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The definitive history of Western music by one of the leading musicologists of our time. The five paperbacks explore music from the earliest notations to the late twentieth century.

Argues that recognition of morally negative events in American history is essential to the health of the society. Focusing on the wrongs suffered by African Americans and Native Americans, this work examines the challenges associated with the call for collective repentance.

In this book, David Lewin (1934-2003) analyzes pieces by four twentieth-century composers, applying the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier work, the innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations.

The treatment and role of women is one of the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. In this volume, three respected scholars of Islam survey the situation of women in Islam, focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in the Western diaspora.

This study accounts for the similarities and differences between Ancient Greek and Latin by tracing their (mostly) prehistoric evolution from their common ancestor, Proto-Indo-European. The features of Proto-Indo-European itself are explained and justified on the basis of comparative linguistics.

Mrs Seacole, a free-born Jamaican daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black woman, recounts her childhood, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield 'doctress' to British troops in the Crimea.

Theo Davis argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman's writing, exploring the stakes of such an ornamental aesthetics through a parallel investigation of the ornamental aspects of Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy.

Duncan Linsey takes a critical look at the current child welfare system and makes a compelling argument for the criminal justice system to assume responsibility for the problem of child abuse in order for the child welfare system to address the well-being of a much larger number of children now growing up in poverty.

What shines through each of these stories is the black woman's ability to recover in past oppression the hope for a better day.

Of many slave narratives published before the Civil War, this is one of the few to be written by a woman, thus offering a unique perspective on the plight of the black woman as slave and as writer.

A detailed chronicle of Prokofiev's career from 1932 to 1953, based on exclusive and extensive research conducted at several Russian archives. Prokofiev's Soviet Years examines Prokofiev's decision to relocate to Stalin's Russia in 1936, the mandated rewriting of such major works as Romeo and Juliet and War and Peace, and the composer's aesthetic and spiritual views.

In Defense of Self introduces some of most important medical advances of the past hundred years, from the development of vaccines and the treatment of allergies, autoimmunity and cancer, to prolonging organ transplants and combating AIDS. It not only explains how a vital part of our bodies works, but also provides background for continuing research.

Forbidden Fruit tells the definitive story of the sexual values and practices of American Teenagers, paying particular attention to how participating in organized religion shapes sexual decision-making.

Macy argues that for the first 1200 years of Christianity, women were in fact ordained into roles in the church. He uncovers references to the ordination of women in papal, episcopal and theological documents of the time. Beliefs that women were not ordained, he shows, is based on a later definition of ordination; unknown in the early Middle Ages.