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Pub. Date
[2018]
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xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes that portend the shark's attack! Musical accompaniment helps create atmosphere for the viewer, from subtle undertones to compositions that heighten the drama. In 100 Greatest Film Scores, authors Matt Lawson and Laurence E. MacDonald consider the finest music produced for cinema...
4) The savage shore: extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three hundred Europeans who washed up on these distant shores long before the...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xxxvi, 148 pages)
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This concise bibliography on Sign Languages was compiled on the occasion of the 20th international Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and gives an overview of scholarship on Sign language over the past 10 years. The introduction is by Myriam Vermeerbergen (KU Leuven and Stellenbosch University) and Anna-Lena Nilsson (NTNU - Norwegian University of Science...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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469 pages ; 23 cm
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With thousands of commentaries on the Bible available, including dozens and sometimes hundreds for individual books, it can be difficult for students and pastors (and even many scholars) to keep track of the options. How do the different series and authors approach the Bible? What commentaries are critical and/or more theologically liberal in their interpretation? Which writers share a given theological approach (e.g. Reformed, Wesleyan, etc.)? Without...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource : map
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This Scientific Bibliography of the "Far Northern Drakensberg" is a continuation by the Afromontane Research Unit of the University of the Free State (ARU) to document published and other similar works on the mountains of the summer rainfall area of South Africa. It follows "A Scientific Bibliography of the Drakensberg, Maloti and Adjacent Lowlands" which was published in 2020 (Moffett 2020), and which covered the area between the North-Eastern Cape...
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"Excellent coverage of the art music (Béhague) of Colombia, as well as traditional music (Waxer/List), broken down by region, and popular music (Waxer). Illustrated with maps, photographs, and musical examples"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
"This reference classic has approximately doubled in size since its last publication 20 years ago, and the expansion involves more than the thorough revision and addition of articles about music...



