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This 50th anniversary edition of Cornelius L. Reid's The Free Voice approaches the teaching of singing in a functional, as opposed to mechanistic,...

Richard Strauss is an outlier in the context of twentieth century music. Some consider him a composer of the late romantic period, while...

Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated żeby the Nazis between November 1941 and May...

With Point Made, legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce...

Uncertainty surrounds every major decision in international politics. Yet there is almost always room for reasonable people to disagree...

Even though essay films have been a key practice since the 1950s, there is scant analysis about this form in English. Part of this is likely...

"Morphine," writes Richard J. Miller, "is the most significant chemical substance mankind has ever encountered." So ancient that remains...

Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher brings to life Hypatia's intellectual and political triumphs, uncovers the unique...

Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of...

From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from...

Naked Seeing investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bon and Buddhist traditions: practices in which a meditator spends long periods...

An ancient Chinese treatise on war stresses the importance of speed, sound tactics, subterfuge, discipline, appropriate form of attack,...

In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. Żeby cleverly exploiting...

This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five...

Once upon a time in the city of Tunis, a flirtatious young girl was drawn into Lilith's dangerous web żeby glancing repeatedly at herself...

For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone...

One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently...

It its first two editions The Winning Brief explained the art of effective writing in 100 concise, practical, and easy-to-use tips, proving...

In November 1519, Hernando Cort�s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma....

Non-Toxic is an insightful, even-handed, evidence-based discussion about the environment in which we now find ourselves living, the environmental...

This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observation of recent developments in First...

Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly...

This book introduces non-specialists to Egypt, a pivotal country in the Middle East whose future is critical to the region's stability and...

We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder...

A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans...

Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance...

Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes...

A unique military and cultural history that bronicles the reigns of Philip and Alexander the Great in one sweeping narrative.

Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples...

Social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of...

Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry...

Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even...

How do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob...

Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have...

Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works, now...

In the past thirty years epidemiology has matured from a fledgling scientific field into a vibrant discipline that brings together the biological...

This cultural biography of the nineteenth-century ballet master Marius Petipa - creator of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake - tells the...

Affordable, readable, and indispensable, this pocket biography is accessible for anyone interested in a brief yet thorough introduction...

Selected as one of the Best Music Books of 2010 żeby The Independent, here is a wonderful collection of 20 wide-ranging interviews with...

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details...

A provocative argument against the idea that we view the world through the lens of the language we speak.

When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated...

Blending economic analysis with political drama, EuroTragedy -chosen żeby both Foreign Affairs and The Financial Times as one of the best...

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines...

In Elvis Presley, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result...

It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing "ape-men" and talks about what women and children were doing. In a...

"Examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals,...

Down Girl is a broad, original, and far ranging analysis of what misogyny is and how it works. The philosopher Kate Manne argues that modern...

Electronic music instruments werent called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich...

Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that...

Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1977-1984 offers a vivid account of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's first creative period, during which he recorded...

The Silk Road conjures up an image a lone traveler carrying silk as he sits atop a camel and moves along a desert highway. This book offers...

Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War to usher in a new era of global neoliberalism.

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government...

EuroTragedy is an incisive exploration of the tragedy of how the European push for integration was based on illusions and delusions pursued...

Colombia's recent past has been characterized by what its Nobel laureate Gabriel Garc�a Marquez once called "a biblical holocaust" of human...

The Republicans is a revised and updated edition of Lewis L. Gould's 2003 history of the Republican party. The book retains the features...

The Caucasus is a new updated version of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex and fascinating region....

Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After...

Justice brings together in one indispensable volume essential readings on justice and moral reasoning. With readings from major thinkers...

The Philokalia (literally "love of the beautiful") is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox...

For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised chronicles of Narnia have an...

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries,...

Teachers and flutists at all levels have praised Nancy Toff's The Flute Book, a unique one-stop guide to the flute and its music. Organized...

Jane is an attractive woman in her mid-thirties, tall, thin and stately. She believes she is breathtakingly ugly. Tormented żeby what she...

Departing from the style of typical manuals, Hands-On Introduction to LabVIEW for Scientists and Engineers, Fourth Edition, uses a learn-by-doing...

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce...

Listen Up! includes 23 sample listening experiences in which children can foster music skills and reinforce given music concepts (rhythm,...

A vivid, balanced, and complete biography of one of the 20th century's most influential figures, Deng Xiaoping, who presided over China's...

"Translated from the Italian żeby Claude A. Claremont"--T.p. Verso.

Tastes, production, labor markets, financial markets, and competition have become highly globalized; financial and economic crises have...

In The Ring of Truth, Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings and other kinds of circular jewelry...

Written żeby a multi-disciplinary team of experts in neurobehaviour, this concise, well-illustrated book provides long-awaited normative...

A compact, lively biography of Henry Ford, the brilliant businessman and icon of American modernity whose towering ego and anti-Semitism...

Marshall McLuhan's posthumous The Global Village, co-authored aby Bruce Powers, explores the new "laws" of media, "laws" fostering a dramatic...

The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know takes readers on a tour of the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. The volume...

Given the turbulence in the international order in recent years, one of the central concerns among observers of world politics is the question...

A range of puzzles from ancient history to the present day, with helping hints on creating and solving them.

This comprehensive, evidence-informed text provides clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and academicians, with content to inform and...

A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.

Written aby a leading authority on Roman military history, this fascinating volume spans over a thousand years as it offers a memorable...

John Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades....

"Industrial" is a descriptor that fans and critics have applied to a remarkable variety of music: the oildrum pounding of Einsturzende Neubauten,...

*** Music in Korea is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music...