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Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415969444
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Author : Michael Marano
Publisher : Chizine Publications
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 177148179X
Lawrence, a lonely book clerk, new to Boston, is just one wanting soul in a city full of them. His deepest desires call out to someone . . . anyone. the Succubus, who is both ancient and newborn, falls in love with the city even as she reaps the souls of her lovers.
Author : Elisabeth Tooker
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815606419
The Midwinter ceremonial—the longest and most complex of the rituals of the Longhouse religion—is examined here in three parts. Following a short cultural history of the Iroquois and a description of the present geographical location of the various longhouses and tribes, Elisabeth Tooker discusses the principles of Iroquois ritualism. The second part of the book is devoted to detailed accounts of the Midwinter ceremonial as it is performed today at six Iroquois longhouses. The third part presents the historical perspective of the ceremony through excerpts from writings of Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries, captives, travelers, local residents, and anthropologists.
Author : Emma Claire Sweeney
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785079665
“Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel about familial love and stoicism in the face of heartbreak.”—Carys Bray, award-winning author of The Museum of You Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing 80, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambe’s 1950s heyday. But now only her employees and regular guests recognize the tenderness and heartbreak hidden beneath her spikiness. Until, that is, Vincent shows up. Vincent is the last person Maeve wants to see. He is the only man alive to have known her twin sister, Edie. The nightingale to Maeve’s crow, the dawn to Maeve’s dusk, Edie would have set her sights on the stage—all things being equal. But, from birth, things never were. If only Maeve could confront the secret past she shares with Vincent, she might finally see what it means to love and be loved—a lesson that her exuberant yet inexplicable twin may have been trying to teach her all along. Stylist Magazine Top “Books to Read on a Staycation” “Funny, heartbreaking and truly remarkable.”—Susan Barker, New York Times bestselling author “I found the novel most poignant and tender in its depiction of disability, without a whiff of sentimentality . . . it crept under my skill and will stay there for a long time.”—Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Grace Williams Says It Loud “Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply moving . . . an important and very beautiful book.”—Edward Hogan, Desmond Elliot Prize-winning author of Blackmoor “Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else.”—Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author of The Crime Writer
Author : Diego Gil,Henrik Brumm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199661572
This edited volume adopts an evolutionary framework to explore how pre-existing differences in life history, behaviour, and physiology of birds may determine the course of their adaptation to urban habitats.
Author : Thierry Aubin,Nicolas Mathevon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030392000
Information is a core concept in animal communication: individuals routinely produce, acquire, process and store information, which provides the basis for their social life. This book focuses on how animal acoustic signals code information and how this coding can be shaped by various environmental and social constraints. Taking birds and mammals, including humans, as models, the authors explore such topics as communication strategies for “public” and “private” signaling, static and dynamic signaling, the diversity of coded information and the way information is decoded by the receiver. The book appeals to a wide audience, ranging from bioacousticians, ethologists and ecologists to evolutionary biologists. Intended for students and researchers alike, it promotes the idea that Shannon and Weaver’s Mathematical Theory of Communication still represents a strong framework for understanding all aspects of the communication process, including its dynamic dimensions.
Author : Howard Jones,Martin H. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : German language
ISBN : 9780199654611
This is the most comprehensive self-contained treatment of Middle High German available in English. It covers the language, literature, history, and culture of German in the period from 1050 to 1350 and is designed for entry-level readers, advanced study, teaching, and reference. The book includes a large sample of texts, not only from Classical works such as Erec, the Nibelungenlied, Parzival, and Tristan, but also from mystical writing, chronicles, and legal documents. The selection represents all major dialects and the full time span of the period. 0The introduction defines Middle High German linguistically, geographically, and chronologically. Chapter 2 then provides a detailed exploration of the grammar, covering sounds and spelling, inflectional morphology, syntax, and lexis. Chapter 3 deals with versification, discussing metre, rhyme, lines of verse in context, and verse forms, and includes practical tips for scansion. Chapter 4 offers an account of the political and social structures of Medieval Germany and a survey of the principal types of texts that originated in the period. The final chapter of the book comprises over forty texts, each placed in context and provided with explanatory footnotes. The first two texts, to be taken together with the introductory grammar sections, are aimed at newcomers. A glossary provides full coverage of the vocabulary appearing in the texts and throughout the book.
Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Gerd Fritz,Franz Lebsanft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283795
Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the introductory paper by the editors and the individual papers deal with fundamental theoretical questions, e.g. the question of types of historical developments in dialogue forms, and methodological problems, e.g. the finding and interpretation of relevant data. The fifteen case studies presented in this volume provide a wide range of new data. The range of topics includes the pragmatic form of 16th century religious controversies in Germany, forms of polite answers in Early Modern German conversation culture, forms of dialogue in Early Modern English medical writing, learning English through dialogues in the 16th century, structures of bargaining dialogues in Late Medieval French, and reflections of spontaneous dialogue in Early Romance texts.
Author : Lang Elliott
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0811729648
A text and audio guide to the songs and calls of 35 common birds of meadow, woodland, marsh, and seashore habitats in eastern and central North America. This superb collection of field recordings offers unparalleled access to the sound repertoires of birds of the countryside. Book jacket.
Author : Nathan Pieplow
Publisher : Peterson Field Guides
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780547905570
A comprehensive field guide that uses an innovative Sound Index to allow readers to quickly identify unfamiliar songs and calls of birds in western North America. Bird songs and calls are at least as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. Yet short of memorizing each bird's repertoire, it's difficult to sort through them all. Now, with the western edition of this groundbreaking book, it's possible to visually distinguish bird sounds and identify birds using a field-guide format. At the core of this guide is the spectrogram, a visual graph of sound. With a brief introduction to five key aspects--speed, repetition, pauses, pitch pattern, and tone quality--readers can translate what they hear into visual recognition, without any musical training or auditory memorization. The Sound Index groups similar songs together, narrowing the identification choices quickly to a brief list of birds that are likely to be confused because of the similarity of their songs. Readers can then turn to the species account for more information and/or listen to the accompanying audio tracks available online. Identifying birds by sound is arguably the most challenging and important skill in birding. This book makes it vastly easier to master than ever before.
Author : Donald Kroodsma
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780544764224
A multimedia experience that lets you look at—and listen to—birds in a whole new way! Birdsong by the Seasons is a celebration of birdsong from January through December. The stories begin with a pileated woodpecker on New Year’s Day; they unfold through the year, covering Florida’s limpkins and scrub-jays in February, prairie birds in May, scarlet tanagers in July, and a chorus of singing birds in Massachusetts just before Christmas. With this book, the acclaimed author of The Singing Life of Birds—a winner of the John Burroughs Medal—provides a unique experience: with his gentle guidance, the pairing of sonograms with the audio makes birdsong accessible and fascinating. This Kindle ebook contains embedded audio files. This audio content will only play on Kindle Fire tablets (excluding the Kindle Fire 1st Generation) and iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices. It cannot be accessed on Kindle e-readers (including the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Touch, and Kindle Voyage) or on Kindle reading apps on other tablets or computers.
Author : Iris J. Arnesen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786454341
Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world's most popular operas, including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, was also a highly literary person who based his librettos on existing works of literature. This work explores that literary inheritance in an effort to enhance the listener's appreciation of the operatic experience. The author argues that the majority of Puccini's operas compose a grand cycle that finds its roots in the romance genre of 12th century France, serving to celebrate the strong, independent heroine. Via a close examination of the source works, the librettos, and the scores, this book offers fresh perspective on Puccini's legacy.
Author : Almo Farina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400773745
Soundscape Ecology represents a new branch of ecology and it is the result of the integration of different disciplines like Landscape ecology, Bioacoustics, Acoustic ecology, Biosemiotics, etc. The soundscape that is the object of this discipline, is defined as the acoustic context resulting from natural and human originated sounds and it is considered a relevant environmental proxy for animal and human life. With Soundscape Ecology Almo Farina means to offer a new cultural tool to investigate a partially explored component of the environmental complexity. For this he intends to set the principles of this new discipline, to delineate the epistemic domain in which to develop new ideas and theories and to describe the necessary integration with all the other ecological/environmental disciplines. The book is organized in ten chapters. The first two chapters delineate principles and theory of soundscape ecology. Chapters three and four describe the bioacoustic and communication theories. Chapter five is devoted to the human dimension of soundscape. Chapters six to eight regard the major sonic patterns like noise, choruses and vibrations. Chapter nine is devoted to the methods in soundscape ecology and finally chapter ten describes the application of the soundscape analysis.
Author : Otto Zwartjes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004106944
This study of Andalusian strophic poetry and their "Kharjas" provides an updated survey of the debates on this topic. The texts are studies historically, prosodically, thematically and stylistically and they are related to other literary traditions of the Middle Ages.
Author : Angela J. Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0578980606
A haunted inn. A magical violin. An intriguing innkeeper. Legend tells of a sacred land shrouded by the obscure, where the barrier between worlds is thin, and strange things happen without rhyme or reason. Mila, a budding violinist, is unaware of these myths when she accepts a job at a remote inn called the Dawn. Awed by the atmospheric location, Mila begins work, only to discover nothing is as it seems. Haunted by unsettling vestiges, mysterious disappearances, and the lure of a magical song, Mila takes it upon herself to unravel the secrets of the inn. And its handsome innkeeper. Mila knows she should stay away from him, but every time he appears, her resolve weakens. Fate may have brought them together but just as romance blooms, she discover his ghastly secret. He's the harbinger of darkness, and standing by his side is a dangerous choice between life and something much worse than death. . . Song of the Dawn is a complete, stand-alone novel. Perfect for fans of adult fantasy romance who enjoy gothic suspense, ancient lore, and plenty of steamy romance. This book contains mature scenes. Recommend for 18+.
