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The Joy of Funerals: A Novel in Stories
Alix StraussIn the vein of Six Feet Under, this is a provocative look into the inner world of those left behind, and those still holding on. "The desire for human connection runs throughout Alix Strauss's dark and spirited novel, The Joy of Funerals.
Based Upon Availability CD: A Novel
Alix StraussFrom the very first page of this stunning novel, readers are drawn into the lives of eight seemingly ordinary women who pass through Manhattan's swanky Four Seasons Hotel.
Based Upon Availability: A Novel
Alix StraussFrom the very first page of this stunning novel, readers are drawn into the lives of eight seemingly ordinary women who pass through Manhattan's swanky Four Seasons Hotel.
Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the ...
Alix StraussHunter S. Thompson shot himself while talking to his wife on the phone. These are the lonely personal nightmares behind celebrity suicides—the deaths and their causes are as diverse as the victims themselves.
Have I Got a Guy for You: What Really Happens When Mom Fixes ...
Alix StraussShows how women got suckered into going out with the mates their mothers found for them. This collection features 25 victims of poor arrangements, well-meaning fix-ups, and just plain bad judgment calls.
Britney Spears: An Unauthorized Biography
Alix StraussSmart, spunky, and pretty, Britney Spears is a teenage singing sensation People called "a mix of Debbie Gibson's wholesomeness and Alanis Morissette's grit.
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The City and Man
Leo StraussThe essays are based on a long and intimate familiarity with the works, but the essay on Aristotle is especially important as one of Strauss's few writings on the philosopher who largely shaped Strauss's conception of antiquity.
Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of ...
PreviewTextual interpreters must thus take care not just to look for evidence which fits our expectations. This applies to Strauss''s critics too. Consider Masoud Bonyanian''s attempt to show that Strauss influenced American neoconservatives in the Bush administration: according to Bonyanian, these neoconservatives lied about why they waged war with Iraq because Strauss had argued that politicians may need to tell a noble lie to hide truths from the masses.102 A simple test of this claim is to ...
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium
Leo StraussThe first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than thirty years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did.
Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime
Kenneth L. DeutschResponding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal ...
Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to ...
Neil StraussOne man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it Neil Strauss. Neil Strauss No.l BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GAME Y fybu're looking 7 \iS Rolling Stone V NEIL STRAUSS is the author of the No. 1 bestseller. Front Cover.
Richard Strauss: new perspectives on the composer and his work
Bryan Randolph Gilliam"from reviews of the cloth edition: ""Gilliam, perhaps now the leading North American expert on Strauss's operas . . . has assembled a group of authors who collectively present what is undoubtedly a major contribution to Strauss studies.
The Richard Strauss Companion
PreviewBryan Gilliam calls attention to the outstanding qualities of this opera in "Daphne Transformed," in Richard Strauss and His World, ed. Bryan Gilliam (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1992), 33-66. 7. As to Strauss's concern about the ...
Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work
PreviewThis collection will interest Strauss scholars, musicologists, and those interested in the artistic and cultural life of Germany from 1880 through the Second World War. Contributors.
Richard Strauss and His World
PreviewThis volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life.
Richard Strauss and His World
More editionsThis volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life.
Richard Strauss
Matthew BoydenThis compelling volume provides a frank discussion of his open anti-Semitism at the Bayreuth Festival and delves into his active and willing collaboration with Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, fully exploring why and in which ways Strauss ...
Socrates and Aristophanes
Leo Strauss"Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work—the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates.
Game
Neil StraussThis is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity.
How to Make Money Like a Porn Star
Neil StraussIn the hands of Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss and illustrator Bernard Chang, this adult graphic novel weaves together black humor and blacker reality.
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Neil StraussNO MORE GAMES. IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH 'Unfortunately, I am not the hero in this tale. I am the villain.' DO YOU BELIEVE IN MONOGAMY? Neil Strauss didn't.
Richard Strauss: Magier der Töne
Bryan GilliamRichard Strauss (1864–1949) ist bis heute einer der meistgespielten Opernkomponisten.
Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German ...
Charles Dowell YoumansA study of Strauss's orchestral activity from the perspective of late-19th-century German intellectual history.
Athens After the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals): ...
Barry StraussMore widely, Professor Strauss argues for the importance of the economic, social and ideological changes resulting from the Peloponnesian War in the development of political nexus.
Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-StraussThis is a rare opportunity to become acquainted with a great thinker in all his dimensions.
Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern ...
Bryan GilliamCharles Youmans suggests that Strauss creates not a simple, unreflective appropriation of Wagner, but rather “a knowing superficial reminiscence that systematically deprives its source of all those features that would support a claim to ...
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