Download or read book Metronome written by Tom Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Unputdownable ... An extraordinary book ... as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell's 1984' Litro'With echoes of Emily St John Mandel and Megan Hunter' Elizabeth Macneal'Stylish and thoughtful ... The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.' Literary Review___________________________________________________Not all that is hidden is lost...For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they take for survival every eight hours. They've kept busy - Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps - but something is not right.Shipwrecks have begun washing up, supply drops have stopped and on the day their punishment is meant to end, the Warden does not come. Instead a sheep appears; but sheep can't swim. Aina becomes convinced that they've been abandoned, and that Whitney has been keeping secrets. As she starts testing the limits of their prison, investigating ways she might escape, she is confronted by decisions that haunt her past. Little does she realise that her biggest choice is yet to come...'Taut, unsettling and so completely charged with both tension and emotion' Naomi Ishiguro'As moving as it is chilling' Emma StonexReader Reviews 'An original and gripping read''Addictive and atmospheric''A haunting and original dystopian story''Compelling and absorbing''A refreshing change from the norm'
Download or read book Madison s Metronome written by Greg Weiner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of national crises and sharp shifts in the electorate, new members of Congress march off to Washington full of intense idealism and the desire for instant change—but often lacking in any sense of proportion or patience. This drive for instant political gratification concerned one of the key Founders, James Madison, who accepted the inevitability of majority rule but worried that an inflamed majority might not rule reasonably. Greg Weiner challenges longstanding suppositions that Madison harbored misgivings about majority rule, arguing instead that he viewed constitutional institutions as delaying mechanisms to postpone decisions until after public passions had cooled and reason took hold. In effect, Madison believed that one of the Constitution's primary functions is to act as a metronome, regulating the tempo of American politics. Weiner calls this implicit doctrine "temporal republicanism" to emphasize both its compatibility with and its contrast to other interpretations of the Founders' thought. Like civic republicanism, the "temporal" variety embodies a set of values—public-spiritedness, respect for the rights of others—broader than the technical device of majority rule. Exploring this fundamental idea of time-seasoned majority rule across the entire range of Madison's long career, Weiner shows that it did not substantially change over the course of his life. He presents Madison's understanding of internal constitutional checks and his famous "extended republic" argument as different and complementary mechanisms for improving majority rule by slowing it down, not blocking it. And he reveals that the changes we see in Madison's views of majority rule arise largely from his evolving beliefs about who, exactly, was behaving impulsively-whether abusive majorities in the 1780s, the Adams regime in the 1790s, the nullifiers in the 1820s. Yet there is no evidence that Madison's underlying beliefs about either majority rule or the distorting and transient nature of passions ever swayed. If patience was a fact of life in Madison's day—a time when communication and travel were slow-it surely is much harder to cultivate in the age of the Internet, 24-hour news, and politics based on instant gratification. While many of today's politicians seem to wed supreme impatience with an avowed devotion to original constitutional principles, Madison's Metronome suggests that one of our nation's great luminaries would likely view that marriage with caution.
Download or read book Metronome written by Lorànt Deutsch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phenomenal bestseller in France, Metronome presents a fascinating history of Paris through the lens of the city's iconic Metro system Did you know that the last Gallic warriors massacred by the Romans lie beneath the Eiffel Tower? That the remains of Paris's first cathedral are under a parking lot in the Fifth District? Metronome follows Loránt Deutsch, historian and lifelong Francophile, as he goes on a compelling journey through the ages, treating readers to Paris as they've never seen it before. Using twenty-one stops of the subway system as focal points—one per century—Deutsch shows, from the underground up, the unique, often violent, and always striking events that shaped one of the world's most romanticized city. Readers will find out which streets are hiding incredible historical treasures in plain sight; peer into forgotten nooks and crannies of the City of Lights and learn what used to be there; and discover that, however deeply buried, something always remains.
Download or read book The Metronome Effect written by Shannon Byrne Susko and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metronome Effect will guide you on your journey to predictable profit. It will ensure the habituation that excellence is derived from is engrained in your organization. Every leader is empowered to set their metric beat to make sure the company is doing everything it needs to do to grow their profit. This book draws on the wisdom of some of the best business minds of our time, as well as the author’s own experiences as a serial entrepreneur, to create a methodology that shows you a practical step-by-step process; how to rhythmically integrate all the crucial parts of your business. Every leader has a metronome—find yours and discover the path to predictable profit. Shannon Byrne Susko has more than twenty years of experience building and leading high-growth technology companies in the financial services industry. She co-founded, served as Chief Executive Officer, and led the sale of two companies in less than six years: Subserveo, Inc. and Paradata Systems Inc. She was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 in 2000, and was awarded the Sarah Kirke Award for Canada’s Leading Women Entrepreneurs in 2006. She currently serves as a corporate director, as well as a leadership coach, helping CEOs and top executives in a variety of industries keep their companies on the path to growth and predictable profit. www.metronome-effect.com “The perfect ‘execution’ book to complement Scaling Up.” Verne Harnish Founder, Gazelles & EO; Author, Scaling Up (Fall 2014), Greatest Business Decisions of All Time, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits “Shannon is a first rate Entrepreneur, Chief Executive, and Business Coach. Through observation of her in each role, directly and through the experience of others working closely with Shannon, the credibility she brings to The Journey to Predictable Profit in a huge asset to fellow Entrepreneurs and Business leaders. Enjoy this book and apply the lessons within.” Keith Cupp President, Gazelles International Coaching Association “An excellent, simple, and proven system to reach strategic clarity and grow your business.” Kaihan Krippendorff Author, Outthink the Competition; CEO, Outthinker
Download or read book The Metronome Man Not My First Rodeo written by Chris Bliersbach and published by Chris Bliersbach. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly escaped the Metronome Man's clutches. But he outfoxed the FBI. She thought she was safe, but he wasn't done with her. Not by a long shot. Molly did the impossible–she survived the abduction of the Metronome Man. Then relocated with her wife to a safe place. A place where she could recover from the trauma and reclaim her life. But the Metronome Man was resourceful. Despite the FBI and the walls of justice closing in on him, he managed to escape. Once again, taking on a new identity and finding a safe haven from which to plot his next steps. A sanctuary where the clip-clop of horse hooves calmed the savage beast within him. But he needed Molly. And he mistook her resistance and efforts to elude him as a game. A game he intended to win. Would Molly be able to continue to evade him? Could the FBI redeem themselves and finally capture this murderous monster? Or would he get the girl and ride off into the sunset, allowing his reign of terror to continue? The Metronome Man: Not My First Rodeo is the third book in the Metronome Man serial killer thriller series. Buy your copy now before the rodeo comes to your door!
Download or read book Music written by William Smythe Babcock Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Metronome written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modernism s Metronome written by Ben Glaser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification. In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and critics. In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the "breaking" of meter and rise of free verse.
Download or read book Stick Control written by George Lawrence Stone and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.
Download or read book Metronome written by Oliver Langmead and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You and I, we wear our wounds. I wear my scars, you wear your tattoos, and we don't forget who we are.'It is for the entities known as Sleepwalkers to cross the doors between dreams, and hunt the nightmares that haunt sleeping minds. Theirs is a world of impossible vistas, where reason is banished and only the imagination holds sway: the connected worlds that all sleeping minds inhabit, and the doors that lead between.But tonight, one Sleepwalker has gone rogue. Abandoning her sworn oath to protect the dreamscapes, she has devoted herself to another cause, threatening to unleash a nightmare older than man. The only chance of stopping her lies with a man named Manderlay. Once a feted musician, William Manderlay is living his twilight years in an Edinburgh care home, riddled with arthritis and filled with a longing for his youth, for the open seas, and for the lost use of his hands and the violin he has always treasured.For too long now, Manderlay's nights have been coloured by dark, corrupted dreams: dreams of leprous men in landscapes plucked from his memory, of dark figures seeking him on city streets. His comrades in the retirement home believe Manderlay is giving in to age and senility - but the truth is much worse. For in dreams, maps are made from music - and it just might be that one of William Manderlay's forgotten compositions holds the key to unleashing the nightmare that holds the world of dreams in balance. The Sleepwalkers are zoning in on him. He might be their saviour, or his music might be their damnation...From the acclaimed author of Dark Star comes a literary fantasy like no other.
Download or read book Adamastor City written by Jaco Adriaanse and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Metronome: Adamastor City is a rhyming verse dystopian sci-fi story written by Jaco Adriaanse, with illustrations by Luami Calitz. The text is rich with references to South African folklore, particularly from the Western Cape, as well as a truly dystopian and futuristic universe. Adamastor City is the first instalment in the Metronome series."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Play at first sight written by Lalo Davila and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play at First Sight is a unique and comprehensive approach to help improve sight-reading skills. It will strengthen your ability to recognize rhythms quickly and perform them as confidently as possible. The more you practice the exercises and variation possibilities on each page, the more at ease you will become at sight-reading rhythms. The enclosed play-along CD incorporates a variety of musical styles and can be used with many of the exercises throughout the book. Play at First Sight will be an invaluable tool in helping you to become a better sight-reader!
Download or read book ChiWalking written by Danny Dreyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of the bestselling ChiRunning comes a revolutionary program that blends the health benefits of walking with the core principles of T’ai Chi to deliver maximum physical, mental, and spiritual fitness. The low-impact health benefits of walking have made it one of the most popular forms of daily exercise. Yet few people experience all the benefits that walking can offer. In ChiWalking, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, teach the walking technique they created that transforms walking from a mundane means of locomotion into an intensely rewarding practice that enhances mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Similar to Pilates, yoga, and T’ai Chi, ChiWalking emphasizes body alignment and mindfulness while strengthening the core muscles of the body. The five mindful steps of the ChiWalking program will get anyone, regardless of age or athletic ability, into great shape from head to toe, inside and out. 1. Get aligned. Develop great posture and better balance. 2. Engage your core. Make back and knee pain disappear. 3. Create balance. Walk faster, farther, and with less effort. 4. Make a choice. Choose from a menu of twelve great walks such as the Cardio Walk, the Energizing Walk, or the Walking Meditation, to keep your exercise program fresh. 5. Move forward. Make walking any distance a mindful, enjoyable experience, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned walker.
Download or read book The Child in America written by William Isaac Thomas and published by New York, Knopf. This book was released on 1928 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in child adjustment problems and facilities for the study of behavior deviates have grown so rapidly in recent years that a comprehensive treatment of the subject is gladly welcomed. All who deal in any capacity with the problem child will find here a wealth of detailed information about procedures and methods, and a critical evaluation of present practice. The authors deal with their subject from all possible viewpoints. The setting is prepared for the reader by the presentation in the first chapter of pictures of various types of maladjustment, largely in the form of case material. The authors indicate two primary causative factors in maladjustment-organic defect or abnormality in the individual, and wrong habit formation. The remainder of the book is devoted to methods of study and treatment of behavior deviates as indicated by present practice. Methods of dealing with delinquency through the court and the reform school are critically examined. An extensive account is given of psychiatric child guidance clinics and community organizations, club and recreational facilities, for dealing with child behavior problems.
Download or read book Brain written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at researchers and clinicians, this journal of neurology balances studies in neurological science with practical clinical articles.
Download or read book The Banjo Encyclopedia written by Ross Nickerson and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Banjo Encyclopedia is a comprehensive, in-depth banjo instructional tool that covers the many intricacies of bluegrass banjo playing, including numerous topics that may have been overlooked in banjo instruction to date. The Banjo Encyclopedia can take a student from the beginning, to intermediate, and right through to more advanced styles of banjo playing. Ross Nickerson uses his many years of experience helping hundreds of aspiring banjo pickers by offering the banjo student an opportunity to learn in a practical, straightforward manner. This wide-ranging banjo instructional book will focus on many techniques that will help every aspect of a banjo player's musicianship while simplifying many subjects in the learning process. The downloadable audio with 99-track recording will enable the student to learn easily by hearing author Ross Nickerson demonstrate each song, and perform many of the banjo licks and phrases included in the book slow, and up to tempo. The audio download available online includes anadvanced song section with a full bluegrass band accompanying Ross along with additional intermediate songs for the student to learn. The Banjo Encyclopedia is undoubtedly one of the most complete five-string banjo books on the market today and a must for every banjo player's collection. Includes access to onlineaudio
