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Book SynopsisIndepth study of one of the largest and most successful Islamist parties, examining its role in Lebanese politics and the wider Muslim umma.Trade Review'A fine exposition of the evolution, the religious and political philosophy of one of the most important movements in the contemporary Middle East' -- Tribune'This is one of the very best works on the subject' -- Middle East International'The most detailed and scholarly analysis to date of the ideology of the Lebanese Shi'a radical Hizb'ullah' -- CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Political Accommodation And Violence In Non-Islamic States 2. The Islamic State And Democracy 3. The Concept Of The Guardianship Of The Jurisprudent 4. Islamic Universalism And National Identity 5. The Struggle With The West 6. The Resistance To The Israeli Occupation Of South Lebanon 7. Anti-Zionism And Israel 8. Anti-Judaism Conclusion Appendix 1: Miladi Equivalents To Hijri Years Appendix 2: List Of Hijri Months References Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisRussian composer, Sofia Gubaidulina has achieved international acclaim for her musical oeuvre which draws on Eastern and Western musical traditions. This biography places her life and the evolution of her work within the cultural and political context of post-Stalin Soviet Union.Trade Review. . . Taking a thoroughly biographical tack, Kurtz explains the origins of many of Gubaidulina's compositions . . . He . . . offer[s] accounts of Gubaidulina by colleagues and performers, and these are a rich source of new material on the composer. Including a handful of photographs, notes, a chronological summary, and a list of Gubaidulina's compositions, this book will be useful to those interested in musical culture and religious life in the Soviet Union. . . . Recommended.July 2008 * Choice *. . . a solid piece of work whose straightforward design and clarity of prose (even in translation) will benefit scholar and general reader alike.Vol. 68.2 April 2009 -- David Haas * University of Georgia *. . . valuable as the first English-language guide to Gubaidulina. . . . Kurtz has expertly presented us with valuable material . . .Vol. 90.2 May 2009 -- IVANA MEDIC * University of Manchester *With this thorough and well-researched biography of the eminent Russian composer Sophia Gubaidulina, author and scholar Michael Kurtz has made a landmark contribution to the growing body of literature on that emergent group of post-WWII composers. Vol. 54.2, Summer 2010 * Slavic and East European Journal *This is an extremely helpful publication for future researchers of Gubaidulina's music. It comes with a detailed chronology, and with a full list of the composer's works. Vol. 89.1, January 2011 * Slavonic and East European Review *Kurtz's biography gives a good, thorough account of Gubaidulina's life that is more immediately accessible and less vexing for general readers than for specialists. Yet specialists will find it necessary reading due to the many significant details uncovered thanks to Kurtz's interviews with Gubaidulina and her associates65.1 Sept. 2008 * Notes *Table of ContentsPreface by Mstislav Rostropovich Preface to the American Edition Introduction and Acknowledgments 1. Ancestors 2. Childhood and Youth, 1932-1949 3. At the Kazan Conservatory, 1949-1954 4. At the Moscow Conservatory, 1954-1959 5. Searching for Her Own Way, 1959-1965 6. A Late Artistic Birth, 1965-1970 7. Finding the Legato in the Staccato of Life, 1970-1975 8. Composing and Improvising, 1975-1979 9. "Offertorium"-a Musical Offering, 1979-1981 10. The Rhythm of Musical Form, 1981-1985 11. Travels, Travels, and More Travels, 1985-1991 12. Worldwide Fame-Worldwide Demand, 1991-1996 13. The Center of Life: St. John Passion and St. John Easter, 1996-2004 Chronology of Gubaidulina's Life List of WorksNotesBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA compilation of reminiscences about Tchaikovsky. It includes the memoirs, diary entries, and interviews written and conducted by his contemporaries that show us both the public and the private figure: the student at the School of Jurisprudence, the conductor, the professor at the Conservatory, and the philanthropist and promoter of talent.Trade ReviewThis is Poznansky's third book on Tchaikovsky in one decade and—like its two well-received predecessors, Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man (CH, Jun'92) and Tchaikovsky's Last Days (CH, Apr'97)—it deals not at all with the music but with the man and his milieu. Poznansky (Yale) divides the book into ten essentially chronological chapters, ranging from descriptions of the composer as a schoolboy to reactions to his untimely death. At the heart of each chapter are contemporaneous comments and journalistic writings; each chapter begins with an essay by Poznansky, in which he sets the scene for the era and describes the reliability—sometimes nonreliability—of those making the comments. Given the chronological order of presentation, the essays constitute a selective biography of the composer. This book serves as a companion to Alexandra Orlova's somewhat flawed compilation of writings by the composer himself (Tchaikovsky: A Self-Portrait, comp. by Alexandra Orlova, CH, Jun'91). Poznansky's project also benefits from the assistance of two experienced translators. Materials concerning Tchaikovsky have been subject to longstanding suppression, and documentation remains to published, especially in translation. Copious endnotes and a reliable index complete the volume, which this reviewer recommends to anyone interested in this composer.November 1999 -- R. Stahura * Ripon College *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on transliteration, names spellings, and datesAbbreviationsIntroductionI. The Schoolboy (1840-1863)Fanny Dürbach, Fyodor Maslov, Ivan Turchaninov, Alexander Mikhailov, Vladimir Gerard, Rudolph Kündinger, Ippolit Tchaikovsky, Arkady Raich, Modest TchaikovskyII. The Music Student (1863-1865)Modest Tchaikovsky, Vasily Bessel, Herman Laroche, Ivan Klimenko, Adelaida Spasskaya, Alexander RubetsIII. The Conservatory Professor (1866-1876)Rostislav Genika, Mariya Gurye, Alexandra Amfiteatrova-Levitskaya, Samuil Litvinov, V. A., Ivan KlimenkoIV. The Socialite (1866-1876)Modest Tchaikovsky, Konstantin de Lazari, Alexandra SokolovaV. Marriage (1877)Antonina Tchaikovsky, Nikolay KashkinVI. The Composer (1878-1892)Alexander Glazunov, Eduard Nápravník, Vladimir Pogozhev, Romain Rolland, Herman Klein, Julius Block, Varvara Tsekhovskaya VII. The Man (1878-1892)Konstantin de Lazari, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, Boris Vietinghoff-Schell, Vasily Korganov, Vasily Bertenson, Konstantin Varlamov, Nazar LitrovVIII. The Celebrity (1891-1892)Musical Courier, New York Herald, News of the Day, Petersburg Life, Petersburg GazetteIX. The National Treasure (1893)Leonid Sabaneyev, Mikhail Bukinik, Anton Door, Abram Kaufman, Konstantin Dumchev, Isaak Bukinik, Yulian Poplavsky, Ivan Klimenko, Vasily Sapelnikov X. Death (1893)Modest Tchaikovsky, Vladimir Nápravník, Yury Davydov, Vasily Bertenson, Lev Bertenson, Nikolay Mamonov, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, Yulian Poplavsky

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of the transformation of Russia's southern steppes from border territories to Empire.Trade ReviewThis innovative and fascinating book examines the relationship between Russia and its neighbors on the Eurasian steppe, which stretches from the northern Caucasus area into the Central Asian region of present-day Kazakhstan, from about 1500 to 1800. During these formative years, Russia's continual southern expansion into the borderlands helped transform it from a fragmented and weak frontier society into a formidable colonial empire. Kohdarkovsky (Loyola Univ.) considers the complex relationship between the Russian state and the indigenous nomadic and seminomadic societies that inhabited the steppe, emphasizing their fundamental differences in social organization, political and economic structures, and values. The author argues that Russia's southward expansion was, contrary to commonly accepted views, a deliberate process designed to colonize the new regions and to subdue their inhabitants. However, Russia's policies gradually changed during these three centuries from defending its vulnerable frontier against nomadic incursions to deliberate colonization by means of pacifying, settling, and converting the new subjects to Orthodox Christianity. Recommended for advanced undergraduates and above.September 2002 -- N. M. Brooks * New Mexico State University *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Sociology of the Frontier, or Why Peace Was Impossible2. Frontier Concepts and Policies in Muscovy3. Taming the "Wild Steppe," 1480-1600s4. From Steppe Frontier to Imperial Borderlands, 1600-18005. Concepts and Policies in the Imperial Borderlands, 1690s-1800ConclusionGlossaryList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOne of the most important documents in 20th-century musical thought finally available in an affordable paperback editionTrade Review. . . [this book] is the single best volume extant if one wishes to learn about the technical conception of music held by one of the greatest composers (and greatest music educators) of modern times. * MLA Notes *This book is easy to read because there is no analysis without aim, no theoretical viewing without connections to genuine musical aspects.April 2007 -- Eike Fe * Besprechungen *Table of ContentsContents Foreword (2006) by Walter Frisch List of Abbreviations of Cited Sources Editors' Preface Acknowledgments Commentary Schoenberg's View of Art Schoenberg's Preface The Musical Idea Comprehensibility and Coherence Theory of Form The Constructive Function of Harmony ConclusionThe Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation Preface and Overview Preface Title Page Principles of the Presentation of the Idea Plan of the Book The Profundity of the Idea and Its Realization as a Standard The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation Idea (1 and 2) The Idea in the Contrapuntal Art of Composition and Its Presentation Principles of Construction Comprehensibility Laws of Comprehensibility Coherence The Laws of Musical Coherence Elements of Form The Parts of a Piece Part Elements of Form Phrase Gestalt Grundgestalt and Motive The Difference Between Gestalt and Phrase Features of the Motive Statement Stable Formation Loose Formation Theme Melody Sonority as a Formative Element Rhythm Rhythm Classification of Rhythms Accentuation and Nonaccentuation Formal Procedures [Formal Procedures] Articulation Change, Variation, Variant, Varying Kinds of Variation Coherence of "New Components" Mirror Forms Close Cadencing Cadential Fall Kinds of Connection Technique of Joining Condensation Dissolution, Liquidation Tendency of the Smallest Notes The Structural Capacities of the Scale Wave-Shaped Progression Contrasts (Contrasting Themes) Digression from the Main Idea Principal Idea, Subsidiary Idea Subordinate Theme Secondary, Tertiary, etc. Gestalten and Motives The Shaping of Principal and Subordinate (Accompanying) Voices Development Section Sequences Intensification Does Repetition Have an Intensifying Effect? Voice (Independent) Introduction (1 and 2) Preparation Extramusical Means of Coherence Fantasy Description of All Forms Miscellaneous Performance and Gestalt The Sense of Rit. and Accel. Relaxation Symmetry Origin of Repetitions Primitive Principles Popular Music and Melody Harmony The Constructive Function of Harmony Addendum Keywords Still to Be Indexed Keywords Concordance of Terms Appendix 1 Descriptions of the Gedanke Manuscripts Appendix 2 Contents of Manuscript No. 10, Listed in Their Original Order Appendix 3 German Texts of Unpublished Gedanke Manuscripts Referred to in the Commentary Notes Bibliography Index of Musical Examples Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the formation of a unique Soviet Jewish identityTrade ReviewThis sensitive rehumanization of hitherto dichotomized interpretations and constructions of 'Soviet Jewry' stands as Shternshis's most important contribution to the growing number of post-Soviet studies of the intersection of Communist and Jewish societies. * Religious Studies Review *. . . highly recommended to anyone interested in Jewish and popular culture . . . it is invaluable for scholars of Soviet Jewry and early Soviet culture.1/2009 * Ab Imperio *Thanks to this well-written and informative study, the Soviet-and-kosher population appears less enigmatic. In any case, one can easier understand the problems of gauging the (post-)Soviet Jewish identity by applying to it Western yardsticks of Jewishness.April 2009 * Slavonic and East European Review *Soviet and Kosher is a long overdue historical study of the role of popular culture in the formation of Soviet Jewish identity in the 1920s and 1930s. With clear, appealing prose and a highly original methodology, Anna Shternshis offers a fascinating exploration of the central paradox of the early Soviet Jewish experience . . . * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *Shternshis . . . looks at the life of the Yiddish language and Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union in the years before WW II. Jewish and Yiddish intellectual life did not automatically die with the coming of Lenin or even Stalin. Many young Jewish revolutionaries may have abandoned the world of their fathers, but they did not forsake their language. Yiddish did not disappear; ironically, it flourished in that antireligious atmosphere before the outbreak of the war that eventually led to the destruction of millions of Yiddish speakers. This well-documented study is a tribute to that Yiddish culture as it enjoyed one last nova in Europe, as Yiddishkeit and Marxism embraced each other one last time. . . . Recommended. * Choice *. . . everything is illuminated by Ms. Shternshis in Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. . . . The book blends archival data with comments from 225 men and women born between 1906 and 1930 in Russia and the Soviet Union and interviewed in New York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Berlin, and Moscow. Ms. Shternshis explores Yiddish-language culture, as well as portrayals of Jews in Russian-language works often created, remarkably, in Stalinist-era efforts to combat anti-Semitism. * Chronicle of Higher Education *What is indisputable 15 years after the Soviet Union's collapse is that Jews were never truly able to escape their Jewishness, as nationality was marked on every Soviet passport beginning in 1932, and state-sponsored antisemitism blocked advancement for decades thereafter. Yet Shternshis makes a strong case against assimilation as the sole driving force of the Soviet Jewish experience by unearthing the roots of the vibrant secular culture that emerged from the clash between ideology and religion. The outcome . . . may not be strictly kosher, but it is proudly and defiantly kosher style. * Forward *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sara F.'s Kosher PorkNote on Transliteration1. Antireligious Propaganda and the Transformation of Jewish Institutions and Traditions2. From Illiteracy to Worker Correspondents: Soviet Yiddish Amateur Writing3. Amateur Local Yiddish Theaters4. Soviet Yiddish Songs as a Mirror of Jewish Identity5. Soviet in Form, National in Content: Russian Jewish Popular CultureConclusionNotesBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCommon stereotypes of the tango are dispelled by this history of a rich and complex dance, and the contemporary cultural response to it.Trade ReviewFreelance choreographer Baim sets Argentina's cultural jewel, the tango, in an elegant, scholarly study that draws from primary-source materials such as dance instruction manuals, sheet music, and contemporary newspapers and periodicals. Six carefully researched chapters follow the tango from its origins, to its discovery by Europeans and North Americans, to Argentina's reclamation of its native dance, and on to its music, its connection to the waltz, and its place in the world of art music. Accented with two appendixes-one a description of tango steps circa 1911-25 and one a list of New York Times articles on the tango from 1911, 1913, and 1914-as well as a concise bibliography, this accessible and singular account manages to cover not only the history of the dance but also its cultural reception in both the New World and the Old. Performing arts and popular culture collections will have the most receptive audiences; recommended.-Carolyn M. Mulac * Library Journal *Tango provides a microcosm of popular culture in the years between the turn of the 20th century and the end of World War I, with social commentators of the day weighing in for and against the romantic and sometimes scandalous tango.. . . a delightful text, illuminating the fascinating convergence of cultural influences that produce an art form. * ForeWord *Freelance choreographer Baim sets Argentina's cultural jewel, the tango, in an elegant, scholarly study that draws from primary-source materials such as dance instruction manuals, sheet music, and contemporary newspapers and periodicals. . . . Performing arts and popular culture collections will have the most receptive audiences; recommended. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Origins of the Tango2. Europe and the United States Discover the Tango3. Argentina Reclaims Its Native Dance4. Tango Music5. Tangos in Waltz Time6. The Tango in the World of Art MusicAppendix 1. Tango Steps, 1911–1925Appendix 2. A Sampling of New York Times Article Titles on the Tango, 1911, 1913, and 1914NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA comparative study of the thought of Levinas and KierkegaardTrade ReviewWestphal (Fordham Univ.) has written the first book-length comparative study of Kierkegaard and Levinas, and for that reason alone it is worth reading for students and scholars of either major figure. The chapters are reworked articles and book chapters dating back to the early 1990s, so readers will discern that Westphal has been thinking about these figures for some time. The book comprises four units: "Revelation," "God," "Heteronomy," and "Reversal." Each unit consists of two chapters, and the layout is almost chronological in terms of their previous publication. This organization allows one to witness Westphal's thinking mature and develop, chapter by chapter. Although this volume is not the final word on Kierkegaard and Levinas studies, it aptly sets the stage for a continuing conversation about existential philosophy, phenomenology, the status of ethics, the place of religion in the present age, and sociopolitical theory, which has gone through the "postsecular" turn. Westphal's previous work is clearly focused on Kierkegaard and post/modern Christian philosophy, but the author is interested in and conversant with Levinas's Judaic tradition. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers. -- ChoiceM. R. Michau, Penn State University, December 2008"[Westphal] has provided us with an important study, not only in terms of the ways it illuminates these two particular thinkers, but also in its careful comparative methodology that provides a useful model for further philosophical dialogue between past and present representatives of Jewish and Christian religious thought." —Daniel H. Weiss, University of Cambridge, MODERN THEOLOGY, 26.3 July, 2010"Westphal's book will set the terms for future debates about what at times seem like the indiscernible differences that make these two thinkers both very near and very far from each other. —Jeffrey Kosky, Washington and Lee UniversityThis is an important and engaging work that will help readers to understand better not only Levinas and Kierkegaard, but also the nature of otherness and transcendence." —Brian Treanor, Loyola Marymount University"This is an important and engaging work that will help readers to understand better not only Levinas and Kierkegaard, but also the nature of otherness and transcendence." —Brian Treanor, Loyola Marymount UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1. Revelation1. Revelation as Immediacy2. Revelation as Enigma and ParadoxPart 2. God3. Teleological Suspensions4. Commanded Love and Divine TranscendencePart 3. Heteronomy5. The Trauma of Transcendence as Heteronomous Intersubjectivity6. Transcendence, Heteronomy, and the Birth of the Responsible SelfPart 4. Reversal7. The "Logic" of Solidarity8. Inverted Intentionality: Being AddressedNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDefinitive work on one of the most consequential events in the history of Atlantic slaveryTrade Review[A] rich sample of recent work on colonial and revolutionary Haiti, and on the revolution's impact in the broader Atlantic world, in a format both accessible to a wide academic audience and of import and interest to specialists.vol. 85 no. 1 & 2 (2011) * New West Indian Guide *Eighteen articles range from studies about Saint-Domingue on the eve of the 1791 slave insurrection to the transition from emancipation to the permanent break with France in 1804, and, finally, to the reverberations of the island's events upon other slave societies and upon fiction, the fine arts, and the craft of history. . . . Highly recommendedJanuary 2010 * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsForewordPrefacePart I : Saint-Domingue on the Eve of Revolution: Politics and Economics1. The Colony of Saint-Domingue on the Eve of Revolution David Geggus2. Vestiges of the Built Landscape of Pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue Jacques de Cauna3. Saint-Domingue's Free People of Color and the Tools of Revolution John Garrigus4. On the Road to Citizenship: The Complex Paths toward the Integration of Free People of Color in the Two Capitals of Saint-Domingue Dominique Rogers5. Colonial Absolutism: Politics in Principle and Practice in the Old Regime Gene OglePart II: Unfolding of the Slave Revolution6. The Insurgents of 1791, their Leaders, and the Concept of Independence Yves Benot7. Avenging America: The Politics of Violence in the Haitian Revolution Laurent Dubois8. Fêtes de l'hymen, fêtes de la liberté: Matrimony, Emancipation, and the Creation of New Men Elizabeth Colwill9. The Colonial Vendée Malick Ghachem10. The Slave Revolution and the Unfolding of Independence in Saint-Domingue, 1801-1804 Part III: Reverberations Carolyn Fick11. The French Revolution's Other Island: The Impact of Saint-Domingue on Revolutionary Politics in France Jeremy Popkin12. Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, 1791-1812 Ada Ferrer13. Exiles in the United States Ashli White14. Free Upon Higher Ground: Saint-Domingue Slaves' Suits for Freedom in U. S. Courts, 1792-1830 Sue Peabody15. Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil João José Reis and Flavio GomesPart IV: Representations of the Revolution16. The Specter of Saint-Domingue: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the United States and France Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall17. Representations of the Haitian Revolution in French Fiction Léon-François Hoffmann18. Neo-Classicism and the Haitian Revolution Carlo CéliusAfterwordIndex

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Book SynopsisJohn Zorn is an active American composers/performer. This book offers a number of perspectives for understanding Zorn's music and musical practices, while challenging certain assumptions that limit the ways in which contemporary music is typically addressed.Trade ReviewThe composer John Zorn likes to think of himself as an outsider, wallowing in paradoxes, and he's done a terrific job of it. The musicologist John Brackett has written what is apparently the first book-length study of the man's music, titled John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression. He's done not quite so terrific a job, but for anyone interested in an initial foray into the thickets of complexity and contradiction enveloping Zorn and his "poetics" (a Brackettian favorite), this is a start. It's a tribute to Zorn, who was born in 1953, that he has remained so stubbornly unknown to the general public for so long; he's been making his music on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for more than thirty years. Part of his problem—if it is a problem for a defiant outsider, who is seemingly willing to offend anyone who might help propel him into the mainstream—is his determined catholicity of taste. He has undertaken free improvisation, jazz, hardcore rock, noise, and classical chamber and orchestral scores. In most of his music, idioms and genres flash by with disorienting rapidity. It can be fun but wearing, too, a roller-coaster ride of composition that is a long way from symphonic form or harmonic logic in any conventional sense. His albums and tracks pay homage to an equally dizzying number of icons, musical and otherwise, from the Schoenberg-Berg-Webern triumvirate to Stravinsky to Messiaen and Kagel to Cage and Feldman to Coleman and Dolphy to Bataille to Crowley and Lovecraft to Anger (Zorn means "anger" in German, appropriately enough, given his edgy aesthetic, but this Anger is Kenneth) to Deren to Bacon to Cornell to Spillane and Morricone. European postmodernist theoreticians and, yes, transgressives (Genet, Derrida, Foucault) stud his liner notes. Japanese erotic and sadistic manga serves as musical inspiration, as well as lurid album art, as do all manner of shadowy Kabbalists and Gnostics. It's quite a stew. With all these ingredients, Zorn whips up a frenetic froth of sound, although every once in a while he calms down into lyricism. The effect is sometimes ebullient and amusing, though Zorn's all-purpose anger insists on priority. It all sounds anarchic on a first listen, for good or ill, and Brackett labors mightily to impose some sort of order on this chaos. Although his musical discussions are more descriptive than deeply analytic—the nonmusical ones are better—Brackett shows us how Zorn uses numerological symbolism, as did Bach, Mahler, and the twelve-tonalists. (Music and mathematics lie close, and lots of composers have embedded number secrets in their scores.) Compressed chunks of others' scores often act as jumping-off places for Zorn's own compositions, providing historical reference points and skeins of unity, at least on paper. The sonic equivalent of film montage is another favored device. The trouble is that Zorn himself has said, "My concern is not so much how things sound, as with how things work." In other words, he loves the process of creating intricate scores that sound like maniacs improvising on the fly. In that limited sense, he's like an abstruse academic modernist composer, as in the old distinction between "ear music" you can listen to and "eye music" best appreciated through a close reading of the notes. But by any reasonable criterion—and despite Brackett's deliberate obfuscation of the fact—Zorn is a postmodernist, even the king of the New York postmodernist hill. People like or dislike his music for its jumpy flow, its wild clashes of style, its passion and humor, its hair-trigger virtuosity in conception and performance. Brackett, an assistant professor of music at the University of Utah, boasts an impressive knowledge of classical, jazz, and pop, of avant-garde theory and practice, and of literary, filmic, and visual histories. Bursting with all these references, the book reads like a doctoral dissertation blown up into a bid for tenure, yet despite his work's flaws, Brackett probably deserves the promotion: His interests really are that broad and that deep—almost as diverse as Zorn's. The book's four chapters are devoted to Zorn's problematic erotic themes, including the sadomasochistic artwork on many of his albums from the late '80s through the mid-'90s (especially involving the torture of Asian women); what Brackett calls "magick and mysticism" in Zorn's more recent work; and Zorn's nonmusical (chapter 3) and musical (chapter 4) homages. In the epilogue, Brackett tries to sum everything up but only ties himself in knots over how best to categorize Zorn (modernist? postmodernist? historical? transgressive?). All of this is at least mildly piquant, and Brackett's tactic of zeroing in on particular pieces works well. But he has a habit of filtering his discussions through some usually trendy, often French essayist or theorist. Thus he attempts to deconstruct and blur the straightforward moral repugnance that Ellie Hisama, Catharine MacKinnon, and other feminists feel toward Zorn's pornographic album art, offering elaborate theories about the borders between reality (a word Brackett often puts in quotation marks) and fantasy, invoking Bataille über alles. Crowley et al. figure heavily in "magick and mysticism." Marcel Mauss's gift theory, in which a seemingly simple act is embedded in a complex network of social obligations, dominates Brackett's homage chapters, though curiously he never extends the discussion to sampling (not a big part of Zorn's more overtly compositional aesthetic, but one might have thought it worth considering). The French hover more than the Germans, no doubt because of the Frankfurt School's snooty disdain for commercial music—not that Zorn has gotten rich from his vast output of mostly cult CDs. John Zorn reads like a series of extended aperçus. There is no biographical information to speak of, and as Brackett readily concedes in his introduction, he slights Zorn's work prior to the late '80s, his improvisation, his role and skills as a saxophonist and performer, and his place in the fecund downtown-Manhattan jazz/rock/improv scene of the late '70s and '80s and beyond. Aside from the academic jargon, the book's conceptual confusion supposedly mirrors Zorn's own multivalent compositional method. But even Brackett has his doubts: "Many readers are probably wondering about the value or utility of quasi-formalistic close readings such as those presented above," he muses at one point. Later, after his failure to take a position on Zorn's troubling artwork, he frets that "for some readers, my position might be understood as a 'cop-out.'" The prose is nothing if not dense, as in "Furthermore, given Lowe's emphasis on the fictionalized 'remembering' or the 'putting-back-togetherness' of an emergent Asian American cultural identity . . ." Yet there is much to admire here, particularly the discussions, to which Brackett repeatedly loops back, of the narrow, dangerous space between tradition and transgression. For him, Zorn doesn't so much wish to destroy social and aesthetic norms as challenge them, although whether Zorn has thought about his own work in quite this manner—sometimes he's more like an intellectualized Road Runner than an academic cogitator—seems doubtful. In interviews, he has sounded diffident about his undoubted intellect; after reading Brackett's gift theorizing, it's refreshing to find the composer himself joking about his "plagiarism" and "stealing." Though it's fair to say that this book would be Greek to anyone not already interested in Zorn and his music, Brackett does successfully limn the tensions in the music of a remarkable composer. It is a testament to how far academic musicologists have ventured since the dear, unlamented years when they merely buried their noses in lute tablature, afraid to creep anywhere near the present, let alone the demotic. There's a heady new world out there, and Brackett is part of it. If he could only match his thinking and his academically cloaked passions with a prose style equivalent to the passion and humor of his subject, he would have a book really worth reading. -- John Rockwell * Bookforum *[T]he book is a heady brew of fascinating ideas, analyses, conjectures, and unifying theories, which presents some masterful strategies for the 'game of analysis' to which Zorn challenges all comers. Vol. 5, No. 1 * Critical Studies in Improvisation *Brackett has made an indispensible contribution to scholarship a subject that deserves many more important books, and he has set the bar high for future authors. December 2009 * Notes *As the first book of scholarship on this multifaceted artist, John Zorn . . . accomplishes a great deal and should initiate a new and more serious phase in Zorn's treatment at the hands of academic authors. Winter 2010 * American Music *Though his book plumbs depths of theory and esoteric cultural history that may interest only the most hardcore Zorn and experimental-art fans, those very depths make it an invaluable guide to the aesthetic methods and motivations of an artist who pays homage to the old as he seeks to make it new. August/September 2009 * Bloom Magazine *. . .scholar John Brackett moves away from the clichéd interpretation of Zorn as a postmodernist . . . to offer a more nuanced interpretation, one that considers his role as historian and caretaker of earlier artworks. June 2009 * AllAboutJazz-New York *Brackett offers a number of perspectives for understandign Zorn's music and musical practices, while challenging certain assumptions that limit the ways in which contemporary music is typically addressed.January 26, 2009 * www.avantmusicnews.com *. . . Brackett does a thorough job of addressing the various complexities and contradictions found in Zorn's body of work. The author provides a well-grounded starting point for exploring Zorn's output . . . May 2009 * Choice *. . . [Brackett's] passion for Zorn's work is evident throughout his remarkably insightful [book]. Brackett has attained a significant level of involvement from Zorn himself, and the book includes segments from their conversations as well as previously unseen sketches, notes, and documents relating to the composer's work. For die-hard followers, the book is an invitation into the inner sanctum.January 28, 2009 -- Michael Patrick Brady * PopMatters *Brackett's groundbreaking book . . . confronts Zorn's contradictory modes of expression . . . brilliantly demonstrating how these powerful dualities of thought—real yet fantastic, pleasing yet horrifying—synergize to make Zorn's compositional voice unique and seminal in the 21st century.November 3 2008 -- Severine Neff * Mainly Music Meandering *Table of ContentsContentsForeword by John ZornAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. From the Fantastic to the Dangerously Real: Reading John Zorn's Artwork2. Magick and Mysticism in Zorn's Recent Works3. Tradition, Gifts, and Zorn's Musical Homages4. Continuing the Spiral: Aporias and the Prisms of TraditionEpilogueDiscography/FilmographyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFirst published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin Heidegger's collected works, this book is an English translation of a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937-1938. Heidegger's task here is to reassert the question of the essence of truth, not as a problem of logic, but as the basic question of philosophy.Trade ReviewA helpful elucidation of the truth as [Heidegger] sees it. . . . This excellent translation will be of great value to students of Heidegger's thought. * Library Journal *Well suited to the task of beckoning the novice onto the path of Heidegger's most arduous thought. . . . a useful introduction to the thought of one of our most original thinkers. * International Studies in Philosophy *Table of ContentsTranslators' ForewordPreparatory Part: The Essence of Philosophy and the Question of TruthChapter One: Preliminary Interpretation of the Essence of PhilosophyChapter Two: The Question of Truth as a Basic QuestionMain Part: Foundational Issues in the Question of TruthChapter One: The Basic Question of the Essence of Truth as a Historical ReflectionChapter Two: The Question of the Truth (Essentiality) of the EssenceChapter Three: The Laying of the Ground as the Foundation for Grasping an EssenceChapter Four: The Necessity of the Question of the Essence of Truth, on the Basis of the Beginning of the History of TruthChapter Five: The Need and the Necessity of the First Beginning and the Need and the Necessity of an Other Way to Question and to BeginAppendicesThe Question of TruthFrom the First DraftEditor's Afterword

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Book SynopsisPresents a systematic account of Peirce's theory, including the role of semiotic in the system of sciences, with an analysis of its three main branches - grammar, critical logic, and universal rhetoric.Table of ContentsPreface1. The Discipline of Semeiotic2. Semeiotic Grammar3. Critical Logic4. Universal RhetoricNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsGlossary Introduction Part I: The Fictional Game 1. Fictional Recentering 2. Possible Worlds and Accessibility Relations: A Semantic Typology of Fiction 3. Reconstructing the Textual Universe: The Principle of Minimal Departure 4. Voices and Worlds 5. The Fiction Automaton Part II. The Plotting of the Plot 6. The Modal Structure of Narrative Universes 7. The Dynamics of Plot: Goals, Actions, Plans and Private Narratives 8. Virtuality and Tellability 9. Stacks, Frames, and Boundaries, or Narrative as Computer Language 10. The Formal Representation of Plot 11. The Heuristics of Automatic Story Generation Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMusic education and identity in an international contextTrade ReviewGreen invites twenty authors from all corners of the globe to contribute evidence based research to this book . . . From these fascinating, highly readable accounts, Green pulls out some emerging issues which have important messages for music educators. 7/22/11 * Teaching Music *[T]his collection is a very worthy addition to the growing literature on global music education. It will be useful as both a scholarly and pedagogical resource, and will likely inspire much future work in this still nascent but vibrant field. * Popular Music *Green allows readers to journey to an isolated culture, for example, Lapland, or to a cyberspace island, and contemplate their own musical identity as they work out their educational philsoophy. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Globalization and Localization of Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity / Lucy Green 1. The Permeable Classroom: Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity in a Remote Australian Aboriginal Homelands School / Kathryn Marsh 2. Popular Music Listening as "Non-Resistance": The Cultural Reproduction of Musical Identity in Japanese Families / Kyoko Koizumi 3. From Homeland to Hong Kong: The Dual Musical Experience and Identity of Diasporic Filipino Women / Annie On Nei Mok 4. Village, Province, and Nation: Aspects of Identity in Children's Learning of Music and Dance in Bali / Peter Dunbar-Hall 5. Music for a Postcolonial Child: Theorizing Malaysian Memories / Roe-Min Kok 6. Continuity and Change: The Guru-Shishya Relationship in Karnatic Classical Music Training / Sophie Grimmer 7. "Music Is in Our Blood": Gujarati Muslim Musicians in the UK / John Baily 8. Greek Popular Music and the Construction of Musical Identities by Greek-Cypriot School Children / Avra Pieridou-Skoutella 9. Music-Learning and the Formation of Local Identity through the Philharmonic Society Wind Bands of Corfu / Zoe Dionyssiou 10. Playing with Barbie: Exploring South African Township Children's Musical Games as Resources for Pedagogy / Susan Harrop-Allin 11. Personal, Local, and National Identities in Ghanaian Performance Ensembles / Trevor Wiggins 12. Music Festivals in the Lapland Region: Constructing Identities through Musical Events / Sidsel Karlsen 13. Shaping a Music Teacher Identity in Sweden / Eva Georgii-Hemming 14. Icelandic Men and Their Identity in Songs and in Singing / Robert Faulkner 15. Discovering and Affirming Musical Identity through Extracurricular Music-Making in English Secondary Schools / Stephanie Pitts 16. Scottish Traditional Music: Identity and the "Carrying Stream" / Charles Byrne 17. Performance, Transmission, and Identity among Ireland's New Generation of Traditional Musicians / John O'Flynn 18. Fostering a "Musical Say": Identity, Expression, and Decision Making in a US School Ensemble / Sharon G. Davis 19. Diversity, Identity, and Learning Styles among Students in a Brazilian University / Heloisa Feichas 20. SIMPhonic Island: Exploring Musical Identity and Learning in Virtual Space / Sheri E. JaffursList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIf you have ever wanted to know more about the fascinating history of Britain's Royal Family, then look no further: The Book of Royal Useless Information is jam-packed with surprising, shocking and hilarious facts. DID YOU KNOW? King Richard the Lionheart was gay. Charles I liked to place his 18-inch court dwarf between half-loaves of bread and pretend to eat him. Elizabeth I said she bathed once every three months whether she needed it or not. Henry VII was the last English king to win his throne on the field of battle. The Queen uses black blotting paper so people can't see what she's written. Wallis Simpson admonished her lover, Edward VIII, with the joke: 'You can't abdicate and eat it.' Bestselling authors Noel Botham and Bruce Montague irreverently present everything you could ever possibly want to know about the Royals - and a little bit more! So raise the Union Flag, feed the corgis, make yourself a nice cup of tea, and enjoy this truly mind-boggling collection of totally useless information.

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Book SynopsisThe large quadrupedal herbivores known as sauropods roamed the planet from the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. With the longest necks and tails of all of the dinosaurs, some sauropods were 40 meters in length and weighed upwards of 100,000 kilograms. This book presents 21 studies of the sauropods.Table of ContentsContributorsI. Sauropods Old and New1. Postcranial Anatomy of Referred Specimens of the Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Melanorosaurus from the Upper Triassic of South Africa Peter M. Galton, Jacques Van Heerden, and Adam M. Yates2. The Genus Barosaurus Marsh (Sauropoda, Diplodocidae) John S. McIntosh3. Reassessment of the Early Cretaceous Sauropod Astrodon johnsoni Leidy 1865 (Titanosauriformes) Kenneth Carpenter and Virginia Tidwell4. Osteology of Ampelosaurus atacis (Titanosauria) from Southern France Jean Le LoeuffII. Sauropods Young to Old5. New Juvenile Sauropod Material from Western Colorado, and the Record of Juvenile Sauropods from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation John R. Foster6. New Adult Specimens of Camarasaurus lentus Highlight Ontogenetic Variation within the Species Takehito Ikejiri, Virginia Tidwell, and David L. Trexler7. Age-Related Characteristics Found in a Partial Pelvis of Camarasaurus Virginia Tidwell, Kenneth Stadtman, and Allen Shaw8. Ontogenetic Variation and Isometric Growth in the Forelimb of the Early Cretaceous Sauropod Venenosaurus Virginia Tidwell and D. Ray WilhiteIII. Body Parts: Morphology and Biomechanics9. Neuroanatomy and Dentition of Camarasaurus lentus Sankar Chatterjee and Zhong Zheng10. Neck Posture, Dentition, and Feeding Strategies in Jurassic Sauropod Dinosaurs Kent A. Stevens and J. Michael Parrish11. Neck Posture of Sauropods Determined Using Radiological Imaging to Reveal Three-Dimensional Structure of Cervical Vertebrae David S. Berman and Bruce M. Rothschild12. Evolution of the Hyposphene-Hypanthrum Complex within Sauropoda Sebastián Apesteguía13. Variation in the Appendicular Skeleton of North American Sauropod Dinosaurs: Taxonomic Implications D. Ray Wilhite14. First Articulated Manus of Diplodocus carnegii Malcolm W. Bedell Jr. and David L. Trexler15. Evolution of the Titanosaur Metacarpus Sebastián Apesteguía16. Pes Anatomy in Sauropod Dinosaurs: Implications for Functional Morphology, Evolution, and Phylogeny Matthew F. Bonnan17. Sauropod Stress Fractures as Clues to Activity Bruce M. Rothschild and Ralph E. MolnarIV. Global Record of Sauropods18. Between Gondwana and Laurasia: Cretaceous Sauropods in an Intraoceanic Carbonate Platform Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia19. Sauropods of Patagonia: Systematic Update and Notes on Global Sauropod Evolution Leonardo Salgado and Rodolfo A. Coria20. Observations on Cretaceous Sauropods from Australia Ralph E. Molnar and Steven W. Salisbury21. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Nests, Eggs, and Dung Mass (Coprolites) of Sauropods (Titanosaurs) from India D. M. MohabeyIndex

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Book SynopsisSergei Rachmaninoff - the last great Russian romantic and arguably the finest pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries - wrote 83 songs, which are performed and beloved throughout the world. This title provides English translations of the songs, along with accurate transliterations of the original texts and detailed commentary.Trade ReviewA treasure for the serious music reference library, Sylvester's work compiles art song data needed by students, teachers, researchers, and performers. . . . This is a scholarly effort welcome in university, conservatory, and large public library collections as well as the home shelves of music lovers. * American Reference Books Annual *Richard D. Sylvester's companion to Rachmaninoff's songs is a perfect guide for performers and Rachmaninoff enthusiasts. * Russian Review *The author . . . makes Russian songs accessible to those without previous language training. Multiple indexes make this a fine reference source for texts. * Choice *Sylvester . . . paints a rich, detailed, and variegated picture of Rachmaninoff's output as a song composer, the range and variety of his literary reading, and his many creative interactions with singers. * Music and Letters *In his Companion, Richard D. Sylvester not only puts under careful factual scrutiny the entirety of Rachmaninoff's solo vocal output; he also invites his readers to consider the aesthetic and historical significance of Rachmaninoff's 26-year-long engagement with lyric poetry. This multi-functional volume offers much more than its meek title may suggest. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *[T]he writer exposes the real-life practitioner of music, whether student, teacher, or seasoned performer, to an accessible source of rich, meticulously researched data so central for au fait artistic interpretation of classics, and often so hard to glean from routinely dry and difficult musicology texts. The robustness of research behind the book is in no way compromised by its accessibility, and is evident from an astounding bibliography section that spans ten pages and contains 289 references. * Journal of Singing *All lovers of Russian music owe a great debt of gratitude to Professor Sylvester, whose latest book may be recommended without qualification. * Slavonic and East European Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceA Note on Dates and Spelling1. Early Years (1873-1892) Nine Unpublished Songs (1890-1899)2. First Published Songs, Opus 4 (1893) Songs 10-153. Six Romances, Opus 8 (1896) Songs 16-214. Twelve Romances, Opus 14 (1896) Songs 22-33 5. Twelve Romances, Opus 21 (1902) Songs 34-45 Song 46, Without Opus (1900)6. Fifteen Romances, Opus 26 (1906) Songs 47-61 Song 62, Without Opus (1900)7. Fourteen Romances, Opus 34 (1912-1915) Songs 63-76 Song 77, Without Opus (1914)8. Six Poems, Opus 38 (1916) Songs 78-839. After Russia (1917-1943) Two Unpublished Songs (1916)BibliographyIndex of SingersIndex of Song Titles in RussianIndex of Song Titles in EnglishIndex of Names

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Book SynopsisShowcases research of broad botanical and paleontological interest from the world's experts on Mesozoic plant life. This title covers various aspects of plant group - ranging from horsetails to ginkgophytes, from cycads to conifers - and relates them to key innovations in structure, phylogenetic relationships, Mesozoic vegetation.Trade ReviewThe assortment of writings will interest a broad array of investigators. . . . Recommended. * Choice *The 14 chapters in this edited volume provide a broad and a fascinating view of the flora of the Mesozoic . . . The range of topics in this book means that there should be something for anyone with an interest in paleobotany. . . Vol. 86 * Quarterly Review of Biology *[This] volume is immaculately edited, outstandingly readable and beautifully illustrated. * American Paleontologist *[T]he book will indoubtedly be invaluable to graduate students, faculty, and researchers in the fields of biology, botany, and paleontology. 2011 * American Reference Books Annual *This book will be a valuable reference for anyone interested in the biology, paleontology, and paleobotany of the Mesozoic flora and fauna including earth and life scientists and academics, plaeontologists, geologists, and environmental scientists. This very detailed book clearly represents a lifetime of study by the author and is a valuable contribution to the literature. * Plant Science Bulletin *Table of ContentsPreface, Dedication, and Acknowledgments / Carole T. GeeThe Career of Ted Delevoryas: Appreciation and Publications / Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor, and Charles P. DaghlianPart 1. Innovations in Mesozoic Plants 1. Architectural Innovation and Developmental Controls in Some Mesozoic Gymnosperms, or, Why Do The Leaf Crowns in Mesozoic Forests Look Tufted? / Ian Sussex, Nancy Kerk, and Carole T. Gee 2. Modern Traits in Early Mesozoic Sphenophytes: The Equisetum-like Cones of Spaciinodum collinsonii with In Situ Spores and Elaters from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica / Andrew B. Schwendemann, Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings, and Jeffrey M. Osborn 3. Pollen and Coprolite Structure in Cycadeoidea (Bennettitales): Implications for Understanding Pollination and Mating Systems in Mesozoic Cycadeoids / Jeffrey M. Osborn and Mackenzie L. Taylor 4. Independent Evolution of Seed Enclosure in the Bennettitales: Evidence from the Anatomically Preserved Cone Foxeoidea connatum gen. et sp. nov. / Gar W. Rothwell and Ruth A. Stockey 5. A Mosaic of Characters in a New Whole-Plant Araucaria, A. delevoryasii Gee sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A. / Carole T. Gee and William D. Tidwell 6. Major Innovations in Angiosperm Evolution / David L. Dilcher 7. Implications of Fossil Floral Data on Understanding the Early Evolution of Molecular Developmental Controls of Flowers / David Winship TaylorPart 2. Phylogeny of Mesozoic Plants 8. Late Triassic Ginkgoleans of North America / Sidney R. Ash 9. Review of the Cycads and Bennettitaleans from the Mesozoic of Argentina / N. Rubén Cúneo, Ignacio Escapa, Liliana Villar de Seoane, Analía Artabe, and Silvia Gnaedinger 10. The Bennettitales (Cycadeoidales): A Preliminary Perspective on This Arguably Enigmatic Group / William L. Crepet and Dennis W. Stevenson 11. Endemism of Early Cretaceous Conifers in Western Gondwana / Sergio Archangelsky and Georgina M. Del Fueyo 12. Oldest Known Dicotyledonous Lianas from the Early Cretaceous of Utah and New Mexico, U.S.A. / William D. Tidwell, Sidney R. Ash, and Brooks B. BrittPart 3. Ecosystems and Mesozoic Plants 13. Palynological Evidence for Conifer Dominance within a Heterogeneous Landscape in the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, U.S.A. / Carol L. Hotton and Nina L. Baghai-Riding 14. Mesozoic Plants and Dinosaur Herbivory / P. Martin Sander, Carole T. Gee, Jürgen Hummel, and Marcus ClaussContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe theory and practice of Italian musical compositionTrade ReviewDense and challenging in its detail and analysis, this work is an important addition to the growing corpus of Puccini studies. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Baragwanath's is a very full treatment of Italian teaching methods and curricula, now based not ony on traditional harmony but on other relevant strategies for learning to create what every Italian composer wanted to create: opera. The pedagogical traditions and the Puccini family's part in them are tracedbroadly The positivistic research is thorough and results in a reference-source useful to all further historians of 19th-century Italian opera. The topic is a big one, with many ramifications, and the book does provide a definitive service in explaining the prevailing Italian view that 'music should be pleasing, fulfilling or entertaining in a variety of contexts.' * Musical Times *[B]y offering another component to the analyst's tool kit, Baragwanath has comprehensively achievedwhat he set out to do: create a framework for further study. * Music and Letters *Nicholas Baragwanath has made a major contribution – one of the most major to date, in any language – not only to Puccini studies but also to the study of nineteenth-century Italian opera in general. * Nineteenth-Century Music Review *[Offers] us no less than a thorough reappraisal of how composition was learned by those who would actually become composers. * Journal of Music Theory *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsA Note on Translation and Terminology1: Musical Traditions in Nineteenth-Century ItalyI. The Italian SchoolsII. An Introduction to the Primary SourcesIII. Puccini and the End of the Great Tradition2. Studies in Lucca and MilanI. Composition as CraftII. The Istituto musicale in LuccaIII. Scarpia and the Partimento CadenceIV. The Conservatorio di Milano3. Lessons in Dramatic Composition I: RhythmI. Rhythm without Measure, Accent without BeatII. Rules of Versification, Lippmann's Rhythmic-Musical Types, and Two Case-StudiesIII. Historical Survey of Writings on RitmoIV. Short Case-Studies from Bellini and Puccini4. Lessons in Dramatic Composition II: Harmony and CounterpointI. The Partimento TraditionII. Michele Puccini's Corso pratico di contrappunto (1846)III. The Bolognese Attachment, or "Little Keys for Winding Clocks"IV. Regular Motions and Melodic Composition5. Lessons in Dramatic Composition III: Affect, Imitation, and ConductI. Dominant Affects and their MovementsII. Physical and Sentimental ImitationIII. Form and ConductIV. Case-Studies from Verdi, Boito, and Puccini6. Vocalizzi, Solfeggi, and Real (or Ideal) CompositionI. Lessons in Singing and CounterpointII. Lessons in Singing and SolfeggioIII. From Solfeggio to Ideal Composition in Puccini (and Bellini)NotesBibliographyIndex of ConceptsIndex of Names and Works

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Book SynopsisThis intellectual biography brings to light a complex, fascinating woman who bridged many worlds--the United States and Mexico, art and politics, professional work and family life.Trade ReviewSusannah Glusker's biography is a balanced and well-documented analysis of the middle period of her mother's life. She demonstrates that Brenner was a significant Latin American writer, a cultural hybrid and major figure in Mexico's cultural renaissance, and a political activist who sought successfully to document the dynamics of the country of her birth. This volume is informative and intriguing, and sheds light on Anita Brenner as a complex, assertive woman who, indeed, had "a mind of her own." * H-Net Reviews *Table of Contents Foreword by Carlos Monsivais Prologue An Abbreviated Chronology of Anita Brenner's Life Introduction 1. Nana Serapia 2. Mexico Welcomes Anita 3. A Family of Artists and Intellectuals 4. Sisters, Foes, and Role Models 5. Moving On 6. Harvesting Mexican Efforts 7. An Art Critic's Career Unfolds 8. Idols behind Altars 9. An Atypical Student 10. Flirtations, Relationships, and Love 11. Your Mexican Holiday 12. Identity, Commitment, and Activism 13. Full-fledged Menorah Journal Radical 14. Spain 15. Art Critic in the Thirties 16. A Radical Looks at Mexico: The Throttled Revolution 17. The Wind That Swept Mexico 18. Epilogue: New York, 1942 Appendixes Notes Anita Brenner Bibliography General Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA vivid novel about the solitary life of a peasant family in a harsh and unforgiving land, austerely told by a classic Brazilian writer.Trade ReviewGraciliano Ramos is of the naturalistic tradition in the literature of Brazil, but this novel is not mere social protest. The author has a keen visual sense, and the reader becomes one with the part of the earth where Fabiano’s life unfolds.... Barren Lives is a moving novel, one to ponder on. * Library Journal *Table of Contents Introduction 1. A New Home 2. Fabiano 3. Jail 4. Vitória 5. The Younger Boy 6. The Older Boy 7. Winter 8. Feast Day 9. The Dog 10. Accounts 11. The Policeman in Khaki 12. The Birds 13. Flight

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Book SynopsisBialystok and its migrant communitiesTrade Review. . . fascinating from first page to last. -- Sir Martin GilbertThis is a stimulating, pathbreaking book, and it is a pleasure to read. * Jewish History *Carefully researched and clearly written, this book offers a rich picture of a transnational Jewish community. Kobrin's novel approach to the study of Jewish history is significant for scholars committed to understanding the complex threads that wove together the early twentieth-century Jewish world. * American Historical Review *[T]his illuminating case study sheds useful comparative and conceptual light, first and foremost on the notions of transnationalism and colonialism and the relationship between homeland and diaspora. * Austrian History Yearbook *Rebecca Kobrin is to be commended for her stimulating and thought-provoking study. * Shofar *This thoughtful, strikingly original work of scholarship possesses the added value of being readable (and, one hopes, appreciated) by an audience beyond specialists in the field. . . . In sum, this book's contribution to Russian, east European, American, and 'diapora' studies is truly extraordinary. Vol. 70.3, Fall 2011 * Slavic Review *Kobrin's wide-ranging analysis draws on huge and impressive variety of sources and many of the scholarly debates that her work relates to are very well explained . . . [This book] is a rare contribution to contemporary debates about migration * H-Judaic *. . . fascinating from first page to last.leave per JBR -- Sir Martin GilbertThis well-researched and innovative study is both an account of the history of Jewish Bialystok and of the way its diaspora was mobilized to support Jewish life in the town from abroad. . . . It . . . provides a new way of examining the relation between East European Jewish emigrants and the lands from which they set out to make new lives elsewhere. Vol. 70.2, April 2011 * The Russian Review *Kobrin's well-written, well-researched book [provides] a valuable resource for scholars and students alike. . . . Recommended. * Choice *This excellent study very forcefully and convincingly shows that 'many early twentieth-century East European immigrant Jews saw the pain of exile not only in relation to ancient Zion but in reference to East Europe', demostrating that 'Jews have always harbored a complex web of longings for many real and imagined homelands'.Autumn 2013 * Journal of Jewish Studies *In addition to original and illuminating research, Jewish Bialystock and Its Diaspora is to be commended for its lucid style of writing. Kobrin knows how to tell a story, arousing the reader's curiosity from the very first page. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *This ambitious study is rigorous and highly impressive in its scope and methodology . . . There is no doubt that Jewish Bialystok and its Diaspora is a field-shaping study, which crosses quite a few disciplinary borders marked by Jewish history, diaspora and migration studies and transnational communication, as well as memory and identity studies.12.1 2013 * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Orthography and Transliterationintroduction: Between Exile and Empire: Visions of Jewish Dispersal in the Age of Mass Migration1. The Dispersal Within: Bialystok, Jewish Migration, and Urban Life in the Borderlands of Eastern Europe2. Rebuilding Homeland in Promised Lands3. "Buying Bricks for Bialystok": Philanthropy and the Bonds of the New Jewish Diaspora 4. Rewriting the Jewish Diaspora: Images of Bialystok in the Transnational Bialystok Jewish Press, 1921–19495. Shifting Centers, Conflicting Philanthropists: Rebuilding, Resettling, and Remembering Jewish Bialystok in the Post-Holocaust EraEpilogue: Diaspora and the Politics of East European Jewish Identity in the Age of Mass MigrationNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOne of the most important historical sources for a major part of Simón Bolívar’s life.Trade ReviewThese Memoirs of O'Leary ... are without a doubt the best work ever published in the English language on the life and deeds of Simón Bolivar, the great Liberator of five South American countries.... The book is full of interesting vignettes, where O'Leary with great candor and sincerity virtually takes the reader by the hand into the inner sanctum of the great Liberator... a thoroughly enjoyable, condensed version. * Inter-American Review of Bibliography *Table of Contents Translator’s Foreword Preface Introduction Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-one Chapter Twenty-two Chapter Twenty-three Chapter Twenty-four Chapter Twenty-five Chapter Twenty-six Index

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Book SynopsisA new edition issued in paperback of the critically acclaimed biography of Charles Sanders Peirce.Trade Review[P]eirce himself displayed both logical brilliance and serious moral weaknesses, as Brent's narrative so vividly illustrates. This is one of the central, tragic paradoxes of Peirce's life and thought, and Joseph Brent has done a superb job of exposing and exploring it.15.3 Sept. 1994 * American Journal of Theology and Philosophy *Peirce (1839, 1914) is America's most creative, dominant, and original philosopher. Yet the first book-length biography of the founder of pragmatism was not published until 75 years after his death: Elisabeth Walther's Charles Sanders Peirce: Leben und Werk (Baden—Baden, 1989). Now we have the first American biography, and a superb book it is. The 35 years Brent expended in making this biography have seasoned and enriched his definitive production. (The telling of Peirce's story, like his life, has been fraught with malversation. Some day the story of telling his story will be told.) Here, the facts of Peirce's life are integrated into the systematization that he hoped would for a long time to come [influence] the entire work of human reason. From fields as diverse and powerful as semiotics, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, psychology, linguistics, geology, philosophy of science, mathematics, and religion, these effects are being acknowledged. The role of Peirce's life in the chronological development of his ideas structures this narrative and gives an expositional argument for a solid interpretation of his philosophy as a single architectonic system. Five chapters of the biography cover in chronological order 75 years of Peirce's life. The sixth and last, a brilliant essay The Wasp in the Bottle, could alone make this work a masterpiece. Indiana University Press is also publishing a complete edition, Writings of Charles S. Peirce (1982— ; v.1, CH, Feb'83). Six volumes are published of 30 expected. (The project, this year, is in a struggle for continued support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.) From the published volumes, IUP has now issued the first of a projected two—volume sampler: The Essential Peirce, containing 25 well—edited, important works written by Peirce from 1867 to 1893, with an excellent introduction by Nathan Houser, associate editor of the Peirce Edition project. From Harvard University Press comes Peirce's Cambridge Conference Lectures of 1898, Reasoning and the Logic of Things. The text, taken from the Houghton Library collections for the purpose of a study edition, is without the critical editorial work of the IUP editions. The 50 pages of comment by Hilary Putnam are of interest in themselves; the 160 pages of Peirce's eight lectures are demonstrations of the authority and originality of his thought. Here is a generally accessible and complete account of Peirce's mature work constructed by Peirce himself in order to introduce his philosophy to nonspecialists. This book in an undergraduate library would make Peirce's philosophy intelligible independently of philosophy courses and philosophy teachers. Each of these books is well published and contains effective notes and an adequate index. This reviewer's highest recommendation is for Brent's biography, which should be in every college and university library in America. The next priority is Reasoning and the Logic of Things, a new and valuable addition to Peirce primary sources presently available. Libraries not subscribing to the complete Writings. . .should certainly order The Essential Peirce.September 1993 -- K. J. Dykeman * Fairfield University *

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Book SynopsisShows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformationTrade ReviewGenealogy as Critique breathes fresh air into a number of stale scholarly debates about the periodization of Foucault's work, the viability of genealogy as a method, and the relationship between Foucault and his interlocutors. It is a must read for anyone interested in Foucault and especially in the relationship between Foucault and critical theory. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *This impressive book by Koopman . . . exposes what he perceives to be inaccurate readings of Foucault's work stemming from Habermas, Derrida, and other 'Weberian' interpretations. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Colin Koopman's 'Genealogy as Critique' is critical theory at its best: informed by incisive intellectual reconstructions, guided by immanent critique, and aiming at practical transformations that speak to our unique historical challenges.Oct. 2014 * Foucault Studies *Genealogy as Critique is an excellent book. . . After the academic industry that Foucault's works have spawned, it is difficult to imagine yet another treatment of them that could possibly offer new insight or open up a dimension of his thought that hadn't already been noticed. However, Colin Koopman's book does just that. . . Although I have studied and written on Foucault for over thirty years now, I found much in the book that was fresh and interesting.Oct. 2014 -- Todd May * History & Theory *In Genealogy as Critique, Colin Koopman traces the contours of Foucault's critical method of genealogy, presenting it not as a catch-all term for approaching history as a nonhistorian, but rather as a method of inquiry valuable to many fields, including communication, cultural studies, history, and sociology.8, 2014 * INTL JRNL OF COMMUNICATION *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Genealogy Does1. Critical Historiography: Politics, Philosophy & Problematization2. Three Uses of Genealogy: Subversion, Vindication & Problematization3. What Problematization Is: Contingency, Complexity & Critique4. What Problematization Does: Aims, Sources & Implications5. Foucault's Problematization of Modernity: The Reciprocal Incompatibility of Discipline and Liberation6. Foucault's Reconstruction of Modern Moralities: An Ethics of Self-Transformation7. Problematization plus Reconstruction: Genealogy, Pragmatism & Critical TheoryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisArgues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. This book also argues that the humanity of the human is found in the recognition that the other person comes first, that the suffering and mortality of others are the obligations and morality of the self.

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Book SynopsisTakes a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophyTrade ReviewThe essays in this volume . . . provid[e] worthwhile reading for anyone coming to Heidegger's work on language for the first time, and some help for those who have been thinking about, with, or against him already. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *The 14 original essays in this indispensable volume trace the transformations in Heidegger's thinking about language and discourse, hiddenness and unhiddenness, and, most importantly, the limits of language and the significance of silence. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction \ Jeffrey Powell1. Heidegger's Ontological Analysis of Language \ Daniel O. Dahlstrom2. Listening to the Silence: Reticence and the Call of Conscience in Heidegger's Philosophy \ Walter Brogan3. In Force of Language: Language and Desire in Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics \ William McNeill4. The Secret Homeland of Speech: Heidegger on Language, 1933–1934 \ Richard Polt5. The Logic of Thinking \ John Sallis6. Giving Its Word: Event (as) Language \ Krzysztof Ziarek7. Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to Das Ereignis \ Daniela Vallega-Neu8. Poets as Prophets and as Painters: Heidegger's Turn to Language and the Hölderlinian Turn in Context \ Robert Bernasconi9. Truth Be Told: Homer, Plato, and Heidegger \ Dennis J. Schmidt10. The Way to Heidegger's "Way to Language" \ Jeffrey L. Powell11. Is There a Heidegger—or, for That Matter, a Lacan—Beyond All Gathering? \ David Farrell Krell12. Heidegger and the Question of the "Essence" of Language \ Françoise Dastur13. Dark Celebration: Heidegger's Silent Music \ Peter Hanly14. Heidegger with Blanchot: On the Way to Fragmentation \ Christopher FynskContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers a deeper understanding of the historical and contemporary problem of "free and French" in the CaribbeanTrade Review[T]hat Free and French inspires so many questions is testament to its ambition, the provocative parallel at its heart, and the richness of Walsh's analysis. The book is another important reminder not only that the Haitian Revolution proved powerful inspiration for the rest of the Caribbean, even centuries later, but also that perhaps its most significant ideological victory was exposing a fundamental truth: the colonies could never be free while French.July 2015 * H-Empire *J.P.Walsh has produced for the nonspecialist reader an excellent analysis of the historiographical discourse on Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire with a focus on the meaning(s) of decolonization in the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. * New West Indian Guide *Walsh . . . has opened a fascinating and fruitful line of study, not only of the writings of these two leaders, but also of the ambiguous colonial and postcolonial relationship between the French Republic and the French Caribbean. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Free and French in the Caribbean is . . . a valuable contribution to both the rapidly proliferating literature on the Haitian Revolution and the emerging revisionist appreciation of Césaire's intellectual and political project. * Small Axe *[This] book . . . is a wealth of information for researchers looking for a way to connect the contributions of several contemporary scholars in the field of postcolonial studies. Students and scholars of French Caribbean studies will find Free and French an incredibly valuable addition to their libraries. * Journal of Haitian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionI. Toussaint Louverture1. Toussaint Louverture and the Family of Saint-Domingue2. Under the Stick of Maître Toussaint3. "Free and French": La Constitution de la colonie française de Saint-Domingue4. Toussaint at a Crossroads: The Mémoire of the "First Soldier of the Republic of Saint Domingue"II. Aimé Césaire5. Césaire Reads Toussaint: The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Departmentalization6. Haitian Building: La Tragédie du Roi ChristopheConclusion: Artisans of Free and FrenchNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisA defining moment in Catholic life in early modern Europe, Holy Week brought together the faithful to commemorate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This title presents the study of ritual and music.Trade ReviewThis a stunning piece of scholarship centered around a specific ritual in Western society and Christianity, and the music associated with it. Highly recommended. * Choice *[A] ground-breaking and invigorating study. . . [this] study will undoubtedly keep the knowledge of these Offices alive in the minds of musicologists, and of more general readers, for a long time to come. * Early Music *This groundbreaking study brings together fascinating facts and materials, varied discussions, and a layered organization of its material in condensed, scholarly, and sophisticated language. It requires some basic knowledge of its subject on the part of its readers. The book will be a valuable addition to any academic and large public library, and constitutes a significant source for academics, scholars, theologians, and musicians interested in details of the Triduum, its ritual, and its music. * Music Reference Services Quarterly *Handsomely produced, and accompanied by useful appendixes detailing the contents, verse selections, and modal organizations of selected Holy Week cycles, Singing Jeremiah mines an obscure yet inexhaustibly rich vein of music that expressed profound sentiments of devotion and penance. * Renaissance Quarterly *Robert Kendrick has provided the interested reader with a huge amount of information, with great cultural-historical, and not least music-historical perspectives. It is an important book, which takes seriously the idea that liturgical music was also—and remains—theological, cultural, and ritual practice. * Music and Letters *Kendrick's command of the complex layers of meaning attached to the ritual and musical performance of Tenebrae cannot fail to impress. Singing Jeremiah is a significant contribution to understanding the richness of early modern Catholicism. * Church History *Kendrick's book is essential reading for anyone engaging with the sacred/secular dichotomy in early modern music and the socio-liturgical context of music. * Notes *Written in careful musical detail and with an admirable comprehension of the environment in which the music developed, Kenrick's book will be a reliable source for both musicians and liturgical scholars for many years to come. * Antiphon *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTerminology, Abbreviations, Texts1. Symbolic Meanings, Sonic Penance2. Textual Understandings, Musical Expressions3. Devotion, Models, Circulation, 1550-16004. Dynastic Tenebrae5. Static Rites, Dramatic Music6. European Tenebrae c. 16807. Ad honorem Passionis: Triduum Music and Rational Piety8. Endings and ContinuitiesAppendix: Tables 1-4NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisReveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history todayTrade ReviewAllen Roberts uses . . . [the] assassination to explore the encounter between late nineteenth-century European and Congolese, specifically Tabwa, cultures. There is no scholar more familiar with Tabwa culture, art, and customs, as revealed in his many writings over the last few decades. But Roberts proves equally adept in describing a European culture steeped in an arrogant worldview that it claimed to be 'scientific' and progressive but was often little more than a justification for European conquest.March 2014 * Jrnl of African History *Ultimately, this is an excellent, well-crafted meditation on the collision of colonial and indigenous worlds, and how the indigenous world has enfolded and come to its own terms with an irruption that invading world has largely never understood. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *At the end of the day, A Dance of Assassins makes a compelling case for the necessity of ethnography—quality ethnography—in the interpretation of history as a means of opening the past to a more equitable exchange of voices and the 'what-might-have-beens.' It is also, as John Mack notes in his endorsement, a 'veritable page-turner.' * African Arts *[The]broader themes [of this book] conjure up a bitter and dramatic sense of the colonial past, still contested and poorly understood by both Belgians and Congolese. It imaginatively shows how much may be learned by examining the colonial record from a combination of African and European (and other) points of view. It also suggests how material culture may teach us to fashion new analyses. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *A Dance of Assassins . . . is a deeply engaging account of the complex struggles that connected the lives of Europeans and Africans in the earliest days of the colonial encounter in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Elegantly written, this book challenges prevailing thinking about colonization and its effects on Africans and Europeans. * H-Net Reviews H-AfrArts *"A Dance of Assassins" is an engaging, vigorously researched historical ethnography that uses a set of micro-level events and interactions to reveal the complexity and nuances of the early colonial encounter in what would become the Belgian Congo. This book would be of interest to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in African Area Studies, Anthropology, History, Museum Studies, and even Performance Studies. * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The "Emperor" Strikes Back1. Invitation to a Beheading 2. A Conflict of Memories3. Histories Made by Bodies4. Tropical Gothic5. Storms the HeadhunterPart II. Remembering the Dismembered6. The Rise of a Colonial Macabre7. Art Évo on the Chaussée d'Ixelles8. Lusinga's Lasting Laughs9. Composing Decomposition10. Defiances of the DeadAppendix A: Some Background on Our ProtagonistsAppendix B: A Note on IllustrationsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives sets out to describe 'deep mapping,' an enhanced environment of data from widely distributed sources used to create a contextual view of a place, a network of social aspects, and environment, as the next step forward in the use of geo-referenced information. It spells out the state-of-the art in the use of new technology in mapping and geo-registration and its ramifications for history, geography, social sciences, cultural studies, environment research, and the humanities. The articles are filled with suggestions and viewpoints that are stimulating [and] the questions raised numerous and complex." -Lewis Lancaster, University of California BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Between Matter and Meaning: Deep Maps and the Spatial Humanities1. Narrating Space and Place / David J. Bodenhamer2. Deep Geography—Deep Mapping: Spatial Storytelling and a Sense of Place / Trevor M. Harris3. Genealogies of Emplacement / John Corrigan4. Inscribing the Past: Depth as Narrative in Historical Spacetime / Philip Ethington and Nobuko Toyosawa5. Quelling Imperious Urges: Deep Emotional Mappings and the Ethnopoetics of Space / Stuart C. Aitken6. Deep Mapping and Neogeography / Barney Warf7. Spatializing and Analysing Digital Texts: Corpora, GIS and Places / Ian Gregory, David Cooper, Andrew Hardie, and Paul Rayson8. GIS as a Narrative Generation Platform / May Yuan, Grant DeLozier, and John McIntosh9. Warp and Weft on the Loom of Lat/Long / Worthy Martin Conclusion: Engaging Deep MapsNotesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe translation is admirable and the translators should be congratulated for their successes. * The Heythrop Journal *Arel's and Feuerhahn's translation pays careful heed to Heidegger's linguistic peculiarities while making the text accessible to a non-German readership. * Hegel Bulletin *[T]his is an excellent translation of a difficult and sometimes frustrating work by Heidegger. * Phenomenonological Reviews *[T]he English-speaking world should be thankful to Arel and Feuerhahn for their work in making this volume available.3/16/16 * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslators' Introduction NEGATIVITY. A CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL APPROACHED FROM NEGATIVITY (1938/39, 1941)I. Negativity. Nothing – abyss – beyng II. The realm of inquiry of negativity III. The differentiation of being and beings IV. Clearing – Abyss – Nothing V. Hegel Appendix Supplement to the title page Supplement to section 1 ELUCIDATION OF THE "INTRODUCTION" TO HEGEL'S "PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT"(1942)Preliminary consideration. On the various roles and positions of the Phenomenologyof Spirit within Hegel's metaphysics I. The grounding of the enactment of the presentation of appearing knowledge(paragraphs 1-4 of the "Introduction") II. The self-presentation of appearing knowledge as the course into the truth of its own essence (paragraphs 5-8 of the "Introduction") III. The criterion of the examination and the essence of the examination in the courseof appearing knowledge (paragraphs 9-13 of the "Introduction") IV. The essence of the experience of consciousness and its presentation(paragraphs 14-15 of the "Introduction") V. Absolute metaphysics (sketches for paragraph 16 of the "Introduction") Appendix. Supplements to I-IV (paragraph 1-15 of the "Introduction") Editor's Afterword German-English GlossaryEnglish-German Glossary

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIts approach in terms of poverty and unemployment combined with a subtle interest in performance and the creation of an original culture makes this book an eye-opener. Both the dramatic subject and the author's vivid style make it a pleasure to read and also food for thought regarding issues that haunt not only Africa but also the world at large. * American Historical Review *In conclusion, both undergraduate and graduate students of African history, urban history, women's sexuality, gender studies, and even transnational film studies would benefit from this book. . . . Additionally, as the provocative title suggests, American undergraduate students—even those unfamiliar or new to Central African literatures—will find this book both engaging and accessible because of parallels and differences drawn between the American Far West and Kinshasa. * Research in African Literatures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I. Falling Men1. "Big Men"2. A Colonial Cronos3. Missionary InterventionsPart II. Man Up!4. Tropical Cowboys5. Performing Masculinities6. Protectors and PredatorsPart III. Metamorphoses7. Pere Buffalo8. AvatarsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis monograph would be best for people grounded in anthropology, religion, and English history, but offers many insights to nonexperts. It would be a good addition to any university library. * Religion and Gender *Hausner's is an affectionate and sympathetic portrayal of the Crossbones ritualists, and it is excellent to see this tradition receiving scholarly attention * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction Set And Setting1. The Myth of the Winchester Goose2. Medieval Bankside3. Shamanism and the Ritual Oscillation of Time4. The Virgin Queen and the English Nation5. Southwark, Then and NowConclusion Making the PresentEpilogue Crossbones Garden

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It would be difficult to overstate the scope of the impact of the English version of Heidegger's Logic. Heidegger carries out nothing short of a fundamental reinterpretation of the meaning of truth and the foundations of logic. This is a fine translation that contributes much to the overall strength of the work." —Theodore George, Texas A&M University"Thomas Sheenan has produced a clear and comprehensive critical edition of Heidegger's Logic that contains a great deal more material than its German counterpart." —Philosophy in Review"Thomas Sheehan has here set the standard of excellence against which all future translations of Heidegger into English must be measured. At long last, the English-speaking reader is spared the unnecessary mystification of the word Dasein. Only Existenz is left untranslated. In his lectures on Holderlin's poem 'Der Ister,' read in the summer of 1942, Heidegger said to his students: 'Tell me what you think about translating and I will tell you who you are.' Professor Sheehan shows us who he is by making accessible the way of thinking of the Heidegger of Sein und Zeit." —Review of Metaphysics

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Book SynopsisBotanical Wonderland artist Rachel Reinert's debut collection was one of the most distinct and stunning colouring books on the market. With this large-size, extremely high-quality artist's edition, colouring enthusiasts can create a complete portfolio of 20 works from the original book. Each exquisite print in this follow-up features easily removable pages - and they're so beautiful that they could be displayed even without colour. These stunning designs open up dozens of possibilities for artists, whether for colouring and painting or as inspiration for further projects.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume is an important study of orality and narrative in Senegalese cinema, and it has a voice that is certain to emanate beyond its covers. -- Ian Gerg * Notes *[A]s the first monograph to focus on listening to a body of cinematic work from the African continent, Dima's book makes an undeniably welcome contribution, adding useful new critical concepts. African cinema has on the whole received short shrift from screen sound and music studies, a state of affairs the book clearly demonstrates is unjust. By focusing on Mambety's often radical use of sound, Dima argues forcefully that this rich and innovative body of work needs to play a far more central role in our understanding of the ways in which sound and image operate. * Music, Sound, and the Moving Image *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Aural Contexts 1. Aural Space and the Sonic Rack Focus in Touki Bouki2. Flâneur, Geography and caméra-flâneur in Badou-Boy and Contras' City3. Trauma and Zombie Narratives in Hyènes4. Voice(s) in Le Franc and La Petite vendeuse de soleilGallery of film stillsConclusion: Current Contexts and LegaciesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKalman's book represents a valuable contribution to the growing historical scholarship of Jews in the French colonies. By focusing on aspects of pre-colonial contact between French travelers and the Jews they encountered, her research deepens our understanding of the multiple levels on which Orientalism operated. * H-France *Jews of France, nominally full citizens since the French Revolution . . . experienced uncertainty regarding whether their status would be reversed with each change of government. . . . Kalman's work contributes significantly to an understanding of that insecurity, as she fleshes out the stereotypes that others, officials, artists, authors and intellectuals, projected onto the Jews living among them inside France. * French History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Within2. Travel and Intimacy3. The Kings of AlgiersConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword, by Peter J. SchoenbachAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Seven Core EssentialsSection 1: On the Air1. Stand Tall: Posture and Balance 2. The Centered Performance3. Breathing On The Air4. Magnetic Tone Production: Head and Body Resonance Section 2: Spirited Wind Playing5. Embouchure and Powerful Projection6. Get On With It! Warm-Up and Practice Routine 7. Deft Articulation: An Integral Art of Wind Playing 8. Vibrato: The Great Debate 9. Virtuosity: Dancing Fingers Lead the WaySection 3: The Performance Dimension10. Memory Made Simple11. Winning Auditions 12. The Performance Dimension Conclusion: Why is it So Easy to Put All This Together?Key Resources

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Book SynopsisA glorious wedding of science and art that celebrates the remarkable diversity of the life of the not-so-distant past.Trade ReviewThis book provides a unique review of the many unusual and nearly worldwide occurrences of sabertooths and their relatives over more than 50 million years. Though geared to the general public, it is also useful for professional paleontologists. . . . In sum, a useful survey of the literature and introduction to the overall biology of these dynamic animals. * Choice *Mauricio Antón is well known in the paleontological community for his amazing artwork, and his new book Sabertooth certainly doesn't disappoint. . . . This book not only features awe-inspiring paleoart, it is also a scholarly review of the primary literature that can be used as a professional reference. However, this should not dissuade the amateur paleontologist from reading this book, because Antón does a great job of explaining difficult concepts and making this material accessible to a broad audience.Table of ContentsPreface1. What is a Sabertooth?2. The Ecology of Sabertooths3. A "Who's Who" of Sabertooths4. Sabertooths as Living Predators5. ExtinctionsSuggested ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThis reader offers a key selection of Emmanuel Levinas's most important philosophical writings.Trade Review"... an excellent introduction to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas." - The Jerusalem PostTable of ContentsSelections:Is Ontology Fundamental?Transcendence and HeightMeaning and SenseEnigma and PhenomenonSubstitutionTruth of Disclosure and Truth of TestimonyEssence and DisinterestednessGod and PhilosophyTranscendence and IntelligibilityPeace and Proximity

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Book SynopsisA theoretical attempt to grapple with the writings of women of color. It is suitable for those who are struggling to understand voices and experiences of those 'we' label 'other'.Trade Review" ... methodologically innovative ... precise and perceptive and conscious ... " Text and Performance Quarterly "Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color." Chandra Talpade Mohanty "The idea of Trinh T. Minh-ha is as powerful as her films ... formidable ..." Village Voice " ... its very forms invite the reader to participate in the effort to understand how language structures lived possibilities." Artpaper "Highly recommended for anyone struggling to understand voices and experiences of those 'we' label 'other'." Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsThe Story Began Long Ago.....I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing BoxThe triple bindSilence in timeRites of passageThe GuiltFreedom and the massesFor the people, by the people, and from the peopleVertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals languageA sketched window on the worldThe infinite play of empty mirrorsWriting womanII. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with ManThe reign of worn codesThe positivist dream: We, the natives; They, the nativesA Western Science of manA Myth of mythologyWhat "man" and which "man"?Gossip and science: a conversation on what I love according to truthNativist interpretationSee them as they see each otherIII. Difference: "A Special Third World Women Issue"The Policy of "separate development"The Sense of specialnessThe question of roots and authenticityInfinite Layer: I am not i can be you and meThe female identity enclosureThird World?"Woman" and the subtle power of linguistic exclusionSubject-in-the-makingEthnicity or womanhood: whose duality?The Gender controversyIV. Grandma's StoryTruth and fact: story and historyKeepers and transmittersStorytelling in the "civilized" contextA regenerating forceAt once "black" and "white" magicThe woman warrior: she who breaks open the spellA cure and a protection from illness"Tell it the way they tell it""The story must be told. There must not be any lie"NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: TheoryChapter 1. The Religious: Can It Be Defined?Chapter 2. Human Evolution and the Origins and Evolution of Religious BehaviorChapter 3. The Independent Variable: Interaction with the HabitatChapter 4. Dependent VariablesRitual BehaviorThe Religious TranceThe Alternate RealityGood Fortune, Misfortune, and the Rituals of DivinationEthics and Its Relation to Religious BehaviorThe Semantics of "Religion"Part Two: EthnographyChapter 5. The Hunter-GatherersChapter 6. The HorticulturalistsChapter 7. The AgriculturalistsChapter 8. The Nomadic PastoralistsChapter 9. The City DwellersConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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