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Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429938056
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun of Suns written by Karl Schroeder and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Karl Schroeder's sci-fi thriller, Hayden Griffin has come to the city of Rush with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for his parents' deaths. It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gabriel Kruis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1576876063
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acid Virga written by Gabriel Kruis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gabriel Kruis is a really formidable poet. Acid Virga is rather terrifying, also a tour de force and a formal breakthrough. . . a blend of narrative and lyric the way the mind is. . . ” —ALICE NOTLEY “As wildly visionary as it is linguistically alive, Gabriel Kruis’s Acid Virga drills down into the bedrock of American life to produce a book unparalleled in its exploration of how visionary experience and social upheaval collide in ways that are both transformative and annihilating.” —TOM SLEIGH “If you’ve ever been conscious, and felt a little disturbed about it, of life as ancient and ephemeral or that falling apart is an integral force, this is a book to read over and over.” —STACY SZYMASZEK “. . .a great affliction and affection inform Acid Virga, fast-moving with strophes like brisk moving cloud banks over the mind in your heart.” —MAJOR JACKSON “Meanwhile, in el mal pais, leaned out on mucinex, mixing dexy cocktails in the haloed pharmacy of the car...” An unusually assured debut, Acid Virga is a memoir in verse cutting between a vivid Southwest upbringing and modern O’Hara hustle in New York City, deeply and seriously reckoning with the psychedelic heritage of religion and the psychological clarity of chemical consciousness. It is both thrillingly propulsive and dense enough to read again and again, always offering up something new. Language is boundlessly specific, evocative of states internal and external, reading at times like a melancholy memoir stuck between stations, an epic poem or even a philosophical tract, always a true and important record of our American lives as lived now—an endless and reliable ticker tape of the soul.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loyalty Vindicated written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351555642
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral and Written Transmission in Chant written by Thomas Forrest Kelly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. Isidore of Seville famously wrote that unless sounds are remembered by man, they perish, for they cannot be written down. This volume deals with the materials of chant from the point of view of transmission. The early history of chant is a history of orality, of transmission by mouth to ear, and yet we can study it only through the use of written documents. Scholars of medieval music have taken up the ideas and techniques of scholars of folklore, of oral transmission, of ethnomusicology; for the chant is, in fact, an ancient music transmitted for a time in oral culture; and we study a culture not our own, whose informants are not people but manuscripts. All depends, ironically, on deducing oral issues from written documents.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publication Fund Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Christian Steiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry written by Bernard Christian Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New-York Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year ... written by New-York Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillip Ludwell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Abridgment of the Laws of Virginia, Compiled in 1694 written by Phillip Ludwell and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo Treitler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191518506
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Voice and Pen written by Leo Treitler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. The author examines songs in particular - their design, their qualities and character, their expressive meanings, and their adaptation to their communal and ritual roles - and explores the chances for, and the obstacles to, our understanding of traditions that were alive a thousand years ago. Ranging from c. 900 (when the written transmission of medieval songs began) to 1200, Treitler shows how the earlier, purely oral traditions can be examined only through the lens of what has been captured in writing, and focuses on the invention and uses of writing systems for representing these oral traditions. Each of these seminally influential essays has been revised to take account of recent developments, and is prefaced with a new introduction to highlight the historical issues. The accompanying CD contains performances of much of the music discussed.

Author : Lyon Gardiner Tyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine written by Lyon Gardiner Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: