Showing results by author "Gerard" in All Categories

May - the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and popular for May Day and Workers Rights celebrations. for our poets, including Milton, Hopkins, Von Goethe, Wordsworth, and Longfellow, much else is on their minds, and of course, it's beautifully put.

Conceived in the early 1800s and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was the boldest and biggest American engineering project of its century, with enduring political, social, and economic effects. It was the Erie Canal that first opened up the West to American enterprise and imagination, bringing vast riches and a far-reaching vision to a rapidly expanding nation.In this compelling narrative, author Gerard Koeppel tells the complete, sweeping story of the creation of the canal.

If the vivid expression of human passion is a hallmark of Romanticism in music, then Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was perhaps the most Romantic of all composers. A sensitive, introspective, and extremely emotional man, Tchaikovsky poured his joys, sorrows, and drams into compositions that have touched listeners for over a century.

Gerard Schwarz takes you through the life of Anton Dvorak, a devoted Czech nationalist who, like other composers of the nineteenth century, brought national or ethnic pride into the concert hall by using their nation's folk music to evoke patriotic sentiments.

By the time Mozart turned 20 he was already one of the most skilled composers of his day. His output included not only symphonies and concertos but piano pieces, serenades, arias, operas, and smaller species of musical theater, songs, and church music. Symphony No. 40 in G Minor forms the centerpiece of the "final trilogy".

Franz Liszt came of age with the flowering of the Romantic movement in literature and the arts, and the Romantic spirit had a profound impact on his development as both a man and an artist. Indeed, Liszt, like Berlioz, Wagner, and Chopin, gave expression to that spirit in both his life and his music. Liszt cut a larger-than-life figure, and everything he did tended towards extravagance.

The music of Franz Schubert is cherished for its beautiful flow of melody; melody that runs through the composer's songs and instrumental compositions like a clear and inexhaustible stream. But Schubert was more than just a gifted melodist. He was also the creator of exquisite symphonies in the Classical tradition.

One of the great composers of the 19th century, Schumann wrote piano solos, chamber music, choral pieces and opera, dozens of superb songs, and some of the finest works in the orchestral reperotry. Much of this music conveys contented and even joyful sentiments; there is surprisingly little darkness in Schumann's compositions. Yet from the beginning of his career, Schumann was plagued by irrational fears and melancholy. In the end, his personal demons overwhelmed him.

Like all tone poems, "Thus Spake Zarathustra" follows a "program" or story line which, to some extent, dictates its musical form and details. Strauss derived his program from Nietzsche's philosophical allegory or the same name which theorizes the rise of mankind from a primitive natural state to one of moral and intellectual superiority.

Here is a compelling tale sure to delight the most discerning reader of Victorian tales of terror and the supernatural.

This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against weeds, insects, and drought, as well as 21st-century threats such as globalization.

Tout le monde l'utilise, tout le monde en parle, ses progrès font la une : mais qui sait vraiment ce qu'est l'informatique ? Il s'agit d'une façon radicalement différente de penser, qui permet d'associer de l'information, de toute taille et de toute nature, à un ou plusieurs algorithmes, c'est-à-dire à des opérations mathématiques. C'est cela, l'informatique : une méthode systématique pour transformer un besoin en une suite d'opérations élémentaires.

Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of the poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world-renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some are almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.

The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with 12 people on board. Just before 2 a.m. on the sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were slaughtered in their individual bunkrooms with the ship's axe, seven or eight blows apiece. Laura Nash was found with her thin nightgown pushed above her hips, her head and upper body smashed and deformed. Incredibly, no one saw or heard the killings...except the killer.

'Movie czar' Will H. Hays is on a mission to clean up Hollywood by compiling the Doom List - a list of 'undesirables' whom he plans to bar from screen work. Private investigator Tom Collins is hired to protect a leading lady's reputation at all costs and is drawn into a case of scandal, forbidden passion, blackmail and cold-blooded murder.

February 1922. Hollywood is young but already mired in scandal. When a leading movie director is murdered, Irish American investigator Tom Collins is called in by studio boss Mack Sennett, whose troubled star, Mabel Normand, is rumoured to be involved. But Normand has gone missing. And, as Collins discovers, there's a growing list of suspects. His quest leads him through the brutal heart of Prohibition-era Los Angeles, from speakeasies and dope dens to the studios and salons of Hollywood's fabulously wealthy movie elite, and to a secret so explosive it must be kept silent at any cost....

Lors d'une tournée dans les Carpates, un prestidigitateur sur le déclin fait la rencontre d'un étrange personnage qui lui suggère un tour de magie époustouflant....

Weekday mornings from 5.30am (Eastern), join Paul Sawtell, Andrew Courtice & Gerard Daffy for the RadioTAB Breakfast show. The team cover the latest developments in all of your favourite sports & chat to Australia’s leading sports stars and commentators. Get the latest TAB prices every morning, including market movers & the Best Bets of the day. It’s the perfect start to the day for anyone who loves their sport!!

Understand how to effectively stop negative thinking, start seeing positives instead of negatives, mend relationships, get stuff done, and move ahead in life! Negative thoughts paralyze us and stop us from taking action, damage the relationships, damage our self-esteem, and slowly punch holes in our self-confidence all which have negative consequences. The audiobook covers the ins and outs of negative thinking, including how to stop the endless cycle of negative thinking, free yourself from the bondage of negative thoughts and achieve much more!

Toutes les femmes peuvent atteindre l'orgasme, ou plutôt LES orgasmes ! Si ce n'est pas une évidence pour vous, rien n'est perdu ! Pour atteindre la jouissance, seule ou avec votre partenaire, commencez à travers ce livre audio le voluptueux voyage qui vous apprendra notamment : 1) à bien stimuler le point G (et les autres points méconnus) ; 2) comment tirer le meilleur parti des sex-toys ; 3) quelles sont les meilleures positions du plaisir.