From the Foreword: "...Many readers will be surprised to learn how much intermediate repertoire was composed by some of our 19th-century greats like... Chopin and Liszt as well as by 20th-century educational composers. Both authors are authorities in the intermediate repertoire area; both teach piano pedagogy and practicum courses, and have worked with this body of repertoire for years. The organization of the book by period is exemplary: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary. Also included are impressionistic literature, jazz literature, multi-period collections and anthologies, and holiday literature. An ensemble literature section (music for one piano-four hands, two pianos-four hands, and two pianos-eight hands), plus materials for adult study round out the thorough coverage. The volume is made even more useful by including suggested teaching orders plus the authors' designation of extremely successful teaching literature. The authors also grade the musical and technical difficulty of sets of pieces, e.g., Bach's Two-part Inventions, Debussy's Preludes, etc., a big asset for young and /or inexperienced teachers...."

Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville... career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.

With a truly global perspective, this vivid and readable narrative provides a comprehensive overview of the history of electronic music. The... author draws upon his combined experience as composer, performer, researcher, entrepreneur, and teacher to provide insight into every aspect of electronic music, including the music itself, the instruments, and the business. Based on more than 150 interviews with leaders in the field, this book allows readers to understand how and why the musicians, engineers and businessmen did what they did to develop the modern synthesizer to its current state.

In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates... our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison; the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system; and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality. From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery by a master science writer.

While the classic battery electric car continues to make only a small impact on the automobile market, other types of electric vehicle, especially... hybrids, have made significant and promising improvements. Moreover, small battery electric vehicles such as bicycles and mobility aids are also developing well. Presenting more than 160 diagrams and pictures, this book explains the science and technology behind these important developments, and also introduces the issues that underpin the design and performance modelling of electric vehicles.Electric Vehicle Technology Explained:Encompasses a full range of electric vehicles: bicycles, mobility aids, delivery vehicles and buses – not just cars.Covers all the basic technology relating to electric road vehicles – batteries, super capacitors, flywheels, fuel cells, electric motors and their controllers, and system design.Considers the environmental benefits and disadvantages of electric vehicles and their component devices.Includes case studies of a range of batteries, hybrids and fuel cell powered vehicles, from bicycles to buses.Offers many MATLAB® examples explaining the design of appropriate computer prediction models.Professionals, researchers and engineers in the electric vehicle industry as well as advanced students in electrical and mechanical engineering will benefit from this comprehensive coverage of electric vehicle technology.

How did electricity enter everyday life in America? Using Muncie, Indiana - the Lynds' now iconic Middletown - as a touchstone, David Nye explores how... electricity seeped into and redefined American culture. With an eye for telling details from archival sources and a broad understanding of cultural and social history, he creates a thought-provoking panorama of a technology fundamental to modern life.Emphasizing the experiences of ordinary men and women rather than the lives of inventors and entrepreneurs, Nye treats electrification as a set of technical possibilities that were selectively adopted to create the streetcar suburb, the amusement park, the "Great White Way," the assembly line, the electrified home, and the industrialized farm. He shows how electricity touched every part of American life, how it became an extension of political ideologies, how it virtually created the image of the modern city, and how it even pervaded colloquial speech, confirming the values of high energy and speed that have become hallmarks of the twentieth century. He also pursues the social meaning of electrification as expressed in utopian ideas and exhibits at world's fairs, and explores the evocation of electrical landscapes in painting, literature, and photography.Electrifying America combines chronology and topicality to examine the major forms of light and power as they came into general use. It shows that in the city electrification promoted a more varied landscape and made possible new art forms and new consumption environments. In the factory, electricity permitted a complete redesign of the size and scale of operations, shifting power away from the shop floor to managers. Electrical appliances redefined domestic work and transformed the landscape of the home, while on the farm electricity laid the foundation for today's agribusiness.David E. Nye teaches American history at the University of Copenhagen. He has published books on Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, as well as Image Worlds, a study of photography and corporate identities at General Electric.

Electrocardiography Essentials provides the information students need to obtain a position in a hospital or a clinic. Students learn the skills... necessary to ensure efficiency in gathering vital signs information that will aid in diagnosing and treating patients. Concepts such as preparing for patients physically and emotionally for the procedure, using storing equipment safely, and recognizing arrhythmias accurately are detailed.

Electrocardiography for Health Care Personnel provides ECG skills training for health care students as well as health care personnel who are interested... in mastering additional skills. The text includes the essential skills needed to perform an ECG, including anatomy of the heart, basic characteristics, equipment, appropriate intervention, and other technical applications, such as Holter monitoring and stress testing. Emphasis throughout the text is placed on troubleshooting.

This popular pocket-sized reference provides the latest guidelines on arrhythmia detection and identification - all in a fast, easy-to-use format. Its... concise presentation provides users with a reference for study of ECG recognition, mechanism, pathophysiology, clinical implications, pediatric considerations, bedside diagnosis, emergency treatment, and long-term cures. As always, users can count on the organization and chapter titles being consistent with those in the pocket guide's sister text, Conover: Understanding Electrocardiography, 8th Edition.Places the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias and cardiac emergencies in compact outline form.Gives users all the important, accurate information of its sister text, Understanding Electrocardiography, 8th Edition, including ECG recognition, mechanism, pathophysiology, clinical implications, pediatric considerations, bedside diagnosis, emergency treatment, and long-term cures - in an outline format that allows for quick and easy retrieval.Provides essential information on pediatrics whenever applicable throughout entire text.Includes an illustration of the heart which depicts step-by-step activation related to ECG.Explains the mechanisms of arrhythmias in a clear and concise manner with illustrations.Provides all forms and aspects of atrial flutter in an easy-to-use outline format.Presents bedside diagnosis information which helps nurses make an effective physical evaluation.Describes appropriate medical responses in clear terms (for example, response to paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia).Chapters are revised to incorporate the new American Heart Association Guidelines and new treatment modalities.Congenital Long QT Syndrome (Chapter 26) is extensively revised to reflect new information on genetic codes and the inherited and often fatal ECG anomaly.Acquired Long QT Syndrome (Chapter 27) is extensively revised. This potentially lethal condition is created by an ever-expanding list of cardiac (and non-cardiac) drugs.Brugada Syndrome (Chapter 28) is revised to include new genetic information.Atrial Fibrillation (Chapter 8) has been completely rewritten to include more information on this "growth industry of the 21st century," as well as the potential cure with focal ablation.The Athlete's ECG (Chapter 21) is a new chapter that shows how intense physical training is associated with ECG patterns that are a consequence of physiologic adaptations of the heart.

Electroceramics, Materials, Properties, Applications, Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of the many aspects of ceramics and their... electrical applications. The fundamentals of how electroceramics function are carefully introduced with their properties and applications also considered. Starting from elementary principles, the physical, chemical and mathematical background of the subject are discussed and wherever appropriate, a strong emphasis is placed on the relationship between microstructire and properties. The Second Edition has been fully revised and updated, building on the foundation of the earlier book to provide a concise text for all those working in the growing field of electroceramics. fully revised and updated to include the latest technological changes and developments in the fieldincludes end of chapter problems and an extensive bibliographyan Invaluable text for all Materials Science students.a useful reference for physicists, chemists and engineers involved in the area of electroceramics.

Using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in a broad range of applicationsThis book provides the background and training suitable for application of... impedance spectroscopy to varied applications, such as corrosion, biomedical devices, semiconductors and solid-state devices, sensors, batteries, fuel cells, electrochemical capacitors, dielectric measurements, coatings, electrochromic materials, analytical chemistry, and imaging. The emphasis is on generally applicable fundamentals rather than on detailed treatment of applications. With numerous illustrative examples showing how these principles are applied to common impedance problems, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy is ideal either for course study or for independent self-study, covering:Essential background, including complex variables, differential equations, statistics, electrical circuits, electrochemistry, and instrumentationExperimental techniques, including methods used to measure impedance and other transfer functionsProcess models, demonstrating how deterministic models of impedance response can be developed from physical and kinetic descriptionsInterpretation strategies, describing methods of interpretating of impedance data, ranging from graphical methods to complex nonlinear regressionError structure, providing a conceptual understanding of stochastic, bias, and fitting errors in frequency-domain measurementsAn overview that provides a philosophy for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy that integrates experimental observation, model development, and error analysisThis is an excellent textbook for graduate students in electrochemistry, materials science, and chemical engineering. It's also a great self-study guide and reference for scientists and engineers who work with electrochemistry, corrosion, and electrochemical technology, including those in the biomedical field, and for users and vendors of impedance-measuring instrumentation.