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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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The Land of Thor
J. Ross Browne, John Ross Browne
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R1,051
Discovery Miles 10 510
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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It is March of 1997, and Roland Axam lost, out of his element,
and in a new world. As his plane begins its final approach to
Kimp'o International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, Roland realizes
his life is about to change forever-again.
Roland has already survived a devastating, life-altering tragedy
back home in Ottawa, Canada; he knows that what he needs most now
is a clean slate. As he arrives in Ch nju, South Korea, where he
plans to teach English and leave his past behind, Roland abandons
all that is familiar for the unknown. He immerses himself in a
vastly different culture, where communication is difficult and his
need to belong brings challenges. But despite the distractions of a
bustling city thousands of miles from everything he knows, Roland
is still haunted by anger, guilt, and demons that he attempts to
drown in alcohol.
In this compelling tale, one man travels across an ocean to
begin an unforgettable journey of self-discovery that eventually
leads him to realize love, forgiveness, healing, and another new
beginning.
Brown" "explores relationships between sound and theatre, focusing
on sound's interdependence and interaction with human performance
and drama. Suggesting different ways in which sound may be
interpreted to create meaning, it includes key writings on sound
design, as well as perspectives from beyond the discipline.
Sound Effect tells the story of the effect of theatrical aurality
on modern culture. Beginning with the emergence of the modern
scenic sound effect in the late 18th century, and ending with
headphone theatre which brings theatre's auditorium into an
intimate relationship with the audience's internal sonic space, the
book relates contemporary questions of theatre sound design to a
250-year Western cultural history of hearing. It argues that while
theatron was an instrument for seeing and theorizing, first a
collective hearing, or audience is convened. Theatre begins with
people entering an acoustemological apparatus that produces a way
of hearing and of knowing. Once, this was a giant marble ear on a
hillside, turned up to a cosmos whose inaudible music accounted for
all. In modern times, theatre's auditorium, or instrument for
hearing, has turned inwards on the people and their collective
conversance in the sonic memes, tropes, cliches and picturesques
that constitute a popular, fictional ontology. This is a study
about drama, entertainment, modernity and the theatre of
audibility. It addresses the cultural frames of resonance that
inform our understanding of SOUND as the rubric of the world we
experience through our ears. Ross Brown reveals how mythologies,
pop-culture, art, commerce and audio, have shaped the audible world
as a form of theatre. Garrick, De Loutherbourg, Brecht, Dracula,
Jekyll, Hyde, Spike Milligan, John Lennon, James Bond, Scooby-Do
and Edison make cameo appearances as Brown weaves together a
history of modern hearing, with an argument that sound is a story,
audibility has a dramaturgy, hearing is scenographic, and the
auditoria of drama serve modern life as the organon, or definitive
frame of reference, on the sonic world.
The book presents the never before published story of the 1873-74
whaling voyage of the F.H. Moore through the eyes of crew member
Sam Williams. The book also includes some lost notes of another
whaling voyage Williams took to the Azores. There are also excerpts
of three first person accounts of whaling published in the 1800's.
Together the four parts open the world of whaling to readers in a
realistic and unromantic way which illuminate the current worldwide
debate on whaling.
First published in 1999, this volume recognised how widespread
attention has been given to charting how the global rise in
investment flows has caused numerous changes in the operation of
economies - such as the globalisation of production and increasing
international economic interdependency. Less research has been made
on the role of government policy in promoting FDI. This book, based
on a report for the OECD Development Centre, examines the rising
competition between European governments to attract mobile
investment projects and its impact on the use of different policy
areas to influence FDI decisions.
First published in 1999, this volume recognised how widespread
attention has been given to charting how the global rise in
investment flows has caused numerous changes in the operation of
economies - such as the globalisation of production and increasing
international economic interdependency. Less research has been made
on the role of government policy in promoting FDI. This book, based
on a report for the OECD Development Centre, examines the rising
competition between European governments to attract mobile
investment projects and its impact on the use of different policy
areas to influence FDI decisions.
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