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Performing Twentieth-Century Music
A Handbook for Conductors and Instrumentalists
Even the most accomplished musicians are often defeated by the demands of the modern repertory. Yet until now, no practical manual has addressed the performance problems specific to twentieth-century music. This concise,...
The Postmodern Bible
The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating—but often bewildering—new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism...
Oscar Wilde
A Long and Lovely Suicide
"I was a problem for which there was no solution."—Oscar Wilde, 1897 During his lifetime Oscar Wilde was praised as a brilliant playwright, novelist, and conversationalist and stigmatized as a dangerous seducer of...
Thoreau's Morning Work
Memory and Perception in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the "Journal", and Walden
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document...
Love and Language
“It’s crucial to keep in mind that our understanding of love is in constant flux and that history is nothing but a sideboard of possibilities.”—Ilan Stavans Our understanding of love today is not the...
Majesty and Humanity
Kings and Their Doubles in the Political Drama of the Spanish Golden Age
In the Golden Age of Spanish Theater, an age of highly dramatized coronations and regal spectacles, Alban Forcione has discovered a surprising but persistent preoccupation with the disrobing of the king. In both the...
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as “the witchcraft disease” When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York,...
Edward Bancroft
Scientist, Author, Spy
The first complete biography of a little-known but fascinating figure in the history of espionage and the American Revolution A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in...
The Word That Causes Death's Defeat
Poems of Memory
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and...
The Constitutional Parent
Rights, Responsibilities, and the Enfranchisement of the Child
In this bold and timely work, law professor Jeffrey Shulman argues that the United States Constitution does not protect a fundamental right to parent. Based on a rigorous reconsideration of the historical record, Shulman challenges...