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Drawn from the well-known musicologist's celebrated Essays in Musical Analysis, this volume contains nearly all of the concertos in the standard repertoire, from Bach's concerto for two violins to Walton's concerto for viola. More than fifty selections include choral works with in-depth essays on Bach's Mass in B minor, Beethoven's Mass in D, Brahms's and Verdi's Requiems, Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons, and many other landmark works. Donald...
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More than 100 selections from the noted musicologist's Essays in Musical Analysis cover most of the standard works in the symphonic repertory. Subjects include Beethoven's overtures and symphonies, including the author's famous study of the Ninth Symphony; all Brahms's overtures and symphonies; 11 symphonies by Haydn; six by Mozart; three symphonies each by Schubert, Schumann, and Sibelius; four symphonies by Dvoràk; and many other works by composers...
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Wish you had time to re-read and enjoy that daunting stack of Charles Dickens novels?
Take heart: Dickens enthusiast Gina Dalfonzo has done the heavy lifting for you. In short, readable excerpts she presents the essence of the great novelist's prodigious output, teasing out dozens of the most memorable scenes to reveal the Christian vision and values that suffuse all his work. Dickens can certainly entertain, but his legacy endures because of his...
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The Gospel in Dostoyevsky vividly reveals – as none of his novels can on their own – the common thread of the great God-haunted Russian's questioning faith. Drawn from The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Adolescent, the seventeen selections are each prefaced by an explanatory note. Newcomers will find in these pages a rich, accessible sampling. Dostoyevsky devotees will be pleased to find some of the writer's...
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In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format-and an even smaller percentage if you include their archive of Friedman's audio and television recordings, correspondence, and other writings. This book and the larger...
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Gleaned from more than fifty years of Daisaku Ikeda' s works, this revised edition adds new selections that further provide a window into the SGI president' s thought and philosophy. His words are a boundless source of inspiration, hope, and courage for a world increasingly beset with sorrow and suffering.
Chapters in this volume: "What Is Human Revolution?" "Transforming Karma Into Mission" "Faith for a Harmonious Family" "Be Good Citizens!" "Faith...
9) A Practical Guide to Iron and Steel Works Analyses being Selections from "Laboratory Notes on Iro
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This vintage book contains a collection of notes originally written for the guidance of the staff in an iron and steel works laboratory. It is an abbreviated version of "Laboratory Notes on Iron and Steel Analyses" that was condensed to meet the needs of those who did not want to enter for the complete analytical course. Contents include: "Analysis of Steel," "Estimation of Combined Carbon," "Colorimetric Method," "Notes on the Process," "Rapid Estimation,"...
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Gleaned from more than sixty years of Daisaku Ikeda's works, thisrevised edition adds new selections that further provide a windowinto the SGI president's thought and philosophy. His words are aboundless source of inspiration, hope, and courage for a worldincreasingly beset with sorrow and suffering.
Chapters in this volume:"What Is True Happiness? - Developing a Life State of Happiness-The Practice for Transforming Our State of Life,It Is the Heart...
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In the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays-nine never before collected-Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his feeling for wildness. He also tackles such vital issues as the disruption of Earth's climate, the impact of technology, the mystique of money, the ideology...
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This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from 1940 to 1990 in the long and distinguished career of one of Canada's best-known historians. In Careless' own words, History is dated. It's very claim is that the past does not fade into nothing but continues to matter, whether or not the purely...
14) Diapsalmata
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A beloved TV character discovers he is trapped in a perpetual stream of reruns.An angry Hollywood starlet turns the tide of fans of revenge porn.The last four aristocrats in England try to survive the apocalypse.And much more. A collection of speculative short stories and various vignettes, Diapsalmata is full of material from Ixtab Media's writing team. Speculative, darkly comic, cynical, perhaps a little depressing, it is an anthology for the misanthropes,...
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"Métal Hurlant" magazine was created in Paris in 1974 by Moebius, Druillet and Dionnet, the founding fathers of Les Humanoïdes Associés. This movement soon revolutionized the medium and inspired countless writers, artists and filmmakers the world over. Versions in various languages flourished everywhere, including in the States with "Heavy Metal." The French version was eventually shut down in 1987. But in 2002, Humanoids relaunched a limited publication...
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Perhaps the first thing to strike one, in reading Cornelio Fabro's account of the question of God, is his passion for this topic, evident throughout this admirable translation of a work first published over sixty years ago (Dio: Introduzione al problema teologico [1953]). To Fabro, the question of God haunts every human life and "every age of human history." even atheists witness "to the God whose presence they cannot tolerate" by "the obstinacy that...
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Fabro's Introduction to Saint Thomas is much more than simply a life of Aquinas; imbued with the reflections of a lifetime of philosophical and theological research, the Stigmatine presents not only the life and works of Aquinas, but also a detailed study of the Thomistic schools throughout the centuries, and explains how Aquinas can enter into dialogue with the philosophical world of today.
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This book will be dedicated to the examination of all the important manifestations of Plath's poetry: namely political, romantic, modernist, feminist and psychoanalytic, in order to move a step further away from traditional criticism and to prove that the personae Sylvia Plath created were nothing but masks, whose multiplicity are open to interpretation and this interpretation is left to the inclination of individual readers.
This poetry is so well...
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When it comes to a subjective form of art, especially poetry, the answer to the above question is even more difficult. Some critics say that one needs to have had a somewhat similar experience in order to write about something as big as the Holocaust, for example; others say that poetry written by someone who belongs to a different generation than the actual survivor, is a mere recording of the facts and lacks the sparkle that will lift the poem to...
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Euripides' Ion constitutes another demanding work in which H.D. processes and amplifies her task as poet and translator. This play signals a turning point in H.D.'s Euripidean studies since the text embeds a complex pattern of generic and mythic patterns which she infuses into the prose captions, that is, the preludes to the lyric and dramatic parts. In addition, it is her first work that receives critical attention following her first poetic period....