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Product Description: Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them...read more
By Vanessa Agnew (editor) and Jonathan Lamb (editor)
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9780230576063 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2010, cover price $79.00 | About this edition: Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them.

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Product Description: The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time...read more
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9780195336665 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates.

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Product Description: This is the first monograph about Ruth Schonthal, the internationally-renowned composer whose works are performed worldwide. Parts of the work are based on conversations that the author conducted with Ms. Schonthal over the past 20 years...read more
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9780773457362 | Edwin Mellen Pr, August 30, 2006, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This is the first monograph about Ruth Schonthal, the internationally-renowned composer whose works are performed worldwide.

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Product Description: When adults read fairy tales, they are generally not just interested in what happens to the characters: they also reflect on the deeper meaning and the "moral" of the story. This compact volume includes the text of Grimms' lesser-known "Mermaid in the Pond", followed by Verena Kast's interpretation of the tale...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780826409263 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, September 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When adults read fairy tales, they are generally not just interested in what happens to the characters: they also reflect on the deeper meaning and the "moral" of the story.

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By Vanessa Agnew (trans) and Verena Kast
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9780826408471, titled "Fairy Tales for the Psyche: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and the Myth of Sisyphus" | Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

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Explains that separation during childhood is necessary preparation for parents--especially mothers, and accepting these partings will improve relationships throughout life and ease the inevitable separation when a child enters adulthood
By Vanessa Agnew (trans) and Verena Kast
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9780826406552 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Explains that separation during childhood is necessary preparation for parents--especially mothers, and accepting these partings will improve relationships throughout life and ease the inevitable separation when a child enters adulthood

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