Aeschylus' famed plays Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides comprise the Oresteia, which uses the dark and convoluted story of a family curse, and a long history of murder and revenge, to raise haunting questions about the nature and the price of justice. In Agamemnon , the Argive king reaches home following his victory in the Trojan ...
This new third edition of this best-selling text presents interesting and challenging cases that make the study of medical microbiology and infectious diseases enjoyable and enable students to develop a working knowledge of the variety of microorganisms that cause infections in humans. Extensive introductory material explains in simple and concise ...
More than 150 illustrations, including reproductions of masterworks spanning the artist's entire career, accompany five critical essays that reveal Remington's complexity and brilliance.
First time in paperback: The inside scoop on how some of America's finest screenwriters broke into the movie biz, including Cameron Crowe, Nora Ephron, Lawrence Kasdan, and Nick Kazan. The First Time I Got Paid for It is a one-of-a-kind collection of essays by more than fifty leading film and television writers, with a foreword by screenwriting ...
Euripides' "Bakkhai" is the staple of the canon of Greek tragedy, as its structure and thematics offer exemplary models of the classic tragic elements. The plot of "Bakkhai" centres around the actions of Pentheus, King of Thebes, who refused to recognize the god Dionysus or permit Thebans to worship him. In revenge, Dionysus drove Pentheus mad, ...
Although the raw materials for experimentation in electronic music had been available from the beginning of the 20th century, with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison's great discoveries in electricity and sound recording quickly being adapted for mass use, the form's real beginnings only came in the late 1940s with tape experiments made by ...
Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a violent dramatization of the madness and exile of one of the most celebrated ...
Music journalist Peter Shapiro, who has previously written on dance music in the ROUGH GUIDE series, explores the origins of the much-disparaged disco craze in TURN THE BEAT AROUND, a comprehensive analysis of the music that music fans love to hate. Placing disco's origins amid the ruined outer boroughs of early-1970s New York City, Shapiro ...
The First Time I Got Paid For It is an unprecedented collection of essays by over 50 leading film and television writers, edited by Laura Shapiro and Peter Lefcourt for the Writers Guild Foundation, with an introduction by screenwriting legend William Goldman. Linked by the theme of a writer's "first time"--usually the first time they got paid for ...
Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth, risk, status, and well-being, this volume ...
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume ...
"The Rough Guide Website Directory" is a companion to the "Rough Guide to the Internet" aiming to save you hours of online frustration. Reviewing a couple thousand of the world's most useful (and strangest) sites, it'll help you to: find anything fast; shop the world; trace your ancestry; discover new music; invest your income; publish your photo ...
This guide introduces readers to pioneering artists of jungle, big beat, and trip-hop music. Biographical material on Alex Reece, Danny Breaks, Wax Doctor, Chemical Brothers, DJ Shadow, The Orb, and Tricky is included.
This guide includes information on how to find anything, anywhere (the easy way), how to send e-mail, how to browse sports, news and travel information, how to download the latest software (for free), create you own Web page, plus a critical directory of more than 600 Web sites.
A collection of twenty original essays on the history of science and mathematics. The topics covered embrace the main themes of Whiteside's scholarly work, emphasising Newtonian topics: mathematics and astronomy to Newton; Newton's manuscripts; Newton's Principia; Newton and eighteenth-century mathematics and physics; after Newton: optics and ...
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume ...
Completely updated and radically expanded, the new Rough guide to Hip-Hop is the definitive guide to every aspect of the music, tracing its story from its origins in the 1970s as New York's urban folk music all the way to hip-hop's current dominance as the world's best-selling genre. Extensive biographies cover hip-hop's entire spectrum, from the ...
Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to ...
This guide informs readers how to build a representative collection of soul music. It traces the music's path, with a brief stop-over in Ethiopia, from its birth in pentecostal churches in cotton country, to a proliferation of styles.
This work aims to be the definitive guide to the MCs, DJs, producers, labels, graffiti taggers, poppers, lockers and body-rockers involved in the hip-hop scene. From its origins as the urban folk music of the South Bronx in the mid-1970s to its present incarnation as the world best-selling genre, hip-hop has been one of the most vital - and often ...
"The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B" is the definitive guide to the genre's greatest singers, musicians, songwriters and record labels, encapsulating the entire history of soul music from gospel and doo-wop, through funk and disco, to hip-hop and R&B. The guide includes detailed profiles of more than 300 artists, from such legends as Aretha Franklin, ...
This book treats various generalizations of the classical O'Doherty-Anstey formula in order to describe stratigraphic filtering effects. These are the effects that can be observed when elastic and electromagnetic waves propagate through multilayered structures. Our aim was to treat this topic in a comprehensive manner and present compact results ...
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