Product Description: With the vegan trend rising it was only a matter of time before someone came out with a vegan canning book. No Pressure: Vegan Canning Sauces, dips and dressings Is the perfect addition to any book collection. With several recipies for the vegan in all of us Which are healthy and delicious...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on creative development and empowerment in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. It demonstrates Proust’s proof of the Romantic notion that art originates in the self of the artist. Approached as a Bildungsroman, the psychological aspects of this development in Marcel, the principal character, are considered in terms of the stimulus/response mechanism in living organisms...read more

Product Description: Outlining state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design, this book collates them into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities. The book is based on research which focuses on a variety of different themes and domains, including architecture, engineering, environmental design, art, fashion and management...read more

Product Description: The scriptures are full of topophilia―love of place―in stories of pilgrimage and promised land, shrines and sanctuaries, births and deaths, and of the metaphysical “place” that Jesus called the kingdom of God.Our lives, too, are marked by the places we love...read more

Product Description: How do some of our best poets reflect death in their opaque art? What do their death poems tell us about our lives, about our faith―and the objects of our faith―and about the shape of our doubt?Acquainted with the Night is a study of death as it appears in the work of a handful of contemporary poets―Geoffrey Hill, Scott Cairns, Mark Jarman, R...read more

Product Description: While a master class with a legendary performer is a dream for any student, we are treated here to the next best thing: a collection of chats with the world's greatest pianists. Here, in one remarkable volume, are the thoughts, musical insights, and invaluable practical advice from a host of world-class musicians, recorded in their own words, at the height of their careers, in separate interviews...read more

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Product Description: Published from 1883 to 1957, The Etude Music Magazine read like a diary of the emerging American musical community. During this period, it featured a series of "Master-Lessons" by noted piano virtuosi. Originally intended to provide world-class teaching to a public that otherwise could not afford such lessons, the series became a valuable record of professional performance practice, offering a rare and unique glimpse of piano teaching in the first decades of the century...read more

Product Description: Although Bakhtinian theory has influenced many fields, this book studies the ideas within the field of Japanese studies. The essays apply Bakhtin's ideas to Japanese texts or situations in Japan, helping to bring the central notions of Bakhtin's work to scholars. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

John Donne's prose and poetry have been discussed in theological contexts for the purposes of highlighting their devotional nature and of seeking to identify Donne's sectarian allegiance, but many critics have neglected Donne as a theologian in his own right, and his response to the religious controversies of his day. This study discusses the distinguishing features of Donne's theology, as revealed primarily in his extant sermons, and also addresses a variety of his individual sermons in context as applications of his own theological vision. The topics examined are the doctrine of the Trinity, common prayer, sight and spectacle, the doctrine of repentance, and the doctrine of grace. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The seventeenth century gave rise to the greatest flowering of the religious lyric in the English language. While the whole range of the devotional verse of the period is distinguished by its nuanced complexity concerning issues of theology, politics, and the historical circumstances of the individuals who produced these lyrics, modern criticism has neglected the vast majority of these works and their authors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An introduction to a new way of modeling musical surfaces for theorists and for generating precompositional relationships for composers, this unique music theory reference work introduces, classifies, and enumerates graph theoretical models for musical transformations in compositional and analytical applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mechatronics is the fusion of mechanics and electronics in the design of intelligent machines. This textbook is concerned with the concepts and techniques of artificial intelligence needed for the design of machines with advanced intelligent behaviour...read more

Product Description: The discovery and application of abstract musical properties has had a prominent role in compositional and theoretical literature during the past 40 years, and an accumulation of source material has been produced that makes a single cross-referenced source essential for standard working procedures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a revelatory glimpse into the future--when science, social science, and social administration will be based on the complementary interplay between artificial intelligence, mathematics, and statistics. Comprised of contributions from a broad range of leading scientists and researchers, the book outlines how artificial intelligence supplies insights into the nature of complex problems, mathematics offers a rich language for presenting systems and methods for investigating them rigorously, and statistics provides the interface between theory and data from both observation and experiment...read more