Authors:Byron Almén, Edward Pearsall,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: meaning, interpretation, musical, music, approaches
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-10-11
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0253347920
ISBN-13: 9780253347923

Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays that reflect a variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning. Established music theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality, collage, borrowing and association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the articulation of silence, the mutual inte

Author: Derek Pearsall
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: library, critical, unwin, tales, canterbury
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1985-10-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415094445
ISBN-13: 9780415094443

On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. If you haven’t yet made the acquaintanc

Author: Paul Pearsall
Publisher: Hyperio
Keywords: true, come, wish, making, wishing
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-04-18
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0786884738
ISBN-13: 9780786884735

Are your wishes coming true? Do you have a very special wish that still hasnt been granted? Have you ever made a wish you ended up regretting? These common questions are a curiosity to us all. Wishing Well is the first book to present proof of the subtle but magnificent power of wishing in your daily life. Its the first guide to making wishes that lead to the life you and those you love have always wished for.

Author: Derek Pearsall
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: anthologies, blackwell, anthology, spenser, chaucer
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 1998-12-11
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 0631198393
ISBN-13: 9780631198390

In this key anthology Derek Pearsall offers a radically new approach to those teaching and studying English writing from Geoffrey Chaucer to the early work of Edmund Spenser. Ignoring the traditional barrier between medieval, or Middle English, and Tudor, Elizabethan or "early modern" writing, he sets out to emphasize continuities and so counter the distorting view that "English literature" begins with Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey. Extensive coverage is given to key figures such as Chaucer and Langland, but this is not an anthology of English literature, but of writing. All forms o

Author: Ph.D. Paul Pearsall
Publisher: Hunter House
Keywords: way, new, prescription, pleasure
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1996-08-26
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0897932072
ISBN-13: 9780897932073

Current wisdom dictates that anything that tastes, smells, or feels good can’t be good for us. But pleasure is the way to health, not a temptation away from it. In The Pleasure Prescription, Pearsall gives the antidote for "delight dyslexia," his name for misreading of intensity for joy, accomplishment for worth, busyness for connection, and excitement for love.

Author: Thomas P. Pearsall
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: experiments, introduction, essentials, photonics
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2002-11-15
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0071408754
ISBN-13: 9780071408752

Shedding light on the subject, this unique new book teaches photonics - electronic devices that manage light and electricity - through hands-on measurement techniques common to all photonic devices. Learn these techniques and you can characterize and understand any device and master the field. It includes discussions on Lasers, Photodiodes, LEDs, and Photoconductors. This practice-based tutorial, perfect for students and engineers looking for practical expertise rather than abstract theory, does more than explain the workings of photonic applications in common devices like lasers and photodete

Author: Shelley Pearsall
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: shook
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 044042139X
ISBN-13: 9780440421399

The King of Rock ’n’ Roll lives! And he’s Josh’s dad.When 13-year-old Josh finds out that he has to stay with his dad in Chicago for a few months, he’s not too thrilled. But when he arrives at the airport, he’s simply devastated. His father—who used to be a scatterbrained but pretty normal shoe salesman—has become . . . Elvis. Well, a sideburnwearing, hip-twisting, utterly-embarrassing Elvis impersonator.Josh is determined to keep his dad’s identity a secret, but on his very first day at his new school, a note appears on his locker. It’s signed Elvisly Yours, and instead of