Download or read book Annihilation Aria written by Michael R. Underwood and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guardians of the Galaxy meets Ann Leckie's Provenance in this action-packed space opera with a husband-and-wife pair of artifact hunters (she's the last scion of a warrior race, he's an academic from Baltimore), their snarky cyborg pilot, and a desperate rebellion against an empire of tentacle-armed tyrants.
Download or read book Proceed to Remembrance written by Michelle Facer Baguley and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While ruling for ages, Aria Governess Supreme has kept a tight rein on her subjects, eliminating free will through brain-computer interface and hippocampus manipulation. Aria commands life or the disposal of it without fear of retribution or affliction of conscience. When a nuclear holocaust destroys the world she created, her disaffected scout, Cliff, gazes over the barren land seemingly devoid of life and wonders what is next in his journey to survive. Even with the employment of Aria’s scientific prowess, one subject remains untamed. Emery, both a hindrance and a marvel to the Governess Supreme, has tested the bounds of Aria’s resolve at every point in her life. Despite the brain-computer interface and governing control, Emery has managed to lean on the teachings of her Grand Nanny for guidance, fight the restraints placed upon her, and ultimately find her way through life. Now as she wanders the desert afraid and alone, Emery vacillates between her memories and her harsh new reality. But when her path ultimately crosses with Cliff’s, everything is about to change. In this post-apocalyptic tale set in the remnants of a destroyed United States, an untamed subject and a defiant scout attempt to survive in a world run by governors desperate to exert absolute power.
Download or read book Engines of Oblivion written by Karen Osborne and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Osborne continues her science fiction action and adventure series the Memory War with Engines of Oblivion, the sequel to Architects of Memory—the corporations running the galaxy are about to learn not everyone can be bought. Natalie Chan gained her corporate citizenship, but barely survived the battle for Tribulation. Now corporate has big plans for Natalie. Horrible plans. Locked away in Natalie's missing memory is salvation for the last of an alien civilization and the humans they tried to exterminate. The corporation wants total control of both—or their deletion. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias written by Martial Singher and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A premier singer and master teacher here tells other singers how to get the most from 151 famous arias selected for their popularity or their greatness from 66 operas, ranging in time and style from Christopher Gluck to Carlisle Floyd, from Mozart to Menotti. "The most memorable thrills in an opera singer's life," according to the author's Introduction, "may easily derive from the great arias in his or her repertoire." This book continues the work Martial Singher has done, in performances, in concerts, and in master classes and lessons, by drawing attention "not only to precise features of text, notes, and markings but also to psychological motivations and emotional impulses, to laughter and tears, to technical skills, to strokes of genius, and even here and there to variations from the original works that have proved to be fortunate." For each aria, the author gives the dramatic and musical context, advice about interpretation, and the lyric--with the original language (if it is not English) and an idiomatic American English translation, in parallel columns. The major operatic traditions--French, German, Italian, Russian, and American--are represented, as are the major voice types--soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone, and bass. The dramatic context is not a mere summary of the plot but is a penetrating and often witty personality sketch of an operatic character in the midst of a situation. The musical context is presented with the dramatic situation in a cleverly integrated way. Suggestions about interpretation, often illustrated with musical notation and phonetic symbols, are interspersed among the author's explication of the music and the action. An overview of Martial Singher's approach--based on fifty years of experience on stage in a hundred roles and in class at four leading conservatories--is presented in his Introduction. As the reader approaches each opera discussed in this book, he or she experiences the feeling of participation in a rehearsal on stage under an urbane though demanding coach and director. The Interpretive Guide will be of value to professional singers as a source of reference or renewed inspiration and a memory refresher, to coaches for checking and broadening personal impressions, to young singers and students for learning, to teachers who have enjoyed less than a half century of experience, and to opera broadcast listeners and telecast viewers who want to understand what goes into the sounds and sights that delight them.
Download or read book Symphony Program written by St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mimomania written by Mary Ann Smart and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contribution to the study of 19th century opera, this text focuses on the relationship between music and gesture to provide a new perspective that yields an array of insights.
Download or read book Annihilation Aria written by Michael R. Underwood and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max is cheery xeno-archeologist from Earth, stranded and trying to find a way home.Lahra is a stern warrior of a nearly extinct race searching for her people's heir.Wheel is the couple's cybernetic pilot running from her past and toward an unknown future.On Wheel's ship, the Kettle, the trio traverses the galaxy, dodging Imperial patrols and searching ancient temples and ruins for anything they can sell. Back on the Wreck, their home and base of operations, the crew of the Kettle are deeply in debt to the drifting's city's most powerful gangster, and she wants her money back. So when a dangerous, but a promising job comes their way, Max, Lahra, and Wheel have little choice but to take it if they have any hope of keeping their ship, and themselves, afloat. But the crew of the Kettle gets more than they bargained for when they find themselves in possession of a powerful artifact, one that puts them in the crosshairs of the Vsenk, the galaxy's ruthless and oppressive imperial overlords. Before they know it, Max, Lahra, and Wheel are pulled into a web of galactic subterfuge, ancient alien weaponry, a secret resistance force, lost civilizations, and giant space turtles. The Vsenk will stop at nothing to recover what the crew of the Kettle has found and Max's brains, Lahra's muscle, and Wheel's skills may be all that stands between entire planets and annihilation. Can they evade space fascists, kick-start a rebellion, and save the galaxy all while they each try to find their own way home?"ANNIHILATION ARIA is the found family space opera you've been waiting for." - Adam Rakunas, Philip K. Dick Award-finalist author of WINDSWEPT and LIKE A BOSS"... Underwood takes us for an intense ride through a cacophony of alien civilizations in conflict. This is an exuberant space opera that dares us to lose ourselves in battle songs and nonstop action. I can't sing its praises enough!" - TJ Berry, author of SPACE UNICORN BLUES and FIVE UNICORN FLUSH."Fast, fun, inventive! ANNIHILATION ARIA is a wild, delightful ride for fans of explosive space fantasy like Thor: Ragnarok." - Valerie Valdes, author of CHILLING EFFECT"... If the characters of The Mummy had been transported onto the Millennium Falcon, ARIA would be the result--a rollicking space opera, both literary and musical, with a diverse cast and strong relationships. ..." - Gregory A. Wilson, author of THE THIRD SIGN, ICARUS, and GRAYSHADE
Download or read book The Girl And The Silver Mark written by Dana Gricken and published by Dana Gricken. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her final battle, The Girl Who Walked Through Fire faces her fiercest foe yet - Lord Kyros, the demon who corrupted the ancient city of Mythania. With his resurrection, illness, destruction, and bloodshed will follow. She must forgo her powers of magic and fire, and instead embrace the legacy of her silver mark if she wants to save the world one last time and reclaim Mythania.
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WATARU The Hot Blooded Fighting Teen His Epic Adventures After Stopping a Truck with His Bare Hands Volume 2 written by Simotti and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your favorite truck-stopping, world-hopping, Demon Lord-defeating, hot-blooded fighting teen isnât going to let a flying lizard get in the way of his quest to fight his way to the top of this fantasy world! By request of the king himself, Wataru is on an epic journey to vanquish a mighty dragon... but he has to collect all six magical orbs before he can do that, of course! Collecting these orbs would be a piece of cake for our amazing hero, if not for constant interruptions for hot dogs, a murder mystery, the greedy TCG industry, and more!
Download or read book The Anthropology of Islamic Law written by Aria Nakissa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropology of Islamic Law shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal, and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education. The book combines anthropology and Islamicist history, using ethnography and in-depth analysis of Arabic religious texts. The book focuses on higher religious learning in contemporary Egypt, examining its intellectual, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions. Data is drawn from fieldwork inside al-Azhar University, Cairo University's Dar al-Ulum, and the network of traditional study circles associated with the al-Azhar mosque. Together these sites constitute the most important venue for the transmission of religious learning in the contemporary Muslim world. The book gives special attention to contemporary Egypt, and also provides a broader analysis relevant to Islamic legal doctrine and religious education throughout history.
Download or read book The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach written by Andre Pirro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetic of Johann Sebastian Bach (L’Esthéthique de Jean-Sébastien Bach), by the celebrated French musicologist André Pirro (1869‒1943), was originally published in 1907 and reissued in 1973. It is offered here for the first time in English, as translated by Joe Armstrong. Pirro’s work is based primarily on an examination of the close relationships between language and music in Bach’s vocal works and provides us with an extensive and well-researched “lexicon” of the expressive resources of Bach and his contemporaries. Pirro’s study thus serves as a still sound basis for understanding and interpreting Bach’s instrumental works. Pirro’s engaging analysis that has informed and even moved discerning readers for more than a century. This translation introduces his work to a new audience of performers, music teachers and their students, composers, musicologists, and all who wish to have a greater understanding of the expressive import of Bach’s music.
Download or read book Frost and Flame written by Uriah Stewart and published by Publifye AS. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Frost and Flame," seventeen-year-old Aria's world is turned upside down when she discovers she possesses both ice and fire abilities—a forbidden combination in a society where elemental magic determines one's place. Forced to flee her northern village, Aria embarks on a treacherous journey across a realm fractured by elemental factions. Along the way, she forms unlikely alliances with Zephyr, a wind-wielder outcast, and Terran, a stoic earth-bender, as they uncover a sinister plot threatening to upend the delicate balance of their world. This captivating coming-of-age tale weaves together themes of identity, acceptance, and unity against a backdrop of social inequality and environmental allegory. As Aria grapples with her conflicting powers and concealed nature, she must confront deep-rooted prejudices and challenge the very foundations of her society. Drawing inspiration from various cultural mythologies, the story's lyrical prose and intricate world-building create a fresh, socially relevant context for elemental magic, appealing to fans of innovative fantasy and thought-provoking young adult literature.
Download or read book A History of the Oratorio written by Howard E. Smither and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither's monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio. His comprehensive study surpasses in scope and treatment all previous works on the subject. A fourth and final volume, on the oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is forthcoming. In this volume Smither discusses the Italian oratorio from the 1720s to the early nineteenth century and oratorios from other parts of Europe from the 1750s to the nineteenth century. Drawing on works that represent various types, languages, and geographical areas, Smither treats the general characteristics of oratorio libretto and music and analyzes twenty-two oratorios from Italy, England, Germany, France, and Russia. He synthesizes the results of specialized studies and contributes new material based on firsthand study of eighteenth-century music manuscripts and printed librettos. Emphasizing the large number of social contexts within which oratorios were heard, Smither discussed examples in Italy such as the Congregation of the Oratory, lay contrafraternities, and educational institutions. He examines oratorio performances in German courts, London theaters and English provincial festivals, and the Parisian Concert spirituel. Though the volume concentrates primarily on eighteenth-century oratorio from the early to the late Classical styles, Smither includes such transitional works as the oratorios of Jean-Francios le Seur in Paris and Stepan Anikievich Degtiarev in Moscow. A History of the Oratorio is the first full-length history of the genre since Arnold Schering's 1911 study. In addition to synthesizing current thought about the oratorio, this volume contributes new information on relationships between oratorio librettos and contemporary literary and religious thought, and on the musical differences among oratorios from different geographical-cultural regions. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book Biome Whispers written by Willa Zane and published by Publifye AS. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Biome Whispers," readers are plunged into a fascinating world where the invisible becomes audible. Aria, a young microbiologist with an extraordinary gift, can hear the whispers of microorganisms, opening up a realm of microscopic marvels. When a mysterious illness threatens to upset the delicate balance of the human microbiome, Aria's unique ability thrusts her into a thrilling adventure through the body's hidden ecosystem. As Aria navigates through bustling bacterial cities and fungal forests, she uncovers a sinister plot that could forever alter humanity's relationship with its microbial partners. Joined by an unlikely duo – a rogue probiotic engineer and a sentient gut bacterium – she races against time to prevent a microscopic war with potentially catastrophic consequences. This urban fantasy blends cutting-edge science with imaginative storytelling, offering young adults a unique perspective on the intricate world within us and challenging our understanding of what it truly means to be human in a microbial world.
Download or read book Punishment and the Moral Emotions written by Jeffrie G. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore, from philosophical and religious perspectives, a variety of moral emotions and their relationship to punishment and condemnation or to decisions to lessen punishment or condemnation.
