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Dr. Bartolo's Umbrella and Other Tales from My Surprising Operatic Life
Dr. Bartolo's Umbrella and Other Tales From My Surprising Operatic Life is a funny, touching, irreverent memoir about Chris Cameron's thirty year career as an opera and concert singer on stages across the country. Cameron might have been a nondescript face in a crowd, but when he sang, he was somebody. Dr. Bartolo's Umbrella and Other Tales From My Surprising Operatic Lifeinvites readers along on Cameron's journey from ordinary suburban teenager to professional musician performing principal roles on the operatic stage. His often hilarious stories about performing offer insight into their historical context, plus such arcane facts as why an opera singer's voice can be heard above a whole orchestra while other people can barely be heard across the dining room table. Without trivializing the art form, the genial, approachable tone of the book makes it accessible to people of diverse ages and interests. Dr. Bartolo's Umbrella and Other Tales From My Surprising Operatic Life will have readers singing its praises to the back of the hall.
Thorneside Stories
Welcome to Thorneside. If you're a new arrival, the place may look like just another sleepy town nestled among the rolling hills of Lindisfarne County. But spend some time here, meet the people, and you'll soon see much more. Meet a church choirmaster who has been scanning obituaries for over twenty years, searching for one particular name. Meet a former big-city paramedic who now drives a hearse for the local funeral home so he doesn't have to worry about killing his passengers. Meet a mysterious stranger who shows up in town and charms everyone he meets. Nearly everyone. And meet four unforgettable women. The secrets of their intertwined lives could wake the dead - or in one case, have the opposite effect. Welcome to their stories.
I'm Still Me
My life coping with learning difficulties ADD and Dyslexia.
Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter
Examining religion's place in the Black Lives Matter movement through the lenses of history, politics, and culture
The Abolitionist Movement
Intended for high school and undergraduate students, this work provides an engaging overview of the abolitionist movement that allows readers to consider history more directly through more than 20 primary source documents. The Abolitionist Movement: Documents Decoded collects primary sources pertaining to various aspects of the American anti-slavery movement in the 18th and 19th centuries and presents these firsthand sources alongside accessibly written, expert commentary in a visually stimulating format. Making use of primary source documents that include pamphlets, articles, speeches, slave narratives, and court decisions, the book models how scholars interpret primary sources and shows re...
Black Freethinkers
Black Freethinkers is the first study to offer a comprehensive historical treatment of African American freethought (including atheism, agnosticism, and secular humanism) from the nineteenth century to the present.
Dreaming Aloud
"Dreaming Aloud chronicles the career of filmmaker James Cameron, from his earliest work through to his acceptance speeches on winning Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for "Titanic. The opening chapter focuses on Cameron's early life in northern Ontario, then follows him to Orange County, California, where he took his first film job with schlock-horror film master Roger Corman. His apprenticeship with Corman was elemental in Cameron's creation of "The Terminator, his first major film, which was a huge international success, proving Cameron had the talent and insight necessary to create blockbuster movies. With Hollywood's door now wide open, Cameron went on to make some of the most expensive, popular films in cinematic history--a second "Terminator film, the Oscar award-winning "Aliens, "The Abyss, True Lies and now "Titanic
To Plead Our Own Cause
"Fleshing out the important links between Reformed theology, the institution of slavery, and the rise of the antislavery movement, author Christopher Cameron argues that African Americans in Massachusetts initiated organized abolitionism in America and that their antislavery ideology had its origins in Puritan thought and the particular system of slavery that this religious ideology shaped in Massachusetts. The political activity of black abolitionists was central in effecting the abolition of slavery and the slave trade within the Bay State, and it was likewise key in building a national antislavery movement in the years of the early republic" -- Publisher's description.
Anthropology of Landscape
An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. The landscape is discussed in relation to these themes as both ‘taskscape’ and ‘leisurescape’, and from the perspective of different user groups. First, those who manage the landscape and use it for work: conservationists, environmentalists, archaeologists, the Royal Marines, and quarrying interests. Second, those who use it in their leisure time: cyclists and horse riders, model aircraft flyers, walkers, people who fish there, and artists who are inspired by it. The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity, and an anthropology of Britain.
Opera Viva
It started with a festival - three classic operas performed in a theatre in Toronto. But when it became apparent that there was a need for a national opera company, an organization was founded that would go on to become one of the largest performing arts organizations in the country. The Canadian Opera Company was born in 1950, and is now one of the major opera companies in North America. The Company has toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States, and has delighted audiences as far away as Australia and Hong Kong, all the while finding the time to record frequently and develop special operatic presentations for children. More than just a group of performers, the COC also prov...
