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Tile-stamps of Philippianus in Late Roman Sicily: a talking signum or evidence for horse-raising?
That a Roman villa lies in contrada Gerace, 10 km due south of Enna in central Sicily, has been known since the discovery of part of a geometric mosaic floor, when erosion of a drainage channel in flood exposed it in 1994. Subsequent excavation by E. Cilia Platamone, then of the Enna Soprintendenza, uncovered the plan of part of a small villa-like building (\"Area A\") consisting of an apsed room, four rooms to its west and a corridor along the S and W sides; she also demonstrated through trial trenching that mosaics existed in at least part of the S corridor and the apsed room, but most of the site was cleared only to the tops of the walls. Excavation in 2007 by C. Bonanno, then also of the Enna Soprintendenza, uncovered more of the mosaic pavements in the S corridor and the apsed room, and demonstrated the existence of further rooms opening off the W side of the W corridor. Two small trial trenches were also dug by L. Guzzardi in 2000 in an area 60 m north of this building. [Publication Abstract]
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The untold story of the talking book
\"This work is the first history of recorded literature since Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877. It traces the tradition from phonographic books made on wax cylinders to talking books made for blinded soldiers returning from the First World War and, much later, the commercial audiobooks heard today. Addressing the vexed relationship between orality and print, the author shows how talking books developed both as a way of reproducing printed books and as a way of overcoming their limitations. In a wide-ranging overview, he charts the talking book's evolution across numerous media (records, tapes, discs, digital files), its reception by a bemused public, and impassioned disputes over its legitimacy. Testimonials drawn from the archives of charities for war-blinded veterans and pioneering audio publishers including Caedmon, Books on Tape, and Audible vividly recreate how audiences over the past century have responded to literature read out loud. This book poses a series of conceptual questions too: What exactly is the relationship between spoken and printed texts? How does the experience of listening to books compare to that of reading them? What influence does a book's narrator have over its reception? What methods of close listening are appropriate to such narratives? What new formal possibilities are opened up by sound recording? Sound technology turns out to be every bit as important as screens to the book's ongoing transformation. In sum, this book breaks from convention by treating audiobooks as a distinctive art form that has profoundly influenced the way we read.\"-- Provided by publisher
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Pablo and Birdy
Pablo, nearly ten, has many questions about his origins and how he arrived at Isla as a baby, but finding the answers may mean losing his lifetime companion, Birdy the parrot.
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