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Product Description: Why do actors make such a mess of pirate accents? Is the Australian shock jock an endangered species? What sort of music stimulates the creation of fiction? Why is everything in the supermarket 'Moroccan' these days? This collection of short essays by Stuart Campbell, a former professor of linguistics and an independent fiction author, answers these questions and more as he reflects on writing, film, language and culture...read more

Product Description: Armed with a bus pass and supported by a relay team of equally eccentric and badly behaved companions Stuart Campbell follows the bus routes that Dr Johnson and Boswell would have used had they delayed their journey to the Western isles of Scotland by 238 years...read more

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Product Description: This anthology of Russian music criticism reveals the reactions of leading critics to new Russian music in the period 1880-1917. Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin were in their prime, and several new generations emerged: Rachmaninoff and Skryabin, Stravinsky and Prokoviev...read more

Presents a day-by-day photographic portrait of a baby's growth and development in the womb, furnishing 280 days of 3D ultrasound scans, full-color photographs, and illustrations and providing practical information on how to ensure a healthy pregnancy. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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Product Description: Alexander Kastal'sky (1856-1926) was a leading composer in the field of Russian church music whose work determined the course of its development in that period. An inspiration to composers such as Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, he became a well-known ethnographer as well during the latter part of his life...read more

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Tchaikovsky not only composed, he also wrote about music. This substantial anthology of Russian writing on Russian music features the most influential critics of music in nineteenth-century Russia. They wrote on the first two generations of Russian composers from Glinka to Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. The volume reveals through contemporary Russian eyes how the foundations of the hugely popular Russian classical repertory were laid, providing a vivid picture of the musical life of the opera house and the concert hall from which this repertory sprang.