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If the post of Poet Laureate was allocated on the basis of
popularity, Carol Ann Duffy would have been the first woman to hold
this prestigious post. Like Philip Larkin in his day, Duffy is both
a poet respected by many academics and teachers, and widely read
and enjoyed by children and adult readers of poetry. This is the
first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann
Duffy, approaching and exploring her work from a variety of
literary theoretical perspectives, including feminism, masculinity,
national identity, and post-structuralism. This lively anthology
situates Duffy's poems in relation to current debates about the
state, value and social relevance of contemporary British
poetry.
The Business of Plant Breeding is the result of a study on
demand-led plant variety design for markets in Africa, sharing best
practices from private and public sector breeding programmes
worldwide that are applicable to improving tropical crops in
Africa. Beginning with an overview of the principles of demand-led
plant breeding, the book then discusses aspects such as
understanding the demands of clients and markets in rural and urban
areas, foresight in setting product profiles and breeding targets,
and determining breeding strategy and stage plans. It also covers
measuring success and making the business case for future
investments in breeding programmes that will deliver new varieties
to meet market demands. The book: - Brings together the experience
of plant breeders around the world, representing universities,
national plant breeding programmes, regional and international
agricultural research institutes, and private seed companies,
showcasing how to respond to changing market demands; - Provides
educational resource materials within each chapter; - Includes
templates for use as planning tools by plant breeding programs for
determining priority traits that meet market demands. An important
read for professionals and students of plant breeding and genetics,
this book is also a useful resource for anyone interested in
developing and disseminating new, market-led technologies to
increase productivity and profitability in tropical agriculture.
The study was sponsored by the Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research, the Crawford Fund and the Syngenta
Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, and managed by the
University of Queensland.
This is the first book to offer a complete introduction to the recorder. Eight contributors from four different countries write on topics such as the recorder and its music through the centuries, the recorder as orchestral instrument, the professional recorder player through history and today, and the phenomenon of the recorder revival. The Companion also contains basic reference material previously unavailable in one volume. A special feature is the rich collection of illustrations that provide a history of the instrument. The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder will be of interest to performers and students as well as to music enthusiasts.
This is a comprehensive introduction to the art of playing recorder
sonatas, written by a teacher and player of wide experience. It is
designed not only for students and teachers, but also for those
self-taught recorder players who have reached the point where they
feel ready to embark upon solo sonata playing. It aims to encourage
players whose experience has been limited to consort music to
extend their playing to sonatas by Handel, Telemann, and others, so
increasing their enjoyment and skill in recorder playing in all its
varied forms. Through this book they will encounter sonatas from
the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries, which often
make challenging demands upon the recorder's expressive
capabilities. Each of the sonatas considered is described in
relation to its musical background (illustrated by parallels with
other arts) and to the performance practices of each period.
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