This volume comprises supplemental source material to accompany courses in the history of Russian Orthodox music course. It is meant as a study aid for students and contains valuable reference sources for students and practitioners alike.
Great composers' music is to be enjoyed, not fretted about! An Anti-Woke Guide to Classical Music, with chapters on numerous dead white male composers, aims to help. Classical music, like much of Western culture, is increasingly under pressure and criticism. Past evils, or perceived evils, seem to be haunting it, and raise the question of what, if ......
New Perspectives on Intelligence Gathering brings together an unusually wide range of perspectives on intelligence gathering, including but not limited to cyber security, across the vast Eurasian expanse. The volume comprises essays by a group of distinguished international authors from academic, journalistic, and military backgrounds, with ......
While much historiography has assumed that the period from 1890 to 1930 was liberal in Argentina, Agustina Gonzalez Nunez forcefully argues in Catholicism and Nation in Argentina that the Society of Jesus - the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church - proved a powerful force in shaping an alternate discourse of Argentinian nationhood. ......
My Battles With Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors
On The Warpath is an autobiographical account of controversial anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss's storied career on the front lines of the culture war in our colleges and universities. Her opposition to the reburial of Native American skeletal remains, her insistence that indigenous knowledge is not science but myth, and her fight against wokeism ......
How Love, Imagination, and Integrity Formed the Modern World
From Natura to Nature traces the career of the medieval goddess Natura - Mother Nature - as she influenced the literature of the High Middle Ages up to the time of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. After that, Natura's medieval aspect morphed into the mathematics of the early modern era. The book's subtitle includes the terms Love, ......
John Millington Synge, who along with William Butler Yeats and Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory spearheaded the Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century, was chiefly inspired by the four trips he took to the Aran Islands in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Synge was born into a prominent, if fading, landholding family of the Irish ......
In this vividly written, politically-oriented travelogue, Tomas Klvana offers a stark narrative of his decade-long travels to Cuba, interweaving a political analysis of the country's current state with a critical assessment of the ideology that has shaped its development. Cuba: A Brief History of the End reveals an immersive tableau of tropical ......
A Journey through Translation, Interpretation, and Meaning
In the labyrinth of human experience, language stands as both a monument to our ingenuity and a barrier to our understanding. It is the medium through which we convey not just thoughts and ideas but the very essence of our cultures, emotions, and identities. Yet, in its complexity lies a challenge-a challenge that has persisted through the ages, ......