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This book adds a whole new dimension to the editors' previous work
on the social, economic, and environmental effects of global trade.
For the first time it brings all three pillars of sustainability
together into one coherent multiregional input-output (MRIO)
framework. It shows the power of MRIO analysis to illuminate the
local and global interdependencies of economic, environmental, and
social systems and the benefits to be gained through analysing all
three together. Change one thing and everything else changes. With
chapters from around 60 researchers across 34 countries, this book
illustrates the effect of natural resources and government policy
settings 1990-2015 on the balancing act that was-and is-global
trade. It provides a holistic systems' view of how supply chains
work, revealing how easily they can become fragmented and out of
kilter. And within all the chaos of COVID-19 it shows how MRIO is
the one tool that can help rebuild a post-pandemic global economy
into a fairer, safer world.
Describes some of the things that veterinarians do to help animals
stay healthy. Explore how pets are taken care of in a vet clinic.
Describes some of the things that doctors do to help people stay
healthy.
Describes some of the things that letter carriers do to make sure
people in the community get their mail.
Describes some of the things that police officers do to help keep
people safe.
Seventeen studies by noted experts that demonstrate recent
approaches toward the creative interpretation of primary sources
regarding Renaissance and Baroque music, Mozart, Beethoven,
Mendelssohn, Verdi, Debussy, and beyond. How do we know what notes
a composer intended in a given piece? -- how those notes should be
played and sung? -- the nature of musical life in Bach's Leipzig,
Schubert's Vienna? -- how music related to literature and other
arts and social currents in different times and places? -- what
attitudes musicians and music lovers had toward the music that they
heard and made? We know all this from musical manuscripts and
prints, opera libretti, composers'letters, reviews in newspapers
and magazines, archival data, contemporary pedagogical writings,
essays on aesthetics, and much else. Some of these categories of
sources are the bedrock of music history and musicology. Others
havebegun to be examined only in recent years. Furthermore,
musicologists -- including biographers of famous composers -- now
explore these various kinds of sources in a variety of ways, some
of them richly traditional and others exciting and novel. These
seventeen essays, all newly written, use a wide array of source
materials to probe issues pertaining to a cross section of musical
works and musical life from the sixteenth through the twentieth
centuries. The resulting, pluralistic profile of current musicology
will prove welcome to anyone fascinated by the problems of
reconstructing -- reimagining, sometimes -- the evanescent musical
art of the past and pondering its implications for musical life
today and in the future. Roberta Montemorra Marvin is a Research
Fellow at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the
University of Iowa where she is also Director of the Institute for
Italian Opera Studies; Stephen A. Crist is associate professor and
chair of the Music Department at Emory University.
Composers at Work is the first comprehensive and systematic study of compositional process in Renaissance music. Owens draws on documentary, manuscript, and theoretical evidence to construct a striking new explanation of how composers actually worked. Through a study of autograph sketches, drafts, and fair copies of composers such as Henricus Isaac, Cipriano de Rore, Francesco Corteccia, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Owens reveals a process of working in separate parts, line by line, and not in full score, as in our modern editions. This discovery has major implications for the analysis, editorial interpretation, and performance of early music.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
From the legendary poet Oisin to modernist masters like James
Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett, Ireland's literary
tradition has made its mark on the Western canon. Despite its proud
tradition, the student who searches the shelves for works on Irish
women's fiction is liabel to feel much as Virginia Woolf did when
she searched the British Museum for work on women by women. Critic
Nuala O'Faolain, when confronted with this disparity, suggested
that "modern Irish literature is dominated by men so brilliant in
their misanthropy... that] the self-respect of Irish women is
radically and paradoxically checkmated by respect for an Irish
national achievement."
While Ann Owen Weekes does not argue with the first part of
O'Faolain's assertion, she does with the second. In Irish Women
Writers: An Uncharted Tradition, she suggests that it is the
critics rather than the writers who have allowed themselves to be
checkmated. Beginning with Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800)
and ending with Jennifer Johnston's The Railway Station (1980), she
surveys the best of the Ireland's female literature to show its
artistic and historic significance and to demonstrate that it has
its own themes and traditions related to, yet separate from, that
of male Irish writers.
Weekes examines the work of writers like E.OE. Sumerville and
Martin Ross (pen names for cousins Edith Somerville and Violet
Martin), Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Mary Lavin, and Molly
Keane, among others. She teases out the themes that recur in these
writers' works, including the link between domestic and political
violence and re-visioning of traditional stories, such as Julia
O'Faolain's use of the Cuchulain and Diarmuid and Grainne myths to
reveal the negation of women's autonomy. In doing so, she
demonstrates that the literature of Anglo- and Gaelic-Irish women
presents a unified tradition of subjects and techniques, a unity
that might become an optimistic model not only for Irish literature
but also for Irish people.
Reading We Live Forever is like watching the trees grow green in
springtime. It lifts the spirit, and it lifts our awareness of the
world beyond the senses. These case histories, many of which have
made headlines, are discussed with care and compassion by two
well-known and gifted clairvoyants/healers. Despite the seriousness
of their work, covering a vast range of clients from princesses to
police inspectors, gangland figures and four-footed friends, their
story is refreshingly and compellingly told in a memoir full of
unforced self-awareness and gentle humour. It's also a very
practical and, in Anne's words, 'down to earth' book. Perhaps we
have Peter's love of classic cars and their internal mysteries to
thank for that, together with his excellent routine for curing back
problems. In any event - paranormal or otherwise - their
achievements are little short of miraculous. Long may they
continue, and allow us to continue learning from them. Originally
completing his studies as a design engineer, Peter Valentine has a
deep love of flying, owning his own aircraft with Anne. He
developed a keen interest in reincarnation and the study of former
lives at a relatively early age, and now works closely with Anne in
these and associated fields.
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