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Eberstadt, Fernanda: Liebeswut. Roman. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Judith Schwaab. - (=rororo 24416). Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag., 2006. ISBN: 3499244160
Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. - Fernanda Eberstadt (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer.[1][2][3][4] Early lifeShe is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Eberstadt, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was Ferdinand Eberstadt, a Wall Street financier and adviser to presidents; her maternal grandfather was the poet Ogden Nash.[5][2] She went to the Brearley School in New York City.[6] As a teenager, she worked at Andy Warhol's Factory[1] and for Diana Vreeland at the Metropolitan Museum. Her first published piece was a profile in Andy Warhol's "Interview" in 1979 of the travel writer Bruce Chatwin. At age eighteen, Eberstadt moved to the United Kingdom where she was one of the first women to attend Magdalen College, Oxford, from which she graduated in 1982.[2] with a double first. Writing careerIn 1985, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. published the twenty-five-year old Eberstadt's first work of literary fiction, titled Low Tide. This told the story of Jezebel, daughter of an English art dealer and a mad Louisa heiress, adn her fatal love affair with two young brothers. It takes place in New York, Oxford and Mexico. Praise for her work landed her an interview with intellectual William F. Buckley on his television program, Firing Line, where she appeared with Bret Easton Ellis, who had published "Less Than Zero" the same year. The same year, Eberstadt discussed the author of Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi, in an article in Commentary magazine. An essay in The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi by Bryan Cheyette describes the article as follows: "The problem with Levi, clearly, is that he is not Eli Wiesel ... Levi's secular humanism offers a completely different representation of the Holocaust to that of Wiesel and thereby endangers Wiesel's hegemony as the emblematic Holocaust survivor in the United States."[9] Biographer Ian Thomson's 2002 volume Primo Levi characterizes Eberstadt's article as motivated mainly by a disagreement with "Levi's reputation as a liberal Diaspora Jew." (p.482) Shortly after, Levi wrote to his translator that "It is not merely for this episode that I have lost my good humour." Her next novel Isaac and His Devils came in 1991 and was again widely acclaimed, described by Library Journal as a "rich novel, full of promise for the author's future." Set in rural New Hampshire, the novel's hero is Isaac Hooker, a half-deaf, half-blind, hugely fat and ambitious boy-genius and his struggle to fulfill his parents' blighted dreams. Her third novel, published in 1997 and set in the late 1980s New York art world, When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth, recounted the rise and fall of the now young painter, Isaac Hooker. Eberstadt began writing essays and criticism for such publications as Commentary, The New Yorker, Vogue, New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair.[7] Her widely cited essay "The Palace and the City," about the Sicilian writer Lampedusa and the politics of urban restoration in Palermo, was published in the December 23, 1991 issue of The New Yorker. In more recent years, she has worked extensively for The New York Times Magazine, publishing profiles of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, of Moroccan-based Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo ,and the Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, as well as of indie-rock group Cocorosie. Following her pattern of a six-year interval between novels, Eberstadt published The Furies in 2003. Praised by Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and the New York Times Book Review, fellow writer Bret Easton Ellis called it "spellbinding",[citation needed] and the New York Observer said "The Furies veers pretty close to genius." John Updike, reviewing "Little Money Street" in "The New Yorker," described Eberstadt as "ambitious, resourceful novelist."[8] Life in FranceIn 1998, Eberstadt went to live on a vineyard in the French Pyrenees, outside the city of Perpignan. She became friends with a family of French gypsy musicians. Her first work of non-fiction, Little Money Street - In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France, which portrays that friendship, was released by Knopf in March 2006. Luc Sante called the book "passionate, intimate, at once exhilarating and despairing, a rich and profound work of high nonfiction literature. A portrait of the Gypsies of southwestern France, it is also about family, about consumerism, and about the ruthlessness of a world in which there is no more open world." Eberstadt and her husband, Alaistair Meddon Oswald Bruton, a journalist whom she married on June 5, 1993,[5] live in France; they have two children.[6] Her sixth book, a novel called RAT, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in March 2010. RAT tells the story of a 15-year-old girl who set off on a journey from rural France to London, with her adopted brother in search of her birth father and a better life. It received very good reviews with Booklist calling it "mythic, gritty and unforgettable." wikipedia-org-wiki-Fernanda_Eberstadt Aus: wikipedia-org , ISBN-13: 9783499244162

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Kamin, Blair: Why Architecture Matters. Lessons from Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780226423210
Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Inhalt: The Evolving Metropolis: The Mediocre Mile -- The Mayor's Maypole: Boul Mich Pylon Plan Reason to Hoist Warning Flags -- Twice Cursed: Rehabbed Marriott Is Miles and Miles from Magnificent -- Faking History: Disney's Make-Believe Architecture Is Just What Michigan Avenue Doesn't Need -- That Comeback Street: Stately Street: Retro Renovation Puts a Once-Great Shopping Mecca on the Road to Economic and Aesthetic Recovery -- An Elevating Station: Avoiding the Tunnel Vision of the Past, the Airy Renovation of the State/Roosevelt Subway Stop Sets a Zesty Standard -- Building a Better Block -- Good Intentions Simply Aren't Enough for High-Stakes State Street Project/ -- Public Works and the Public Realm: Updating the Dark Ages: Daley's Walled-Neighborhoods Plan Would Do Much to Hurt the City and Little to Stop Crime -- The Bridges of Cook County: Design Enhances Engineering in Citywide Project -- Triumphal Arches: Damen Avenue Bridge Is a Modern-Day Beauty -- Making the Past a Part of the Future: Tumbling Legacy: Shortsighted Moves by the City Have the Potential to Send Architectural Gems Toppling Like Dominoes -- Vertical Triumph: Reliance Building Restoration Is a Vote for Old Glory -- Crumbling Icons: Some of Frank Lloyd Wright's Greatest Buildings Are Falling Apart, but the Bigger Question Is-What Can We Do to Save Them? -- Suburbanizing the City: City-Escape: A New, Schlocky Brand of Architecture Promotes a Chicago that Never Was -- Populist Playground: Navy Pier Has Shaped Up, but Aesthetics Have Been Shipped Out -- The Sky Above, the Dud Below: Developer John Buck Is Skating on Thin Ice When He Compares His North Bridge Project to New York's Rockefeller Center -- Urbanizing the Sburbs: Shopping for an Identity: Renovated Old Orchard Too Much at Once -- Losing Yardage: City and Suburbs Worse Off When Homeowners Gobble Up Their Green Space -- Suburban Skyline: Arlington Heights Fights Sprawl with Urban Innovations -- The Art of Architecture: Sizing Up the Skyscraper: Still Standing Tall: Plain and Simple, Hancock Rules -- Reaching for the Sky: After Two Decades, Sears Comes Up Short -- Bigger, but Better? New World's Tallest Design for 7 South Dearborn Leaves Room for Improvement -- Inner Beauty: Stunning Atrium Offsets New Skyscraper's Public Face -- Green Giant: Germany's Commerzbank Is a Breath of Fresh Air for Stale Skyscrapers -- Unsung Heroes: The Man with the Plan: Revisiting Daniel H. Burnham, the Architect Who Bent Entire Cities to His Will -- Masters of Understatement: Miesian Architects May Get No Respect, but Their Boldly Simple Style Suits Chicago to a T -- Weese's Legacy: Historical Society's Exhibit Salutes a Consummate Man of the City -- Opportunities Lost (and Found) in Chicago: Doing the Wrong Thing Flawlessly: The Arts Club of Chicago Holds on to the Past -- Instead of Exploring the Future -- A Fumbled Chance at Greatness: The Museum of Contemporary Art Tries but Fails to Extend Chicago's History of Design Triumphs -- Structural Damage: Chicago Has Forfeited Its Title as the Nation's Architectural Capital -- A Star Is Reborn: Underappreciated Adler Planetarium Rockets into the Future with Daring New Addition -- Architecture with a Capital "A": Look Elsewhere: Monument to Memory: The Holocaust Memorial Museum Is a Searing Space of Pain and Healing -- Star Attraction: The Hayden Sphere Has Landed and It's Friendly to Earthlings -- Welcome to the Future: Frank Gehry's Stunning New Guggenheim Museum in Spain Is the First Great Building of the Next Century -- Berlin's Leading Edge: Helmut Jahn's New Sony Center Helps Turn a Wasteland into a Thriving Urban Center that Draws Together East and West -- Importing "Starchitects": Koolhaas's IIT Campus Center: Success Will Be in the Details -- Gehry's Chicago Band Shell: Outsider Art Is Catalyst for Creativity -- Eisenman's Aronoff Center in Cincinnati: For a Design to Stand the Test of Time, the Building Must Do the Same -- Architecture as a Social Art: Places and Catalysts for Gathering -- Town Square I: Face Lift Improves Daley Plaza and Maintains Its Special Character -- Town Square II: Folk Music School's New Home Strikes the Right Note -- Moo-ving Tale: Cows Broke Down the Fences that Kept Us Apart -- Raising and Razing Temples of Sport: Comiskey Park: New Neighbor Not Necessarily New Friend -- The Stadium: The End Is Near for Chicago's Shrine -- The United Center: Don't Take Me Out to the Mall Game -- Building a Better Life: A Leap of Creativity: Old St. Pat's Is New Again -- Where Learning's Fun by Design: Back of the Yards School Is a Neighborhood Beacon -- Day-Care Package: Tigerman Leads the Way toward a Bootstrap Architecture that Gives Low-Income Kids a Leg Up -- Private Housing: Building Boom, Architecture Bust: Strange Neighbors: Bright New Condos Add Vitality to the City-but Something about Them Is Just Not Right -- Tall Building Comes Up Short: New Apartment Tower Is a Drag on the Skyline -- Public Housing .-Sheltered by Design: Housing that Works: Politicians and Bureaucrats Have Been the Real Architects of Public Housing, but It Doesn't Have to Be that Way -- Urban Mosaic's Lost Piece: Creative Planners Have Discarded the "Tower-in-the-Park" Model that Disconnected Public Housing from Its Surroundings -- Building a Sense of Security: Fences, Individual Front Doors, and Porches Create Safe Spaces that Can Free Residents from Being Virtual Prisoners of Drug Dealers and Prostitutes -- Myth Must Be Exploded: Stereotyping Ignores Factors that Make High-Rises Livable Buildings or Monumental Eyesores -- The Lakefront: Democratic Vistas: Putting the Car in Its Place -- Gem in the Making: The New Museum Campus Is Chicago's Latest Lakefront Jewel, but It Still Needs a Little Polishing -- Park Above, Parking Below: A Subterranean Garage Adds Excitement to a Museum and Green Space to the Lakefront -- Beauty and the Beach: Three New Castles in the Sand Suit the Lakefront Perfectly -- Reinventing the Lakefront: A Flawed Jewel: The Lakefront Needs Help, and the City of Chicago Has a Rare Chance to Remold It for the Twenty-first Century-but Where's the Vision' -- The Great Divide: Carved by Racism, the Chasm between North and South Side Amenities Can Be Bridged, but It Will Take More than a Few Flowers -- Grant Park's Double Life: Jammed and Raucous during Summer Festivals, Empty and Sleepy the Rest of the Year, Our Central Park Needs a Single, Vibrant Personality -- A Landmark of Labor: As a Celebration of Industry, the Idled South Works Steel Plant Could Forge a New Link in the Chain ofWaterfront Parks and Museums -- Striking a Balance: Lincoln Park Is about to Add the Nature Museum to Its Already Full Plate, While the South Lakefront Hungers for Improvements -- Big Canvas, Little Plans: Mayor Daley Could Be an Architect for the Shoreline, Not Just a Groundskeeper-and Now Is the Time to Act. 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Ebel, Otto: Women Composers: A Biographical Handbook of Woman's Work in Music (1902) KESSINGER PUB CO, November 2007 ISBN: 9780548803523

Sofort lieferbar! Restauflage in gutem Zustand. Rechnung mit MwSt. Kartoniert / Broschiert, 164 S., 22,9cm x 15,2cm x 1,0cm, VTb t Has Woman Accomplished in Music 7 This question, frequently asked in a pessimistic way, the following pages will attempt to answer. Woman has accomplished comparatively more in the field of music than is generally known, though nature, so far s lias not produced a woman composer whose compo sitions will compare with the works of the great masters. But let us ask, how many of the numerous composers of the sterner sex have proven themselves real Titans of music Few indeed, these come only in a cycle of years. Why then have women been less numerous in a field where one would think their natural inclinations would lead them The principal reason, I believe, has been the fact that women have only recently entered seriously this field of art, while man has for centuries developed his intellect and emotion in such a direction. We must consider, that scarcely fifty years ago, music, with very few exceptions, was never seriously at tempted as a study by women not from any disinclina tion for or want of capacity to understand the science, but because the subjects of harmony and counterpoint, bad. hitherto been considered outside the province of womens education, and the acquirement of such knowl edge, other than as a pastime, would have been regarded as a mental aberration. It is only within the last 10 15 years that the preju dice which excluded women from studying the violin, cello and other stringed and wind instruments has been overcome. Previous to 1876 no female students of the violin were admitted at the High School, I ondon. For a long time women were not permitted to com pete for prizes or receive diplomas at Kuropean Conser vatories and Colleges. When Elizabeth Sterling pace in.seated her beautiful CXXX Psalm for five voices and orchestra to Oxford for the degree of Mus. Bac., the de gree, although the work was accepted, and its merit acknowledged, could not be given for want of power to fvuftr the stime itpon a woman. Is it then to be wondered at that womens work in music has shown comparatively small results If practice not only improves, but increases capacity, and opportu nity makes while it also develops the musician, what opportunities have woman had of becoming musicians from the time of Palestrina to the middle of the igih century They were taught music as a pastime, and then only in its most primitive form, their musical studies seldom advancing beyond playing the lute and kindred instru ments. They had no incentives to composition, the church even discouraging women, throughout mediaeval times, and by actual prohibition in the i6th. century, to take any active musical part in its service. Not many years have passed, when to be told that a composition was the work of a woman, was equivalent to its condemnation beforehand. The scarcity of womens work in music in the past is therefor not owing to their inability to grasp and apply the science, but it may rather be attributed to prejudice and the rules of fashion and custom, which so long de terred her from entering this field of useful and profit able work and study. That such prejudice against womens work must have temled to depress and discourage, is certain, and is best shown by the fact of many women composers concealing their identity under male noms-de-plume on the title pages of their compositions. Augusta Holmes published works as Herman Zenta, Mme. de Grandval used several Clement Val grand, etc, lime. La Hye signed as Leon St. Amans, IV. Mrs. John Macfarren as kk Jules Brissac, Mrs. Roeckel as Jules de SIvrai, and so forth. Others again published their names on their works with only the Initials of their Christian names prefixed, , like Farrenc, Chaminade in her earlier works . Lebeau, Ethel 31. Smyth Mass in D and man y others, even to the present day. It must therefor be considered a great point gained, that it is no longer looked upon as an eccentricity for women to compose...

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Peter Bogucki Illustrator: . Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World, Four-Volume Set, Viva Books 2010 ISBN: 9788130909295

New Hardcover . The story of the ancient world spans the globe and covers millennia. It is the largely overlooked account of the tremendous diversity in human experience, ranging from the Ice Age societies whose way of life is so remote from ours to the citizens of Greece and Rome whom we easily recognize from history books. In the course of 2 million years, humans have settled every corner of Earth and organized their lives in countless ways. Viva-Facts On File Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World provides an overview of the means by which people lived in the past. Based on reliable and accurate scholarship, this comprehensive yet accessible four-volume encyclopedia offers coverage of the ancient world from prehistory to the fall of Rome, including Western and non-Western cultures and civilizations. Each of the 69 entries explores a specific topic across the entire world, beginning with an introduction that outlines the major developments in chronological sequence, followed by subsections on Africa, Egypt, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Greece, Rome, and the Americas. Entries conclude with a list of cross-references to related entries, as well as a further reading list of books, articles ,and Web sites on the topic. Primary source documents, sidebars, and more than 250 black-and-white photographs and maps supplement the text, while a glossary, general bibliography, chronology by region, and comprehensive index make Viva-Facts On File Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World an easy-to-use and essential reference for high school and college students, researchers, and general readers alike. Contents: Advisers and Contributors aEURc List of Illustrations aEURc List of Maps and Primary Source Documents aEURc Preface aEURc Introduction aEURc Volume I aEURc adornment aEURc agriculture aEURc architecture aEURc art aEURc astronomy aEURc borders and frontiers aEURc building techniques and materials aEURc calendars and clocks aEURc ceramics and pottery aEURc children aEURc cities aEURc climate and geography aEURc clothing and footwear aEURc crafts aEURc crime and punishment aEURc Volume II aEURc death and burial practices aEURc drama and theater aEURc economy aEURc education aEURc empires and dynasties employment and labor aEURc exploration aEURc family aEURc festivals aEURc food and diet aEURc foreigners and barbarians aEURc gender structures and roles aEURc government organization aEURc health and disease aEURc household goods aEURc hunting, fishing, and gathering aEURc illumination aEURc inventions aEURc Volume III aEURc language aEURc laws and legal codes aEURc literature aEURc metallurgy aEURc migration and population movements aEURc military aEURc mining, quarrying, and salt making aEURc money and coinage aEURc music and musical instruments aEURc natural disasters aEURc nomadic and pastoral societies aEURc numbers and counting aEURc occupations aEURc pandemics and epidemics aEURc religion and cosmology aEURc resistance and dissent aEURc roads and bridges aEURc Volume IV aEURc sacred sites aEURc scandals and corruption aEURc science aEURc seafaring and navigation aEURc settlement patterns aEURc ships and shipbuilding aEURc slaves and slavery aEURc social collapse and abandonment aEURc social organization aEURc sports and recreation aEURc storage and preservation aEURc textiles and needlework aEURc towns and villages aEURc trade and exchange aEURc transportation war and conquest aEURc weaponry and armor aEURc weights and measures aEURc writing aEURc Glossary aEURc Chronology by Region aEURc General Bibliography aEURc Index Printed Pages: 1600. First edition

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