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  • Audiobook

    Anton Chekhov About Love

    Narrated by Max Bollinger ...
    Series series Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

    Unabridged

    53 min

    Where does love come from? How far questions of personal happiness are of consequence in love? This audio book collection of stories by Anton Chekhov is united by the theme of love featuring: About Love, The Helpmate, Polinka. Read in English, unabridged, and accompanied by orchestral music based on original Antonin Dvorak compositions. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Studies in Modern Music: Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms

    Exploring Musical Innovations of the 19th Century Composers

    by W. H. Hadow ...
    In "Studies in Modern Music: Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvo≈ô√°k, Johannes Brahms," W. H. Hadow presents an illuminating exploration of three pivotal composers whose contributions have shaped the trajectory of Western music. Hadow'Äôs literary style is characterized by its analytical rigor and lyrical prose, seamlessly weaving biography with musicology while contextualizing each composer within the ... Read more

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  • Heliogabalus

    or, The Crowned Anarchist

    Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, HELIOGABALUS is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence. Reflecting its author’s preoccupations of the time with ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • American Original

    The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justiceIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Theatre and its Double

    Translated by Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation.Containing the famous manifestos of the 'Theatre of Cruelty', this collection of essays analyses the underlying impulses of performance, provides suggestions on a physical-training method for ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Dvorak

    Romantic Music's Most Versatile Genius

    Series series Unlocking the Masters
    The music of Antonin Dvorák defies fashion. He is one of the very few composers whose works entered the international mainstream during his own lifetime, and some of them have remained there ever since. The pieces that historically define his international reputation, however, represent only a small fraction of what he actually composed. They comprise just one facet of his complex and remarkably ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • A Matter of Interpretation

    Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition

    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim—“distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • On Faith

    Lessons from an American Believer

    On Faith is an inspiring collection of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's reflections on his own faith, on the challenges that religious believers face in modern America, and on the religious freedoms protected by the Constitution. Featuring a personal introduction by Justice Scalia's son Father Paul Scalia, this volume will enrich every reader's understanding of the legendary justice ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bed of Nails

    Translated by Siân Reynolds ...
    It's as if he's being mocked from beyond the grave.When John Nichols arrives to identify the body of an old friend, he is immediately caught up in the detritus of Alan Musgrave's life, the side of Paris the tourists don't see, where everyone has a past but very few count on a future. But what can he expect from a man who bled to death in his own excruciating S&M stage show?Now there's a maverick ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • La Sagouine

    Translated by Wayne Grady ...
    The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a story! As she reminisces and rants, telling stories about herself, her friends and neighbours, the priest and his church, and every other aspect of life in her village, she is actually telling the story of Acadie.More than 30 years after its first publication in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Power of Creative Destruction

    Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

    Hayek Book Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearFrom one of the world’s leading economists and his coauthors, a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism.Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Essential Scalia

    On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law

    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his own words: the definitive collection of his opinions, speeches, and articles on the most essential and vexing legal questions, with an intimate foreword by Justice Elena Kagan“[Scalia’s writings] are as readable today as they were when they first appeared. . . . Especially illuminating to anyone who wants to unlock the mystery of why Ginsburg admired ... Read more

    $14.99 USD