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Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Essex, England, in 1844. During his lifetime, his work, at his own insistence, remained unpublished. Hopkins died in 1889, aged just 45, but it was not until 1918 that his work was first published and until 1930 that he first received acclaim. Here, Margaret Rawlings reads a selection of his finest work, including "Starlight Night", "Spring", "Pied Piper", and "Inversnaid".

Known as the father of contemporary negotiating, Gerard I. Nierenberg has taught top executives across the country how to come out of their business deals as winners.

Gerard Schwarz describes how Bela Bartok developed new rhythmic patterns modeled on Balkan and North African folk music and explored unusual instrumental colors and textures. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Bartok's innovative tendencies earned him a reputation as an uncompromising modernist, making him almost a musical anarchist who was unappreciated and largely unperformed, particularly in his native Hungary.

Gerard Schwarz explains how Chopin came to embody the Romantic Movement with his rich harmonic shadings, his intense poetic expression, and his attention to the sensual qualities of music. But Chopin did more than just write music imbued with the spirit of Romanticism. In many ways he embodied an archetypal Romantic character: a lonely genius, doomed by that most Romantic disease, tuberculosis; a visionary musician too refined to seek public acclaim.

Gerard Schwarz examines the life of this impolitic composer who lived in the political world of revolutionary Russia. Prokofiev's failure to interest himself in political realities, together with his tremendous confidence in his own genius, led him to ignore the darkening climate for artists in the Soviet Union. When the Soviets arrested his first wife on charges of spying, Prokofiev issued a public apology for his failure to write in an appropriate socialist style.

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.

Gerard Schwarz shares his enthusiasm for the music of Aaron Copland, the quintessential American composer. Born in 1900 into a family of immigrants in Brooklyn, Copland didn't come from a musical family and had to find his own way, even trying to learn harmony from a mail order course. Today, Copland has become a permanent part of our cultural landscape, as important to our national consciousness as Whitman, Whistler, or Melville.

Do you like vampire love stories and vampire romance from different countries? If so, you will really enjoy our 5 in 1 Vampire Love Story Box Set: Stories of Vampire Romance from Around the World.

The language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together by her own gravity. With luminous, lyrical prose, Binary Star is an impassioned account of a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend.

Drawing on the insights and experience of studying and learning from other great speakers, this audiobook provides you with the tools you need to structure your presentations in a way that is both compelling and memorable.

Dix ans après Sarko m'a tuer. Cinq ans après " Un président ne devrait pas dire ça... " Voici le nouveau livre politique de Gérard Davet et Fabrice Lhomme, grands reporters au journal Le Monde. Après Sarkozy et Hollande, ils ont enquêté sur Emmanuel Macron. Plus de cent dix témoins de premier plan parlent, à visage découvert, crûment. Ils confient aussi leurs documents.

After Gerard does his set, club owner Jamie Masada makes his opinion known that he thinks Gerard is high. Gerard says a woman told him he should be a comedian. Then, Jon Reep reveals the charm of small-town America. Jamie says Jon has an accent. Dom points out how ridiculous Jamie is for pointing that out. Dom says he saw John Cleese at the gym. Finally, Daniel Tosh subtly plies the crowd with his rascally tales.

At a benefit dinner in Monaco, Austrian playboy and CIA freelancer Malko Linge meets an intriguing woman, Zhanna Khrenkov, who has an unusual proposal. She will disclose everything she knows about her husband Alexei's business, provided Malko kills Alexei's beautiful young British mistress. Appalled, he refuses, but then Zhanna reveals that her husband runs a ring of sleeper Russian spies operating undercover inside the US. Naturally Malko's CIA handlers would love to have this information, but he feels uncomfortable killing anyone in cold blood - especially a beautiful woman.

In New Jersey, Parviz Amritzar is mourning for his family - killed by a US airstrike back in Pakistan - and vowing revenge against his adoptive country. He devises a plan to shoot down Air Force One and gets a lucky break when he reaches a terrorist contact who knows how he can obtain a surface-to-air missile from the Russians. When the CIA picks up on the rumors of this plot, they call on Malko Linge to carefully observe the would-be terrorist. But as soon as Malko thinks he has a handle on the situation, everything changes.

REISSUE: A classic, emotional romance by Cindy Gerard. If you missed it the first time - make sure you get it now! OUT OF THE BLUE (formerly titled: The Bride Wore Blue) SHE WANTED TO BE ALONE Maggie Adams had known acceptance and love one summer at Legend Lake as a lonely, troubled teenager. Now a haunted woman, she'd returned looking for the sense of peace and clarity and belonging she'd once known. She wasn't looking for J.D. “Blue” Hazzard to drop out of the sky and back into her life with all the subtly of a freight train. HE WANTED TO CHANGE HER MIND J.D. Hazzard had been a ...

It’s a new school term, and Eoin Madden has new responsibilities. He’s now captain of the Under 14s team and has to deal with friction between his friend Rory and new boy Dylan as they thrash it out for a place as scrum-half. And away from the pitch Eoin has his hands full. He starts work on a project about Irish-born All Black Dave Gallaher who died in World War I. Then history becomes reality when an old book brings Eoin a lot closer to the rugby legend than he ever thought possible....

No matter how much money you earn, it’s always going to feel like it’s never enough. Why? Because you’re not the one who is in control of your finances. That’s what happens when we live a life without a budget. There’s no guidance, no framework, no reliable source to turn to which ensures we’re doing what we should be doing with our money. What if you knew that the secret to financial freedom all came down to simply having a budget? This audiobook is going to take a deep-dive into everything you need to set you up for a successful financial future by using a budget.

Gerard Schwarz shows how no artist expressed the ideals of nineteenth-century Romanticism better than Richard Wagner. With his great operas, or "music dramas", as he preferred to call them, Wagner created epic works relating stories derived from old European myths and medieval romances. Wagner was, in many respects, the dominating cultural figure in the second half of the nineteenth century. His ideas provoked more admiration, scorn, and astonishment than any other artist of the era.

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.

The early church turned the world upside down. With only a few followers of Jesus filled with the Holy Spirit, the gospel message of love and transformation spread like wildfire; it could not be contained or held back. What was the secret - the "Jesus way" - behind such a radical movement of the gospel? And what would it take for a spiritual renewal to happen today - in your church, your community, your world, and your own heart?