Ten Minutes to Turn the Devil

Ten Minutes to Turn the Devil
Title Ten Minutes to Turn the Devil PDF eBook
Author Douglas Hurd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 149
Release 2012-07-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1448209773

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As an MP, Douglas Hurd would write a new short story every year during the summer Parliamentary recess. This collection comprises ten tales, including a moving account of a family in Bosnia (The Last Day of Summer), a caper about drugrunning off Florida (A Suitcase Between Friends), and a grimly realistic Ulster vignette (Fog of Peace). Each of these stories reflects the intelligent concerns of a politician engaged in, and committed to, both the everyday world of domestic matters and at the highest level.

Her Story! A Tribute to Italian Women

Her Story! A Tribute to Italian Women
Title Her Story! A Tribute to Italian Women PDF eBook
Author Peter Loyson
Publisher African Sun Media
Pages 393
Release 2021-03-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0620922761

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A unique book! Italian women at their best! What talent! This book is a must read for everyone who loves Italian culture and those who appreciate talented women. Extensively researched with hundreds of references, it is a comprehensive encyclopedic analysis highlighting the length and breadth of Italy’s most incredibly talented women, including 114 writers, 56 opera singers, 63 other singers, 55 musicians, 52 film icons, 39 fashion designers, 59 medical women, 40 chefs, 47 artists, 23 academics and 114 sportswomen, amongst others. All discussed in chronological order in each of their fields with many interesting stories, including a chapter on the emigration of impressive female Italian talent.

Celestial Sirens

Celestial Sirens
Title Celestial Sirens PDF eBook
Author Robert L. Kendrick
Publisher Clarendon Press
Pages 582
Release 1996-05-23
Genre Music
ISBN 0191584509

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This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the symbolic world of the city. Even more importantly, the music actually composed by four such nuns, Claudia Scossa, Claudia Rusca, Chiara Margarita Cozzollani, and Rosa Giacinta Badalla - reveals the musical expression of women's devotional life. The two centuries' worth of battles over nuns' singing of polyphony, studies here for the first time on the basis of massive archival documentation, also suggest that the implementation of reform in the major centre of post-Tridentine Catholic renewal was far more varied; incomplete, subject to local political pressure and individual interpretation, and short-lived than any religious historian has ever suggested. Other factors that marked nuns' musical lives and creative output - liturgical traditions of the religious orders, the problems of performance practice attendant upon all-female singing ensembles - are here addressed for the first time in the musicological literature.

The National Review

The National Review
Title The National Review PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1186
Release 1900
Genre English literature
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Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse

Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse
Title Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse PDF eBook
Author John Van Sickle
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 290
Release 2011-06-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0801899613

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This highly original work builds on two neglected facts about Virgil's Book of Bucolics: its popularity on the bawdy Roman stage and its impact as sequence poetry on readers and writers from the Classical world through the present day. The Bucolics profoundly influenced a wide range of canonical literary figures, from the contemporaneous Horace, Propertius, and Ovid through such successors as Calpurnius, Sannazaro, Marot, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and W. H. Auden. As performed, the work scored early success. John Van Sickle's artfully rendered translation, its stage cues, and the explanatory notes treat for the first time the book's ten short pieces as a thematic web. He pays close heed to themes that return, vary throughout the work, and develop as leitmotifs, inviting readers to trace the threads and ultimately to experience the last eclogue as a grand finale. Introductory notes identify cues for casting, dramatic gesture, and voice, pointing to topics that stirred the Roman crowd and satisfied powerful patrons. Back notes offer clues to the ambitious literary program implicit in the voices, plots, and themes. Taken as a whole, this volume shows how the Bucolics inaugurated Virgil's lifelong campaign to colonize for Rome the prestigious Greek genres of epic and tragedy—winning contemporary acclaim and laying the groundwork for his poetic legend. Reframing pastoral tradition in Europe and America, Van Sickle's rendering of the Book of Bucolics is ideal for students of literature and their teachers, for scholars of classical literature and the pastoral genre, and for poetological and cognitive theorists.

Littell's Living Age

Littell's Living Age
Title Littell's Living Age PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 896
Release 1900
Genre
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Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Title Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives PDF eBook
Author Pozzi, Francesca
Publisher IGI Global
Pages 423
Release 2010-09-30
Genre Education
ISBN 1616929006

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"This book provides a focused assessment of the peculiarities of online collaborative learning processes by looking at the strategies, methods, and techniques used to support and enhance debate and exchange among peers"--Provided by publisher.