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American history reimagined by Herman Melville's great grandson, a Black Mountain poet. A stunning achievement!

This resource, originally published in 1988, has become a basic text in the study of church music, as well as serving as a handbook for church music leaders, pastors, music committee members, and others. Westermeyer has updated and expanded the volume to reflect the current challenges of contemporary culture, musical and worship styles, and integrity to the gospel. More than a "how-to" manual for musicians, this book is an interdisciplinary st...

Are you and your partner always quarreling, for no apparent reason? Could it be that one of you is a Dragon and the other a Dog?If you were looking for a creative person to work for you, would it help to know their birth year? Someone born in the Year of the Monkey would be a strong choice.Were you born in the Year of the Rooster? Maybe it's no surprise that your closest friends are a Horse and a Rabbit.The Chinese Horoscopes Guide to Relation...

Hard-edged and iconoclastic, the new wave of Scottish writers and their godfather, Irvine Welsh, write a darkly funny brand of fiction about people on the fringes--junkies, soccer hooligans, ravers, working-class youth. This anthology of six full-length novellas features raw and exciting works by Welsh and such up-and-coming authors as Alan Warner, James Meek, Gordon Legge, and Laura J. Hird.

In 1915 the United Daughters of the Confederacy leased the land and commissioned Gutzon Borglum, later the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, to carve the Lost Cause memorial on the mountain where the second Ku Klux Klan was resurrected by William J. Simmons. Proceeding intermittently over six decades, the project was given added impetus in the wake of the South's massive resistance to racial integration. Capitalizing on this impulse, the state of Ge...

From bestselling author Phillip Margolin, a fast-paced legal thriller packed with page-turning suspense. Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial untilhe's feeling better. Peter decides this ...

Developed from studies of what creates "team spirit" on performing teams, this book offers a 'Team Spirit' program which is useful for inspiring better performance in work groups across a range of organizations. Each activity herein comes with learning goals, necessary preparations, and facilitator guidelines.

Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is ...

Do you really want to learn Portuguese? Do classes terrify you and other coursebooks overwhelm you? Then "Teach Yourself Beginner's Portuguese" is for you!

Big Blondes is a darkly comedic tour de force that probes our universal obsession with fame, taking a satiric yet chilling look at television stardom. Renowned singer Gloire Stella has mysteriously disappeared from the public eye. When a television documentary producer tries to track her down, Gloire goes on the run. From the cliffs of Brittany to the back alleys of Bombay, Big Blondes is a riotous, non-stop adventure for anyone who has ever w...

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At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned against her. Fleeing to London with their young son, she gets a teaching...

This publication borrows critic Harold Rosenberg's memorable phase "apocalyptic wallpaper" to describe the work of contemporary artists who have created wallpaper of their own design or appropriated the patterns of others, finding entirely new possibilities within this medium. Andy Warhol's celebrated Jersey Cow wallpaper, for example, humorously subverts the landscape motifs conventional wallpapers often use to bring nature indoors. Featured ...

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Learn how to construct the beautiful decorated mats called French mats, or 'line and wash' mats, in this detailed step-by-step manual by a French expert. Included are instructions for 37 different mats, including antique, classical, and unusual 'fantasy' designs, for professional-quality picture framing. The unique layout of the book offers a quick and practical way to choose from the different examples. Each mat pattern is reproduced in full ...

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Thomas Krämers "Lehrbuch der harmonischen Analyse" weckt mit durchdachten methodischen Schritten das Verständnis für harmonische Zusammenhänge der Musik vom Generalbaßzeitalter bis zur Spätromantik. Sorgfältig ausgewählte Beispiele aus der Musikliteratur dieser Epochen erläutern anschaulich den Wandel der Tonsprache. In Anlehnung an die 1991 erschienene "Harmonielehre im Selbststudium" stellt der Autor zahlreiche Analyseaufgaben und unterbreit...

Werner Busch verfolgt den theoretischen Reflex auf Landschaftsdarstellung von der Antike bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts: Von Leonardo und Dürer zu Poussin und Caspar David Friedrich, von Monet bis zu Cézanne mißt der bekannte Kunstwissenschaftler die Theorie an der Landschaftspraxis.

Bethlehem, Pennslyvania, has a fascinating history that is steeped in tradition. The city was founded in 1741 by the Moravians, a Protestant group. They envisioned Bethlehem as an industrial center, a support center for missionaries, and as the headquaters for the Moravian Church in North America. Bethlehem became all of this and more. Moravian traditions are still strong in this town, from the preservation of the original stone buildings on C...