Biography, Literature and Literary studies Books

Book SynopsisTagore, a poet of the world, believed in the unity of humanity across nations and boundaries. His diverse works in poetry, music, painting, and essays explore themes of humanism, nationalism, education, and societal issues. Scholars worldwide continue to analyze the global relevance of his ideas and writings.

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Book SynopsisWilliam Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the first biography of a controversial but compelling figure.Trade Review'This is a splendid story of a man with great charm, who was an adventurer, buccaneer and speculator and who, in a short and eventful life, rose from a very modest beginning to acquire both fame and fortune This book will make good reading for those interested in a comprehensive story of the nitrate industry'. Viscount Montgomery. Chilean News 'This welcome, well-researched and very readable biography gives a full account of his life and provides a reappraisal of his activities, both in Chile where he made his fortune, and back in Britain where his gifts for self-promotion and his lavish life-style made him a byword This is an enjoyable and full account of Colonel North's life and dealings, academic in detail and soundly researched and referenced, but written in an easy, lively style.' Eveleigh Bradford. The Thoresby Society, Leeds "Well-written . . . and contributes new information about North's life and the relation of that life to the economic development of Chile." - Michael Monteón, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego "A revealing, entertaining, and long-needed biography of one of the nineteenth-century's most flamboyant and controversial international capitalists - 'Colonel' John Thomas North. Edmundson adeptly exploits previously unknown archival materials, the contemporary press, and a vast academic literature on the nitrate industry and Chilean politics to bring the 'Colonel' back to life in all his complexity." - Brian Loveman, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, San Diego State University "The author's research, conscientiously carried out in English archives, and the collaboration of experts in information and of libraries, not only proves the seriousness of Edmundson's work, but also the tireless idea of unraveling the life and actions of North in Chile and in other countries where he made investments." 'El regresso de John Thomas North,' Diario 21, Iquique, Chile. May 2, 2011 (trans.), Dr. Pedro Bravo-Elizondo (Ret.), Professor of Latin American Literature, Wichita State University. 'Edmundson's lively style, the many illustrations and some entertaining anecdotes make for a good read.' - Journal of Latin American StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue: He would be called quiet We had adventures of all sorts I was better acquainted than any other foreigner Don Juan Tomás North The Nitrate King The Grand Promotion Army Colonel North The sensation of the hour A visit to the Nitrate Kingdom A millionaire stripped bare Epilogue: I have enjoyed myself thoroughly Appendix: The North family tree

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Book SynopsisThis detailed reference guide, based on a vast amount of source data, traces every known detail of Hitler's career, with extensive quotation both from Hitler's own speeches and writings and from those of his contemporaries. This new edition features an enlarged and updated bibliography and introduction.Trade Review'Although published twenty-five years ago this essential reference book on Hitler and his time has only gained in value with this revised edition.' - Professor Eberhard Jäckel, University of Stuttgart. 'An indispensable research tool which has been considerably improved and enlarged since its first edition 25 years ago. Every student on Hitler and the Third Reich will be as glad as I am for this paperback edition.' - Professor Jost Dülffer, University of Cologne. 'This unique chronology has no counterpart and is an indispensable tool for students of Hitler and the Third Reich.' -Professor Stanley Payne, UW-Madison 'I found Milan Hauner's book extremely useful when working on my biography of Hitler. I greatly welcome the paperback version of the revised edition, which will bring this valuable reference work to a wider readership.' - Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Glossary Chronology Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler.Trade Review'...a welcome addition to the burgeoning library of 'perpetrator studies'.' - Literary Review ' a detailed and well-written insight into the man at the heart of the Nazi propaganda machine .In his examination of Goebbels, Toby Thacker has produced a valuable addition to the printed history of the 1930s and 1940s.' - Britain at War Magazine 'Thacker's reassessment is convincing and welcome. Crucially, his new biography is the first to be written since the entire set of Goebbels' diaries has been published. He writes well, and offers the reader a number of important new contentions and insights.' -BBC History Magazine 'Judicious, insightful and the first biography based on the entire available diary record. This book is a must for anybody interested in Hitler's Germany and the origins of the Holocaust'. - Brendan Simms, Peterhouse, Cambridge University, UK '[Thacker's] biography really is the first step towards a reassessment of the role and significance of Joseph Goebbels in National Socialism.' - Daniel Muhlenfeld, Bulletin, German Historical Institute London. "...the author seeks to dispel at least some of the myths and legends surrounding Goebbels, which he discussed and considered at the beggining as a sort of stock-taking of the image of Goebbels still prevalant today." German Historical Institute LondonTable of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements A note on translation Introduction 'This Awful Waiting' 'Starting to Find Firm Ground' 'The Coming Dictator' 'You are the Nobility of the Third Reich' 'We Will All Three be Good to One Another' 'These Masses Are What Matter' 'We are not Suited to be Executioners' 'An Indissoluble Community of Destiny' 'This People's War Must be Carried Through' 'A Life and Death Struggle' 'We Have Done the Right Thing' 'How Distant and Alien This Beautiful World Appears' Epilogue Notes Bibiliography and Sources

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Book SynopsisThis new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciæ Gallicæ and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciæ Gallicæ in the late summer of 1791.Table of ContentsIntroduction The publication of James Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791) The Scottish underpinning of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Mackintosh's 'philosophical' history of the French Revolution The defence of the National Assembly The violence of the French Revolution The defence of the new French Constitution of 1791 The defence of the principles of 1688 Mackintosh's revision of Vindiciæ Gallicæ Note on the Text Selected Reading Vindiciæ Gallicæ Appendix

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Book SynopsisWeyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions.Trade Review“This collection … explore raced and non-traditional Macbeth on its own terms and through an extraordinary diversity of perspectives.” (Rebecca Dark, Early Modern Studies Journal, Vol. 5, October 26, 2018)“Weyward Macbeth offers a fascinating account of the use and misuse of Shakespeare’s tragedy by a culture trying to confront its own guilt and ghosts.” (Maria Browning, chapter16.org, October 27, 2017)“Weyward Macbeth is an exceptionally rich and suggestive collection of essays, the kind of book that you know you’ll return to time and again to mull over the nuggets that its wide and wise contributors have unearthed.” (Willy Maley, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, February 26, 2013)“The book presents work that is interdisciplinary and will appeal to a variety of scholars. … Weyward Macbeth is a far-reaching anthology, well worth a read for scholars of Shakespeare, cinema, literature, and music. As a theatre text, it is particularly useful. … Weyward Macbeth emphasizes how strongly theatre reflects and informs America’s political history; the book enhances both American theatre and Shakespearean scholarship.” (Victoria P. Lantz, Theatre Survey, Vol. 53 (2), September, 2012)“The book is certainly a worthwhile contribution: even essays that read as isolated reflections disengaged from the dialogue promoted by the book prove to be highly interesting; when connections are made, they are often unexpected and illuminating. … the collection also amply demonstrates that we can learn much about both history and the play when we attend to the many wayward ways in which race and the play have intersected in history.” (Yu Jin Ko, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 63 (2), 2012)“This is a substantial collection, consisting of twenty-six articles and an Appendix. … Together, they are essential to anyone seeking to understand the importance of Macbeth to the history of race relations in America, especially black–white relations. … This collection provides ample evidence of this truth, and underscores how important it is for us to recognize Shakespeare’s ambivalent legacy at work in America’s race relations today.” (Jennifer Clement, Parergon, Vol. 29 (2), 2012)“The collection as a whole offers a conglomeration of various topics that open up a new approach to Macbeth. … The diversity of perspectives here is rich and provocative and will no doubt encourage further studies of Macbeth and race. Of equal interest to Shakespeareans, Americanists, cultural historians, teachers, and theater professionals, the collection as a whole is notable for its thorough and strikingly original readings of a largely overlooked topic.” (Sonya Freeman Loftis, Borrowers and Lenders, Vol. 7 (2), October, 2012)“Rarely is a collection of essays so focused and yet so broad, so comprehensive, and yet so intellectually open-ended. Any one of the essays on its own would be a respectable contribution to the study of race and Shakespeare, but it is in their collective resonance with and across each other, their symphonic ambition, that the volume’s significance lays.” (Shane Vogel, African American Review, Vol. 44 (1-2), 2011) “Weyward Macbeth is a collection of essays providing a fascinating, interdisciplinary record … . The collection as a whole makes for rich and varied reading. … The book is thus particularly relevant to Shakespeare studies, performance and pedagogy in southern Africa. It provides us with a fascinating archive to work with and against. … It contains much of interest for literary and performance scholars, for actors and directors, for English teachers, for students … and for readers interested in the signs of race.” (Denise Newfield, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Vol. 23, 2011)“Weyward Macbeth admirably covers the long and complex history of the play within American racial discourse by using an interdisciplinary approach to elucidate much that has been neglected or unconnected. … Weyward Macbeth goes beyond filling that void by establishing the standard for further research into any aspect of Macbeth’s intimate relationship with racial discourse in America.” (M. Tyler Sasser, South Atlantic Review, Vol. 76 (3), 2011)“The collection brings forth new and sometimes forgotten stories about how directors, rhetoricians, and performers use Macbeth both to interrogate and confirm racial disparity in the United States. … the range of media and time periods covered is quite commendable, as is the inclusion of both scholars' and practitioners' perspectives. Because the essays are shorter, this collection could supplement course material or provide an excellent primer for scholars interested in how race has informed American appropriations of Macbeth.” (Allison Kellar Lenhardt, The Upstart Crow, Vol. 30, 2011)“The book will be useful to a variety of readers, including scholars of Shakespeare and of American performance and theatre history. Essays pertaining to the contemporary practice of multilingual or intercultural Shakespearean performance will also be of interest to practitioners. … Weyward Macbeth provides ample resources for future scholarship. … Weyward Macbeth productively charts intersections between the play’s own representations of race and the racial discourses that have informed its performance history, and alerts us to the ‘weyward’ within the play’s contemporary productions.” (Nicole Boyar, Theatre Journal, Vol. 63 (4), December, 2011)“This extraordinary collection of essays is essential for every student and teacher of Shakespeare. It is exceptional reading with astonishing new information for anyone wishing to keep remarkably abreast of what is happening in American culture.” (Glenda E. Gill, This Rough Magic, thisroughmagic.org, Vol. 1 (1), January, 2010)"Timely . . . as with the best works of historical scholarship, Newstok and Thompson's collection merges detailed historiography with immediate relevancy, making this a valuable book indeed." - Dan Venning, Theatre History Studies "There is something for everyone in this worthy volume." - Kevin Wetmore, Jr., CHOICE "Remarkable." - Jonathan Gil Harris, Studies in English Literature "Weyward Macbeth is an excellent companion piece for theatre educators looking to enrich classroom instruction or to further students' understanding of fully realized productions. Newstok and Thompson's diverse collection of provocative and enlightening articles serves as a valued addition to Shakespearean scholarship and as a complement to the study of Macbeth." - John Robert Moss, Theatre Topics "A welcome addition to the scholarship on theatrical history and practice . . . most of the contributors do show the considerable charge that thinking differently, or highlighting and remembering race, can bring to the play . . . most of the authors at some point refer parenthetically to one or more of their fellow contributors, offering a sense of cogency, a wider arc of discussion, than many such collections manage." - Eric Mallin, College Literature "In this remarkable and ground breaking book, the editors have put together essays that examine the text and spirit of Macbeth from different and, sometimes, startling perspectives." - Clement Ndulute, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies "This rich and provocative collection of essays is a compilation of historical, theoretical and interdisciplinary viewpoints on ways in which performances of Macbeth have engaged issues of race . . . Weyward Macbeth leaves a reader strangely unsettled as, of course, does Macbeth. I closed the volume with a new sense of Macbeth's importance to issues of race in the United States, more acutely aware of the ferment and potential of engaging with this intersectional study, and yet also conscious of the still fragmented state of this aptly named 'weyward' pursuit . . . Many diverse perspectives are at work in this volume, and not always towards the same ends. But in the last analysis, that diversity seems utterly appropriate: the move here is not to establish a new orthodoxy but to break down received ideas about race and Shakespeare . . . Newstok and Thompson's volume corroborates that vision of multiple Shakespeares and multiple Shakespeareans, both within 'the confines of the script' and beyond it." - Nicholas Jones, Shakespeare Bulletin "This collection undoubtedly demonstrates the intractable diversity of American readings of Macbeth over time . . . Weyward Macbeth goes a long way in making the effort to tell that difficult history." - Robert Ormsby, Modern Drama "Weyward Macbeth deserves reading - and re-reading - because, contrary to popular belief, Orson Welles's famous 'Voodoo' Macbeth (1936) was far from unique in re-casting Shakespeare in a non-traditional setting. With over 100 cross-racial productions recorded here, you are bound to ask: why have so many Americans been repeatedly drawn to this particular play in the context of racial discourses? Read this penetrating study to find out - it's an intellectual delight." - James V. Hatch, Professor Emeritus, The Graduate Theatre Program at the City University of New York and co-author of A History of African American Theatre "Weyward Macbeth is an interesting and deeply thought-provoking book, which is well set out, and ideal to dip into when a fresh perspective is required about Macbeth." - Jane Wright, seriouslyshakespeare.comTable of ContentsPART I: BEGINNINGS What is a 'Weyward' Macbeth?;Ayanna Thompson Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton's The Witch Can Tell Us about Race, Sex, and Gender in Macbeth; Celia R. Daileader PART II: EARLY AMERICAN INTERSECTIONS 'Blood will have blood': Violence, Slavery, and Macbeth in the Antebellum American Imagination; Heather S. Nathans The Exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass's Appropriation of Shakespeare; John C. Briggs Ira Aldridge as Macbeth; Bernth Lindfors Minstrel Show Macbeth; Joyce Green MacDonald Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903 1944: Race and the Problematics of Allusive Identification; Nick Moschovakis PART III: FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT(S) Before Welles: A 1935 Boston Production; Lisa N. Simmons Black Cast Conjures White Genius: Unraveling the Mystique of Orson Welles's 'Voodoo' Macbeth; Marguerite Rippy After Welles: Re-do Voodoo Macbeths; Scott L. Newstok The Vo-Du Macbeth!: Travels and Travails of a Choreo-Drama Inspired by the FTP Production; Lenwood Sloan PART IV: FURTHER STAGES A Black Actor's Guide to the Scottish Play, Or, Why Macbeth Matters; Harry J. Lennix Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York; Alexander C. Y. Huang The Tlingit Play: Macbeth and Native Americanism; Anita Maynard-Losh A Post-Apocalyptic Macbeth: Teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029; José A. Esquea Multi-cultural, Multi-lingual Macbeth; William C. Carroll PART V: MUSIC Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and Non-Traditional Casting in Opera; Wallace McClain Cheatham Ellington's Dark Lady; Douglas Lanier Hip-Hop Macbeths, 'Digitized Blackness,' and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in the Virtual Classroom; Todd Landon Barnes PART VI: SCREEN Riddling Whiteness, Riddling Certainty: Roman Polanski's Macbeth; Francesca Royster Semper Die: Marines Incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child: An Interior of Violence; Courtney Lehmann Shades of Shakespeare: Colorblind Casting and Interracial Couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth; Amy Scott-Douglass PART VII: SHAKESPEAREAN (A)VERSIONS Three Weyward Sisters: African-American Female Poets Conjure with Macbeth; Charita Gainey-O'Toole and Elizabeth Alexander 'Black up again': Combating Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays; Philip C. Kolin Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare; Peter Erickson Epilogue: ObaMacbeth: National Transition as National Traumission; Richard Burt Appendix: Selected Productions of Macbeth Featuring Non-Traditional Casting; Brent Butgereit and Scott L. Newstok

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Book SynopsisA fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.Trade Review'The French Queen's Letters is a useful corrective to discussions of Mary that continue to focus on an image of an overwrought romantic or to gloss over her influence at court entirely.' Journal of British Studies "Sadlack's book frees Mary Tudor, the French Queen, from the role of pretty pantomime princess in which she has too often been cast by historians. This engaging revisionist study of Mary's life and correspondence finds little of the dippy but demanding rich girl of myth. Sadlack shows Mary to have been an astute member of the Tudor dynasty, in every sense a political queen, and one adept at using informal networks of female power and patronage to assert her English and French royal status." - Glenn Richardson, Reader in Early-Modern History, St. Mary's University College, UK "This is an original approach to a fascinating historical figure. Sadlack's thorough knowledge of recent scholarship on women's letters and epistolary rhetoric enables her to read Mary's letters as strategic epistolary tools, crafted in terms of aptum, relating to the character of her reader, and of rhetorical ethos and pathos, carefully deployed to advance her goals. The study of women's agency through letters is currently receiving much attention, and Sadlack's study makes an important contribution to this field. This biography will be the first to take Mary seriously as an actor and an agent in her own life, and to study the impact of her political interventions." - Jane Couchman, Professor Emerita, French Studies, Multidisciplinary Studies, and Women's Studies, York University, Canada "The book combines meticulous archival work with rhetorical analysis to produce a fresh and cogent portrait of Mary Tudor's efforts to use her letters to control not only her own fate but also to influence court politics in two nations. The author's careful recovery, translation, and editing of Mary Tudor's letters will make this book valuable to students, professors, and scholars studying early modern English and French history, early modern literature, and the lives of early modern women." - Catherine Loomis, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of New OrleansTable of ContentsA Queenly Education Becoming the Queen Marrying Where 'my mynd is' Always the French Queen: Identity Politics

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the dynamics and control of organized and corporate crime in their national and international contexts. These articles challenge the simplistic assumption that crime is caused by bad individuals, acting alone or conspiring together, and that crime can be adequately dealt with by increasing conventional police activity.Table of ContentsPreface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Crime's Global Reach; M.Woodiwiss - All About Eve: The Many Faces of US Drug Policy; B.Bullington - After Mr Bennett and Mr Bush: US Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Drug Control; N.Dorn & N.South - Defending the Mountaintop: Organized Crime and the Disposal of Toxic Waste; A.Block - The Camorra: 'Clean' Capital and Organized Crime; V.Ruggiero - EEC Fraud: A Suitable Case for Treatment; M.Clarke - US Capital versus the Third World: Union Carbide and Bhopal; F.Pearce & S.Tombs - The Politics of Corporate Crime Control; L.Snider - Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection fall into three groups. The contributors represent a wide range of academic disciplines and religious traditions, providing significant pointers for further developments in Biblical criticism and interpretation theory.Table of ContentsGeneral Editors Preface - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF INTERPRETATION - The Autonomous Text, the Hermeneutical Self, and Divine Rhetoric; D.Klemm - Interpretation and the Bible. The Dialectic of Concept and Content in Interpretative Practice; B.Polka - Revelation and Understanding: A Defense of Tradition; R.Forsman - PART 2: THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE WORK OF AUSTIN FARRER - The Stuff of Revelation. Austin Farrer's Doctrine of Inspired Images; I.Dalferth - Making it Plain. Austin Farrer and the Inspiration of Scripture; G.Loughlin - The Sin of Reading: Austin Farrer, Helen Gardner and Frank Kermode on the Poetry of St Mark; H.Hauge - PART 3: INTERPRETATIVE PRACTICE: BIBLICAL TESTS AND THEMES - Wrestling with the Angel. A Study in Historical and Literary Interpretation; J.Rogerson - The Dialogic Discourse of Psalms; H.Levine - God's Presence and the Paradox of Freedom; B.Zelechow - Retracing a Writerly Text: In the Footsteps of a Midrashic Sequence on the Creation of the Male and the Female; R.Salmon & G.E.Alster - Index

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Book SynopsisThe British Migrant Experience 1700-2000 is a wide-ranging collection of first person accounts together with introductory essays, capturing varied aspects of the British migrant story from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.Trade Review'The descriptions of communities and individuals - I lived on turnips, mainly - are useful, but it is the thoughts and feelings, from anxiety to luck, that stand out. They also help to make the book enlightening: for alongside material on the familiar Irish, Jewish and black migrants, there are accounts of Latvians in Bedford, Lithuanians in Lanarkshire and a Moroccan in Exeter who sells rhubarb. And these tales add up to a striking view of Britain.' - Daniel Crewe, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface; Professor C.K.Steedman Anthology Introduction; P.J.Leese Introduction to Part I: Migrant Life Stories in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century; B.Piatek PART I: MIGRANT LIFE STORIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY Transition I Settlement and Work I Childhood and Home Life I Community I Another Culture I Searching for a Place I PART II: MIGRANT LIFE STORIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY Transition 2 Settlement and Work 2 Childhood and Home Life 2 Community 2 Another Culture 2 PART III: MIGRANT PLACE STORIES FROM THE EIGHTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The South The Midlands and East Anglia North West England North East England Scotland Wales Biography and Further Reading Index Searching for a Place 2

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Book SynopsisThe noted author and scholar presents a guide to the prophets of the Old Testament for the modern reader.

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Book SynopsisProfessor Piaget discusses a set of investigations he and a team of co-workers carried out on the genesis of the notion of number in the child's mind.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of Rilke's letters covers the years from the completion of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge to Rilke's death in December 1926, nearly five years after he had written the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, his last major works.

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Book SynopsisVarious aspects of each of these subjects are studied: the construction of phrases, their connection, extension, overlapping; the application of legato, staccato, and other types of articulation. In this discussion the author draws upon contemporary theoretical writings and methods, as well as upon his own extensive experience as an editor of music. Part Two is devoted to specific problems in the works of the three masters Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, and includes a chapter on the nineteenth century. The Norton Library edition of Phrasing and Articulation includes a new preface by Mr. Gerdine.

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Book SynopsisLiam O’Flaherty, who has written short stories in Gaelic and in English, is a worthy successor to the anonymous storytellers of the past. —Vivian Mercier

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Book SynopsisZarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art of the Netherlands. To the modern scholar Zarlino's treatise illumines the compositional technique of the golden age of vocal polyphony. The essence of this art is contained in Part III, The Art of Counterpoint, which is here translated into English for the first time.

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Book SynopsisMay Sarton's eagerly awaited journals have recorded her life as a single, woman writer--and, in later years, as a woman confronting old age. This chronicle of her pilgrimage through her 82nd year was completed a few months before she died in 1995. Illustrations.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a must for the amateur who wants to be convinced that he can confidently approach the prospect of building his own dream boat. With the support of many diagrams and sketches, Ian Nicolson teaches all the skills necessary to create anything from a small cruiser to an impressive 75-foot yacht.

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Book SynopsisThe diaries of the late Dwight D. Eisenhower are unique documents, in that they alone, in the mass of Ike's prose, reveal the innermost thoughts of the soldier-statesman.

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Book SynopsisA complete discussion of the effects of wind and its changes on racing strategy--by one of the world's most successful sailboat racers.

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Book SynopsisThis most favored book on the subject includes discussions of contemporary design and materials as they influence the yacht designer's work.

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Book SynopsisA provocative answer to the ancient question: Is the Loch Ness monster fact or fantasy?

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Book SynopsisHaving thoroughly mined the sources, Darnton provides a trove of information on the illegal literature of Old Regime France. The result is an invaluable resource to specialists in French cultural history, the history of the book, the social history of ideas, and problems of censorship and state control of ideas.

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Book Synopsis"There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real." —Los Angeles TimesTrade Review"Thrilling…even if you have never been to sea, Junger's account will put the frighteners on you." -- New York Times Book Review"Guaranteed to blow readers away…A+." -- Entertainment Weekly"A superb book." -- Washington Post"[A] white-knuckle chronicle…[A] true adventure story." -- Newsweek"Every boater is drawn to storm-at-sea stories, and this one beats them all." -- Philadelphia Inquirer"Rich, compassionate characterization, as well as taut, suspenseful prose. A tale that doesn't skimp on facts, yet keeps you turning pages from beginning to end." -- Seattle Times"Riveting…The natural upheaval holds center stage and acts as a character, but the story converges upon human beings—in this case, the six-man crew of the doomed Gloucester swordfishing boat Andrea Gail." -- Boston Globe"Harrowing, relentless…and thoroughly enjoyable." -- Kansas City Star"The pages of this book crunch with salt." -- Boating"A terrifying, edifying read…Readers…are first seduced into caring for the book’s doomed characters, then compelled to watch them carried into the jaws of a meteorological hell. Junger’s compassionate, intelligent voice instructs us effortlessly on the sea life of the sword-fisherman, the physics of a sinking steel ship, and the details of death by drowning." -- Dava Sobel"One reads with the most intense concern, anxiety and concentration; and if one knows anything at all about the sea one feels the absolutely enormous strength of the hurricane winds and the incredibly towering mass of the hundred-foot waves." -- Patrick O'Brian

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Book SynopsisThe Call Of The Wild is the  story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust  into the merciless life of the Arctic north to  endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage  lawlessness of man and beast. White Fang  is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, part  wolf --turned vicious by cruel abuse, then  transformed by the patience and affection of one man.  Jack London's superb ability as a storyteller and  his uncanny understanding of animal and human  natures give these tales a striking vitality and  power, and have earned him a reputation as a  distinguished American writer.

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Book Synopsis'A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism.' So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear, striking prose and declared the earth-shaking ideas of Karl Marx. Upon publication in 1848, it quickly became the credo of the poor and oppressed who longed for a society 'in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.'The Communist Manifesto contains the seeds of Marx's more comprehensive philosophy, which continues to inspire influential economic, political, social, and literary theories. But the Manifesto is most valuable as an historical document, one that led to the greatest political upheaveals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to the establishment of the Communist governments that until recently ruled half the g

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Book SynopsisRanked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells’s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretat

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