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Tannhäuser: (English National Opera Guide 39)
English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhäuser,which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? Describing of the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment,the opera contains the kernels of all his later works: man's need for love and artistic satisfaction,his desire for an existence beyond death,the operation of memory and the nature of madness. The essays in this volume examine the legends which Wagner chose to weave into his text,while Carolyn Abbate also considers the effect of his many revisions upon the score,pointing out that the initial idea already involved a contrast of musical language to focus the conflict.
THE OSCAR WILDE COLLECTION
This delightful 5-volume box set brings together the classic works of Oscar Wilde, presented with striking contemporary cover designs.Brilliant writer, flamboyant playwright, and prominent journalist, Oscar Wilde was one of Victorian Britain's most accomplished - and notorious - literary figures. Satirical, charming, eminently quotable, yet also acutely observant, Oscar Wilde's writing continues to captivate readers to this day.This brilliant box set contains all of Wilde's most famous works,The Picture of Dorian Gray :The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays :The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems :De ProfundisThe Happy Prince and Other Stories .This stylish box set makes a wonderful gift or collectible for any classic literature lover.ABOUT THE The Arcturus Classic Collections series features delightful, high-quality paperback box sets of classic works of literature with striking contemporary cover designs.
Fat Is A Feminist Issue [Paperback] [Feb 25, 2016] ORBACH SUSIE
THE ORIGINAL ANTIDIET BOOK IS BACK in one volume together with its bestselling sequel When it was first published Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then Updated throughout it includes a frank new introduction by Susie Orbach that brings this book to a new generation of readers whilst offering a current perspective for its original fans With an increasingly dominant diet industry costing the consumer millions of pounds each year Susie Orbachs bestselling classic is as important as ever in helping women to love their own body and face the demands of 21stcentury living with confidence
A Thousand Brains
A bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world—not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2021One of Bill Gates' Five Favorite Books of 2021
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Learn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) with these six classic and beloved lessonsIt was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics around the world. Six Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on Physics, represent the most accessible material from the series.In these classic lessons, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following topics: atoms, basic physics, energy, gravitation, quantum mechanics, and the relationship of physics to other topics. With his dazzling and inimitable wit, Feynman presents each discussion with a minimum of jargon. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of modern times."If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be Six Easy Pieces."- John Gribbin, New Scientist
Pestilence (The Four Horsemen)
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GHOSTS: The Button House Archives
The comic companion to the BBC sitcom GHOSTS.Everybody leaves a trace. The ghosts of Button House may have been dead a long time - some of them a very long time - but they have all left their mark on the world (even if, in Robin's case, that mark is just a handprint on the wall of a cave).Gathered together in this volume is a treasure trove of unearthed cuttings, original records and rare artefacts that explore the unseen lives of those who died at Button House: from Thomas's love letters to Pat's 'Summer Camp Rap', and from Julian's campaign promises to Lady Button's Rules of Etiquette. There are even documents dictated to the one person who can see and hear the ghosts: Alison Cooper.Written by the show's creators – Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond – this eclectic archive is a unique chance to discover more about the beloved ghosts of Button House. Thank be to Moonah!
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