reconstructive breast surgery, in which techniques are constantly evolving and older texts describe procedures that have long since been supplanted by superior methods and innovative approaches.  Boost up Metabolism with Natural Diet by Starring Criss English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TG44XSC | 144 pages | EPUB | 0.20 Mb I know why you can't do it, why your body no longer responds to relentless diets, mind-numbing exercise, low-carb, low-fat, high-protein diets. I know why you are not losing weight ... and I know how to fix it.  Jürgen W. Spranger, Paula W. Brill, Christine Hall, "Bone Dysplasias: An Atlas of Genetic Disorders of Skeletal Development" English | 2018 | pages: 928 | ISBN: 0190626658 | PDF | 389,9 mb The definitive guide to genetic bone disorders, now revised and expanded with glossy photographs and radiographs  Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030924610 | 208 Pages | PDF | 2.3 MB With its roots as early as the 1970s, industrial music emerged as a harsh, transgressive, and radically charged genre. The soundscape of the industrial is intense and powerful, adorned with taboo images, and thematically concerned with authority and control. Elemental to the genre is critical engagement with configurations of the body and related power. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this collection analyses the treatment of subjects like the Body (animal, human, machine), Noise (rhythmic, harsh) and Power (authority, institutions, law) in a variety of industrial music's elements. Throughout the collection, these three subjects are interrogated by examining lyrics, aesthetics, music videos, song writing, performance and audience reception.  Beginner's Guide to Water Gardening by Graham Clarke English | 2002 | ISBN: 1861082436 | 176 pages | PDF | 102 MB With this basics-to-embellishments information, anyone can create a tranquil new water garden-or beautify an old one. Details of designing, excavating, installing prefabricated and lined features, constructing concrete ponds, building walls, and adding electrics appear with extra boxed "facts and features." Select from a wide range of plants, from floating to bog garden varieties. |
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