Michael Steinberg: 15 books
The Concerto
A Listener's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels" (Washington Post), "informed and thoughtful" (Chicago Tribune), and "composed by...
Choral Masterworks
A Listener's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2005
Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks, the...
For The Love of Music
Invitations to Listening
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience....
Enlightenment Interrupted
The Lost Moment of German Idealism and the Reactionary Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The modern world claims to inherit the values of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment Interrupted suggests a different genealogy. Instead of carrying on the Enlightenment it grew out of its suppression and forgetting, a founding act of bad faith and willed blindness that has haunted our world from its birth....
by Michael Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Still Pitching is the coming-of-age story of growing up in New York in the ’50s revolving around Steinberg’s passion for baseball.
by Michael Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
This book is unique in its focus on bodily experience as an independent source of knowledge and insight, an important aspect of recent discoveries in neurology and psychology. By rethinking what it is to be human and what role self-consciousness plays, it finds striking points of intersection between...
Stalking the Ghost Bird
The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
When a kayaker thought he spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker in 2004, the birding community took notice. Two birders traveled to the bayou where the sighting occurred, well aware that the last confirmed sighting of an ivory-bill had taken place over sixty years ago. Both men caught a glimpse of the...
The Agent
My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A New York Times bestseller!
The real-life "Jerry Maguire," superagent Leigh Steinberg shares his personal stories on the rise, fall, and redemption of his game-changing career in the high-stakes world of professional sports
Leigh Steinberg is renowned as one of the greatest...
Strategic Reassurance and Resolve
U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the Pacific see growing tensions between the United States and China. Some go so far as to predict a future of conflict, driven by the inevitable rivalry between an established and...
Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape
A New Generation of Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
In the past decade various studies have examined how political humor may influence various political attitudes and voting behavior; whether it affects learning, cognition and media literacy, how it might shape political participation; how people process different forms of political humor; and more....
Mystery Midrash
An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Confront murder, mayhem—and your own mysteries of being.
From a corporate giant's kidnapping of a rabbi, to the disappearance of the clarinetist in a klezmer band, to four rabbis' use of their text interpretation skills to help a detective solve a murder that one of them has committed, this...
Comparative Environmental Politics
Theory, Practice, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems
How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe?...
by Stephen Addiss, Minh Nguyen, Yuriko Saito
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...
A Glass Half Full?
Rebalance, Reassurance, and Resolve in the U.S.-China Strategic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.
The U.S.-China relationship has not always been smooth, but since Richard Nixon’s opening in the early 1970s, the two countries have evolved a relationship that has been generally beneficial to both parties. Economic...
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