Product Description: o A comprehensive survey of two thousand years of Christian voices for peace. These extraordinary documents, which bear witness to the Christian commitment to peace across time, clarify that nonviolence is not a mere exception it is at the very heart of what it means to be a follower of Christ...read more

Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which "classical" music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture—in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the 1960s, Michael Long's entertaining and illuminating book surveys a complex cultural field and draws connections between "classical music" (as the phrase is understood in the United States) and selected "monster hits" of popular music. Addressing such wide-ranging subjects as surf music, Yiddish theater, Hollywood film scores, Freddie Mercury, Alfred Hitchcock, psychedelia, rap, disco, and video games, Long proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought together in dynamic and humane conversation. Beautiful Monsters brilliantly considers the ways in which critical commonplaces like nostalgia, sentiment, triviality, and excess might be applied with greater nuance to musical media and media reception. It takes into account twentieth-century media's capacity to suggest visual and acoustical depth and the redemptive possibilities that lie beyond the surface elements of filmic narrative or musical style, showing us what a truly global view of late twentieth-century music in its manifold cultural and social contexts might be like.

Product Description: In December 1989, VOclav Havel and a relatively small group of intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the Velvet Revolution. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the Revolution of 1989 brings together the personal narratives of eleven former dissidents who, though close associates of Havel, operated without his international celebrity...read more

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Product Description: The Web of Words introduces learners of English to the study of literature. Through a range of involving and innovative activities it develops learners' language and skills to the point where they can approach authentic literary texts with confidence, and come to appreciate how writers use language and achieve various stylistic effects...read more

Product Description: TWAYNE'S NEW CRITCAL INSTRUCIONS TO SHAKESPEARE HOW TO UNDESTAND IT

Product Description: This unusual study brings together, for the purpose of illuminating comparison, two writers of apparently different worlds. A seventeenth-century poet and a twentieth-century novelist are found to share images, themes, and attitudes which suggest intriguing correspondences between them: each author helps us to read the other...read more