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Popular music is rich in imaginative storytelling, from the songs of music hall, and street narratives of hip-hop to the 1970s heyday of the concept album. As an even broader audiovisual practice, including music video, sleeve art and star-texts of performers themselves, the possibilities for unique ways of telling stories multiply - capturing the public imagination more recently are examples like Beyoncé's recent visual album Lemonade and experiments in popular music transmedia like Gorillaz. While music's role as soundtrack for other narrative media has been extensively theorised, relatively little attention has been paid to how narrativity works within popular music itself. By building on writing around narrativity from popular music scholars, applying concepts from the storyworlds literature to music and vice versa, this book connects these two disciplines. It provides fresh takes on well-known case studies from David Bowie and The Beatles to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds, while introducing the reader to lesser known examples from global popular music culture. Providing a long overdue overview of narrativity in popular music culture, this book connects the dots between innovative and exciting examples across its history.

PESArchitects. Mit dem Neubau des Strait Culture and Art Centre SCAC ist die Hauptstadt der ostchinesischen Provinz Fujian auf die Landkarte der Kulturstandorte Chinas getreten. Das finnische Buro PES-Architects Pekka Salminen gab dem 2018 erffneten Ensemble aus Opernhaus, Konzerthalle, Multifunktionssaal, Museum und Kinozentrum die Form einer wei leuchtenden Jasminblute, der sinnbildlichen Blume der Stadt am Minjiang. Doch nicht nur auf der symbolischen Ebene knupfen die Architekten an chinesische Traditionen an Fur die Fassaden und den Innenausbau verwenden sie lokal produzierte Porzellanfliesen und Bambus. Der Berliner Architekturkritiker

Recent research is stacking up to show that making things and engaging with nature can impact our mood powerfully. Emma Mitchell combined the two in her gorgeous new book to bring readers a unique way of taking care of their wellbeing.

In this six-session video Bible study, Chrystal Evans Hurst pulls the curtain back on our deep need to forgive ourselves. Learn forgiveness as a life practice to experience the freedom and full power promised in Christ's mercy, grace, and abundance.

Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students   A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the classical Near East with the typical undergraduate teaching syllabus in the Anglo-Saxon world.  All contributors in this edited volume are leading scholars in their field, with a combination of established researchers and academics, and emerging voices. Contributors  hail from countries across several continents, and work in various disciplines, including Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History, Epigraphy, Numismatics, and Oriental Studies.   In addition to furthering the integration of the Levantine lands in the classical periods into the teaching canon, the book offers readers:   The first comprehensively structured Companion and edited handbook on the Hellenistic and Roman Near East Extensive regional and sub-regional variety in the cross-disciplinary source material A way to compensate for the recent destruction of monuments in the region and the new generation of researchers' inability to examine these historical stages in person An integration of the study of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East with traditional undergraduate teaching syllabi in the Anglo-Saxon world  Perfect for undergraduate history and classics students studying the Near East, A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate students and scholars working within Near Eastern studies, as well as interested members of the public with a passion for history.

This book systematically summarizes research achievements of the last two decades in the field of low-dimensional materials. It covers materials such as carbon nanotubes, MOF and boron nitride for applications in electronics, energy and photonics.

This new edition of the bestselling text provides a comprehensive introduction to chemical process technology, linking the fundamental theory and concepts to the applied nature of the subject. It provides an essential bridge between the chemical sciences and the chemical industry.

The crisis in Syria has transformed not just the Middle East, but much of the rest of the world. This book helps to explain how and why, serving as a comprehensive yet accessible guide. The question-and-answer format helps readers focus on the questions that pique their interest and shows multiple sides of this evolving issue.

In this moving memoir written with the poignancy and power of When Breath Becomes Air and The Year of Magical Thinking, the popular psychiatrist on Bravo's successful Married to Medicine series reveals her struggle with depression and anxiety and how she ultimately found healing.Born and raised in Harlem by an emotionally distant, depressive mother, Dr. Imani Walker struggled with depression and anxiety from childhood. Concerned for the plight of those less fortunate than her middle-class family, the sensitive, compassionate child noticed various homeless, destitute people who she encountered on the streets, noting that but for a few lucky breaks, they could be her own family members. This awareness and proximity to those living on the edge aroused in her a lifelong empathy for the mentally impaired. Imani was close to her father, an addict who was rarely emotionally present and even closer to her immigrant grandmother whose own mental health caused many family tensions. It was years later when Dr. Walker looked back and realized her beloved grandmother was, in fact, bipolar. A Calm Chaos is the emotionally raw and beautiful story of being raised in a family touched by mental illness. Dr. Walker uses her experience as a psychiatrist as a prism to see the painful truths of her childhood and how she learned to navigate this chaotic world the best way she knew how: using her wits and humor to diffuse tense situations. Her desire to better understand mental illness?to identify her mother's issues, her father's addiction, and her own confused feelings?led her to pursue a medical degree and to work in inner cities with the severely mentally ill. While helping others, Dr. Walker found the courage to address her own mental health issues, ultimately finding emotional balance. A Calm Chaos is an intimate portrait of an African American psychiatrist who has dedicated her career to helping those in need?while trying to solve her greatest medical mystery: herself.

Celebrate Everything is the story of Oxford Pennant, a designer & manufacturer of vintage wool & cotton pennants that are inspired by American sports traditions. The book will contain both the vintage source material and the company's many collaborations with global brands such as Nike, Harley Davidson, Warner Music and Facebook.

An Advanced Textbook Introducing Graph Theory and Topological Data Analysis for Chemists Chemistry is at a tipping point where the integration with applied mathematics is dramatically expanding research paradigms, chemical models and theories. Methods that include graph theory, algebraic geometry, geometric topology and topological data analysis expand chemical insight by providing intuitive information extracted from complex chemistry data. Written by a world leader and pioneer in graph theory and topological analyses in chemistry, The Shape of Data in Chemistry is an advanced textbook that introduces the aforementioned topics to chemists so that they may identify patterns and correlations in data sets that span electronic structure, the statistical ensembles of molecules, colloids, and interfaces, as well as experimental measurement. Within detailed chapters that introduce core concepts and theoretical backgrounds, âEUR¿real worldâEUR(TM) examples are described that are supported by online data sets, Jupyter notebooks, and discussion on expanding chemistry concepts/models. Case study chapters are also presented throughout the text, highlighting applications of these methods in the study of chemical reaction networks, nanoporous materials, energy landscapes, and many others. Some of the topics and learning materials covered and included within the work are: Graph theory: descriptors of chemical graphs across scale, spectral graph theory, and dynamic properties of chemical graphsTopological data analysis: morse theory, topological spaces in chemistry, geometric measure theory, homology and persistence, stability and distance, and integration with machine learningA companion website hosts data sets and Jupyter notebooks to accompany the real-world examples and case studies presented throughout the bookExample software input files for analyses with different codes are also included to aid in reader comprehensionThe Shape of Data in Chemistry serves as a forward-thinking and modern introduction to graph theory and topological analysis for researchers working at the intersection of chemistry, applied mathematics, and data science, as well as those in fields related to computational chemistry, materials science, physics and applied mathematics. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in courses that focus on data science in the physical sciences will also be able to use the work to gain an understanding of innovative topics related to their areas of study, while math students will find unique applications and domain expertise that inspire mathematical development.

An economic history of postwar South Africa, with particular focus on the modern post-apartheid period.

The first novel in an epic trilogy set 8000 years ago during in the last days of the North Sea's own Atlantis.