Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition: Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity
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In the two centuries after Martin Luther's affirmation that music stood second only to theology,...
Pyrite: A Natural History of Fool's Gold
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Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral commonly known as fool's gold. But...
The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature
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Most of us think that in order to be environmentalists, we have to love nature. Essentially, we...
The Pathetick Musician: Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence
Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes
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What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate...
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
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In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and...
The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War Against Christianity
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Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in...
Architecture as the Ethics of Climate
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At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book...
The Capitalist Schema: Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction
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Christian Lotz argues that Immanuel Kant's idea of a mental schematism, which gives the human mind...
The Dialectics of Liquidity Crisis: An Interpretation of Explanations of the Financial Crisis of 2007-08
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This book analyses the logic of applying the American Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky's...