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Flavius Claudius Julianus, better known to history by the name imposed by his Christian opponents, Julian "the Apostate, " was a nephew of the First Christian emperor, Constantine I. Julian is one of the most fascinating figures of late antiquity. More information is available about him from both pagan and Christian sources than about any other emperor. His reign inspired both admiration and contempt. Julian's ambitious program was to reinstat...

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Der Tod Bachs im Jahre 1750 wurde allzu lange als Zäsur angesehen, nach der es eigentlich keine erwähnenswerte protestantische Kirchenmusik mehr gegeben habe. Wie falsch diese Einschätzung ist, beweisen die geistlichen Werke von Gottfried August Homilius (1714-1785). Seine Motetten dürfen getrost zu den anspruchsvollsten und interessantesten Werken der Chorliteratur gezählt werden. Homilius gelingt in diesen Stücken eine fesselnde Kombination ...

Die Musik auf dieser CD vermittelt dem Hörer ein musikalisches Bild der Weihnachtsfeiern um 1750 an der Dresdner Hofkirche. Die Werke entstanden in der Blütezeit der katholischen Kirchenmusik an einem der prächtigsten Höfe Europas. In den Beständen sächsicher Bibliotheken haben sich zahlreiche Werke aus dem reichen Fundus der Hofkapelle erhalten und werden hier von Carus nach über zwei Jahrhunderten der Vergessenheit entrissen. Neben einem Te ...

Telemann war wohl der produktivste Komponist der Musikgeschichte und zu seinen Lebzeiten berühmter und erfolgreicher als Bach. Zur Strafe wurde ihm im 19. Jahrhundert das abwertende Etikett "Vielschreiber" angeheftet. Nachdem man sich mittlerweile eines besseren hat belehren lassen und er als Instrumentalkomponist rehabilitiert sein dürfte, ist dies im Falle seiner Vokalmusik gerade im Gange. Das Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble mit Dorothee Mields ...

Das Freiburger Orgelbuch ist eine Fundgrube aus allen Epochen der Orgelkunst, die in besonderer Weise für den Gottesdienst geeignet sind. Bewusst hat man beim Carus-Verlag darauf geachtet, das Repertoire der Organisten durch seltene Stücke und stilistische Vielfalt zu bereichern. Die Einspielung beim Label Carus zeigt eine exemplarische Auswahl von 23 Stücken, die auch dem interessierten Musikfreund eine abwechlungsreiche Zusammenstellung höre...

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This book is a great demonstration of this powerful approach and how it can make a meaningful difference in any type of business. It takes a dedicated engineering approach to implement, but the payback in customer satisfaction and growth is dramatic."Lou Giuliano, chairman, president, and CEO, ITT Industries No other single volume presents the full breadth of founding beliefs behind the successful engineering practices used by today's leading ...

A history of Weymouth and Portland

Clarkl is a planet of cold days and even colder nights. Although Clarkl's star is not visible from Earth, Clarkl's advanced technology allows its natives to visit Earth and take Earthlings back to Clarkl for work.In the early 2070s, the American government entered into a contract with the people of Clarkl to manage and staff farms and kitchens to feed some of the large numbers of Clarkl natives who are faced with the planet's ever-present fami...

Clarkl is a planet of cold days and even colder nights. Although Clarkl's star is not visible from Earth, Clarkl's advanced technology allows its natives to visit Earth and take Earthlings back to Clarkl for work.In the early 2070s, the American government entered into a contract with the people of Clarkl to manage and staff farms and kitchens to feed some of the large numbers of Clarkl natives who are faced with the planet's ever-present fami...

In Race, Resistance, and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa, " Timothy Parsons uses scouting as an analytical tool to explore the tensions in colonial society. Introduced by British officials to strengthen their rule, the movement targeted the students, juvenile delinquents, and urban migrants who threatened the social stability of the regime. Yet Africans themselves used scouting to claim the rights of full imperial citizenship...

Conceived By General. Sir Robert Baden-Powell as a way to reduce class tensions in Edwardian Britain, scouting evolved into an international youth movement. It offered a vision of romantic outdoor life as a cure for disruption caused by industrialization and urbanization. Scouting's global spread was due to its success in attaching itself to institutions of authority. As a result, scouting has become embroiled in controversies in the civil rig...

George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of the Catholic Church's involvement in social issues from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century through the lens of the life, career, writings, and ministry of the legendary Monsignor Higgins. Much more than a limited biography, John O' Brien offers a sweeping history of the "social ques...

Popular Hopi kachina dolls and awesome totem poles are but two of the aspects of the sophisticated, seldom-examined network of mythologies explored in this fascinating volume.

New Hollywood Violenceis a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions, and depictions of violence in New Hollywood filmmaking. "New Hollywood" refers to the return to genre filmmaking following America's flirtation with European art cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and is characterized by vast production budgets and special effects. Focusing on the motivations, the formal and stylist...

Study of the reception of Genesis 19 with Judges 19-21 in both Christian and Jewish traditions from antiquity to the Reformation period.