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Book International Relations  Music and Diplomacy

Download or read book International Relations Music and Diplomacy written by Frédéric Ramel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the interrelation of international relations, music, and diplomacy from a multidisciplinary perspective. Throughout history, diplomats have gathered for musical events, and musicians have served as national representatives. Whatever political unit is under consideration (city-states, empires, nation-states), music has proven to be a component of diplomacy, its ceremonies, and its strategies. Following the recent acoustic turn in IR theory, the authors explore the notion of “musical diplomacies” and ask whether and how it differs from other types of cultural diplomacy. Accordingly, sounds and voices are dealt with in acoustic terms but are not restricted to music per se, also taking into consideration the voices (speech) of musicians in the international arena. Read an interview with the editors here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/content/international-relations-music-and-diplomacy-sounds-and-voices-international-stage

Book The History of Petersham  Massachusetts  Incorporated April 20  1754  Volunteerstown Or Voluntown  1730 1733  Nichewaug  1733 1754

Download or read book The History of Petersham Massachusetts Incorporated April 20 1754 Volunteerstown Or Voluntown 1730 1733 Nichewaug 1733 1754 written by Mabel Cook Coolidge and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Memoirs and Journal of Hugh Judge

Download or read book Memoirs and Journal of Hugh Judge written by Hugh Judge and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The D  llenbachs in America  1710 1935  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The D llenbachs in America 1710 1935 Classic Reprint written by Andrew Luther Dillenbeck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dällenbachs in America, 1710-1935 This is a story of two continents. Mountains, hills, valleys, lakes, riv ers, and the broad Atlantic separate the two stages upon which this dra ma of a Family is played. Long journeys then, now a matter of only a few days, connected the two continents traversed by the seekers after new homes in the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Stephen Leacock

Download or read book Stephen Leacock written by David Staines and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Published in English.

Book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Download or read book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town written by Stephen Leacock and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock at his best – colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.

Book Candy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luke Davies
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2006-05-01
  • ISBN : 1760638218
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Candy written by Luke Davies and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy those were the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar...It's like you're cruising along in a beautiful car on a pleasant country road with the breeze in your hair and the smell of eucalyptus all around you. The horizon is always up there ahead, unfolding towards you, and at first you don't notice the gradual descent, or the way the atmosphere thickens. Bit by bit the gradient gets steeper, and before you realise you have no brakes, you're going pretty fucking fast.' Candy is a love story. It is also a novel about addiction. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared habit, Candy charts their decline. Candy becomes a prostitute, the narrator becomes a scam artist, and smack becomes the total and only focus of their lives. But this is not just another junkie novel: Davies is a very fine writer and Candy is confronting, painful, sexy, tender and at times darkly hilarious. A remarkable novel.

Book Sixties British Cinema

Download or read book Sixties British Cinema written by Robert Murphy and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 1992-04-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late '50s and early '60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, and A Taste of Honey are only the better known titles. Sixties British Cinema revalues key genres of the period--horror, crime, and comedy--and takes a fresh look at the "swinging London" films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's informative, engaging, and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema. British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late '50s and early '60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, and A Taste of Honey are only the better known titles. Sixties British Cinema revalues key genres of the period--horror, crime, and comedy--and takes a fresh look at the "swinging London" films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's informative, engaging, and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema.

Book Out of the Frying Pan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francis Swann
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 2010-09
  • ISBN : 9780573613500
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Out of the Frying Pan written by Francis Swann and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 5 female Set Requirements: Interior Produced in New York City. Three young men and three young women share an apartment in all innocence; they are would be stage folk and they are doing this for economic security. Their apartment is immediately above that of a Broadway producer who is about to cast a road company. They rehearse the play but how can they get him upstairs to see it? It happens that the producer is an amateur chef and, right in the middle of a culi

Book A History of Shenandoah County  Virginia

Download or read book A History of Shenandoah County Virginia written by John Walter Wayland and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Columbus City Directory

Download or read book Columbus City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace

Download or read book Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Claude Rains

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  • Author : David J. Skal
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2008-11-07
  • ISBN : 081313885X
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Claude Rains written by David J. Skal and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of the actor known for his roles in The Invisible Man, Casablanca, and other classics, based on newly released interviews. Given his childhood speech impediments and his origins in a destitute London neighborhood, the ascent of Claude Rains to the stage and screen was remarkable. Rains’s difficulties in his formative years provided reserves of gravitas and sensitivity, from which he drew inspiration for acclaimed performances in The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Notorious, Lawrence of Arabia, and other classic films. In this book, noted Hollywood historian David J. Skal draws on more than thirty hours of newly released Rains interviews to create the first full-length biography of the man nominated multiple times for an Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor. Skal’s portrait also benefits from the insights of Jessica Rains, who provides firsthand accounts of the enigmatic man behind her father’s refined screen presence and genteel public persona. As Skal shows, numerous contradictions informed the life and career of Claude Rains. He possessed an air of nobility and became an emblem of sophistication, but he never shed the insecurities that traced back to his upbringing in an abusive and poverty-stricken family. Though deeply self-conscious about his short stature, Rains drew notorious ardor from female fans and was married six times. His public displays of dry wit and good humor masked inner demons that drove Rains to alcoholism and its devastating consequences. Skal’s layered depiction of Claude Rains reveals a complex, almost inscrutable man whose nuanced characterizations were, in no small way, based on the more shadowy parts of his psyche. With unprecedented access to episodes from Rains’s private life, Skal tells the full story of the consummate character actor of his generation. “This highly readable biography, written with the help of his daughter, Jessica Rains, reveals the witty, talented man behind this universally respected Hollywood legend.” —Tucson Citizen

Book The Rose of Persia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Sullivan
  • Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 1513286471
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book The Rose of Persia written by Arthur Sullivan and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy man unknowingly harbors the Sultana after she sneaks out of the palace, which causes the Sultan and his guards to storm their party. Threatened with death, the man tries to convince the Sultan to spare his life. Hassan is a wealthy merchant who loves the company of common travelers. Despite his social status and many wives (25 to be exact), he constantly opens his home to relative strangers. In one instance, he is entertained by a group of dancers including the Sultana in disguise. She has ventured outside the palace without the Sultan’s knowledge. If the Sultana is discovered, she, Hassan and multiple members of his party will be put to death. The Rose of Persia is an intricate tale about tradition, politics and secret desires. Basil Hood and Arthur Sullivan deliver a humorous tale led by an unlikely but empathetic hero. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Rose of Persia is both modern and readable.

Book Dream Theater   Distance Over Time

Download or read book Dream Theater Distance Over Time written by Dream Theater and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Recorded Versions). This 2019 album marks the 14th studio album release by this popular prog metal band. Our songbook features note-for-note guitar transcriptions in notes and tab for all ten tracks: At Wit's End * Barstool Warrior * Fall into the Light * Out of Reach * Pale Blue Dot * Paralyzed * Room 137 * S2N * Untethered Angel * Viper King.

Book Countryman Genealogy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alvin Countryman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780832880827
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Countryman Genealogy written by Alvin Countryman and published by . This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Varieties of Human Physique

Download or read book The Varieties of Human Physique written by William Herbert Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: