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A Patch of Black Ice
Olivier Lambert is a private detective trying to gather the pieces of his life together after his beloved wife dies in a freak car accident. When he meets Maude, a mysterious woman with a complex case involving a fatal accident, long-lost relatives and dark secrets, his investigation leads him to Stanstead, Quebec, Boston, USA, and Lisbon, Portugal. Along the way, he unravels the painful truth about Maude’s family—and meets a woman who might be the missing piece he’s been waiting for to make him feel whole again. Riveting, thought-provoking and heartwarming, A Patch of Black Ice explores the depths a family will go to stay together even after they’ve lost so much.
Airborne Dreams
An account of Pan Ams Nisei stewardess program (1955&–1972), through which the airline hired Japanese American (and later other Asian and Asian American) stewardesses, ostensibly for their Asian-language skills.
A Stigmatist
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Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'oiseaux
This book charts Messiaen's transformation of birdsong into music and its development into a major work of the twentieth century.
L'Heritage
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Wild Soundscapes
A founder of soundscape ecology offers a pioneering field guide for listening to and recording the sounds of the wild Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear and record the sounds of diverse natural habitats. Wild Soundscapes, first published in 2002, inspires readers to follow in Krause's footsteps. The book enchantingly shows how to find creature symphonies (or, as Krause calls them, "biophonies"); use simple microphones to hear more; and record, mix, and create new expressions with the gathered sounds. After reading this book, readers will feel compelled to investigate a wide range of habitats and animal sounds, from the conversations of birds and howling sand dunes to singing anthills. This rewritten and updated edition explains the newest technological advances and research, encouraging readers to understand the earth's soundscapes in ways previously unimaginable. With links to the sounds that are discussed in the text, this accessible and engaging guide to natural soundscapes will captivate amateur naturalists, field recordists, musicians, and anyone else who wants to fully appreciate the sounds of our natural world.
Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond
Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been comprehensively defined and investigated. The composer's 1944 theoretical study, The Technique of My Musical Language, expounds only its initial stages, and while his posthumously published Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie contains detailed explanations of selected techniques, in most cases the reader is left to define these more precisely by observing them in the context of Messiaen's analyses of his own works. Technical processes are nevertheless in many cases the primary components of a work or movement. For instance, personnages dominate 'Joi...
Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences
Focusing on Messiaen’s relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences examines the genesis, sources and cultural pressures that shaped Messiaen’s music. Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception analyses Messiaen’s compositional approach and the repercussions of his music. While each book offers a coherent collection in itself, together these complementary volumes elucidate how powerfully Messiaen was embedded in his time and place, and how his music resonates ever mor...
Mafia Kingfish
Story of the Mafia leader who the author believes was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy and other crimes and scandals in addition to running an organized crime empire in Louisiana.
