Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment, Paperback - James R. Gaines

Reducere. Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now k...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James GainesIn one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 45 bw illusNumber of pages: 288Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 75 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and ...

Publisher: Redcliffe Press LtdAuthor(s): Michael SymesNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 212 x 269 x 15Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. Discover the complete works of Stanley Burroughs. Developed through a lifetime of practice and teaching . His complete system when properly utilize...

Reducere. Psychedelic Information Theory is a formal analysis of the physical mechanisms underlying hallucination, shamanic ritual, and expanded states of co...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Age of Enlightenment, then keep reading...The life of an eminent scientist during the Scient...

Reducere. Emperor Diocletian's palace is a historic marvel - this book and its sketches, published by architect Robert Adam in the 1760s, aided the rediscove...

Reducere. In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" countries located along the French bo...

Theo Duncan is an ordinary student who also happens to be the son of the Prime Minister. When the parliamentary mace is stolen, Theo decides to hel...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Reducere. Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years' War in 1756; outfought the formidable French, Russian, and Austrian ar...

Set in Iran at the end of the 19th Century --in the Persian royal court of the Qajars--, In The Palace of Flowers is an atmospheric historical nove...

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Stumbling Into Infinity is the intimate and sometimes startling account of Michael Fischman's spiritual journey and the encounter that changed his ...

Reducere. In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey ...

Jaclyn Granick reveals the untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewi...

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807....

Reducere. Discover the complete works of Stanley Burroughs. Developed through a lifetime of practice and teaching . His complete system when properly utilize...

Reducere. The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and ...

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Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution - James Epstein

Reducere. Every fan of the Universal Horror films of the 1930s knows that James Whale directed four of the best of those films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): James H. SmithIllustration(s): 12 halftonesNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace...

Contributor(s): Author: Stefanos GeroulanosAuthor: Todd MeyersThe injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How ...

Reducere. A "New York Times" bestseller people can believe inaby aa pioneer of the new urban Christiansa ("Christian Today magazine"). Timothy Keller, the fo...

Publisher: iUniverseAuthor(s): Father William (Consultant Child and) YoungNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 33Cover...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Janice KimWith: Soo-Hyun JeongThe Palace of Memory is the fifth volume of the award-winning Learn to Play Go series. Covers...

James Agee brought to bear all his moral energy, slashing wit, and boundless curiosity in the criticism and journalism that established him as one ...