14 Results for : avuncular
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Vaughan Williams (eBook, ePUB)
A new biography of which paints the most well-rounded and factually accurate portrait of the composer to date Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks among the most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians of his era. Throughout his wide-ranging career-as composer, conductor, editor, scholar, folksong collector, teacher, author, administrator, and philanthropist-Vaughan Williams worked tirelessly to improve the standards and quality of British musical life. His dedicated work ethic and fastidious attention to musical detail helped him forge a compelling and original expressive idiom grounded in a profound understanding of musical history and tradition, popularized in concert staples like the Tallis Fantasia, The Lark Ascending, A London Symphony, the Songs of Travel, and the Serenade to Music. Drawing upon both recent scholarship and newly accessible scores and correspondence, author Eric Saylor interweaves in Vaughan Williams an exploration of the composer's life - including new insights about his early career, military service in the Great War, and relationships with the women he loved and married - with chapters surveying his enormous body of music, spanning hymn tunes to operas, keyboard etudes to solo concerti, wind band music for amateurs to perhaps the finest symphonic cycle of the twentieth century. The resulting portrait reveals Vaughan Williams's complex artistry and dynamic personality, a portrayal often at odds with the avuncular persona of "Uncle Ralph" familiar to the public. This contemporary reassessment of the composer's life and works provides a concise and engaging overview of both, positioning Vaughan Williams as an artist of rare skill, sensitivity, and human insight.- Shop: buecher
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Divine Alignment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 516min
It's happened to you. You received a phone call out of the blue, or you bumped into someone who led you to a new job, a new relationship, or an opportunity that totally changed your life. You probably even said, "Wow, what a coincidence I met so and so". But did you ever stop to ask what caused that person to be right there at that exact moment, in your path? It was divine alignment: the arrangement of coincidences into a pattern of alignment so astonishing they could have come only from a higher source. In this inspiring new work, SQuire Rushnell shows listeners how they can navigate life's thorniest hurdles, rediscover the deep meaning and impact of personal prayer, and develop the individual conviction and wherewithal it takes to reach their full potential and fulfill their most ambitious dreams by honoring the book's seven easy-to-follow steps. In his charmingly avuncular and wonderfully optimistic voice, SQuire shares moving stories from his own and others' lives to show the awesome strength inherent in what he calls God's positioning system, or GPS. Each of us, he assures listeners, can use our own personal GPS to grow more closely aligned with God to become vastly more effective, successful, and fulfilled in our relationships, our career, and everything we do. Divine Alignment offers a comprehensive approach for living our lives in harmony with God - every minute of every day - offering a whole new paradigm for understanding the mysterious connections between people and events, challenges, and solutions. GPS step 1: Speak with the navigator GPS step 2: Listen to your own inner compass GPS step 3: Mapping your destination GPS step 4: Unshackle your baggage GPS step 5: Step out in faith, and believe you'll arrive GPS step 6: Read the signs, recalculate, and accelerate GPS step 7: Gratefully arrive with a full well within ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Squire Rushnell, Louise Duart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019944/bk_adbl_019944_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Quantum of Nightmares (eBook, ePUB)
A unique blend of espionage thrills and Lovecraftian horror, Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Laundry Files continues with Quantum of Nightmares.It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she's in charge of the Bigge Corporation-just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago.Wendy Deere's transhuman abilities have gotten her through many a scrape. Now she's gainfully employed investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn't again get entangled with Eve Starkey's bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right.Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she's pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized superheroes. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head.Amanda Sullivan is the HR manager of a minor grocery chain, much oppressed by her glossy blonde boss-who is cooking up an appalling, extralegal scheme literally involving human flesh.All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results..."For all of Stross's genuine ability to spook and dismay, The Laundry Files are some of the most tremendously humane books I've ever read." -Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the NinthAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.- Shop: buecher
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