America`s Musical Life: A History tells the fascinating story of music in the United States, from the sacred music of its earliest days to the jazz & rock that enliven the turn of the millennium. Beginning with the music of Native Americans & continuing with traditions introduced by European colonizers & Africans brought here as slaves, the book reveals how this bountiful heritage was developed & enhanced in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries to produce the music we hear today. As author Richard Crawford points out, American musical activity has taken place in three spheres: the traditional (folk music), which emphasizes continuity & the preservation of community custom; the popular, which seeks most of all to find paying audiences; & the classical (Western art music), which places priority on the musical works themselves. We observe American music making in each of these spheres & see, for the first time, how they have continually crossed over, interacted, & combined to shape the rich tapestry of sounds of the twenty-first century. Most important, the narrative is always set in its proper historical context
- we cannot, for instance, truly understand Civil War music without knowing the social & political factors that precipitated the conflict. In juggling political, social, & musical history, the author strikes a happy balance between general background & specific accounts of individual composers, performers & pieces of music.
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In 1507 the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller published a world map with a new continent on it which he called America', after the explorer & navigator Amerigo Vespucci. The map was a phenomenal success & when Mercator's 1538 world map extended the name to the northern hemisphere of the continent, the new name was secure, even though Waldseemuller himself soon realised he had picked the wrong man. This is the story of how one side of the world came to be named not after its discoverer Christopher Columbus, but after his friend & rival Amerigo Vespucci. Born in Florence in 1454 Vespucci had spent his youth as a dealer or agent for the great Medici family. Then in 1491 he followed his fellow-Italian Columbus to Seville. In Seville he continued as a Florentine agent but also helped Columbus get his ships ready for his second & third voyages. Although Amerigo himself later sailed on at least two voyages of his own & explored the coast of present-day Brazil, he excelled above all at self-invention & self-promotion. He saw himself as an explorer & navigator of genius, & his colourful travel writings sold much better than those of Columbus. He became Pilot Major of Spain in 1508 & died in 1512. Fernanzez-Armesto knows this period exceptionally well & he brings wonderfully to life the world of navigators, shipwrights, explorers, cartographers, agents, financiers & fixers. ...

Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Kafka`s first novel (begun in 1911 & never finished) is infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness & sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book. ...

Amersfoort in a series of handy size, detailed & indexed city centre street plans of main towns in the Netherlands & Flanders including Brussels from Falk, highlighting recommended walks & places of interest, with six best sights prominently marked & cross-referenced to brief descriptions. The plans also indicate publishers’ recommendations for shopping and/or bars & restaurants. The network of streets & small connecting passages is very clearly presented. Metro stations are marked & tram routes are shown with line numbers & stops. The plans show cycle paths & for drivers indicate main traffic arteries & car parks. Symbols show various facilities such as tourist information centres, markets, canal cruise offices, etc. On the reverse, the street index is accompanied by a calendar of main events, a list of museums, plus contact details for publishers’ recommendations. Map legend & all the text about recommended sights, etc, include English. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


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Amersham in 1897 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map mapcovers the 'old town' of Amersham, shortly before the great changes brought by the Metropolitan Railway. The station, opened in 1892, is in the north-eastern corner, some distance from the town which is centred on the High Street. Features here include St Mary's church, Workhouse, Town Hall, malthouse, Crown Farm, Bury Farm, River Misbourne, brewery, cemetery, Whielden Street. To the east is Bury End, with Bury Mill, but otherwise Amersham appears as a small country town. A 1903 directory of Amersham is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Amexica provides a full account of the war along the US-Mexico border. An area of land more than 2, 000 miles long & 100 miles wide, it has become a battleground where drugs, guns & killings are the currency of everyday existence. Journalist Ed Vulliamy went on a four month road trip along the entire border where, in the last three years, more than 23, 000 people have been murdered in Amexica as criminal drug cartels fight each other. These narcotic rivers flow only one way – to America, in a frightening pastiche of the global economy. Amexica looks at the causes & consequences of this under-reported war & on the impact it has on the everyday life which somehow goes on around it. ...

Amexica provides a full account of the war along the US-Mexico border. An area of land more than 2, 000 miles long & 100 miles wide, it has become a battleground where drugs, guns & killings are the currency of everyday existence. Journalist Ed Vulliamy went on a four month road trip along the entire border where, in the last three years, more than 23, 000 people have been murdered in Amexica as criminal drug cartels fight each other. These narcotic rivers flow only one way ...

Colloquial Amharic is the essential guide to learning this beautiful language. Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written & spoken Amharic. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
Colloquial Amharic is:
interactive
- with lots of exercises for regular practice
clear
- with concise grammar notes
practical
- with useful vocabulary & pronunciation guide
complete
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Includes:: answer key & special reference section.
Two 60 minute cassettes are also available to help you with listening & pronunciation skills.











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A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude Mc Kay, a rich & multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem & a historical protest for black freedom This colourful, dramatic novel centres on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organize support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia, a crucial but largely forgotten event in American history. At once a penetrating satire of political machinations in Depression-era Harlem & a far-reaching story of global intrigue & romance, Amiable with Big Teeth plunges into the concerns, anxieties, hopes & dreams of African-Americans at a moment of crisis for the soul of Harlem
- & America.
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