Publication date: 1997-04
Dewey code: 823
Price: $39.95
Review Songs at the River's Edge: Stories from a Bangladeshi Village / Pluto Press (UK):
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2000-07-28
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $270.00
Price: $224.01
Review International Who's Who in Music: Volume Two, Popular Music / Routledge:Comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-04-23
Price: $14.95
Review Christianity's Executioners: A Woman's Story of Survival / Knew Truth Publishers:
Edition: Large Print edition
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $21.99
Review Them Days / ISIS Large Print Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-12-10
Dewey code: 235.2082
List Price: $180.00
Price: $149.76
Review Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography: Speaking the Saint (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies, 1) / Routledge:An interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking study that examines the depiction of female saints in a wide range of medieval texts. The author identifies two distinct but equal voices. The first is the controlling masculine voice that defines the identity of its holy subject as saint and woman. The second is the concealed, subversive feminine voice articulated through cracks in the surface narrative. Ashton deploys the feminist theory of Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray to illuminate the portrayals of these women.
Publication date: 1983
Review Elisabet Ney: Artist, woman, Texan : study guide for use with the audiovisual program / Institute of Texan Cultures:
Publication date: 2002-07-29
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $19.95
Price: $157.66
Review Inside the Medicine Buddha: Life, Tibetans, and My Summer in Nepal / PublishAmerica:A vivid memoir as well as a biography, this book details the adventures and mishaps of two students from the US who travel through a summer of rain in Nepal, interviewing Tibetans about traditional medicine. Through their journey, they learn about life in Nepal and Old Tibet, and of how traditional medicine stems from the Tibetan Buddhist world view. While grappling with problems their environment throws at them, they meet intriguing individuals who speak of their lives—some more fantastic than others—and their experiences healing. The author’s tone is personal and insightful as she records the stories of Tibetan doctors, patients, and shamans, watches and partakes in healings, and reflects on other aspects of living in Nepal.
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 787.4092
Price: $84.95
Review Pierre Fournier: Cellist in a Landscape With Figures / Ashgate Publishing:
Creator: Andrew Nicholson
Publication date: 1999-05-15
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $80.00
Price: $211.03
Review The Mahler Companion / Oxford University Press, USA:The Mahler Companion consists of a collection of original essays on Mahler written especially for the occasion by Mahler specialists from around the world. It addresses all parts of his life and work- symphonies, songs and song-cycles (each of which is discussed individually), his conducting activities, compositional habits, and aesthetic development-and sets these within the cultural and political context of his time. In addition, it responds to the global spread of this remarkable composer's music, and an almost universal fascination with it, by attempting to give an account of the reception of Mahler's music in many of the countries in which it eventually came to flourish, eg. Holland, France, Japan, Russia, England, and the United States. This particular series of chapters reveals that the 'Mahler Phenomenon' earned its description principally in the years after the Second World War, but also that the Mahler revival was already well under way pre-war, perhaps especially in England and the States, and most surprisingly of all, Japan. The selection of contributors, who between them cover all Mahler's musical output, shows that here too this volume significantly crosses national boundaries. The very diverse approaches, analyses and commentaries, amply illustrated with music examples, are evidence of the uniquely rich and complex character of a music that spans more than one culture and more than one century. The volumes includes the most significant and up-to-date Mahler research and debate, and illumines some hitherto unexplored areas of Mahler's life eg. his visit to London in 1892, his sculptor daughter, Anna, and the hall in which the Seventh Symphony was first performed in Prague in 1908. It has often been claimed that Mahler, born in 1860, was in fact a prophet of much that was to come in the 20th century. [+]His later works undeniably anticipate, often with dazzling virtuosity, many of the principal techniques and aesthetics of the new century, only the first decade of which he lived to see. Small wonder that among his earliest admirers was a collective of some of the most important and innovative composers of our time, Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Their successors (Copland, Shostakovich, and Britten, to name a few) were to range across contrasting cultures and national frontiers. Drawing on the best resources and the most up-to-date information about the composer, this volume fulfils the need in Mahler literature for a genuinely comprehensive guide to the composer and will be the authoritative guide for Mahler enthusiasts for years to come.
Creator: Christopher Hailey
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-05-27
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $50.00
Review Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture / University of California Press:Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is more, the sites of his professional activity-fin de siècle Vienna, the Berlin of the Weimar Republic, and his "exile to paradise" in Los Angeles-bring home the representative quality of his life and works, which bear witness to some of the defining experiences of our time. This collection by leading Schoenberg scholars is an interdisciplinary examination of the historical, aesthetic, and intellectual issues that formed Schoenberg's creative persona and continue to influence our response to the modernist legacy of the first half of this century. The book's first section, "Contexts," investigates Schoenberg's sense of ethnic, religious, and cultural identity. The second section, "Creations," focuses on specific works and the interplay between creative impulse and aesthetic articulation. The final section, "Connections," addresses the relationship of Schoenberg's legacy to present-day thought and practice.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989-01-01
Price: $99.00
Review SIMPLIFACATIONS STALINENNES ET COMPL SOV (Histoire des sciences et des techniques) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 978.004973540092
Price: $45.00
Review Tell Me, Grandmother: Traditions, Stories, And Cultures Of Arapaho People (Women's West) / University Press of Colorado:Tell Me, Grandmother is at once the biography of Goes-in-Lodge, a traditional Arapaho woman of the nineteenth century, and the autobiography of her descendant, Virginia Sutter, a modern Arapaho woman with a PhD in public administration. Sutter adeptly weaves her own story with that of Goes-in-Lodge - who, in addition to being Sutter's great-grandmother, was first wife of Sharpnose, the last chief of the Northern Arapaho nation. Writing in a question-and-answer format between twentieth-century granddaughter and matriarchal ancestor, Sutter discusses four generations of home life, including details about child rearing, education, courtship, marriage, birthing, and burial. Sutter's portrait of Goes-in-Lodge is based on tribal history and interviews with tribal members. Goes-in-Lodge speaks of social and ceremonial gatherings, the Sun Dance, the sweat lodges, and the changes that took place on the Great Plains throughout her lifetime. Sutter details her own life as a child born in a teepee to a white mother and Indian father and the discrimination and injustice she faced struggling to make her way in an increasingly Euro-American world.
Publication date: 1980-11
Dewey code: 364.1770924
Price: $20.00
Review Great Heroin Coup / South End Pr:
Publication date: 1922
Review History of Perry County, Pennsylvania: Including Descriptions of Indians and Pioneer Life from the Time of Earliest Settlement, Sketches of Its Noted Men and Women and Many Professional Men / Hain-Moore Co:
Edition: 192
Publication date: 2003-08-15
Dewey code: 791
Price: $29.95
Review Ava Gardner: The Rebel / Gremese:A lavishly illustrated biogrphy of Ava Gardner, the actress who earned herself the epithet of the most beautiful animal in the world.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 362.19680092
List Price: $16.95
Price: $145.55
Review I'll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury / Rising Star Press:In January 1996, a van speeding through a red light ended the life Kara Swanson had known. She suddenly joined the 2 million Americans who suffer brain injury each year. It was like being thrust into a foreign country with no map, no way to speak the language, no directions home. "This is the book I wish I could have read when I was first diagnosed with a brain injury," Kara writes. I tried to take the information that it took me months and years to learn and put it into a short, easy-to-read book that would help survivors and their loved ones better understand the process of recovery. " Written with laugh-out-loud humor, candor, and technical input from medical and legal profesionals, "I'll Carry the Fork!" offers inspiration and practical help to anyone dealing with the aftermath of brain injury. Because as Kara says, "Sometimes when your life ends, you don't actually die. ".
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 823.7
List Price: $157.95
Price: $149.00
Review All Things Austen [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Austen's World / Greenwood Press:Following in the tradition of the critically acclaimed All Things Shakespeare (Greenwood, 2002), this similarly formatted encyclopedia takes readers from the works of Jane Austen into her world. More than 150 alphabetically arranged entries provide rich and fascinating historical details on the form and function of everyday and obscure objects that are mentioned in Austen's novels. Numerous illustrations accompany the lively and often humorous essays that bring these works of fiction to life. Students and devotees of Jane Austen will become familiar with what her characters ate, wore, and did for recreation. Well-researched information is presented about domestic items, the social scene, the workplace, the church, special events and rituals, and everyday customs that constituted life in Jane Austen's England. Included are entries on: Bathing Carriages and Coaches Clergy Food Franking French Revolution Gypsies Navy Pocket Books and Reticules Tea Teeth West Indies And much more. Readers can find citations of specific works by Austen, or they can look up terms or concepts. A bibliography arranged according to broad subjects lists major works for further reading. Teachers and students will find myriad uses for this reference, while the lively writing will appeal to general readers who want to gaze into Austen's world.
Publication date: 1993-11-01
Dewey code: 322.42092
List Price: $26.95
Price: $159.95
Review Grand Dragon: D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan / Purdue University Press:The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the native-born white male population were Klansmen. This book explores the career of D. C. Stephenson, grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, his rise to power, and his eventual conviction for second-degree murder in 1925. Grand Dragon traces Stephenson's background, still shrouded in mystery due to Stephenson's own colorful but imaginary accounts of his early years. A political opportunist, Stephenson's rise to power in the loan was startlingly swift, but so was his fall from grace. Tried in Klan country for the rape and murder of a young government worker, Stephenson was convicted and imprisoned for a crime of which some still consider him innocent.
Publication date: 2005-01-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
Price: $145.52
Review Lilacs in Bloom / PublishAmerica:This is the story of a forty-something woman reflecting on a year, day by day. It is her second year in the country, during which she develops friendships and relationships within the community. She joins organizations and volunteers, and begins to understand the magic and endless work involved in keeping her home afloat. All the while, her dogs create constant chaos, giving her ample opportunity to laugh, and cry, heartily. Her perceptions in the moment make her look backward, and inward, to everything that brought her to her present life. Through examining the choices and incidences that shaped her past and led her home, she gains insight and confidence, and ultimately, great happiness in how it all turned out.
Publication date: 1988-12
Dewey code: 759.952
Price: $150.00
Review Yuki Ogura / Kodansha Amer Inc:
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Songs at the River's Edge: Stories from a Bangladeshi Village, International Who's Who in Music: Volume Two, Popular Music, Christianity's Executioners: A Woman's Story of Survival, Them Days, Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography: Speaking the Saint (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies, 1), Elisabet Ney: Artist, woman, Texan : study guide for use with the audiovisual program, Inside the Medicine Buddha: Life, Tibetans, and My Summer in Nepal, Pierre Fournier: Cellist in a Landscape With Figures, The Mahler Companion, Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture, SIMPLIFACATIONS STALINENNES ET COMPL SOV (Histoire des sciences et des techniques), Tell Me, Grandmother: Traditions, Stories, And Cultures Of Arapaho People (Women's West), Great Heroin Coup, History of Perry County, Pennsylvania: Including Descriptions of Indians and Pioneer Life from the Time of Earliest Settlement, Sketches of Its Noted Men and Women and Many Professional Men, Ava Gardner: The Rebel, I'll Carry the Fork! 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