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The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales

by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Anna Katharine Green, Susan Glaspell, G.K. Chesterton, Max Pemberton, John Kendrick Bangs, Israel Zangwill, W.S. Gilbert, Rudyard Kipling0, Grant Allen1, Jacques Futrelle2, M. McDonnell Bodkin3, Catherine Louisa Pirkis4, Robert Barr5, Robert Barr6, H. Greenhough Smith7, Edgar Allan Poe8, Jack London9, Charles Dickens0, J.P. Buschlen1, Dick Donovan2, R.C. Lehmann3 ...

The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly the spirit of Victorian crime fiction continued beyond Queen Victoria. This volume contains 25 ... Read more

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The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly the spirit of Victorian crime fiction continued beyond Queen Victoria. This volume contains 25
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Psychology for Musicians

Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

by Andreas C. Lehmann, John A. Sloboda, Robert H. Woody ...

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that they identify themselves as musicians, and fewer still become musicians of international class. ... Read more

$43.19 USD

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners, advanced music makers, and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that they identify themselves as musicians, and fewer still become musicians of international class.
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Writing Through Bereavement

A Therapeutic Workbook for Grieving Parents

by Olga V. Lehmann, Robert A. Neimeyer, Trine Giving Kalstad ...

This workbook is designed to help bereaved parents find words for grief in their quest for well-being after the devastating death of a child by offering a hands-on approach to therapeutic writing that can be used as a means of self-help, in collaboration with therapists, or in the context of support groups featuring writing for well-being.The book presents a seven-week therapeutic writing program ... Read more

$34.99 USD

This workbook is designed to help bereaved parents find words for grief in their quest for well-being after the devastating death of a child by offering a hands-on approach to therapeutic writing that can be used as a means of self-help, in collaboration with therapists, or in the context of support groups featuring writing for well-being.The book presents a seven-week therapeutic writing program
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African Theatre 19

Opera & Music Theatre

by Christine Matzke, Christine Matzke, Lena van der Hoven, Lena van der Hoven, Liani Maasdorp, Neo Muyanga, Nora Amin, Paula Fourie, Sam Kasule, Tobias Robert Klein, Wilfried Zoungrana0, Zainabu Jallo1, Christopher Odhiambo and Hilde Roos2, Andrea Reikat3, Bode Omojola4, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo5, Fabian Lehmann6, Hilde Roos7 ...

Music is often cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre on the continent in general, and to opera in particular, with the exceptions ofa few noted genres, such as Concert Party or the Yorùbá "folk opera" of the 1960s, and the emerging research on opera culture in South Africa.This volume of African ... Read more

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Music is often cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre on the continent in general, and to opera in particular, with the exceptions ofa few noted genres, such as Concert Party or the Yorùbá "folk opera" of the 1960s, and the emerging research on opera culture in South Africa.This volume of African
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Psychology for Musicians : Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

Understanding and Acquiring the Skills

by Andreas C. Lehmann;John A. Sloboda;Robert H. Woody ...

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners advanced music makers and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that they identify themselves as musicians and fewer still become musicians of international class. ... Read more

$43.19 USD

What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners advanced music makers and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that they identify themselves as musicians and fewer still become musicians of international class.
... Read more
Bioceramic Coatings for Medical Implants

Trends and Techniques

by Robert B. Heimann, Hans D. Lehmann ...

Reflecting the progress in recent years, this book provides in-depth information on the preparation, chemistry, and engineering of bioceramic coatings for medical implants. It is authored by two renowned experts with over 30 years of experience in industry and academia, who know the potentials and pitfalls of the techniques concerned.Following an introduction to the principles of biocompatibility, ... Read more

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Reflecting the progress in recent years, this book provides in-depth information on the preparation, chemistry, and engineering of bioceramic coatings for medical implants. It is authored by two renowned experts with over 30 years of experience in industry and academia, who know the potentials and pitfalls of the techniques concerned.Following an introduction to the principles of biocompatibility,
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Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances

Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress

by Stanley Wells, Joel Rodgers, Randall Martin, Robert Darcy, Atsuhiko Hirota, Darryl Chalk, Supriya Chaudhuri, Kimberly R. West, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Margaret Shewring, Richard Fotheringham, Ros King, James J. Marino, Brian Walsh, Eleanor Collins, M. A. Katritzky, Martin Hilský, Ann Jennalie Cook, Vlasta Gallerová, Karel Kríž, Robert Sturua, Jean-Christophe Mayer, Galz Engler, Madalina Nicolaescu, Kaori Kobayashi, Patrick Lonergan, Zeno Ackermann, Tina Krontiris, Emily Oliver, Shaul Bassi, Barry Freeman, Carla della Gatta, Cristiane Busato Smith, Sharon O'Dair, Emma Depledge, Anna Cetera, Courtney Lehmann, Poonam Trivedi, Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei, Graham Holderness, Jill L. Levenson, Hersh Zeifman ...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact ... Read more

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Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact
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Australian Poetry Since 1788

Edited by Robert Gray, Geoffrey Lehmann ...

The first of its kind, this landmark poetry anthology contains the work of Australia's major poets as well as lesser-known but equally affecting writers of Australian poetry since 1788. Ranging from concrete to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse, this work also features translations of some striking Aboriginal song ... Read more

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The first of its kind, this landmark poetry anthology contains the work of Australia's major poets as well as lesser-known but equally affecting writers of Australian poetry since 1788. Ranging from concrete to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional, and from formal to free verse, this work also features translations of some striking Aboriginal song
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Biochar Systems for Smallholders in Developing Countries

Leveraging Current Knowledge and Exploring Future Potential for Climate-Smart Agriculture

by Sebastian B. Scholz, Thomas Sembres, Kelli Roberts, Thea Whitman, Kelpie Wilson, Johannes Lehmann ...

Series series World Bank Studies
Biochar is the carbon-rich organic matter that remains after heating biomass under minimization of oxygen during a process called pyrolysis. Its relevance to deforestation, agricultural resilience, and energy production, particularly in developing countries, makes it an important issue. This report offers a review of what is known about opportunities and risks of biochar systems. Its aim is to ... Read more

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Biochar is the carbon-rich organic matter that remains after heating biomass under minimization of oxygen during a process called pyrolysis. Its relevance to deforestation, agricultural resilience, and energy production, particularly in developing countries, makes it an important issue. This report offers a review of what is known about opportunities and risks of biochar systems. Its aim is to
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Socrates

A Life Worth Living

by Devra Lehmann ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Series series PHILOSOPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of ... Read more

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A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of
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Designing for Zero Waste

Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment

Edited by Steffen Lehmann, Robert Crocker ...

Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing ... Read more

$87.99 USD

Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing
... Read more
Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment

Edited by Robert Crocker, Steffen Lehmann ...

Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
Today’s most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change.Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture, urban design, ... Read more

$99.99 USD

Today’s most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change.Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture, urban design,
... Read more

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