Most Popular Books by Eric Thomas

"Claudio Monteverdi''s sixty-year compositional career spans one of the most crucial junctures in Western music. Laying the groundwork for harmonic tonality - the pervasive musical language of Western culture until the twentieth century - Monteverdi''s break with the self-contained harmonic world of the Renaissance and his confident assertion of human rationality and order through music was a crucial contribution to the emergence of the Baroque style." "Monteverdi''s Tonal Language is a provocative new examination of the theoretical issues surrounding the emergence of early seventeenth-century tonality combined with systematic analysis of a wide range of Monteverdi''s secular works. Eric Chafe argues that the composer''s music was rooted in a strong sense of musical logic and a secure grasp of tonality combined with Monteverdi''s assertion that music should be dominated by allegory Chafe offers a new framework for understanding the complex historical style and systematic features of the tonal language of Monteverdi''s time and the composer''s particular version of it." "Building on Carl Dahlhaus''s analysis of emerging tonality in Monteverdi''s madrigals, Chafe expands the scope of the "modal-hexachordal" system rooted in the composer''s work at the time of his fourth and fifth madrigal books. In addition to covering text-music relationships of a large and representative amount of Monteverdi''s music, Chafe discusses several unexplored areas crucial to any understanding of the composer''s tonal language. The two madrigals "Cor mio, mentre vi miro" (from Book Four) and "O Mirtillo" (from Book Five) illustrate the theoretical features of early seventeenth-century tonality. Chafe examines the pronounced sense of tonal clarity that distinguishes the Fourth Book of Madrigals, and he articulates the tonal styles Monteverdi used as organizing criteria in the Fifth Book. In subsequent chapters he demonstrates how the characteristic devices of Orfeo emerge as basic properties of the "modal-hexachordal" system, and discusses Monteverdi''s creation of ordered reality in Il Ballo delle in grate and the "Lamento d''Arianna." He further argues that the Sixth Book symbolized the interaction of polyphonic madrigal and monody, and demonstrates convincingly that the Seventh Book was a milestone in Monteverdi''s creative development, assuming the characteristics that marked his later tonal style. In the Eighth Book the composer set forth a manifesto for the allegorical nature of Baroque music; Il ritorno d''Ulisse un patria is a mature working out of the potential of tonal allegory. Finally in the last three chapters, Chafe discusses the tonal-allegorical framework, aspects of musical characterization, and questions of authenticity in Monteverdi''s last opera, L''incoronazione di Poppea."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Here is a practical manual concerning the development, care, arrangement and administration of a record collection. It was intended for both the novice and the experienced collector and directs itself to monaural collections.

"The adult Greater Snow Goose Chen caerulescens atlantica is almost entirely white, except for black primary feathers at the wing tips"--p. [1].

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A game is only as intriguing as the characters that inhabit its world. Game Character Design Complete demonstrates each step of modeling, texturing, animating, and exporting compelling characters for your games. You''ll learn how to model in 3ds Max from sketch references, texture in Adobe Photoshop, rig bones, and animate a character back in 3ds Max. Game Character Design Complete covers all aspects of character creation-from the technical to the artistic. Don''t worry if your artistic ability isn''t awe-inspiring. You''ll cover every aspect of the design process in easy-to-follow steps, including texturing and animating your character. If you have a working knowledge of 2D and 3D graphics, then you have all of the skills you need to begin creating cool characters for your games.

This book provides a critical introduction to the full range of Williams'' work - fiction and non-fiction. It assesses the significance of his contribution in understanding culture, politics and society. Fair-minded, accurate and sensitive, the book makes crucial connections between the different aspects of Williams'' work and the underlying concern for a democratic polity which informed it.

Somente quando você quiser o sucesso tanto quanto quer respirar, você o terá. Se você acha que o sucesso é para os outros, que apenas certo tipo de pessoa consegue realizar seus sonhos, Você se Deve Isso de Eric Thomas é seu despertar. A mensagem urgente de Eric para que você pare de esperar a inspiração e assuma o controle de sua vida é a que ele gostaria que alguém lhe tivesse dado quando era adolescente — perdido, sem-teto, sem escola e lidando com os desafios de ser um jovem negro nos Estados Unidos. "A visão de Eric transformará a percepção sobre sua mente e seu coração. Suas palavras são um presente para as pessoas no caminho do propósito. Você se Deve Isso é cheio de insights e orientações para aqueles que buscam seu eu interior." — Michael B. Jordan "Eric Thomas não perde tempo — ele o leva ao seu limite para ajudá-lo a encontrar a força interior que você nunca soube que tinha. Cada página de Você se Deve Isso contém lições valiosas, inspiração e a boa e velha verdade que o ajudará a trabalhar ainda mais duro, descobrir sua verdadeira motivação e decifrar o segredo do sucesso duradouro." — Ed Mylett, autor best-seller de O Poder de Ir Além.

Science is perfect in its answers. We just have to find the right questions to ask. When Carl, an artistic dreamer with a troubled mind takes on the challenge of thinking in a scientific manner, treasures are found that have implications for every man on Earth. Sometimes you have to wonder if you really want to know the answer.

"This is where you change your course from a life of disappointments, failures, broken promises, selfish ambitions and mediocrity to one of self-fulfilling accomplishments. Greatness Is Upon You is composed of 24 tried and tested principles from my own life..." p. 4.

You can use your GIUY Success Journal as a supplement to the GIUY Hardcopy or if you''re looking to grow and stretch yourself in all aspects of your life, use both in conjunction with our online Ascension Program, Breathe University.

''J.S. Bach''s Johannine Theology'' is a fertile examination of this group of fourteen surviving liturgical works. Renowned Bach scholar Eric Chafe investigates Bach''s theology with the composer''s St. John Passion, concentrating on its first and last versions.

From homeless high school dropout to one of the most sought after motivational speakers in the country, Eric Thomas has truly found the Secret 2 Success. In this, his debut autobiography, Eric shares that secret with the rest of the world. By chronicling his days sleeping in abandoned buildings in the unforgiving Detroit winters, to his rise as a successful husband, father, CEO, educator and motivational speaker, Eric inspires the masses to reach greatness. In 2009 one of Eric?s speeches entitled Secrets 2 Success surfaced on YouTube and quickly went viral reaching over 1 million views. It was the response to this video and the subsequent thousands of emails and phone call from viewers ranging from high school teachers and students, to professional athletes and CEO?s of fortune 500 companies seeking Eric?s advice on how to reach their maximum potential that ultimately led to the writing of this book. In the book, Eric not only details his struggles and successes, he also provides invaluable advice on how anyone can take their life from its current state to places they never dreamed imaginable.

A simplified version of the Bible, from Creation to Revelation.