Author: Susan Wollenberg File Type: pdf As Robert Schumann put it, Only few works are as clearly stamped with their authors imprint as his. This book explores Schuberts stylistic traits in a series of chapters each discussing an individual fingerprint with case studies drawn principally from the piano and chamber music. The notion of Schuberts compositional fingerprints has not previously formed the subject of a book-length study. The features of his personal style considered here include musical manifestations of Schuberts violent nature, the characteristics of his thematic material, and the signs of his classicizing manner. In the process of the discussion, attention is given to matters of form, texture, harmony and gesture in a range of works, with regard to the various fingerprints identified in each chapter. The repertoire discussed includes the late string quartets, the String Quintet, the E flat Piano Trio and the last three piano sonatas. Developing ideas which she first proposed in a series of journal articles and contributions to symposia on Schubert, Professor Wollenberg takes into account recent literature by other scholars and draws together her own researches to present her view of Schuberts compositional personality. Schubert emerges as someone exerting intellectual control over his musical material and imbuing it with poetic resonance.**

Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah File Type: epub A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.Samantha Power, author of *A Problem from Hell*Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophyas well as the authors own experience of life on three continentsCosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.**From Publishers WeeklyIn a world more interconnected than ever, the responsibilities and obligations we share remain matters of volatile debate. Weighing in on a discourse that includes both visions of clashing civilizations and often equally misguided cultural relativism, Ghana-born Princeton philosopher Appiah (In My Fathers House) reclaims a tradition of creative exchange and imaginative engagement across lines of difference. This cosmopolitan ethic, which he traces from the Greek Cynics and through to the U.N.s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, must inevitably balance universals with respect for particulars. This balance comes through conversation, a term Appiah uses literally and metaphorically to signal the depth of encounters across national, religious and other forms of identity. At the same time, Appiah stresses conversation neednt involve consensus, since living together mostly entails just getting used to one another. Amid the good and bad of globalization, the author parses some basic cultural-philosophical beliefsdrawing frequent examples from his own far-flung multicultural family as well as from impersonal relationships of exchange and powerto focus due attention on widespread and unexamined assumptions about identity, difference and morality. A stimulating read, leavened by cheerful, fluid prose, the book will challenge fashionable theories of irreconcilable divides with a practical and pragmatic worldview that revels in difference and the adventure of a shared humanity. This is an excellent start to Nortons new Issues of Our Time series. (Jan.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From The New Yorker Appiah, a Princeton philosophy professor, articulates a precise yet flexible ethical manifesto for a world characterized by heretofore unthinkable interconnection but riven by escalating fractiousness. Drawing on his Ghanaian roots and on examples from philosophy and literature, he attempts to steer a course between the extremes of liberal universalism, with its tendency to impose our values on others, and cultural relativism, with its implicit conviction that gulfs in understanding cannot be bridged. Cosmopolitanism, in Appiahs formulation, balances our obligations to others with the value not just of human life but of particular human liveswhat he calls universality plus difference. Appiah remains skeptical of simple maxims for ethical behaviorlike the Golden Rule, whose failings as a moral precept he swiftly demonstratesand argues that cosmopolitanism is the name not of the solution but of the challenge. 2006 The New Yorker

Author: Belva Davis File Type: pdf As the first black female television journalist in the western United States, Belva Davis overcame the obstacles of racism and sexism, and helped change the face and focus of television news. Now she is sharing the story of her extraordinary life in her poignantly honest memoir, Never in My Wildest Dreams. A reporter for almost five decades, Davis is no stranger to adversity. Born to a fifteen-year-old Louisiana laundress during the Great Depression, and raised in the overcrowded projects of Oakland, California, Davis suffered abuse, battled rejection, and persevered to achieve a career beyond her imagination. Davis has seen the world change in ways she never could have envisioned, from being verbally and physically attacked while reporting on the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco to witnessing the historic election of Barack Obama in 2008. Davis worked her way up to reporting on many of the most explosive stories of recent times, including the Vietnam War protests, the rise and fall of the Black Panthers, the Peoples Temple cult mass suicides at Jonestown, the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks that first put Osama bin Laden on the FBIs Most Wanted List. She encountered a cavalcade of cultural icons Malcolm X, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Ronald Reagan, Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali, Alex Haley, Fidel Castro, Dianne Feinstein, Condoleezza Rice, and others. Throughout her career Davis soldiered in the trenches in the battle for racial equality and brought stories of black Americans out of the shadows and into the light of day. Still active in her seventies, Davis, the Walter Cronkite of the Bay Area, now hosts a weekly news roundtable and special reports at KQED, one of the nations leading PBS stations,. In this way she has remained relevant and engaged in the stories of today, while offering her anecdote-rich perspective on the decades that have shaped us. No people can say they understand the times in which they have lived unless they have read this book. Dr. Maya Angelou**

Author: Pierre Duhem File Type: pdf These selections from Le systeme du monde, the classic ten-volume history of the physical sciences written by the great French physicist Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), focus on cosmology, Duhems greatest interest. By reconsidering the work of such Arab and Christian scholars as Averroes, Avicenna, Gregory of Rimini, Albert of Saxony, Nicole Oresme, Duns Scotus, and William of Occam, Duhem demonstrated the sophistication of medieval science and cosmology.