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The Political Orchestra
The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trümpi offers new insight into the orchestras’ place in the larger political constellation.
Trümpi...
Distant Cycles
Schubert and the Conceiving of Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1994
Franz Schubert's song cycles Schone Mullerin and Winterreise are cornerstones of the genre. But as Richard Kramer argues in this book, Schubert envisioned many other songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By carefully studying Schubert's original manuscripts,...
The Music between Us
Is Music a Universal Language?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In The Music between Us, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable...
by Robert M. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all...
Seeing Like a Rover
How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than they may seem to a layperson: each one is the...
Lives on the Edge
Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1994
One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow...
Trance-Migrations
Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn’t. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud to a lover, friend, or confidant, in order...
Improvement by Design
The Promise of Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation’s notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. Various programs have tried to do that, but...
How to Do It
Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet...
Authoring the Past
History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts...
Afterimages
Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic—comparable to the infamous photo by Nick Ut of a Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack....
Cartographic Japan
A History in Maps
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. Pioneering...
The Only Woman in the Room
A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitution; how she almost single-handedly ensured that...
Nightwork
Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen...