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Sarah Kirsch was a leading East German poet before leaving in 1977 for West Germany, where her work was already highly regarded. She has been the recipient of many literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for Literature and the Friedrich Holderlin Prize, and is considered one of the most eminent German poets.

Of the few composers who possessed an intrinsic mastery of the string quartet, Haydn was the first and, Hans Keller argues, the greatest. This seminal study of forty-five quartets by one of the leading music critics of his day provides an extraordinarily deep understanding of Haydn's methods and genius.

Early Modernism is a uniquely integrated introduction to the great avant-garde movements in European literature, music, and painting at the beginning of this century, from the advent of Fauvism to the development of Dada. In contrast to the overly literary focus of previous studies of modernism, this book highlights the interaction between the arts in this period. It traces the fundamental and interlinked re-examination of the languages of the...

This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century. In a concise and accessible narrative, Whittall examines the continued but declining commitment to tonality, twelve-note serialism, and the gradual emergence of new aesthetic attitudes and concepts of musical form.

In this pathbreaking volume, Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity, vividly recreating the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women. She offers many fascinating examples, and in every case, reveals the connections between the social constraints under which women lived and their religious beliefs and practices.

Strong, intimate, disturbing and finally poignant, Evelyn Laus poems are about people, trapped and hurting behind their many masks of conformity.

Frontmatter -- INHALT -- EINLEITUNG -- Text -- Erster Teil -- Zweiter Teil -- Erläuterung deß Kupffers / und kurzer Inhalt dieses gantzen Tractätleins -- Privilegia und Freyheiten / so diesem Tractätlein verliehen -- Vorrede an den geneigten Leser -- Register der Capitel -- I. Würckung deß Gelts / beydes wann man dessen viel besitzt und verlustigt wird -- II. Abbildung deß Zauberers -- III. Was vor den verlohrnen Schatz eingetauscht worden -- ...

Das LRL (8 Bände mit Halbbänden, 1988-2005) beschreibt zum ersten Mal in einem einzigen, einheitlich konzipierten Werk ausführlich alle romanischen Sprachen, ihre Dialekte und die von ihnen abgeleiteten Kreolsprachen in der Gesamtheit ihrer Aspekte: Darstellung des Sprachsystems in Gegenwart und Geschichte, Funktionieren des Systems in den Texten und in der Gesellschaft. Hinzu kommen die historisch-vergleichenden, die kontrastiven und die spr...

Diese Arbeit zeigt, wie die Teilung von Unternehmen als Umstrukturierungsmaßnahme zur Erhaltung und Steigerung der strategischen, strukturellen, kosten- und qualitätsmäßigen Flexibilität beitragen kann.

Bietet viele Anstöße für Schulsitutationen." "Bitte noch mehr Ideen, ansonsten super!" "Man bekommt Lust, alle Vorschläge auszuprobieren." (Dozentenurteile)

This book examines the relationships between small businesses, large businesses and their local economies. The wide-ranging examination is based on data collected from over 400 businesses in seven contrasting localities in the United Kingdom. All the owner-managers and large organization representatives were interviewed face-to-face and background data was collected from numerous other individuals and sources. The authors' findings have prof...

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The late May Mayko Ebihara was Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Lehman College Carol A. Mortland teaches anthropolgy at Dowling College, Oakdale, NY. She has directed local refugee programs and served as director of refugee services for a national voluntary agency. Judy Ledgerwood is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University. She is a contributor to Anthropology and Com...

What is there of Jewish interest to see in Bombay? In Casablanca? Where are the kosher restaurants in Seattle? How did the Jewish community in Hong Kong originate? The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities and Sights provides this information and much more.

Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France explores the everyday experiences of women between the liberation, and May 1968. In 1945, French women believed that a new era was beginning for them, in which they had finally won equality (the right to vote in 1944, equal pay and access to education and employment). But the new Republic considered that women's main role was that of motherhood. Competing visions of women's place had concrete implicat...

The great Norse sagasNOdin's wanderings, Thor's hammer, the death of BaldurNare full of adventures, magic, and heroic deeds. Peopled with Frost Giants and Valkyries, Norns, and all the gods of Asgard, this collection brings to life the harsh but exciting world of the old Norsemen. Includes an Introduction from the award-winning author of "Dark Matter.

Das Buch befaßt sich mit theoretischen Untersuchungen zur deutschen Vereinigung. Zwei Fragen stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt: Welcher makroökonomische Anpassungsprozeß wird durch die deutsche Vereinigung ausgelöst? Und wie kann die Wirtschaftspolitik diesen Prozeß unterstützen? Neben der kurzen Frist geht es vor allem um die mittelfristigen und langfristigen Perspektiven. Was bedeutet das für Ostdeutschland beziehungsweise Westdeutschland? Was hei...

Six tales present further the adventures of Dorothy and Toto, Ozma, Tiktok, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Tin Woodman, and other characters from the land of Oz.

Trollope did not write for posterity, " observed Henry James. "He wrote for the day, the moment, but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket." Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. "I was instigated by what I conceived to be the ...

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