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|  | Object Lessons by Eavan Boland
A woman poet on her art. AUTHOR: Eavan Boland
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Einstein's Clocks and Poincares Maps by Peter Galison
Noted historian and author Galison examines the ways in which some of the greatest theories have arisen from the most simple technologies. Galison focuses on Einstein`s use of the telegraph, clock, and train timetables, and Poincare`s use of maps in order to trace how from these basic objects two thinkers were able to question whether or not time itself was an absolute or was fundamentally relative. AUTHOR: Peter Galison
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Success & Survival on Wall Street by Charles W. Smith
This book paints a startling portrait of how the prejudices of four different types of players--fundamentalists, insiders, cyclists, and traders--influence the market. AUTHOR: Charles W. Smith
PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | To Boulez & Beyond by Joan Peyser
Beginning with Stravinsky and his seminal work early in the twentieth century, this book traces the course of classical music to the present day and beyond, as it moves into the twenty-first century. In this elucidating text, the author covers the major figures in music of the past hundred years, from Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Varese, and Webern to Boulez, Cage, Henze, and Stockhausen. Describing a dramatic revolution against music tradition and a new artistic sensibility, the book offers a guided tour of the sense behind the sound and a concise analysis of major trends in classical music. AUTHOR: Joan Peyser
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Queen Mother's Century by Robert Lacey
Description not available.Photographs and classic newspaper front pages trace the life of the Queen Mother in context with the great events of the century AUTHOR: Robert Lacey
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva
Albarelli's account as a gentile curiously embarking upon a teaching stint at a Yeshiva is told with wit and tenderness.
PUBLISHER: Glad Day Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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