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The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms

The Memoirs of Eugenie Schumann

by Eugenie Schumann ...

Eugenie Schumann, youngest daughter of the famed composer Robert Schumann and his wife Clara discusses her memories of her life, and her studies with Johannes Brahms. Drawing upon correspondences between members of the Schumann family, Eugenie relates her memories of childhood and education, and her experiences learning music under the tutorship of Johannes Brahms. The ongoing fame of her mother ... Read more

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Eugenie Schumann, youngest daughter of the famed composer Robert Schumann and his wife Clara discusses her memories of her life, and her studies with Johannes Brahms. Drawing upon correspondences between members of the Schumann family, Eugenie relates her memories of childhood and education, and her experiences learning music under the tutorship of Johannes Brahms. The ongoing fame of her mother
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Being Present

Growing Up in Hitler's Germany

by Schumann ...

“Professor Schumann, of Smith College, was six years old when Hitler came to power in Germany. He grew up in a smallish, very ship-minded town on the approach to the Kiel Canal. The place was far from the centers of power and corruption, and devoid of concentration camps. Young Willy became a devoted Nazi believer. Professor Schumann’s intention in writing this understated and not self-defensive ... Read more

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“Professor Schumann, of Smith College, was six years old when Hitler came to power in Germany. He grew up in a smallish, very ship-minded town on the approach to the Kiel Canal. The place was far from the centers of power and corruption, and devoid of concentration camps. Young Willy became a devoted Nazi believer. Professor Schumann’s intention in writing this understated and not self-defensive
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How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions

by S. Schumann ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
After a Facebook rebellion in Egypt and Twitter protests in Turkey, the internet has been proclaimed as a globe-shifting, revolutionizing force that can incite complex social phenomena such as collective actions. This book critically assesses this claim and highlights how internet use can shape mobilizing processes to foster collective actions. ... Read more

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After a Facebook rebellion in Egypt and Twitter protests in Turkey, the internet has been proclaimed as a globe-shifting, revolutionizing force that can incite complex social phenomena such as collective actions. This book critically assesses this claim and highlights how internet use can shape mobilizing processes to foster collective actions.
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On Music and Musicians

by Robert Schumann ...

Translated by Paul Rosenfeld ...

Edited by Konraad WolffTranslated by Paul RosenfeldWith twenty black-and-white illustrationsSchumann’s literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of expression, the same inventiveness we love in his ... Read more

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Edited by Konraad WolffTranslated by Paul RosenfeldWith twenty black-and-white illustrationsSchumann’s literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century. The same fire, poetry, directness of expression, the same inventiveness we love in his
... Read more
Perfect Love, Emotional Romance: A Heartwarming Collection of 100 Classic Poems and Letters for the Lovers (Valentine's Day 2019 Edition)

by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman, Golden Deer Classics, Lord Byron, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Andrew Marvell, Rabindranath Tagore, Elizabeth B. Browning, Ella W. Wilcox, Sara Teasdale, George Etherege, Michael Drayton, Samuel T. Coleridge, Robert Burns, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Patience Worth, Christopher John Brennan, Oscar Wilde, Christopher Marlowe, Unknown, William Morris, John Clare, Thomas Moore, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anne Bradstreet, John B. O'Reilly, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Leigh Hunt, Dante G. Rossetti, Sir Walter Scott, John Wilmot, Robert Herrick, Ludwig van Bethoveen, Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Honoré de Balzac, Napoleon Bonaparte, Voltaire, Henry VIII, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Johann von Goethe, James Joyce, Abigail Adams, Sullivan Ballou, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pietro Bembo, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Catherine of Aragon, Mark Twain, John Constable, Oliver Cromwell, Ninon De L'Enclos, Alfred de Musset, Zelda Fitzgerald, Mary Wollstonecraft, Heloise, Count Gabriel Honore de Mirbeau, Lyman Hodge, King Henry IV, Franz Liszt, Katherine Mansfield, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Otway, Ovid, Robert Schumann, Vincent Van Gogh, Tsarina Alexandra, Laura Lyttleton ...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To ... Read more

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If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To
... Read more
The Secret Power of Middle Children

How Middleborns Can Harness Their Unexpected and Remarkable Abilities

by Katrin Schumann, Catherine Salmon Ph.D. ...

This myth-busting book shows how "forgotten" middle children can-and do-rule the world.In this counterintuitive book, psychologist Catherine Salmon and journalist Katrin Schumann combine science, history, and real-life stories to reveal for the first time that our perception of middle children is dead wrong.Using unpublished and little-known research from evolutionary psychology, sociology, and ... Read more

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This myth-busting book shows how "forgotten" middle children can-and do-rule the world.In this counterintuitive book, psychologist Catherine Salmon and journalist Katrin Schumann combine science, history, and real-life stories to reveal for the first time that our perception of middle children is dead wrong.Using unpublished and little-known research from evolutionary psychology, sociology, and
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When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough

A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence

by Taylor Sharpe Schumann ...

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistECPA Top Shelf Award WinnerTaylor Schumann never thought she'd be a victim of gun violence. But one spring day a man with a shotgun walked into her workplace and opened fire on her. While she survived, she was left with permanent wounds, both visible and invisible.In When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough, Taylor invites us to see what it means to be ... Read more

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Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistECPA Top Shelf Award WinnerTaylor Schumann never thought she'd be a victim of gun violence. But one spring day a man with a shotgun walked into her workplace and opened fire on her. While she survived, she was left with permanent wounds, both visible and invisible.In When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough, Taylor invites us to see what it means to be
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3 Romances - A Score for Solo Piano Op.28 (1839)

by Robert Schumann ...

This volume contains the complete score for Robert Schumann's 1839 solo piano composition, “3 Romances, Op.28”. Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) was a seminal German composer and esteemed music critic. When his piano teacher assured him hat the could be the most accomplished piano virtuoso in Europe, he dedicated his energies to this end. However, a severe injury to his hand meant that his dream ... Read more

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This volume contains the complete score for Robert Schumann's 1839 solo piano composition, “3 Romances, Op.28”. Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) was a seminal German composer and esteemed music critic. When his piano teacher assured him hat the could be the most accomplished piano virtuoso in Europe, he dedicated his energies to this end. However, a severe injury to his hand meant that his dream
... Read more
A Crisis of Exile

A Brief Survey of the Development of Monotheism in Ancient Israel

by Dr. Brian Schumann ...

The concept of one Godmonotheismis a basic, fundamental part of our culture and beliefs today. However, it hasnt always been that way. Even the early Israelite people went wayward and worshiped other gods. Yahweh was only a single God on the pantheon.A Crisis of Exile delves into the biblical, archaeological, and historical records to uncover what the religion of Ancient Israel was really like. ... Read more

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The concept of one Godmonotheismis a basic, fundamental part of our culture and beliefs today. However, it hasnt always been that way. Even the early Israelite people went wayward and worshiped other gods. Yahweh was only a single God on the pantheon.A Crisis of Exile delves into the biblical, archaeological, and historical records to uncover what the religion of Ancient Israel was really like.
... Read more
In Your Face - An Insider's Explosive Account of the Takata Airbag Scandal

by David Schumann ...

Are you at risk from one of Takata's defective and exploding airbags that have killed more than two dozen people and maimed hundreds?There are still millions of these deadly airbags across the world, all creeping slowly towards catastrophic failure, and time is our enemy. In Your Face is an insider's account of the largest automotive recall in history and the terrible secrets that threaten us ... Read more

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Are you at risk from one of Takata's defective and exploding airbags that have killed more than two dozen people and maimed hundreds?There are still millions of these deadly airbags across the world, all creeping slowly towards catastrophic failure, and time is our enemy. In Your Face is an insider's account of the largest automotive recall in history and the terrible secrets that threaten us
... Read more
Swarm Intelligence

From Social Bacteria to Humans

Edited by Andrew Schumann ...

The notion of swarm intelligence was introduced for describing decentralized and self-organized behaviors of groups of animals. Then this idea was extrapolated to design groups of robots which interact locally to cumulate a collective reaction. Some natural examples of swarms are as follows: ant colonies, bee colonies, fish schooling, bird flocking, horse herding, bacterial colonies, ... Read more

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The notion of swarm intelligence was introduced for describing decentralized and self-organized behaviors of groups of animals. Then this idea was extrapolated to design groups of robots which interact locally to cumulate a collective reaction. Some natural examples of swarms are as follows: ant colonies, bee colonies, fish schooling, bird flocking, horse herding, bacterial colonies,
... Read more
Two-Countries

US Daughters & Sons of Immigrant Parents: Flash Memoir, Personal Essays and Poetry

Edited by Tina Schumann ...

The IPPY Award–winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays—"accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance" (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons).This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one ... Read more

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The IPPY Award–winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays—"accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance" (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons).This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one
... Read more

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The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms

Being Present

How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions

On Music and Musicians

Perfect Love, Emotional Romance: A Heartwarming Collection of 100 Classic Poems and Letters for the Lovers (Valentine's Day 2019 Edition)

The Secret Power of Middle Children

When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough

3 Romances - A Score for Solo Piano Op.28 (1839)

A Crisis of Exile

In Your Face - An Insider's Explosive Account of the Takata Airbag Scandal

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