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Let the Church Sing!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Let the Church Sing!

An examination of worldviews, religious belief and ritual as seen through the musical performances of one Afro-American Baptist church in a small black community in rural Mississippi. "Let the Church Sing!" Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community is based on years of fieldwork by an Irish ethnomusicologist, who examines, in more detail than ever before, how various facets of the Clear Creek citizens' worldview find expression through religious ritual and music. Thérèse Smith, though originally very much an outsider, gradually found herself welcomed into Clear Creek by members and officials of the Clear Creek Missionary Baptist Church. She was permitted to record many hours' wort...

The Concept of Progression in the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

The Concept of Progression in the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

"Based on the selected proceedings from an international conference Concept of progression in foreign language teaching and learning, held in Dublin in February 2004"--Cover.

Manpower Planning and Organization Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 765

Manpower Planning and Organization Design

This volume is the proceedings of the conference entitled "Manpower Planning and Organization Design" which was held in Stresa, Italy, 20-24 June 1977. The Conference was sponsored by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and organized jointly through the Special Programs Panels on Human Factors and on Systems Science. Two Conference Directors were appointed with overall responsibilities for the programme and for policy, and they were assisted in their tasks by a small advisory panel consisting of Professor A. Charnes (University of Texas), Professor W.W. Cooper (Carnegie Mellon University, now at Harvard University) and Dr. F.A. Heller (TavistQck Institute of Human Relations). Professor R. F...

What Makes Africans Laugh? Reflections of an Entrepreneur in Humour, Media and Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

What Makes Africans Laugh? Reflections of an Entrepreneur in Humour, Media and Culture

What Makes Africans Laugh? is a critique of the African's attitude towards indigenous craftsmanship, knowledge and culture, especially in the post-independence era. It is woven around the life of James Tumusiime, who has been a campaigner for African self-reliance in the cultural industry - humour, media and historiography. Although Tumusiime draws many of his examples from Uganda and Kenya, the story is familiar to most people in Africa. This book brings out the practical experiences of a civil servant, the challenges of a cartoonist in a politically sensitive environment, and the struggles to localise humour to a cynical industry. It narrates the drama in starting a media house - the New Vision, a book publishing house - Fountain Publishers, a local-language radio station ñ Radio West, and a museum - Igongo Cultural Centre, all coming amidst lukewarm political support and a sceptical audience.

Diminutives in English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Diminutives in English

That English has no diminutives is a common myth. The present study shows, however, that English does possess diminutives, and not only analytic but also synthetic diminutive markers. Analytic markers include, first and foremost, little, as well as other adjectives from the same word field, whereas the inventory of synthetic markers comprises suffixes as, for instance, -ie, -ette, -let, -kin, -een, -s, -er, -poo and -pegs. These markers are examined from a grammatical and a pragmatic perspective in an integrative formal-functional framework. The grammatical perspective involves phonological, morphological and semantic features, while the pragmatic perspective involves pragmalinguistic as wel...

Consumer Citizen as a Media Project
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 453

Consumer Citizen as a Media Project

The current book asserts that reality television serves a broader social purpose than simple entertainment. Instead, this type of programing can best be understood as a revealing exposition on contemporary politics, culture, and social issues. Reality television addresses many different social groups. The book primarily examines the social and political messages conveyed by reality television to its viewers. Focusing on the notion of consumer citizenship, the study analyzes the German television program Deutschland sucht den Superstar (Germany seeks a Superstar) as a reflection of contemporary social and political issues in Germany. Dissertation. (Series: Kulturwissenschaft / Cultural Studies / Estudios Culturales / Ã?Â?tudes Culturelles, Vol. 53) [Subject: Media Studies, Popular Culture, German Studies]

The Blot
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

The Blot

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-02-02
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  • Publisher: Random House

**A New York Times top 100 Notable Book of the Year** Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned. Maybe it had something to do with the Blot – a black spot which has emerged to distort Bruno’s vision. It’s not showing any signs of going away. As Bruno extends his losing streak in Berlin, it becomes clinically clear that the Blot is the symptom of something terrible. There’s a surgeon who can help, but surgery is going to involve a lot of money, and worse: returning home to the garish, hash-smoke streets of Berkeley, California. Here, the unseemly Keith Stolarsky – a childhood friend in possession of an empire of themed burger bars and thrift stores – is king. And he’s willing to help Bruno out. But there was always going to be a price.

A Gambler's Anatomy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

A Gambler's Anatomy

**A New York Times top 100 Notable Book of the Year** Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work- backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned. Maybe it had something to do with the Blot - a black spot which has emerged to distort Bruno's vision. It's not showing any signs of going away. In fact, it's spreading, and as Bruno extends his losing streak in Berlin, it becomes clinically clear that the Blot is the symptom of something terrible. There's a surgeon who can h...

Les cosmétiques en RFA (2). Emballage des cosmétiques, transport, concurrence, publicité et responsabilité
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 447

Les cosmétiques en RFA (2). Emballage des cosmétiques, transport, concurrence, publicité et responsabilité

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993-01-01T00:00:00+01:00
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  • Publisher: FeniXX

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Anatomia di un giocatore d’azzardo
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 345

Anatomia di un giocatore d’azzardo

Affascinante, sempre elegantissimo, Bruno Alexander viaggia per il mondo arricchendosi a spese degli sventurati dilettanti che pensano di poter sfidare il suo ineguagliabile talento di giocatore di backgammon. Spinto dal suo manager, pallido e vampiresco, Bruno arriva a Berlino dopo una serie di partite a Singapore, dove è accaduto qualcosa che lo ha sorpreso. Forse a causa dell’incontro con un suo volgare amico d’infanzia e la sua bollente fidanzata, o forse per una misteriosa macchia comparsa improvvisamente che gli impedisce di vedere con precisione il gioco, il suo infallibile intuito, capace di leggere nella mente del suo sfidante, sembra essersi inceppato. A Berlino la situazione ...