Author: Joanne Cormac File Type: pdf Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama. Today, the symphonic poems are usually seen as alternatives to the symphony post-Beethoven. Analysts stress their symphonic logic, thereby neglecting their extramusical subject matter. This book takes a different approach it returns these influential pieces to their original performance context in the theatre, arguing that the symphonic poem is as much a dramatic as a symphonic genre. This is evidenced in new analyses of the music that examines the theatricality of these pieces and their depiction of voices, mise-en-scene, gesture and action. Simultaneously, the book repositions Liszts legacy within theatre history, arguing that his contributions should be placed alongside those of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner. **

Author: Charles Waldheim File Type: pdf Mapping has been one of the most fertile areas of exploration for architecture and landscape in the past few decades. While documenting this shift in representation from the material and physical description toward the depiction of the unseen and often immaterial, Cartographic Grounds takes a critical view toward the current use of data mapping and visualization and calls for a return to traditional cartographic techniques to reimagine the manifestation and manipulation of the ground itself.Each of the ten chapters focuses on a single cartographic techniquesoundingspot elevation, isobathcontour, hachurehatch, shaded relief, land classification, figure-ground, stratigraphic column, cross-section, line symbol, conventional signand illustrates it through beautiful maps and plans from notable designers and cartographers throughout history, from Leonardo da Vinci to James Corner Field Operations. Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, introduces the book.

Author: Marion Nestle File Type: pdf How do we decide what foods to eat? In recent years, this simple question has become complicated beyond belief--as supermarkets have grown to warehouse size, and as the old advice to eat foods from four food groups has been overrun by questions about organic foods, hormones, pesticides, carbohydrates, trans fats, omega-3s, supplements, health claims, extreme diets, and, above all, obesity.Fortunately, Marion Nestle is here to tell us whats what--to give us the facts we need to make sensible choices from the bewildering array of foods available to us. With What to Eat, this renowned nutritionist takes us on a guided tour of the supermarket, explaining the issues with verve and wit as well as a scientists expertise and a food lovers experience.Todays supermarket is ground zero for the food industry, a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for sales with profits--not nutrition or health--in mind. Nestle walks us through the supermarket, section by section produce, dairy, meat, fish, packaged foods, breads, juices, bottled waters, and more. Alongthe way, she untangles the issues, decodes the labels, clarifies the health claims, and debunks the sales hype. She tells us how to make sensible choices based on freshness, taste, nutrition, health, effects on the environment, and, of course, price. With Nestle as our guide, we learn what it takes to make wise food choicesand are inspired to act with confidence on that knowledge.What to Eat is the guide to healthy eating today comprehensive, provocative, revealing, rich in common sense, informative, and a pleasure to read. Marion Nestle received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Foundation--the food worlds highest honor--as well as the foundations book prize. She is the author of Food Politics and Safe Food, and was featured in the documentary Super Size Me. A native of New York, she raised her family in California and now lives in Greenwich Village, where she teaches at New York University. How should you decide what foods to eat? As supermarkets have grown to warehouse size, this simple question has become complicated beyond belief. Fortunately, Marion Nestle--renowned for her sage advice on food and nutrition--is here to cut through the confusion and lay out what you need to know. In What to Eat, she takes us on a guided tour of the American supermarket and shows us exactly how to feed ourselves and our families wisely and well. With sharp humor, expertise, and a food-lovers delight, Nestle guides us through the supermarket sections--produce, dairy, meat, fish, breads, and juices, and then to the center aisles, where big profits are made. Along the way, she reveals the big food companies marketing practices, explains complex labels in clear language, and tells us what we need to know about - wild and farm-raised- frozen and fresh- organic, natural, and conventional- carbs, omega-3s, and trans fats- pesticides and the environment - portion size, labeling, and nutrition claims- supplements, additives, and preservatives - food safety The industry wants you to believe there are no good foods or bad foods. Well, thats not true. And I cant think of anyone who knows the difference better than Marion Nestle.--Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation Not only is What to Eat the most comprehensive guide to the political and nutritional choices we make shopping for food, but its also full of up-to-date research on health.--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review With this comprehensive guide, Nestle, a nutritionist, makes the weekly trip to the grocery less daunting and a healthy diet more attainable.--Science News Part muckraking journalism, part reference book and part consumer guide, What to Eat is organized in the manner suggested by the subtitle as a walk down each grocery store aisle with a companionable Ph. D. researcher as the guide. It is a simple, yet effective, concept for organizing what otherwise could have become a mind-numbing amount of information.--Steve Weinberg, St. Louis Post-Dispatch When it comes to the increasingly treacherous landscape of the American supermarket, with its marketing hype and competing health claims, Marion Nestle is an absolutely indispensable guide knowledgeable, eminently sane--and wonderful company, too.--Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire The industry wants you to believe there are no good foods or bad foods. Well, thats not true. And I cant think of anyone who knows the difference better than Marion Nestle.--Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation According to nutritionist Nestle, the increasing confusion among the general public about what to eat comes from two sources experts who fail to create a holistic view by isolating food components and health issues, and a food industry that markets items on the basis of profits alone. She suggests that, often, research findings are deliberately obscure to placate special interests. Nestle says that simple, common-sense guidelines available decades ago still hold true consume fewer calories, exercise more, eat more fruits and vegetables and, for todays consumers, less junk food. The key to eating well, Nestle advises, is to learn to navigate through the aisles (and thousands of items) in large supermarkets. To that end, she gives readers a virtual tour, highlighting the main concerns of each food group, including baby, health and prepared foods, and supplements. Nestles prose is informative and entertaining she takes on the role of detective, searching for clues to the puzzle of healthy and satisfying nutrition. Her intelligent and reassuring approach will likely make readers venture more confidently through the jungle of todays super-sized stores.--Publishers Weekly

Author: Don Delillo File Type: pdf From Publishers WeeklyIn search of his roots, a successful but unhappy TV executive takes off for the heartland of America. This first novel is peopled with characters alienated not only from one another, but from themselves. It has the smell of staleness and despair. It is also, with its deadly accurate observations, its veracious dialogue, and its consistency of view, brilliantly written, maintained PW. 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the AuthorThe author of thirteen novels, five plays, and numerous short stories, Don DeLillo was born in 1936. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillos comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, and Underworld (1997), with its vivid portraits of actor Jackie Gleason and standup comedian Lenny Bruce.