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Offers exercises for professional and student actors, teachers of acting and voice, and those interested in vocal expression. This title places emphasis on the removal of the physical and psychological blocks that inhibit the human voice, and is dedicated to 'freeing' the voice we were naturally born with.

By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae --the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two's versions of the most important Greek and Roman myths. A General Introduction sets the Library and Fabulae into the wider context of ancient mythography, introductions to each text discuss in greate...

In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books-- Great Learning , Analects , Mencius , and Maintaining Perfect Balance --have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century. Selected passages in translation are accompanied by Gardner's comments, which incorporate selections from the commentary and interpretation of the renowned Neo-Confucian thinker, Zhu Xi (1130-1200). This study provides a...

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Lola says, "I am absolutely NOT big. I am still really quite small.

Intrigued by this mundane, ubiquitous vessel, the author of this study began to collect data from amphora related burials with the intention of drawing parallels between Roman lifestyles and changing funerary practices in Gaul. As the data collection grew, it became apparent that not all of the burial contexts that contained amphorae qualified as élite burials. Some contained sherds rather than complete amphorae, together with potsherds and fr...

From the beginning to the Hellenistic period.Collections of the Israel Antiquities AuthorityIn the course of the past century, excavations in Palestine have turned up large numbers of oil lamps. This first volume in a planned catalogue raisonné, summarizes the typological development of Palestinian oil lamps from the earliest such items of the Late Chalcolithic period onward, and their historical, cultural, and political contexts. The abundanc...

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The contributions in this book mainly resulted from the symposium, Fitting Rocks, the big Puzzle Revisited, held in 2001 at the XIVth U.I.S.P.P. conference in Liège, Belgium. The symposium brought together a wide variety of researchers who use refitting in one way or another to answer archaeological questions. The aim was to cover both geographical space and a variety of time periods. Lithic refitting has been around for well over a century no...

This book examines archaeological and historical evidence for the socio-economic organization of the kingdom of East Kent, England, as a territorial and social system during the Early to Middle Anglo-Saxon period (AD 400-900). Explicit archaeological and theoretical frameworks are considered to propose a hierarchical model of the spatial organization of communities as a way of providing a micro-economic case study of state formation. In additi...

This study explores several different techniques to isolate and determine the age of lithic microdebitage in relation to archaeological deposits and sedimentation. This research proposes the integration of techniques available in archaeology and geomorphology to ascertain the shape and features of quartz microdebitage, and the use of OSL for direct dating of the artefacts and sediments. In this research, sedimentary samples from two archaeolog...

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This work is an examination of those environmental and political factors which have influenced the distribution of settlement types in northwest Ireland during the Early Christian period (AD 500-1000). Various site types are discussed in Chapter One, the physical geography and history of the six counties of Northern Ireland which make up the study area is the subject of Chapters Two and Three. Cultural remains and written sources, both of whic...

Kolumbien ist kein funktionierender Staat mehr und wird seit vielen Jahren von Rebellen, Kriminellen und paramilitärischen Verbänden regiert! Krieg und Bürgerkrieg, Drogenhandel, Mord, Entführung und Vertreibung bestimmen die Geschicke des Landes. In diesem Buch werden die Ursachen und die treibenden Kräfte des Staatszerfalls, die Logik der kolumbianischen Gewaltmärkte, die ökonomischen Grundlagen der streitenden Parteien, insbesondere der Dro...

In seiner Autobiographie Ich wollte mich mal ausreden lassen zeigt sich der Sänger und Moderator gewohnt redegewandt und humorvoll. Liebevoll, aber nicht unkritisch erinnert er sich an seine Kindheit in Eisenberg in der Nachkriegszeit, wo die Familie auf engstem Raum lebte, und an seine Jugend in der DDR, wo er erste Erfolge auf der Bühne und im Fernsehen verbuchen konnte. Emmerlich erzählt von seiner Studentenzeit in Weimar, von Urlauben...

The concepts of 'territory' and 'territoriality' are analysed on the basis of anthropological and archaeological data. It is assumed that 'territory' and 'territoriality' are more complex concepts than simple space occupation. For the case of Egypt in the Old Kingdom, the author of this volume considers different variables related to the ideology and to the socio-political and economic systems of the Egyptian state. Its consolidation, the roya...

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In the era of globalisation debate has turned to the vital need for a thorough understanding of its impact on the spirituality and health of the youth. This work recognises the urgent need for effective research in this area. It also combines research and training issues with practical professional experiences.

A competitive manufacturing industry is essential for the prosperity of Europe, especially in the face of accelerating deindustrialisation. This book provides a vision of manufacturing, analysed from a system-management viewpoint and with a focus on ICT-related matters.

The Morality of War surveys the fundamental principles and themes of the just war tradition through the words of the philosophers, jurists, and warriors who have shaped it.