2002

We Were Soldiers Once … And Young

“Dedicated to the memory of these brave soldiers who gave their lives for their country and for the men who fought beside them in the Pleiku campaign in October and November 1965: 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery 1st Battalion, 21st …

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Feast

Convivium: When in Rome … The Greek inheritance The age of Apicius Cena and convivium Public and imperial banquets Disintegration and survival Interlude: Fast and Feast Cuisine: the silent centuries The Christian table and the birth of manners Feast as power A reconciliation of opposites In the Eye of the Beholder Cooks, cookery books and …

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Mein Opernführer

Auf der Suche nach Wahrheit   Karan Armstrong Zum Belcanto gehört der Belvisto – Ein Gespräch über Musiktheater   Götz Friedrich und August Everding Von Mozart bis Wagner Von Offenbach bis Richard Strauss Die Moderne Warum singt der Mensch? Götz Friedrichs Inszenierungen Gotz Friedrich – Biographisches in Stickworten

The Study of Orchestration

Instrumentation The Orchestra—Yesterday and Today Bowed String Instruments Construction Tuning Fingering Double, Triple and Quadruple Stops Divided Strings Vibrato Glissando and Portamento The Bow Bowing Non legato Legato Special On-the-String Bowings Special Off-the-String Bowings Trills and Other Coloristic Effects Using the Bow Coloristic Effects without the Bow Mutes Scordatura Harmonics Contemporary String Techniques Individual Bowed …

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Wanderlust

Introduction The Pace of Thoughts Tracing a Headland: An Introduction The Mind at Three Miles an Hour Rising and Falling: The Theorists of Bipedalism The Uphill Road to Grace: Some Pilgrimages Labyrinths and Cadillacs: Walking into the Realm of the Symbolic From the Garden to the Wild The Path Out of the Garden The Legs …

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Road to the Isles

The Travellers Maps Introduction 1770-1790 1790-1810 1810-1830 1830-1840 1840-1850 1850-1870 1870-1880 1880-1890 1890-1914

King Charles II, Part Two

The Monarchy in Danger Subsisting Together? The Knot in the Comb Peace For His Own Time Against Exclusion A King at Chess His Autumnal Fortune Bold and Older Another Way of Ruling The Dregs of Life His Royal Ashes

King Charles II, Part One

The Hopeful Prince Heaven Was Liberal ‘I Fear Them Not!’ Present Miseries Dependence The King’s Son Nothing but the Name A Candle to the Devil Ravished at Worcester Heroical Figure A Difficult Game The Courtesies and the Injuries At the Waterside This Golden Age Noah’s Dove The Best of Queens The Dutch Business Black Day …

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The Gunpowder Plot, Part Two

Discovery – By God or the Devil Mr Fawkes Is Taken The Gentler Tortures Fire and Brimstone These Wretches The Shadow of Death The Heart of a Traitor The Jesuits’ Treason Farewells Satan’s Policy?

The Gunpowder Plot, Part One

Family Trees Map of the conspirators in the Midlands Author’s Note Prologue: Bountiful Beginnings Before the Fruit Was Ripe Whose Head for the Crown? The Honest Papists Diversity of Opinions The Horse of St George A King and his Cubs Spanish Charity Catesby as Phaeton That Furious and Fiery Course So Sharp a Remedy Pernicious …

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