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Carmen Abroad
A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.
Management of Legionella in Water Systems
Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. Legionella occur naturally in water from many different environmental sources, but grow rapidly in the warm, stagnant conditions that can be found in engineered water systems such as cooling towers, building plumbing, and hot tubs. Humans are primarily exposed to Legionella through inhalation of contaminated aerosols into the respiratory system. Legionnaires' disease can be fatal, with between 3 and 33 percent of Legionella infections leading to death, and studies show the incidence of Legionnaires' disease in the United States increased five-fold from 2000 to 2017. Management of Legionella in Water Systems reviews the state of science on Legionella contamination of water systems, specifically the ecology and diagnosis. This report explores the process of transmission via water systems, quantification, prevention and control, and policy and training issues that affect the incidence of Legionnaires' disease. It also analyzes existing knowledge gaps and recommends research priorities moving forward.
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.
The Last Children of Tokyo
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sickness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?
An Awfully Big Adventure
'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IN 1990 It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to interpret.
Carmen & Fausto
Unter dem Einfluss der französischen Oper tritt eine Oper-Film-Beziehung im rioplatensen Raum zu Beginn des 20. Jh. in Erscheinung. So ist es in Buenos Aires bei filmischen Adaptationen der französischen Opern Faust (1859) und Carmen (1875) zu einer besonderen Medienverschmelzung in der Stumm- und Tonfilmzeit gekommen. Durch die Analyse der inter-, transkulturellen sowie intermedialen Dimensionen, wurde eine (alp)traumhafte bzw. imaginäre Oper im argentinischen Film sichtbar. Dies konnte mit den Thesen der Philosophen M. N. Lapoujade und C. Castoriadis hervorgehoben werden, da sie die Fähigkeit des Menschen zu imaginieren fokussieren. So rückt das „radikal Imaginäre“, der „Homo Imaginans“ und das „gesellschaftliche Imaginäre“ für das bessere Verständnis in den Vordergrund der Arbeit. In Anbetracht des argentinischen Gedichts Fausto (1866), des argentinischen Films La Carmen criolla (1918), der „Traducción“ von J. L. Borges sowie den Filmarbeiten von L. C. Amadori und L. Saslavsky konnte ein lateinamerikanisches Genre mit dem Neologismus „Imagópera“ festgelegt werden, das sich vom europäischen wie US-amerikanischen abgrenzt.
The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film
This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the ‘Brighton School’ and are positioned as being at the forefront of Britain’s contribution to the birth of film. The book focuses on the years 1896 to 1903, as it was during this short period that film emerged as a new technology, a new enterprise and a new form of entertainment. Beginning with a historiography of the Brighton School, the study goes on to examine the arrival of the first 35mm films in Britain, the first film exhibitions in Brighton and the first projection of film in Brig...
Shale Tectonics
Hardcover plus CD
Someone at a Distance
J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."
