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One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a
trailblazer who created a new kind of music, mixing Black and
white, male and female, funk and rock; penned some of the most
iconic anthems of the 1960s and 70s, from "Everyday People" to
"Family Affair"; and electrified audiences with a persona and stage
presence that set a lasting standard for pop culture performance.
Yet he has also been a cautionary tale, known as much for how he
dropped out of sight as for what put him in the spotlight in the
first place. As much as people know the music, the man remains a
mystery. In Thank You, his much-anticipated memoir, he's finally
ready to share his story - a story that many thought he'd never
have the chance to tell. Written with Ben Greenman, who has written
memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson among others, Thank
You will include a foreword by Questlove. The book was created in
collaboration with Sly Stone's manager Arlene Hirschkowitz. "For as
long as I can remember folks have been asking me to tell my story,"
says Stone. "I wasn't ready. I had to be in a new frame of mind to
become Sylvester Stewart again to tell the true story of Sly Stone.
It's been a wild ride and hopefully my fans enjoy it too."
Riding horses is an age-old pleasure but one that can't be taken
lightly. People who want to take up this wonderfully satisfying
sport, and those who wish to improve their skill, will find this
comprehensive and responsible book to riding styles and skills both
inspiring and informative. Basic Riding Techniques tells you what
you need to know to get started, section two goes into slightly
more advanced skills, such as how to achieve bend and flexion.
Introduction to Jumping explores the principles of rhythm and
balance; The World of the Horse is a fascinating introduction to
the world of competition and international horse shows; and,
Equestrian Events examines the exciting world open to people who
ride for sport and pleasure. (Parts of the book have been
previously published in Debby's Practical Rider's Handbook, now
OOP, with extensive new material and updates for this new volume.)
The most up-to-date book on the relationship between sport and
crime. Provides new perspectives for students of sport studies,
criminology or sociology. Topical, with stories of crime,
corruption, doping and abuse in sport frequently in the news.
Theoretically sophisticated, offering important new critical tools
for understanding the sport-crime nexus.
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical
Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song
cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a
focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of
each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging
from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as
Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known
works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sanchez, this collection
of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in
contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own
analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical
structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic
narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music
history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and
Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the
contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars,
students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.
The most up-to-date book on the relationship between sport and
crime. Provides new perspectives for students of sport studies,
criminology or sociology. Topical, with stories of crime,
corruption, doping and abuse in sport frequently in the news.
Theoretically sophisticated, offering important new critical tools
for understanding the sport-crime nexus.
Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching
designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William
Blake solo song cycles. By questioning when a group of songs ought
to be understood not merely as a collection, but as a cycle, Sly
shows that Britten's personal selection and arrangement is
indispensable to understanding these cycles' extra-musical
communication. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Winter Words (poems
by Hardy) and Songs and Proverbs of William Blake - composed in
1945, 1953 and 1965 respectively - each represent a philosophical
exploration. The terrains set out by the three poets are distinct,
but also engage one another in important and unexpected ways. Their
cyclic architectures are expressed not only in their poetic
arrangement, but in their musical settings. Key relationships and
motive remain central for Britten. Keys convey a network of
interconnections, create groupings of songs, and establish levels
of tonal affinity or distance. Motive - often intervals that can
fit into any melodic, harmonic or rhythmic context - is used to
create aural affinities between or among individual songs. This
book also offers a broader narrative revealing Britten's evolving
philosophical convictions in post-war Britain. While it may not be
the case that Britten intended any broader philosophical comment,
the works together outline the cold and brittle state that emerges
from loss and aligns with their composer's increasingly stark
outlook on humanity.
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical
Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song
cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a
focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of
each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging
from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as
Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known
works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sanchez, this collection
of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in
contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own
analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical
structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic
narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music
history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and
Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the
contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars,
students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.
This book is an invaluable guide to every aspect of horsemanship,
with a fully illustrated directory of breeds of the world,
step-by-step instructions on how to ride, and information about
specialist equipment for both horse and rider. Over 60 breeds of
horse and pony are covered, from the more familiar Thoroughbred and
Shetland pony to the less well known Nonius and Caspian. Riding
instructions cover tacking up for the first time to mastering the
intricacies of dressage. The book also includes a directory of
equipment, including the saddle, bridle and bit, training aids,
horse clothing and protective equipment, and the rider's clothing.
First-century Alexandria vied with Rome to be the greatest city of
the Roman empire. More than half a million people lived in its
cosmopolitan four square miles. It was a major centre for
international trade and shipping. Little remains of Alexandria's
golden age. Few papyrus records of the city survive.
Archaeologists' attempts to reveal its past have been frustrated by
years of subsidence, earthquakes and continuous demolition and
rebuilding. Our main guide to the city is Philo, an Alexandrian
Jew, who, sometimes inadvertantly, incorporated information about
his home city into his copious religious writings. In this
compelling new study, Dorothy I. Sly searches through Philo's
treatises for information about Alexandria. By recognising his
shortcomings and prejudices, and questioning his judgements, she
builds up an authentic picture of life in the first century.
Sonata form is fundamentally a dramatic structure that creates,
manipulates, and ultimately satisfies expectation. It engages its
audience by inviting prediction, association, and interpretation.
That sonata form was the chief vehicle of dramatic instrumental
music for nearly 200 years is due to the power, the universality,
and the tonal and stylistic adaptability of its conception. This
book presents nine studies whose central focus is sonata form.
Their diversity attests both to the manifold analytical approaches
to which the form responds, and to the vast range of musical
possibility within the form's exemplars. At the same time, common
compositional issues, analytical methods, and overarching
perspectives on the essential nature of the form weave their way
through the volume. Several of the essays approach the musical
structure directly as drama, casting the work as an expression of
its composer's engagement with an idea or principle that is dynamic
and at times intensely difficult. Others concentrate their
attention on a composer's use of "motive," which typically takes
the form of a simple melodic span that shapes the musical
architecture through an interdependent series of structural levels.
Integrating these motivic threads within the musical fabric often
warrants departures from formal norms in other areas. Analyses that
seek to understand works with anomalous formal qualities-whether
engendered by a motivic component or not-have a prominent place in
the volume. Among these, accounts of idiosyncratic tonal discourse
that threatens to undermine the unfolding of form-defining
qualities or events are central.
First-century Alexandria vied with Rome to be the greatest city of
the Roman empire. More than half a million people lived in its
cosmopolitan four square miles. It was a major centre for
international trade and shipping.
Little remains of Alexandria's golden age. Few papyrus records of
the city survive. Archaeologists' attempts to reveal its past have
been frustrated by years of subsidence, earthquakes and continuous
demolition and rebuilding. Our main guide to the city is Philo, an
Alexandrian Jew, who, sometimes inadvertantly, incorporated
information about his home city into his copious religious
writings.
In this compelling new study, Dorothy I. Sly searches through
Philo's treatises for information about Alexandria. By recognising
his shortcomings and prejudices, and questioning his judgements,
she builds up an authentic picture of life in the first century.
‘Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the
Asylum’ brings together the histories of people who died in
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, each having committed a crime
that led to them being pronounced criminally insane, necessitating
their confinement and containment for their own protection, as well
as that of the public. Nowadays, staff have a wide range of
therapeutic tools at their disposal but historically the only
treatment offered to patients was work, leisure activities and
abundant fresh air. All human life is here – the addicts, the
mentally deranged, the delusional, the tragic and the chronically
and postnatally depressed – men and women whose acts of madness
led them to be reviled and feared, but who were often as much
victims of their own internal demons as were those they harmed. As
well as wife murderers James Potter and Peter Whittle, the
characters within include Henry Dommett, James Senior and Mary Ann
Parr, who each killed their own children and Christiana Edmunds,
who poisoned several people in Brighton to divert suspicion from
herself, after attempting to murder her love rival. Other vignettes
include serial arsonist John Green, counterfeiter Emma Jackson and
James Stevenson and Roderick Edward McClean, both of whom took
exception to the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the
throne, the latter attempting to assassinate her. Daniel McNaughten
became so paranoid about the ‘Tory’ spies that he believed
followed him constantly that he killed a civil servant in 1843,
mistakenly believing his victim to be prime minister Sir Robert
Peel. Such was McNaughten’s derangement that his crime spawned a
new standard for the legal definition of insanity. Generously
illustrated throughout, this book will prove of interest to those
with a fascination for historical true crime and the way its
perpetrators were dealt with by society.
P. G. Sly Canada Centre Inland Waters, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington,
Ontario L7R 4A6, Canada Keywords: symposium, sediments, freshwater
Following the highly successful First Symposium work of the
symposium: on Research into the Interactions between Sedi- I.
Summary of sediment dynamics and distribu- ments and Freshwater
held in Amsterdam, in 1976, tion in fluvial and lacustrine
environments. it was decided that a second symposium in this 2.
Land use effects on sediment yields,and quality. series should be
held to continue the discussions on 3. Sediments in mass balance
models, including progress in this rapidly expanding field of
aquatic total loadings. science. The Second Symposium was held at
4. Sediments as concentrating mechanisms of nat- Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario, between 15 ural and anthropogenic,
organic and inorganic and 18 June 1981. It was originally intended
to hold materials. the meeting in Toronto a year earlier, but
because 5. Release mechanisms, and transfer to biosystem, of
difficulties in planning and the high cost of ac- from bed and
suspended solids. commodation it was necessary to revise the
original 6. Short- and long-term dating methods, spatial program
and schedule. and temporai consistency, bioturbation and dif- The
symposium received generous support from fusion.
Biomechanics is concerned with the response of living matter to
forces, and its study has taken long strides in recent years. In
the past two decades, biomechanics has brought improved
understanding of normal and patho physiology of organisms at
molecular, cellular, and organ levels; it has helped developing
medical diagnostic and treatment procedures; it has guided the
design and manufacturing of prosthesis and instruments; it has
suggested the means for improving human performance in the
workplace, sports, and space; it has made us understand trauma in
war and in peace. Looking toward the future, we see many more areas
of possible development such as: reduction in heart diseases and
atherosclerosis improved vascular assist and replacement devices,
including a permanent artifical heart enhanced oxygen transport in
the lung understanding and control of growth and changes mechanics
of neuromuscular control and robotics prevention of joint
degeneration permanent total joint replacements prevention of low
back pain workplace designs to enhance productivity ambulation
systems for the handicapped fully implantable hearing aids improved
understanding of the mechanisms for permanent disability injuries
identification of factors such as alcohol use and disease influence
on impact tolerance improved cellular bioreactor designs mechanics
of DNA and its application in biotechnology. * Obviously, the
attainment of these prospects will greatly improve the quality of
human life and reduce the costs of living. * This list is from a
report by the U. S. National Committee on Biomechanics, April,
1985."
The papers appearing in this volume reflect the current attention
in sediment/water science to five main topics of investigation:
Sediment dynamics in estuaries, coastal waters, lakes, reservoirs
and rivers; Sediment-associated biological processes; Contaminant
accumulation, distribution and geochemistry; Fluxes from sediments;
and Element cycling. Contributors address sediment/water
interactions related to both fresh and salt water conditions.
P. G. Sly Canada Centre Inland Waters, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington,
Ontario L7R 4A6, Canada Keywords: symposium, sediments, freshwater
Following the highly successful First Symposium work of the
symposium: on Research into the Interactions between Sedi- I.
Summary of sediment dynamics and distribu- ments and Freshwater
held in Amsterdam, in 1976, tion in fluvial and lacustrine
environments. it was decided that a second symposium in this 2.
Land use effects on sediment yields,and quality. series should be
held to continue the discussions on 3. Sediments in mass balance
models, including progress in this rapidly expanding field of
aquatic total loadings. science. The Second Symposium was held at
4. Sediments as concentrating mechanisms of nat- Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario, between 15 ural and anthropogenic,
organic and inorganic and 18 June 1981. It was originally intended
to hold materials. the meeting in Toronto a year earlier, but
because 5. Release mechanisms, and transfer to biosystem, of
difficulties in planning and the high cost of ac- from bed and
suspended solids. commodation it was necessary to revise the
original 6. Short- and long-term dating methods, spatial program
and schedule. and temporai consistency, bioturbation and dif- The
symposium received generous support from fusion.
Sonata form is fundamentally a dramatic structure that creates,
manipulates, and ultimately satisfies expectation. It engages its
audience by inviting prediction, association, and interpretation.
That sonata form was the chief vehicle of dramatic instrumental
music for nearly 200 years is due to the power, the universality,
and the tonal and stylistic adaptability of its conception. This
book presents nine studies whose central focus is sonata form.
Their diversity attests both to the manifold analytical approaches
to which the form responds, and to the vast range of musical
possibility within the form's exemplars. At the same time, common
compositional issues, analytical methods, and overarching
perspectives on the essential nature of the form weave their way
through the volume. Several of the essays approach the musical
structure directly as drama, casting the work as an expression of
its composer's engagement with an idea or principle that is dynamic
and at times intensely difficult. Others concentrate their
attention on a composer's use of "motive," which typically takes
the form of a simple melodic span that shapes the musical
architecture through an interdependent series of structural levels.
Integrating these motivic threads within the musical fabric often
warrants departures from formal norms in other areas. Analyses that
seek to understand works with anomalous formal qualities-whether
engendered by a motivic component or not-have a prominent place in
the volume. Among these, accounts of idiosyncratic tonal discourse
that threatens to undermine the unfolding of form-defining
qualities or events are central.
A superb examination of the history of the Fens, containing a great
deal of stunning photographs.
One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a
trailblazer who created a new kind of music, mixing Black and
white, male and female, funk and rock; penned some of the most
iconic anthems of the 1960s and 70s, from "Everyday People" to
"Family Affair"; and electrified audiences with a persona and stage
presence that set a lasting standard for pop culture performance.
Yet he has also been a cautionary tale, known as much for how he
dropped out of sight as for what put him in the spotlight in the
first place. As much as people know the music, the man remains a
mystery. In Thank You, his much-anticipated memoir, he's finally
ready to share his story - a story that many thought he'd never
have the chance to tell. Written with Ben Greenman, who has written
memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson among others, Thank
You will include a foreword by Questlove. The book was created in
collaboration with Sly Stone's manager Arlene Hirschkowitz. "For as
long as I can remember folks have been asking me to tell my story,"
says Stone. "I wasn't ready. I had to be in a new frame of mind to
become Sylvester Stewart again to tell the true story of Sly Stone.
It's been a wild ride and hopefully my fans enjoy it too."
Master the essentials of horse riding and improve your technique
with this practical illustrated handbook. It features expert advice
and tips for the absolute beginner, from putting on the bridle and
tightening the girth to adjusting the stirrup leathers and holding
the reins. How to perfect your posture and improve your seat, and
how to mount, walk, trot, canter and gallop, including instructions
for the more experienced rider. It features step-by-step
photographic sequences and illustrations that show clearly what to
do - and also what not to do. It includes a complete guide to the
clothing and safety equipment you will need, such as hard hats,
riding boots, trousers, chaps, body protectors and neck straps. It
offers all riding exercises, techniques and possible pitfalls are
shown in over 250 clear photographs and diagrams. The feeling of
galloping through an open field in perfect harmony with your horse
is hard to beat. To reach this level of unity, a few basic
techniques are needed. This book explains these techniques in
step-by-step detail so that you can enjoy riding your horse to its
full potential. The book places special emphasis on the importance
of good posture for achieving expert riding skills. It includes all
the basics of good horse riding, from what to wear through to
advanced techniques. Possible pitfalls are also shown, with
solutions for handling them. A combination of theory and practice,
this essential handbook will help you develop your confidence and
horse riding skills.
This chilling follow-up to Bristol Murders brings together more
true-life historical murders that shocked not only the city but
frequently made headline news throughout the nation. They include
the brutal murders of policemen Patrick White in 1846 and
Christopher Wickham in 1862, a frightful case of murder and suicide
at Bitton in 1842, and the deliberate starvation of a child at
Knowle in 1874. There are murders for money, such as the murder of
Mary Lewis in Stapleton in 1836, and a brief, but tantalising,
mystery from 1915 when two separate murders in different parts of
the city showed remarkable similarities. Nicola Sly's
well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to everyone
interested in true crime and the shadier side of Bristol's past.
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