A six-volume set containing 2,157 entries on dancers, international dance styles, dance companies, and more. It also includes essays by contemporary dance experts.'Twenty five hundred years ago, Socra...
Virtually all of the composers works for piano solo: four piano sonatas, Invitation to the Dance (a waltz later orchestrated by Berlioz), eight sets of variations, Momento capriccioso, Grande Polonais...
In the 1930s Sula Benet, then a student at the University of Warsaw, began to study the life of Polish peasants, a subject which led to many field trips before and after World War II. Concentrating on...
In the enchanted city of Turai, the royal family is corrupt, the politicians can be bought, and the civic guards have better things to do than guarding. Thraxas may look unprepossessing, being overwei...
En el fichero de una gran biblioteca aparece como suyo un libro que Daniel Torres no ha escrito: Viaje a la Patagonia. La busqueda del autor desconocido llevara a este escritor a las tierras de hielo ...
Daniel X works alone. Having watched from the shadows as the brutal murder of his own parents unfolded before him, he has been forced to make his own way in a dark and unforgiving world with a heavy t...
Crystal encapsulates the mood of the moment, yet it is the material's timelessness that has made it an essential ingredient in contemporary design. This book celebrates the incomparable vision and cre...
Frank was a monster who wanted to dance. So he put on his hat, and hisshoes made in France... and opened a jar and put ants in his pants! Sobegins this monstrously funny, deliciously disgusting, horri...
The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalle...
While the battle for the compensation of Thalidomide victims was raging in the 1970s, former Labour MP Jack Ashley asked in a parliamentary debate how Louise, then 11 years old, could look forward to ...
Ballet is an exquisitely sophisticated and elegant art form. However its seeming ease and gracefulness belie the underlying physical stress. Much of a dancer's ability is reliant on favorable anatomy,...
Der deutsche Kaufmann John Rabe (1882–1950) half in den Jahren 1937/38 unter Einsatz seines Lebens, 250.000 Chinesen in Nanjing vor den Massakern der japanischen Besatzer zu retten. Seine von Erwin W...