Secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries encompasses an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices: courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, the unwritten traditions of solo singing, and much else. This collection of essays addresses many of these practices, with a focus on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts, examining their historical and stylistic contexts, their transmission in written and printed sources, questions of performance, and composers' approaches to text setting. Essays have been selected to reflect the wide range of topics that have occupied scholars in recent decades, and taken together, they point to the more general significance of secular music within a broad complex of cultural practices and institutions.

Five-part BBC drama starring Lacey Turner as a young woman who joins the British Army. Following a troubled childhood, Molly Dawes (Turner) left school without any qualifications and now works part-time in a nail salon. Struggling to find direction in her life she is drawn towards an army recruitment office. After signing up she endures rigorous training to become a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, leading Molly on a journey that will ultimately transform her life.

Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James McKinnon's The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass, the last book before his untimely death in February 1999. A distinguished group of chant scholars examine the formation of the liturgy, issues of theory and notation, and Carolingian and post-Carolingian chant. Special studies include the origins of musical notations, nuances of early chant performance (with accompanying downloadable resources), musical style and liturgical structure in the early Divine Office, and new sources for Old-Roman chant. Western Plainchant in the First Millenium offers new information and new insights about a period of crucial importance in the growth of the liturgy and music of the Western Church.

All five two-part episodes from series 17 of the BBC crime thriller. Forensic experts Dr Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox), Jack Hodgson (David Caves) and Leo's replacement Dr Thomas Chamberlain (Richard Lintern) investigate various cases including the gruesome murder of a lap dancer found in a remote Scottish forest and a serial killer kidnapping children. The episodes are: 'Commodity', 'Coup de Grace', 'In a Lonely Place', 'Undertone' and 'Fraternity'.

Molded from the bowels of the high desert, Mesquite, Nevada boasts four casinos where visitors can dodge the heat, drop a dollar and ruin their morals. Ben Tolken should have blasted through this town exceeding the speed limit. His vehicle is rendered useless and strands him at the Thousand Pines Hotel and Casino. With no options, Ben tries to spend his time bowling and drinking. Stacy Mooney wanders into his life and convinces him she is a better bang for his buck. Their fling is short-lived when they stumble upon a drug deal perpetrated by wannabe thug Beau Hitchens and his gang of dimwitted lackeys. Ben and Stacy opt for flight instead of fight and the two head for safety on the packed casino floor with Beau in close pursuit. The stakes are raised as Stacy's autistic brother is thrown into the mix and the local drug lord transforms a simple night of booze, babes and bling into a modern Western of bang, bang, you're dead.

This literary work is the culmination of both personal experiences and undergraduate research that illustrate my identity as an African Latina. It is a combination of memoirs, poems and research material that explain the effects of race on identity from an academic standpoint while sharing my own life as a living example.

This report seeks to provide managers, supervisors and safety and health professionals with a greater understanding of Low Back Pain (LBP) and low back disability (work time lost due to LBP). The report attempts to improve one's understanding of the many factors that influence LBP, provides the latest research information related to its causes, and describes methods that have proven to be effective in preventing LBP and disability.