Since its initial publication in 1980, the The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians has been widely acclaimed as an indispensable resource and a classic reference. The word "updated" doesn't begin to describe the thousands of new articles, topics, cross-references, and areas of scholarship incorporated into the new edition. Every one of the first edition's 22,500 article...(展开全部)

If you have a passion for art and room for 34 fat volumes on the subject, then Grove's Dictionary of Art is for you. This enormous compendium contains just about everything anyone would ever want to know about art, artists, art critics, art collectors, or anything else connected to the world of art. What's more, this dictionary strives to be global in its point of view--almost ...(展开全部)

During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders to limit or control musical expression, music and sound permeated all layers of t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 吉尔伯特·金（Gilbert King），生于1962年，美国作家，2013年凭借《林中之恶》获普利策奖，并入围爱伦·坡奖、肖托夸文学奖。他为《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》等媒体撰写有关种族、民权和死刑的文章，同时也是报道美国刑事司法系统的非营利新闻组织“马歇尔项目”的成员之一。他挖掘那些被淡忘、被掩藏的历史，另著有《在无情的阳光下》《威利·弗朗西斯的死刑》。现居住于纽约。 【译者简介】 张芝梅，复旦大学哲学系逻辑学硕士、北京大学法学院法学博士，中国社会科学院社会学研究所《青年研究》编辑部主任、中国社会科学院编审。另著有《美国的法律实用主义》，译有《律师会馆》、《法律的道路及其影响》（合译）。

【作者简介】 吉尔伯特·金（Gilbert King），生于1962年，美国作家，2013年凭借《林中之恶》获普利策奖，并入围爱伦·坡奖、肖托夸文学奖。他为《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》等媒体撰写有关种族、民权和死刑的文章，同时也是报道美国刑事司法系统的非营利新闻组织“马歇尔项目”的成员之一。他挖掘那些被淡忘、被掩藏的历史，另著有《在无情的阳光下》《威利·弗朗西斯的死刑》。现居住于纽约。 【译者简介】 张芝梅，复旦大学哲学系逻辑学硕士、北京大学法学院法学博士，中国社会科学院社会学研究所《青年研究》编辑部主任、中国社会科学院编审。另著有《美国的法律实用主义》，译有《律师会馆》、《法律的道路及其影响》（合译）。

This classic reference on musical acoustics and performance practice begins with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of acoustics and the generation of musical sounds. It then discusses the particulars of the sounds made by all the standard instruments in a modern orchestra as well as the human voice, the way in which the sounds made by these instruments are dispersed and ...(展开全部)

Review "... O'Driscoll and Rizzo's book remains an Austrian classic ... [I]t still deserves to be read by serious academics across the political and economic spectrum." -- Review of Radical Political Economics "Perhaps now the Austrians will be allowed to help renovate economics." -- The Times Literary Supplement "The title of this valuable work. . .comes from a remark of J. M....(展开全部)

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the inde...(展开全部)

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. This is the secret world of the inde...(展开全部)