This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Goetterdaemmerung.

An essay on American union. The author admits that no adequate life of Hamilton had yet been written. Hamilton’s achievements have been chronicled, praised and condemned, but in the case…

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around…

Beautifully recreating the course of Scott’s life - his childhood, love of family, literary success, encounters with Wordsworth and Lord Byron, and later tragedies and financial disasters, Oliver brings to…

An insightful study of the master filmmaker’s work, enriched by unprecedented access to the director himself. – .

Calligraphy refers to beautiful writing, an ancient art form still practiced today. Thought to have originated in China, calligraphy is skilled handwriting that produces expressive lettering and words. Each letter…