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        Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
        October 2010

        The Beethoven song companion

        by Paul Reid

        This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven's songs. All the composer's songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethoven's compositional methods. An introductory essay considers reasons for the relative neglect of the songs, the significance of Beethoven's choice of texts, his crucial role in the development of German art-song and specific aspects such as choice of key. Throughout the book, poetic and musical texts are discussed in their historical context, and in the overall context of Beethoven's life and music. It is anticipated that this book, like its predecessor The Schubert Song Companion, will encourage the performance and study of an important but comparatively neglected aspect of the work of the world's most celebrated composer.

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        May 2012

        28 Minuten

        Kriminalroman

        by Dave Zeltserman, Hoffmann Ulrich

        Die vier Softwareentwickler Dan, Gordon, Joel und Shrini sehen düsteren Zeiten entgegen. Sie sind Mitte fünfzig, mit dem neuesten Stand der Technik nur vage vertraut und ihre Stellen wurden vor kurzem „outgesourced”. Sie sind arbeitslos. Dan weiß nicht, wie er seine Familie versorgen soll, Gordon steht vor dem totalen Ruin und Joel und Shrini fehlt das nötige Kapital, um ihrem Leben eine neue Wendung zu geben. Immerhin fühlen die vier sich fit genug, es mit dem Sicherheitssystem einer Bank aufzunehmen. Und sie sind verzweifelt genug, um es auch wirklich zu tun. Sie haben 28 Minuten, um in die Bank zu stürmen, ihr Ding durchzuziehen und wieder zu verschwinden, bevor der Alarm losgeht. Alles ist bis ins letzte Detail durchorganisiert. Doch nichts ist so unberechenbar wie ein perfekter Plan und ein Systemanalytiker mit einer Kanone

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        October 2015

        Im Garten der Zeit

        Eine Phantasiereise zum Ausmalen

        by Illustriert von Song, Daria

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        1975

        Ni Dieu - ni metre

        Anarchistische Bemerkungen zur Bewusstseins- und Erkenntnistheorie

        by Hans P Duerr

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        A savage song

        Racist violence and armed resistance in the early twentieth-century U.S.–Mexico Borderlands

        by Margarita Aragon

        This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence invigorated racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them. Bringing anti-Mexican violence into a common analytical framework with anti-black violence, A savage song examines several focal points in this oft-ignored history, including the 1915 rebellion of ethnic Mexicans in South Texas, and its brutal repression by the Texas Rangers and the 1917 mutiny of black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment in Houston, Texas, in response to police brutality. Aragon considers both the continuities and stark contrasts across these different moments: how were racialized constructions of masculinity differently employed? How did African and Mexican American men, including those in uniform, respond to the violence of racism? And how was their resistance, including their claims to manhood and nation, understood by law enforcement, politicians, and the press? Building on extensive archival research, the book examines how African and Mexican American men have been constructed as 'racial problems', investigating, in particular, their relationship with law enforcement and ideas about black and Mexican criminality.

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        Photography & photographs
        June 2011

        The Peeps

        Ancoats: the presence of absence

        by Dan Dubowitz

        Ancoats, in Manchester, was once unimaginably different. One of the world's earliest industrial suburbs, it was dark and dense, noisy, frenetic, violent and unhealthy. It was also vibrant and creative. It had a striking vapour, sound and feel. The area today has undergone a striking regeneration. New streets, pavements and civic spaces have been laid down. A series of installations, known as The Peeps, have been created for the area. Built into the fabric of the buildings, the brass peep holes offer a fleeting glimpse of a walled-in space, a tunnel, a disused toilet, a bell tower, a gauge. Dan Dubowitz, given the title of 'cultural masterplanner', records through photographs, interviews, commentary and contemporaneous texts, the recent past and the current regeneration of the suburb. It is a fascinating, beautifully illustrated and designed volume that eloquently depicts the common narrative of industrialisation, slow decay and rebirth.

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