It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham formed his dance company, John Cage staged his first "happening," and Buckminster Fuller built his first dome. Although it lasted only twenty-four years (1933-1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remark[...]

Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders ca[...]

1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant spending on costume, foreshadowing the later luxury of Richard II's court. Stella Mary Newton broke new ground with this detailed study, which discusses fourteenth-century costume in detail. She draws on surv[...]

Recounts the author's experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s, and describes life at a residential school for black deaf and blind students as both a student and a teacher.[...]

Naples, the 19th Century. In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, holy music has power. Under the auspices of the Church, the Sung Mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick or raising the dead. But some believe that the musicodramma of grand opera can also work magic by channeling power[...]

How to live well? This is a diverse and inspiring selection of interiors from around the world. This special edition rounds up the creme de la creme of today's most exceptional and inspiring interiors around the world. Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, this painstaki[...]

Wings forever!

Wings i engelska för åk 6-9 är ett läromedelspaket med tydlig struktur. Innehållet är ungdomstillvänt och tematiskt. Texterna finns i Textbook och alla övningar i Workbook, samlade under rubrikerna: Words and phrases, Speaking, Reading, Writing och Listening. Alla i[...]

  Nu lyfter Wings! Wings ett läromedel i engelska för åk 69 har genomgått en total make-over och består nu av ett läromedelspaket med tydlig struktur, lättillgängligt och lätthanterligt för både elever och lärare. Metodiken består, men innehållet är mer ungdomstillvänt och tematis[...]

Wings forever! Wings, engelska för åk 69, är ett läromedelspaket med tydlig struktur. Innehållet är ungdomstillvänt och tematiskt. Texterna finns i Textbook och alla övningar i Workbook, samlade under rubrikerna: Words and phrases, Speaking, Reading, Writing och Listening. Alla instruktione[...]