The Evolution of Mann: Herbie Mann and the Flute in Jazz
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More than any other musician, Herbie Mann was responsible for establishing the flute as an accepted...
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent
Alessandro Barbero and Allan Cameron
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The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist...
Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power
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Dean Acheson was the most influential American diplomat of the twentieth century. He shaped the...
Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents
Felix Meyer and Anne C. Shreffler
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Born in New York in December 1908, the venerable but still active American composer Elliott Carter...
Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon
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This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often...
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten: Volume 3: (1946-1951)
Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed and Benjamin Britten
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The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years...
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident
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'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly...
Miss Palmer's Diary: The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady
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In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of...
Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Stories
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On the eve of marking the centenary of the opening of the hostilities that devastated the world and...
Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource Rich Economies
Sami Mahroum and Yasser Al-Saleh
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Economic diversification remains at the top of the agenda for hundreds of regions around the world....