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Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

By: Eric Karpeles

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Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

By: Eric Karpeles

A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin’s sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski’s full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.

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New York Review of Books

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1681372851

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Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

By: Eric Karpeles

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New York Review of Books

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1681372843

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On Reading

By: Marcel Proust,John Ruskin,Eric Karpeles,Damion Searls

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On Reading

By: Marcel Proust,John Ruskin,Eric Karpeles,Damion Searls

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them." Reading was, for Marcel Proust, more than the pursuit of knowledge: a truly spiritual activity, it was a means of transforming and transcending the self. By reading great authors, he contends, we not only learn of great ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world's most inspirational minds.

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Hesperus Press

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1780940270

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9781780940274

Vaughan Williams

By: Eric Saylor

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Vaughan Williams

By: Eric Saylor

This single-volume life-and-works biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams provides a contemporary reassessment of one of the twentieth century's most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians. Throughout his wide-ranging career-as composer, conductor, editor, scholar, folksong collector, teacher, author, administrator, and philanthropist-Vaughan Williams worked tirelessly to improve the standards and quality of British musical life. His compelling and original musical language-inspired in part by elements drawn from English folksong, French impressionism, Wagnerian post-chromaticism, Tudor-era sacred music, and Anglican hymnody-presented a distinctively British response to musical modernism over his sixty-year-long career, and in works ranging from art songs for amateurs to perhaps the finest symphonic cycle of the twentieth century. Alternating between biographical and analytical chapters, it draws upon previously inaccessible primary sources alongside a wealth of secondary material to craft a concise and engaging overview of Vaughan Williams's life and music"--

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Oxford University Press

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019091856X

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9780190918569

The Best American History Book in the World

All The Information You Need To Know Without All The Stuff That Will Put You To Sleep

By: Eric Burnett

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The Best American History Book in the World

All The Information You Need To Know Without All The Stuff That Will Put You To Sleep

By: Eric Burnett

Essays on American history written and edited by high school students.

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386

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iUniverse

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0595284795

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9780595284795

Songbooks

The Literature of American Popular Music

By: Eric Weisbard

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Songbooks

The Literature of American Popular Music

By: Eric Weisbard

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre—cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.

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Duke University Press

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147802139X

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9781478021391

Hackers Beware

By: Eric Cole

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Hackers Beware

By: Eric Cole

Discusses the understanding, fears, courts, custody, communication, and problems that young children must face and deal with when their parents get a divorce.

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Sams Publishing

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0735710090

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9780735710092

Linguistics For Dummies

By: Rose-Marie Dechaine,Strang Burton,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson

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Linguistics For Dummies

By: Rose-Marie Dechaine,Strang Burton,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson

The fascinating, fun, and friendly way to understand the science behind human language Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics students study how languages are constructed, how they function, how they affect society, and how humans learn language. From understanding other languages to teaching computers to communicate, linguistics plays a vital role in society. Linguistics For Dummies tracks to a typical college-level introductory linguistics course and arms you with the confidence, knowledge, and know-how to score your highest. Understand the science behind human language Grasp how language is constructed Score your highest in college-level linguistics If you're enrolled in an introductory linguistics course or simply have a love of human language, Linguistics For Dummies is your one-stop resource for unlocking the science of the spoken word.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118091698

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9781118091692

The Authoritarian State

An Essay on the Problem of the Austrian State

By: Eric Voegelin

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The Authoritarian State

An Essay on the Problem of the Austrian State

By: Eric Voegelin

Published in Vienna in 1936, The Authoritarian State by Eric Voegelin has remained virtually unknown to the public until now. Sales of the German edition were halted following the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, & the entire printing was later destroyed by wartime bombing. In this volume, Voegelin offers a critical examination of the most prominent European theories of state & constitutional law of the period while providing a political & historical analysis of the Austrian situation. He discusses the dismissal of Parliament in 1933, the civil war, the murder of Federal Chancellor Dollfuss, the adoption of the "Authoritarian Constitution" of 1934, & the predicament of being sandwiched between Hitler & Mussolini. A radical critique of Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law lies at the heart of this work, marking Voegelin's definitive departure from Neo-Kantian epistemology. For the first time, Voegelin elaborates on the important distinction between theoretical concepts & political symbols as a basis for explaining the nontheoretical & speculative character of ideologies, both left & right. He shows that total & authoritarian are symbols of ideological self-interpretation that have no theoretical value, a distinction basic to his later work in The New Science of Politics. Available for the first time in English, The Authoritarian State is a valuable addition to the Voegelin canon & to the field of intellectual history in general.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826263992

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9780826263995

On Reading

By: Marcel Proust,John Ruskin,Eric Karpeles,Damion Searls

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On Reading

By: Marcel Proust,John Ruskin,Eric Karpeles,Damion Searls

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Hesperus Press

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Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

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The Best American History Book in the World

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Hackers Beware

Linguistics For Dummies

Linguistics For Dummies

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