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Addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. This title emphasises on the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo instruments in France.

Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book examines the development of human societies in Britain from earliest times to the Roman conquest of AD 43, as revealed by archaeological evidence.

PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR THIRD EDITION offers a wide variety of exercises that help to put Spanish grammar into practice so you can understand how the language is used today.

Long-trusted as the most practical and comprehensive Spanish grammar book available, A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION provides students and teachers with a complete guide to Spanish as it is written and spoken today.

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Suitable for clinician or researcher working with teens with autism spectrum disorders, this book moves on to the individual treatment sessions and strategies for tackling issues such as developing conversational skills, choosing friends, using humor, get-togethers, teasing, bullying, gossiping, and handling disagreements.

Covers the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to those who do motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This book focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety.

Tracing the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein, from the Pythagorean theorem to quantum mechanics, this title offers intriguing insights into how scientific theories come into being, how to eliminate blocks to creativity and how science can lead to an understanding of society, the human condition and the human mind itself.

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. This title offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker's writings, including: "The Origin of the Work of Art"; "The introduction to Being and Time"; "What Is Metaphysics?"; and, "The End of Philosophy".

This volume brings diagnostic order, a comprehensible theory, and a clinical approach out of the confusion surrounding the "borderline" concept.

Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. This book explores his central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self.

The acoustics of a space can have a real impact on the sounds you create and capture. This book helps you understand how real music sounds behave in different spaces whether during a performance or a recording and how they are perceived by performers and listeners.

Suitable for those serious about photography, this comprehensive guide takes you from capture to output in both digital and film media, with sections on lens use, darkroom techniques, digital cameras and scanners, image editing techniques and processes, workflow, digital file formats and image archiving.

A reference guide to the grammar system for intermediate to advanced learners of Polish. It presents an accessible and systematic description of the language, focusing on real patterns of use in contemporary language.

How do we know what we 'know'? How did we - as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? This title questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. It investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge.

A guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. It outlines the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms.

Finnish: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of Finnish as it is used by native speakers today. It is the ideal reference source both for those studying Finnish independently and for all students.

Discusses the essentials of Chinese grammar. This book presents Chinese entries in both pinyin romanisation and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition in both the spoken and the written language. It is suitable for students with some knowledge of the language.

Explains the relationships between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the benefits of exercise in the prevention and treatment of a wide range of important conditions.

Traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. This translation of the original "A sthetik des Performativen" addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a fresh appreciation of the artistic event.