本書は中世、ルネサンス、そしてバロック期の音楽の形式、技術、レパートリーを、章ごとに分けて整理・解説します。また簡潔な古楽復興の歴史とともに、なぜ20世紀後期に古楽がもてはやされることになったのか、さらには、なぜ古い音楽を復興する必要性があったのかについても考えていきます。 　　　 A unique and succinct survey of both the history and ... 続きを読む

A vibrant introduction to a quintessential American art form, Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History is the first undergraduate textbook that focuses solely on country music. Written by an ex ... 続きを読む

A Practical Companion to Ethics, Fourth Edition, is a concise and accessible introduction to the basic attitudes and skills that make ethics work, like thinking for oneself, creative and integrative p ... 続きを読む

An all-in-one reference providing convenience, value, and the authority of Oxford dictionaries. The Pocket Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus is the ideal, all-in-one portable reference, with a di ... 続きを読む

This is the eighth edition of Sir Ian Brownlie's classic distillation of public international law. Serving as a single volume introduction to the field as a whole, the book seeks to present internatio ... 続きを読む

Rosalind Franklin is famous in the history of science for her contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA, the start of the greatest biological revolution of the twentieth century. Much has ... 続きを読む

労働とは多くの人にとってアイデンティティそのものであり、社会の中で自分の存在を認識する判断材料にもなっています。労働に深く係わり合うトピックとして、グローバル化やフェミニズム、技術の進展などにも触れながら、労働とは何か、人はなぜ働くのかといった、労働に関する基本的概念を見つめ直します。     An authoritative but accessible short ... 続きを読む

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universi ... 続きを読む

And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep' In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world ... 続きを読む

The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of ... 続きを読む