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The Future of Music
The idea of this monograph is to present an overview of decisive theoretical, computational, technological, aesthetical, artistic, economical, and sociological directions to create future music. It features a unique insight into dominant scientific and artistic new directions, which are guaranteed by the authors' prominent publications in books, software, musical, and dance productions. Applying recent research results from mathematical and computational music theory and software as well as new ideas of embodiment approaches and non-Western music cultures, this book presents new composition methods and technologies. Mathematical, computational, and semiotic models of artistic presence (imaginary time, gestural creativity) as well as strategies are also covered. This book will be of interest to composers, music technicians, and organizers in the internet-based music industry, who are offered concrete conceptual architectures and tools for their future strategies in musical creativity and production.
Women, War, Domesticity
This book studies a burgeoning middlebrow culture championed and sustained by a group of women writers, editors, and publishers who began their careers in Shanghai in the early 1940s when the city entered into an era of total occupation by the Japanese.
Food Safety
This book is an updated reference source on food safety best practices. The chapters discuss analytical approaches to measuring food contaminants, quality control and risk assessment of food storage, food irradiation, etc. The contributors discuss how quality control and management help to establish sustainable and secure food systems globally. The book covers topics such as techniques to measure food contaminants, toxins, heavy metals and pesticide content in food. FEATURES Examines the role of food safety approaches in global food supply chains Describes various detection techniques for food contaminants and toxins Discusses the application of nanotechnology and other innovations in food safety and risk assessment Reviews the international regulations for management of food hazards Includes the hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP) principles This book is an essential resource to help students, researchers, and industry professionals understand and address day-to-day problems regarding food contamination and safety and their impact on human health.
Half a Lifelong Romance
From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manjing is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together - until circumstances force them apart. When they are reunited after a separation of many years, can they start their relationship again? Or is it destined to be the romance of only half a lifetime? This affectionate and captivating novel tells the moving story of an enduring love affair, and offers a fascinating window onto Chinese life in th...
De liefde van een half leven
Als de verlegen jonge ingenieur Shijun in de fabriek Manzhen ontmoet, wordt hij getroffen door haar subtiele schoonheid en hoopvolle karakter. Al snel bloeit een liefde tussen hen op. Maar druk vanuit hun familie en gebeurtenissen buiten hun invloed vernietigen al snel de mogelijkheid van een toekomst samen. Kan het paar de weg terug naar elkaar vinden? Of worden ze daarin gehinderd door de trauma’s uit het verleden? De liefde van een half leven, gesitueerd in het Shanghai van de jaren dertig, is een rijk en ontroerend verhaal over liefde, hoop en de boze krachten die ons – ondanks onze uiterste inspanningen – kunnen overweldigen. Deze tijdloze, internationaal herontdekte roman is nu voor het eerst in het Nederlands vertaald door Silvia Marijnissen, die deze uitgave ook van een nawoord heeft voorzien.
