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  • Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach

    Series series Contextual Bach Studies
    Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bach’s own compositional choices or (in Part ... Read more

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  • The Workerist Manifesto

    The average American private sector worker produces about $200,000 worth of goods or services a year…. but only gets paid $35,000 in gross pre tax wages in return (in a country where you need to make $100,000 a year to support a family of 4 at a middle income standard of living). Why does this country’s 161 million strong working class continue to tolerate that? This book sets out to answer that ... Read more

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  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 4: The Music of J. S. Bach

    Analysis and Interpretation

    Series series Bach Perspectives
    Launched in 1995, Bach Perspectives has become the premier English-language serial book series dedicated to cutting-edge Bach scholarship. The University of Illinois Press now offers the first four volumes in open access editions available for free to all interested readers.The fourth volume of Bach Perspectives analyzes J. S. Bach’s orchestral works, especially his concertos, and the ... Read more

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  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 2

    J. S. Bach, the Breitkopfs, and Eighteenth-Century Music Trade

    Series series Bach Perspectives
    Launched in 1995, Bach Perspectives has become the premier English-language serial book series dedicated to cutting-edge Bach scholarship. The University of Illinois Press now offers the first four volumes in open access editions available for free to all interested readers.From 1727 to 1787, the Bach and the Breitkopf families enjoyed close professional ties forged by the growing trade between ... Read more

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  • Beginning Self-Study Research

    A Practical Guide

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is an essential guide for novice and experienced self-study researchers, offering practical insight into the lived experience of conducting self-study research. Unlike abstract methodologies, self-study is embodied through practice and often learned collaboratively. Because it resists traditional instruction, newcomers frequently ask S-STEP researchers: “How does one learn self-study?” ... Read more

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  • Disunited Brotherhoods

    ...Race, Racketeering and the Fall of the New York Construction Unions

    Just 40 years ago, the construction unions of New York City were among the most powerful labor organizations in the world. They were also among the most openly racist and sexist, and were thoroughly dominated by organized crime.Today, minority males, and women of any color, can get work in the industry, and the power of gangsters is on the decline. But the fall of racketeering and racism also ... Read more

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  • Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare

    A Senior Leader Guide to Improving Cost and Throughput

    This book’s unique focus on the role of healthcare leaders and the lessons learned were uncovered during the authors’ research of over 200 U.S. hospitals’ performance. It was written specifically for CEOs, the “C-Suite,” and senior leaders who desire to harness the power of Lean-Six Sigma as their major strategic weapon for progress, as well as those charged to coach them. It is intended for those ... Read more

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  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 7: J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music

    The Concerto

    Series series Bach Perspectives
    J. S. Bach's creativity is so overwhelming his compositions in some genres eclipse his work in others. His glorious choral works, profound organ compositions, and exquisite solo compositions for violin and cello attract the most attention. Volume Seven of Bach Perspectives restores Bach's concertos to their rightful place of honor.Gregory Butler focuses on Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord and ... Read more

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  • Irish Myths and Legends

    Gods and Fighting Men

    Lady Augusta Gregory's Irish Myths and Legends, or Gods and Fighting Men as it was first titled in 1904, is an essential collection of Irish myths, legends and folk tales gathered by Gregory from Irish oral story tellers at the close of the nineteenth century.These epic tales are divided into two parts: the first charts the coming of the mythic Tuatha De Danaan to Ireland, the lives of Manannan ... Read more

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  • The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays

    About seven years ago I began to dictate the first of these Plays to Lady Gregory. My eyesight had become so bad that I feared I could henceforth write nothing with my own hands but verses, which, as Theophile Gautier has said, can be written with a burnt match. Our Irish Dramatic movement was just passing out of the hands of English Actors, hired because we knew of no Irish ones, and our little ... Read more

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  • I'm Black. I'm Christian. I'm Methodist.

    Ten personal narratives reveal the shared and distinct struggles of being Black in the Church, facing historic and modern racism.It’s uncertain that Howard Thurman made the remark often attributed to him, “I have been writing this book all my life,” but there is little doubt that he was deeply immersed in reflection on the times that bear an uncanny resemblance to the present day, which give voice ... Read more

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  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 6

    J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music, The Ouverture

    Series series Bach Perspectives
    The sixth volume in the Bach Perspectives series opens with Joshua Rifkin's seminal study of the early source history of the B-minor orchestral suite. Rifkin elaborates on his discovery that the work in its present form for solo flute goes back to an earlier version in A minor, ostensibly for solo violin. He also takes the discovery as the point of departure for a wide-ranging discussion of the ... Read more

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