{"title":"Blake Wilson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"batdad-book-blake-wilson-9780451495501","title":"Batdad","description":"In The Apocalypse Has Begun, Steve Terrell vividly explains how these eschatological events came to pass and makes a convincing argument for the apocalyptic trials that are soon to follow. He also clearly shows how many of these events will not take place as people have expected, such as: The Beast will not initially step on to the world stage as a powerful personality. The Beast will not be physically wounded unto death and then experience some sort of resurrection. The Rapture will not take place before the event that many call the tribulation. There will not be a one-world government before Jesus returns, nor will there be a one-world Church. There will not be a new city of Babylon built in Iraq. The battle of Armageddon will not involve all the armies of the world. The Apocalypse Has Begun is a must-read for better understanding of the end-times and where the world is likely headed. It should become a significant book for any serious Bible study class.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49796690837777,"sku":"CIN0451495500G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51319928062225,"sku":"GOR010477462","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0451495500.jpg?v=1751358661"},{"product_id":"music-and-merchants-book-blake-wilson-9780198161769","title":"Music and Merchants","description":"For all that has been written about Renaissance Florence, we know relatively little about its musical life, its religious life, and the aspirations of its average citizens. This book contributes significantly to an understanding of all of these by documenting and interpreting the corporate patronage of an important Florentine musical repertory over a period of some 200 years.  From the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries at least twelve lay confraternities sponsored a widespread musical activity involving a specialized network of singers and instrumentalists. The meticulous records kept by these companies reveal a wealth of information about the musicians' conditions and patterns of activity, the central role of music in the companies' vernacular liturgy (especially as conditioned by bequests), and vital performance practice issues such as the role of instruments in vocal performance, the shift from monophonic to polyphonic practice, and the interaction of written and unwritten musical traditions. Because the companies were, in many respects, both a microcosm and characteristic manifestation of this remarkable Renaissance city, the author also seeks to explain how mendicant spirituality, guild society, and devotional images and imagination provide the essential context for understanding the function and significance of laudesi practice and repertoire. This book will be welcomed not only by musicologists, but by Italianists and late medieval and early modern scholars in general.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51120129048849,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51120130195729,"sku":"NIN9780198161769","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52353135673617,"sku":"NLS9780198161769","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/019816176X.jpg?v=1751004937"},{"product_id":"singing-to-the-lyre-in-renaissance-italy-book-blake-wilson-9781108738415","title":"Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy","description":"A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Singing to the Lyre is the first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous practice, which was cultivated by performers ranging from popes, princes, and many artists, to professionals of both mercantile and humanist background. Common to all was a strong degree of mixed orality based on a synergy between writing and the oral operations of memory, improvisation, and performance. As a cultural practice deeply rooted in language and supported by ancient precedent, cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre) is also a reflection of Renaissance cultural priorities, including the status of vernacular poetry, the study and practice of rhetoric, the oral foundations of humanist education, and the performative culture of the courts reflected in theatrical presentations and Castiglione's Il cortegiano.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52472603607313,"sku":"NLS9781108738415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52746791649553,"sku":"NIN9781108738415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781108738415.jpg?v=1759838805"},{"product_id":"better-hearing-with-cochlear-implants-book-blake-wilson-9781597562539","title":"Better Hearing with Cochlear Implants","description":"Better Hearing with Cochlear Implants provides a comprehensive account of a decades-long research effort to improve cochlear implants (CIs). The research was conducted primarily at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in North Carolina, USA, and the results provided key pillars in the foundation for the present-day devices. Although many of these results were reported in journal articles and other publications, many others were only reported in Quarterly and Final Progress Reports for the National Institutes of Health, which supported the RTI effort. In addition, the Progress Reports provided details that could not be included in the publications. The book is an annotated compilation of the most important sections from the most important reports that gives readers access to previously unpublished data and also a broad and logically organized overview of the research. Four main sections are included to describe the major lines of investigation: design and evaluation of novel processing strategies; electrical stimulation on both sides with CIs; combined electric and acoustic stimulation of the auditory system; and representations of temporal information with CIs.Large advances were made in each of these areas, and readers will appreciate the significance of the research and how the different areas related to each other. Each main section includes an introduction by the authors followed by two or more chapters, and the first chapter in the book describes the work conducted at the RTI in the context of the multiple other efforts worldwide.  The book may be used as a primary text on CIs, and it can serve as a multifaceted reference for physicians, audiologists, neuroscientists, designers of neural prostheses, and scientists and other specialists whose work is aimed at the remediation of hearing loss.  In all, a fascinating history is presented, which began with little or no speech recognition with CIs for any user and ended with high levels of speech recognition for the great majority of users, including the ability to converse with ease via cell phones. This is a long trip in a short time, and historians of science and technological developments will be interested in knowing how such a rapid development was possible, and about the twists and turns on the way to the destination.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52478208278801,"sku":"NLS9781597562539","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781597562539.jpg?v=1759846821"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-blake-wilson.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}