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Free Download Laura Monros-Gaspar, "Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology "
English | ISBN: 1472537866 | 2015 | 312 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, merciless satire and gender reversal. Immensely popular in its day, the genre was also intensely metatheatrical and carries significance for reception studies, the role and perception of women in Victorian society and the culture of artistic censorship.

Free Download John Borstlap, "The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21st Century"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0810884577 | PDF | pages: 173 | 1.4 mb
The Classical Revolution studies the recent emergence of a new brand of classical music, one rooted in "pre-modern" tonal traditions. Through polemical essays on the conflict between re-emergent tradition and the usual, bland "modern music" in which academic atonalism, process music and attempts to borrow some life from pop and world music form a rather isolated territory, Borstlap examines both the philosophical and aesthetic positions of these new classical composers, positions too often misunderstood because they create a new and unexpected category, not in the margins of music life but directly related to the central performance culture.

Free Download Richard Beaudoin, "Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings "
English | ISBN: 0197659284 | 2024 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 23 MB + 27 MB
In a recording, what sounds count as music? Sounds made by a musician’s body-including inhales, finger taps, and grunts-have for decades been dismissed as extraneous noises. In Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings, author Richard Beaudoin pioneers a field of inquiry into non-notated sounds in recordings of classical music, recognizing often-overlooked sounds made by the bodies of performers and their recording equipment as music.

Free Download Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens By Adriaan Lanni
2006 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 0521857597 | PDF | 2 MB
In The Law Courts of Classical Athens, Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a new model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyzes the Athenians’ preference in most cases for ad hoc, discretionary decision-making, as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. Lanni argues that the Athenians consciously employed different approaches to legal decision-making in different types of courts. The varied approaches to legal process stems from a deep tension in Athenian practice and thinking, between the demand for flexibility of legal interpretation consistent with the exercise of democratic power by ordinary Athenian jurors; and the demand for consistency and predictability in legal interpretation expected by litigants and necessary to permit citizens to conform their conduct to the law. Lanni presents classical Athens as a case study of a successful legal system that, by modern standards, had an extraordinarily individualized and discretionary approach to justice.

Free Download From Ikaria to the stars : classical mythification, ancient and modern By Green, Peter
2004 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 0292702302 | PDF | 4 MB
This collection of essays represents Peter Green’s observations on classical myth and is wide-ranging in the questions it asks, including, what did the Greeks think about myth? what factors were responsible for it? what was the role of magic and who designed it? From Hesiod’s Works and Days , to Herodotus and Periclean Athens, to the mythicisation of Alexander’s Alexandria, Green often sets Greek myth and history against one another, opening the door `into non-rational and quasi-rational modes of thought in which it becomes possible to write painful truths and unacceptable history’

Free Download Stephen H Phillips, "Epistemology in Classical India: The Knowledge Sources of the Nyaya School"
English | 2011 | pages: 204 | ISBN: 0415895545, 1138008818 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
In this book, Phillips gives an overview of the contribution of Nyaya-the classical Indian school that defends an externalist position about knowledge as well as an internalist position about justification. Nyaya literature extends almost two thousand years and comprises hundreds of texts, and in this book, Phillips presents a useful overview of the under-studied system of thought. For the philosopher rather than the scholar of Sanskrit, the book makes a whole range of Nyaya positions and arguments accessible to students of epistemology who are unfamiliar with classical Indian systems.

Free Download Classical mathematical logic : the semantic foundations of logic By Richard L. Epstein, Leslaw W. Szczerba
2006 | 522 Pages | ISBN: 0691123004 | PDF | 4 MB
In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization not only of arithmetic, but also of group theory, field theory, and linear orderings. These lead to the formalization of the real numbers and Euclidean plane geometry. The scope and limitations of modern logic are made clear in these formalizations. The book provides detailed explanations of all proofs and the insights behind the proofs, as well as detailed and nontrivial examples and problems. The book has more than 550 exercises. It can be used in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses and for self-study and reference. Classical Mathematical Logic presents a unified treatment of material that until now has been available only by consulting many different books and research articles, written with various notation systems and axiomatizations.

Free Download Mark William Padilla, "Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Film"
English | ISBN: 1666915912 | 2024 | 338 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has dazzled and challenged audiences with its unique aesthetic design and startling Description devices since its release in 1958. In Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Film, Mark William Padilla analyzes antecedents including: (1) the film’s source novel, D’entre les morts (Among the Dead), (2) the earlier symbolist novel, Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-morte, and (3) the first-draft screenplay of Maxwell Anderson, a prominent Broadway dramatist and Hollywood scenarist from the 1920s to the 1950s. The presence of Vertigo amid these texts reveals and clarifies how themes from Greco-Roman antiquity emerge in Hitchcock’s project. Padilla analyzes narrative figures such as Prometheus and Pandora, Persephone and Hades, and Pygmalion and Galatea, as well as themes like the dark Descriptions of Greek tragedy, to reveal how Hitchcock used allusive form to construct an emotionally powerful experience with an often-minimalist script. This analysis demonstrates that Vertigo is a multifaceted work of intertextuality with artistic and cultural roots extending into antiquity itself.

Free Download Classical Electrodynamics
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367502070 | 571 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
The book provides the student with a thorough grounding in electrodynamics in particular, and in classical field theory in general. An essential resource for both physicists and their students, the book includes a Reader’s Guide, which describes the major themes in each chapter, suggests a possible path through the book, and identifies topics for inclusion in, and exclusion from, a given course, depending on the instructor’s preference.

Free Download Artificial Intelligence: Beyond Classical AI
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9356069328 | 881 Pages | EPUB | 21 MB
Pearson’s Artificial Intelligence encompasses a comprehensive text on the fundamental principles and concepts of Artificial Intelligence-a new-age technology that fuels the much-coveted ‘Industry 4.0’. Presented in lucid English, this book covers all the basic concepts, enriched with latest examples. It also discusses all the major components of AI, such as Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Computer Vision. The book is a deliberation of classical as well modern AI techniques and related technologies that provides readers with an overall knowledge and understanding of AI in present-day context.