Author: Alfred Forman
Publisher: Waddell Press
Keywords: verse, english, parsifal
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1406743712
ISBN-13: 9781406743715

A R S IF A L A FESTIVAL-DRAMA Em Buhnenweihfestspiel BY RICHARD WAGNER TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH IN EXACT ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORIGINAL BY H. L. AND F. CORDER BOSTON OLIVER DITSON COMPANY THE GENESIS OF THE DRAMA, FOR the basis of his last music-drama, Parsi fal, Wagner selected from the host of mediaeval legends surrounding the Grail the version found in the poems of the old German Minneshlger, Wolfram von Eschenbach, modifying the details and enriching the meaning to suit his dramatic purposes. The idea of the Grail dates from the earliest times, and during the Middle Ages be came a most poetic

Author: C. E Lively
Publisher: Waddell Press
Keywords: states, united, migration, rural
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-05-16
List price: $28.45
ISBN-10: 1409731596
ISBN-13: 9781409731597

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: R.C.N. Goffin
Publisher: Waddell Press
Keywords: biographies, short, six
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $27.45
ISBN-10: 1406770086
ISBN-13: 9781406770087

SIX SHORT BIOGRAPHIES SIX SHORT BIOGRAPHIES EDITED BY R. C. N. COFFIN INDIAN BRANCH GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE PREFACE THE short essay in biography is one of the pleasing fashions of modern English literature. Lives portrayed at fuller length have always of course occupied a place of honour in the hierarchy of letters and particularly in the make-up of history so Bacon enumerates the kind in his marshalling of the human sciences Carlyle speaks of history as the essence of innumerable biographies. But the short and sophisticated personal memoir is rather peculiarly a modern development, and repays stu

Author: Sahabzada Saiduzzafar Khan
Publisher: Waddell Press
Keywords: adults, urdu
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1406774456
ISBN-13: 9781406774450

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Gaston Tissandier
Publisher: Waddell Press
Keywords: tissandier, gaston, french, water, wonders
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2010-06-03
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1446008169
ISBN-13: 9781446008164

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Authors:Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, world, developing, ground, innovations, discontinuities, cities, governance
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801878519
ISBN-13: 9780801878510

Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment.This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, in

Authors:Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, america, wilson, center, press, latin, century, reading, communities, writing, nation, nineteenth, imagined
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801878527
ISBN-13: 9780801878527

"Every Latin Americanist will welcome the insight provided by this book into Latin America’s complex heterogeneity."—Mario J. Valdés, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto How did the nationalisms of Latin America’s many countries—elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery—arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answ