The French composer Olivier Messiaen is one of the major figures of twentieth-century music. This collection of scholarly essays offers new cultural, historical, biographical and analytical perspectives on Messiaen's musical oeuvre from 1941 to 1992. The volume includes: a fascinating snapshot of Me[...]

Pagan Studies is maturing and moving beyond the context of new religious movements to situate itself in within of the study of world religions. Introduction to Pagan Studies is the first and only text designed to introduce the study of contemporary Paganism as a world religion. It examines the inte[...]

50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of medicine. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics ranging from dieting to cardiovascular disease, insomnia to obstetrics. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis [...]

This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance art, pho[...]

Introduces the beginner to jazz rhythms including swing quavers, syncopation and anticipation. This title contains fully graded melodic jazz studies. This title helps to develop confidence within common jazz tonalities: whole-tone, diminished and blues scales, modes and the II-V-I chord sequence.[...]

The Seminar for Arabian Studies has come a long way since 1968 when it was first convened, yet it remains the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. This is clearly reflected in the ever-increasing number of researchers from all over the world who come each yea[...]

Etudey avstrijskogo skripacha i pedagoga XIX v., shiroko ispolzuemye v pedagogicheskoj praktike. Dlja uchaschikhsja starshikh klassov DMSh.[...]