Diese Studie hat zum Ziel, das vorhandene Bild einer männlich dominierten Schönberg-Schule zu hinterfragen und Leben und Werk der Komponistinnen unter Arnold Schönbergs SchülerInnen zu erforschen.
Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy (7 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions.
Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorization of the Gothic.
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds.
Roger Bresnahan began his major league baseball career in 1897 as an 18-year-old pitcher and ended it in 1915 as a catcher, after famously introducing shin guards for the position.
Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected Nazi agent who died a mysterious death - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy.
In 1937 an ordinary school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of under privileged children, most of Japanese ancestry, and trained them to become Olympic swimmers.
Written by Mats Holm and Ulf Roosvald, Bjrn Borg and the Super-Swedes explains how a small country with 8 million inhabitants like Sweden could become the leading nation in tennis and an example to imitate worldwide.
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThis volume of A Cultural History of Ideas focuses on the culture of the Enlightenment, long believed a time of enormous intellectual innovation and ferment.
Showing that different approaches can be combined in a single disciplinary framework, Scott argues that sociologists can transcend theoretical differences.
A Wall Street Journal BestsellerA compelling look inside the mind and powerful leadership methods of America s coaching legend, John Wooden "e;Team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, determination.
This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness.
Dasheng qixin lun, or Treatise on Awakening Mahyna Faith , has been one of the most important texts of East Asian Buddhism since it first appeared in sixth-century China.
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parrenas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo.
Baseball's premier national television analyst Tim McCarver presents fascinating tales from the game's greatest players and personalitiesTim McCarver s Diamond Gems is a treasure trove of fabulous anecdotes from the many baseball celebrities who have appeared on The Tim McCarver Show.
In this interpretive study, Amos Perlmutter offers a comparative analysis of the twentieth century's three most significant world orders: Wilsonianism, Soviet Communism, and Nazism.
In this long-awaited autobiography, the legendary Bill Elliott details his childhood in rural North Georgia, building cars from scratch, struggling on the anonymous small-time tracks of the South to his against-the-odds rise to the pinnacle of NASCAR stardom: Winston Cup Champion.
A view into the continuing evolution of the niche-yet-global sport through the historical lens of Ohio Roller Derby, one of the founding leagues of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Part sports autobiography, part cultural critique, this book offers the collective experience of a tenacious group of nontraditional athletes who play, officiate, plan, schedule, market, and manage the business of a (mostly) women's amateur sports team.
'An entertaining read, especially for those who like to share their Saturday afternoons with Jeff and the Gang' The SunI've Got Mail is the brand new book from Jeff Stelling, the Sunday Times bestselling author and host of Sky Sports' iconic football show Soccer Saturday.
An entertaining look at one of hockey's most unique traditions: the emergency backup goaltender Tom Fenton was in a barber's chair when he got the call.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR The definitive biography of one of the greatest, most extraordinary runners and Olympic heroes of all time, from the author of running classic Feet in the Clouds.
The basis for the ESPN documentary, New York Times columnist Harvey Araton's When the Garden Was Eden is a fascinating look at the 1970s New York Knicks.
Luther''s On Secular Authority and Calvin''s On Civil Government, translated here, attempt to find a balance between Reformed Christians and the secular authorities.
