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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy worldwide....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the...
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the...
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush
The Making of a Global President
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Available in print for the first time, this day-by-day diary of George H. W. Bush's life in China opens a fascinating window into one of the most formative periods of his career. As head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing from 1974 to 1975, Bush witnessed high-level policy deliberations...
Dreams of Other Worlds
The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration - Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our...
Climbing the Charts
What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships between record labels, tastemakers,...
The Color of Success
Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of...
Neighbors
The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all but seven of the town's Jews. Neighbors tells their story.
This is a shocking, brutal story that has never before been told. It is the most important study of Polish-Jewish...
Fascinating Rhythm
Reading Jazz in American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic...
by Tamara Levitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of...
The Essential Jung
Selected and introduced by Anthony Storr
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In this compact volume, British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography. Storr's explanatory notes and introduction show the progress and coherence of Jung's...
What's Divine about Divine Law?
Early Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of divine...
Mathematics without Apologies
Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material...