A work in which Stravinsky, prompted by Robert Craft, reviewed his long and remarkable life. It brings the Imperial Russia of his childhood into focus, at the same time scanning what were at the time the brave new horizons of Boulez and Stockhausen.[...]

Features Stravinsky's conversations with Robert Craft. This title delves into Stravinsky's memory and presents reminiscences of his childhood, youth and early manhood in Russia.[...]

Collects together a number of the author's programme notes about his own works, among them the "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" and "Jeu de Carte". This title includes waspish letters to the press, wide-ranging interviews, prefaces and reviews, and a section entitled 'Squibs'.[...]

In his highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story, Robert Paul Lamb delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway s exemplary stories to illuminate t[...]

Since the mid-1990s, the concept of strategic asymmetry has been receiving more serious attention from the U.S. Department of Defense. The September 11, 2001, attack on America, in which fully-loaded airplanes used as a form of stealth bomb with aerial fuel explosives hit the World Trade Center and [...]

The warrior's craft, according to Robert Spencer, is about gaining personal power -- that is, power within oneself rather than power over others through intimidation, violence, or manipulation. Drawing on a wealth of spiritual traditions, "The Craft of the Warrior presents the "warrior's way" to thi[...]