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The second title in the Amadeus Press Parallel Lives series, this volume examines the lives and work of two giants of 20th century music. Both composers influenced countless others, and their works are performed often in today's concert and opera houses.

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A golden opportunity botched
Anyone interested in Barber's life and/or music should seek out the amazing bio by Barbara Heyman, Samuel Barber - The Composer and his Music (Oxford U. Press). As a lifelong student of the career & music of Barber, I was upset to read this recent book. It contains numerous inaccuracies, half-truths, ambiguities, and similarly misleading statements. And was there ANY attempt at editing the ms? The text is likewise marred byerrors in usage, punctuation, even vocabulary. The Britten section has the same problems. And while the recorded music samples on the attached cd are most welcome, they do not fairly represent the composers, either - it's all from the "middle period" of each man and don't properly represent either composer's stylistic breadth. The concept of a brief book introducing these composers to the lay listener, with listening excerpts provided in the package, is a fine one, which makes me doubly sad that this project is such a disappointment. P.S. Having heard from the author, I now understand why some of the above-mentioned faults exist - and must say I'm shocked that a publisher I once respected, Amadeus, would let something like this happen.It's a disservice to the author as well as the public and the subjects of the book.

A welcome addition to Barber research!!
I was so pleased to find that this book had just come out!I'm researching Barber for a Masters Thesis project and enjoyed the information presented-some that has not been discussed in the handful of books about him.Very interesting to see the similarities between him and Britten.The CD that comes with it is also nice.Well-written and a good read!

But what is on the CD you ask...
Since nearly half of the book is dedicated to the discussion and dissection of Benjamin Britton's and Samuel Barber's compositions, here listed is the music on the accompanying Naxos CD: 1) Britten: Passacaglia (from Peter Grimes); 2) Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (complete); 3) Britten: The Turn of the Screw (Act II: Variation XV, scene 8); 4) Barber: Adagio for Strings; 5) Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915; and 6) Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra. I will offer a review of the book itself after I read it as it just arrived in my mailbox today (July 26, 2005). ... Read more

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This is the extraordinary account of a man named James E. Padgett. He was a devoted father, husband and respected member of the Orthodox Protestant church and a D.A. for Washington D.C..After the death of his wife in February, 1914, Padgett was heartbroken. Although skeptical about the supernatural, his desire to contact his wife motivated him to, attend a seance.

When he attended the seance, he was informed by the medium that he was gifted with mediumship abilities, and that if he was willing, his wife desired to contact him through a process called automatic writing.Padgett decided to try this experiment.On his first few tries, he was able to make out a few words, positive sensations filled him and inspired him to continue.He was soon able to receive short messages from his wife and father, mother and grandmother.As his spiritual abilities grew, he was able to receive longer and more specific messages from Helen and other spirits who wished to share their knowledge of the spirit world. In her messages, Helen begins by describing her new life in the spirit world.She writes Padgett many beautiful love letters telling of her love for him and her longing to be near him.In the course of these sessions, she reveals to Padgett that there were other spirits who desired to share great truths.These spirits declair they were once mortals and are continually working to help and aid mortals on the physical plane.They said they have reached a level of soul-development that they are now in the highest planes of the spirit-world called the Celestial Heavens and are now angels.They repeatedly encourage him to continue to bring his soul into a spiritual condition through prayer, which would allow them to communicate with him.Although still skeptical, Padgett opened to receive these messages, and as a results he received over 2500 messages in the course of the next 10 years.

The contents of these messages are startling, enlightening, inspiring.They expound on passages in the Bible and inform us of many revelations never before known to mankind. They describe in great detail how death is only the beginning of an exciting journey. That there is much more beyond the separation of the physical body from the spiritual. The thread that weaves all these messages together is the love of God and that it is available for us right now, to receive. ... Read more

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The work of the angels in this book is unparalleled.
I can honestly say that reading this book has changed my life. The awareness that the Celestial Messages bring allows me to more fully experience my life here and a calmness and anticipation about theafterlife. The work of the angels in "Celestial Messages" isunparalleled in human history. Nowhere on earth can one find truths whichunite the mind with the spirit in such glorious detail. If you have beenfortunate enough to come across this book, it is because you have beencalled. Listen to the message. If you read only one book from cover tocover this year, make it this one - it is a true present to your soul.

These messages have given a tangible impetus to my spirit.
These messages have given real and tangible impetus to my spiritual development through their simple clarity and focus on the essential nature of prayer.

There is not a more important book in my library.
Over the many years I've spent researching various spiritual and religious texts I have come across many enlightened passages pointing to the truth. When I discovered these messages compiled in "CelestialMessages", I realized that they were full of truths - soaked withtruths. There is not a more important book in my library. ... Read more

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Although Samuel Colt died in 1862 at age 47, he had lived a remarkably full life, one filled with enough controversy, calamity, failure and success to fill several novels. And, at the time, he was America's wealthiest inventor. Colt’s widow took over the reins of the Colt Armory, memorialized Colt’s name in American mythology, sanitized his foibles and misdeeds, and oversaw the amazing growth of the largest private armory in the world. Although Henry Ford is recognized for introducing the assembly line to production, Colt revolutionized production by employing standardized parts in the production of his guns and rifles, and this was years before Ford was born. Colt's genius was recognized by other great inventors including Samuel F. B. Morse and Eli Whitney, Jr.Both men worked closely with Colt. Colt and guns have become synonymous and the weapons he produced have been used by Texas Rangers, gold-seeking argonauts coming to California in the gold rush, and in arm conflicts throughout the world. The quality of his workmanship was unquestioned from the 19th century to today. And in October 2008, descendants of Colt sold a Colt Walker .44 caliber revolver at a Maine auction for $800,000! Award-winning author and syndicated columnist Daniel Alef tells Colts remarkable story in his refreshing, interesting and informative style. [1,348-word Titans of Fortune article] ... Read more

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1929 was the first time that such a study as Sex in Civilization had ever been ventured.A century, or so, ago the very nature of sex attitudes would have thwarted such a project.In fact, it would never have been conceived.Of course, the sexual situation in those days had not yet developed into its later, and increasingly crucial forms.The first intellectual revolt against this old attitude is to be found in the work of Freud and his followers, who, some think, rediscovered sex.Just as the revolt against civilization has taken on numerous forms, each more complex than the other with advancing change, the revolt against old sex attitudes has followed the same evolution.Revolt has become characteristic of our age.The intellectuals are in revolt against an entire civilization.The revolt against the old sex attitudes, with their silences and stupidities, is a vital part of this entire revolt against a decaying culture.The beginnings that were made by !the early Freudians have today been furthered by a revolt that is far more comprehensive and inclusive.

In this volume the authors have tried to give expression to every angle of this revolt and revaluation.In no instance have they attempted to exclude either an individual or a school because of set design or dogma.Calverton and Schmalhausen have purposely encouraged conflicting opinions, for in a field still so mischievously relative, it is only this attitude which can succeed in being progressive and revolutionary.In doing this the authors have striven to show that Sex in Civilization is a problem in social change as well as individual conflict, and that any effort to deny iether factor is intellectually confusing and ultimately suicidal.

Sex is a living fire that nothing will extinguish.To understand what sex means, even if we can define ourselves to the human species, and even if we merely have in thought the significance of sex for civilization and ourselves, we must inevitably take a wide view.Perhaps it would be safest not to assume that "civilization" has any precise meaning at all.It simply refers to the stage of society in which the readers of the present volume live.We shall then know where we are. ... Read more

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with simulations and illustrations by Richard Gray Problem solving is anindispensable part of learning a quantitative science such asneurophysiology. This text for graduate and advanced undergraduatestudents in neuroscience, physiology, biophysics, and computationalneuroscience provides comprehensive, mathematically sophisticateddescriptions of modern principles of cellular neurophysiology. It is theonly neurophysiology text that gives detailed derivations of equations,worked examples, and homework problem sets (with complete answers).Developed from notes for the course that the authors have taught since1983, Foundations of Cellular Neurophysiology covers cellularneurophysiology (also some material at the molecular and systems levels)from its physical and mathematical foundations in a way that is far morerigorous than other commonly used texts in this area. Errata ... Read more

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needed it for class
Haven't read much of the book. It was required for class. Useful to learn certain processes so far.

Mathematical Cellular Neurophysiology
This book is chock full of equations concerning the Hodgkin-Huxley Model, Kinetics of Ionic Channels, Presynaptic & Postsynaptic Transmission, LTP, LTD, quantum vesicular release and reuptake, & a "scant" neural net theory.There are a plethora of 'end of chapter' problems with derivations & applications to solve. The book is going to be confusing and tedious, even for computationally trained neuroscientists. For me, this book is a reference only. The format is similar to Thomas Weiss' Cellular Biophysics 2 Volume Set.There is too much on the Hodgkin-Huxley Model which is very important historically, but of less interest today than it was in the 1960s.The authors also use cable theory to model neuronal & dendritic function.

Pick a different book
This was the assigned text for a short section on electrophysiology in my first year graduate neuroscience course. I did not have a math or electronics background, but had worked in a neurophys lab for two years. I managed to learn stuff from this book, but it was hard work and I couldn't have done it without my lecturer and classmates. It's obvious that the authors really know their stuff, but being able to explain it to novices is another thing... And I agree with the other reviewer who noted that the index is *completely* useless, almost random lists of page numbers after topics...
Unless you have to buy this book for a class, skip it (and if it is the text for a course, ask your instructor why!!)- buy Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons by Fain instead, it doesn't cover as many topics, but breadth is no use if you can't understand the content. My department switched to the Fain text last year because so many people complained about Johnston et al.

I liked this book!
The book cover boasts that this is the only book with through discussions in mathematical equations, etc. Indeed! Except that there are other mathematically oriented books with kindly worked out examples. Some concepts, such as deriviation of the cable equation, were wonderfully presented. However, no attempt is made to obtain the solution. To think about it, that might have been an appropriate choice, for a physiologist does not have to know all the mathematics. However, the Rall model (Sec. 3.5) should have been approached in analogy with impedance matching. A unique feature of this book was somewhat detailed discussion of the Stochastic nature of ion channels. This is a good book, I believe. Overall, mathematics is thorough and abstract concepts are well chewed over.

Dense and confusing
This book covers a lot of material.The quality varies from chapter to chapter.Figures are sprinkled here and there with very little explanation of what they mean. Additionally, there is not much consistency between figures.This book might be serve as a good companion to a course, but it's virtually useless for self study.

My background is engineering and neuroscience, but I still found the math to be poorly explained. If you're trying to learn about biophysics and cellular neurophysiology, pick another book.If you're unfortunate enough to have this book assigned to you for a class, make sure you attend the lectures.

The index is also terrible and virtually useless for anything that I've tried to look up.The only good thing about the book is that it references a lot of stuff, so you know where to look.

One star is for the breadth of topics covered and one is for the references. The Matisse drawing on the cover is also a nice touch. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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Terrific offering of scarce book
Samuel Daniel's "Delia" is the prototype of the Elizabethan sonnet sequence that Shakespeare was playing around with/parodying in his sonnets.Along with Sidney's sequence, it is probably the best example of the Elizabethan popular form; and includes a lot of very damned good poetry.The Kindle Edition works better than many:it actually does reproduce the poems, and it preserves the line breaks, and the typos are kept within control [though not entirely eliminated].Good job! ... Read more

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Reprint of a classic work originally published in 1912. ... Read more

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Short retellings for children of four episodes from the Old Testament. ... Read more

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EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA & THEATRE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. This collection needs no introduction, combining the works of some of the greatest canonical writers of all time, including many plays composed for royalty such as Queen Elizabeth I and King Edward VI. In addition, this series includes history and criticism of drama, as well as examinations of technique.

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Delia and Rosamond augmented Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel.
Delia
Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.
An expanded edition of "Delia".
In verse.
Printers' names from colophon.
Signatures: A2 B-N.
"The complaynt of Rosamond" and "The tragedie of Cleopatra" have separate divisional title pages, the second dated; register is continuous.
Identified as STC 6254 on UMI microfilm.
[196] p.
1594. Printed at London : [By James Roberts and Edward Allde] for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yarde at the signe of the Crowne, [1594]
Greg, I, 132(a). /
STC (2nd ed.) / 6243.4
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Originally published in 1860.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
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Edinburgi : apud Balfour et Smellie, 1776. [4],41,[1]p. ; 8° ... Read more

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000  titles available  (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as  Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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Divisional titlepages dated 1717.Volume titlepages and conjugate contents leaves with vertical chain lines.

London : printed for R. Gosling; W. Mears, and J. Browne, 1718. 2v. ; 12° ... Read more