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Evenkiyskiy Autonomous Okrug Regional Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment and Business Library)
Igor Oleynik Manufacturer: International Business Publications USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00005R7RR Release Date: 2006-01-01 |
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Evenkiyskiy Autonomous Okrug Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
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This investment and business guide contains basic information on economy, business & investment climate and opportunities in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities, including, export-import, industrial development, banking & finance, government and business contacts. The guide also provides listing and contact information for major industrial, trade, service and other companies in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities.
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Discover Waterford: City Guides O'Brien (City Guides)
Eamonn McEneaney Manufacturer: O'Brien ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0862786568 |
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The first part of this book sets the stage by exploring the history and development of Waterford from Viking times through recent centuries that formed the basis for the modern town. Part two visits Waterfords most interesting landmarks including, of course, the Waterford Crystal Visitors Center.
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Financial Accounting : Information for Decisions, 3E: Accounting : Information for Decisions Chapters 1-13 : Powernotes and Forms
Robert W. Ingram , Bruce A. Baldwin , Thomas L. Albright , and John W. Hill Manufacturer: Thomson Learning ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0538870656 |
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Study Guide and Forms to accompany Financial Accounting a Bridge to Decision Making ~ 5e
Stephen V. Senge , and George D. Sanders Manufacturer: Thomson South-Western ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UOA0NI |
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Study Guide and Forms to Accompany Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
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How to Analyze a Bank Statement: A Detailed Guide to the Financial Statements of Banks and Bank Holding Companies : Reporting Requirements, Forms and (Bank study series)
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The Diary of George Templeton Strong
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The diary of George Templeton Strong
George Templeton Strong Manufacturer: Octagon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0374960941 |
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First Person Account of Antebellum New York City.......2006-06-03
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Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, 1836-1875 Volume 1: Resonances 1836-1850 (Strong on Music, Vol 1)
Vera Brodsky Lawrence , and George Templeton Strong Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0195041992 |
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Resonances is the first volume of Strong on Music, Vera Brodsky Lawrence's comprehensive, three-volume chronicle of the little-known New York music scene from 1836 to 1875, based on the superb private journal of George Templeton Strong, one of the great primary records of nineteenth-centuryCustomer Reviews:
A brilliant book and fascinating reading.......2003-02-22
A side note: George Templeton Strong's son, who has the same name, became an important composer of his own era and Naxos is currently recording some of his hitherto ignored orchestral music.
I'm not one given to this sort of thing, but after I read this volume I wrote a fan letter to Ms. Lawrence.
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The Hone and Strong Diaries of Old Manhattan
Louis Auchincloss Manufacturer: Abbeville Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0896599043 |
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Dynamics of a new nation / seeds of a coming civil war.......1999-07-06
Both the diarists chronicle the great and the mundane events which guided this nation through the assimilation of new citizens, the growth of a two-party system and the development of a war between the industrial states and the agricultural states.
Hone is expecially descriptive of the social dynamics which followed the overthrow of aristocracy and the rise of a political party whose leaders succeeded by manipulating large numbers of newly immigrated citizens.
This book is especially valuable for those of us who have trouble visualising Manhattan as a town modest by today's standards. To paraphrase Mr. Auchincloss' notes, it is for people who don't remember when The Battery was uptown.
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Diary of George Templeton Strong (4 Vols.)
Allan and Milton Halsey Thomas (eds.) Nevins Manufacturer: Macmillan Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000U0J3CQ |
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Allan and Thomas, Milton Halsey (Editors) Nevins Manufacturer: The Macmillan Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JJQ4PW |
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THE DIARY OF GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG POST-WAR YEARS 1865-1875
Allan and Thomas, Milton Halsey Nevins Manufacturer: Macmillan & Co Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WU4YCS |
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Allan and Thomas, Milton Halsey Nevins Manufacturer: Macmillan & Co Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WUAV16 |
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THE DIARY OF GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG YOUNG MAN IN NEW YORK 1835-1849
Allan and Thomas Milton Halsey Nevins Manufacturer: Macmillan & Co Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WU4YC8 |
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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, 1835-1875
George Templeton; Nevins, Allan; Thomas, Milton Halsey, Eds Strong Manufacturer: Macmillan Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JMAOYG |
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The Journey 2 Now: For Better Or Worse But Who Cares?
gordon Mtakati Manufacturer: Cedar Hill Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1932373705 |
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We must all Read this Book!!.......2005-04-17
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Colorado Home Book, Second Edition
Ashley Group Manufacturer: Ashley Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1588620581 |
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The Colorado Home Book is the source for those looking to design, build, or remodel a luxury home in Denver and surrounding areas.Whether interested in remodeling a kitchen or building a multi-million dollar dream home, the book can give readers the information they want to get the quality services and products they need. The Home Book compiles the most comprehensive list of design professionals who rank among the top ten in their respective fields. Let the Home Book do your homework for you! You'll find in these pages:
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Making Money With Classified Ads
Melvin Powers Manufacturer: Wilshire Book Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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This book contains information about how to make money using classified ads and selling information by mail order.Customer Reviews:
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Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (Texts and Contexts)
Marc A. Weiner Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0803297920 |
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Obviously.......2005-07-15
Keew da Vagnah!.......2002-06-21
While not as obviously venomous as Paul Lawrence Rose's Wagner: Race, Revolution & Redemption, RW & the Anti-Semitic Imagination is just as questionable. Weiner's thesis is that all of the unpleasant characters in Wagner's later operas, with their appearance, smells & voices, are clandestine Jews. Weiner uses such airtight evidence as using another composer's (Mussorgsky) alleged anti-Semitic work to prove that Wagner was doing the same. I hope Mr. Weiner is never my attorney.
One of Weiner's favorite examples in trying to prove his thesis is The Ring's Alberich. Alberich is short, ugly, greedy, manipulative, and cruel to his own race. According to Weiner, this is proof positive that this character is a metaphor for Jewish people. Well....the Nibelungen, the race that Alberich enslaves with the ring & is a member of, were peaceful & not portayed by Wagner in a bad light before Alberich used the nasty little trinket. I suppose it never occurred to Weiner that the Nibelungen were depicted as dwarves in the saga centuries before Wagner even set the tale to music. Of the Nibelungen, only Alberich, Mime, and Hagen are shown as ruthless. The rest are downtrodden. Incidentally, Alberich is the only major character to survive the whole Ring cycle. If Wagner had truly genocidal feelings towards this metaphor, surely he would have had Wotan spear him in Rheingold.
Secondly, Weiner claims that Wagner had Hegelian notions of "the East" being a place of degeneracy and fear, while "the West" was enlightened. However, anyone who knows even a little about Wagner knows that Schopenhauer was a much bigger influence on his thinking than Hegel ever was. What were those statues of Buddha doing at Wahnfried? Why exactly did Wagner become a vegetarian? What is the entire premise of Tristan und Isolde? It was Schopenhauer's love of Eastern thought (primarily Buddhism) that motivated Wagner to formulate such things. Buddhist resignation, rather than any Teutonic drive to conquer, is at the heart of Wagner's later masterpieces.
If you want some good books that deal specifically with Wagner's anti-Semitism, I suggest Ring of Myths and/or The Darker Side of Genius. Unfortunately, both of these books are a little over Elmer's head.
Not entirely untrue, but..........2000-03-25
perambulatory peregrination
topoi, gustatory, mephitic
(he uses vouchafe at least 4 times!)
A big diction (my penis may be small but I have a huge diction...) is an asset, but MW continually trips over it. Obsfucation, like sloppy handwriting, is an aid to the inept--it forces the confused reader to assume that the writer has made some sort of profound point when in fact there is little beyond the vocabulary. But this style is endemic to academia, and it contributes to no one 'in the real world' taking academics seriously. More odiously, an anti-semite could take such an observation, combine it with the disproportionate representation of Jews in the academy vis a vis general population, and conclude that MW's book is evidence of the deleterious effect of Jewish thinking on higher education [pretentious word choice deliberate]. In this light, MW's book becomes fodder for high-brow anti-semites--and I assume that this was not his point. But again, this is a style problem, and there are much worse examples out there, I just can't think of one right now.
The content is simple. But even more simple than MW realizes. In the 19th c. Jews were often associated with 'bad' or evil attributes. So much so, that if one were to make an opera with an evil character, then the attributes of that character could be construed as Jewish. Furthermore, there any fool can find anti-semitism in a Wagner opera, particularly if one looks for it. But that is the beauty of Wagner. There is such a degree of complexity to his work, so many levels of interpretation, that one can find a myriad of meanings. I believe MW is on to something. But it is not profound, it is overdone, and it misses much more profound and meaningful levels of interpretation. The book would make a nice thesis, especially if it was shortened to about 100pp. But the book oversimplifies Wagner's operas, and it has the potential to ruin a reader's couriosity in Wagnerian opera, especially if that reader is sensitive and Jewish. And if you want to hate Wagner as a person, which I do, or if you think you like him, read 'Köhler's Nietsche and Wagner, A Lesson in Subjugation'. Here is a book that gives you more than you thought possible. And if you want some high-brow-dirt on Wagner or Nietzsche, its here.
Bigoted view of Wagner's music.......1999-08-03
No contemporary evidence.......1999-07-22
(Though the "reader from New Zealand" who seems to be expressing support for the losing side during WWII is the kind of Wagner fan who embarrasses Wagner fans.)
Anyway the New Orleans reader quotes as "facts", the only two pieces of "evidence" that Weiner cited to show that audiences in Wagner's lifetime recognised coded antisemitic messages in the operas.
"Fact 1" is that there were protests against "recognizable antisemitism" at the _Die Meistersinger_ premieres at Mannheim and Vienna in 1869. But that's not a fact.
The protests weren't against _Meistersinger_, but were against Wagner's disgraceful re-publication, early in 1869, of the antisemitic essay _Das Judentum in Musik_. All Wagner productions current that year (except in Berlin) suffered a backlash. In Breslau Wagner's _Lohengrin_ was withdrawn after protests from the local Jewish community, and the reception of Wagner's _Rienzi_ in Paris was "harmed". Serves Wagner right, too.
Weiner didn't allege there was any antisemitism in either _Lohengrin_ or _Reinzi_ (and obviously he would have if he thought it could be done) but they were still part of the same wave of protest, in 1869, that also included the Mannheim and Vienna _Meistersinger_.
That is, the protests were not about or caused by any of the three Wagner operas that were campaigned against in 1869, but were to do with offence properly taken at Wagner's essay.
For background to the 1869 republication of _Das Judentum_ and the hostile reaction it caused, see Jacob Katz, _The Darker Side of Genius: Wagner's anti-Semitism_, pp 70-77.
Further evidence that the protests were about the essay's republication, not about _Meistersinger_ or the other operas, is that after Wagner later wrote his open letter disassociating himself from antisemitic agitation, there were no further protests at performances of _Meistersinger_ or any other Wagner operas.
On the Mahler "fact", that's not really evidence of what Wagner's contemporary audiences read into Wagner's operas. Weiner says that even by the turn of the century it would have been hard to read Wagner's alleged coded messages. This presumably explains why early commentators mysteriously failed to notice them. But the Mahler quote is from the turn of the century, 1898, twenty-seven years after the _Rheingold_ premiere (in which Mime first appeared), twenty-two years after the _Siegfried_ premiere (in which Mime returns), and fifteen years after Wagner's death. It tells us something about Mahler in 1898, but not about Wagner's contemporary audiences.
The late date is only one issue with the Mahler quote. I quote the review by Lisa Norris, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, for H-Judaic:
"Weiner's references to Mahler are problematic too. He quotes Mahler's private remark in 1898 that Wagner's Mime was "intended to ridicule the Jews (with all of their characteristic traits...)...," but Weiner does not point out that in 1897, the Jewish-born Mahler converted to Catholicism, and so his own relationship to Judaism and antisemitism was singular and at a critical stage. Can Weiner then really claim that "Mahler stated what I believe must have been obvious to Wagner's contemporaries..." (p. 143)? Where are representative statements from the broader spectrum of opera-going society to corroborate this?"
Where indeed?
The issue is not whether Wagner was antisemitic; I doubt if many Wagner fans, "screeching" or otherwise, would deny that. It makes Wagner the man reprehensible in the same way that other antisemitic composers like JS Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Schubert, Schumann, to give a few examples from a regrettably very long list, were reprehensible people. 19th century antisemitism was a European-wide cultural attitude, not a Wagnerian one, and for some it may be easier to focus on one individual than on a culture, or several cultures. Still, the fact remains that Wagner _was_ antisemitic, and that's a disgrace for the man. But it doesn't follow that artists put the worst of themselves into their art: no-one alleges, for example, that TS Eliot's antisemitism is hidden in coded messages in the poems of "Cats".
But the issue is whether Weiner's book alleging secret antisemitic codes in Wagner's operas is a good book or a lot of nonsense.
The second conclusion seems more reasonable. Weiner suggests that people who disbelieve him are in denial, and hints this may be because they are antisemitic themselves. This is not an acceptable kind of argument. You could turn it around and say that only someone who has - perhaps inadvertently - absorbed antisemitic attitudes could read supposedly Jewish characteristics into a fairly standard-issue mythological dwarf like Mime. But insult, on either side, is not a particularly useful form of argument.
People refuse to accept Weiner's thesis for the same reason they refuse to accept von Daniken's thesis in "Chariots of the Gods" or Berlitz's thesis on the Bermuda Triangle: because the arguments don't hold up and the evidence isn't there.
Weiner's arguments in favour of his coded messages are so unconvincing, despite the ingenuity used in creating and describing them, that taken as a whole his book is a convincing argument against the existence of coded antisemitic messages in Wagner's operas.
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Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination.: An article from: Notes
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