Drina Ballerina
Author: Jean Estoril
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780750012706
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Drina Dances in Switzerland
Author: Jean Estoril
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780750012683
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Author: Jean Estoril
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 1988-11-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780590421904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young girl struggles to get dancing lessons despite her grandmother's strong disapproval.
A Year with Swollen Appendices
Author: Brian Eno
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0571364624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition.'One of the seminal books about music . . . an invaluable insight into the mind and working practices of one of the industry's undeniable geniuses.'GUARDIANAt the end of 1994, Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell quickly to the wayside. What he did do - and write - however, was astonishing: ruminations on his collaborative work with David Bowie, U2, James and Jah Wobble, interspersed with correspondence and essays dating back to 1978. These 'appendices' covered topics from the generative and ambient music Eno pioneered to what he believed the role of an artist and their art to be, alongside adroit commentary on quotidian tribulations and happenings around the world.This beautiful 25th-anniversary hardcover edition has been redesigned in the same size as the diary that eventually became this book. It features two ribbons, pink paper delineating the appendices (matching the original edition) and a two-tone paper-over-board cover, which pays homage to the original design.An intimate insight into one of the most influential creative artists of our time, A Year with Swollen Appendices is an essential classic.
Edith and Florence Stoney, Sisters in Radiology
Author: Adrian Thomas
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-01
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 3030165612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the lives and achievements of two Irish sisters, Edith and Florence Stoney, who pioneered the use of new electromedical technologies, especially X-rays but also ultraviolet radiation and diathermy. In addition, the narrative follows several intertwined themes as experienced by the sisters during their lifetimes. Their upbringing, influenced by their liberal-minded scientist father, set the tone for both their lives. Irish independence fractured their family heritage. Their professional experiences, fulfilling for Florence as a qualified doctor but often frustrating for Edith as a Cambridge-educated scientist, mirrored those of other aspiring women during this period, when the suffragist movement expanded and women’s lobby groups were formed. World War I created an environment in which their unusual specialist knowledge was widely needed, and the sisters’ war experiences are carefully examined in the book. But ultimately this is the extraordinary story of two independent but closely bonded sisters and their abiding love and support for one another.
Forgotten Wars
Author: Włodzimierz Borodziej
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1108944884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWłodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.
Human Impact on Danube Watershed Biodiversity in the XXI Century
Author: Doru Bănăduc
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-04-20
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 3030372421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second-longest European river after the Volga, the Danube is one of the world’s most important rivers in terms of its geographical and historical significance. In recent history, it has served as a major international waterway and numerous cities, including four capitals, have been founded on its banks. The 2826km-long Danube has a watershed measuring 801,093 km2 that is now shared between 19 countries, from its source in the Black Forest to the Black Sea, into which it pumps an average of 827 km3 of water a year. This book describes and explains key landscape values interactions (geographical, cultural and natural heritage). It also identifies the threats and various types of human impact affecting this system in all the countries of the Danube River Basin, based on the investigations and perspectives of a team of experienced naturalists, and in the context of the early 21st century, in which the human-nature relationship is still far from balanced. These studies demonstrate how biodiversity, conservation and ecological studies can help us successfully promote mutual cooperation and combine our efforts to address problems as a responsible continent.
Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe
Author: Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 1136920501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest music spectacle anywhere in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest -- Philip V. Bohlman reveals the ways in which music and nationalism intersect in the shaping of the New Europe. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe begins with the emergence of the European nation-state in the Middle Ages and extends across long periods during which Europe’s nations used music to compete for land and language, and to expand the colonial reach of Europe to the entire world. Bohlman contrasts the "national" and the "nationalist" in music, examining the ways in which their impact on society can be positive and negative -- beneficial for European cultural policy and dangerous in times when many European borders are more fragile than ever. The New Europe of the twenty-first century is more varied, more complex, and more politically volatile than ever, and its music resonates fully with these transformations.
Drina's Dancing Year
Author: Jean Estoril
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780590421928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccepted at the prestigious Igor Dominick Ballet School, Drina is worried that she is not as adept as her classmates and crushed when she is not chosen for the Christmas production.
The Ecology of Freshwater Molluscs
Author: Robert T. Dillon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-11
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780521359917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a comprehensive review of the ecology of freshwater bivalves and gastropods worldwide. Robert Dillon discusses the ecology of these species in its broadest sense, including diet, habitat, and reproductive biology to emphasize the tremendous diversity of these freshwater invertebrates. He develops a new life history model that unifies them and reviews their population and community ecology, treating competition, predation, parasitism, and biogeography. Extensively referenced and synthesizing work from the nineteenth century through to the present day, this book includes original analyses that unify previous work into a coherent whole.
