Theory category: 79975 books
The Everything Essential Music Theory Book
A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Master musical skills quickly and easily!
From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music Theory Book is a guide to mastering one...
by Andy Kossowsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A short introduction to the vocabulary and concepts of music theory.If you've wanted to learn about music theory but didn't know where to begin or even how to ask the right questions, this will start you off. We'll start at Square One.
by Claudio Dappiaggi, Nicola Pinamonti, Valter Moretti
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book provides a rather self-contained survey of the construction of Hadamard states for scalar field theories in a large class of notable spacetimes, possessing a (conformal) light-like boundary. The first two sections focus on explaining a few introductory aspects of this topic and on providing...
by Maurizio Gasperini
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This is the second edition of a well-received book that is a modern, self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions. The new edition includes more details on gravitational waves of cosmological origin, the so-called brane world scenario, and gravitational time-delay effects.
The...
Selberg Zeta Functions and Transfer Operators
An Experimental Approach to Singular Perturbations
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book presents a method for evaluating Selberg zeta functions via transfer operators for the full modular group and its congruence subgroups with characters. Studying zeros of Selberg zeta functions for character deformations allows us to access the discrete spectra and resonances of hyperbolic...
by Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lüst, Stefan Theisen
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in string theory at an intermediate level. As such it is not a compendium of results but intended as textbook in the sense that most of the material is organized in a pedagogical and self-contained fashion.
Beyond the...
Canonical Quantum Gravity
Fundamentals and Recent Developments
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
This book aims to present a pedagogical and self-consistent treatment of the canonical approach to Quantum Gravity, starting from its original formulation to the most recent developments in the field.
We start with an innovative and enlightening introduction to the formalism and concepts on...
by Professor Mari Ruti
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of femininity to 21st-century analyses of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, postfeminism, and the revival...
by Susan Bennett, Kim Solga, Susan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live...
Youth, Arts, and Education
Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How are the arts important in young people’s lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard.
Through examples from the United Kingdom and Australia,...
Attachment Theory and the Teacher-Student Relationship
A Practical Guide for Teachers, Teacher Educators and School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. A teacher who is able to accurately interpret the underlying relationship processes can learn to proactively, rather than reactively, influence the dynamics of any class. These are skills...
Darwinism in Argentina
Major Texts (1845-1909)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) brings together essays, letters, short-stories, and public lectures by travelers, scientists, writers, and politicians about Darwin and the theory of evolution in nineteenth century Argentina. This selection of texts provides a thorough overview of the...
by Ed Roseman
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Music theory need not be dreary! This eBook is the first in a two-part e-series of this well-loved book. Its clear and friendly writing and wry humor, coupled with fun illustrations throughout, makes the topic that music students think of as dry and boring, into something approachable, attainable,...
Unnatural States
The International System and the Power to Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Unnatural States is a radical critique of international theory, in particular, of the assumption of state agency—that states act in the world in their own right. Peter Lomas argues that since the universal states system is inequitable and rigid, and not all states are democracies anyway, this assumption...