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  Lost Detroit - Stories Behind...

  Dan Austin

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  Stories and photographs celebrating the city’s history through its abandoned architectural landmarks.  Lost Detroit tells the stories behind twelve of the city’s most beautiful left-behind landmarks and of the people who occupied them, from the day they opened to the day they closed. While these buildings might stand as ghosts of the past today, their stories live on within these pages. This book brings you the memories of those who caught trains out of the majestic Michigan Central Station, necked with girlfriends in the balcony of the palatial Michigan Theatre, danced the night away at the Vanity Ballroom, and kicked out the jams at the Grande Ballroom. Filled with stunning and often moving photographs, it’s a treasure for history and architecture buffs, as well as for native Detroiters.   “A fascinating journey.” —John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press architecture critic, from the Foreword

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  Shikake - The Japanese Art of...

  Naohiro Matsumura

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  We are living in a time when behavioral change is necessary for our health and survival. Yet we find it exceedingly difficult to transform our own habits, let alone those of other people. Enter Naohiro Matsumura, whose powerful new design method is as astonishingly simple in its logic as it is sophisticated in its psychology. It allows any of us to address challenges in our homes, our public spaces, and our social interactions.As Matsumura shows, a shikake—or "device" in Japanese—is a design that exerts influence on us through subtle nudging, rather than direct command; it encourages a particular behavior without telling its (often unwitting) user the primary purpose of that behavior. For example: footprints in a store guide shoppers and keep them socially distant; a basketball hoop placed over a trash can entices children to tidy up their rooms; a symbol of a shrine in a public square encourages respectfulness; and a staircase painted to look like piano keys prompts exercise through play.Combining traditional Japanese aesthetics with the lessons of behavioral economics, Matsumura reveals how to identify the hidden design cues that already shape our world, and how shikakes can help us confront some of the most pressing challenges of our era, from pandemics to declining civic engagement to climate change and beyond.

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  Fibber McGee and Molly: Missing...

  Don Quinn

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  There's a fender missing on the family car, and Molly's afraid to tell Fibber.

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  The Eighteenth-Century...

  Eva Badura-Skoda

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  “Badura-Skoda addresses the place of the piano in the eighteenth century from the perspective of a scholar and performer” (Eighteenth-Century Music). 
   
  In the late seventeenth century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the instrument inspired new keyboard techniques and performance practices and was eagerly adopted by virtuosos of the age, including Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Presenting a rich array of archival evidence, Badura-Skoda traces the construction and use of the fortepiano grand across the musical cultures of eighteenth-century Europe, providing a valuable resource for music historians, organologists, and performers. 
   
  “Badura-Skoda has written a remarkable volume, the result of a lifetime of scholarly research and investigation. . . . Essential.” —Choice

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  Christmas Is Coming Songs and...

  Celtic Tradition

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  Weihnachten in Irland - wer träumt da nicht von gemütlichen Irish Pubs, in denen fröhlich musiziert wird, während draußen der kalte Wind durch die Gassen fegt? Das Albumder Gruppe Celtic Tradition bietet eine Auswahl von Melodien, die inIrland zur Weihnachtszeit gespielt werden. Der Song "The Wren, The Wren" wird beispielsweise zum St. Stephen's Day gespielt, an dem Musiker*innen traditionell von Haus zu Haus ziehen, um gemeinsam ein Schlückchen zu trinken.Aus dem Inhalt:Don Oichee Úd I mBeithil • The Seven Rejoices Of Our Lady • Beauty In Tears • A Íosa A Laogh-Dhil • Christmas In The Old Man's Hat • The Snow On The Heather • Airdi Cuan • The Wren, The Wren • Polkas: O'Brian's Bridge, The Mulcair Bank's, Fall's Of Doonass • We Three Kings of Orient Are • Child of Bethlehem • The Holly And The Berry (Hornpipe) • Jigs: Paddy O'Brien's Jig Tumble The Tinker • Reels: Larry Readigan's, Christmas Eve

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  Edinburgh's Festivals - A Biography

  David Pollock

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  In August 1947, an émigré Austrian opera impresario launched the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama to heal the scars of the Second World War through a celebration of the arts. At the same time, a socialist theatre group from Glasgow and other amateur companies protested their exclusion from the festival by performing anyway, inventing the concept of 'fringe' theatre.
  Now the annual celebration known collectively as the Edinburgh Festival is the largest arts festival in the world, incorporating events dedicated to theatre, film, art, literature, comedy, dance, jazz and even military pageantry. It has launched careers – from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Beyond the Fringe to Phoebe Waller-Bridge with Fleabag – mirrored the political and social mood of its times, shaped the city of Edinburgh around it and welcomed a huge all-star cast, including Orson Welles, Grace Kelly, Yehudi Menuhin and Mark E Smith's The Fall and many many more.
  This is its story.

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