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An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, André Gide André Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a profound admirer of Chopin's "promenade of discoveri...

Algebra ist neben Analysis und Geometrie eine der tragenden Säulen der Schulmathe­ matik und der Mathematik überhaupt. Wir haben in diesem Band versucht, eine Aus­ wahl aus der klassischen Algebra und der elementaren Zahlentheorie zu treffen, die als Hintergrundinformation ftir den Mathematiklehrer am Gymnasium sinnvoll erscheint. Bei der ersten Bekanntschaft mit Algebra stehen das Zahlenrechnen und die Suche nach Lösungen ftir einfache Gleich...

?One can speak of this book only in superlatives. In more than twenty years of reviewing, the present writer can recall few books to match this one for its originality of ideas, its provocative challenge, its penetrating wit, and its sheer brilliancy of expression.?-Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

This wild West musical is fun for the whole family. The action takes place on Christmas eve in Diamond Tooth Lil's Saloon where all are busy with preparations for a Christmas party (could be changed easily to any holiday). Word comes that a badman and his gang are headed their way.|4 women, 6 men

After her disappearance several years ago, Emma finds that her memory is damaged, there is much she does not recognize or understand. Why does she appear familiar with certain Russian phrases, why has she such a horror of a harmless silver bell, of a portrait on the wall, of knives? Is she, in fact, Emma Cranwell? Behind these questions looms a menacing mystery which finally erupts into violence and horror.|3 women, 3 men

This musical play bears little resemblance to the traditional tale of Mother Goose. It takes its inspiration from the books of nursery rhymes under the umbrella title "Mother Goose", published over the last two centuries. The play opens with them preparing a surprise Christmas tree for her. It seems they are tired of always being called 'Little' and doing the same things (losing sheep, putting the kettle on etc.), so Mother Goose incorporates ...

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These three volumes deal with the Iron Age grave materials from Magdalenska gora, excavated by the Duchess Paul Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The Duchess of Mecklenburg, a member of an Austrian royal family with estates in Slovenia, conducted her excavations in the early years of the twentieth century. The materials from Magdalenska gora were purchased by the Peabody Museum in the 1930s.

In den letzten Jahren erschienen bereits mehrere Bücher zum Thema Ionenimplanta­ tion, die sich fast ausschließlich an auf dem Gebiet der Ionenimplantation tätige Wissenschaftler wenden und deshalb der Theorie einen sehr breiten Raum einräumen. Im Gegensatz hierzu wendet sich das vorliegende Werk weniger an den Implanta­ tionsfachmann, sondern mehr an Forscher und Entwickler in Industrie, F or­ schungslaboratorien und Hochschulen, die an der I...

This collection of essays and addresses epitomize the thinking of Kohn on how he regards the history profession, how he interprets the events of his time, and how he applies his understanding of liberalism, nationalism, and the supranational order.

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A Picture of a great theatrical family.

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..".his studies are a sine qua non for the exegete.' George W.E. Nickelsburg, "Journal of the American Academy, 1980. '..".eloquent testimony to his erudition and originality.' G.B. Baird, "Journal of Theological Studies, 1979.

What Jesse James was to the United States, Lampião was to Brazil, and then some. With a band that at times numbered a hundred or more, this notorious bandit confronted state armies on more than equal terms and cowed political bosses, virtually dominating large sections of his native northeastern backlands during the 1920s and 1930s. Although Lampião was often brutal and merciless, his occasional acts of compassion, together with his exploits, ...

This is the third new Willis Hall in successive years - a trilogy of Christmas Eve in the Gaolhouse jollies that started with Kidnapped at Christmas, progressed through Christmas Crackers and has now attained immaturity with A Right Caper . . .being concerned with a little Hitler of a detective, and two screws (as in prison) who have lost their thread. Our heroes are two convicts - a short fat one, and an even shorter thin one - escaping to...

Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research worker...

What Was Freedom's Price? Edited by David G. Sansing Essays by Willie Lee Rose, Joel Williamson, Richard Sutch & Roger Ransom, George M. Fredrickson, and C. Vann Woodward The political and economic instability of the post-Civil War South prompted Congress to enact legislation that brought sweeping changes to the region. However, the complexities of the new order in combination with the recalcitrance of the southern character produced a postwar...

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