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The Standard Operas - Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers

By: George P Upton

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The Standard Operas - Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers

By: George P Upton

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Shelley Press

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160303367X

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9781603033671

The Opera Companion

By: George Whitney Martin

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The Opera Companion

By: George Whitney Martin

Provides synopses of forty-seven operas, a history of the opera, and a glossary of operatic terms.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1574671685

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Is the Universe Open Or Closed?

The Density of Matter in the Universe

By: Peter Coles,George Francis Rayner Ellis

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Is the Universe Open Or Closed?

The Density of Matter in the Universe

By: Peter Coles,George Francis Rayner Ellis

This controversial book examines one of the most fundamental questions of modern cosmology: how much matter is there in the Universe? This issue affects theories of the origin and evolution of the Universe as well as its geometrical structure and ultimate fate. The authors discuss all the relevant cosmological and astrophysical evidence and come to the conclusion that the balance of arguments presently lies with a density of around twenty per cent of the critical density required for the Universe to ultimately recollapse. Because the arguments presented constitute a 'state-of-the-art' analysis of the observational and theoretical arguments surrounding the existence of dark matter, primordial nucleosynthesis, large-scale structure formation and the cosmic microwave background radiation, this study provides the reader with an indispensable introduction to the most exciting recent developments in modern cosmology. Written by two eminent cosmologists, this topical and provocative book will be essential reading for all cosmologists and astrophysicists.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521566894

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9780521566896

Revolution in Mind

The Creation of Psychoanalysis

By: George Makari

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Revolution in Mind

The Creation of Psychoanalysis

By: George Makari

George Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind. But REVOLUTION IN MIND is also a tragedy. It is the moving story of what we lost when the old world went up in flames." - Paul Auster. An award-winning scholar and writer delivers a definitive, radically new history of Freud, his disciples, and the tumultuous history of psychoanalysis. In this brilliant, engaging and accessible work, - the first comprehensive history of the subject ever written - renowned psychoanalyst George Makari goes past the heated debates over Freud to tell the fuller story of the origins and development of psychoanalysis in Europe. Beginning with great changes in late 19th century science, medicine and philosophy, Makari traces the field's diverse intellectual influences and the fascinating characters who shaped its formation until 1945. Groundbreaking, insightful and compulsively readable, REVOLUTION IN MIND is a fascinating history of one of the most important movements of modern times.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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052285480X

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9780522854800

History Through the Opera Glass

From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon

By: George Jellinek

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History Through the Opera Glass

From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon

By: George Jellinek

(Limelight). This first-of-its-kind, highly entertaining, and carefully researched account reveals how nearly 200 operas by leading composers and librettists have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of history. In a continuous and absorbing narrative, the book sweeps from Roman times to 1820, with a cast of characters that includes Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Attila, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and hundreds more. All are seen as the figures historians generally perceive them to have been and as their on-stage counterparts, created and re-imagined by some of opera's greatest artists.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879102845

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Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880)

The Foundation of an Academic Discipline

By: George Y. Kohler

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Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880)

The Foundation of an Academic Discipline

By: George Y. Kohler

In recent years more and more scholars have become aware of the fact that the 19th century movement of the Wissenschaft des Judentums engaged in essential research of kabbalistic texts and thinkers. The legend of Wissenschaft’s neglect for the mystic traditions of Judaism is no longer sustainable. However, the true extent of this enterprise of German Jewish scholars is not yet known. This book will give an overview of what the leading figures have actually achieved: Landauer, Jellinek, Jost, Graetz, Steinschneider and others. It is true that their theological evaluation of the "worth" of kabbalah for what they believed was the ‘essence of Judaism’ yielded overall negative results, but this rejection was rationally founded and rather suggests a true concern for Judaism that transcended their own emancipation and assimilation as German Jews.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311062396X

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9783110623963

Theater Design

By: George C. Izenour,Professor George C Izenour,Vern Oliver Knudsen,Robert Bradford Newman

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Theater Design

By: George C. Izenour,Professor George C Izenour,Vern Oliver Knudsen,Robert Bradford Newman

This text is a comprehensive reference to all aspects of theatre planning and construction and a history of theatre design from ancient times to the present. Drawing on examples from Greek and Roman models to Renaissance and baroque theatres to contemporary buildings around the world, it discusses such requirements as structural systems, seating, acoustics and visual volume in detail, considering the optimum conditions for both musical and dramatic performance. This edition includes, as an appendix, a new set of drawings, in addition to the original 900 illustrations.

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Yale University Press

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0300067755

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9780300067750

Phishing for Phools

The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

By: George A. Akerlof,Robert J. Shiller

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Phishing for Phools

The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

By: George A. Akerlof,Robert J. Shiller

Why the free-market system encourages so much trickery even as it creates so much good Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize–winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception. Rather than being essentially benign and always creating the greater good, markets are inherently filled with tricks and traps and will "phish" us as "phools." Phishing for Phools therefore strikes a radically new direction in economics, based on the intuitive idea that markets both give and take away. Akerlof and Shiller bring this idea to life through dozens of stories that show how phishing affects everyone, in almost every walk of life. We spend our money up to the limit, and then worry about how to pay the next month's bills. The financial system soars, then crashes. We are attracted, more than we know, by advertising. Our political system is distorted by money. We pay too much for gym memberships, cars, houses, and credit cards. Drug companies ingeniously market pharmaceuticals that do us little good, and sometimes are downright dangerous. Phishing for Phools explores the central role of manipulation and deception in fascinating detail in each of these areas and many more. It thereby explains a paradox: why, at a time when we are better off than ever before in history, all too many of us are leading lives of quiet desperation. At the same time, the book tells stories of individuals who have stood against economic trickery—and how it can be reduced through greater knowledge, reform, and regulation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691173028

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9780691173023

Evening Performance

By: George Garrett

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Evening Performance

By: George Garrett

There is a special joy in seeing a virtuoso at work, achieving the fulfillment of his art. In a prodigious literary career, demonstrating a virtually limitless range, George Garrett’s dazzling versatility has won high esteem and critical acclaim for his novels, plays, poetry, biography, and short fiction. Now, as testimony to George Garrett’s vivid storytelling powers, An Evening’s Performance: New and Selected Short Stories encompasses some of his best work of the past thirty years. Widely admired for his masterworks of Elizabethan times, Garrett’s stories here are contemporary, colloquial, humorous, bittersweet, deeply felt without sentimentality. Garrett’s gift for language, his forthright and compelling style touch the heart and ignite the senses, as he gives us stories of war and uneasy peace; of soldiers and movie-makers; of families, ghosts, preachers, teachers, and religious conmen. Stories that create a vision quintessentially American, yet universal in spirit.

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Doubleday

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0804151059

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9780804151054

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1998

By: George L. Perry,Brookings

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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1998

By: George L. Perry,Brookings

For almost thirty years, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) has provided academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research of current economic issues. Contents include: Articles " Technical Progress and Co-invention in Computing and in the Uses of Computers" by Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein " Causes and Consequences of Airline Fare Wars" by Steven Morrison and Clifford Winston " Pharmaceutical Innovations and Market Dynamics: Tracking Effects on Price Indexes for Antidepressant Drugs" by Ernst R. Berndt, Iain M. Cockburn, and Zvi Grilches " Power Struggles: Explaining Deregulatory Reforms in Electricity Markets" by Matthew W. White " The Welfare Impacts of Competitive Telecommunications Supply: A Household-Level Analysis" by Frank A. Wolak

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815705867

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9780815705864

Stages of Loss

The English Comedians and their Reception

By: George Oppitz-Trotman

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Stages of Loss

The English Comedians and their Reception

By: George Oppitz-Trotman

Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the emergence and development of professional theatre. It offers a history of English actors travelling and performing abroad in early modern Europe, and Germany in particular, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These players, known as English Comedians, were among the first professional actors to perform in central and northern European courts and cities. The vital contributions made by them to the development of a European theatre institution have long been neglected owing to the pre-eminence of national theatre histories and the difficulty of researching an inherently evanescent phenomenon across large distances. These contributions are here introduced in their proper contexts for the first time. Stages of Loss explores connections real and perceived between diminishments of national value and the material wealth transported by itinerant players; representations of loss, waste, and profligacy within the drama they performed; and the extent to which theatrical practice and the process of canonization have led to archival and interpretive losses in theatre history. Situating the English Comedians in a variety of economic, social, religious, and political contexts, it explores trends and continuities in the reception of their itinerant theatre, showing how their incorporation into modern theatre history has been shaped by derogatory assessments of travelling theatre and itinerant people in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stages of Loss reveals that the Western theatre institution took shape partly as a means of accommodating, controlling, evaluating, and concealing the work of migrant strangers.

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Oxford University Press

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0192602454

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9780192602459

The Serengeti Lion

A Study of Predator-Prey Relations

By: George B. Schaller

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The Serengeti Lion

A Study of Predator-Prey Relations

By: George B. Schaller

Based on three years of study in the Serengeti National Park, George B. Schaller’s The Serengeti Lion describes the vast impact of the lion and other predators on the vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle for which the area is famous. The most comprehensive book available on the lion, this classic work includes the author’s findings on all aspects of lion behavior, including its social system, population dynamics, hunting behavior, and predation patterns. “If you have only enough time to read one book about field biology, this is the one I recommend.”—Edward O. Wilson, Science “This book conveys not only the fascination of its particular study of lion behavior but the drama and wonder and beauty of the intimate interdependence of all living things.”—Saturday Review “This is an important book, not just for its valuable information on lions, but for its broad, open, and intelligent approach to problems that cut across the fields of behavior, populations, ecology, wildlife management, evolution, anthropology, and comparative biology.”—Richard G. Van Gelder, Bioscience

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University of Chicago Press

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0226736601

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9780226736600

Viking Economics

How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too

By: George Lakey

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Viking Economics

How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too

By: George Lakey

Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too individualistic, or too . . . something. In Viking Economics George Lakey dispels these myths. He explores the inner workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world’s happiest, most productive workers, and explains how we can enact some of the changes—including universal healthcare, affordable childcare, and a month of paid vacation for all—that the Scandinavians fought for surprisingly recently. We, too, can refuse to be governed by the elites and embrace equality in our economic policy—here’s how.

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249

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Melville House

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1612195377

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9781612195377

German-American Names

By: George Fenwick Jones

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German-American Names

By: George Fenwick Jones

A dictionary of German names, the derivations, and meanings.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317647

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9780806317649

Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories

Contemporary Africa In Focus

By: George Clement Bond

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Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories

Contemporary Africa In Focus

By: George Clement Bond

Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories brings together intellectuals from a variety of fields, backgrounds, generations, and continents to deepen and reinvigo-rate the theoretical and intellectual integrity of African studies. Building on recent debate within African studies that has revolved around the role of Africanists in the United States as “gatekeepers” of knowledge about Africa and Africans, this volume of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the contested character of the production of knowledge itself. In every chapter, case studies and ethnographic materials, drawn from such regions as South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, the Malagasy Republic, Angola, Ghana, and Senegal, demonstrate the application of theory to concrete situations.

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Routledge

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0429980973

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9780429980978

Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them

By: Kenneth E. Scott,George P. Shultz

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Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them

By: Kenneth E. Scott,George P. Shultz

This book examines the dangers of continuing government bailouts and offers alternative strategies designed to produce growth based on the vigor of the private sector with inflation under control. The expert authors show that it is indeed possible to explain the causes of the crisis in understandable terms and clarify why resolving the bailout problem is essential to preventing future crises.

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Hoover Press

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0817911235

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9780817911232

A Power Stronger Than Itself

The AACM and American Experimental Music

By: George E. Lewis

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A Power Stronger Than Itself

The AACM and American Experimental Music

By: George E. Lewis

Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall’s kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, A Power Stronger Than Itself uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226477037

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9780226477039

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