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John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." --The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's pro...

Drawing on ancient wisdom and traditional techniques, this unique divination system teaches the healing of Mother Earth, which incorporates the use of "Power Animals"...

Since the collapse of the USSR there has been a growing interest in the Stolypin Land Reform as a possible model for post-Communist agrarian development. Using recent theoretical and empirical advances in Anglo-American research, Dr Pallot examines how peasants throughout Russia received, interpreted, and acted upon the government's attempts to persuade them to quit the commune and set up independent farms.

Theories of the Text is the first comprehensive account of the changing practice of bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing in the light of the diverse currents of contemporary critical theory. It offers both a much-needed introduction to the history of textual debate and a timely account of the current hotly contested debates over such issues as authorial intention, textual organicism, the socialization of the text, and interte...

This innovative study of urban liberalism in the most liberal major city in Imperial Germany goes well beyond anything currently available. The author draws on original archival sources to examine the nature of German liberalism from the annexation of Prussia to the outbreak of the First World War.

There are some 6, 500 different languages in the world. This book investigates why diversity arose, how it relates to the origins and evolution of language and culture, and whether the uneven distribution of human languages may be linked with patterns of human geography and history. Daniel Nettle draws on work in anthropology, linguistics, geography, archeology, and evolutionary science to explain linguistic diversity.

This new third edition has been fully revised and updated to include the constitutional changes that are being implemented by the Labour government. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the current British Constitution and evaluates the law and practice of British central government, which includes an overview of the Constitution of the United Kingdom in the light of devolution.

In the forty years after the Revolution of 1789, the peasants and former seigneurs of the isolated region of the Corbieres, Languedoc, fought a protracted battle over the consequences of revolutionary change. This social conflict culminated in the murder of two nobles by a band of villagers in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1830. This book offers important new perspectives on the French Revolution and its consequences.

Bringing together the varied aspects of social health, including education, work, family, medical care, and the true concerns of everyday life, and combining them into an overall view of how we are really doing, this book gives readers a finely focused picture of the national fabric and reveals where that fabric needs mending.

Distinguished physicist examines emotive significance of time, time order of mechanics, time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, time direction of macrostatistics, time of quantum physics, more. 1971 edition.

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Learn essential exercises and tips as they are presented in this compilation of tunes by the legendary Robert Johnson. As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series not only does this book contain valuable lessons, but as an added bonus, the three accompanying CDs contain three full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction to make the style and technique of Robert Johnson something that everyone can...

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this new series of lessons as part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series. This book offers an extensive compilation of finger- picking guitar lessons. Lessons address: finger strengthening exercises, the hammer-on and pull- off, single-string runs, and counterpoint lines, blues vibrato, and syncopated bass and rhythmic licks, plus walking bass lines, chromatic runs, hot licks and end t...

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book. Not only are they presented in book form, but the accompanying CDs contain three full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. Selections include: Sugar Babe, Take a Whiff on Me, It Won...

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A pinball gallery of the op art genre, this is a chronology, from simple early mechanical pinball machines to their modern fully-electronic equivalents. The book provides an overview of the variety, artistry, and manufacturing ingenuity that have made pinball machines such a popular entertainment over the years.

Modern living in the 1950s, including clothing, furniture, lamps, clocks, textiles, jewelry, glassware, etc. is shown in over 770 color photos that display this lively period in all its fantastic glory. Here are Hawaiian shirts, poodle skirts, vinyl handbags, gabardine jackets, rayon dresses and more, nearly every aspect of modern living in the 1950s that is avidly collected today.

The poet gathers ghosts and brings them into earshot. There are elegies in which the daily world of chores and small events offers its consolations. In 'The Apparent Colonnades', connections between artifact and life, and between individual lives, are probed.

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