For more than two centuries, Butler's Lives of the Saints has been hailed as the authority on the Christian patron saints. Now, in this new edition of the original classic, Michael Walsh has culled the ruch resources of earlier editions to accentuate the more modern and best-documented saints. Echoi[...]
Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, me[...]
In the fall of 1976, 14 letters by Alban Berg, renowned composer of the Second Viennese School, were discovered in the posthumous papers of Hanna Fuchs-Robettin, wife of a Prague industrialist and sister of Franz Werfel, the well-known Austro-Czech writer. In the 1920s, Berg gained international not[...]
For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonizati[...]
Adorno?s study of Alban Berg is a unique document. Itself now a part of music history, it is a personal account, by a pre-eminent philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend and composition teacher. Shortly after Berg?s death in 1935, Adorno contributed several [...]
"Alban Berg and His World" is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese m[...]
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the 11 different models of large group intervention, in which employees and customers are brought together. It explores their similarities and differences, describes their origins, and presents these methods with examples and case studies.[...]
Arguing for the need both to preach Christ in every sermon and to preach regularly from the Old Testament, Sidney Greidanus develops a christocentric method that will help preachers do both simultaneously. Greidanus challenges Old Testament scholars to broaden their focus and to understand the Old T[...]
Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passagewa[...]
To Which Is Prefixed A Memoir Of The Authoress, With Extracts From Her Private Journals. In Four Volumes.[...]
Butler's daily readings from the lives and works of the saints offer readers of all backgrounds the opportunity to engage directly with these great figures.[...]
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS: COMPLETE EDITIONREVEREND ALBAN BUTLER - One of the Greatest Catholic Classic! - Complete Edition: 2.2 Million Words - 1,458 Saint Biographies - Includes 5,393 Active Linked Endnotes. - Includes an Active Index, Table of Contents and Layered NCX Navigation - Includes Illus[...]
This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like roof, base, wall, and axis or proportion . The point is to describe the experience of architecture:[...]
In what ways does literary authorship participate in creating the poetics of the self? Using the works of Goetz, Lottmann, and Herbst, this study applies the insights of autofiction research to develop a set of methodological tools that take into account the nature of today s media systems. The resu[...]
Gatelangs er de geniale storbyguidene som tar for seg byen kvartal for kvartal ved hjelp av utbrettskart over bydelene, med korte beskrivelser av det man trenger å vite. Nå får flere av omslagene nye, friske farger.Nå til 21 reisemål.[...]
Om Alban och hans fantastiska hundliv, från den dagen han föds på den varma ängen tills den dag han dör. Men dessemellan hinner han leka mycket, hitta sin försvunna pappa, träffa Kärleken Melitta och själv få barn och barnbarn!En underbar kultbok från 70-talet!Barbro Lindgren, född 1937,[...]
Kukin opas esittelee matkakohteen ajantasaisesti ja monipuolisesti alue tai kaupunginosa kerrallaan.Näppärästi taitetuilta kuusisivuisilta kartta-aukeamilta löytyvät kunkin kaupunginosan kiinnostavimmat kohteet. Aukeamat on helppo avata, pitää auki ja sulkea vaikka kadulla kävellessä.Tärke[...]