TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 6

William M Fowler
George Washington and the Creation of the American Republic

Washington's strategic genius extended beyond war, laying the foundation for a powerful American Republic.The twentieth-century publication of Washington's writings, and more recently the digital editions…

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Kyle Hutchinson
Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism

Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism presents a theory of how chromaticism in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and North American music affects the ways in whic…

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Serena Ferrando
Channelling Nature

What if poetry could teach us to live differently -- alongside plants, animals, and water? Channelling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry explores how twentieth-century Italian literatur…

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Stefan Huebner
Earth's Amphibious Transformation

In the first history of the oceanic Anthropocene, Stefan Huebner explores the twentieth-century extension of human habitats into oceanic spaces. He shows how the effects of this amphibious transformation …

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Robert Jarvenpa
Declared Defective

Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twe…

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Milton Friedman, Rose D Friedman
Two Lucky People

The story of Rose and Milton Friedman's incredible lives and influential work told in their own words, now with a new foreword by Sebastian Edwards.In Two Lucky People, Rose and Milton Friedman provide a …

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Ross Anderson
The Appian Way

Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) is a prominent figure in the history of modern theater, best known for his writings on the mise-en-scène and stage design for the operas of Richard Wagner. Far less is known abou…

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Nona Footz
A Mansion of Her Own

For fans of Vanderbilt and The Last Castle, a riveting biography of the reclusive heiress who became a fairy godmother to twentieth-century artists while intently guarding her own secrets.In 1918, at twen…

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Robert M Pallitto, John A Melendez
Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop traces the remarkable life of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham (1924-1972), whose journey from rural Texas to the forefront of modern jazz mirrors the broader story of Black resilience and…

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Christine Grandy
Race on Screen

What did audiences want when it came to 'race' on screen in twentieth-century Britain? This was the question that drove producers and makers of film and television as they competed for viewers, and organi…

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Carol Armstrong
The Matter of Still Life

Franklin D. Murphy Lectures

How does still life "matter"? The two essays in this book, based on Carol Armstrong's lectures as part of the 2020 Franklin D. Murphy Lectureship at the University of Kansas, explore the concept…

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Wladyslaw Reymont,
The Peasants

One of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A Penguin ClassicIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth.…

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Larry Mcmurtry
The Last Picture Show

Whereas Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is universally hailed as the greatest novel of the Old West, The Last Picture Show is increasingly recognized as a standard bearer of contemporary Western fiction. F…

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Deborah Solomon
American Mirror

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY"Welcome to Ro…

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Verity Harding
AI Needs You

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is rea…

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Scott E Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Scott E Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

Picador

One of the Washington Post' s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | A Boston GlobeBest Book of 2024 "Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.&quo…

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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Gabriele Tergit,
Effingers

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Wir können nicht sicherstellen, dass die Bewertungen von solchen Verbrauchern stammen, die die Ware tatsächlich genutzt oder erworben haben.

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip a…

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