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Book  heard Melodies are Sweet  But Those Unheard are Sweeter

Download or read book heard Melodies are Sweet But Those Unheard are Sweeter written by Nathan M. Jensen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, a large number of studies have been undertaken to understand the causes and consequences of corruption. Many of these studies have employed firm-level survey data from various countries. While insightful, these analyses based on firm-level surveys have largely ignored two important potential problems: nonresponse and false response by the firms. Treating firms' responses on a sensitive issue like corruption at their face value could produce incorrect inferences and erroneous policy recommendations. We argue that the data generation of nonresponse and false response is a function of the political environment in which the firms operate. In a politically repressive environment, firms use nonresponse and false response as self-protection mechanisms. Corruption is understated as a result. We test our arguments using the World Bank enterprise survey data of more than 44,000 firms in 72 countries for the period 2000-2005 and find that firms in countries with less press freedom are more likely to provide nonresponse or false response on the issue of corruption. Therefore, ignoring this systematic bias in firms' responses could result in underestimation of the severity of corruption in politically repressive countries. More important, this bias is a rich and underutilized source of information on the political constraints faced by the firms. Nonresponse and false response, like unheard melodies, could be more informative than the heard melodies in the available truthful responses in firm surveys.

Book Heard Melodies are Sweet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edmund Pirouet
  • Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Heard Melodies are Sweet written by Edmund Pirouet and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heard Melodies Are Sweet  But Those Unheard  Are Sweeter

Download or read book Heard Melodies Are Sweet But Those Unheard Are Sweeter written by BestySign Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter : journal/notebook 120 pages size 6*9 in, matte, composition blank notebook for college/university ruled journal for you or as a gift for your kids (boy or girl) /close friend/ family member etc. to use it to write notes, memories or anything else. is perfect will make a delightful gift for any occasion; birthdays, holidays, Christmas etc. Its small size makes it easy to take anywhere. Click on the author's name to see other options.

Book Heard Melodies Are Sweet But Those Unheard Are Sweeter

Download or read book Heard Melodies Are Sweet But Those Unheard Are Sweeter written by Christian Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter is a Religion Notebook Journal and Diary 6x9 inches with 120 graph paper Pages great as religion gift

Book The Hatred of Poetry

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  • Author : Ben Lerner
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 0865478201
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Book Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems

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  • Author : John Keats
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-10-31
  • ISBN : 9781979299435
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems written by John Keats and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having trouble finding scholarly sources for your research paper? This Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper. Why spend more time looking for your sources than writing your paper? Work smarter not harder with Squid Ink Classics. The smart way to do homework.

Book The Poems of John Keats

Download or read book The Poems of John Keats written by John Keats and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music Writing Literature  from Sand Via Debussy to Derrida

Download or read book Music Writing Literature from Sand Via Debussy to Derrida written by Peter Dayan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate, as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately difficult, despite the recent burgeoning of word and music studies. Peter Dayan contends that the reasons for this difficulty were worked out with extraordinary rigour and consistency in a French literary tradition, echoed by composers such as Berlioz and Debussy, which stretches from Sand to Derrida. Their writing shows how it is both necessary and futile to look for music in poetry, or for poetry in music.

Book Valentin de Boulogne

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  • Author : Annick Lemoine
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2016-10-07
  • ISBN : 1588396029
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Valentin de Boulogne written by Annick Lemoine and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Caravaggio's death in 1610, the French artist Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the great champions of naturalistic painting. The eminent art historian Roberto Longhi honored him as "the most energetic and passionate of Caravaggio's naturalist followers." In Rome, Valentin—who loved the tavern as much as the painter's pallette—fell in with a rowdy confederation of artists but eventually received commissions from some of the city's most prominent patrons. It was in this artistically rich but violent metropolis that Valentin created such masterworks as a major altarpiece in Saint Peter's Basilica and superb renderings of biblical and secular subjects—until his tragic death at the age of forty-one cut short his ascendant career. With discussions of nearly fifty works, representing practically all of his painted oeuvre, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio explores both the the artist's superlative depictions of daily life and the tumultuous context in which they were produced. Essays by a team of international scholars consider his key attributions to European painting, his devotion to everyday objects and models from life, his technique of staging pictures with the immediacy of unfolding drama, and his place in the pantheon of French artists. An extensive chronology surveys the rare extant documents that chronicle his biography, while individual entries help situate his works in the contexts of his times. Rich with incident and insight, and beautifully illustrated in Valentin's complex, suggestive paintings, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio reveals a seminal artist, a practitioner of realism in the seventeenth century who prefigured the naturalistic modernism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet two centuries later.

Book Sweet Anticipation

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Huron
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2008-01-25
  • ISBN : 0262303302
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book Sweet Anticipation written by David Huron and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as those interested in music. The book describes a set of psychological mechanisms and illustrates how these mechanisms work in the case of music. All examples of notated music can be heard on the Web. Huron proposes that emotions evoked by expectation involve five functionally distinct response systems: reaction responses (which engage defensive reflexes); tension responses (where uncertainty leads to stress); prediction responses (which reward accurate prediction); imagination responses (which facilitate deferred gratification); and appraisal responses (which occur after conscious thought is engaged). For real-world events, these five response systems typically produce a complex mixture of feelings. The book identifies some of the aesthetic possibilities afforded by expectation, and shows how common musical devices (such as syncopation, cadence, meter, tonality, and climax) exploit the psychological opportunities. The theory also provides new insights into the physiological psychology of awe, laughter, and spine-tingling chills. Huron traces the psychology of expectations from the patterns of the physical/cultural world through imperfectly learned heuristics used to predict that world to the phenomenal qualia we experienced as we apprehend the world.

Book The Complete Poems

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  • Author : John Keats
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2003-08-28
  • ISBN : 0141961007
  • Pages : 1015 pages

Download or read book The Complete Poems written by John Keats and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keats’s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized his genius. In his short life he proved to be one of the greatest and most original thinkers of the second generation of Romantic poets, with such poems as ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. While his writing is illuminated by his exaltation of the imagination and abounds with sensuous descriptions of nature’s beauty, it also explores profound philosophical questions. John Barnard’s acclaimed volume contains all the poems known to have been written by Keats, arranged by date of composition. The texts are lightly modernized and are complemented by extensive notes, a comprehensive introduction, an index of classical names, selected extracts from Keats’s letters and a number of pieces not widely available, including his annotations to Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Book Melodies and Madrigals

Download or read book Melodies and Madrigals written by Richard Henry Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Yesterdays

Download or read book My Yesterdays written by Mervin D. Garretson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perceiving  Sensing  and Knowing

Download or read book Perceiving Sensing and Knowing written by Robert J. Swartz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Book Recritiquing William Wordsworth

Download or read book Recritiquing William Wordsworth written by Pradip Kumar Patra and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet.

Book True to Experience

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  • Author : H. A. Williams, CR
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2010-07-15
  • ISBN : 1441188045
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book True to Experience written by H. A. Williams, CR and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True to Experience is a new anthology drawn from Williams' many profound and thought-provoking writings including much previously unavailable material. True to Experience, like Williams himself, is unorthodox by the tenets of contemporary Christianity, but encompasses the uncertainties and fears, the joys and sorrows common to us all. It expounds a God-given universal humanity to which both Christians and non-Christians can respond.

Book The New Yale Book of Quotations

Download or read book The New Yale Book of Quotations written by Fred R. Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book—named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “The most accurate, thorough, and up-to-date quotation book ever compiled.”—Bryan A. Garner, Los Angeles Review of Books Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.