Verklarte Nacht and Pierrot Lunaire

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Inspired by a poem of Richard Dehmel, the 1899 work Verklärte Nacht, is a tone poem for string sextet composed in the late-Romantic tradition. Pierrot Lunaire, composed in 1912, is a musical setting for speaker and chamber ensemble of 21 poems by Albert Giraud, incorporating Schoenberg's revolutionary theory of atonality and singing-speech delivery called "Sprechstimme."

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Dover strikes again.......2000-03-10

As always, Dover has produced a clean, relatively easy to read score of one of music literature's masterpieces. The English translations are good, and the layout is quite readable. As a study score, or perhaps for use in performance, this edition is highly recommeded.

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This book provides an incisive evaluation of current theories of consumption. It uses food as a case study of consumption and the expression of taste, and provides a structural analysis of changes and continuities in the representation and purchase of food. Alan Warde outlines various theories of change in the late 20th Century and considers the parallels between their diagnoses of consumer behavior and actual trends in food practices. He argues that various dilemmas of the modern predicament and certain imperatives of the culture of consumption make sense of food selection. He suggests that contemporary consumption is best viewed as a process of continual selection among an unprecedented range of generally accessible items that are made available both commercially and informally. Consumption, Food, and Taste will be essential reading for students and academics in the sociology of consumption and the sociology of food and eating. It will also be of interest to academics and students in sociology, cultural studies, home economics, and consumer behavior.

Cakes And Ale: The Golden Age of British Feasting

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Any library strong in culinary history will relish the detail here

Cakes And Ale: The Golden Age of British Feasting
Judy Spours
Manufacturer: The National Archives Press
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ASIN: 1905615027
Release Date: 2006-12-08

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Once upon a time there was a Britain where cakes and ale were considered nutritious and healthy. Late Victorian and Edwardian fleshy figures were further fattened with rich fruit loaf, and ailing ladies imbibed milk stout as a tonic. These were pleasures brought by a new industrial age and the mass-production of food and drink. Cakes and Ale is a cultural history of a turn-of-the-century era of feasting, when the first domestic goddesses began cooking in their own kitchens but servants were still on hand for many to mix drinks at glamorous parties. An affluent and leisured new middle class was keen to impress, and working people could enjoy an unprecedented variety of foods and drinks. Manufacturers responded with the glorious printed advertisements and seductive images that illustrate this book and speak volumes about the contemporary social scene. In whisky and beer advertisements gentlemen sport top hats and working me flat caps, Scotsmen always wear kilts and butlers a wily smile. Blazoned alongside them are the play-on-words that amused and persuaded their audiences. Cookery books were suddenly widely available, with pictures of bowls of punch, crusty pork pies and towering jellies and blancmanges to emulate for seasonal meals. We are what we eat - and drink - and always were.

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Any library strong in culinary history will relish the detail here.......2007-09-02

CAKES AND ALE: THE GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH FEASTING uses antique ads and writings about the Victorian and Edwardian habits of throwing elaborate dinner parties to explore the rise of home cooking and the temptations of drinking outside the home, offering spicy chapters packed with lively social history. Any library strong in culinary history will relish the detail here, which blends an overall history of changing British eating habits with a survey of what impacted these changes.

Liquid Nourishment: Potable Foods and Stimulating Drinks (Food and Society)

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Liquid Nourishment: Potable Foods and Stimulating Drinks (Food and Society)
C. Anne. Wilson
Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press
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Food Culture in Great Britain (Food Culture around the World)

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Food Culture in Great Britain (Food Culture around the World)
Laura Mason
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ASIN: 031332798X

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Students, Anglophiles, and literature hounds will want to delve into this delightful survey of foodways of a culture both ancient and cutting edge. Only in recent years have modern kitchen conveniences become taken for granted all over Britain. British cooking has also made tremendous strides lately, and the changes in shopping and food options, preparation, restaurant-going, and diet are detailed. The cooking traditions and classic dishes for which Britain is known are described as well, as they still help to define the people. Commercialization and globalization are shown to characterize British foodways today. For instance, Britain's regionalism is eroding. Health and environmental issues such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy have come to the fore. Television cook shows are all the rage. Women working outside the home and the increase in single-parent households fuel the demand for quick and pre-prepared meals. The trends are well supported by statistics. A timeline, glossary, and resource guide enhance the narrative.

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Anglo-saxon Food & Drink
Ann Hagen
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ASIN: 1898281416

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Food production for home consumption was the basis of economic activity throughout the Anglo-Saxon period. Used as payment and a medium of trade, food was the basis of the Anglo-Saxons' system of finance and administration.

Information from various sources has been brought together in order to build up a picture of how food was grown, conserved, distributed, prepared and eaten during the period from the beginning of the 5th century to the 11th century. Many people will find it fascinating for the views it gives of an important aspect of Anglo-Saxon life and culture. In addition to Anglo-Saxon England, the Celtic west of Britain is also covered. This edition combines earlier titles: A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food and A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink. Extensive index.

The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950: How Produce Was Grown and How It Was Used (Food and Society)

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The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950: How Produce Was Grown and How It Was Used (Food and Society)

Manufacturer: Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.
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How the country house kitchen fed the household from seeds, plants, and trees to aromatic and medicinal herbs and flowers.

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different sport participants last names since 1982/last 7 y.......1999-08-28

August 27, 1999

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I helped Charolette Pritt for West Virginia governor, May 1996. I've followed a noticed daily welfare, state & national idea beginning with state food stamps and doing daily computer entry for the past 2 1/2 to 3 years. During June 20, 1997 was the first premier of, Batman & Robin as I went the first day. I began my internet search after the Presidental election, and I also met, Adam West as, Batman, 1973.

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A disturbingly cautionary tale, Is Anyone Responsible? anchors with powerful evidence suspicions about the way in which television has impoverished political discourse in the United States and at the same time molds American political consciousness. It is essential reading for media critics, psychologists, political analysts, and all the citizens who want to be sure that their political opinions are their own.

"Not only does it provide convincing evidence for particular effects of media fragmentation, but it also explores some of the specific mechanisms by which television works its damage. . . . Here is powerful additional evidence for those of us who like to flay television for its contributions to the trivialization of public discourse and the erosion of democratic accountability."—William A. Gamson, Contemporary Sociology

"Iyengar's book has substantial merit. . . . [His] experimental methods offer a precision of measurement that media effects research seldom attains. I believe, moreover, that Iyengar's notion of framing effects is one of the truly important theoretical concepts to appear in recent years."—Thomas E. Patterson, American Political Science Review

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Shanto Iyengar- Is Anyone Responsible.......2001-03-20

In his book Is Anyone Responsible? (1991), Shanto Iyengar evaluates the framing effects of television news on political issues. The book explores the agenda-setting role of television news. When he refers to the term framing the concept given refers to "subtle alterations in the statement or presentation of judgement and choice problems, and the term "framing effect" refer to changes in decision outcomes resulting from these alternations." Shanto Iyengar, professor of political science and communication studies at UCLA, has pioneered the research in the framing effects of news coverage on public opinion and political choice. He explains that viewers are "sensitive to contextual cues when they reason about national affairs. Their explanations of issues like terrorism or poverty are critically dependent upon the particular reference points furnished in media presentations." The frames for a given story are seldom conscientiously chosen but represent instead the effort of the journalist or sponsor to convey a story in a direct and meaningful way. As such, news frames are frequently drawn from, and reflective of, shared cultural narratives and myths and resonate with the larger social themes to which journalists tend to be acutely sensitive.

Through a series of laboratory experiments (reports of which constitute the core of the book), he finds that the framing of issues by television news shapes the way the public understands the causes of and the solutions to central political problems. The research reported in Is Anyone Responsible? examines two ways in which television news frames issues, these issues being episodic and thematic. Episodic framing depicts concrete events that illustrate issues, while thematic framing present's collective advice or general advice. Television news is routinely reported in the form of specific events or particular cases - Iyengar calls this "episodic" news framing - which is counterpoised to "thematic" coverage which places political issues and events in some general context. "Episodic framing depicts concrete events that illustrate issues, while thematic framing presents collective or general evidence."Iyengar found that subjects shown episodic reports were less likely to consider society responsible for the event, and subjects shown thematic reports were less likely to consider individuals responsible. In one of the clearest demonstrations of this phenomenon, subjects who viewed stories about poverty that featured homeless or unemployed people (episodic framing) were much more likely to blame poverty on individual failings, such as laziness or low education, than were those who instead watched stories about high national rates of unemployment or poverty (thematic framing). Viewers of the thematic frames were more likely to attribute the causes and solutions to governmental policies and other factors beyond the victim's control. The episodic frame is the more prevalent one. It ordinarily takes the form of a report based on an event. An example of this would be the depiction of the terrorism issue in the context of an Irish Republican Army bombing in Northern Ireland. On the other hand, the thematic frame provides a broader perspective; it reports the issue in the context of "collective outcomes, public policy debates, or historical trends" . An example would be a news story that discusses the terrorism issue against the backdrop of the historical bitterness between Northern Ireland's Protestants and Catholics. Yet the news media systematically filter the issues and defect blame from the establishment by framing the news as "only a passing parade of specific events, a `context of no context.' Iyengar found that subjects shown episodic reports were less likely to consider individuals responsible. Viewers of thematic frames on the otherhand were more likely to attribute the causes and solutions to governmental policies and other factors beyond the victim's control. On the basis of experimental research, Iyengar concludes that the episodic framing on television encourages viewers to assign the blame for society's problems to individuals, rather than to social and political institutions, such as political parties. Because television news emphasises episodic framing, says Iyengar, it deflects the blame for problems from government, resulting in a weakening of political accountability- hence the title of the book.

Iyengar says that television focuses "on concrete acts and breaking events" , this form of reporting did not originate from television. This model of journalism, which dates back to the 1830s, is the dominant form of newspaper reporting and has been taught in schools of Journalism since the early 1900s. in fact, newspaper journalists depend even more heavily on episodic reports than do television journalists. Compared with the newspapers' inverted pyramids, television emphasises the interpretative news report due to its need for tightly structured stories. If stories are to be readily understood by a listening audience, they cannot be allowed to trail off as a newspaper story may. Accordingly, television news stories tend to be built around inferential sentences, often an unattributed nature. Iyengar's experimental methods offer a precision of measurement that the media effects research seldom attains. I believe, moreover, that Iyengar's notion of framing effects is one of the truly important theoretical concepts to appear in recent years. Iyengar's challenge is to balance his noteworthy methods and concepts with an equally measures accounting of the substance of American politics and journalism. According to the arguments set forth by Iyengar, the breakdown of public confidence in media reportage is a result of the way campaigns are framed. "Nowhere is the debilitating influence of episodic framing on political accountability more apparent than in presidential election campaigns . . . [which] guarantee that coverage of the issues and the candidates' policy proposals will receive minimal attention." The significance of media sources becomes immediately apparent in the context of media framing. As Iyengar writes in the American Political Science Review (September 1987), "the invoking of different reference points triggers completely different strategies of choice or judgement." Merely altering the description of the alternatives can profoundly alter choices between risky prospects. Framing the prospects in terms of possible losses, for example, induces risk-seeking behaviour while describing the identical prospects in terms of potential gains makes people risk averse.

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Web of lies: a vicious Wikipedia entry underscores the difficulty of holding anyone responsible for misinformation on the Internet.(FIRST AMENDMENT WATCH) : An article from: American Journalism Review
Jane Kirtley
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 899 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Web of lies: a vicious Wikipedia entry underscores the difficulty of holding anyone responsible for misinformation on the Internet.(FIRST AMENDMENT WATCH)
Author: Jane Kirtley
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Is Anyone Responsible?: How Television Frames Political Issues

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Is Anyone Responsible?: How Television Frames Political Issues
Shanto Iyengar
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Is the government of India responsible to anyone, and, if so, to whom?: A speech delivered at a meeting of the Women's National Liberal Association (Croydon ... from "India" of October 21st, 1898

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Is the government of India responsible to anyone, and, if so, to whom?: A speech delivered at a meeting of the Women's National Liberal Association (Croydon ... from "India" of October 21st, 1898
W. C Bonnerjee
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"A lot of people are starting to use the Internet to reconnect themselves to their neighborhood, their community, and the world. The Power of Many is a great survey of the way this is really being accomplished by many individuals working together."
—Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.org

"What a fascinating topic. If you're interested in the future, the past, or the present, then you should read this book."
—Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder of Meetup.com and Fotolog.net

The development of social networks on the Web touches countless aspects of our everyday lives. With instant access to people of similar mindsets, near or far, we can readily form partnerships with more people and in more ways than ever before. It's now possible to use Internet tools to organize a rally, energize a political campaign, arrange a date, join a support group, or sell a product, as naturally as we use a phone.

Through a series of pertinent case studies and interviews with leading thinkers and doers in this rapidly evolving field, Christian Crumlish uncovers universal themes and lessons learned. He illustrates how we use peer-to-peer technologies--web services, blogs, mobile phone SMS, and more—to accomplish widespread goals. He also suggests how we can take even more advantage of these technologies to connect with people who have similar interests.

Discover how Howard Dean's campaign used the Internet to take a little-known candidate a long way. How activists arrange public meetings and drive letter-writing campaigns. How individuals find much-needed help for personal issues. How artists promote and air their creative genius. How business people and singles seek potential partners. And much, much more.

Here are just a few of the more than 60 experts, businesspeople, activists, and writers who share their insights:

Futurist and best-selling author Howard Rheingold
Scott Heiferman, founder of Meetup.com
Executives from the American Red Cross, the Leukemia Society, and the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
Venture capitalist Joi Ito
Official and unofficial bloggers for the Bush, Clark, Dean, and Kerry campaigns
Researchers Elizabeth Lane Lawley and Mary Hodder

The Power of Many explores how people are using new methods of social computing to simplify the ways they locate others who share their interests and kindle face-to-face communication. It reveals the tools that make it nearly effortless for groups and individuals to accomplish significant results in the real world. By understanding these trends and techniques, we can identify where and how to apply them in own lives. See the companion website at www.thepowerofmany.com.

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A visionary book.......2005-12-10

I regret that it took me so long to write this review, since I knew about the book before it came out. But since that time I have witnessed its premise proved true over and over again in the local political process. Something very special--new and not so new--is at work here. Today more than any time I can remember (including the worst of the '60s), responsible, hardworking citizens feel alienated and abandoned by the democratic process. What good can taking action do when such gigantic and powerful players are on the other side of the debate and show no respect for reasoned argument or even the rule of law? But pick a seemingly tiny, local problem--trash pickup or snacks in school vending machines or use of public parks--and here are issues for which my neighbors will go to meetings, pull out their wallets, and even endorse candidates. Cluster those interests in a vertical website, allow some accretion to take place, combine those online credit card micro-donations, and suddenly thousands of like-minded folks find out that they have clout--and lots to talk about not only on trash disposal, snacks, and recreation but also on sewers, land development, zoning, business licensing, taxation, representation, and war and peace.

Hail Crumlish Caesar! Long live the Republic! Blogs are free speech!

One of a kind, worth reading .......2005-12-02

Not a perfect book (too much redundancy), but it's easy to read and covers things that other books do not. Here you get a look at how the Howard Dean campaign used the Web and its technologies, and you ALSO get a lot of insight into the use of social network software (SNS) by other kinds of organizations. Crumlish is a cheerleader, a Web believer, but he's not all yippee-yi-oh about everything (thank goodness).

I wish he had been more systematic about his coverage of craigslist in particular. Crumlish has interviewed Craig Newmark, and he makes some good observations, but he's got these scattered all over the book in a too-haphazard way.

This book is worthwhile if you want to get clued in as to how today's Web is working for people. There are lots of old (and very dated) books about discussion forums, "smart mobs," cyberactivism, etc. But for 2005, this is the book that covers the waterfront on how the Web ties people together and allows them to coordinate action in the real world.

Buy This Book..........2005-08-01

Christian Crumlish's "The Power of Many" changed my life, but more over changed my view on how the living web affects organizations and community organizing. I work for a political organization and everything that Mr. Crumlish discusses in his book, I'm currently examining and seeing how it can be applied in a political context. For the most part, everything we've tried concerning community building and decentralization, has come with much success.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to move their business, corporation, or organization into the 21st century. The future is now and Christian Crumlish had effectively documented how it can improve social networking and overall interaction with the "living web."

Do Numbers Really Count?.......2005-06-12

Christian Crumlish (wonder if that is his real name?) has been involved in web technology for ten years or more, so most of the technical stuff did not pertain to my small amount of knowledge of the Internet. He used too many personal experiences throughout the book and tells how so many people responded to his inqueries and he listed their web sites free of charge and put in a plug for all of his endeavors. He's really into the social scene online, though his To Briggs speaks louder than words.

There is too much about blogs and political sites. All of that is in the past now, and it is time to move on to the next election and spend time developing something for us not so well-developed computer users. He has written THE INTERNET FOR BUSY PEOPLE and THE INTERNET DICTIONARY. In this book, he has a glossary but most of it is Latin to me, and an Index which was helpful.

Now, down to my level, e-mail still 'feels' relatively private, although that is generally an illusion. I know that it is not exactly protected, but who would want to read through a stranger's communications with his friends? That is an invasion of privacy in the worse scenario. E-mail didn't catch on in a big way until there were nice graphical point-and-click interfaces and seamless Internet connections backing everything up. I was trained (8 months of hard work, 5 days a week) in Computers and Word Processing, yet I was not prepared for the actual work I did as a Temp at factories. It was all different and all interesting and was a joy to be able to use a computer for pay. But, I have noticed at the public computers in libraries and free labs are full of homeless people sending e-mail, and some of the not-so-nice men looking at porn. These people have no training even in typing, yet they are able to send and receive messages to people far away.

The fallacy of online communications is that so many use false identities. On Dateline, an NBC reporter used several aliases (Justin Case, that type of foolishness) to film a scam, which seemed to me unethical, but the people who claimed to be wealthy and in need at the same time, needing cash which would be repaid in multiple times were as false as his monikers. It is a shame that the web has come to this and a decent person is not safe. I have a friend who does only email on Yahoo and she keeps having to change her address using initials instead of her real name. That's sad!

The solitary writer of yesterday gives way to 'the power of many' on the Internet. Me, I'm a loner; if I can't be a leader, I will influence politicians and important people one-on-one.

Why the Democrats lost the 2004 election.......2005-01-11

This is an odd little "how to organize" guide aimed at unrepentant flower-children. Each tip for 'using the Internet' is exemplified by a left wing political activity: the Howard Dean presidential campaign, Michael Moore, MoveOn, and various fringe groups.

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