Publication date: 1989-06-26
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $72.95
Review Ned Rorem: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:As a composer and as an author, Ned Rorem occupies a position of considerable influence and importance in American music. His numerous musical works are performed frequently, and his critical writings offer unmatched insights into contemporary music. This bibliography will serve as an important resource for those seeking more information about this distinguished American composer and his works. The book is divided into four sections: a brief biography, a complete list of works and performances, a discography of commercially produced sound recordings, and a bibliography of writings by and about Ned Rorem. The list of works and performances includes Rorem's plays and books, works in preparation, and his musical compositions. The latter are classified by genre and arranged alphabetically within each category. Each entry provides as much information as possible about the date of composition and publication, publisher, duration, medium of performance, literary source, commission, dedication, and dates of the premiere and subsequent performances. A directory of publishers and their addresses is also provided. Citations in the discography are arranged by label and number and include contents, performers, date of issue, and album title. The bibliographical section includes annotations or brief quotations from the cited item. [+]Three appendixes complete the work. The first provides an alphabetical listing of Rorem's compositions, including individual songs in cycles, distinctive subtitles, working titles, and titles of unpublished works. Appendix II is a chronological list of compositions and Appendix III provides a list of the literary sources for Rorem's works. This unique reference tool belongs in all music reference collections.
Creator: Laureen Baillie
Publication date: 1992-09
List Price: $1,485.00
Price: $1,485.00
Review American Biographical Index / London: K. G. Saur,:
Creator: R. Tanner
Publication date: 1994
Review Robin Tanner and the Old Stile Press / Old Stile Press:
Authors
- M. Norton Wise
- Crosbie Smith
Dewey code: 530.0924
Price: $260.00
Review Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin / Cambridge University Press:This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.
Publication date: 1989-03-31
Price: $33.95
Review The Organ Music of J. S. Bach: Volume 3 (Cambridge Studies in Music) / Cambridge University Press:In the third of a three-volume reference work the author gives salient background information to the organ pieces - notes on the church services of the area in question (Thuringia-Saxony), the tradition of recitals, the duties of organists, details of instruments, and contemporary styles in music.
Publication date: 1981-10-02
Price: $96.00
Review CHURCHILL COMP VOL 5 PT 2 / Houghton Mifflin:
Publication date: 2004-08-15
Price: $653.63
Review Encyclopaedia of World Great Scientists / Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 780.92
Review Saint-Saens: A Critical Biography / Cygnus Arts:This book provides the fullest account yet to appear in English of the composer's long life and huge musical output. The struggle for recognition, the crucial role played in the formation of a French national school after 1871, his controversial views on such questions as modern music and the influence of Wagner, his character and outlook are extensively discussed, with analysis and comment on the principal compositions.
Creator: J.A. Underwood
Publication date: 1986-11-20
Review Bismarck / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:The name Bismarck sums up the entire political, social, economic, and intellectual development of central Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and the internal and external shape that Germany then assumed. How much of all this was Bismarck's personal achievement? Was he, as many of his contemporaries believed, the key figure who made everything different? Was he the man who put the nation on the disastrously wrong course that reached its fateful culmination in 1933? Or did Bismarck in fact represent the prevailing forces of his time to a far greater degree than has often been thought? Was he successful precisely because he implemented policies for which the time was ripe - and did so in ways that were in harmony with the historical evolution of central Europe? These questions are discussed within this biography, making it suitable reading not only for students of Bismarck's life, but for all those interested in the fundamental problems of German and European history.
Publication date: 1990-09-30
Dewey code: 818.5209
Price: $22.35
Review Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas / Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media:Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Authors
- Michael Roe
- Marcus Clarke
- Elizabeth Webby
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 920
Price: $175.00
Review His Natural Life (The Academy Editions of Australian Literature) / Univ of Queensland Pr:One of the greatest 19th-century Australian novels and the grand epic of the transportation system, this novel charts the misfortune of Richard Divine, falsely accused of murder, through the worst Australian penal settlements, while retaining his humanity and spiritual dignity. So powerful is Clarke's representation of the brutality of transportation that more than a century later historians still struggle to disentangle fact from tragic fiction.
Creator: Deirdre Wright
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: $37.50
Review East Germany: What Happened to the Silesians in 1945? / Book Guild Ltd:The agricultural province of Silesia had been in German hands for over 700 years, but as part of the reparations for Germany's defeat in World War II it was ceded to Poland in 1945. With that began a sequence of events chillingly familiar in the late 20th Century occupation, expulsion and forced repatriation. This is the true story of the people affected by this, an account of their suffering and a warning of the dangers of nationalism.
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 759.2
Price: $53.95
Review William Henry Pyne & His Microcosm / Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.:The Microcosm is invaluable for the light it sheds on late 18th century and early 19th century country life. This biography will appeal to students of art and social history, to costume and art historians, and to anyone interested in how the people of England lived and worked before the age of machines and power.
Creator: Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1999-12-03
Dewey code: 810.9928703
Price: $540.00
Review American Women Writers Edition 2. / St. James Press:Offering up-to-date coverage of 1,300 writers (100 new to this edition) and spanning from colonial days to the present, American Women Writers offers biography, criticism, bibliography and much more. Look for essays from 400 to 5,000 words assessing each writer's works; basic biographies; complete bibliographies; comprehensive data on writers' names, including pseudonyms, aliases, parents' names and husbands' names; and more. This edition includes the best-known names: Rachel Blau DuPlessis; Sue Grafton; Donna Haraway; Lucy Lippard; Jane Smiley; Jacqueline Mitchard; Anne Waldman; etc. as well as updated or rewritten entries on outstanding writers from the fields of anthropology, religion, psychology and history: Ruth Benedict, Karen Horney, Margaret Mead, Barbara Tuchman, to name a few. This resource also includes hundreds of unjustly ignored writers who address themselves in journals, letters, stories, even hymns to their world and time. This edition of American Women Writers is enhanced with indexes and lists that make it possible to access data by author or title. It promises concise, up-to-date critical assessments for students and teachers of American literature; enhances the interests of young or seasoned feminists; and offers good reading for browsers and popular culture fans.
Publication date: 1919
Review Fighting the flying circus / Lippincott ;:
Publication date: 1976-06
Dewey code: 309.1730917
Price: $86.00
Review My America: 1928 1938 (Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Era of the New Deal) / Da Capo Press:
Authors
- Peter Lindbergh
- Bruce Weber
- Michael Roberts
Edition: Slipcase
Publication date: 2002-09-15
Dewey code: 778
List Price: $120.00
Price: $800.00
Review Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue / Edition 7L:Grace Coddington's celebration of fashion has danced along its cutting edge for over 30 years. Abandoning a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the 60s London scene, alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Coddington signed on in 1968 as a junior fashion editor at British Vogue. She quickly established herself on the other side of the camera, coordinating photo shoots with David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and the eccentric Guy Bourdin. A close working relationship with royal photographer Norman Parkinson produced a series of startlingly vibrant location shoots that have come to be considered classics. At British Vogue, Coddington also introduced the sweeping narrative epic, a familiar feature of her work nowadays at American Vogue, where she has been creative director for the past 14 years. GRACE: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue is not only a collection of Coddington's greatest work, it is a visual reminiscence of her life in fashion.
Publication date: 1952
Review GEORGE WASHINGTON; A BIOGRAPHY [5 VOLUME SET] / Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1948-1952:
Publication date: 1981-10-02
Price: $96.00
Review CHURCHILL COMP VOL 5 PT 2 / Houghton Mifflin:
Publication date: 1989-12
Dewey code: 759.9492
Price: $160.00
Review Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age (Aetas Aurea, 9.) / Davaco Publishers:
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Roosevelt and the Era of the New Deal), Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue, GEORGE WASHINGTON; A BIOGRAPHY [5 VOLUME SET], CHURCHILL COMP VOL 5 PT 2, Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age (Aetas Aurea, 9.)Top headlines: The miniature killer returns on CSI: While Grissom was off testifying at Natalie's hearing, Riley and Greg solved a woman's murder that was linked to a 12-year-old case, and Hodges and Nick recalled the joys of mailbox baseball. ›03:41 Opinion: Cancer's not the only smoking risk: Cancer is the disease most often associated with cigarettes. Yet there is something far more common, more lethal , and more avoidable linked to cigarettes the heart attack. ›13:55 20 Nov, Thu Gday! Hugh Jackman is new Sexiest Man Alive: Hugh Jackman, People's 2008 Sexiest Man Alive, is a romantic in a hard body who leaves women saying "Oh ... my ... 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