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Giuseppe Verdi is the famous Italian composer of opera. While he was sometimes criticized for writing music considered too "simple," his works have endured, and are still performed throughout the world. This volume is a guide to the Verdi's life and operas, containing "New Grove" articles, a section on modern Verdi productions, and more.

Carp argues American urban colonists were among the first to unite as Americans. Looking at the physical environments of cities as political catalysts, he contends that what began as interaction and negotiation developed into wider political awareness and action. This groundbreaking work will contribute to scholarship on the American Revolution.

Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and Revolution. This title argues that the key to the present era lies in understanding the systems developed in the 18th and early 19th centuries to gather and communicate information.

The Fall of Che Guevara tells the story of Guevara's last campaign, in the backwoods of Bolivia, where he hoped to ignite a revolution that would spread throughout South America. This book reveals the strategy of the U.S. and Bolivian governments to foil his efforts.

Exposes felon disenfranchisement as one of the most important, yet little known, threats to the health of American democracy. This book reveals the centrality of racial factors in the origins of these laws, and their impact on politics, election outcomes, and public policy.

Fraught with religious meaning, the Civil War witnessed the sanctification of patriotism as northern churches wholeheartedly supported the Union. Scott recreates the lives of ordinary religious citizens through their own words in this groundbreaking study of northern laymen's Christianity in the Civil War.

This book joins epistemic and socio-political issues, using Wittgenstein and diverse liberatory theories to reorient epistemology as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. Each essay was an attempt to grasp a particular set of problems, and they appear together as a model of passionate philosophical engagement.

A former Vatican insider unveils the mystery shrouding the ritual, process and politics of papal election and offers insight into what followed the death of Pope John Paul II.

Dogen (1200-1253) was the founder of Soto Zen Buddhism in Japan and one of the most notable figures in Japanese religious history. This book attempts to clarify how and when Dogen's various works were composed and compiled in relation to the unfolding of Dogen's career.

This book is a light-hearted introduction to game theory suitable for advanced undergraduate students or beginning graduate students. It aims to answer three questions. What is game theory? How is game theory applied? Why is game theory right? It is thought to be the only book that tackles all three questions seriously without getting heavily mathematical.

This book combines the personal story of the author with a discussion of the science behind anxiety disorders. It provides useful facts and information on such topics as how to find professional help, the types of therapy available for those with anxiety disorders, and how to deal with stressful social situations.

Lewin, one of the 20th century's most prominent figures in music theory, pushes the boundaries of the study of pitch-structure beyond its conception as a static system for classifying inter-relating chords.

Using a political science paradigm to explain the growth of emerging equity markets, this book examines politics at the micro-level of large issues of emerging market stock. It also presents case studies dealing with emerging market countries in Latin America, Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

A candid portrait of America's greatest university and it's dazzling achievements and academic pratfalls through seven decades of dramatic change.

Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. How and when did our everyday world become dominated by fear, every citizen treated as a potential criminal?

Honoring God and the City is a documentary history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities from their origins in the thirteenth century to their suppression in the early nineteenth, demonstrating the vital role they played in the cultural life of Venice.

Shows how pervasive and influential Left politics were in children's book writing, illustrating, publishing, and dissemination during the middle third of the twentieth century - precisely the time when Americans were most concerned about protecting their children against Communist influences.

Looks at the concerns of traditional feminist scholarship from the perspective of Aristotelian virtue ethics. This book examines moral harms of two types in particular. It is of interest to feminist theorists in philosophy and women's studies, as well as ethicists and social theorists.

Explores the cultural economies of two "non-traditional" commodity trades between Africa and Europe - one anglophone, the other francophone - in order to show not only why they differ but also how both have felt the fall-out of the wealthy world's food scares.

Makes the bold claim that alliances in Europe and Asia have become irrelevant to the challenges the United States faces and are slowly dissolving as a result. This work predicts that the coming change in American strategy will force our traditional allies to rethink their choices and create new patterns in world politics.

A detailed introduction to the thought of John Buridan (c.1300-1362). Aside from the fact that he taught at the University of Paris and was twice its Rector, very little is known of Buridan's life, and the book thus focuses entirely on his writings, mainly commentaries on Aristotle and his thought.

Music for the Common Man examines Copland's most celebrated music in the context of progressive politics during the 1930s and 1940s, arguing that such works as El Salon Mexico, Billy the Kid, and Appalachian Spring represent the aesthetic expression of leftwing cultural currents.