Philip: 4665 books
Finding an Ending
Reflections on Wagner's Ring
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration...
by Philip van Wulven
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
After much debate, both internal, and with certain persons involved, Dr. Watson has decided to publish an account which may give rise to considerable discussion, but which must, by the virtue of being factual, reduce some of the gossip and speculation concerning his family by marriage.
Involvement...
by Philip van Wulven
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
In this 7,400 word story, Holmes and Watson investigate the disappearance of a jewel from the library of the Mayor of Portsmouth.A 'locked room' mystery.
Finding God in Unexpected Places
Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
The traces of God can be found in the most unexpected places--an Atlanta slum, a pod of whales off the coast of Alaska, the prisons of Peru and Chile, the plays of Shakespeare, a health club in Chicago--yet many Christians have not only missed seeing God, they’ve overlooked opportunities to make...
Marching Along
Reflections on Men, Women and Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In print with the original text for the first time in decades, Marching Along is the intriguing autobiography John Philip Sousa wrote in the final years of his life.Sousa (1854–1932) was America's first superstar, a giant of his day. He conducted more than 14,000 concerts, composed a hundred hit...
by Philip V. Bohlman
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest...
Mirror Images and Shards of Glass
Beautifully Dangerous Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Travel with Philip past words into imagery and imagination - surreal and metaphysical. Imagine the great poets, composers and painters creating inside your thoughts where there are no edges and a center is unconceivable. Every artist working their genius on a swirling palette of lush options, each...
Kodály Today
A Cognitive Approach to Elementary Music Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
In this new edition of their groundbreaking Kodály Today, Mícheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka offer an expertly-researched, thorough, and -- most importantly -- practical approach to transforming curriculum goals into tangible, achievable musical objectives and effective lesson plans. Their model...
Universe of Stone
Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in...
by Philip Ross Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
When Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died of cholera in 1893, he was without a doubt Russia’s most celebrated composer. Drawing extensively on Tchaikovsky’s uncensored letters and diaries, this richly documented biography explores the composer’s life and works, as well as the larger and richly robust...
The Life of Yogananda
The Story of the Yogi Who Became the First Modern Guru
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
He was called “the 20th century’s first superstar guru” (Los Angeles Times), and today, nearly a century after he arrived in the United States, he’s still the best known and most beloved of all the Indian spiritual teachers who have come to the West. Now, finally, Paramahansa Yogananda has...
The Garments of Court and Palace
Machiavelli and the World That He Made
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A “serious and thoughtful” interpretation of Machiavelli’s life and thought—and its relevance today—from the acclaimed author of Terror and Consent (The Times, London).
Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt turns his expert attention to the life and work of Niccolo Machiavelli, the...
Interdimensional Universe
The New Science of UFOs, Paranormal Phenomena and Otherdimensional Beings
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Over the course of his thirty years of investigation into UFOs, including his own field research, photographic evidence, and meticulously compiled case studies, Philip Imbrogno has provided fascinating new insight into paranormal phenomena. In this book, he reveals for the first time the detailed...
Bel Canto Bully
The Life and Times of the Legendary Opera Impresario Domenico Barbaja
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresario of the early 1800s and one of the most intriguing characters to dominate the operatic empire of the period. Dubbed the "Viceroy of Naples", Barbaja managed both the...