Richard Klein

Klein wanted to find out what was so alluring about smoking that for all his good sense and determination and the intense public pressure, he had to struggle so hard to quit. The result is a survey of the meaning and significance of cigarettes in literature, films, war, sex, and other realms throughout the world. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Cigarettes are Sublime

Sigaranin Saltanati

An examination of the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking focuses on the forbidden pleasures, dark beauty, and exacting benefits associated with cigarette use throughout the ages.

Jonathan Harvey

Helmut Lachenmann

Jonathan Cross

Albrecht Wellmer

This volume is a collection of essays based on lectures given at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent at various occasions over the last four years.Two of our five distinguished authors are British, three are Germans. Two are prominent composers and both keen and provocative writers about music; one is a musicologist and daring critic who specializes in contemporary music. There are also two philosophers and Adorno specialists that deal with such fundamental and highly complex matters as music and language, and music and time.All authors subscribe to the same seriousness of purpose, so that you may find reminiscences of one text in the others, which will make for a fascinating read. Moreover, this book is all about the current state of music, about thinking, speaking, and writing about music in the immediate aftermath of that stirring and fascinating twentieth century.

Essays on Music, Language, and Time

Identity and Difference

Foster Armstrong

Cara Armstrong

A photographic tour of Cleveland's sacred architecture includes 120 photos of churches and synagogues throughout the city, a description of the architectural significance of each, a brief history of the congregation, and the address of each. Original.

A Guide to Cleveland's Sacred Landmarks

From the iconoclastic author of "Cigarettes Are Sublime, a sexy, funny book that is part novel, part thesis on jewelry--on all the ways that jewelry conveys messages and intimates secrets. The narrator, Abby Zinzo, is writing an amusing, erotic memoir to accompany the jewelry he's leaving to his adolescent heir. In it he explains to her what jewelry has meant to him throughout a checkered life lived mostly in Paris and around the continent, in strange menages--but always with jewelry in view. His obsession is not only with jewelry itself, but also with the great women who have worn it. He writes about its magic, its lore, its attraction--in history and on the streets, in public and in the most intimate scenarios. He can't stop thinking about it, or about the Duchess of Windsor, Elizabeth Taylor, Coco Chanel--women of the twentieth century who have owned magnificent jewelry. He dreams about them and about the pave diamond ring that Dodi al Fayed gave to Diana. He examines their lives and their philosophies of adornment in order to better understand jewelry for reasons that are intensely personal, reasons that concern his very life and love. An audacious work of fiction, a form of cultural critique, "Jewelry Talks is an intellectual tour de force, an erotically delightful concoction of a book, a rare combination that will titillate and satisfy both the most serious and the most sentimental of readers.

A Novel Thesis

Jewelry Talks

Marc Aurel

Fred Wilson

Black Like Me

Stefan Müller-Doohm

Johann Kreuzer

Das Handbuch präsentiert den Diskussionsstand zu Werk und Wirkung Theodor W. Adornos und bietet inhaltliche wie methodische Werkzeuge für die Auseinandersetzung mit dieser für die deutschsprachigen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften des 20. Jahrhunderts prägenden Gestalt. Dokumentation und Bestandsaufnahme einerseits, Kritik und Neudeutung andererseits sind die Ziele eines Unternehmens, in dem es nicht um die Verbreitung einer kodifizierten Lehre geht, sondern um die Darstellung und Analyse der Problemstellungen und Denkmöglichkeiten, für die Adorno exemplarisch steht. – Zentrales Anliegen des Handbuchs ist der spezifisch interdisziplinäre Charakter des Adornoschen Philosophierens. Dessen Potential erschöpft sich nicht in fachgebundener Forschung, sondern wird in der kritischen Verschränkung von Kunst, Musik, Philosophie und den Fachwissenschaften virulent. Für schulbedingte Verengungen ist kein Platz. Die über 40 Beiträger lassen vielmehr die verschiedenen Zugangsweisen und Temperamente in der Auseinandersetzung mit Adornos Werk deutlich werden. Für die 2. Auflage wurde das Handbuch grundlegend durchgesehen, aktualisiert und um 17 Einträge erweitert.

Leben – Werk – Wirkung

Adorno-Handbuch

The numerous business contributions made by some of the major Cleveland, OH auto dealerships over the past 130-years will be recognized in this book and how their innovative approaches towards both marketing and selling vehicles influenced the automotive industry over that same period.

Richard Klein

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