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Cristina Martino is 28 and adrift. Underemployed at a university library, she still lives at home with her parents in Turin, in the shadow of her married, affable older sister Elena. One night, as...

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Product DescriptionLe cas Schönberg. Naissance de l'avant-garde musicale368 pages + 16 p. hors texte, 28 ill., 140 x 225 mmLe «cas Schönberg» : avec cette expression, la critique musicale viennoise...

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This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, three have never...

What is daily life like for an elderly person whose income barely covers basic needs? How is life constrained if that person is living within the same marginal enclave to which she first migrated...

A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues The PRH Audio book of...

This book traces the lives of Expressionist artists Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin and how their relationship influenced and inspired each other's career.Alexej von Jawlensky and...

Michael Toch. Originally Presented As The Author's Thesis, Erlangen. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. Ix-xxxxiii.

Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the major powers and a high level of casualties. Another major...

In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading...

"A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico easily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials."—New York NewsdayThe Nuremberg...

Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a Polish composer and Yorkshire woman of Irish descent, his revelatory ideas of life as ceaseless transformation and the...

As disaster looms on the horizon, a young stowaway onboard the Titanic will need all her courage and wits to stay alive. A thrilling tale from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A...

What is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of themost brilliant contemporary philosophers, this question of "novelty" is the major problem posed byBergson's work. In...

From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.More than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to the...

The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling explorationIn twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of...