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For this revised edition of Hildegard's liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliography and discography, and made other minor changes. Also included is an essay by Marianne Richert Pfau which delineates the connection between music and text in the Symphonia.Famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a composer and a poet, a writer on theological, scientific, and medical subjects, an abbess, and a visionary prophet. One of the very few female composers of the Middle Ages whose work has survived, Hildegard was neglected for centuries until her liturgical song cycle was rediscovered. Songs from it are now being performed regularly by early music groups, and more than twenty compact discs have been recorded.

A comprehensive account of the influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.

The Birds of Panama will be an essential tool for the new generation of birders traveling in search of Panama's spectacular avifauna.

"Post is a pioneer in the field of political-personality profiling. He may be the only psychiatrist who has specialized in the self-esteem problems of both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."-The New Yorker "Policy specialists and academic...

A clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience.

"This book examines Japanese writers and filmmakers who have responded to moments of crisis in Japan's modern period by imagining what it would mean for humans to be more like plants."--

"The chapters in this book build on a growing body of scholarly literature that challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional wars and revolutions that precede (from 1931) and follow (to the mid 1950s) the "central paroxysm" defined by the active participation of the United States. This approach works to decenter US- and Europe-centric accounts of the war and to highlight "bottom-up" agency in ways that destabilize conventional narratives"--

"This book explores why the Bolsheviks not only embraced the nationality question, but also institutionalized nationalism as a means of managing diversity. Case studies from Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia reveal the evolution of internal Soviet border-making between 1917 and 1930"--

Future of the Forest is the story of legal transformations of forests across India through collective action. Since the nineteenth century, Indian forest dwellers have been unable to enforce their claims to the land on which they live or the products of it that they use. But at the turn of the twenty-first century, a new national movement led to the passage of the Forest Rights Act, a landmark law that recognizes the tenure and use rights of India's millions of landless forest dwellers. Anand P. Vaidya tracks the Forest Rights Act from the movements that pushed for its passage to its drafting-and the many revisions it underwent to satisfy coalitions of local peoples, conservationists, and a wide spectrum of political parties and movements-and finally to its impact on two neighboring villages in central India's forest belt. The forests have seen a long history of political authority enacted to the benefit of the powerful, and Future of the Forest follows the work of activists and forest dwellers who turned to the law to shift this balance of power.

"Second volume of a survey of branding practices in the hospitality industry"--

"The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre focuses on the intimate relationship and professional collaboration between the actress Lidia Yavorskaya and the dramatist Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik during Russia's Silver Age (1890-1920)."--

"An intellectual biography of American abolitionist and reformer William Goodell (1792-1878)"--

"A reconsideration of the role startups play in Asian countries that have historically been considered developmental states"--

"Welcome to Soylandia is an empirically rich ethnography of the movement of US farmers to the expanding soybean frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado. It charts their encounters with landscapes, soils, crops, people, and markets in Brazil."--

This book analyzes advocacy by public and private agents for fuller disclosure to endangered workers of the nature of toxic chemicals and other occupational health hazards in the United States during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century-- Provided by publisher.

"By the Waters of Babylon is a translation of Babiron no nagare no hotori nite, a memoir and travelogue by Japanese philosopher Mori Arimasa. Mori's perspective on European and Japanese culture helped shape Japan's postwar understanding of and relationship with Europe. Here, Mori reflects on his travels and the experience of living in a foreign culture"--

"This book examines the ideology of Russian civilizationism, according to which history does not march in a single direction but rather consists of multiple civilizations advancing in multiple directions. The book analyzes the main strands of Russian civilizationism and how civilizational rhetoric has now become commonplace in Russian official discourse"--

How do foreign policy-makers learn from history? When do states enter alliances? Beginning with these two questions, Dan Reiter uses recent work in social psychology and organization theory to build a formative-events model of learning in international politics.

Richard Polt provides a lively and accessible introduction to one of the most influential and intellectually demanding philosophers of the modern era. Covering the entire range of Heidegger's thought, Polt skillfully communicates the essence of the...

"Focusing on the late Middle Ages (1221-1422), this book examines various forms of contact between France and the Mongols; the ways in which authors, illuminators, manuscript makers, and patrons understood and imagined the Mongols; and France's place in the Global Middle Ages"--

The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or "e;hybrid"e; regimes-Singapore and Malaysia-where politically liberal and authoritarian features are blended to evade substantive democracy. Although skewed elections, curbed civil liberties, and a dose of coercion help sustain these regimes, selectively structured state policies and patronage, partisan machines that effectively stand in for local governments, and diligently sustained clientelist relations between politicians and constituents are equally important. While key attributes of these regimes differ, affecting the scope, character, and balance among national parties and policies, local machines, and personalized linkages-and notwithstanding a momentous change of government in Malaysia in 2018-the similarity in the overall patterns in these countries confirms the salience of these dimensions. As Meredith L. Weiss shows, taken together, these attributes accustom citizens to the system in place, making meaningful change in how electoral mobilization and policymaking happen all the harder to change. This authoritarian acculturation is key to the durability of both regimes, but, given weaker party competition and party-civil society links, is stronger in Singapore than Malaysia. High levels of authoritarian acculturation, amplifying the political payoffs of what parties and politicians actually provide their constituents, explain why electoral turnover alone is insufficient for real regime change in either state.

"This book analyzes patronage conflicts pitting presidential family members against other elite groupings in a series of personalist authoritarian regimes, beginning with Kazakhstan in the early 2000s"--

"The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness examines the influence of German philosophical traditions on the development of the Kyoto School. Contributors explore the Kyoto School's engagement with Western thought, highlighting the centrality of German philosophy while also showing the many ways the Kyoto School critiques the philosophical traditions it incorporates"--