Just as Serge Rachmaninoff ranked among the greatest pianists of the 20th century, his compositions for Piano and Orchestra won him an important position among modern composers.
The major works that made his reputation include the first three Piano concertos, reprinted here in a single volume[...]
One of the greatest figures of late Russian Romanticism, Rachmaninoff exhibited his mature style in this work, written during 1906-7 and first performed at the Leeds Festival in 1910, where it was conducted by the composer himself.
Symphony No. 2 In E Minor, Op. 27 In Full Score is admired fo[...]
This generous compilation of Rachmaninoff's piano music reflects the "best of the best" -- selected shorter works that have been most often performed and most frequently recorded by such great keyboard artists as Horowitz, Richter, Gilels, Cliburn, and Rachmaninoff himself. Offered here for the firs[...]
When writing Piano Concerto No.3 Rachmaninoff wanted to create a piece that would allow him to demonstrate his talent as both a composer and a pianist. Rachmaninoff debuted the piece himself, in 1909, at the New York Symphony Society.
The piece appears here with bar-numbered movements, making[...]
Situated in the heart of Paris, the Musee d'Orsay boasts the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in the world, a collection unparalleled in its diversity and quality. Since its spectacular opening in 1986 in a renovated train station, the museum has welcomed more than 50 [...]
A quiet revolution is taking place in avant-garde French poetry and prose. In this collection of twelve interviews with some of France's most important poets and writers, Serge Gavronsky introduces American readers to these exciting new developments. As Gavronsky explains, a neolyricism is now repla[...]
Reciprocity is the basis of social relations. It permits a peaceful and free society in which people and rights are respected. The essence of families and communities, it also enables the working of markets and organisations, while correcting their main failures. Reciprocity is also a basis of polit[...]
Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and his fans. Why did he leave the West and move to the Soviet Union despite Stalin's crimes? Why did his astonishing creativity in the 1930s soon dissolve into a far less inspiring output in h[...]
This is a historical biography of Hannibal, the military leader of Carthage responsible for waging a dramatic onslaught against Rome during the Punic Wars, and one of the most fascinating figures of ancient history. It is told from a pro-Hannibal, rather than pro-Roman, perspective.[...]
A practical guide to applying ancient shamanic wisdom to our modern, everyday lives. The author shows how to acquire and apply the skills of the shaman in every area of life - from interpreting and changing dreams, divining the future and healing ourselves and the environment to shape-shifting, perf[...]
This important volume publishes in full for the first time two sets of highly elaborate Neo-Assyrian bronze gate decorations from the site of Balawat (ancient Imgur-Enlil) in northern Iraq. One set, discovered by Hormuzd Rassam on a British Museum expedition in 1878, is now on permanent display in L[...]
This book tells the story of the making of the legendary film The Misfits (1961), directed by John Huston and starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. As part of the promotional strategy for the film, The Magnum photographic agency was given the exclusive right to take photographs[...]
This provocative new book argues that the rise of the West to world domination has brought widespread social, cultural and material destruction in its wake.[...]
This brilliant and original book sets out to dismantle the idea that movements, crises and other phenomena produced in society must be explained by exclusively social causes, without recourse to psychological explanations. The author argues that we should reassess the significance of psychological c[...]
Serge Moscovici introduced the concept of social representations into contemporary social psychology. This book brings together some of his classic statements of the theory of social representations as well as elaborations of the distinctive features of this perspective in social psychology.[...]
* For the first time, English-speaking readers will have access to one of the most influential books published in the discipline in the past 30 years. * Psychoanalysis, Its Image and Its Public is in many ways the founding text of the theory of social representations and is, as such, a modern class[...]
Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to ta[...]
In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.[...]
In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.[...]