Maestros are dying violently while conducting classical music. Meanwhile, a university research scientist has uncovered a sinister mechanism that could account for the deaths. An oboist with a dark past and his violinist girlfriend become drawn into the research with frightening results. This musical science fiction love story weaves the daily workings of a symphony orchestra into the intricacies of scientific research, and culminates in a dramatic quest to prevent the deaths at the podium and to expose the truth.

Death at the Podium

Arts & Photography

Barclay, Senior Conservator Ethnology Robert

Music

Loose Cannon Press

This book is a graphic description of the International Trumpet-making Workshop, which has been in operation since 1994. Participants in this workshop make a natural trumpet based on a 17th century original using the materials, tools and techniques of the period. Every stage of the workshop is illustrated in over 70 colour photographs, and background information on the trumpet model chosen, the history of the workshop, and further references are also included. This book is a must-have for anyone, musician or not, who is interested in the history and construction of the natural trumpet and its performance today. Dieses Buch ist eine Beschreibung des Internationalen Trompetenbau-Workshops, welcher 1994 begann. Teilnehmer des Workshops bauen eine Naturtrompete basierend auf einem Original des 17. Jahrhunderts unter Verwendung von Materialien, Werkzeugen und Techniken dieser Periode. Jeder Schritt des Workshops wird in über 70 Farbfotos illustriert. Es werden Hintergrundinformationen zum Trompetenmodell erläutert und die Geschichte des Workshops dargestellt. Referenzen über den Workshop sind ebenfalls enthalten. Dieses Buch ist ein Muss für jeden, Musiker oder nicht, der sich für die Geschichte und den Bau der Naturtrompete interessiert und ihre heutige Spielweise.

Making a Natural Trumpet/Herstellung einer Naturtrompete (English and German Edition)

Seraphinoff, Richard

Munkwitz, Michael

Native people arrived in Maine at the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago. They came in small family groups and survived unimaginably cold winters and animals such as the giant beaver and cave bear. Fortunately, they had their great god, Gluskape, who slowly melted the ice and rid the woods of terrifying serpents. But he was also a liar and a big tease! It was a time when people, animals, and stones were equal; when Gluskape could be as large as a mountain or as small as a mouse, when the Star People traveled to the treetops. Slowly, things started to change. The tribes squabbled and Gluskape hated jealousy. It was m'teouin that people and animals needed-inner strength. The stories instruct people in the ways of hunting, the lore of plants, and the skills they needed every day. There is still much for us to learn about Maine as the next great climate change approaches. Will we hurt the land with our jealousy and greed? Or will we learn to be alone and appreciate the magic of every stone? The Native storytellers who still remembered these tales 12 centuries later included Tomah Joseph, Marie Saksis, Louis Mitchell, and Noel Neptune. By then, few Wabanakis remained and efforts began to preserve the language and write down fragments, mostly from the Fundy area in Nova Scotia.

Giants of The Dawnland: Ancient Wabanaki Tales

Mead, Alice

Neptune, Arnold

Literature & Fiction

Eugene Wigner discovered the quantum mechanical "symmetries" of the atomic nucleus in 1937 and won a Nobel Prize in Physics for that work in 1963. He explicitly stated that the mathematical symmetries are those of a face-centered-cubic crystalline lattice, but the 3D spatial structure was largely ignored as theorists developed many varities of the liquid-drop model, the gaseous-phase shell model and the molecule-like alpha cluster model. It turns out that Wigner's fcc lattice unifies the many mutually-contradictory models of nuclear structure theory. Both surprising and delightful, who would have guessed that nuclear properties can be reproduced within a solid-phase lattice? And, best of all, the lattice is held together by a realistic, short-range nucleus force. This book was written to understand the microreality that is the atomic nucleus. This new third edition, written shortly before the author's death in 2019, will guide the research of those who have a desire to understand one of the most complex objects in the material world.

Models of the Atomic Nucleus: Unification Through a Lattice of Nucleons

Norman D. Cook

Jacob the Trumpeter

Biographies & Memoirs

Barclay, Robert

Arts & Literature

An analysis of current practice in trumpet-playing in the baroque orchestra, with emphasis upon the promotion and dissemination of a false narrative regarding the authenticity of the instruments. Discussion of historical methods of manufacture, creating reproductions, and preservation and use of historic instruments.

Henry VIII's Motorcycle

Barclay, Robert L.

This is a biography of Canadian prime minister Sir Mackenzie Bowell who has been almost entirely neglected by 20th century historians. Bowell is one of the longest serving parliamentarians in Canadian history and was involved in several key government initiatives, including the first Commonwealth conference, discussions on undersea communications cables, and key issues of Catholic and Protestant relationships. This book redresses the imbalance of history and shows Mackenzie Bowell in his true light as an energetic and passionate public servant who served his country in many capacities into his ninth decade.

Sir Mackenzie Bowell

History

Wilson, Barry K

Americas

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in so much pain, suffering, and sadness around the world, has nonetheless proven to be an extraordinarily rich source of material for writers. This collection of works by and about elders-people over the age of 60-contains something for readers of all ages and of almost every conceivable literary taste. Here you will find poems (including a performance poem), short stories, plays, memoirs, and essays. You will find works written in French as well as in English, and you will find works written by Americans as well as by Canadians. And you will experience the full gamut of moods, from despondency to defiance, and from stoic acceptance to sly cynicism. As you read, you will almost certainly shed a few tears. But you will also laugh out loud more than once, and experience moments of sheer awe at the insight and inspiration provided by our more than 50 authors. Here is a COVID collection unlike any other, a book to keep on your shelves and treasure for years after the pandemic is finally over.

Plague Take It: A COVID Almanac By and About Elders

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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