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Leo Weiner (1885-1960) was recognized both as a composer and a teacher of chamber music. World-famous Hungarian musicians and string quartets pointed to him as their legendary maestro. His transcriptions for string orchestra of ten pieces from Bartok's cycle For Children are a masterpiece from a genuine musician: in it, besides simply providing study pieces for young orchestras, he also, and far more importantly, introduces learners of string ...

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Cape Coast: The Town of Romanticised Finesse is a delightful book from Ghana, West Africa containing the reminiscences, scenarios, culture and nature of the Fantse people of Cape Coast. It also contains basic Ghanaian traditions and customs in relation to celebrating births, outdoorings, traditional engagements as well as customs performed surrounding a demise. The book has merged the immortal cultural aspects of the past with today's values w...

Are you considering surgery for weight loss? Have you tried diets without success? Have you heard of weight-loss surgery but don't understand how or why it works? A new source of information by an expert in the field is now available. Considering Weight-Loss Surgery, written by Glenn M. Ihde, MD, is a necessary handbook for those who need information about surgery for weight loss. So much information is available from the internet, but it may ...

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The author examines the paths South Asian immigrants in Chicago take toward assimilation in the late 20th-century United States. She examines two ethnic institutions to show how immigrant activism ironically abets these immigrants' assimilation.

In this gripping and controversial book, John Harris presents a deft and informed defence of human cloning. Offering a brave and lucid insight into this ethical minefield, John Harris at last shows that far from spelling the end of human life,

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Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy. Scan any personal ads page and it's clear that to get a life you need a personality first. It is also a notion with a long and often bizarre history: in early Greece and medieval Europe, it was thought to depend on the balance of bile in the body. "On Personality" is a thoughtful and stimulating look under the skin of this widely-used but little understood phenomenon. Peter Goldie points out...

Evil has long fascinated psychologists, philosophers, novelists and playwrights but remains an incredibly difficult concept to talk about. "On Evil" is a compelling and at times disturbing tour of the many faces of evil. What is evil, and what makes people do awful things? If we can explain evil, do we explain it away? Can we imagine the mind of a serial killer, or does such evil defy description? Does evil depend on a contrast with good, as r...

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Over the course of fifteen years, Nicholas Zurbrugg interviewed the avant-garde poets, filmmakers, dancers, writers, composers, and performance artists who were defying tradition, crossing genres, and forever changing how art would be created, performed, and interpreted. These conversations with thirty-one of the leading multimedia artists in the United States now form a comprehensive record, from the insiders' perspectives, of the most vital ...

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