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 There's Music In These Walls: A History of the Royal Conservatory of Music By Ezra Schabas 2005 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1550025406 | PDF | 22 MB The Royal Conservatory of Music, founded in 1886, is rich in history and genius. Its long tradition of excellence in musical training and examining places it among the leading music schools of the world. Glenn Gould, Lois Marshall, Teresa Stratas, Jon Vickers, Mario Bernardi, and many other international artists have studied there. Amply illustrated, with over forty photographs dating back to the school's first years, this book is an unvarnished account of its controversial leaders, its successes and failures, its encounters with the musical and academic world, and its passions. In this smoothly paced narrative, your favourite musicians, teachers, and examiners will come to life to revive your memories.
 Theory of Stochastic Processes: With Applications to Financial Mathematics and Risk Theory by Dmytro Gusak English PDF,EPUB | 2010 | 379 Pages | ISBN : 0387878610 | 11.6 MB This book is a collection of exercises covering all the main topics in the modern theory of stochastic processes and its applications, including finance, actuarial mathematics, queuing theory, and risk theory.  Alice Hoffman, "The World That We Knew: A Novel" English | 2020 | ISBN: 1501137581, 1501137573 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 4.0 mb NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL  The Work of Fire By Maurice Blanchot, Charlotte Mandell 1995 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0804724938 | PDF | 18 MB Maurice Blanchot is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. Blanchot developed a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing; these essays, in form and substance, left their imprint on the work of the most influential French theorists. The writings of Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida are unimaginable without Blanchot. Published in French in 1949, The Work of Fire is a collection of twenty-two essays originally published in literary journals. Certain themes recur repeatedly: the relation of literature and language to death; the significance of repetition; the historical, personal, and social function of literature; and simply the question what is at stake in the fact that something such as art or literature exists? Among the authors discussed are Kafka, Mallarme, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sartre, Gide, Pascal, Valery, Hemingway, and Henry Miller.  The Whips: Building Party Coalitions in Congress (Legislative Politics And Policy Making) by C. Lawrence Evans English | Aug 13, 2018 | ISBN: 047213082X, 0472037307 | 384 pages | PDF | 186 MB The party whips are essential components of the U.S. legislative system, responsible for marshalling party votes and keeping House and Senate party members in line. In The Whips, C. Lawrence Evans offers a comprehensive exploration of coalition building and legislative strategy in the U.S. House and Senate, ranging from the relatively bipartisan, committee-dominated chambers of the 1950s to the highly polarized congresses of the 2000s. In addition to roll call votes and personal interviews with lawmakers and staff, Evans examines the personal papers of dozens of former leaders of the House and Senate, especially former whips. These records allowed Evans to create a database of nearly 1,500 internal leadership polls on hundreds of significant bills across five decades of recent congressional history.  The Voices that Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Song By Jon W. Finson 1997 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0195113829 | PDF | 23 MB In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. The author sets forth lyricists' and composers' notions of courtship, technology, death, African Americans, Native Americans, and European ethnicity by grouping songs topically. He goes on to explore the interaction between musical style and lyrics within each topic. The lyrics and changing musical styles present a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century America. The composers discussed in the book range from Henry Russell ("Woodman, Spare That Tree"), Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna"), and Dan Emmett ("I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"), to George M. Cohan and Maude Nugent ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady"), and Gussie Lord Davis ("In the Baggage Coach Ahead"). Readers will recognize songs like "Pop Goes the Weasel," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "The Fountain in the Park," "After the Ball," "A Bicycle Built for Two," and many others which gain significance by being placed in the larger context of American history.
 The Ultimate Yoga Guide for Beginners: Relaxation, Healing, Sequences for Strength, Flexibility, and Mindfulness. by Brad Morgan PH.D English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09MKV47M8 | 60 pages | EPUB | 0.14 Mb The Ultimate Yoga Guide for Beginners: Relaxation, Healing, Sequences for Strength, Flexibility, and Mindfulness.  Norman A Graham, "The U.s. Exportimport Bank: Policy Dilemmas And Choices" English | ISBN: 0367296780 | 2019 | 122 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book assesses the politics and programs of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and their relevance to U.S. trade policy. Focusing on the direct loan program for large credits with maturities of more than five years, the authors evaluate the broad criteria employed by the Bank in its decision-making process and the resulting allocation of Bank resources. They also examine the distribution of Bank loans and subsidies across industries and relate this to key industry characteristics such as comparative advantage and export dependence. The problems faced by the Eximbank in recent years―high borrowing costs, intensified export credit competition, limited resources, increased risks, conflicting mandates to be competitive yet self-sustaining -―have given tremendous importance to the careful articulation of policy and administration of programs. The authors find Bank policies to be broadly supportive of the U.S. trade policy goals, but also identify several areas of inconsistency and lack of definition and offer alternative means of specifying criteria to overcome these problems.  Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, "The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order" English | 2016 | ISBN: 022642491X | PDF | pages: 368 | 2.1 mb In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves-it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing-from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war-they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political economy of representation that have arisen.  Kenneth S. Aigen, "The Study of Music Therapy: Current Issues and Concepts" English | ISBN: 0415626412 | 2013 | 280 pages | PDF | 894 KB This book addresses the issues in music therapy that are central to understanding it in its scholarly dimensions, how it is evolving, and how it connects to related academic disciplines. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach to look at the defining issues of music therapy as a scholarly discipline, rather than as an area of clinical practice. It is the single best resource for scholars interested in music therapy because it focuses on the areas that tend to be of greatest interest to them, such as issues of definition, theory, and the function of social context, but also does not assume detailed prior knowledge of the subject. |
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