Introduces basic concepts of contemporary post-tonal music theory. Provides a comprehensive text covering analytical and compositional aspects of post tonal music from the early 1900's through today. This text provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to post-tonal music available from Imp[...]

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth, a musicologist, here fill this important gap for [...]

In the last twenty years professional sport has grown into a business of some substance and has attracted increasing attention from investors, lawyers, governments and regulators. Commercial and cultural disputes have required an increasingly sophisticated economic analysis, and over this period Ste[...]

Ever since artworks came to be seen as aesthetic forms, there has been a tension between the theoretical structures involved in our experiences of art and those experiences themselves. That tension has commonly been most visible in the artwork itself. But do we need aesthetics to appreciate a work o[...]

Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat. The securitization of HIV/AIDS not only affe[...]

Information retrieval is the foundation for modern search engines. This text offers an introduction to the core topics underlying modern search technologies, including algorithms, data structures, indexing, retrieval, and evaluation. The emphasis is on implementation and experimentation; each chapte[...]

This work traces the military history of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean. Major events and important individuals are discussed in their historical and chronological context. The book explains the causes behind important events, the results of various military encounters, and their signific[...]

In this comprehensive biography of one of the great movie icons of our time, Stefan Kanfer, the acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball, Groucho Marx, and Marlon Brando, illuminates the life and career of Humphrey Bogart. Along the way, Kanfer gives us a wide-reaching cultural appraisal of the movies m[...]

The secret to creative success lies not in knowing the right answers, but in knowing how to ask the right questionsa??and this little book is full of them! A veritable therapy session on paper, 344 Questions is composed entirely of questions designed to help you determine where you are in your life [...]

Writing History is designed to provide the necessary material for general courses in historiography, identifying in turn the evolution of 'traditional' approaches, the challenge of the 'linguistic turn', and contemporary perspectives that inform our current understandings.[...]

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This book builds a bridge of understanding across the great divide that separates the sexes, providing candid information guaranteed to restore pleasure, peace, trust, and simple enjoyment to the life you share with the woman you love.""Drawi[...]