From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion that carved the Grand Canyon to the earth-shaking fury of volcanoes and earthquakes, this fascinating book -- inspired by the award-winning Hall of Planet Earth at New York City's American Museum of Natural History -- tells the ...
The book takes the reader from being an intermediate to an advanced PHP/Flash developer, and helps them create awesome Flash-based Web applications along the way.
"Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research" provides a thorough and up-to-date presentation of the ratings industry and analysis processes. It serves as a practical guide for conducting audience research, offering readers the tools for becoming informed and discriminating consumers of audience information, from broadcasting to ...
Representing the wide range of approaches that enrich the understanding and appreciation of Beethoven and his interpreters, the second volume in this series features research, criticism, and performers' commentary by nine scholars including Michael C. Tusa, Tia Denora, Lawrence Earp, Lewis Lockwood, William Drabkin, and Kevin Korsyn. Additionally, ...
In the early 20th century, the audience was seen as a mass of people, mostly unknown to one another, that was unified through exposure to media. This concept is now accepted. This book looks into the meaning of "audience". Media scholars have qustioned the utility of the mass audience concept, characterizing it as insensitive to differences among ...
This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle. This cyclic integration is articulated, among other ways, by the 'progressive' form of individual ...
"The best of present-day Beethoven scholarship." - Stanley Sadie, editor of "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians". "Since 1992, the University of Nebraska Press has published a Beethoven Forum, which is rich in information and knowledge. Fundamental research and topicality, once the domain of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, are admirably ...
Tia DeNora examines historical depictions of Beethoven's work in late eighteenth-century Vienna. K. M. Knittel also looks critically at traditional assumptions. Janet Schmalfeldt and Thomas Sipe discuss two of Beethoven's most beloved piano sonatas. Richard Taruskin identifies a potential borrowing in the "Fifth Symphony". Alain Frogley ...
Mammals of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland is well written, informative, and complete in its coverage of species from bats to whales. Contains exciting insight into the lives of all mammals of the region.'
The only volume to deal specifically with this four-state region, this book describes in detail eighty-eight terrestrial mammals as well as thirty-three marine species that inhabit our offshore waters. The authors offer expert descriptions of each species, including size and weight, color, distinctive markings, feeding habits, activity cycles, ...
The eagerly awaited publication of the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians will be a major event in the world of music in the year 2000. Grove is the name for music information on an international scale, instantly recognised and constantly used by music scholars and enthusiasts the world over - and the new edition ...
The Wheeling Decorating Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, was one of the outstanding companies that decorated china, pottery and porcelain during the first half of the 20th century. This company, often referred to as WDCO or Wheeling, decorated items (purchased blanks) from more than 500 companies around the world. The wide range of designs used ...
When one hears or reads the term ratings, one often thinks of television or radio programs competing for an audience. However, the picture is much larger than that. People working in advertising and the electronic media are well aware of the significance of ratings data. Students considering careers in media such as broadcasting and journalism are ...
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who ...
In October, 1975, the International Haydn Conference was held in Washington, D.C., during the last eight days of the Haydn Festival at Kennedy Center. Scholars and musicians from all over the world were brought together for the conference, participating in panel discussions, round tables, and workshops. This collection of Haydn studies is the ...
The son of an 18th century Austrian wheelwright, Haydn is acknowledged for refining the symphony and string quartet and praised for his oratorios and masses. Deeply involved in the evolution of the Classical style, its subsequent growth can be seen in his own music. Indeed, he is considered to be one of the most significant composers of the ...
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