Serious scholarship on the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams is currently enjoying a lively revival after a period of relative quiescence, and is only beginning to address the enduring affection of concert audiences for his music. The essays that comprise this volume extend the study of Vaughan Williams's music in new directions that will be of interest to scholars, performers and listeners alike. This volume contains the work of eleven North American scholars who have been recipients of the...

For centuries, the sea and those who sail upon it have inspired the imaginations of British musicians. Generations of British artists have viewed the ocean as a metaphor for the mutable human condition - by turns calm and reflective, tempestuous and destructive - and have been influenced as much by its physical presence as by its musical potential. But just as geographical perspectives and attitudes on seascapes have evolved over time, so too have culturalassumptions about their meaning an...

Michael L. Printz Award WinnerAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award WinnerFeaturing the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread.The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban N...

A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns that are created in communication between people. Momentary transformative changes can radiate ou...

This is the seventh book in Nic Thorn and Associates series about investigations into scams, frauds and misunderstandings. They are set in modern-day Australia and littered with humorous banter, music and pop-culture references.This time they head to Ouyen, Nic's home town, on the Victorian and South Australian border, and not everyone likes a homecoming, especially if you like to keep secrets. It's in Nic's nature to keep secrets but sometimes people need to know superheroes come ...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

This is the ninth book in the Nic Thorn & Associates series of invigorating investigations into scam busting and not so frivolous fraud attempts. The team have spent nearly five years dealing with the atrocious attempts of scammers and their dogged determination to blur the lines between right and wrong....This time the team find themselves in Far North Queensland where "winter" is mostly a rumour told by southerners and are lying in the scrub at 4:19 a.m. questioning every life ch...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible. List of letters included: Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfr...

This is the fourth book in the Nic Thorn & Associates series. This time Nic and the team are brought in to investigate reptile smuggling in Busselton, a wine scam in Margaret River and to look into genuine budgie smugglers near Broken Hill.Nic Thorn is the go-to guy and is available to travel around Australia with his crew of sidekicks including a computer geek, Chewy, and a couple of damsels that are no longer in distress. He's a cross between The Batman with access to cool cars a...

This is the fifth book in the Nic Thorn & Associates series.This time Nic and the team are brought in to investigate the age-old scam of scamming the State Government's old age portfolio. The team base themselves in Sydney but when the fan gets covered with the brown smelly stuff they head back into Brisbane asap to shut down the fraudster. Meantime, one of their lesser-liked associates gets herself involved in a Real Estate Agency scam where the bonds are handed over in cash. It d...

This is the eighth book in The Nic Thorn & Associates Investigation series.Are you ready for a wild ride across Australia with a cast of characters who make Ocean's Eleven look like a knitting circle? "Eight Dave's Are Weak" is the only book where cryptocurrency fraud, gold heists, and cruise ship shenanigans collide with a ten-kilogram cat named Dog, a group of thieves who moonlight as gold prospectors, and a P.I. who can't keep his disguises straight, let alone his backstory. If ...

It's scams, frauds and misguided mayhem again with Nic Thorn and his associates. Could there be something fishy at a new restaurant at Melbourne's New Crowd Casino? Something eerie up in Rockhampton, North Queensland and as Sandy's ID had been stolen, could she finally meet her doppelganger? Does Nic and his team have what it takes to investigate the latest whatever it is?This time Nic's friend, Benoit Trudeau has just bought into the restaurant, Three French Bens. He calls in the ...