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Biographical dictionary of mathematics
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ISBN: 0684192829 9780684192826 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York Scribner

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Playing with power in movies, television, and video games : from Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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ISBN: 0585315698 0520912438 9780520912434 9780585315690 0520075706 9780520075702 0520077768 9780520077768 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the "new world order"? In assessing these questions, Marsha Kinder provides a brilliant new perspective on modern media.

Handel, Messiah
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ISBN: 0521376203 0521374790 9780521374798 9780521376204 9780511620096 1139085557 0511620098 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This new guide to Handel's most celebrated work traces the course of Messiah from Handel's initial musical response to the libretto, through the oratorio's turbulent first years to its eventual popularity with the Foundling Hospital performances. Different chapters consider the varying reception the work received in Dublin and London, the uneasy relationship between the composer and his librettist Charles Jennens and the many changes Messiah underwent through the varying needs and capacities of Handel's performers. As well as tracing the history of the work's development, the book addresses musical and technical issues such as Messiah's place in the oratorio genre, Handel's treatment of structural design, tonal relationships and English word-setting. An edited libretto elucidates the variants between the text that Handel set and the texts of the early printed word-books. Donald Burrows brings many new insights to this fascinating account of one of the favourite works of the concert hall.

Time, narrative, and history
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ISBN: 0585105812 9780585105819 0253360242 9780253360243 0881642622 9780881642629 0253206030 9780253206039 Year: 1991 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

When prophets die : the postcharismatic fate of new religious movements
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ISBN: 0585067554 9780585067551 9780791407172 0791407179 9780791407189 0791407187 0791407179 0791407187 1438413203 Year: 1991 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

Christianity and the rhetoric of empire : the development of Christian discourse
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ISBN: 052091550X 0585139679 9780520915503 9780585139678 0520071603 0520089235 9780520071605 0520071603 9780520089235 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

Berg, Violin concerto
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ISBN: 0521390664 0521399769 1139085816 0511611676 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Described by Aaron Copland as 'among the finest creations in the modern repertoire', Alban Berg's Violin Concerto has become a twentieth-century classic. In this authoritative and highly readable guide to the work the reader is introduced not only to the concerto itself but to all that surrounded and determined its composition. This is a book about musical culture in the 1930s, about the Second Viennese School, about tonality, atonality and serialism, about Berg's own musical development, compositional method and the private significance the Violin Concerto held for him. The book describes the genesis of the work, its performance history and critical reception and, in two detailed musical chapters, provides a section-by-section account of the book and a closer analysis of the musical language and structure. Anthony Pople's ability to combine musical anecdote with scholarly discussion makes this guide compelling reading for the amateur and the specialist alike.

Beethoven, Missa solemnis
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ISBN: 0521372291 0521378311 1139085794 0511611625 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Missa Solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this compendious and accessible guide, William Drabkin considers the work as a musical expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith and as an example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Austria. The opening chapters present various critical perspectives on the Missa Solemnis and chart the history of its composition, first performances and publication. But, above all, the work itself is considered in detail, including the overall design, connections between the movements, the orchestration, word painting and programmatic elements.


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The women's liberation movement in Russia : feminism, nihilism, and bolshevism, 1860-1930
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ISBN: 1400843278 Year: 1991 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860's and 1870's, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period.


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A Place in History : Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
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ISBN: 1400843316 Year: 1991 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of history: Who defines the past? To whom does the past belong? What is "traditional" and how is this determined? Exploring the meanings of the built environment for Rethemnos's inhabitants, Herzfeld finds that their interest in it has more to do with personal histories and the immediate social context than with the formal history that attracts the conservators. He also investigates the inhabitants' social practices from the standpoints of household and kin group, political association, neighborhood, gender ideology, and the effects of these on attitudes toward home ownership. In the face of modernity, where tradition is an object of both reverence and commercialism, Rethemnos emerges as an important ethnographic window onto the ambiguous cultural fortunes of Greece.

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