The Chiveis Trilogy takes readers hundreds of years into the future. War and disease have destroyed civilization as we know it. Much technology has been discarded and history is largely forgotten. Slowly, the few survivors have begun to build new communities, and kingdoms now prosper in a kind of feudal order. But the Word of God has been lost for centuries. After the finding of an Old Testament in book one of the trilogy, The Gift picks up the story of Teo and Ana. Exiled from their homeland and trying to survive in unknown and dangerous lands, they search for any record of the missing Testament. Their journeys lead them into the region we know as Italy. An elite society welcomes Ana, who finds she must choose between her new life and her dream of returning to Chiveis. Will Teo and Ana’s relationship withstand the circumstances and new enemies pulling them apart? And can Teo keep ahead of a powerful and mysterious force opposing his search for the New Testament? Litfin’s imagination and fast-paced narrative style will capture the hearts and minds of all fiction readers.

Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia’s Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book is organised around six repertories: four from the Belyuen-based songmen Barrtjap, Muluk, Mandji and Lambudju, and two from the Wadeye-based Walakandha and Ma-yawa wangga groups, the repertories being named after the ancestral song-giving ghosts of the Marri Tjavin and Marri Ammu people respectively. Framing chapters include discussion of the genre’s social history, musical conventions and the five highly endangered languages in which the songs are composed. The core of the book is a compendium of recordings, transcriptions, translations and explanations of over 150 song items. Thanks to permissions from the composers’ families and a variety of archives and recordists, this corpus includes almost every wangga song ever recorded in the Daly region.

The third and final volume of the War of 1812 trilogy from Michael Aye. Following the tips from Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson's network of spies, Jonah Lee and his adopted brother Moses travel to the southern states to search for Anastasia. The bugles then ring, and Jonah once again answers President Madison's call to find himself on General Andrew Jackson's staff. Ole Hickory's assignment? to defend the city of New Orleans at all costs. Follow as Jackson enlists the help of the notorious pirate, Jean LaFitte and together they defeat the bloody British in a town called New Orleans. "Michael Aye's plots are fast moving and his characters are sharply drawn. In 'Battle of New Orleans' he turns his considerable story-telling skills to the Final battle of America's forgotten war, the War of 1812. Entertaining and well researched, this volume shines a well-deserved light on an pivotal moment in American history." – James L. Nelson, Author of Fin Gall and Benedict Arnold's Navy

The choices that individuals make in moments of crisis can transform them. By focusing on fictional characters trapped on fictional islands, the book examines how individuals react when forced to make hard choices within the liminal space of a "prison" island. At stake is the perception of choice: do characters believe that they have the power to choose, or do they think that they are at the mercy of fate? The results reveal certain patterns--psychological, historical, social, and political--that exist across a variety of popular/public cultures and time periods. This book focuses on how the interplay between liminality and the Locus of Control theory creates dynamic sites of negotiated meaning. This psychological concept has never before been used for literary analysis. Offered here as an alternative to the defects of Freudian psychology, the Locus of Control theory has been proven reliable in thousands of studies, and the results have been found, with few exceptions, to be consistent in both women and men. That consistency is explored through close readings of islands found in popular culture books, films, and television shows, with suggestions for future research.

Textbook on the solfège method of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze. Volume III, Unit One. The first unit provides an in-depth discussion on the subject of "complex meter." Beginning with its inception in Southeastern Europe, we trace the development of the additive meter structure and the expansion of the aksak patterns related to folk dance and music-making. Included are over 200 examples and exercises in this unit, composed by the author. All the illustrations and examples are audible with the touch of a button. The unit also covers the pentachord pitch set. Pentachords consist of two trichords [Root - 3rd, 3rd - 5th], revealing the major, minor, augmented, and diminished triads in melody and harmony. We also find how Jaques-Dalcroze used inverted pentachords to solidify tonality and modulate keys near and far. We also discovered figured bass and how to construct vibrant bass lines that move through time and space. The text is thoroughly researched and has a complete annotated bibliography, an interactive glossary, dictionary, and table of contents. Also included is music for clef reading, rhythms in unison, two and three-part, melodies, duets, trios, plus two, three, and four-part canons for practice, rhythm realization, harmonization, concept discovery, and study, all composed by the author and explicitly designed for layer-by-layer learning.

The prize: $10 million The rules: Be the first to complete ten tasks assigned by the Benefactor. Do not ask questions. Do not tell anyone what you're doing. Do not fail. The consequences: Unknown Ana has three choices: One, stay with her abusive foster parents and watch her little sister, Izzy, get hurt. Two, expose their abuse and risk being separated from Izzy. Or three, join the Contest, win the prize money, and escape together. No matter what Ana chooses, the odds are against her. But the Contest may turn out to be the most dangerous option of all.