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Oscar Wilde's children's stories explore timeless themes of good
and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and
self-sacrifice. Featuring princesses, ogres and talking animals,
the questions they pose are as pertinent now as they were at the
turn of the century. What is love? asks 'The Happy Prince'. How do
you get what you need? asks 'The Nightingale and the Rose'. How do
you win friends (and avoid alienating people)? asks 'The Selfish
Giant'. Can you have too much compassion? asks 'The Devoted
Friend'. How can you set the world on fire? asks 'The Remarkable
Rocket'. Wilde's stories have given pleasure to generations of
readers. By turns moving and funny, they gently teach free thinking
rather than giving prescriptive lessons. This beautiful collectors'
edition with original watercolour illustrations and decorative
motifs from the 1913 edition by Charles Robinson and an
introduction by Wilde expert Michele Mendelssohn is certain to
surprise and delight adults and children alike.
Life after Boris is a quick-to-read fable that should encourage any
partner - or indeed anyone aspiring to partnership - in a
professional services firm, to make sure that the succession
planning issue is addressed in their firm. It seeks to demonstrate
that with good planning, collaboration and proactive discussion,
options can be found that will be acceptable to all. Without such
an approach, the consequences could be serious. Succession planning
is not inherently difficult or intellectually complex. It does,
however, strike many raw nerves, both with those who are currently
at the top of their firms and are contemplating retirement (or
not), and also with those in the early stages of their careers who
are anxious to know what the future holds for them in their current
firm. The frustration, of course, is that many stakeholders in the
succession planning process (of which there are far more than one
might originally envisage) rush into decisions because of the
apparent lack of a succession plan, thereby simply exacerbating the
problem for all the other stakeholders. It is therefore critical
that all firms, and the stakeholders within those firms, address
the succession planning question before it becomes an issue.
Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted is simply not an
option. Initiating the succession planning process need not
necessarily come from the current leaders. Indeed, their failure to
do so is often at the root of the problem. The bright leaders of
tomorrow have much at stake and although a great deal of tact and
sensitivity will be needed, it is often these future leaders of a
firm who are best positioned to bring about change. In the author's
experience over the last 12 years of working with professional
services firms around the world, one of the most frequently
recurring catalysts for discussion has been succession management.
Firms that got it right developed and prospered. Those that didn't
struggled and often ended up having to merge and ultimately
disappear into oblivion.
In a narrative that extends from fin de siècle Paris to the 1960s,
Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who
engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed
new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson,
Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John
Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious
critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the
avant-garde ideal of "pure sound" was always an expression of
western ethnocentrism. Each of the musicians studied in this book
re-created or appropriated non-European forms of expression as they
conceived music ontologically, often thinking music as something
immediate and immersive: from Satie's dabblings with mysticism and
exoticism in bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s to Varèse's
experience of ethnographic exhibitions and surrealist poetry in
1930s Paris, and from Boulez's endeavor to theorize a kind of
musical writing that would "absorb" the sounds of non-European
musical traditions to Cage, who took inspiration from Eastern
thought as he wrote about sound, silence, and chance. These
modernist artists believed that the presence effects of sound in
their moment were more real and powerful than the outmoded norms of
the European musical past. By examining musicians who strove to
produce sonic presence, specifically by re-thinking the concept of
musical writing (écriture), the book demonstrates that we cannot
fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity
without music and sound.
Performed by David Syme, piano Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony
Orchestra Conductor: Emil Kahn Felix Mendelssohn's famous G-minor
concerto is a showpiece which demonstrates the composer's pianistic
brilliance. In three movements played without a break, it is one of
the most revered concerti of the early Romantic Era. Lovely writing
for the instrument abounds at every turn, and a thrilling finale
makes for a great pianistic workout! Much of this concerto is of
only moderate difficulty. Includes a high-quality printed music
score and a compact disc containing a complete version with
soloist, in digitally remastered stereo; then a second recording of
the orchestral accompaniment, minus the soloist; and an additional
version of the accompaniment at -20% slower speed for practice
purposes.
Originally published in 1946, this volume, based on some of the
evidence taken from captured German files and archives, discusses
many questions concerning German policy and diplomatic manoeuvre
during the Second World War. It offers a fascinating insight into
the rise and fall of the Nazi state and represents a record, aimed
at both the general reader and student of history of some of the
first documents which were available in the aftermath of the World
War 2.
In a narrative that extends from fin de siècle Paris to the 1960s,
Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who
engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed
new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson,
Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John
Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious
critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the
avant-garde ideal of "pure sound" was always an expression of
western ethnocentrism. Each of the musicians studied in this book
re-created or appropriated non-European forms of expression as they
conceived music ontologically, often thinking music as something
immediate and immersive: from Satie's dabblings with mysticism and
exoticism in bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s to Varèse's
experience of ethnographic exhibitions and surrealist poetry in
1930s Paris, and from Boulez's endeavor to theorize a kind of
musical writing that would "absorb" the sounds of non-European
musical traditions to Cage, who took inspiration from Eastern
thought as he wrote about sound, silence, and chance. These
modernist artists believed that the presence effects of sound in
their moment were more real and powerful than the outmoded norms of
the European musical past. By examining musicians who strove to
produce sonic presence, specifically by re-thinking the concept of
musical writing (écriture), the book demonstrates that we cannot
fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity
without music and sound.
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Various Artists - Stars of Classical (CD)
Various Artists, Emmerich Kalman/Franz Lehar/Johann Strauss II, Francesco Sartori, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Leonard Cohen, …
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After more than six years of active fighting in the Far East and
over two years of open war between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon
powers, Japanese political warfare was still a factor largely
unknown in the Western world. Overshadowed by the much nearer and
more closely felt exertions of the Nazi propaganda machine, it came
to be regarded as too remote to have any noticeable bearing on the
general course of the war. In the months leading up to Pearl
Harbour, Tokyo Radio, the official Domei News Agency and the
Japanese press jointly conducted an efficient war of nerves which,
for all its alleged clumsiness effectively deceived many in Britain
and the USA. The attack on Pearl Harbour showed how Tokyo's
political warfare achieved its object: the creation of a political
smoke-screen. During the period of Japan's conquests in 1942
following Pearl Harbour, and before that in China, Japan's
political warfare showed itself quite capable of producing useful
results.The volume is divided into two parts: the first deals with
machinery and methods and gives as full and detailed a survey of
the various government organs directing and controlling political
warfare, the structure of the Japanese press, the organisation of
Japanese broadcasting, the functioning of censorship and the extent
to which education, science, literature, the arts and the cinema
are being employed for purposes of propaganda, both in the Japanese
homeland and in the wider area of the conquered empire. The second
part deals with the aims and policies of Japanese propaganda, and
attempts to give an outline of the way in which the machinery is
being operated. It includes an analysis of the main groups of
standard slogans and catchphrases which recur everywhere in
Japanese propaganda and a special chapter is devoted to the use
made of religion for purposes of political warfare.
Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship by your favourite classic authors.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by writer, academic and historian, Michèle Mendelssohn.
Why Friendship Matters is an inspiring collection that spans three centuries of writing and includes many favourite authors such as Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jane Austen. Readers will also discover lesser-known delights such as American writer Audre Lorde on her high school friendships and playwright Alice E. Ives writing about friendship between women.
Contributors from across the globe celebrate and investigate all aspects of friendship; the strength of its bonds, how it can hurt and how it runs deep.
The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray
the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different
countries which they have made their homes, since their expulsion
from the land which they had been identified for something like
thirty centuries. In these pages the author has endeavoured to
compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the
Jews of Asia in the last eighteen and a half centuries.
What makes a home, and when do we really feel at home? Is it a
physical place, or something we all carry inside us wherever we go?
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,
pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books
make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is
edited and introduced by writer and academic Professor Michele
Mendelssohn. In No Place Like Home: An anthology about the places
we come back to, writers from around the world celebrate the
comfort of home, capturing its emotional power and sharing
nostalgia for what we leave behind. There are extracts from the
likes of Louisa May Alcott, Kenneth Graham and Charlotte Bronte as
well as lesser known but no less insightful poets and writers to
discover.
Mendelssohn's Elijahis an oratorio for SATB soli, SATB chorus,
orchestra and organ, with the text derived from the Lutheran Bible
by Julius Schubring. The English version of the text was translated
by William Bartholemew. This New Novello Choral Edition of the
vocal score contains comprehensive performance notes and detailed
editorial markings and suggestions, as edited by Michael
Pilkington. The German text is also included in the vocal score,
and a German translation of the performance notes is also provided.
The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray
the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different
countries which they have made their homes, since their expulsion
from the land which they had been identified for something like
thirty centuries. In these pages the author has endeavoured to
compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the
Jews of Asia in the last eighteen and a half centuries.
Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, bring the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of "sentiments" (defined as knowledge or awareness by way of the senses). They include a nuanced defense of Leibniz's theodicy and conception of freedom, and examination of the ethics of suicide, an account of the "mixed sentiments" so central to the tragic genre, an hypothesis about weakness of will, an elaboration of the main principles and types of art, and a brief tract on probability theory, aimed at rebutting Hume's skepticism.
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Songs Without Words (Paperback)
Felix Mendelssohn; Created by Constantin Von Sternberg
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Contents: The Adieu * Agitation * Boat-Song * The Brook *
Confidence * Consolation (Still, Still With Thee) * Contemplation *
Delirium * The Departure * Duet, Op. 38, No. 6 * Elegy * The
Evening Star * Faith * The Fleecy Clouds * The Flight * Folk-Song *
Funeral March * Homeless * Hope * Hunting Song * The Joyous Peasant
* Lost Happiness * Lost Illusions * Lullaby * May Breezes *
Meditation * Morning Song * On the Seashore * Passion * The Poet's
Harp * Regrets * Restlessness * Retrospection * The Return *
Reverie * Sadness of Soul * The Shepherd's Complaint * The Sighing
Wind * Song of the Pilgrim * Song of the Traveller * Spinning-Song
* Spring Song * Sweet Remembrance * Tarantella * Unrest * Venetian
Boat Song No. 1 * Venetian Boat-Song #2 * Venetian Boat-Song #3 *
The Wanderer.
Originally published in 1946, this volume, based on some of the
evidence taken from captured German files and archives, discusses
many questions concerning German policy and diplomatic manoeuvre
during the Second World War. It offers a fascinating insight into
the rise and fall of the Nazi state and represents a record, aimed
at both the general reader and student of history of some of the
first documents which were available in the aftermath of the World
War 2.
(String Solo). For violin and orchestra (piano reduction).
This is the b format version of the critically acclaimed book on
the singer. In "Waiting for Kate Bush", the reader will not only
laugh out loud at Herskovits' attempt to make sense of his life in
an alien culture, but also learn in detail what Kate Bush - known
alternately as 'the barmiest bird in pop', 'the pre Raphaelite
mymph with Minnie Mouse's soprano' and the 'greatest artist of the
last 30 years' has been up to in the silent decade - plus - since
the release of her last album.
Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats
of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved
around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given
him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals
the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and
post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a
larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his
name and gain international acclaim. 'Success is a science,' Wilde
believed, 'if you have the conditions, you get the result.'
Combining new evidence and gripping cultural history, Michele
Mendelssohn dramatizes Wilde's rise, fall, and resurrection as part
of a spectacular transatlantic pageant. With superb style and an
instinct for story-telling, she brings to life the charming young
Irishman who set out to captivate the United States and Britain
with his words and ended up conquering the world. Following the
twists and turns of Wilde's journey, Mendelssohn vividly depicts
sensation-hungry Victorian journalism and popular entertainment
alongside racial controversies, sex scandals, and the growth of
Irish nationalism. This ground-breaking revisionist history shows
how Wilde's tumultuous early life embodies the story of the
Victorian era as it tottered towards modernity. Riveting and
original, Making Oscar Wilde is a masterful account of a life like
no other.
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