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 Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy By James Stark 1999 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0802047033 | PDF | 3 MB In this well documented and highly readable book, James Stark provides a history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the present. Using a nineteenth-century treatise by Manuel Garcia as his point of reference, Stark analyses the many sources that discuss singing techniques and selects a number of primary vocal 'problems' for detailed investigation. He also presents data from a series of laboratory experiments carried out to demonstrate the techniques of bel canto.The discussion deals extensively with such topics as the emergence of virtuoso singing, the castrato phenomenon, national differences in singing styles, controversies regarding the perennial decline in the art of singing, and the so-called secrets of bel canto.Stark offers a new definition of bel canto which reconciles historical and scientific descriptions of good singing. His is a refreshing and profound discussion of issues important to all singers and voice teachers.  Colin F. Camerer, "Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction " English | ISBN: 0691090394 | 2003 | 568 pages | EPUB | 11 MB Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games. This book marks the first substantial and authoritative effort to close this gap. Colin Camerer, one of the field's leading figures, uses psychological principles and hundreds of experiments to develop mathematical theories of reciprocity, limited strategizing, and learning, which help predict what real people and companies do in strategic situations. Unifying a wealth of information from ongoing studies in strategic behavior, he takes the experimental science of behavioral economics a major step forward. He does so in lucid, friendly prose.  Bariatric Cookbook: 1000 Plus Easy to Cook and Friendly Recipes for Before and After the Gastric Sleeve Weight Loss Procedure by Tracy Hubbard English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09QJ18PH3 | 1180 pages | EPUB | 2.11 Mb Are you planning for a Gastric sleeve weight loss procedure and confused about which Diet you should eat? Are you looking for a Diet that can help you post Bariatric surgery?
 Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War by Tom McMillan 2021 | ISBN: 0811769941 | English | 328 pages | PDF | 17 MB In a war of brother versus brother, theirs has become the most famous broken friendship: Union general Winfield Scott Hancock and Confederate general Lewis Armistead. Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels (1974) and the movie Gettysburg (1993), based on the novel, presented a close friendship sundered by war, but history reveals something different from the legend that holds up Hancock and Armistead as sentimental symbols of a nation torn apart.  King, Birgit Pauksztat, Robert Storrie, "Arctic Clothing" English | 2005 | ISBN: 0773530088 | PDF | pages: 161 | 23.7 mb In the Arctic, well designed and superbly tailored clothing allows people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions. Both sea and land animals, birds and fish, provide raw materials for the creation of unique forms of highly efficient clothing - different types of parkas, trousers, layered footwear, gloves and headwear. Such clothing not only protects people but also connects societies to the environment that they inhabit and expresses the continuing importance of animals, birds and fish to these communities. Arctic clothing encompasses a great diversity of national and community styles and also contemporary and traditional costume making. Questions of identity, the semiotics and function of dress, and the copyright and ownership of design are explored along with the nature of people's creativity in rapidly changing traditional societies. The contemporary issues of changes in clothing, the importation of manufactured materials, developments in fashion, clothing and art, and the adaptation of Native clothing by explorers and for sportswear are all examined. Several essays address previously unpublished areas such as fish-skin clothing, hairnets, the use of grass, birds and costume, and kayak clothing.  Ankylosing spondylitis e-chart: Quick reference guide by HC-HealthComm English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01GQP28XY | EPUB | 0.86 Mb Ankylosing spondylitis e-chart - Quick reference guide  Animation and America By Paul Wells 2002 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0813531608 | PDF | 1 MB The "cartoon"in the output of the all conquering Disney studio, the anarchic antics of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in Looney Tunes, and the satiric vision of the Simpsons on television is synonymous with the United States, but the genre rarely is taken seriously. Nevertheless, cartoons are important artistic and cultural achievements, and are an essential ingredient in how America is viewed, both by itself and by others.In Animation and America, Paul Wells looks afresh at this unique art, discussing the distinctiveness of the cartoon form, as well as myriad other types of animation production. Insisting upon the "modernity" of the genre, Wells examines its importance as a barometer of the social conditions in which it is made and which it reflects. This book is not a standard history of animation in America, but rather uses animation as a way of discussing social and political change. Wells concentrates on the ways in which the form continues to grow, experiment, and remain subversiveand, increasingly, gaining acclaim and recognition. Now in the vanguard of visual culture, animation occupies an important position in representing both the outcomes and impacts of new technologies, and it also has laid the foundations for a new understanding of social and artistic practice.
 Luca Anceschi, "Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev era " English | ISBN: 0415711436 | 2020 | 208 pages | PDF | 6 MB This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan's foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era.  An Emotionally Focused Workbook for Couples, 2nd edition by Veronica Kallos-Lilly and Jennifer Fitzgerald English | December 21, 2021 | ISBN: 036744402X, 0367444038 | 168 pages | PDF | 4 MB The second edition of this essential and newly updated workbook is intended for use with couples who want to enhance their emotional connection or overcome their relationship distress. It closely follows the course of EFT treatment and allows clinicians to easily integrate guided reading, reflection, and discussion into the therapeutic process.  Algorithms For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)) by John Paul Mueller English | April 24, 2017 | ISBN: 1119330491 | 432 pages | MOBI | 2.85 Mb Discover how algorithms shape and impact our digital world |
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