Giacomo Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer’s opera Wirt und Gast is based on an Arabian Nights tale. Championed by Weber for its delicate instrumentation, it shows astonishing maturity for a composer of twenty-one, using recurrent themes to present the plot’s conflict before Wagner.
Language processing is considered as an important part of cognition, with an ever-increasing amount of studies conducted on this field. This book gathers together research on language processing and disorders presented at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference in Madrid.
This volume examines international criminal justice, with a focus on the International Criminal Court. It demands the prosecution of those who escape justice due to their political or military power, arguing that the cycle of impunity must be abolished for all.
EIN FELDLAGER IN SCHLESIEN
Composed in 1844 for the King of Prussia, Meyerbeer’s patriotic opera *Feldlager* was a success confined to Berlin. Yet its music achieved global fame, with melodies adapted for the ballet *Les Patineurs*, known by many ignorant of their true source.
Robert le Diable
In *Robert le Diable*, Meyerbeer saw man divided between the angel and the devil. Its sensational 1831 première became the principal expression of French Romanticism. This facsimile of the long-lost manuscript reveals the creation of a work that changed opera.
Journey through 6,000 years of Northwest Syria’s linguistic evolution. This book analyzes key languages from Eblaite and Amorite to Aramaic and Arabic, diving deep into their various dialects. A valuable resource for linguists, historians, and Semitic studies enthusiasts.
Service Analytics and Management
This book covers key issues on service strategy, planning, design, and delivery. It explores service capacity management, resource planning, quality improvement, and the role of IT and Analytics. The text includes detailed cases for extensive class discussion.
Nurturing Minds
This guide provides evidence-based techniques to build emotional strength and resilience in children. Combining psychology and neuroscience, it offers practical tools for parents and teachers to help kids navigate modern challenges and thrive with confidence and empathy.
Profiles in Mass Murder
The atrocities of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao were not inevitable products of broken systems. This analysis reveals how their unique personalities and personal choices—not systemic dysfunction—unleashed the 20th century’s greatest violence.
Packaging the Future
An authoritative exploration into the science, innovation, and sustainability of modern food packaging. Discover the latest advancements—from nanotechnology to edible and biodegradable materials—that preserve quality, ensure food safety, and contribute to a healthier planet.
This book provides step-by-step drug extraction procedures for forensic analysis. It outlines methods for matrices like blood, urine, and hair, with instrument analysis conditions for HPLC and GC for a wide range of drugs, from opiates to steroids.
Symbols in Arts, Religion and Culture
Abbaszadeh discusses how we learn about our human nature and how we fit into the larger scheme of life and spirit. She argues that we do this by understanding how our ancestors, through art, symbol and myth, expressed their relationship with the natural world.
The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory
This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa.
The Canterbury Catch Club 1826
In 1825, a lithograph was commissioned to celebrate a Canterbury musical society. This book analyzes that image and, using unique archives, uncovers a contradictory history where the respectable coexisted with the libertine and culture was a strategic assertion of identity.
The Viennese operetta masterpiece *Der Seekadett* delighted audiences for 80 years. This book restores the lost work, presenting the complete libretto in English, German, French, and Italian. The story features humour, romance, a deadly duel, and a chess game with live figures.
This volume brings together 49 chapters related to the field of education. The main topics explored here include teacher-student interactions, pre-service teachers, early childhood education, digital education, and attitudes of students towards the environment, amongst others.
Dying to Eat
Trevan examines our oft emotional relationship with food, and challenges how the science and knowledge of food, health and nutrition are derived. He also investigates those foods that come ready loaded with poisonous compounds and carcinogens.
Emblems and Impact Volume I
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
Fashion through History
This book analyzes fashion as a main indicator of social change. It explores issues from economy, copyright, and trademarks to the impact of globalization, new technologies, and social media on the dynamic fashion system in the virtual world.
The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance
This book lays the foundations for learning about the fandango, an 18th century dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas. It describes how the dance became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance and people and how it signified freedom of movement and expression.
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