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Anrührend schöne Streicherklänge, aus denen sich eine Solobratsche klagend heraushebt - so beginnt die Trauermusik, die Hindemith anlässlich des plötzlichen Todes von König Georg V. in London komponierte. Schon einen Tag nach ihrer Vollendung wurde sie in einem Gedenkkonzert der BBC aufgeführt. Die Sätze des kleinen vierteiligen Werks für Solobratsche und Streichorchester lauten "Langsam", "Ruhig bewegt", "Lebhaft" und "Choral , Vor deinen Thr...

From Simon & Schuster, Managing Up, Managing Down is Mary Ann Allison and Eric Allison's guide to being a better manager and getting what you want from your boss and your staff.Managing Up, Managing Down explains how to develop better relations with one's boss as well as one's subordinates, and discusses raises, motivation, firings, authority delegation, and business ethics

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A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com, " a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S" words that reveal a "spectacular story!" With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Fil...

One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With masterly eloquence, Hume denies the immortality of the soul and the reality of space, considers t...

The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same sensitivity to language and knowledge of translation that enabled his versions of Inferno and Purgatory to capture the vibrant power and full dramatic force of Dante's poetry. Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcende...

The bittersweet and very funny story of a young man's journey to adulthood that the Nashville Banner called "Americana at its best." Young for his class and small for his age, Porter Osborne, Jr., leaves his rural Georgia home in 1938 to meet the world at Willingham University, armed with the knowledge that he has been "Raised Right" in the best Baptist tradition. What happens over the next four years will challenge the things he holds infalli...