Authors:Paul Austerlitz,  Robert Farris Thompso,
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: dominican, identity, music, merengue
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1997-01-22
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1566394848
ISBN-13: 9781566394840

Merengue—the quintessential Dominican dance music—has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as an international music. Using extensive interviews as well as written commentaries, Austerlitz examines the historical and contemporary contexts in which merengue is performed and danced, its symbolic significance, its social functions, and its musical and choreograph

Authors:Robert W. Mitchell,  Nicholas S. Thompso,
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: suny, series, behavior, deceit, nonhuman, perspectives, human, deception
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 1986-02-01
List price: $60.50
ISBN-10: 0887061079
ISBN-13: 9780887061073

Author: Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: motion, art, african
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1979-11
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0520038444
ISBN-13: 9780520038448

Authors:William Shakespeare,  Ann Thompso,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: shakespeare, cambridge, new, shrew, taming
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2003-04-28
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0521532493
ISBN-13: 9780521532495

Ann Thompson has added new sections to the Introduction of this new edition which describe the "deeply problematic" nature of debates about the play and its reception since the 1980s. She discusses recent editions and textual, performance and critical studies. First Edition Hb (1984): 0-521-22195-1 First Edition Pb (1984): 0-521-29388-XBook Description’Thompson makes admirable use of the play’s stage history to show that its depiction of the woman-tamer has always disturbed people hers remains the introductory essay I would most want my students to read.’English’ a radi

Authors:Niccolo Machiavelli,  N.H. Thompso,
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: prince
Number of Pages: 82
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 160520322X
ISBN-13: 9781605203225

If any book could be called legendary, surely it is this one. Its author, Italian diplomat and philosopher NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527) considered it his greatest work. Indeed, his thoughts on politics, as laid out so famously in this brief but profound work, have become so synonymous with him that his name has become an adjective: Machiavellian. How is political power achieved? How is it maintained? Though Machiavelli states explicitly that he is not discussing "Republics" here, only "Princedoms," this coldly rational guidebook to taking control and holding onto it contains such universal

Authors:Mark Camphouse,  Mallory Thompso,
Publisher: Gia Publicatio
Keywords: band, composing, composers
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1579991955
ISBN-13: 9781579991951

Offering fresh insight and perspective into the changing world of wind bands, 11 respected composers give their thoughts on writing music in this compilation. Profiles of each composer, including Karel Husa, Frank Ticheli, and Jack Stamp, are presented along with a complete list of the composer’s works for band. Included are each composer’s perspectives on the creative process, orchestration, commissioning new works, teaching composition, and the future of the wind band. Each composer’s recommendations for 10 works all band conductors should study and 10 composers whose music

Authors:Michael J. Rosen,  John Thompso,
Publisher: Blue Sky Pre
Keywords: wish, thanksgiving
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0590255630
ISBN-13: 9780590255639

Thanksgiving is the biggest holiday of the year for Amanda’s grandmother Bubbe. Every year Amanda’s family and all the relatives travel to Bubbe’s house for her giant tom turkey, stuffing made from her own braided challah, and enough pumpkin pies for each family to take one home. But this year Bubbe is no longer with them, and everyone wonders if the holiday can ever be the same. When the power in Amanda’s house goes out unexpectedly during the meal preparation, it looks as if there may not even be a Thanksgiving. But help is on the way, and this turns out to be a very