Author: Dirk CottonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055774976X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Locally Groan
Author: Dirk CottonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055774976X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
No Place for Normal: New York
Author: Clifford BrowderPublisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN: 1634137248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
From random sightings of the spectral (and spectacular) Rollerena, a fortyish male who would grace onlookers with his fairy godmother benedictions in a cloud of white fabric and rhinestones, to some of the haunts that Charles Dickens frequented during his visits to the city, author Clifford Browder leaves no stone unturned, or for that matter, subject untouched. Topics include (but are not limited to) alcoholics, abortionists, grave robbers, Occupy Wall Street, the Gay Pride Parade, peyote visions, sinners that New Yorkers will (or won't) put up with, and an artist who makes art of a blood-filled squirt gun and a blackened human toe. From the grotesque to the engrossing, No Place for Normal: New York celebrates the shocking, weird, unpredictable, yet utterly wonderful tapestry that makes New York unlike any other city in the world, and a place that so many are proud to call home.
Sound of Africa!
Author: Louise MeintjesPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822384639
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat. Sound of Africa! is a riveting account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a state-of-the-art recording studio in Johannesburg. Made popular internationally by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, mbaqanga's distinctive style features a bass solo voice and soaring harmonies of a female frontline over electric guitar, bass, keyboard, and drumset. Louise Meintjes chronicles the recording and mixing of an album by Izintombi Zesimanje, historically the rival group of the Mahotella Queens. Set in the early 1990s during South Africa’s tumultuous transition from apartheid to democratic rule, Sound of Africa! offers a rare portrait of the music recording process. It tracks the nuanced interplay among South African state controls, the music industry's transnational drive, and the mbaqanga artists' struggles for political, professional, and personal voice. Focusing on the ways artists, producers, and sound engineers collaborate in the studio control room, Meintjes reveals not only how particular mbaqanga sounds are shaped technically, but also how egos and artistic sensibilities and race and ethnicity influence the mix. She analyzes how the turbulent identity politics surrounding Zulu ethnic nationalism impacted mbaqanga artists' decisions in and out of the studio. Conversely, she explores how the global consumption of Afropop and African images fed back into mbaqanga during the recording process. Meintjes is especially attentive to the ways the emotive qualities of timbre (sound quality or tone color) forge complex connections between aesthetic practices and political ideology. Vivid photos by the internationally renowned photographer TJ Lemon further dramatize Meintjes’ ethnography.
How to Spell Homophones
Author: Pat LessiePublisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1576904997
Category : Creative activities and seat work
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
In this book a homophone is a word which sounds the same as another word but has a different spelling or meaning. An emphasis on reading helps students learn homophones in context. To correct chronic mistakes, some reinforcement in the form of grammar exercises may be necessary, to which end, several short drills are included in this book. The text also contains a number of homophone stories to provide practice in familiarising students with many of the homophones luring in the English language. These are arranged in order of progressing difficulty, depending on factors of length, number of corrections and subject matter. The stories may be copied for student use and be worked on individually or in pairs. An answer key is included.
Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309085365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
For the 119 species of marine mammals, as well as for some other aquatic animals, sound is the primary means of learning about the environment and of communicating, navigating, and foraging. The possibility that human-generated noise could harm marine mammals or significantly interfere with their normal activities is an issue of increasing concern. Noise and its potential impacts have been regulated since the passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Public awareness of the issue escalated in 1990s when researchers began using high-intensity sound to measure ocean climate changes. More recently, the stranding of beaked whales in proximity to Navy sonar use has again put the issue in the spotlight. Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals reviews sources of noise in the ocean environment, what is known of the responses of marine mammals to acoustic disturbance, and what models exist for describing ocean noise and marine mammal responses. Recommendations are made for future data gathering efforts, studies of marine mammal behavior and physiology, and modeling efforts necessary to determine what the long- and short-term impacts of ocean noise on marine mammals.
All Creation Groans
Author: Daniel W. O'NeillPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725290111
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In a suffering world reeling from global pandemics and health disparities, it is high time to think theologically about the devastating experience of disease, and to address our God-inspired responsibility to understand its origins and engage in its management. In a fragmented world, we need a unifying and integrated perspective on people in communities embedded in a fractured ecology. In an academic world blind to the spiritual world and imbalanced toward technical solutions, the global church must articulate a contemporary metanarrative that is moral, practical, and deeply transformational. All Creation Groans brings together multiple perspectives for a compelling global-health approach to the pathologies of the world as a part of the missio Dei. The authors paint a unifying perspective on God’s healing intentions in creation, redemption, and consummation, and the opposing nature-corrupting effects of the rebellion of created moral agents. It is a fresh call for the global church to engage in aligning with God’s healing action for eternally sustainable global health.
Locally Relevant ICT Research
Author: Kirstin KraussPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030112357
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Development Informatics Association Conference, IDIA 2018, held in Tshwane, South Africa, in August 2018. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ICT adoption and impact; mobile education; e-education; community development; design; innovation and maturity; data.
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Author: Image and Video Databases: Restoration, Watermarking and Retrieval
Author: A. HanjalicPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080508474
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book provides an in-depth treatment of the three important topics related to image and video databases: restoration, watermarking and retrieval. It is the result of the participation of the Delft University of Technology in the European Union ACTS program, a pre-competitive R&D program on Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (1994-1998). In particular the book has benefited from participation in the AURORA and SMASH projects respectively automated film and video restoration and storage for multimedia systems (watermarking & retrieval).
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