Focusing on modal music from Gregorian chant to the seventeenth century, this textbook offers an in-depth exploration of modal counterpoint through a blend of composition, theory, analysis, and performance. It employs a modified species approach, enriched with numerous musical examples and historical context, to effectively connect theoretical principles with practical application. This comprehensive resource immerses students in the study of modal counterpoint while enhancing their understanding of the modal repertoire.
Explores Greek mythology, Roman and Byzantine history, art and travel, from
contemporary perspectives. This title re-imagines the myth of Actaeon in three
ways, and offers a retelling of the Byzantine folk ballad Constantine and
Arete.
The first in-depth study of the Communist Party's attitude to devolution in
Wales, to Welsh nationhood and Welsh identity, examined within the context of
the rapid changes in twentieth century Welsh society, debates on devolution
and identity on the British left, the role of nationalism within the communist
movement, and the interplay of international and domestic factors.
A million cells in our bodies die every second--they commit suicide by activating a process called apoptosis or other forms of programmed cell death. These mechanisms are essential for survival of the body as a whole and play critical roles in various developmental processes, the immune system, and cancer. In this second edition of Douglas Green's essential book on cell death, Green retains the bottom-up approach of the first edition, starting with the enzymes that carry out the execution (caspases) and their cellular targets before examining the machinery that connects them to signals that cause cell death. He also describes the roles of cell death in development, neuronal selection, and the development of self-tolerance in the immune system, as well as how the body uses cell death to defend against cancer. The new edition is fully updated to cover the many recent advances in our understanding of the death machinery and signals that control cell death. These include the mechanisms regulating necroptosis, mitophagy, and newly identified processes, such as ferroptosis. The book will thus be of great interest to researchers actively working in the field, as well as biologists and undergraduates encountering the topic for the first time.
"The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical evidence, and pervasive racial prejudice the case was closed without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed it, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' Years later, Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the case, ultimately convicting one of the bombers in 1977. Another suspect passed away in 1994, and then-US Attorney Doug Jones tried and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002. This represented the correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice nearly forty years in the making. Jones went on to win election as Alabama's first Democratic Senator since 1992 in a dramatic race against Republican challenger Roy Moore. [This book] is a compulsively readable account of a key moment in our long national struggle for equality and justice, related by an author who played a major role in these events."--Jacket
