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Who's Who in Africa: Leaders for the 1990s - Alan Rake - Google Books
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This book puts a spotlight on the political leaders of the ever-changing African continent. Concentrating on those in power, those recently in office who are likely to make a comeback, and those struggling to reach the top, it is particularly significant…
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Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory - Christian Keller - Google Books
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Often called Lee's greatest triumph, the battle of Chancellorsville decimated the Union Eleventh Corps, composed of large numbers of German-speaking volunteers. Poorly deployed, the unit was routed by "Stonewall" Jackson and became the scapegoat for the…
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Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology ... - Google Books
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Child prodigies have been observed in a range of disciplines - particularly music, mathematics, chess, and art. The question of what makes a prodigy has long been controversial. Some have dismissed the notion of giftedness, arguing that most famous…
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American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra - Raymond Carney - Google Books
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In this study, Professor Carney provides a fresh analysis of the career and work of film director Frank Capra. There are few filmgoers who have not seen or been moved by one of the thirty-six feature films directed by Frank Capra between 1926 and 1961,…
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Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven - Mark Evan Bonds - Google Books
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Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic…
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J. S. Bach and the German Motet - Daniel R. Melamed, Professor and Chair Department of Musicology Daniel R Melamed - Google Books
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J. S. Bach's much-performed motets are probably the most sophisticated pieces ever composed in the genre. Daniel Melamed takes a fresh look at Bach's works in the context of the German motet tradition, showing that they are firmly rooted in the conventions…
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Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness - Joshua David Hawley - Google Books
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Often dismissed by scholars as an opportunistic politician whose ideas lacked historical import, Theodore Roosevelt has been underestimated as a thinker. But to disdain Roosevelts politics is to overlook his important and lasting contributions to the shape…
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Conspiracy Theory in America - Lance deHaven-Smith - Google Books
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Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and…