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Télécharger le livre :  The Compleat Conductor
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The Compleat Conductor


Gunther Schuller


A world-renowned conductor and composer who has lead most of the major orchestras in North America and Europe, a talented musician who has played under the batons of such luminaries as Toscanini and Walter, and an esteemed arranger, scholar, author, and educator,...

Parution : 1998-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
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The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness


Wole Soyinka


When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka's powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory. Where Open Sore offered a critique of...

Parution : 1998-12-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Visions of Jazz
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Visions of Jazz


Gary Giddins


Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic...

Parution : 1998-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Family Man
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Family Man


Scott Coltrane


The typical American family has changed dramatically since the days of "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Father Knows Best." Double-income families are now the rule, and fathers are much more involved in raising the children and cleaning house. Reactions to these changes have...

Parution : 1997-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Compleat Conductor
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The Compleat Conductor


Gunther Schuller


A world-renowned conductor and composer who has lead most of the major orchestras in North America and Europe, a talented musician who has played under the batons of such luminaries as Toscanini and Walter, and an esteemed arranger, scholar, author, and educator,...

Parution : 1997-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  What Is Mathematics, Really?
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What Is Mathematics, Really?


Reuben Hersh


Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human culture, historically evolved, and intelligible only in a...

Parution : 1997-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Book of the American South
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The Oxford Book of the American South


Edward L. Ayers , Bradley C. Mittendorf


The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful.The collection presents the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the...

Parution : 1997-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Preacher King
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The Preacher King


Richard Lischer


Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable...

Parution : 1997-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Naming the Antichrist
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Naming the Antichrist


Robert C. Fuller


The Antichrist, though mentioned a mere four times in the Bible, and then only obscurely, has exercised a tight hold on popular imagination throughout history. This has been particularly true in the U.S., says author Robert C. Fuller, where Americans have tended to view...

Parution : 1996-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  What Is Mathematics?
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What Is Mathematics?


Richard Courant , Herbert Robbins


For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching...

Parution : 1996-07-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Ion
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Ion


W. S. Di Piero , Euripides


Series Copy Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedies in New Translations series offers new translations that go...

Parution : 1996-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Packaging The Presidency
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Packaging The Presidency


Kathleen Hall Jamieson


Packaging the Presidency, Third Edition, is now completely updated to offer the only comprehensive study of the history and effects of political advertising in the United States. Noted political critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson traces the development of presidential...

Parution : 1996-06-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Packaging The Presidency
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Packaging The Presidency


Kathleen Hall Jamieson


Packaging the Presidency, Third Edition, is now completely updated to offer the only comprehensive study of the history and effects of political advertising in the United States. Noted political critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson traces the development of presidential...

Parution : 1996-06-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Family Man
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Family Man


Scott Coltrane


The typical American family has changed dramatically since the days of "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Father Knows Best." Double-income families are now the rule, and fathers are much more involved in raising the children and cleaning house. Reactions to these changes have...

Parution : 1996-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Why the Civil War Came
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Why the Civil War Came


Gabor S. Boritt


In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil...

Parution : 1996-01-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford History of the Prison
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The Oxford History of the Prison


Norval Morris , David J. Rothman


The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as though prisons...

Parution : 1995-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Contesting Castro
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Contesting Castro


Thomas G. Paterson


Today they stand as enemies, but in the 1950s, few countries were as closely intertwined as Cuba and the United States. Thousands of Americans (including Ernest Hemingway and Errol Flynn) lived on the island, and, in the United States, dancehalls swayed to the mambo...

Parution : 1995-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Orestes
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Orestes


Euripides , Frank Nisetich , John Peck


Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal...

Parution : 1995-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of the Supreme Court
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A History of the Supreme Court


Bernard Schwartz


When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge stepped down as Associate Justice to become a state judge in South Carolina; John Jay resigned as Chief Justice to run...

Parution : 1995-02-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Reckoning with Reagan
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Reckoning with Reagan


Michael Schaller


At the height of Ronald Reagan's popularity in July 1986, Time magazine wrote glowingly of how he had "found America's sweet spot." Reagan seemed a "magician who carries a bright, ideal America like a holograph in his mind and projects its image in the air." Not since...

Parution : 1994-08-04
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