Journey with Russell Lyon through the fascinating story of the Society of Horsemen, the secret group of strange gifted men who traditionally ruled the world of the stables. Discover a culture stranger than fiction, where a stable-boy could be asked to shake hands with the devil through a wall, and the sign of power would float upstream.
Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. This book shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores the pressing ethical questions surrounding it.
In J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawing on previous research and new archival sources, he sheds light on many of the most mysterious aspects of these masterpieces, and their reception, and shows how they have remained a fixture of Western culture for nearly three hundred years.