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David Alan Rich weaves together several levels of narrative to show how the increasingly sophisticated, scientific, and positivistic work attitudes and habits Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century acculturated younger officers, redefining their relationship with, and responsibilities to, the state.
Surveys the works of American musical pioneers Charles Ives, Edgard Varáese, Henry Cowell, and John Cage.
Praise for You Can Never Be Too Rich"Great guy, fantastic book. Ia??ve known Alan for many years, and Ia??m a richer man because of it.
With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Washington Post music critic Tim Page Penned by veteran music writer, critic, and Grammy nominee Alan Rich, currently a music critic for the alternative paper LA Weekly, this book is a collection of music criticism gleaned from four decades of concert-going, opera-going, and record-listening on both coasts. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Washington Post music critic Tim Page provides the book's introduction. Included are reviews and essays on musicians, both well-known and obscure, who have shaped worldwide musical tastes during those years: conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; performers Glenn Gould and the overexploited David Helfgott; composers both familiar (Baroque masters, Mozart, Schubert) and contemporary (John Adams and John Cage). Probing essays include lively insights on music criticism itself and on where (if anywhere) music may (or may not) be heading in the new millennium. His writing drew from the formidable Virgil Thomson praise as "the most readable music reviewer ... our best muckraker."
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Have money. Be free. Live! For many, this feels like an eternal dream. In their funny self-help book, Paul and Alan describe what is at the core most important in both a business and personal sense. What is left, when you distil the information in all the famous financial self-help books that promise you so much, is only poor advice. What are the differences between those with a little money and those with a lot? Are there any at all? Even if you’re not interested in riches, this book puts the gap between the poor and the rich into perspective in a very entertaining way.
A Divorce That Finds You takes the reader, via a unique and dynamic e-mail relationship of two friends, through the pain of a breakup and into the beauty and joy of a new life. As one character aptly says, "You get out of a bad life and look at the new and beautiful things you attract to yourself." On another level, the book subtly and gently offers the reader insights into a "Science of Mind" approach to life and the active participation we each posses in the selection of our own destiny, both on a daily and cosmic scale, whether we recognize it or not. The choice is ours.