Scriabin's Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 20, and Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No.4 in D Minor, by Alexander Scriabin, ISBN 0486424383
This handsome compilation features a pair of great works from two distinguished Russian composers. Alexander Scriabin wrote his Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor during the first significant phase of his artistic career, during which he focused on creating piano works in the modes of Chopin and Liszt. He ventured beyond his Romantic models to fashion pieces with a fresh delicacy, clarity, and richness, as well as a uniquely expressive range that ran from subtlety to vivid "sensations" (the composer's favorite term). Anton Rubinstein spent a lifetime touring, thrilling audiences with a pianistic virtuosity reputed to rival that of Liszt. A prolific composer (his oeuvre includes 17 operas), Rubinstein naturally wrote a vast quantity of piano music, including this magnificent concerto. Pianists as well as any admirer of these composers will delight in this convenient, authoritative edition of two excellent piano concertos. Unabridged republication of Scriabin's Piano Concerto, Op. 20, originally published by M. P. Belaieff, Frankfurt, n.d., and Rubinstein's Piano Concerto, Op. 70, originally published by Bartholf Senff, Leipzig, n.d. Introduction by Joseph Banowetz.
Jesus and His World by P. W. L. Walker, ISBN 0830823557
Peter Walker draws on biblical scholarship and sharp insight to introduce Jesus and his radical mission in the context of 1st-century Palestine. In the IVP Histories Series.
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159 Celtic Designs by Amy L. Lusebrink, ISBN 0486276880
Over 150 motifs reflecting the intricacies of Celtic design, ideal for use in graphics layouts, needlework designs, art projects. Includes animal, floral and abstract motifs clearly drawn for sharp reproduction.
159 Celtic Designs by Amy L. Lusebrink, ISBN 0486276880
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An Empire Wilderness: Travel Into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan, ISBN 0679776877
"Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."--"Chicago Tribune
"[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future." --Thurston Clarke, "The New York Times
With the same prescience and eye for telling detail that distinguished his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now explores his native country, the United States of America. His starting point: the conviction that America is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shedding its identity as a monolithic nation-state and assuming a radically new one.
Everywhere Kaplan travels--from St. Louis, Missouri, to Portland, Oregon, from the forty-ninth parallel to the banks of the Rio Grande--he finds an America ever more fragmented along lines of race, class, education, and geography. An America whose wealthy communities become wealthier and more fortress-like...
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The Sisters Mallone by Louisa Ermelino, ISBN 0758204337
Growing up Italian and female among the Irish of Hell's Kitchen in the 1930s isn't for shrinking violets. Fortunately, the Mallone sisters--that's Mal-Ion-e, pronounced the Italian way--are shrewd, tough, and sharp-tongued, quick with a Lucky Strike and a good time. While their grandmother Anona insists the whole family is cursed with the evil eye. Helen, Mary, and Gracie prefer to make their own luck with everyone from mobsters to the cops on the beat. But while tough-talking Helen and flirtatious Mary have what it takes to keep the creeps away, their sweet baby sister has it bad for the notorious Frankie--a guy who never met a skirt he couldn't chase or a woman he couldn't make miserable. They're not about to let Gracie ruin her life for a wrong number like Frankie. Sisters have to stick together, no matter what. Now, in downtown Manhattan's darkened nightclub booths, where cigarette girls trade looks with small-time hoods, the sisters Mallone are hatching a wickedly devious plan, one...
The Sisters Mallone by Louisa Ermelino, ISBN 0758204337
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Dragon Head: Vol. 5
Injured and barely clinging to hope, Teru and Ako miraculously stumble upon a helicopter manned by two soldiers. Once airborne, Teru wonders about home as the helicopter cuts through the chilling cacophony of the brutal carnage. But their journey to safety takes a sharp downward turn, and forces them to make an emergency landing. Older teens.
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Of Two Minds: An Anthroplogist Looks at American Psychiatry by T. M. Luhrmann, ISBN 0679744932
With sharp and soulful insight, T. R. Luhrmann examines the world of psychiatry, a profession which today is facing some of its greatest challenges from within and without, as it continues to offer hope to many.
At a time when mood-altering drugs have revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and HMO's are forcing caregivers to take the pharmocological route over the talking cure, Luhrmann places us at the heart of the matter and allows us to see exactly what is at stake. Based on extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as investigative fieldwork in residence programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals, Luhrmann's groundbreaking book shows us how psychiatrists develop and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.
Of Two Minds: An Anthroplogist Looks at American Psychiatry by T. M. Luhrmann, ISBN 0679744932
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