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"Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the worldÔÇÖs foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate knowledge of ProkofievÔÇÖs work to guide music lovers and pianists through the comp...![]()
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Popularly known during his lifetime as 'The WorldÔÇÖs Greatest Living Composer,' Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth centuryÔÇÖs most influential music, he also assumed the role of cultural icon. This book reveal...![]()
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The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is ...![]()
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The piano turns 300 this year. To celebrate, Parakilas (music, Bates Coll.; Ballads Without Words: Chopin and the Tradition of the Instrumental Ballade) has assembled a group of distinguished contributors and fashioned a lavishly illustrated socia...![]()
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Bruno Walter, one of the greatest conductors in the twentieth century, lived a fascinating life in difficult times. This engrossing book is the first full-length biography of Walter to appear in English. Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky describe ...![]()
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The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book mak...![]()
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Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to ...![]()
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*Starred Review.* In a masterful account, Oxford don Elliott explores the simultaneous development of Spanish and English colonies in the so-called New World. Though colonists tried to recreate traditional instituti...![]()
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This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents - including statements, interviews, and manifest...![]()
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The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vig├®e Le Brun (1755ÔÇö1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made Vig├®e Le Brun a publi...![]()
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This intermediate-level textbook is designed to enable students to read and understand authentic texts in Swahili, the most widely spoken language in East and Central Africa. The book is unique among available Swahili readers in its use of contemp...![]()
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During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing book explores the religious ...![]()
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This exceptional book encompasses the entire range of writing skills that todayÔÇÖs experimental scientist may need to employ. Detailed chapters cover every type of science writing, from routine forms, such as laboratory notes, abstracts, and m...![]()
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How does a person learn a second language? In this provocative book, Marysia Johnson proposes a new model of second language acquisition (SLA)-a model that shifts the focus from language competence (the ability to pass a language exam) to language...![]()
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*Welcome to Subirdia *presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of...![]()
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Professor R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed ...![]()
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As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centered on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation about t...![]()
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In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese womenÔÇöand geishas in particularÔÇöfrom the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have com...![]()
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Human trauma gave birth to the Bible, suggests eminent religious scholar David Carr. The BibleÔÇÖs ability to speak to suffering is a major reason why the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity have retained their relevance for thousands of y...![]()
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Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside┬áRussia know of Leonid Yakobson, BalanchineÔÇÖs contemporary, who remained in LeninÔÇÖs Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suf...![]()
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Termed ÔÇ£the indispensable source on the United NationsÔÇØ by Joseph S. Nye of HarvardÔÇÖs Kennedy School of Government, this book is now fully revised and updated to include new material on fragile states, R2P (responsibility to protect...![]()
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Massimo Cacciari, one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today, is the founder of the trend of criticism known as "negative thought" that focuses on the failure of traditional logic to explicate the problems of modernity. This bo...![]()
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In this pioneering book Madhavi Sunder calls for a richer understanding of the effects of intellectual property law on social and cultural life. Although most scholarship on intellectual property considers this law as it relates to economics, ...![]()
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When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legendÔÇöyet verifiab...![]()
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DIVThis 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched...![]()
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Peter SingerÔÇÖs books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of *Animal Liberation*. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altr...![]()
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