Creator: Liana De Girolami Cheney
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 704.042
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Review Essays on Women Artists: The Most Excellent / Edwin Mellen Press:The second of two volumes of essays celebrating the diversity of artistic style and the contributions of female artists from the Renaissance to the 21st century. It offers: descriptions of their careers; iconographical analysis of subject matter; and theoretical considerations of the visual arts.
Publication date: 2005-09-16
Dewey code: 792.2092
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Review Bessie Schonberg: Pioneer Dance Educator And Choreographic Mentor (Studies in Dance) / Edwin Mellen Press:Bessie Schonberg was one of the foremost dance educators of the 20th century and was highly influential in contemporary dance. Schonberg taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1936 to 1975, where she created and directed one of the first autonomous dance departments in American higher education. Founded on the philosophy of progressive arts education, the Sarah Lawrence program served as an important example for other emerging dance programs in the decades between the 1940s and 1970s, a time of significant growth in college dance programs in the United States. Some of her former students became well-known professional choreographers and dance educators, including Carolyn Adams, Elizabeth Keen, Meredith Monk, Lucinda Childs and Victoria Marks, and several contributed information to this study. Schonberg's life and career were deeply intertwined with many of the most important figures in American modern dance, including Martha Graham and Martha Hill; with historically significant events such as the emergence of the Bennington Summer School of Dance; and with premiere dance institutions such as Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The Julliard School and Dance Theatre of Harlem. The book examines her early life in Germany and family background, her years of professional preparation in America as a dancer and educator, and her educational experiences at Bennington College Summer School of the Dance. It also describes curricular innovations that chairperson Schonberg instituted at Sarah Lawrence, and her original methodology for teaching choreography, as observed at Jacob's Pillow and Dance Theater Workshop. This book is "[a] thorough and exhaustively researched volume to help tell the story of a unique twentieth-century American art form and how it came to be. ".
Creator: Mary Ann Romano
Publication date: 2002-12
Dewey code: 301.0922
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Review Lost Sociologists Rediscovered: Jane Addams, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Harriet Martineau, Pitirim A. Sorokin, Flora Tristan, George E. Vincent ... Webb (Mellen Studies in Sociology, V. 36) / Edwin Mellen Pr:Over the years a number of sociologists have been constantly overshadowed, going almost virtually unnoticed by the discipline. The purpose of this work is to resurrect those sociologists by attempting to bring them into the mainstream. Dr. Romano will enlarge upon the contributions of Jane Addams, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Harriet Martineau, Pitirim A. Sorokin, Flora Tristan, George E. Vincent, and Beatrice Webb.
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 070.40820973
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Review Women Journalists and the Municipal Housekeeping Movement, 1868-1914 (Women's Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 31.) / Edwin Mellen Press:This study is the first to concentrate on the work of women journalists during the municipal housekeeping movement, explores the different ways women promoted reform activities in newspapers and magazines. It links the work of the earlier women journalists of the 19th century to the themes of domesticity and municipal housekeeping and then explores the work of representative women writers around the United States in specialized club magazines, women's magazines and general interest magazines, and newspapers.
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 782.1092
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Review The Influence of Shakespeare on Richard Wagner (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:This text presents the historical evidence of Wagner's own writings, reported conversations about Shakespeare, and the circumstancial evidence of the Shakespearean traits to be found in some of his works, including "Das Liebesverbot", "Parsifal", and the "Ring" cycle.
Creator: Brian Keith-Smith
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 830.80928709041
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.94
Review An Enclopedia of German Women Writers 1900-1933: Biographies and Bibliographies With Exemplary Readings (German Women Writers) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Authors
- Peter Freestone
- David Evans
Price: $19.95
Review Freddie Mercury : An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Knew Him Best / Omnibus Press:The paperback edition of the biography of the flamboyant frontman of the group Queen. An intimate account of Freddie Mercury’s life by the man who was his personal assistant for the last 12 years of his life. A widely-acclaimed, celebrity -studded account of the tragicomedy that was Freddie Mercury’s outrageous life. Contains intimate photographs taken from the author’s personal collection.
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 809.251209353
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Review Reexamination of Tragedy and Madness in Eight Selected Plays from the Greeks to the 20th Century (Studies in Comparative Literature, 44) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1996-04
Dewey code: 823.912
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Review Virginia Woolf's Subject and the Subject of Ethics: Notes Toward a Poetics of Persons / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 781.63092
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Review Study of the Music and Social Criticism of African Musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:This work is an analysis of the music and politics of Fela Anikulapo-kuti. It traces Fela's development through several stages of political consciousness, awareness and artistic maturity, his evolution from Fela Ransome-Kuti to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and from Koola Lobito's to Nigeria 70 to Africa 70 and ultimately Egypt 80. He had spent a lifetime producing music that spoke to the existence of the masses in Africa. He had also spent a tremendous amount of time in court, in prison, in jail and receiving beatings from the army and police. Through it all, he remained true to his vision and his music.
Publication date: 2005-12-15
Dewey code: 759.7
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Review Marie Bashkirtseff's Life in Self-portraits 1858-1884: Woman As Artist in 19th Century France (Studies in Art History) / Edwin Mellen Press:This scholarly monograph on the Ukranian-born Russian diarist, artist, and sculptor Marie Bashkirtseff (1858-1884) makes an important contribution to a better understanding of the life and art of this important figure as well as to the general fields of art history, social history, and also women's studies through its depiction of how a woman attempted to chart her own course as an artist in the male-dominated world of French society. Bashkirtseff's whole approach to life was that of an artist, with her very person itself being a work of art that was on exhibit for the world to see. The author's fascinating work examines the many ways that Bashkirtseff used the techniques of what she terms "disguise and disclosure" as she experimented with a variety of constructions of herself as a number of different characters over her short life. The twenty-six illustrations that have been included in this book will add greatly to its value.
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 355.0019
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Review The Valor of Male And Female Warriors Around the World: Case Studies from History / Edwin Mellen Press:Examines human courage and cowardice in combat in many parts of the world. This book provides an introduction to an essential attribute of humanity - the quest for self-respect and the respect of others.
Publication date: 2007-05
Review The Woman I Am / Jeremy P. Tarcher:
Creator: Mark A. Radice
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 780.92
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Review Karel Husa - A Composer's Life in Essays and Documents: A Composer's Life in Essays and Documents (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:For this vast array of information in these studies, Dr. Radice, Curator of the Karel Husa Archive and Gallery at Ithaca College School of Music, P. rofessor of Music History at Ithaca, has provided cohesion in his opening essay, in which he offers full biographical dat in addition to discussions of everything that Karel has written to date; he has also included selected, edited, and translated correspondence dating back into the 1940s with extensive annotations about personalities and compositions.
Creator: Brian Keith-Smith
Publication date: 1998-05
Dewey code: 830.80928709041
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Price: $109.95
Review An Encyclopedia of German Women Writers 1900-1933: Biographies and Bibliographies With Exemplary Readings (German Women Writers) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 305.42092
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Review The Life and Work of Germany's Founding Feminist: Louise Otto-Peters, 1819-1895 (Women's Studies, 36) / Edwin Mellen Press:The book places Otto-Peter's literary work in a historical and biographical framework. In the 1840s she investigated the condition of the German working class in a way that invites comparison with Engels, and used the material for early novels. Later in life she was involved with a number of women's organizations and edited a journal of women's emancipations; all these developments are recounted in detail, with helpful references to parallel movements in Britain and America.
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 840.9928709031
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Review Sixteenth Century French Women Writers: Marguerite D'Angouleme, Anne De Graville, the Lyonnese School, Jeanne De Jussie, Marie Dentiere, Camille De Morel (Studies in French Literature, 67) / Edwin Mellen Press:This study describes the ideas and works of women, mostly poets, who all had links to Marguerite d'Angouleme. Anne Malet de Graville was lady in waiting at the court of Claude de France, and made adaptations of two old texts. The Lyonnese School produced poets. Jeanne de Jussie, a Catholic nun, was driven out of Switzerland to a convent in Annecy, France, where she became abbess. She wrote a book where in she described the horror of the persecution. Marie Dentiere was a former abbess who abandoned her Catholic faith and wrote two books showing her as a strong defender of women. Camille de Morel belonged to an illustrious French family, and wrote poetry in Latin. This study provides biographies and studies of the surviving works of these women writers.
Creator: Stewart R. Craggs
Publication date: 1996-04
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $144.95
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Review Arthur Bliss: A Source Book / Scolar Press:A detailed chronology of Arthur Bliss's life and music. This text contains bibliographical descriptions of original manuscripts and printed first editions. It also includes a discography of first recordings, a section on the composer's letters and a bibliography of writings about and by Bliss.
Creator: Albert Rolls
Publication date: 2007-06
Dewey code: 809.05
List Price: $170.00
Price: $127.45
Review World Authors 2000-2005 (World Authors) / H. W. Wilson:
Publication date: 1995-05
Dewey code: 823.914
Review The Birthday Boys / Chivers:An imaginative, brilliantly realized evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.
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Webb (Mellen Studies in Sociology, V. 36), Women Journalists and the Municipal Housekeeping Movement, 1868-1914 (Women's Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 31.), The Influence of Shakespeare on Richard Wagner (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music), An Enclopedia of German Women Writers 1900-1933: Biographies and Bibliographies With Exemplary Readings (German Women Writers), Freddie Mercury : An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Knew Him Best, Reexamination of Tragedy and Madness in Eight Selected Plays from the Greeks to the 20th Century (Studies in Comparative Literature, 44), Virginia Woolf's Subject and the Subject of Ethics: Notes Toward a Poetics of Persons, Study of the Music and Social Criticism of African Musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music), Marie Bashkirtseff's Life in Self-portraits 1858-1884: Woman As Artist in 19th Century France (Studies in Art History), The Valor of Male And Female Warriors Around the World: Case Studies from History, The Woman I Am, Karel Husa - A Composer's Life in Essays and Documents: A Composer's Life in Essays and Documents (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music), An Encyclopedia of German Women Writers 1900-1933: Biographies and Bibliographies With Exemplary Readings (German Women Writers), The Life and Work of Germany's Founding Feminist: Louise Otto-Peters, 1819-1895 (Women's Studies, 36), Sixteenth Century French Women Writers: Marguerite D'Angouleme, Anne De Graville, the Lyonnese School, Jeanne De Jussie, Marie Dentiere, Camille De Morel (Studies in French Literature, 67), Arthur Bliss: A Source Book, World Authors 2000-2005 (World Authors), The Birthday BoysTop headlines: Dow closes down about 680 points: The stock market plunged again, diving along with investors confidence in the economy. 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