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The translation of the third volume of Syntagma musicum, a multi-volume work by German composer and theorist Michael Praetorius (1571-1621). Volume III deals with terminolgy and performance practice, and offers us the most detailed commentary available from the 17th century about the performance of particular pieces of music. Praetorius is the most...

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This Handbook brings together leading international scholars to comment on key current issues in Public Management. The individual chapters include a mix of broad overviews, in depth exploration of particular thematic areas and analyses of different theoretical perspectives such as political science, management, sociology and economics. The...

Space, Time, Matter, and Form collects ten of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's   Physics, four of them published here for the first time. The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the     Physics, centred on notions of matter and form; the latter five examine themes in the remaining books, including...

The newest volume of the annual    Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features the major and rapid changes undergone by Sephardic Jewry in the last fifty years, drawing on essays from the fields of demography, history, political science, literature, sociology, gender studies, and anthropology. The themes of the symposium papers include identity,...

Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst        pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half        a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event        seems but a forgotten moment in the United States.American Pandemic offers...