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 Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics by Alexis Burgess, Herman Cappelen English | 2020 | ISBN: 0198801858 | 480 pages | PDF | 3 MB This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.  Tony Kitous, Dan Lepard, "Comptoir Libanais Express" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1848094418 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 320.1 mb From an exciting new face in middle eastern cooking, more than 80 simple, deliciouis, easy to prepare recipes, from Rose Syrup Pancakes to Saffron, Butternut and Red Pepper Pilaf  Composing while Dancing: An Improviser's Companion By Melinda Buckwalter 2010 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0299248143 | PDF | 2 MB Composing while Dancing: An Improviser's Companion examines the world of improvisational dance and the varied approaches to this art form. By introducing the improvisational strategies of twenty-six top contemporary artists of movement improvisation, Melinda Buckwalter offers a practical primer to the dance form. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect of improvisation including spatial relations, the eyes, and the dancing image. Included are sample practices from the artists profiled, exercises for further research, and a glossary of terms. Buckwalter gathers history, methods, interviews, and biographies in one book to showcase the many facets of improvisational dance and create an invaluable reference for dancers and dance educators.  China, the USA and Technological Supremacy in Europe by Csaba Moldicz English | August 20, 2021 | ISBN: 0367652501 | 180 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB The book explores how technological competition is linked to the geopolitical contest between the US and China, and why Europe and the European Union (EU) have become involved in this competition for technological supremacy.  Carrie Hintz, "Children's Literature " English | ISBN: 1138667951 | 2019 | 198 pages | PDF | 2 MB Children's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated.  Chemistry, 2nd Edition By Allan Blackman, Steve Bottle, Siegbert Schmid, Mauro Mocerino, Uta Wille 2011 | 2176 Pages | ISBN: 1742467075 | PDF | 140 MB PDF from Wiley Direct in Print Format. Not aesthetic, but looks nice enough  Charles V: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TPBG9KX | 63 pages | EPUB | 0.24 Mb One of the most powerful men who ever lived was a Holy Roman Emperor and controlled vast swathes of the planet. Quite a bit has been written over the centuries about Charles V, but even so, historical texts do not always reveal the complex personality that this man possessed. He was a man of purpose who felt destined to hold both Europe and the Christian faith together. He knew this would be no easy task, but he nevertheless threw himself into it whole-heartedly. This is the life and the story of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire.  Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff By Stephen Chase, Philip Thomas, Stephen Chase, Philip Thomas 2010 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0754666808 | PDF | 8 MB Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew. In a career spanning sixty years, he has produced a significant and influential body of work that has aimed to address, in a searching and provocative manner, what it means to be an experimental and socially aware artist. This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to a composer often overlooked despite his influence upon many of the major figures in new music since the 1950s from Cage to John Zorn to the new wave of experimentalists across the globe. As the first detailed analysis of the music of this prolific and highly individual composer, "Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff" contains contributions from leading experts in the field of new and experimental music, as well as from performers and composers who have worked with Wolff. The reception of Wolff's music is discussed in relation to the European avant-garde and also within the context of Wolff's association with Cage and Feldman. Music from his earliest compositions of the 1950s, the highly indeterminate scores, the politically-inspired pieces up to the most recent works are discussed in detail, both in relation to their compositional techniques, general aesthetic development, and matters of performance. The particular challenges and aesthetic issues arising from Wolff's idiosyncratic notations and the implications for performers are a central theme. Likewise, the ways in which Wolff's political persuasions - which arguably account for some of the notational methods he chooses - have been worked out through his music, are examined. With a foreword by his close associate Michael Parsons, this is a valuable addition to experimental music literature.  Celebrity and New Media: Gatekeeping Success by Stephanie Patrick English | May 5, 2022 | ISBN: 1032213132 | 186 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book looks back to the early days of new and social media, to examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms posed to the mainstream corporate media's gatekeeping, and its ability to exploit, humiliate, and even violate famous women.  William Weber, "Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press: Lully to Wagner " English | ISBN: 1648250165 | 2021 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 21 MB + 29 MB This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life by showing how certain musical works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France came to be considered "canonic": that is, admirable and worthy of being taken as models. In a series of interlinked essays, William Weber draws particular attention to the ways in which such reputations could shift in different eras and circumstances. |
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