TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Carol Armstrong
The Matter of Still Life

How does still life "matter"? Through two essays based on Carol Armstrong's 2020 Franklin D. Murphy Lectures at the University of Kansas, this project brings into focus material thought as it re…

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Gabriele Tergit,
Effingers

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip a…

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Verity Harding
AI Needs You

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is rea…

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Scott E. Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Scott E. Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Caroline Moorehead
A Sicilian Man

'Magnificent and deeply affecting' PHILIP HENSHER Corruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of twentieth-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance; this is the story of one ma…

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Jackson Pollock
American Letters, 1927-1947

Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his "dripping" painting technique, grew up between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, the younge…

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Stephen B. Neufeld
Perilous Beasts

A deep dive into the history of bullfighting, hunting, and animal control in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexico.In Perilous Beasts Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepte…

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Tove Ditlevsen,
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English.From one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century w…

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Jamie Bernstein
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television star, humanitarian, friend of the powerful and influential, and the life of every party, Leonard B…

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Hari Ramesh
Harnessing the State

Building on the work of key twentieth-century US and Indian thinkers, a bold argument that oppressed groups can--and should--make use of state power to create truly democratic societies.Group-based social…

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Christopher Clark
Kaiser Wilhelm

Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the key figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe: King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to the collapse of Germany in 1918 and a crucial player in the events t…

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Guru Madhavan
The Blue Box

After the Wright brothers helped America "find her wings," the early days of aviation were fraught with disaster. That is, until 1929, when Ed Link invented the flight simulator, which allowed p…

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André Leroi-Gourhan,
André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, and Social Life: A Selection of Texts and Writings from the 1930s to the 1970s

A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts--many translated into English for the first time.André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century anthropology …

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Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)

Leroy Anderson Orchestral Favourites

Richard Hayman & his Orchestra

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Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Symphonien Nr.1 & 2

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

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Alexandra Churchill, Nicolai Eberholst
Ring of Fire

The dramatic story of 1914---the start of World War I---presenting an expansive, dynamic history of the start of this truly global conflict.Most countries did not know what they were getting into during t…

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William Demby
The Catacombs

A gripping and genre-defying novel by a rediscovered great of twentieth-century Black American writing, about what it means to be a writer at the dawn of a new eraFirst published in 1965, The Catacombs is…

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Hilda Hilst
The Obscene Madame D

Pushkin Press Classics

A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil's most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice LespecterAn electrifying masterpiece by one of modern …

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Brian Jay Jones
Jim Henson

For the first time ever-a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial beard…

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