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Gerard Schwarz examines the life of this impolitic composer who lived in the political world of revolutionary Russia. Prokofiev's failure to interest himself in political realities, together with his tremendous confidence in his own genius, led him to ignore the darkening climate for artists in the Soviet Union. When the Soviets arrested his first wife on charges of spying, Prokofiev issued a public apology for his failure to write in an appropriate socialist style.

In Wonderful Marriage, Lilo and Gerard Leeds share the essentials that all great relationships, including their own 50+year marriage, have in common. From sex to communication, the Leeds discuss all aspects of marriage, offering profound insight and thoughtful advice to help couples improve and maintain their relationships. The Leeds focus on what they term "the Big Six"—Religion, Money, Sex, Children, Recreation, and Acceptable Behavior—covering each topic thoroughly with simple, common-sense dialogue.

Franz Liszt came of age with the flowering of the Romantic movement in literature and the arts, and the Romantic spirit had a profound impact on his development as both a man and an artist. Indeed, Liszt, like Berlioz, Wagner, and Chopin, gave expression to that spirit in both his life and his music. Liszt cut a larger-than-life figure, and everything he did tended towards extravagance.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Essex, England, in 1844. During his lifetime, his work, at his own insistence, remained unpublished. Hopkins died in 1889, aged just 45, but it was not until 1918 that his work was first published and until 1930 that he first received acclaim. Here, Margaret Rawlings reads a selection of his finest work, including "Starlight Night", "Spring", "Pied Piper", and "Inversnaid".

Gerard Schwarz shows how no artist expressed the ideals of nineteenth-century Romanticism better than Richard Wagner. With his great operas, or "music dramas", as he preferred to call them, Wagner created epic works relating stories derived from old European myths and medieval romances. Wagner was, in many respects, the dominating cultural figure in the second half of the nineteenth century. His ideas provoked more admiration, scorn, and astonishment than any other artist of the era.

Debussy was the first great composer of the twentieth century. He departed from previous musical practice to a greater extent than any previous composer. Though he completed his masterpieces Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun and the triptych Nocturnes before the turn of the century, it was not until 1902 that Debussy received widespread recognition.

More than any other composer, Franz Joseph Haydn deserves to be called the father of music's "Classical" style. As he came of age in the mid-18th century, musical thinking was in the midst of profound changes. The compositional forms and procedures of the Baroque era began to seem old-fashioned and composers sought fresh modes of musical expression.

Conceived in the early 1800s and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was the boldest and biggest American engineering project of its century, with enduring political, social, and economic effects. It was the Erie Canal that first opened up the West to American enterprise and imagination, bringing vast riches and a far-reaching vision to a rapidly expanding nation.In this compelling narrative, author Gerard Koeppel tells the complete, sweeping story of the creation of the canal.

A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). One of the Victorian era's greatest writers, Hopkins' reputation has continued to grow since his death. This collection includes "The Windhover", "The Caged Skylark", "Carrion Comfort", "Spring", and "Fall and Inversnaid".

Berlioz had a passionate and idealistic personality, one given to incandescent enthusiasms and uncompromising struggles. Through most of this career he stood in opposition to Paris' entrenched musical establishments, which looked on his innovations in harmony, form, and instrumentation with suspicion or outright indignation. The judgment that Berlioz was a wild-eyed radical contained a certain element of truth.

You negotiate every day of your life. Whether you are asking your employer for a raise or persuading your child to do his homework, everything is a negotiation. Written by Gerald Nierenberg, the world's foremost authority on the subject, and recognized as the Father of Contemporary Negotiation, The New Art of Negotiating is an updated, expanded version of the million-copy bestseller, The Art of Negotiating, which was the first on the subject of negotiating.

One of the great composers of the 19th century, Schumann wrote piano solos, chamber music, choral pieces and opera, dozens of superb songs, and some of the finest works in the orchestral reperotry. Much of this music conveys contented and even joyful sentiments; there is surprisingly little darkness in Schumann's compositions. Yet from the beginning of his career, Schumann was plagued by irrational fears and melancholy. In the end, his personal demons overwhelmed him.

Beginning in the waning years of the 19th century, Spanish composers turned to the rich tradition of Spanish folk music for materials and inspiration, and in doing so imbued their compositions with a colorful national character. The most brilliant of those composers was Manuel de Falla.

Gerard Schwarz describes how Bela Bartok developed new rhythmic patterns modeled on Balkan and North African folk music and explored unusual instrumental colors and textures. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Bartok's innovative tendencies earned him a reputation as an uncompromising modernist, making him almost a musical anarchist who was unappreciated and largely unperformed, particularly in his native Hungary.

"Il Sogno è una seconda vita. […] È un sotterraneo vago che si schiarisce poco a poco […] poi il quadro prende forma […] e il mondo degli Spiriti si dischiude a noi." Con queste parole si apre "Aurélia", l'onirico racconto della discesa nella follia del poeta e romanziere francese Gérard de Nerval, famoso per la raccolta di racconti "Le figlie del fuoco".

Gérard de Cortanze, autor de la exitosa novela Los amantes de Coyoacán, ha escrito una historia inolvidable sobre el amor, el arte y el destino de una mujer que no se detuvo ante nada para defender su libertad, la gran Tina Modotti. Nueva York, 1914. Tina, una joven italiana de dieciséis años, espera ansiosa su turno en el control de inmigración, con nerviosismo sostiene un sombrero en la mano derecha y en la izquierda una maleta. Tras encontrarse con su padre en San Francisco, decide mudarse a Hollywood con la esperanza de ver su nombre en las salas de cine.

Tout le monde l'utilise, tout le monde en parle, ses progrès font la une : mais qui sait vraiment ce qu'est l'informatique ? Il s'agit d'une façon radicalement différente de penser, qui permet d'associer de l'information, de toute taille et de toute nature, à un ou plusieurs algorithmes, c'est-à-dire à des opérations mathématiques. C'est cela, l'informatique : une méthode systématique pour transformer un besoin en une suite d'opérations élémentaires.

Lorsque le Dr Gérard Leleu parle de fellation ou de cunnilingus, ne vous attendez surtout pas à une quelconque trivialité qui friserait la pornographie. Bien au contraire. Il révèle, dans ce livre audio, la beauté, l'amour et le sens de ces caresses exquises qu'on apprend à partager avec l'être que l'on aime le plus au monde. Avec respect et poésie, il propose aux hommes et aux femmes de perfectionner leur art érotique pour le plus grand bonheur de chacun.

Lorsque le Dr Gérard Leleu parle de fellation et de cunnilingus, ne vous attendez surtout pas à une quelconque trivialité qui friserait la pornographie. Bien au contraire. Il révèle, dans ce livre audio, la beauté, l'amour et le sens de ces caresses exquises qu'on apprend à partager avec l'être que l'on aime le plus au monde. Avec respect et poésie, il propose aux hommes et aux femmes de perfectionner leur art érotique pour le plus grand bonheur de chacun.

Nina Fleet’s life ought to be as sweet as a Georgia peach. Awarded a tidy sum in her divorce, Nina retired at 41 to a historic Queen Anne house in quaint Cymbeline, Georgia. But Nina’s barely settled into her new B&B-to-be when a penguin shows up on her porch...or, at least, a man wearing a penguin suit. Harry Westcott is making ends meet as an ice-cream shop’s mascot and has a letter from his great-aunt, pledging to leave him the house...too bad that’s not what her will says. Meanwhile, the Sisters of Perpetual Poverty have lost their lease.