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In this biography the author interweaves the dramatic incidents of Steiner's personal life with an accessible exploration of his composing methods and experiences

Bernard Herrmann is a music composer who in over 40 scores enriched the work of directors like Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. He scored for Fahrenheit 451, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Psycho. This title is his biography exploring the inter-relationships between his music and his personal life.

Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless of time and place. This book introduces the wide terrain of political philosophy through the classic texts of the discipline.

Traces the evolution of New York's publishing trade from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. Explores the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks in the early republic.

Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges.  Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s  Pagans and Christians in the City  looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.

Psychology Graduate School: A User's Manual is an enjoyable description of what being a graduate student in clinical, counseling, or school psychology programs is really like. Rather than a mere how-to, punctuated by quotes and stories from real-life graduate students, this book describes the nitty-gritty of the graduate student experience.

Sam, Derek and Caitlin explore a mystery at The Jefferson, Richmond's historic downtown hotel.

The offer he couldn't refuse trapped him in a game he may never win...Bryce never meant to disappear. But a cryptic invitation to join an elite computer programming unit at one of the world's top high-tech gaming companies unlocks a level of intrigue and deception far beyond his imagination.

Steven Smith shares his hilarious autobiography which shares candid tales from the celebrity front line and the inside secrets on the hairdressing game after he rose to fame as a celebrity makeover artist in the late 1990s.

Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. This book will appeal to literary scholars and historians interested in Greek poetry, Late Antiquity, Byzantine studies, Early Christianity, gender, and sexuality.