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Killing the Moonlight
Modernism in Venice
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This year's Best American Magazine Writing features articles on politics, culture, sports, sex, race, celebrity, and more. Selections include Ta-Nehisi Coates's intensely debated "The Case For Reparations" (The Atlantic) and Monica Lewinsky's reflections on the public-humiliation complex...
Capital of Capital
Money, Banking, and Power in New York City, 1784-2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
From Revolutionary Era bank notes to the 2008 financial collapse, Capital of Capital explores how New York City gave rise to a banking industry that in turn made the American and world economies. Capital of Capital also examines the frequently contentious evolution of the banking business, its role...
The Metropolitan Revolution
The Rise of Post-Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast and the Midwest were bustling, racially and economically integrated areas frequented by suburban and urban dwellers alike. Yet since 1945,...
by Richard Plunz
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very...
Class Act
The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters...
by Edward Said
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained...
Hollywood Science
Movies, Science, and the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology. These films explore a range of complex topics in vivid and accessible ways, from space travel...
Mankind Beyond Earth
The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Seeking to reenergize Americans' passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon, and the importance of human beings on the final frontier, Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its major achievements. He emphasizes the importance...
The Philosopher’s Touch
Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic François Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all of whom were amateur piano players and acute lovers of the medium. Though piano playing was a crucial art for these thinkers, their musings...
The Don Giovanni Moment
Essays on the Legacy of an Opera
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism.
The...
Cold War Modernists
Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling...
by Donald Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have.
The fourth edition...
The End of Cinema?
A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing...