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Simon Rattle - Musik im 20.Jahrhundert

Felicity Palmer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Amanda Roocroft, Peter Donohoe, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Wayne Marshall, Jeanne Loriod, Rex Lawson, Willard White, Lydia Ariken, Gidon Kremer, London Sinfonietta Voic…

Young Gun Silver Fox

Live From The Troubadour & Paradiso

Das erste Live-Album von Young Gun Silver Fox, »Live From The Troubadour & Paradiso«, wurde bei zwei ausverkauften Konzerten in Los Angeles und Amsterdam aufgenommen und fängt die mühelose Chemie zwischen…

Brian Vandemark

Kent State

On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts an…

Brian Vandemark

Kent State

Kent State re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and heightened popular anxieties around the country. On college campuses, teach-ins, sit-down strikes and demonstrati…

John M Hutchins

Coronado's Well-Equipped Army

The historic 1540-1542 expedition of Captain-General Francisco Vasquez de Coronado is popularly remembered as a luckless party of exploration which wandered the American Southwest and then blundered onto …

Brandon Bloch

Reinventing Protestant Germany

Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and militarists, Protestant leaders had largely backed the Nazi regime. Yet after 1945, they r…

Thant Myint-U

Peacemaker

Born in a remote town in Burma and a practicing Buddhist, U Thant was for a time, one of the most important men in the world. Respected and consulted by both superpowers, U Thant, as the world's preeminen…

John Freeman

California Rewritten

"Over fifty essays about California literature today, written by the host of Alta Journal's California Book Club"-- Provided by publisher.

Richard Garver

New England Metropolis

At the start of the nineteenth century, Boston was at its zenith as a maritime city even as New England was in decline. Many struggling farmers abandoned the area for more promising opportunities to the w…

Peter S Onuf, Francis D Cogliano

Thomas Jefferson Survives

Fifty years after signing the Declaration of Independence, John Adams reassured the nation from his deathbed, "Thomas Jefferson survives". Unaware that Jefferson had died hours earlier, Adams wa…

Modern Rock Music Box

Joshua M Shanley

Cold War Massachusetts

Massachusetts played a pivotal role during the Cold War era.In 1957, the Strategic Air Command established the Notch Bunker, a three-story hardened facility built into the Holyoke Mountain Range near West…

John D Warner

Walter Beinecke and the Reimagining of Nantucket

Following the demise of whaling in the late 1800s, the island of Nantucket fell into economic torpor. Its population declined and many of its homes and local businesses fell into disrepair.In the mid-twen…

Brian Blade (geb. 1970)

Landmarks (SHM-CD)

Brian Blade ist nicht nur der Superdrummer, der seit vielen Jahren den Produktionen von Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea und Herbie Hancock, aber auch Joni Mitchell, Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris und Bob Dylan …

Richard Garver

New England Metropolis

At the start of the nineteenth century, Boston was at its zenith as a maritime city even as New England was in decline. Many struggling farmers abandoned the area for more promising opportunities to the w…

Winston Churchill,

Churchill

Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In speeches, books, and articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches have fascinated generation …

Randolph Lewis

Bummerland

With radical candor and sardonic wit, Randolph Lewis offers an autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of hope and redemption among the detritus strewn about by neo--Gilded Age billionaires, Big …

Bret Baier

To Rescue the American Spirit

New York Times Bestseller "This captivating portrayal of Teddy is Bret Baier's gift to us. From Roosevelt's resilience over tragedy to his heroism in war, from his midnight rambles as police commissi…

Ezra A. Carman

The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

Shepherdstown Ford and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman's magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, superbly edited and annotated by Dr. Tom Clemens. Carman …