The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910, Hardcover - Stephen Johnson

Reducere. September 12, 1910: The world premiere of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony and the artistic breakthrough for which the composer had yearned all his ...

Placing Mahler within his world, The Eighth reassesses Mahler's work in the context of the prevailing thought of his age, but also against the back...

Reducere. Manon Gropius (1916-1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus...

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Publisher: Exbury Gardens LtdAuthor(s): Francesca Murray RowlinsIllustration(s): 200Number of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 222 x 268...

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Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of po...

Earth visionaries. Climate drivers. Believers. World in their Hands tells the stories of those who saw the importance of our natural world and dedi...

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Reducere. "Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war against Germany." -Publishers WeeklyThey began op...

Reducere. Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built t...

An unparalleled account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision and matchless determination: the building of the railroad that united Ameri...

Reducere. Johnson's carefully conceived integrative psychoanalytic developmental theory will enable therapists to make sense of the array of symptoms seen in...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served ...

Reducere. In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice i...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Stephen JohnsonIllustration(s): chiefly IllustrationsNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2008Dimensions: ...

Reducere. The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustra...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's ``breathtakingly original`` (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. ``Ca...

Reducere. In this timely revolutionary book, Aaron Johnson provides incredible insight into biblical prophecy and the ensuing world events. When the Bible sa...

Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times bestseller, this is the "outstanding" (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's pres...

Publisher: ECW Press, CanadaAuthor(s): Pat LapradeNumber of pages: 550Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Reducere. A GENUINE HISTORICAL MYSTERY -A MODERN DAY MONSTER STORY - A TRUE MIRACLE OF NATURE -OF COURSE ANIMALS CAN'T TALK, BUT THIS ONE DID - AND HE DID A ...

A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.For most of its histo...

Reducere. DescriptionFew wine books can be called classic, but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history when it appeared in 1971....

Reducere. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with exci...

Reducere. Optioned by Netflix and a most anticipated book of 2020 from The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and LitHub."The Eighth Girl is an exquisite explorati...

Science and Football VIII showcases the very latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as 'football'. These include soccer, the n...

The US American photographer Jamie Johnson has been traveling around the world for twenty years and is best known for her touching portraits of chi...

Reducere. When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns an...

Reducere. In his fourteenth collection, Stephen Dunn, one of our indispensable poets (Miami Herald), continues to probe brilliantly the unsaid and the elusiv...

The Voynich Manuscript is an extensively illustrated codex featuring cosmological and astrological diagrams interwoven with detailed herbal illustr...