Theory category: 79975 books
Music Theory Through Improvisation
A New Approach to Musicianship Training
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general progression of diatonic to non-diatonic harmony...
by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan S. Lanser, Catherine Burgass
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature of culture and interpretation. This third...
by Bohumil Fort
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The author extensively details, analyses and compares key concepts and strategies of fictional worlds theory: a theory which has, over recent years, developed rather rapidly and is connected with leading scholars in the area of literary studies, such as Lubomír Doležel, Umberto Eco, Thomas Pavel,...
by John Mill
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles:
1. PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY – JOHN STUART MILL
2. ON LIBERTY – JOHN STUART MILL
3. UTILITARIANISM – JOHN STUART MILL
4. A SYSTEM OF LOGIC – JOHN STUART MILL...
The Invention of International Relations Theory
Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal...
Literary Criticism and Theory
From Plato to Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines:
major thinkers...
by Simon Wortmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, language: English, abstract: In the year 1975 the French feminist author Helene Cixous published an essay called 'The Laugh of the Medusa'. In it, she develops...
Narrative Theory
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction provides an account of a methodology increasingly central to literary studies, film studies, history, psychology and beyond. In addition to introducing readers to some of the field's major figures and their ideas, Puckett situates critical...
by Z.I. Borevich, I.R. Shafarevich
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1986
This book is written for the student in mathematics. Its goal is to give a view of the theory of numbers, of the problems with which this theory deals, and of the methods that are used.
We have avoided that style which gives a systematic development of the apparatus and have used instead a...
Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies
Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
An updated, reader-friendly guide to feminist theory and therapy!
Feminist Theories and Feminist Psychotherapies: Origins, Themes, and Diversity, Second Edition examines major feminist theoretical perspectives and links them to practical applications of feminist therapy. This book focuses on...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman’s The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory. After opening with a chapter by Silverman himself, the subsequent...
by Dr. Javaid R. Khwaja
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The new economy, under the impetus of the ever-widening outreach of the Internet, is undergoing a transition. In the meantime, theres also been a shift to the information paradigm, with its emphasis on lack of foresight. These processes have almost completely supplanted the concept of market that...
Mathematical Control Theory I
Nonlinear and Hybrid Control Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This treatment of modern topics related to mathematical systems theory forms the proceedings of a workshop, Mathematical Systems Theory: From Behaviors to Nonlinear Control, held at the University of Groningen in July 2015. The workshop celebrated the work of Professors Arjan van der Schaft and Harry...
The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen
Economics Books, Business Essays & Political Articles: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Contents: The Theory...