A Case Of Virga

Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429938051

Get Book

Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder Pdf

In Karl Schroeder's sci-fi thriller, Hayden Griffin has come to the city of Rush with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for his parents' deaths. It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Emma Hornby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351754019

Get Book

Gregorian and Old Roman Eighth-mode Tracts: A Case Study in the Transmission of Western Chant by Emma Hornby Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: This text uses detailed analysis of the eigth-mode tracts in addressing some of the still unresolved questions of chant scholarship. The first question is that of the nature of the relationship between Old Roman and Gregorian chant, the second, of the relationship between oral and written modes of transmission in the ecclesiastical culture of the Middle Ages. Also, the Middle Ages saw a transition to a culture more dependent on writing. The book investigates the effect this transition had on the way eighth-mode tracts were understood by those who performed and notated them.

Author : Anthony Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1491867760

Get Book

A Case of Virga by Anthony Wolff Pdf

Clues that solve a crime can be as evanescent as virga: rain that falls in the desert which the desert's rising heat evaporates before the rain has a chance to reach the ground. Using Zen's pragmatic approach to discover the complexity of a crime that had been regarded as 'cut and dry, ' Beryl Tilson and Sensei Percy Wong of Wagner & Tilson, Private Investigators, apply their skill and intuition to free a man who has been wrongly accused of murder. The biggest clue to solving this mystery is in the false evidence that was submitted at trial. A gun which was alleged to have lain in the Sonora desert for 5 hours in July was apparently picked up without "pot holders" - directly in the hand and shown to a covering TV camera. This cannot happen. But the defense attorneys are not desert people and know only Hollywood versions of desert life. Beryl Tilson has lived in the Mojave and understands sun and heat. Nobody can pick up metal that has been lying in the sun for half an hour much less 5 hours. (Also you can never see sweaty shirts in the desert. Perspiration evaporates as fast as you can produce it.)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : CUB:U183015104071

Get Book

Monthly Weather Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jess Bravin
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781631682766

Get Book

Squeaky by Jess Bravin Pdf

In the early 1950s, Lynette Fromme's world was more or less a paint-by-numbers existence that millions of other suburban children were living in Southern California. Red-haired, freckled, and convivial, she was the child of an in absentia workaholic father and a reclusive mother. She sang in the school choir and her dance troupe performed before President Eisenhower. As a young teenager she wrote forlorn poetry. Beyond her neighborhood, the counter-culture of Los Angeles was thriving. Lynette began getting interested in, then became attracted to, the freedoms of that world. Little by little, she began losing her way.... That day on the beach marked Lynette's introduction to the world of shade. Charles Manson, freshly released from prison, became her guide to illegal drugs and social outcasts. Over the course of a decade, Lynette would change until she found herself imprisoned for the term of her natural life in the custody of the Attorney General of the United States for attempting to assassinate then-president Gerald Ford. Meticulously researched for over three and a half years, with hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of testimony to review, in Squeaky author Jess Bravin has created a psychosocial masterpiece of one American girl who ran away, and ran too far.

Author : Bruce W. Holsinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804740585

Get Book

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture by Bruce W. Holsinger Pdf

Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. It will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.

Author : ANTHONY WOLFF
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491868249

Get Book

A Case of Virga by ANTHONY WOLFF Pdf

Clues that solve a crime can be as evanescent as virga: rain that falls in the desert which the deserts rising heat evaporates before the rain has a chance to reach the ground. Using Zens pragmatic approach to discover the complexity of a crime that had been regarded as cut and dry, Beryl Tilson and Sensei Percy Wong of Wagner & Tilson, Private Investigators, apply their skill and intuition to free a man who has been wrongly accused of murder. The biggest clue to solving this mystery is in the false evidence that was submitted at trial. A gun which was alleged to have lain in the Sonora desert for 5 hours in July was apparently picked up without pot holders - directly in the hand and shown to a covering TV camera. This cannot happen. But the defense attorneys are not desert people and know only Hollywood versions of desert life. Beryl Tilson has lived in the Mojave and understands sun and heat. Nobody can pick up metal that has been lying in the sun for half an hour much less 5 hours. (Also you can never see sweaty shirts in the desert. Perspiration evaporates as fast as you can produce it.)

Author : Jan W. A. Vollaerts
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Gregorian chants
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Rhythmic Proportions in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Chant by Jan W. A. Vollaerts Pdf

"A summary of the various writings, original musical compositions, and arrangements, by the late Dr. J. Vollaerts, S.J." : p.237-240.

Author : Yuehwern Yih
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781439803622

Get Book

Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems by Yuehwern Yih Pdf

With rapidly rising healthcare costs directly impacting the economy and quality of life, resolving improvement challenges in areas such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity has become paramount. Using a system engineering perspective, Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems offers theoretical foundation

Author : Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001491296

Get Book

Horae Apocalypticae, Or a Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and Historical by Elliott Pdf

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691185330

Get Book

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 28 by Thomas Jefferson Pdf

This volume brings Jefferson into retirement after his tenure as Secretary of State and returns him to private life at Monticello. He professes his desire to be free of public responsibilities and live the life of a farmer, spending his time tending to his estates. Turning his attention to the improvement of his farms and finances, Jefferson surveys his fields, experiments with crop rotation, and establishes a nailery on Mulberry Row. He embarks upon an ambitious plan to renovate Monticello, a long-term task that will eventually transform his residence. Although Jefferson is distant from Philadelphia, the seat of the federal government, he is not completely divorced from the politics of the day. His friends, especially James Madison, with whom he exchanges almost sixty letters in the period covered by this volume, keep him fully informed about the efforts of Republican county and town meetings, the Virginia General Assembly, Congress, and the press to counter Federalist policies. An emerging Republican opposition is taking shape in response to the Jay Treaty, and Jefferson is keenly interested in its progress. Although in June, 1795, he claims to have "proscribed newspapers" from Monticello, in fact he never entirely cuts himself off from the world. At the end of that year, he takes pains to ensure that he will have two full sets of Benjamin Franklin Bache's Aurora, the influential Republican newspaper, one set to be held in Philadelphia for binding and one to be sent directly to Monticello.

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198165722

Get Book

Western Plainchant by David Hiley Pdf

Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Author : Andrew Hughes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802076696

Get Book

Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office by Andrew Hughes Pdf

Many books discuss the theology and doctrine of the medieval liturgy: there is no dearth of information on the history of the liturgy, the structure and development of individual services, and there is much discussion of specific texts, chants, and services. No book, at least in English, has struggled with the difficulties of finding texts, chants, or other material in the liturgical manuscripts themselves, until the publication of Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office in 1982. Encompassing a period of several centuries, ca 1200-1500, this book provides solutions for such endeavours. Although by this period the basic order and content of liturgical books were more or less standardized, there existed hundreds of different methods of dealing with the internal organisation and the actual writing of the texts and chants on the page. Generalization becomes problematic; the use of any single source as a typical example for more than local detail is impossible. Taking for granted the user's ability to read medieval scripts, and some codicological knowledge, Hughes begins with the elementary material without which the user could not proceed. He describes the liturgical year, season, day, service, and the form of individual items such as responsory or lesson, and mentions the many variants in terminology that are to be found in the sources. The presentation of individual text and chant is discussed, with an emphasis on the organisation of the individual column, line, and letter. Hughes examines the hitherto unexplored means by which a hierarchy of initial and capital letters and their colours are used by the scribes and how this hierarchy can provide a means by which the modern researcher can navigate through the manuscripts. Also described in great detail are the structure and contents of Breviaries, Missals, and the corresponding books with music. This new edition updates the bibliography and the new preface by Hughes presents his recent thoughts about terminology and methods of liturgical abbreviation.

Author : Sofia Greaves,Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257816

Get Book

Rome and the Colonial City by Sofia Greaves,Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Pdf

According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.

Author : Yurie A. Ignatieff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642798337

Get Book

The Mathematical World of Walter Noll by Yurie A. Ignatieff Pdf

The book stresses particularly Noll's method of axiomatization of physical theories, his axiomatics of continuum mechanics, thermodynamics of materials, special relativity theory, his discovery of the neo-classical space-time of mechanics, his theories of inhomogeneities in simple bodies, fit regions, contact interactions, annihilators of linear differential operators, and finite-dimensional spaces.