Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN: 1782278494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland—many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedoms are embraced. Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, Senior Editor at McNally Editions, this collection places works from renowned women writers alongside recently rediscovered voices. Contains: “The Cut Finger” by Frances Bellerby “Summer Night” by Elizabeth Bowen “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier “The Land Girl” by Diana Gardner “Listen to the Magnolias” by Stella Gibbons “Shocking Weather, Isn”t It?” by Inez Holden “The First Party” by Attia Hosain “Three Miles Up” by Elizabeth Jane Howard “The Skylight” by Penelope Mortimer “The Thames Spread Out” by Elizabeth Taylor “Scorched Earth Policy” by Sylvia Townsend Warner Suffused with tension and longing, the captivating stories collected here from acclaimed as well as lesser-known women writers form a window onto a remarkable era of writing.
A Different Sound
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN: 1782278494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland—many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedoms are embraced. Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, Senior Editor at McNally Editions, this collection places works from renowned women writers alongside recently rediscovered voices. Contains: “The Cut Finger” by Frances Bellerby “Summer Night” by Elizabeth Bowen “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier “The Land Girl” by Diana Gardner “Listen to the Magnolias” by Stella Gibbons “Shocking Weather, Isn”t It?” by Inez Holden “The First Party” by Attia Hosain “Three Miles Up” by Elizabeth Jane Howard “The Skylight” by Penelope Mortimer “The Thames Spread Out” by Elizabeth Taylor “Scorched Earth Policy” by Sylvia Townsend Warner Suffused with tension and longing, the captivating stories collected here from acclaimed as well as lesser-known women writers form a window onto a remarkable era of writing.
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN: 1782278494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland—many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedoms are embraced. Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, Senior Editor at McNally Editions, this collection places works from renowned women writers alongside recently rediscovered voices. Contains: “The Cut Finger” by Frances Bellerby “Summer Night” by Elizabeth Bowen “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier “The Land Girl” by Diana Gardner “Listen to the Magnolias” by Stella Gibbons “Shocking Weather, Isn”t It?” by Inez Holden “The First Party” by Attia Hosain “Three Miles Up” by Elizabeth Jane Howard “The Skylight” by Penelope Mortimer “The Thames Spread Out” by Elizabeth Taylor “Scorched Earth Policy” by Sylvia Townsend Warner Suffused with tension and longing, the captivating stories collected here from acclaimed as well as lesser-known women writers form a window onto a remarkable era of writing.
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Author: Trevor Cox
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324282X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York Times In this tour of the world’s most unexpected sounds, Trevor Cox—the “David Attenborough of the acoustic realm” (Observer)—discovers the world’s longest echo in a hidden oil cavern in Scotland, unlocks the secret of singing sand dunes in California, and alerts us to the aural gems that exist everywhere in between. Using the world’s most amazing acoustic phenomena to reveal how sound works in everyday life, The Sound Book inspires us to become better listeners in a world dominated by the visual and to open our ears to the glorious cacophony all around us.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324282X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York Times In this tour of the world’s most unexpected sounds, Trevor Cox—the “David Attenborough of the acoustic realm” (Observer)—discovers the world’s longest echo in a hidden oil cavern in Scotland, unlocks the secret of singing sand dunes in California, and alerts us to the aural gems that exist everywhere in between. Using the world’s most amazing acoustic phenomena to reveal how sound works in everyday life, The Sound Book inspires us to become better listeners in a world dominated by the visual and to open our ears to the glorious cacophony all around us.
Baby's First Sound Book: Farm
Author: Roger Priddy
Publisher: Priddy Books US
ISBN: 9780312521646
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduce your baby to their first farm animals with this delightful noisy board book from Roger Priddy, Baby's First Sound Book: Farm. From calves to piglets to lambs, there are different baby animals to meet on every page, and little hands will love to press the fun button to listen to the sounds that they make. With photographs to look at, words to learn, and smoothly shaped, tactile pages, this is a fabulous first farm book to delight little minds. Featuring integral sound button with five different farm animal noises.
Publisher: Priddy Books US
ISBN: 9780312521646
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduce your baby to their first farm animals with this delightful noisy board book from Roger Priddy, Baby's First Sound Book: Farm. From calves to piglets to lambs, there are different baby animals to meet on every page, and little hands will love to press the fun button to listen to the sounds that they make. With photographs to look at, words to learn, and smoothly shaped, tactile pages, this is a fabulous first farm book to delight little minds. Featuring integral sound button with five different farm animal noises.
What Is Sound?
Author: Charlotte Guillain
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781432931995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Describes how sounds are produced, how sound waves work, and what causes echoes.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781432931995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Describes how sounds are produced, how sound waves work, and what causes echoes.
The Sound of Light
Author: Claire Wallis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998825915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My littlest girl has always been a bit peculiar. It was nothing I could ever put a finger on, but I always knew there was something inside her that made her a different kind of special. A deeper kind. K'acy's got a light around her, one that'll just about knock you over, especially if you don't see her coming. She's got music in her soul, too. Deep, resonating music that echoes and hums, just like the notes that come from the bass guitar she's had attached to her hip since the day she turned thirteen years old. She's got a hell of a secret, yes, but she does what she's got to do to make it one worth having. She takes care of people. She changes their stories. I spent my life telling both of my girls that you always gotta do what's right, even when it hurts, and it makes me proud to know she was listening. I saw the way she looked at that boy on the day they met, and I knew right then that things were going to change. Two different people from two different worlds is nothing but a recipe for heartbreak, and when the lies pile higher and higher, it can change a person into something they're not. It took me dying all those years ago to finally figure out just exactly how special my K'acy really is, and even though I'm not with her anymore, I don't want that boy and his family to change her. I want her to keep doing what's right, even when it hurts. Because that's who she is inside. That's her deeper kind of special. **This stand-alone novel by Claire Wallis is intended for mature readers age 17 and up**
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998825915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My littlest girl has always been a bit peculiar. It was nothing I could ever put a finger on, but I always knew there was something inside her that made her a different kind of special. A deeper kind. K'acy's got a light around her, one that'll just about knock you over, especially if you don't see her coming. She's got music in her soul, too. Deep, resonating music that echoes and hums, just like the notes that come from the bass guitar she's had attached to her hip since the day she turned thirteen years old. She's got a hell of a secret, yes, but she does what she's got to do to make it one worth having. She takes care of people. She changes their stories. I spent my life telling both of my girls that you always gotta do what's right, even when it hurts, and it makes me proud to know she was listening. I saw the way she looked at that boy on the day they met, and I knew right then that things were going to change. Two different people from two different worlds is nothing but a recipe for heartbreak, and when the lies pile higher and higher, it can change a person into something they're not. It took me dying all those years ago to finally figure out just exactly how special my K'acy really is, and even though I'm not with her anymore, I don't want that boy and his family to change her. I want her to keep doing what's right, even when it hurts. Because that's who she is inside. That's her deeper kind of special. **This stand-alone novel by Claire Wallis is intended for mature readers age 17 and up**
Designing Sound
Author: Andy Farnell
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262014416
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
A practitioner's guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software. Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text takes a practitioner's perspective, exploring the basic principles of making ordinary, everyday sounds using an easily accessed free software. Readers use the Pure Data (Pd) language to construct sound objects, which are more flexible and useful than recordings. Sound is considered as a process, rather than as data—an approach sometimes known as “procedural audio.” Procedural sound is a living sound effect that can run as computer code and be changed in real time according to unpredictable events. Applications include video games, film, animation, and media in which sound is part of an interactive process. The book takes a practical, systematic approach to the subject, teaching by example and providing background information that offers a firm theoretical context for its pragmatic stance. [Many of the examples follow a pattern, beginning with a discussion of the nature and physics of a sound, proceeding through the development of models and the implementation of examples, to the final step of producing a Pure Data program for the desired sound. Different synthesis methods are discussed, analyzed, and refined throughout.] After mastering the techniques presented in Designing Sound, students will be able to build their own sound objects for use in interactive applications and other projects
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262014416
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
A practitioner's guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software. Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text takes a practitioner's perspective, exploring the basic principles of making ordinary, everyday sounds using an easily accessed free software. Readers use the Pure Data (Pd) language to construct sound objects, which are more flexible and useful than recordings. Sound is considered as a process, rather than as data—an approach sometimes known as “procedural audio.” Procedural sound is a living sound effect that can run as computer code and be changed in real time according to unpredictable events. Applications include video games, film, animation, and media in which sound is part of an interactive process. The book takes a practical, systematic approach to the subject, teaching by example and providing background information that offers a firm theoretical context for its pragmatic stance. [Many of the examples follow a pattern, beginning with a discussion of the nature and physics of a sound, proceeding through the development of models and the implementation of examples, to the final step of producing a Pure Data program for the desired sound. Different synthesis methods are discussed, analyzed, and refined throughout.] After mastering the techniques presented in Designing Sound, students will be able to build their own sound objects for use in interactive applications and other projects
The Science of Sound and Music
Author: Shar Levine
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806971834
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides a variety of simple experiments investigating the science behind sound.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806971834
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides a variety of simple experiments investigating the science behind sound.
The Best Sound in the World
Author: Cindy Wume
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 0711252130
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The Sun: "Simply charming" Roy is a lion and a sound catcher. He catches the sounds of the city and makes them into music, trying to avoid the annoying attentions of his neighbor, Jemmy. Feeling like his music isn’t good enough, Roy goes on a journey to find the best sound in the world for inspiration. He hears the pitter-patter of the rain in the forest, the wind whistling through the desert, and the hustle and bustle of the souk at sunrise, but none of it helps—he can’t decide which is the best sound. Just as he’s about to give up, he hears a familiar voice . . . can Jemmy teach him that perhaps there are lots of beautiful sounds, not just one, and that for Jemmy, Roy’s music is the best of all? This gorgeous debut picture book is a heart-warming tribute to the power of friendship.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 0711252130
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The Sun: "Simply charming" Roy is a lion and a sound catcher. He catches the sounds of the city and makes them into music, trying to avoid the annoying attentions of his neighbor, Jemmy. Feeling like his music isn’t good enough, Roy goes on a journey to find the best sound in the world for inspiration. He hears the pitter-patter of the rain in the forest, the wind whistling through the desert, and the hustle and bustle of the souk at sunrise, but none of it helps—he can’t decide which is the best sound. Just as he’s about to give up, he hears a familiar voice . . . can Jemmy teach him that perhaps there are lots of beautiful sounds, not just one, and that for Jemmy, Roy’s music is the best of all? This gorgeous debut picture book is a heart-warming tribute to the power of friendship.
How to Play from a Fake Book (Music Instruction)
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476827710
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
(Piano). Ever wondered how to create better accompaniments for the melodies in your favorite fake books? This "teach yourself" book introduces you to chord building, various rhythmic styles, and much more, so that you play the songs you like just the way you want them. Keyboard players with a basic understanding of notation and sight-reading will be on their way to more fun with fake books. The relaxed tone of the text and selection of fun songs keep How to Play from a Fake Book entertaining throughout perfect for amateur musicians, or as a supplement for keyboard teachers and their students.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476827710
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
(Piano). Ever wondered how to create better accompaniments for the melodies in your favorite fake books? This "teach yourself" book introduces you to chord building, various rhythmic styles, and much more, so that you play the songs you like just the way you want them. Keyboard players with a basic understanding of notation and sight-reading will be on their way to more fun with fake books. The relaxed tone of the text and selection of fun songs keep How to Play from a Fake Book entertaining throughout perfect for amateur musicians, or as a supplement for keyboard teachers and their students.
I Hear You Knockin'
Author: Jeff Hannusch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description