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Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but
important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times.
Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and
in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past.
Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes
contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities,
these representations of the past through music are integral to how
our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history.
More importantly, they offer a valuable insight into how we
understand our musical present. Such representative strategies, the
book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it brings
together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film
(Lord of the Rings, Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of
Thrones, The Borgias), videogame (Dragon Warrior, Gauntlet), and
opera (Written on Skin, Taverner, English 'dramatick opera'). This
collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary,
contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing
creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary
sections, grouped not by genre or media but by theme, it considers:
'Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past', 'Music,
Space, and Place: Geography as History', and 'Presentness and the
Past: Dialogues between Old and New'. Like the musical collage that
is our shared multimedia historical soundscape, it is hoped that
this collection is, in its eclecticism, more than the sum of its
parts.
England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would
have a profound impact on European music for the next several
hundred years. Perhaps the greatest such development was the cyclic
cantus firmus Mass, and scholarly attention has therefore often
been drawn to identifying potentially English examples within the
many anonymous Mass cycles that survive in continental sources.
Nonetheless, to understand English music in this period is to
understand it within a changing nexus of two-way cultural exchange
with the continent, and the genre of the Mass cycle is very much at
the forefront of this. Indeed, the question of ‘what is
English’ cannot truly be answered without also answering the
question of ‘what is continental’. This book seeks, initially,
to answer both of these questions. Perhaps more importantly, it
argues that a number of the works that have induced the most
scholarly debate are best seen through the lens of intensive and
long-term cultural exchange and that the great binary divide of
provenance can, in many cases, productively be broken down. A great
many of these works, though often written on the continent, can, it
seems, only be understood in relation to English practice – a
practice which has had, and will continue to have, major importance
in the ongoing history of European Art Music.
This book presents a bold, new invention - the Computerized Job
Market (CJM) - that could, in the future, come to replace the labor
market as we and our forebears have known it since the industrial
revolution. James Cooke Brown, who also invented the popular board
game Careers, first introduced CJM's in his science fiction book
The Troika Incident. The Job Market of the Future is written in a
non-academic, non-technical style and is set in the not-too-distant
future - in a world that we will very likely see if the present
course of unhindered, reckless "globalization" continues. The
author presents the case for his CJM model; how it will be
constructed; the built in safeguards for both individuals and
society; how it will operate for the end-user; and what the long-
and short-term economic, social, and political benefits will be.
Ultimately, this book is not about problems or policy issues; it is
about finding a permanent answer to the most important long-term
problem that faces everyone on Earth: finding and keeping a quality
job with a "living wage."
This book presents a bold, new invention - the Computerized Job
Market (CJM) - that could, in the future, come to replace the labor
market as we and our forebears have known it since the industrial
revolution. James Cooke Brown, who also invented the popular board
game Careers, first introduced CJM's in his science fiction book
The Troika Incident. The Job Market of the Future is written in a
non-academic, non-technical style and is set in the not-too-distant
future - in a world that we will very likely see if the present
course of unhindered, reckless "globalization" continues. The
author presents the case for his CJM model; how it will be
constructed; the built in safeguards for both individuals and
society; how it will operate for the end-user; and what the long-
and short-term economic, social, and political benefits will be.
Ultimately, this book is not about problems or policy issues; it is
about finding a permanent answer to the most important long-term
problem that faces everyone on Earth: finding and keeping a quality
job with a "living wage."
Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but
important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times.
Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and
in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past.
Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes
contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities,
these representations of the past through music are integral to how
our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history.
More importantly, they offer a valuable insight into how we
understand our musical present. Such representative strategies, the
book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it brings
together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film
(Lord of the Rings, Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of
Thrones, The Borgias), videogame (Dragon Warrior, Gauntlet), and
opera (Written on Skin, Taverner, English 'dramatick opera'). This
collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary,
contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing
creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary
sections, grouped not by genre or media but by theme, it considers:
'Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past', 'Music,
Space, and Place: Geography as History', and 'Presentness and the
Past: Dialogues between Old and New'. Like the musical collage that
is our shared multimedia historical soundscape, it is hoped that
this collection is, in its eclecticism, more than the sum of its
parts.
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
Middle Ages, To attract followers many professional politicians, as
well as other political actors, ground their biases in (supposedly)
medieval beliefs, align themselves with medieval heroes, or condemn
their enemies as medieval barbarians. The essays in the first part
of this volume directly examine some of the many forms such
medievalism can take, including the invocation of "blood libels" in
American politics; Vladimir Putin's self-comparisons to "Saint
Equal-of-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir"; alt-right references to
medieval Christian battles with Moslems; nativist Brexit allusions
to the Middle Ages; and, in the 2019 film The Kid Who Would be
King, director Joe Cornish's call for Arthurian leadership through
Brexit. These essays thus inform, even as they are tested by, the
subsequent papers, which touch on politics in the course of
discussing the director Guy Ritchie's erasure of Wales in the 2017
film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; medievalist alt-right
attempts to turn one disenfranchised group against another;
Jean-Paul Laurens's 1880 condemnation of Napoleon III via a
portrait of Honorius; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's extraordinarily
wide range of medievalisms; the archaeology of Julian of Norwich's
anchorite cell; the influence of Julian on pity in J.K. Rowling's
Harry Potter book series; the origins of introductory maps for
medievalist narratives; self-reflexive medievalism in a television
episode of Doctor Who; and sonic medievalism in fantasy video
games.
During Charles Darwin's 1831-6 voyage on the Beagle, his on-board
library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified).
This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative
of the versions available in the early nineteenth century. Volumes
1 and 2 cover the first Pacific voyage of James Cook (1728-79), the
object of which was to observe the 1769 transit of Venus from
Tahiti. The text replicates the version published in 1773 by John
Hawkesworth (1715-73) as part of a collection of 'Voyages ... in
the Southern Hemisphere', which interwove Cook's account with
botanical and ethnographical notes by the ship's naturalist, Sir
Joseph Banks (1743-1820). The journals were only published
separately much later: Cook's in 1893 (ed. Wharton) and Banks' in
1896 (ed. Hooker); both are also available. Volume 2 focuses on New
Zealand, Australia, and the explorers' return via Indonesia.
During Charles Darwin's 1831-6 voyage on the Beagle, his on-board
library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified).
This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative
of the versions available in the early nineteenth century. Volumes
5-7 cover the third Pacific voyage of James Cook (1728-79), which
began in July 1776 and ended in his death in Hawaii. Volume 5
begins with the orders outlining the main objective of the third
voyage, which was to search for the Pacific end of the North-West
Passage for two summers. They emphasise the importance of good
relations with other colonial powers, notably Spain, and of
periodic recuperation in harbour. This volume contains Cook's
journal of the voyage up to July 1777, via the Cape, Tasmania, and
New Zealand to Tahiti and Tonga, and includes detailed descriptions
of Pacific Islander customs together with several word-lists.
During Charles Darwin's 1831-6 voyage on the Beagle, his on-board
library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified).
This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative
of the versions available in the early nineteenth century. Volumes
5-7 cover the third Pacific voyage of James Cook (1728-79), which
began in July 1776 and ended in his death in Hawaii. Its objective
was to search for the Pacific end of the North-West Passage. Volume
6 contains Cook's journal of the voyage from July 1777 to January
1779. From Tahiti, he sailed via Hawaii to Nootka Sound, and
reached the Bering Strait in June 1778. The expedition then
explored the Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan coast, reaching 70
degrees north, but by late August fog and snow meant the mission
had to be abandoned for that year. The ships sailed south to
Kamchatka and then back to Hawaii.
During Charles Darwin's 1831-6 voyage on the Beagle, his on-board
library included 'Cook's voyages' (the edition is not specified).
This illustrated 1821 edition, in seven volumes, is representative
of the versions available in the early nineteenth century. Volumes
3 and 4 cover Cook's second voyage (1772-5), a key objective of
which was to look for a continent in the Southern Ocean. The
explorers sailed to 71 degrees south, within the Antarctic Circle,
encountering stormy weather and icebergs, albatrosses and storm
petrels. On this voyage, the ship's naturalists were Johann
Reinhold Forster and his son Georg (1754-94), who is credited here
as co-author. Volume 3 contains accounts of the Antarctic in
December 1772 and December 1773, Tasmania (by Captain Furneaux,
whose ship had become separated from the Resolution for several
weeks), and the inhabitants of Tahiti, Easter Island with its giant
statues, Tonga, and New Zealand.
James Cook's autobiography is a gripping account of his life told
with the assistance of his friend and boxing author, Melanie Lloyd.
Cook was raised by his grandparents in Jamaica until he was nine
years old, when his mother arrived from London to collect him. His
words paint a vibrant picture of childhood in the Caribbean sun and
having to adapt to life on the notorious North Peckham Housing
Estate in the late 60s. He started boxing in his teens and became
British and European super-middleweight champion. Cook eloquently
leads the reader through his life in the ring with plenty of droll
tales along the way; but this is much more than a boxing book.
Cook's commitment to keeping his local community safe through his
youth work contributes to an inspirational and uplifting read. But
anybody expecting to find Saint James on every page is in for a
shock. His stories range from fighting with wheel-clampers in a
Tesco car park to receiving his MBE from the Queen, all told with
equal warmth and a sweet honesty that will keep the pages turning.
Famed for his exploration of the Pacific and Australasia, James
Cook (1728 79) was also an excellent surveyor and a meticulous
keeper of records. The journal entries presented here cover Cook's
first voyage around the world aboard the Endeavour, during which he
mapped New Zealand and claimed the eastern coastline of Australia
for George III, having made landfall at Botany Bay. Cook's journal
is an invaluable first-hand account containing nautical details of
his voyage around the Pacific as well as geographical observations,
descriptions of flora and fauna, and notes on the peoples, cultures
and languages encountered. Critical of the 1773 Hawkesworth edition
(also reissued in this series), the naval officer William James
Lloyd Wharton (1843 1905) published this annotated transcription of
Cook's journal in 1893. A number of illustrations, maps and
facsimiles of some entries are spread throughout the text. The work
also contains a sketch of Cook's life."
When James Cook's daughter was nearly one, he began to suspect that
she wasn't simply a 'late bloomer', as he and his wife were telling
friends and family. Emily was strongly taken by images and patterns
around the house, had a marked response to music, but never pointed
at anything, and hadn't crawled yet. At the age of two-and-a-half,
after months of invasive tests, Emily was finally diagnosed with
severe autism, and everything changed. Forced to embark on a
fraught journey from denial to acceptance, James discovered the
multi-faceted link between music and autism, and how singing and
playing guitar for Emily could provide a unique form of
communication. In Her Room is an extraordinary and heartbreaking
story of a father's attempts to connect with his daughter, and how
music can help bridge the divide.
England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would
have a profound impact on European music for the next several
hundred years. Perhaps the greatest such development was the cyclic
cantus firmus Mass, and scholarly attention has therefore often
been drawn to identifying potentially English examples within the
many anonymous Mass cycles that survive in continental sources.
Nonetheless, to understand English music in this period is to
understand it within a changing nexus of two-way cultural exchange
with the continent, and the genre of the Mass cycle is very much at
the forefront of this. Indeed, the question of 'what is English'
cannot truly be answered without also answering the question of
'what is continental'. This book seeks, initially, to answer both
of these questions. Perhaps more importantly, it argues that a
number of the works that have induced the most scholarly debate are
best seen through the lens of intensive and long-term cultural
exchange and that the great binary divide of provenance can, in
many cases, productively be broken down. A great many of these
works, though often written on the continent, can, it seems, only
be understood in relation to English practice - a practice which
has had, and will continue to have, major importance in the ongoing
history of European Art Music.
The numbers of unmarried cohabiting couples continue to increase,
with the result that the law and practice relating to this area
continues to grow insignificance for family and private client
lawyers. This new edition of Cohabitation: Law Practice and
Precedents has been extensively revised to take account of all
procedural developments, as well as analysis of significant
case-law. Whether preparing a cohabitation contract or pre-nuptial
agreement, drafting wills for cohabiting couples, advising on
rights on the breakdown of a relationship or the death of a
partner, or applying for a personal protection order or a parental
responsibility agreement, practitioners will find authoritative
analysis of the applicable law and expert guidance on procedural
issues. Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents is the only work
on the subject to provide commentary, checklists, procedural guides
and precedents in a single volume making it an invaluable aid to
all practitioners advising unmarried couples.
What the business schools don't teach you to survive and flourish.
Putting management theory into practice faces some major
challenges. Some of the raw realities of modern work environments
require a high level of intuition and judgement over and above
scientific methodology alone. This book sets out the hard learnt
experience of a senior Scotland Yard officer and centres on three
themes: How to develop and look after yourself as an individual
manager; how to make operations happen and work successfully; how
to develop a high performance team around you. This book has many
important messages for new managers, enabling them to survive and
eventually flourish whilst guiding more experienced Directors to
secure the holy grail of truly exceptional performance. It has
equal relevance to those in the public, private and voluntary
sector who have to translate strategy into action.
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