Brian Cowan (241 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority. Denys Cowan; Kent Williams (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority. Denys Cowan; Kent Williams (illustrator).

Condition: good.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority. Denys Cowan; Kent Williams (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. bbc01 8½"x11"; 106 pages; Soft Pictorial Cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. Due to USPS regulations, this item may require additional postage. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. Each edition comes together with an audio CD, often including BBC recordings of full-length works. The first issue appeared in September 1992. The magazine includes regular columns and reviews of new releases as well as several in depth feature articles by noted music writers. Each issue contains a CD featuring complete works by the greatest composers, performed by world-class artists and ensembles. This issue includes the audio CD "Brahms:, Liebeslieder, Op. 52 and Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65; Spohr, Three Psalms, Op. 85; Meyerbeer, Psalm 91" performed by Th BBC Singers conducted by Jane Glover and Simon Joly. This issue contains the following articles: "Anton Bruckner: Hitler's Hero" by Erik Levi; "Ted's epic journey (Hyperion company profile) by Nick Kimberley; "tuning up: Perfect pitch: more bane than boon?" by Anne Inglis; "Music in art" ('Cellist practising' by Patrick Symons and 'Madame Suggia' by Augustus John) by Tom Phillips; "Brendel: The Pianist's Mentor" by Misha Donat; "Composer of the Month: Ludwig van Beethoven" (Part 2: The creative process) by Barry Cooper; "BBC Young Musician of the Year: Where are they now?" (Nicholas Daniel, Caroline Dale, Michael Collins, Alan Brind, Anna Markland, Emma Johnson, Errolyn Wallen) by Anne Inglis; "Historical Recordings: Crackling good form" (pre-World War II classical recordings) by Robert Cowan; "Choral Music: In The Beginning" by John Milsom; "Plainsong to Orfeo" (guide to the earliest surviving choral repertory and where to start listening) based on the book "All the Earth Sings.": Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Music on Disc by Brian Robins; "Quiet Revolution in the Cloisters" (choir masters who are changing the rules of English cathedral choirs) by Andrew Stewart; "Could Try Harder? (youth choirs should be trained to reach international standards) by David Victor-Smith; "Building a Library: Giusppe Verdi 'Otello'" by Richard Osborne; "Brian Kay's Starter Collection" (recommended essential performances from the classical repertoire) by Brian Kay; "Jazz: A Song for Barbara" (saxophonist and flautist Barbara Thompson) by Ian Carr; "Music that changed me" (harpist Marisa Robles) interview by Helen Wallace.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. bbc01 8½"x11"; 106 pages; Soft Pictorial Cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. Due to USPS regulations, this item may require additional postage. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. Each edition comes together with an audio CD, often including BBC recordings of full-length works. The first issue appeared in September 1992. The magazine includes regular columns and reviews of new releases as well as several in depth feature articles by noted music writers. Each issue contains a CD featuring complete works by the greatest composers, performed by world-class artists and ensembles. This issue includes the audio CD "Music for Christmas: An anthology from the 12th to the 20th century" performed by the Taverner Consort, Choir and Players directed by Andrew Parrott; This issue contains the following articles: "tuning up: Sounds of the Southern sea" (gamelan the traditional Indonesian percussion orchestra and the set of musical instruments used) by Helen Wallace; "Music in art: 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt' by Michalangelo Merisi de Caravaggio) by Tom Phillips; "Calm after the storm" (Jose Carreras) by Hilary Finch; "View from up a loft" (organs and organists) by Michael White; "A parody for Christmas: Bach's Christmas Oratorio" by Simon Heighes; "Southern discomfort" (Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess') by Mel Cooper; "Recorded Reputations: The English Chamber Orchestra" by Robert Cowan; "Bell epoque" (violinist Joshua Bell) by Lindsay Kemp; "Composer of the Month: The Strauss Family" by Andrew Lamb; "Building a Library: JS Bach Cello Suites" (The six Cello Suites BWV 1007 1012) by George Pratt; Brian Kay's Starter Collection" (recommended essential performances from the classical repertoire) by Brian Kay; "Jazz: A ransacked rhythm" (Africa slave's music influence on jazz) by Ian Carr; "Music that changed me" (conductor Jane Glover) interview by Fionna Maddocks.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. bbc02 8½"x11"; 106 pages; Soft Pictorial Cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. Due to USPS regulations, this item may require additional postage. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. Each edition comes together with an audio CD, often including BBC recordings of full-length works. The first issue appeared in September 1992. The magazine includes regular columns and reviews of new releases as well as several in depth feature articles by noted music writers. Each issue contains a CD featuring complete works by the greatest composers, performed by world-class artists and ensembles. This issue includes the audio CD Mahler Symphony No. 10, as realized by Deryck Cooke and performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. This issue contains the following articles: "Loud and clear at Glyndebourne" (Accoustics of the new opera house) by David Fingleton; "Three's company" (company profile of Decca Records) by Nick Kimberley; "From an ivory tower: If you would have your son womanish, set him to learn music" (misogyny in music) by John Milsom; "Tuning up: There's a computer in my violin!" (electronic musical instruments) by Geoff Nicholls; "Music in art" ("Marriage at Cana" by Paolo Veronese) by Tom Phillips; "Alchemist at Work" (conductor Claudio Abbado) by Stephen Johnson; "Brave New Berlin" (opera in Berlin) by Hugh Canning; "Smooth as silk, tough as steel" (violinist Midori) by Misha Donat; "Music & the Zodiac" (are musical tastes determined by your birth date) by Robert Cowan; "The final score" (is there such a thing as a definitive version of a composition) by Alain Frogley; "Composer of the Month: Franz Liszt" by Derek Watson; "building a Library: Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin" by David Nice; "Brian Kay's Starter Collection" by Brian Kay; "Undiminished Verve" (50th anniversary of Verve Records) by Ian Carr; "Music that changed me" (violist Nobuko Imai) interview by Helen Wallace.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Denys Cowan; Kent Williams (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. Denys Cowan; Kent Williams (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: New. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardback. Condition: Good. What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain?s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover in good condition. Light edge wear to covers. Pages will have some marking and underlining but remain in good, readable condition. Binding is secure. Our feedback says it all! Feel confident when you order from Hilltop Book Shop.

Condition: Fair. : El libro 'El Cerebro' es una obra que explora el fascinante mundo del cerebro humano. A través de una serie de artículos de investigación y ciencia, se adentra en la estructura, función y misterios de este órgano vital. Los temas incluyen la neurobiología, la función mental, la anatomía cerebral y la relación entre el cerebro y la mente. Con contribuciones de expertos en el campo, este libro ofrece una visión completa y accesible del cerebro y su papel en nuestra experiencia humana. EAN: 9788433550033 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencias|Tecnología|Educación Título: El Cerebro Autor: David H. Hubel| Charles F. Stevens| Eric R. Kandel| Walle J. H. Nauta| Michael Feirtag| W. Maxwell Cowan| Leslie L. Iversen| James A. Nathanson| Elio García-Austt| Washington Buño Editorial: ed. Labor Idioma: es-ES Páginas: 240 Formato: tapa blanda.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. blue-green printed wraps; pp. 241-445; clean, unmarked pages; Includes: David Coast (Rumor and "Common Fame": The Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham and Public Opinion in Early Stuart England); William Farrell (Smuggling Silks into Eighteenth-Century Britain: Geography, Perpetrators, and Consumers); Desmond Fitz-Gibbon (The London Auction Mart and the Marketability of Real Estate in England, 1808-1864); Kate Imy (Fascist Yogis: Martial Bodies and Imperial Impotence)Emily Curtis Walters (Select Between Entertainment and Elegy: The Unexpected Success of R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End (1928) Between Entertainment and Elegy: The Unexpected Success of R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End (1928)); Gavin Schaffer (Fighting Thatcher with Comedy: What to Do When There Is No Alternative); (Reviews, etc.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. blue-green printed wraps; pp. 447-632; clean, unmarked pages; Includes: Laura Gowing (Girls on Forms: Apprenticing Young Women in Seventeenth-Century London); Thomas Turner (The Production and Consumption of Lawn-Tennis Shoes in Late-Victorian Britain); Edmund G. C. King (Radicalism in the Margins: The Politics of Reading Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1920); Tehila Sasson (From Empire to Humanity: The Russian Famine and the Imperial Origins of International Humanitarianism); David Roth Singerman (Keynesian Eugenics and the Goodness of the World); Teri Chettiar ("More than a Contract": The Emergence of a State-Supported Marriage Welfare Service and the Politics of Emotional Life in Post-1945 Britain); (Reviews, etc. …

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. blue-green printed wraps; pp. 1-240; clean, unmarked pages; Includes.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. blue-green printed wraps; pp. 1-240; clean, unmarked pages; Includes: Dane Kennedy (The Imperial History Wars); Michelle D. Brock (Internalizing the Demonic: Satan and the Self in Early Modern Scottish Piety); Tobias Gregory (John Milton and Thomas Cromwell: Another Look at the Evidence); Richard Ward (The Criminal Corpse, Anatomists, and the Criminal Law: Parliamentary Attempts to Extend the Dissection of Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century England); Luke Blaxill (Joseph Chamberlain and the Third Reform Act: A Reassessment of the "Unauthorized Programme" of 1885 Luke Blaxill); Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange & Bertrand Taithe (The Charity-Mongers of Modern Babylon: Bureaucracy, Scandal, and the Transformation of the Philanthropic Marketplace, c.1870-1912); oe Moran (Private Lives, Public Histories: The Diary in Twentieth-Century Britain); Alister Chapman (The International Context of Secularization in England: The End of Empire, Immigration, and the Decline of Christian National Identity, 1945-1970); Reviews, etc.…

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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. blue-green printed wraps; pp. 269-560; clean, unmarked pages; Includes: Sandy Bardsley (Missing Women: Sex Ratios in England, 1000-1500); William M. Cavert (The Environmental Policy of Charles I: Coal Smoke and the English Monarchy, 1624-40); Mark Kishlansky (Martyrs' Tales); Jennine Hurl-Eamon (Did Soldiers Really Enlist to Desert Their Wives? Revisiting the Martial Character of Marital Desertion in Eighteenth-Century London); Robert Saunders (God and the Great Reform Act: Preaching against Reform, 1831-32); Ben Weinstein (Questioning a Late Victorian "Dyad": Preservationism, Demolitionism, and the City of London Churches, 1860-1904); Cara Delay ("Language Which Will Move Their Hearts": Speaking Power, Performance, and the Lay-Clerical Relationship in Modern Catholic Ireland);Stephen Brooke (Revisiting Southam Street: Class, Generation, Gender, and Race in the Photography of Roger Mayne); ; Book Reviews, etc.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. blue printed wraps; pp. 787-1092; clean, unmarked pages; Includes Patrick Wallis (Labor, Law, and Training in Early Modern London: Apprenticeship and the City's Institutions); Patrick Wallis); David R. Como (David R. Como); Daniel John DeWispelare (Spectacular Speech: Performing Language in the Late Eighteenth Century); Michael de Nie ("Speed the Mahdi!" The Irish Press and Empire during the Sudan Conflict of 1883-1885); Chris Manias ("Our Iberian Forefathers": The Deep Past and Racial Stratification of British Civilization, 1850-1914); Careless Talk: Tensions within British Domestic Propaganda during the Second World War; Jo Fox (Careless Talk: Tensions within British Domestic Propaganda during the Second World War); Paul Corthorn (Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionism, and the British Nation) ;; Book Reviews, etc.…

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