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The Townshend Moment
The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland Patrick Griffin chronicles the...
The Robert Shaw Reader
Robert Shaw is considered to be the most influential choral conductor in American history. This is the first collection of his letters and notes about music ever published—at another time, it is the book Shaw would have...
Opera in America
A Cultural History
Winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism “I hear the chorus, it is a grand opera, Ah this indeed is music—this suits me."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself” America...
Good Italy, Bad Italy
Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future
Revised Edition
An original analysis of the war between the two opposing sides of Italy's national character Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast...
Notes from the Pianist's Bench
A master class on piano performance and pedagogy from the world-renowned concert pianist In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned...
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 1, English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things
Publication of this volume brings to conclusion the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, a thirty-year publishing project of landmark importance in the study of humanism in Western history. The volume...
Distant Intimacy
A Friendship in the Age of the Internet
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Peiresc's Europe
Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe’s most famous men. A friend of Pope Urban VIII and Galileo, of Peter-Paul Rubens and Hugo Grotius, of Tommaso Campanella and Marin...
Andrew Lloyd Webber
The first comprehensive survey of the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the best-known composer of musical theater of our generation Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most famous—and most controversial—composer of...
The Enchanted World of Sleep
Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we really need? What causes sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and insomnia—and what can be done about these sleep disorders? Why do older people have more trouble sleeping than young people? We have...