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  • - Conversations Over Music
    von Ben Ratliff
    23,00 €

    Musicians are often loath to discuss their craft for fear of destroying its improvisational essence, rendering jazz among the most ephemeral and least transparent of the performing arts. This work coaxes out an understanding of the men and women themselves, the context of their work, and how jazz from horn blare to drum riffs created conceptually.

  • von James Mann
    35,00 €

  • von Charles Peters
    28,00 €

  • von Douglas G. Brinkley
    35,00 €

  • von David Greenberg
    31,00 €

  • von John Perry
    21,00 €

    The alternative name book will help you find a unique and hip name to suit your tot. Includes:-Introduction analysing the phenomenon of why celebrities choose such extraordinary names- Around 500 barmy names with spoof meanings-Stories of alternatively named children who chose to rebel against their names and lead more normal lives

  • von Duncan Anderson
    24,00 €

    Glass Warriors is the new, text-only paperback edition of The Times War, and has been fully revised and updated to include in-depth biographies of the war journalists and photographers in the book as well as chronologies of all the major wars. On 5 October 1853, as the Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia , thereby setting off the Crimean War, a new age in warfare began. This was the first war reported on by a civilian war correspondent, William Howard Russell of The Times, whose dispatches from the front shocked a nation. It was also the first major conflict to be photographed, beginning the great tradition of war photojournalism which has chronicled all the world's battles and wars ever since. Glass Warriors was first published in hardback as The Times Picture Collection: War to mark the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War, of William Russell's dispatches, and of the first war photography. From the Crimea, through the Franco-Prussian War, the Boer War, the First and Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, Gulf War and the campaign in Afghanistan, all the world's major conflicts are discussed, and are further supported by biographies of each of the journalists and photographers in the stories, as well as a detailed chronologies of all the major wars. The collection is poignant, authoritative, and shocking, chronicling a century and a half when the world has rarely been at peace and when the lenses of photographers have never ceased to capture the ferocity of war. This book is a ground-breaking account of modern warfare.

  • von Hans Louis Trefousse
    35,00 €

  • von Jeffrey Rosen
    36,00 €

  • von Timothy Naftali
    36,00 €

  • - 1923-1933
    von William E. Leuchtenburg
    36,00 €

    Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover - an engineer by training - exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s. This book assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history.

  • - The American Presidents
    von H. W. Brands
    27,00 €

  • - Harry Blackman's Supreme Court Journey
    von Linda Greenhouse
    24,00 €

    A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent with unprecedented access to the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court chronicles the personal transformation of legendary justice Harry A. Blackmun who wrote numerous landmark decisions, including Roe v. Wade, and participated in the most contentious debates of his era--all behind closed doors.

  • - The 13th President, 1850 - 1853
    von Paul Finkelman
    34,00 €

    In this eye-opening biography, the legal scholar and historian Finkelman reveals how Millard Fillmore's response to the crisis he inherited in 1850 set the country on a dangerous path that led to the Civil War.

  • von Nicholas Bakalar
    21,00 €

    In this addictive collection of trivia, Bakalar shares the wonders of medicine, takes a tour of diseases that belong in horror movies, and tickles the curiosity of both the healthy and the hypochondriac.

  • - The 9th President, 1841
    von Gail Collins
    33,00 €

    William Henry Harrison died just 31 days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but as Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are worth a closer look.

  • - The American Presidents Series: The 7th President, 1829-1837
    von Sean Wilentz
    35,00 €

  • - The New York Times Guide to Planning Your Financial Future
    von Fred Brock
    23,00 €

    From the "New York Times" retirement expert, comes an authoritative resource for successfully assessing and tackling the real costs and challenges of retirement.

  • von Michael F. Holt
    34,00 €

    Holt, a leading historian of 19th-century partisan politics, paints a portrait of the genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery.

  • - The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero
    von Richard Bernstein
    25,00 €

    Richard Bernstein's Out of the Blue provides a gripping and authoritative account of the September 11, 2001 attack, its historical roots, and its aftermath. Few news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but no news organization rivaled the New York Times for its comprehensive, resourceful, in-depth, and thoughtful coverage. This effort may well emerge as the finest hour in the paper's distinguished 150-year history. In an unprecedented commitment, the Times assigned one of its most skilled reporters, Richard Bernstein, to turn the newspaper's brilliant and incisive reporting into a riveting narrative of September 11th. Following the lives of heroes, victims, and terrorists, Bernstein weaves a complex tale of a multitude of lives colliding in conflagration on that fateful morning. He takes us inside the Al Qaeda organization and the lives of the terrorists, from their indoctrination into radical Islam to the harrowing moments aboard the aircraft as they raced toward their terrible destiny. We meet cops and firefighters, and become intimate with some of the Trade Center workers who were lost on that day. We follow the lives of the rest of America--ordinary citizens and national leaders alike--in the hours and days after the attack. Finally, Bernstein chronicles the nation's astonishing response in the aftermath. No account of this singular moment in American history will be as sharp, readable, and authoritative as Out of the Blue.

  • - America by the Numbers at the Turn of the 21st Century
    von Sam Roberts
    24,00 €

    A revealing view of America and its citizens at the dawn of a new century, by the author of the New York Times Notable Book Who We AreFor more than two centuries, America has taken stock every decade, producing a statistical self-portrait of our population. In Who We Are Now, Sam Roberts identifies and illuminates the trends and social shifts changing the face of America today. America is in the midst of a fundamental transformation. The nation's complexion changed significantly over the twentieth century, creating more varied and intermingled identities, and with the baby boomers nearing retirement and their children entering college, the graying of America has been balanced, precariously, by the youth culture. And in the wake of welfare reform in the 1990s, the fate of the working poor has become all the more tenuous. Roberts masterfully weaves stories of individuals from all corners of the country alongside the data from the latest U.S. census, creating a compelling guided tour of the places, personalities, and politics that will shape America as the new century stretches before us.

  • - A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings
    von James Oestreich
    30,00 €

    A dazzling appraisal of the definitive classical music performances available today For classical music lovers, there is nothing more beguiling and exciting than the range of technique and emotion that can capture or transform the great works in the hands of a conductor and musicians. But with hundreds of recordings released every year, discovering the jewels is a challenge, for newcomers as well as for connoisseurs.New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn offers the ultimate collector''s guide, packed with a rich history of the composers and performers who stir our souls. From Bach''s eloquent Goldberg Variations performed by master pianist Glenn Gould at the beginning and end of his career in startlingly different interpretations, to a lyrical performance of Rimsky-Korsakov''s Scheherezade conducted by Kiril Kondrashin shortly after his defection from the Soviet Union, Kozinn places each work in the greater context of musical development and stretches the listener''s understanding of each pivotal composition. These original essays on the one hundred greatest recorded classical works provide both practical guidance for building a library and deep insight into the transcendent power of music itself.

  • - How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
    von Sandra Blakeslee & Jeff Hawkins
    39,00 €

  • - Marketing Lessons I've Learned from Over 80000 New Products
    von Robert Mcmath
    21,00 €

    Those ignorant of the mistakes of the past are bound to lose a lot of money.  That''s why Bob McMath founded the New Products Showcase and Learning Center--a "Smithsonian for Stinkers," Business Week dubbed it.  There, executives from top corporations pay huge amounts of money to rummage through some 80,000 products gone awry.  Their mission: to avoid the misguided, expensive, and occasionally ludicrous mistakes that trip up even top companies.In What Were They Thinking?, McMath shows you how to avoid such mistakes, with more that eighty marketing lessons he''s learned  from his long experience with clods and clunkers.  As People magazine put it "McMath knows his goods--and his uglies, too"--and here he shows you how to:  Steer clear of the number one killer of new products  (page 129)  Develop a marketing campaign based on a "Significant Point of Difference"  (page 183)  Take advantage of eight  "Hot Buttons for Success in the Millennium"  (page 101)   Keep out of the "Buy-This-If-You''re-a-Loser School of Marketing"  (page 28)  Combat "Corporate Alzheimer''s"  (page 4)and much more !

  • von Gary Hart
    34,00 €

    The former senator offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president"--James Monroe--remembered for being the last of the Virginia dynasty and for issuing the Monroe Doctrine.

  • von MD, Mph, Ira M & usw.
    33,00 €

  • - The 35th President, 1961-1963
    von Alan Brinkley
    35,98 €

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961 and he personified what he called the New Frontier as the United States entered the 1960s. This title presents his portrait.

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