Creator: Dreck Spurlock Wilson
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-01-12
Dewey code: 720.92396073
List Price: $170.00
Price: $160.14
Review African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 / Routledge:African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings since 1865. Although many of these structures survive today, the architects themselves are virtually unknown. This unique reference work brings their lives and work to light for the first time. Written by 100 experts ranging from architectural historians to archivists, this book contains 160 biographical, A-Z entries on African-American architects from the era of Emancipation to the end of World War II. Articles provide biographical facts about each architect, and commentary on his or her work. Practical and accessible, this reference is complemented by over 200 photographs and includes an appendix containing a list of buildings by geographic location and by architect.
Creator: George Parker Anderson
Publication date: 2004-11
Dewey code: 813.08720905
List Price: $254.00
Price: $253.98
Review American Mystery And Detective Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1992-10
Dewey code: 759.2
Price: $45.00
Review Michael Lyne: Sporting Artist / Sportsmans Pr:
Creator: Thomas Riggs
Publication date: 2007-08-17
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $243.00
Price: $243.00
Review Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television: A Biographical Guide Featuring Performers, Directors, Writers, Producers, Designers, Managers, Choreographers, ... (Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television) / Gale Cengage:
Creator: Margaret Scott
Publication date: 1996-05-23
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $260.00
Price: $142.93
Review The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume Four: 1920-1921 (Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield) / Oxford University Press, USA:The letters in this volume cover the eighteen months Katherine Mansfield spent in England, France, and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. The qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished-the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness and sheer fun. Above all, these letters attest to her considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as she approached the final years of her life.
Publication date: 1999-07-29
Dewey code: 787.2092
List Price: $239.99
Price: $175.19
Review Arcangelo Corelli: "New Orpheus of Our Times" (Oxford Monographs on Music) / Oxford University Press, USA:The first full-length study for forty years, Arcangelo Corelli offers a much needed reassessment of the seminal composer's life and works. His current historical perspective is still largely conditioned by the opinions of Burney and Hawkins in the late 18th century who saw him as the consolidator of past trends rather than an instigator-a view fully endorsed in the two biographies of the present century. Neither of these writers was truly in a position to make such judgements if only because neither was aware of the contributions of the Roman School to which Corelli emphatically affirmed his allegiance. Extensive archival research over recent years now dispels much of the anecdote and hearsay accumulated over the centuries and makes possible a more balanced evaluation of Corelli's true status in the development of the prime instrumental genres, accounting for his phenomenal success both during his lifetime and in the creation of musical canon in the decades after his death.
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 780
Price: $24.95
Review The Judith Durham Story: Colours of My Life / Virgin Books:As lead singer of Australian pop and folk group The Seekers, Judith Durham was one of the most famous people in the music world in the mid 60’s. Through her solo career and lately the world tour of the reunited group, she maintains a sell out level of success as she enters her sixtieth year. Hey There Georgy Girl’ was a No 1 best seller in both the UK and the USA and The Seekers had four more massive hits in the UK with I’ll Never Find Another You, A World Of Our Own, The Carnival Is Over and Morningtown Ride. They were voted ‘Best New Group Of 1965’ by the readers of the New Musical Express, and Judith made national headlines when she left the group to go solo. More than a straightforward music biography, Judith tells the story of her ultimately tragic marriage to her fellow musician Ron Edgeworth and how amid the euphoria of her public life she lived with the knowledge that he was fatally ill with Motor Neurone Disease. Although Ron lost his battle against the disease in December 1994, he will always be, for Judith, a symbol of immense strength and courage. Since his death Judith has spent hours and days of her life dedicated to raising money to fight this illness and for this as much as her musical success she was rewarded in the Queen’s New Year Honours List of 1995. Meantime her career has gone from strength to strength both in the UK and in Australia.
Publication date: 1943-12-30
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $195.00
Price: $195.00
Review Michel-ange / French & European Pubns:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-11-07
Dewey code: 780.07
List Price: $105.00
Price: $144.20
Review Music and Modern Art (Border Crossings) / Routledge:Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor.
Creator: Gerard J. Burns
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 781
Price: $25.00
Review Jethro Tull: Complete Lyrics / Palmyra Verlag, George Stein:Ian Anderson, founder and singer of the band, not only introduced the flute to rock music, he is also a very versatile songwriter. In his lyrics he uses motifs from Celtic mythology, creates grotesque collages, expresses a simple earthbound view of life and voices criticism on modern-day society. Anderson's rock poetry is a blend of present and past, it is both sensitive and blunt, metaphorical and direct.
Publication date: 1993-10
Dewey code: 782.42164
Price: $59.95
Review It's Not About a Salary... Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles: Rap, Race, and Resistance in Los Angeles (Haymarket Series) / Verso Books:Traces the history of rap music from its origins to today's pugnacious "gansta" sound and examines the Los Angeles rap scene through interviews with a wide variety of black musicians, disc jockeys, dancers, lyricists and vocalists. Simultaneous.
Creator: Patricia Hodge
Edition: Large type edition
Publication date: 2000-01
Price: $31.99
Review The Time of My Life / Charnwood:
Publication date: 1937
Review Up and down the scale;: Reminiscences / Selwyn & Blount:
Publication date: 1993-05
Dewey code: 709
Price: $195.00
Review From Inferno to Zos: The Writings and Images of Austin Osman Spare / First Impressions:
Review Great Composers / Tiger Books:
Publication date: 2001-05-01
Dewey code: 709.2
List Price: $65.00
Price: $160.56
Review The Prime Minister of Taste: A Portrait of Horace Walpole / Yale University Press:In this intriguing book, Morris Brownell offers a fresh account of the career and influence of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), the great English man of letters and art historian. Rejecting both the traditional view of Walpole as a trifling collector of curiosities and the more recent assessment of him as a sober social historian and connoisseur, Brownell argues that Walpole grew to become a serious patron, collector, and historian of the arts - "the Prime Minister of Taste". Drawing on vast Walpole archival materials and on his astonishing forty volumes of letters, Brownell describes the formation of young Walpole's taste and interest in the visual arts. Brownell argues that England's leading portrait engraver, George Vertue, converted Walpole from Grand Tour taste in painting to a life-long study of English portraits. The book discusses the significance of Walpole's collection of English historical portraits and French portraits of the ancien regime, and it analyses Walpole's fascination with portraiture, comparing the painted portraits Walpole collected and wrote about to the literary portraits he penned in his letters. Walpole's passion for the art of portraiture was not the trifling pastime he pretended, Brownell says, in fact it was the source of his greatest literary achievement - a gallery of literary portraits of the English aristocracy as fine as the painted portraits of Reynolds and Gainsborough.
Publication date: 1999-05-13
Dewey code: 016.78092
List Price: $264.00
Price: $192.72
Review A Catalogue of the Works of Sir Arnold Bax / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the most comprehensive catalogue of the music of Arnold Bax yet compiled. The main section is arranged in chronological order of composition with full documentation provided for every known manuscript and published edition. Questions of nomenclature and dating are addressed, and details of first performances, original programme notes, and background information are all included. Research has also been carried out into evidence for "lost" works, unfulfilled projects and commissions, and the sources of the texts which Bax set to music. There is an extensive bibliography, a full discography, and a complete listing of the composer's literary works and occasional writings.
Creator: David Preest
Publication date: 2005-10-27
Dewey code: 942.038
List Price: $145.00
Price: $144.97
Review The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376-1422) / Boydell Press:Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chronicles to survive from medieval England. Walsingham was a monk at St Albans Abbey, a royal monastery and the premier repository of public records, and therefore well placed to observe the political machinations of this period at close hand. Moreover, he knew the monarchs and many of the nobles personally and is able to offer insights into their actions unmatched by any other authority. It is this narrative, transmitted through the popular Tudor histories of Hall, Stow and Holinshed, which provides the principle source for Shakespeare's sequence of history plays. Covering almost fifty years, the narrative provides the most authoritative account of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, from the last years of Edward III (1376-77) to the premature death of Henry V (1422). Walsingham describes the many dramas of this period in vivid detail, including the Peasants' Revolt (1381), the deposition and murder of Richard II (1399-1400), The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr (1403) and Henry V's victory at Agincourt (1415); they are brought to life here in this new translation.
Creator: Eleanor M. Tilton
Publication date: 1990-10-15
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $171.50
Price: $148.42
Review The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol 7 / Columbia University Press:
Publication date: 1999-05
Review Dresser / Alastair Carew-Cox:
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