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How to Listen to Modern Music: Without Earplugs

Sound And Vision, 1999

The story goes that the legendary English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was asked if he had conducted any music by Stockhausen. The reply came, "No, but I once trod in some."

Like all genuinely serious subjects, modern music is ripe for humour. Musicians everywhere have stories to tell about the strange and bizzare things...

Alchemy and Psychotherapy: Post-Jungian Perspectives

Routledge, 2014

Alchemical symbols are part of popular culture, most recently popularised in the Harry Potter books. Alchemy intrigued Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology. It inspired him as he wrote ‘the Red Book’ - the journal of his voyage of internal discovery. He devoted much of his life to it, using alchemical symbols as...

Global Tourism, Third Edition

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004

Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development. That is why, as Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, I am pleased to see the serious...

Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Fourth Edition: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications, History, and Science

Focal Press, 2007

*Searchable CD ROM containing the entire book (including images)
*Over 450 color images, plus never before published images provided by the George Eastman House collection, as well as images from Ansel Adams, Howard Schatz, and Jerry Uelsmann to name just a few

The role and value of the picture cannot be matched for accuracy or...

Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems

Utah State University Press, 2001

Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative...

Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design

MIT Press, 2008

"Collins has written a truly encyclopedic work that wonderfully complements books on sound design in film, helping anyone in the audiovisual industry who desires to expand more confidently into teaching, designing, and producing audio in the gaming world. This book provides fascinating insights about how game audio can enhance player...

Architects and Architecture of London

Architectural Press, 2008

A lively and colourful guide to the architecture of London and the people that made it

The guide explains why London is the way it is. It helps you link the historical and contemporary into a single pattern of significant places, spaces and buildings. It highlights old and new as a lively and vibrant pattern of on-going...

Asian Flavors Diabetes Cookbook: Simple, Fresh Meals Perfect for Every Day

American Library Association, 2012

The Asian Flavors Diabetes Cookbook is the first book that takes the naturally healthy recipes and meals of Asian cuisine and crafts them specifically for people with diabetes. Authored by Corinne Trang, who was dubbed by The Washington Post "the Julia Child of Asian cuisine," this unique collection of recipes will...

The Audience Experience: A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts

Intellect, 2013

The Audience Experience identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. Together, new communication technologies and new kinds of audiences and audience research have transformed the expectations of performance, and The Audience Experience explores key trends in the...

Single-Frequency Fiber Lasers (Optical and Fiber Communications Reports)

Springer, 2019

This book gives a contemporary overview of the technologies of single-frequency fiber lasers. The development of single-frequency fiber lasers is one of the most significant achievements in the field of laser photonics over the past two decades. Owing to the crucial demands of a laser sources with highly stable single-frequency...

Behavior Analysis and Learning

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

This introduction focuses on basic research findings and illustrates behavior principles with everyday human examples. The Second Edition has retained the positive features of the first edition, while adding new aspects as suggested by reviewers, instructors and students. It now contains a more thorough treatment of the principles and processes of...

Digital Matters: The Theory and Culture of the Matrix

Routledge, 2005

Digital Matters analyzes the complex interaction between the material and immaterial aspects of new digital technologies. It draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches including sociology, media theory and history, cultural studies, and the philosophy of technology to suggest that the matrix of science fiction and Hollywood is but an...

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