Quasi tutti conoscono gli ologrammi, immagini tridimensionali proiettate nello spazio per mezzo di un laser. Ora, due grandi scienziati - David Böhm, fisico quantistico presso la University of London e Karl Pribram, neurofisiologo di Stanford, uno degli artefici della nostra attuale concezione del cervello suppongono che l'universo stesso sia organizzato come un ologramma, in cui ogni parte contiene il tutto. Questo nuovo modo di considerare l'universo dovrebbe chiarire non solo molti degli enigmi insoluti della fisica, ma anche quegli accadimenti misteriosi come la telepatia, le esperienze extracorporee e di premorte, i sogni 'lucidi', e perfino le esperienze religiose e mistiche di unità cosmica e le guarigioni miracolose.

In a swirling multiverse of endless possibilities and incalculable dangers, malign forces manipulate history through countless timelines and act to wreak destruction across universes. But amongst these infinite existences, their fate depends on one man, an anomaly who exists in but a single universe, a being of vast psychic power capable of travelling between parallel realities--Luther Arkwright!

An adult science-fiction epic of boundless imagination and audacious vision, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire are brought together for the first time in one essential hardcover volume, including bonus material and an afterword by Warren Ellis.

Le quattro stagioni sono ormai colonna sonora di un pezzo di vita di ognuno di noi, eppure alcuni aspetti della vita di Vivaldi sono ancora sconosciuti. Michael Talbot ricollega i fili di un'esistenza che è parte immortale della storia della musica. Dalle fonti celebri, come i racconti di Carlo Goldoni su Vivaldi, ai documenti ancora inesplorati, una panoramica a tutto tondo sul Prete Rosso. Così soprannominato per il colore della sua chioma, Vivaldi è il più importante e originale compositore del Barocco.

TMNT Classics Continues! Volume 7 collects issues #45-47, which includes 'Leatherhead, Too,' 'Masks' parts 1-2, and six short stories from Shell Shock: 'Ghouls Night Out,' 'Crazy Man,' 'The Survival Game,' 'The Howl,' 'Technofear,' and 'It's A Gas.' All in brand-new color.

The Vivaldi Compendium will serve as the most reliable and up-to-date source of quick reference on the composer Antonio Vivaldi and his music. This takes the form of a dictionary listing persons, places, musical works and many other topics connected with Vivaldi; its alphabetically arranged entries are copiously cross-referenced to guide the reader towards related topics. The Vivaldi Compendium also provides a gateway to further reading via an extensive bibliography, to which reference is made in most of the dictionary entries. These two sections are complemented by a biography of the composer and a carefully organized list of his works. Knowledge about Vivaldi and his music is still advancing at an incredible rate - many discoveries occurred while the book was in preparation - and every effort has been made to ensure that The Vivaldi Compendium represents the latest in Vivaldi research, drawing on the author's close involvement with Vivaldi and Venetian music over four decades. MICHAEL TALBOT is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is known internationally for his studies of late-baroque Italian music, which include recent books on Vivaldi's chamber cantatas (2003) and the same composer's fugal writing (2007).

An ancient prayer for every day: 'Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner.'These words have strengthened and comforted believers for centuries. The Jesus Prayer comes to us from the Eastern Christian tradition. In these pages, John Michael Talbot explores more of the roots of the prayer along with the theological and practical meaning of each word in the lives of believers today. Readers are invited to meditate on the twelve simple words that lie at the heart of the Christian East. Complete with historical context and exercises for self-reflection, this book shows how a single prayer could sustain the spiritual life of a civilization.Each chapter ends with a brief practice using the prayer.

In this foundational text for pharmacy students on the current trend toward personalized medicine, the authors, professors of pharmacological and biomedical sciences at Ohio Northern U. and Purdue U., introduce the blending of pharmakinetics and pharmacodynamics with the newer discipline of pharmacogenetics, which takes into account genetic variations in individuals' responses to drug therapies. The text includes case questions with an answer key; review questions; appendices on biomarkers, the pharmcogenomics of commonly prescribes drugs, and process and data in personalized medicine; and a glossary. Access to a companion website is included. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Frutto di un approfondito lavoro scrupolosamente condotto sulle fonti biografiche e documentali dirette, lo studio di Michael Talbot tratteggia, nella prima parte, la vita del compositore veneziano, non mancando di dare appropriato e vigoroso rilievo al quadro storico, politico, sociale e culturale entro il quale si iscrive l'affollata e spesso pittoresca biografia vivaldiana. La seconda parte prende in esame le composizioni, e dopo averne evidenziati gli elementi stilistici caratterizzanti l'attenzione si focalizza dapprima sulle opere strumentali e poi su quelle vocali, campo quest'ultimo che presto conoscerà un impetuoso sviluppo, tale da ribaltare l'idea corrente di un musicista principalmente dedito alla ricerca tecnica ed espressiva in campo violinistico. Correda il volume un'ampia appendice che include tra l'altro il catalogo completo delle opere redatto da Peter Ryom e considerato a tutt'oggi pressoché definitivo.

Reminiscent of the legendary Canterbury Tales, THE SANDMAN: WORLDS' END is a wonderful potpourri of engrossing tales and masterly storytelling. Improbably caught in a June blizzard, two wayward compatriots stumble upon a mysterious inn and learn that they are in the middle of a 'reality storm.' Now surrounded by a menagerie of people and creatures from different times and realities, the two stranded travelers are entertained by mesmerizing myths of infamous sea creatures, dreaming cities, ancient kings, astonishing funeral rituals and moralistic hangmen.

Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms—three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. University of London physicist David Bohm, a protÉgÉ of Einstein and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, an architect of our modern understanding of the brain, have developed a remarkable new way of looking at the universe. Their theory explains not only many of the unsolved puzzles of physics but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-body and near-death experiences, 'lucid' dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and miraculous healings.

Now featuring a foreword by Lynne McTaggart, Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe is a landmark work whose exciting conclusions continue to be proven true by today's most advanced physics, cosmology, and string theory.

Reduction for voice and piano based on the critical edition. With detailed prefatory notes in Italian and English.

Nella Londra vittoriana, l'illustre medico Gladstone è impegnato giorno e notte a isolare un pericoloso virus. In seguito a un incidente, nella vita dello scienziato entra Niccolò, un misterioso e bellissimo ragazzo di origini italiane, e tra i due nasce un rapporto di amicizia, confidenza e fiducia. Un giorno il giovane rapisce Camilla, la figlia di Gladstone, e la provetta contenente il virus mortale. Durante un febbrile inseguimento da una parte all'altra dell'Europa, Gladstone viene gradualmente in contatto con quella realtà millenaria e sconvolgente che da sempre atterrisce l'uomo: il vampirismo.

Rispetto a quanto comunemente si crede, Vivaldi fu un acuto e creativo specialista della fuga. Questo studio storico-analitico, ben illustrato, è il primo a esaminare e distinguere i molti differenti modi - alcuni estremamente originali - in cui Vivaldi applicò la tecnica della fuga alla sua musica, e vuole - oltre che incrementare la comprensione della musica vivaldiana contribuire alla letteratura sulla fuga, alla sua terminologia e, più in generale, alla storia della morfologia musicale.

Part of the Adobe Training from the Source series, the official curriculum from Adobe, developed by experienced trainers. Using project-based tutorials, this book/CD volume is designed to teach the techniques needed to create sophisticated, professional-level projects. Each book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. In the course of the book, the reader will build several Web applications using Flex Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. This title covers the component framework for Rich Internet Applications, Adobe Flex 3.0. New Flex 3 features covered in this edition are: the advanced DataGrid, Data Connectivity Wizards, Modularizing the Flex application, and options for deploying your Flex project with AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime).

 

(Study Score). Psalm 126 for Soprano, 2 Contraltos, Viola d'amore, Chalumeau Tenore, Violin "in tromba marina," Violoncello, Organ, 2 Violins, Viola and Basso Continuo. The Nisi Dominus is an unpublished work recently re-discovered and attributed to Vivaldi. Now part of the New Critical Edition, this Nisi Dominus (an intonation of Psalm 126 in eight movements) was only re-discovered in May 2003. Until then it had escaped the notice of scholars since its only source - a score kept in Dresden - attributed it to Galuppi rather than its real author, Vivaldi. This is the "missing" work of the five psalms that Vivaldi wrote for the Ospedale della Pieta in 1739, two years before his death. The work consists of parts for a soprano, two contraltos, no fewer than five obbligato instruments (viola d'amore, cello, tenor chalumeau pipe, organ and "tromba marina"), string instruments and basso continuo. Each obbligato instrument appears with special prominence in one of the movements. This exotic orchestration makes this Vivaldi's most coloured sacred vocal work (apart from his Juditha triumphans). The Nisi Dominus is a highly interesting work, as its clearly shows how the composer was absorbing many aspects of the new gallant style in his last few years, while still keeping his own artistic personality intact. This edition is accompanied by a critical section in Italian and English.

Quasi tutti conoscono gli ologrammi, immagini tridimensionali proiettate nello spazio per mezzo di un laser. Ora, due grandi scienziati - David Böhm, fisico quantistico presso la University of London e Karl Pribram, neurofisiologo di Stanford, uno degli artefici della nostra attuale concezione del cervello suppongono che l'universo stesso sia organizzato come un ologramma, in cui ogni parte contiene il tutto. Questo nuovo modo di considerare l'universo dovrebbe chiarire non solo molti degli enigmi insoluti della fisica, ma anche quegli accadimenti misteriosi come la telepatia, le esperienze extracorporee e di premorte, i sogni 'lucidi', e perfino le esperienze religiose e mistiche di unità cosmica e le guarigioni miracolose.

As the popularity of coffee and coffee shops has grown worldwide in recent years, so has another trend—globalization—which has greatly affected growers and distributors. This book analyzes changes in the structure of the coffee commodity chain over the period since World War II. It follows the typical consumer dollar spent on coffee in the developed world and shows how this dollar is divided up among the coffee growers, processors, states, and transnational corporations involved in the chain. By tracing how this division of the coffee dollar has changed over time, it demonstrates that the politically regulated world market that prevailed from the 1960s through the 1980s was fairer for coffee growers than is the current, globalized market controlled by the corporations. Grounds for Agreement explains why fair trade and organic coffees, by themselves, are not adequate to insure fairness for all coffee growers, and argues that a return to a politically regulated market is the best way to solve the current crisis among coffee growers and producers.

Squires (English, Virginia Tech) and Talbot (Spanish, Roanoke College) collected Frieda Laurence's letters for years before realizing that they could add considerable insight to a biography of her famous writer husband. The result, though focusing on him, turned out to be a biography of them as a couple, pulling her out from his shadow. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This straightforward introduction to audio techniques guides the beginner through principles such as sound waves and basic acoustics and offers practical advice for using recording and reproduction equipment. Previously known as Audio Explained, this latest edition includes new material on: reverberation and its use in recording; principles of digital mixing; digital recording; including MiniDisc and MP3; digital artificial reverberation.

Designed with the student in mind, information is organised according to level of difficulty. An understanding of the basic principles is essential to anyone wishing to make successful recordings and so chapters are split into two parts: the first introducing the basic theories in a non-technical way; the second dealing with the subject in more depth. Key facts are clearly identified in separate boxes and further information for the more advanced reader is indicated in shaded boxes. In addition, questions are provided (with answers supplied at the end of the book) as a teaching and learning aid.

Sound Engineering Explained is ideal for both serious audio amateurs any student studying audio for the first time, in particular those preparing for Part One exams of the City & Guilds Sound Engineering (1820) course.


Learn from the beginning about audio techniquesClearly written for ease of understandingCovers the latest advances in technology to keep you completely informed

Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work-all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.