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The Alcoholic Empire : vodka & politics in late Imperial Russia

Obrazy
Autor
Patricia Herlihy
Ausstellungsort
Oxford
Ausgabejahr
2002
Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction . . 3
2 Singing One's Way to Sobriety: The State's Guardianship . . 14
3 Drugs Are Our Business: Physicians Stake a Claim on Therapies . . 36
4 Battling Booze: Strategies for Sobriety in the Military . . 52
5 The Church's New Social Mission . . 69   
6 Women's Physical and Political Use of Alcohol . . 90
7 Tea and Symphony: The Laity Mobilizes against Alcohol . . 111
8 The Politics of Alcohol . . 129   
9 Conclusion . . 146

Epilogue . .  151
Notes . . 163
Bibliography . . 215
Index . . 235
Photo Gallery follows p. 68

Camille Saint-Saëns 1835-1921 : a thematic catalogue of his complete works. Vol. 1, The instrumental works

Obrazy
Autor
Sabina Teller Ratner
Ausstellungsort
Oxford
Ausgabejahr
2002
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements . . ix
Introduction . . xiii
The Catalogue Entry . . xxi
Abbreviations . . xxv
List of Plates . . xxvii

The Catalogue

I Piano Music . . 1
Piano Solo . . 3
Piano Duet . . 69
Two Pianos . . 76

II Organ, Harmonium, and Harp Music . . 91
Organ and Harmonium Music . . 93
Harp Music . . 135

III Chamber Music . . 139

IV Music for Military Band . . 241

V Orchestral Music . . 253

VI Works for Solo Instrument(s) and Orchestra . . 333

VII Transcriptions of Works by Other Composers . . 429
Transcriptions and Arrangements 431
Transcriptions with Realization of the Figured Bass

VIII Cadenzas . . 507

Addenda . . 525
Appendices . . 529

A Index of Instrumental Works . . 531
B List of Instrumental Works by Opus Number . . 541
C Chronological List of Instrumental Works by Date of Composition . . 545
D Chronological List of Instrumental Works by Date of Publication . . 557
E Dedicatees . . 566
F Transcribers of Saint-Sacus's Compositions . . 576
G Publishers of First and Early Editions . . 586

Select Bibliography
Index . . 607

The thief of time : philosophical essays on procrastination

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Chrisoula Andreou & Mark D. White ; [contributors George Ainslie et al.]
Ausstellungsort
New York
Ausgabejahr
2010
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on the Contributors . . xi 
Introduction . . 3 

PART I 
1 Procrastination: The Basic Impulse . . 11 
2 Economic Models of Procrastination . . 28 
3 Is Procrastination Weakness of Will? . . 51 
4 Intransitive Preferences, Vagueness, and the Structure of Procrastination . . 68 
5 Bad Timing . . 87 

PART II 
6 Prudence, Procrastination, and Rationality . . 99 
7 Procrastination and Personal Identity . . 115 
8 The Vice of Procrastination . . 130 
9 Virtue for Procrastinators . . 151 
10 Procrastination as Vice . . 165 

PART III 
11 Overcoming Procrastination through Planning . . 185 
12 Coping with Procrastination . . 206 
13 Resisting Procrastination: Kantian Autonomy and the Role of the Will . . 216 
14 Procrastination and the Extended Will . . 233 
15 Procrastination and the Law . . 253 

Bibliography . . 275 
Index . . 293 

Letters concerning the English Nation

Obrazy
Autor
Voltaire ; ed. with an introd. and notes by Nicholas Cronk
Ausstellungsort
Oxford
Ausgabejahr
2007
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements . . vi
Introduction . . vii
Note on the Text . . xxviii
Select Bibliography . . xxxiii
A Chronology of Voltaire . . xxxvii

LETTERS CONCERNING THE ENGLISH NATION . . 1

Appendices
A: Letter XXV, 'On Paschal's Thoughts concerning Religion, &c.' . . 122
B: Extracts from Voltaire's An Essay upon the Civil Wars of France and also upon the Epick Poetry of the European Nation from Homer down to Milton . . 151
C: Extract from Oliver Goldsmith's Memoirs of M. de Voltaire . . 162
D: Original anecdote of Voltaire and a Quaker . . 172

Explanatory Notes . . 175

Serie
(Oxford World's Classics)

Blasphemy in the Christian world : a history

Obrazy
Autor
David Nash
Ausstellungsort
Oxford
Ausgabejahr
2007
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations . . xiii
Postscript . . xv

Introduction . . 1
1. The Past Invades the Present: Blasphemy in the Contemporary World . . 12
2. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures: Part I, 1500—1800 . . 42
3. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures: Part II, 1800—2000 . . 72
4. Who Were the Blasphemers? . . 106
5. Controlling the Profane . . 147
6. Responses to Blasphemy: Victims and Communities . . 184
7. Last Temptations and Visions of Ecstasv: Blasphemy and Film . . 208
Conclusion . . 233

Select Bibliography . . 249
Index . . 261

Premarital sex in America : how young Americans meet, mate and think about marrying

Obrazy
Autor
Mark Regnerus, Jeremy Uecker
Ausstellungsort
New York
Ausgabejahr
2011
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments . . vii
One - Introduction . .  1
Two - The Partnerships and Practices of Emerging Adults . . 14
Three - Inside Sexual Relationships . . 51
Four - The College Campus: Sex 101? . . 101
Five - No Strings Attached? Sex and Emotional Health . . 135
Six - Marriage in the Minds of Emerging Adults . . 169
Seven - Red Sex, Blue Sex: Relationship Norms in a Divided America . . 205
Eight - The Power of Stories and Ten Myths about Sex in Emerging Adulthood . . 236

Appendix A: Regression Models . . 251
Appendix B: Original Research Interview Methods . . 265

Notes . . 271
Index . . 291

The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s. Vol. 1, [Achelous-Leander]

Obrazy
Autor
Jane Davidson Reid ; with the assistance of Chris Rohmann
Ausstellungsort
New York
Ausgabejahr
2011
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword . . ix
Preface . . xi
Introduction . . xvii

Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s

List of Sources . . 1073
Index of Artists . . 1119

Adamgirk' : the Adam book of Aṙak'el of Siwnik

Obrazy
Autor
transl. with an introd. by Michael E. Stone
Ausstellungsort
Oxford
Ausgabejahr
2011
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations . . vii
List of Tables . . vii
Preface . . ix
Acknowledgements . . xi

Introduction . . 1
The life of Arak'el Siwnec'i . . 3
His times . . 8
Attitudes to Arak'el as a poet . . 10
The Adamgirk' . . 13
Arak'el's writings . . 41
Tchobanian's translation . . 45

Adamgirk' 3 . . 47
Adamgirk' 1 . . 85
Adamgirk' 2 . . 271

'Concerning the First Ones' . . 305

Bibliography . . 310
Select Subject Index . . 315
Index of Ancient Sources . . 329

Agrarian landscapes in transition : comparisons of long-term ecological and cultural change

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Charles L. Redman, David R. Foster
Ausstellungsort
Oxford
Ausgabejahr
2008
Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Contributors . . ix
Introduction . . 3

1 Changing Agrarian Landscapes across America. A Comparative Perspective . . 16
2 New England's Forest Landscape. Ecological Legacies and Conservation Patterns Shaped by Agrarian History . . 44
3 Agricultural Transformation of Southern Appalachia . . 89
4 Dustbowl Legacies. Long-Term Change and Resilience in the Shortgrass Steppe . . 122
5 The Political Ecology of Southwest Michigan Agriculture, 1837-2000 . . 152
6 Agrarian Landscape Iransition in the Flint Hills ot Kansas. Legacies and Resilience . . 206
7 Water Can Flow Uphill. A Narrative of Central Arizona . . 238

Conclusion . . 272
Index . . 279

Serie
(Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series)

Olive cultivation in ancient Greece : seeking the ancient economy

Obrazy
Autor
Lin Foxhall
Ausstellungsort
Oxford
Ausgabejahr
2007
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements . . ix
List of Figures . . x
List of Tables . . xv
List of Abbreviations . . xvi

1. Introduction . . 1
2. Wealthy Households: Theory, Sources, Methodology . . 21
3. The Agricultural Holdings of Large-Scale Households . . 55
4. The Domestic Consumption of Olive Oil . . 85
5. Cultivating the Olive . . 97
6. Processing Olives . . 131
7. Arboriculture and Ornamental Gardens in Ancient Greece . . 219
8. Conclusions . . 247

Bibliography . . 261
Index Locurum . . 285
General Index . . 291