books about: twentieth-century     books:     Twentieth-century      Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century W. W. Norton, 2005 Christmas Present This was a Christmas present for my wife. She sings and arranges music. I can only tell you that she is ecstatic about the book, and is excited at the prospect of going on line for the streaming music that comes with.             Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century Mark Mazower Vintage, 2000 Read it at least twice I agree with an earlier reviewer that this is the best history of 20th Century Europe ever. Keen insights and fresh ideas leap off every page. But it needs to be repeated: the Dark Continent is not an introduction to the subject. Unless you have a good knowledge of ...             The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century ... W. W. Norton, 2005 The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 This book was a purchase for an English class; however, it contains some awesome poetry.             Loving; Living; Party Going (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Henry Green Penguin Classics, 1993 Green tackles the big subjects Have you ever sat and thought, man, I wish someone would write a book about living? And possibly loving? Well, Henry Green has gone out and done just that. I had never thought that a book about going to parties might be necessary, but after reading it I think that Mr. ...             The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Max Weber Penguin Classics, 2002 the fear of being not preferred later on ... Max Weber (1864-1920) had noticed that Protestants appeared excessively under the numbers of people who economically were successful. The Catholicism seemed to make it easier (due to an integrated sin pardon mechanics) to enjoy life in between times. The Mediterranean ...             Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century Jeffry A. Frieden W. W. Norton, 2007 Globalization 2.0 Jeffrey Frieden, a Harvard professor specializing in international trade and finance, has written a masterly and comprehensive history of capitalism from 1870 to the present. His history of globalization reminds us that it is not a recent develpment and that its ...             The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 intellectually exciting This is an exhilirating intellectual tour de force. Ross is the best "describer" of music I've ever read. Music resists being put into words -- they are two very different media. But Ross has the ability to do this -- his descriptions of works I am familiar with is ...             The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century Edward Dolnick Harper, 2008 Short course in psychology, art and forgery Not having read Edward Dolnick's previous book, "The Rescue Artist", I did not come to read "The Forger's Spell" with primed expectations. Mr. Dolnick succeeds in what many writers on this subject fail to do by showing and not telling the finer points of his subject. ...             When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America Ira Katznelson W. W. Norton, 2006 LBJ was the one who really freed the slaves Just finished an outstanding book by Ira Katznelson on the untold history of racial inequality in America. Those who oppose affirmative action should get it and see who has really benefitted from The New Deal, the Fair Deal, Social Security and the GI Bill after WWII. ...             Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Wallace Stegner Penguin Classics, 2000 "For lack of a keystone... ...the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life." Stegner summation of his novel's themes contains this essential sentence. Two lines, leaning against each other, without the uniting keystone, form their own angle of repose, a term derived from geology ...             Giorgio Morandi (Twentieth-Century Masters Series) Karen Wilkin Rizzoli International Publications, 1998 My oldest possession. It's true, this book is my oldest possession, from an earlier printing, I've had this book since the early 70's. If you are a painter and want to learn how to put space and light into your work then this book is your greatest resource and greatest challenge. For those ...             Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth ... Mae M. Ngai Princeton University Press, 2005 Reframing immigration history Mae Ngai's ambitious book compels historians and general readers alike to critically reassess traditional understandings of and approaches to U.S. immigration. Much of the histories on U.S. immigration and immigration policies have told a similar tale. The United ...             Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century Tony Judt Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Very Good This is a collection of essays from the historian most famous for " Postwar" a history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Judt's earlier book was very good and explained the establishment of the European welfare state as a reaction to the Second World War. Politicians ...             A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the ... John Burrow Knopf, 2008 A truly monumental work I have always been a history nut, reading history after history throughout my life. And one cannot read these histories without realizing that there is a difference between the way the historians viewed their subjects, and how they went about recording history. In this ...             The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Howard Phillips Lovecraft Penguin Classics, 1999 Free SF Reader Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. 4.5 out of 5          products you might be interested in search for books affirmative, impossible, literature, reappraisals, reflections, twentieth-century      toavi.com    web we recommend "For lack of a keystone... randomly chosen book: Doomwyte: A Novel of Redwall