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A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony By Pauline Fairclough
2006 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0754650162 | PDF | 6 MB
Composed in 1935-36 and intended to be his artistic 'credo', Shostakovich's "Fourth Symphony" was not performed publicly until 1961. Here, Dr Pauline Fairclough tackles head-on one of the most significant and least understood of Shostakovich's major works. She argues that the "Fourth Symphony" was radically different from its Soviet contemporaries in terms of its structure, dramaturgy, tone and even language, and therefore challenged the norms of Soviet symphonism at a crucial stage of its development. With the backing of prominent musicologists such as Ivan Sollertinsky, the composer could realistically have expected the premiere to have taken place, and may even have intended the symphony to be a model for a new kind of 'democratic' Soviet symphonism. Fairclough meticulously examines the score to inform a discussion of tonal and thematic processes, allusion, paraphrase and reference to musical types, or intonations. Such analysis is set deeply in the context of Soviet musical culture during the period 1932-36, involving Shostakovich's contemporaries Shabalin, Myaskovsky, Kabalevsky and Popov. A new method of analysis is also advanced here, where a range of Soviet and Western analytical methods are informed by the theoretical work of Shostakovich's contemporaries Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Tomashevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin and Ivan Sollertinsky, together with Theodor Adorno's late study of Mahler. In this way, the book will significantly increase an understanding of the symphony and its context.

Emmanuelle Tourme Jouanne, "A Short Introduction to International Law"
English | ISBN: 110708640X | 2014 | 126 pages | PDF | 1 MB
In our globalised world the sources and actors of international law are many and its growth prolific and disorderly. International law governs the actions of states on matters as long-established as diplomatic immunity or as recent as the War on Terror, and it now impacts upon the lives of ordinary citizens in areas as diverse as banking and investment, public health and the protection of the environment. In this accessible introduction Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet explains the latest developments in international law in the light of its history and culture, presenting it as an instrument both for dominance and for change that adjusts and balances the three pillars of the United Nations Charter: the prohibition of the use of force; economic, social and sustainable development; and human rights.

English | ISBN: 1032212209 | 2022 | 374 pages | PDF | 16 MB

A Relational Approach to Educational Inequality: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Analysis of a Primary Education School in Istanbul by R. Nazli Somel
English | PDF | 2019 | 292 Pages | ISBN : 3658266147 | 2.6 MB
In her research R. Nazlı Somel focuses on the topic of educational inequality, both from a theoretical perspective and through an empirical analysis. After a review of prominent approaches to educational inequality and their criticism, she offers a novel strategy to study the issue based on Relational Sociology and using the relational approaches of Charles Tilly and Pierre Bourdieu.

A History of Dangerous Assumptions: From the Wooden Horse of Troy to the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century by John Molesworth
English | April 11th, 2021 | ISBN: 1913491897 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 0.38 MB
A compelling historical exploration of the general vulnerability of the human mind to assumption.

English | ISBN: 0367362449 | 2021 | 400 pages | PDF | 5 MB

Jianxiong Ge, "A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations "
English | ISBN: 9813344806 | 2021 | 252 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores the relationship between rivers and ethics in China, with a particular focus on the health of the Yellow River and China's sustainable development. Though the book falls into the category of East Asian History, it is an interdisciplinary academic work that addresses not only history, but also culture, human geography and physical geography.

A Guide to Hitler's Munich by David Mathieson
English | April 1st, 2021 | ISBN: 1526727331, 1526766256 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 22.28 MB
Packed with historically significant locations, this history and guide offers a unique look at Munich as the site of Hitler's rise to power.

English | ISBN: 3631670931 | 2019 | 340 pages | PDF | 3 MB

A Dictionary of World Mythology (Oxford Quick Reference) by Arthur Cotterell
English | April 19, 1990 | ISBN: 0192177478 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2.3 MB
The powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents all reflect very different civilizations, yet they also demonstrate the unity of mankind in its fundamental need for explanations of the unknown. Arthur Cotterell sets out clearly the chief myths of the world and explains why different mythologies arose in different lands.