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One of the great figures in the evolution of European music and the greatest German violinist of his time, Louis Spohr has been largely forgotten by the music world. This volume concentrates upon the journeys Spohr took as a young virtuoso, composer, and...

This study draws on critical historical analysis and contemporary language theory to illuminate John Marshall's jurisprudence and political philosophy in new ways. It challenges both liberal and conservative views and it defines Marshall's constitutional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313251146Author Eduard BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 287Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Bentley presents the life and working methods of William Shakespeare with the strictest fidelity to the surviving documentation. By presenting the hundred or more surviving Shakespearean documents in the context of similar records, against the background...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313244322Author Jacob StreiderFormat HardbackPage Count 227Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313237652Author Robert G. LoweryFormat HardbackPage Count 487Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313236440Author Claudia Durst JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 269Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Published in 1845 as the first adequate account of Mozart to appear in English, Holmes' biography also was the first to be based upon Mozart's letters and the memoirs written following the composer's death in 1791. Writing just before vast changes would...

The author shows why the border states, and especially Kentucky, were so important in Lincoln's strategy for fighting the war, and why he was always ready to ignore the abolitionists, his cabinet, his party majority in Congress or any other group in the...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313226335Author Peter RollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

A brief, detailed biography of the composer/architect, student and protege of Honegger, Milhaud, Messiaen, Le Corbusier. Xenakis himself is a major proponent of advancing the boundaries of musical possibilities.Book InformationISBN 9780313224157Author...

This is a biography of a great American statesman and U.S. Senator of the nineteenth century.Book InformationISBN 9780313207174Author Glyndon van DeusenFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313206368Author T. M. PearceFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313214103Author Carol Neuls-BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313220951Author James A. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 265Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A biographical study of Coleridge's character and personality.Book InformationISBN 9780313205392Author E. K. ChambersFormat HardbackPage Count 373Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Eubank offers a look at a diplomatic servant of France's Third Republic, Paul Cambon, whose insight into international affairs was penetrating. Cambon tells his story, and reflects on the world as he saw it.Book InformationISBN 9780313205026Author Keith...

I was never a child. I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family. I never felt I belonged. Thus begins this autobiography.Book InformationISBN 9780313202018Author Ethel WatersFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Praeger Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313201257Author Hajo HolbornFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Johnny Cash is bigger than life, surrounded by myths and legends, a notoriously hard-drinking, hard-drugging man who sings searing songs of death, loss, God, and work. Since his debut in 1955, he has come to embody country music as well as the spirit of...

During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751-1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander...

Richard Owen (1804-92) was, after Darwin, the leading naturalist of nineteenth-century Britain. A distinguished anatomist and paleontologist, he was influential in Victorian scientific reform and in the debate over natural selection. Leader of the...

In this book, the renowned author Ved Mehta brings Gandhi to life in all his holiness and humanness, shedding light on his principles and his purposes, his ideas and his actions. Through interviewing disciples of Gandhi in five countries, Mehta...

"As every biographer of Freud must ruefully acknowledge, Freud, that great unriddler of mysteries, left behind some intriguing private mysteries of his own. It was because I hoped to solve some of these mysteries that the stratagem of finding my way...

A fascinating exploration of the private and public worlds of Molly Dewson, America's original female political boss. In the first biography ever written of Dewson, Susan Ware not only examines her political career as a trusted member of the Roosevelt...

In this prizewinning book, leading musical, theatrical, and literary scholars examine different aspects of the life and work of Kurt Weill, one of the most controversial composers of the twentieth century. Making use of documentary material now available...

What were the contributions to American scholarship and culture made by European refugees from Nazi persecution? How did these emigres react to the experience of being strangers in the land of their refuge? In this engrossing book, Lewis Coser examines...

Laud Humphreys (1930-1988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a civil rights, gay, and antiwar activist. In graduate school during the late 1960s, he conducted extensive fieldwork in public restrooms in a St. Louis city...

Paradise Regained records what Djilas himself has called the rambling conversations shared by intellectuals who have grown old, each with a distinctly different experience. Their mutual respect is reflected in Sulzberger's recollections of their often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268009441Author Elie WieselFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528009Author Robert R ShrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT PressWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244949334Author Martin K ThompsonFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 64g

How do you cheer on your national football team when you?re terrified to step outside your front door? What's it like to go to the shops when your biggest fear is being blown up by a suicide bomber? Or to risk being shot at a roadblock when you?re...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244981013Author Arinola ArabaFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 191g

An autobiographical account of an under-age lad who managed to enlist in the British Army and fought in the First World War. The book was developed later from the author's own contemporary field diaries, and is ably illustrated with his own paintings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244921439Author Alexander P M Van Den BoschFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244946883Author Jane M E FomesFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244939007Author Rose Writes for ReviveFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244872458Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244868482Author Susan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com