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The Cambridge Companion to Handel
Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging, sp…
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- 9780521456135
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- Softcover; 349 hlm.; 17 x 24 cm
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- Cambridge Companions to Music
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- 780.92
The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven
This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems, Beethoven's professional activities when not composing and his methods as a composer. In the heart of the book, individual chapters are devoted to al…
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- 9780521589345
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- Softcover; 373 hlm.; 17 x 24 cm
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- Cambridge Companions to Music
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- 780.92
Judgements on History and Historian
Renowned for his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Reflections on History, Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) has well been described as “the most civilized historian of the nineteenth century.” Judgments on History and Historians consists of records collected by Emil Dürr from Burckhardt’s lecture notes for history courses at the University of Basel from 1865 to 1885. The 149 bri…
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- 9780415412933
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- Softcover; 339 hlm.; 13 x 19.7 cm
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- 907.2
The Works of Josephus
This renowned reference book has served scholars, pastors, students, and those interested in the background of the New Testament for years. The insight given into the Essene community, the destruction of Jerusalem and the interpretations and traditions of the Old Testament in first century Judaism is invaluable. The outlook of Josephus, a late first century Pharisee and historian, on Jesus and …
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- Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition
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- 9780913573860
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- Hardcover; 800 hlm.; 16 x 24 cm
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- 933
Hard Times
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the striet utihuarism Thomas Gradigrind and the heartless factory qwner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding c…
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- 9781853262326 / 1853262323
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- Softcover; 243 hlm.; 12.5 x 19.5 cm
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- 823.83
Anthem
He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He wa…
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- Student Edition; 100th Centennial Edition
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- 9780451227577
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- Softcover; 123 hlm.; 10.5 x 17 cm
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- 813
The Love of God
The Theology in Community series assembles a world-class team of scholars, bringing their unique expertise to bear on biblical and theological topic from the perspectives of biblical theology, systematic theology, history, pastoral application, missiology, and cultural analysis. these volumes-composed in community and combining academic acumen with pastoral pathos-provide for pastors, leaders, …
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- 9781433539046
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- Softcover; 256 hlm.; 14.99 x 22.61 cm
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- Theology in Community
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- 231.6
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Theologian par excellence of the Reformation, John Calvin is best known for his Institutes of the Christian Religion, written as a theological introduction to the Bible and a vindication of Reformation principles. After appearing in several editions beginning in 1536, Calvin's Institutes was finally published in this authoritative 1559 edition. Henry Beveridge's translation of Calvin's magnum o…
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- 9780802881663
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- Softcover; 704 hlm.; 15.44 x 22.91 cm
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- 230.4
A Walk with Jesus: Enjoying the Company of Christ
This study of the life of Christ by R. C. Sproul is based on the gospel of Luke. It can be used in your daily devotional time, whether in individual or family devotions. Most of the chapters are short, and each is based on a particular section of Luke's gospel. These sections are indicated at the beginning of each chapter. Alternatively, the book can be read straight through.
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- 9781857922608
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- Hardcover; 375 hlm.; 14 x 22 cm
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- 242.5
The House of God: Church Architecture, Style and History
The grandeur of St. Peter's, the Baroque ecstasy of the churches at Cholula in Mexico, the intimate peace of Fairford Church in Gloucestershire... The two thousand years' heritage of Christian churches is a fascinating one. For anyone interested in the evolution of architectural styles, the subject is of inescapable interest. For a far wider group of people, however, it is clear that churches a…
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- 1
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- 9780500285565
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- Softcover; 312 hlm.; 24.49 x 29.01 cm
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- 726.5
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