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Potted Portraits
This book is an enjoyable saunter through a portrait gallery of varied personalities from History. Revered or reviled, loved or loathed, each led a remarkable life and one that continues to be of interest today.
Speaking to the Rose
The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, “If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place,” Robert Walser (1878–1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits—if not with his self-image. After a wandering, precarious life during which he produced poems, essays, stories, and novels, Walser entered an insane asylum, saying, “I am not here to write, but to be mad.” Many of the unpublished works he left were in fact written in an idiosyncratically abbreviated script that was for years dismissed as an impenetrable private cipher. Fourteen texts from these so-called pencil manuscripts are includ...
The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason
This new edition of Christopher McIntosh's classic book on the Golden and Rosy Cross order is eagerly awaited. The order stands out as one of the most fascinating and influential of the high-degree masonic and illuminist groups that mushroomed in Europe from the 18th century onward. Active mainly in the German-speaking lands, it recast the original Rosicrucian vision and gave it renewed vitality. At one point it became politically influential when the Prussian King, Frederick William II, was a member of the order. Historians have often perceived the Golden and Rosy Cross as having had a conservative, anti-Enlightenment agenda, but this study – drawing on rare German sources – shows that the matter was more complex. The members of the order practiced alchemy and operated a degree system that was later imitated by later orders such as the Golden Dawn. Like the latter, the Golden and Rosy Cross exerted a wide and enduring cultural influence. Both the alchemy of the order and its powerful ritual system are insightfully described in Christopher McIntosh's clear and compelling style.
In Search of Lost Roses
Once upon a time—before the 1860s—people loved old roses like "Pearl of Gold," "Marchionesse of Lorne," or "Autumn Damask." Then along came the hybrid tea roses, which were easier to arrange, more dramatic, and longer-blooming, and the old roses were all but forgotten. Now the lovely, subtle-hued, richly perfumed old roses are making a comeback, thanks to the efforts of a stubborn band of eccentric characters who rescued them from back alleys, ramshackle cottages, and overgrown graveyards across the country. Thomas Christopher tells us the fascinating stories of the old roses—how they were created and made their way to America—and the unforgettable people who "rustle" them from abandoned lots and secret gardens today, revelling in the mystery of an "unknown yellow."
The Inevitable Fall of Christopher Cynster
#1 New York Timesbestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the Cynsters’ next generation with a rollicking tale of smugglers, counterfeit banknotes, and two people falling in love. A gentleman hoping to avoid falling in love and a lady who believes love has passed her by are flung together in a race to unravel a plot to undermine the realm. Christopher Cynster has finally accepted that to have the life he wants, he needs a wife, but before he can even think of searching for the right lady, he’s drawn into an investigation into the distribution of counterfeit banknotes. London born and bred, Ellen Martingale is battling to preserve the fiction that her much-loved uncle, Christopher...
Report on two visits by Sadiq Khan MP to Babar Ahmad at HM Prison Woodhill
Sir Christopher Rose, the Chief Surveillance Commissioner, was asked to conduct a fact-finding investigation into the circumstances in which, on two occasions, Sadiq Khan met Babar Ahmad at HM Prison Woodhill where the latter was in custody, and to establish whether the visits were subject to any form of surveillance. Sir Christopher finds that the conversations between the two on 21 May 2005 and 24 June 2006 were monitored. The monitoring was carried out lawfully under the legislation, and was properly authorised and fully documented. Mr Khan had been authorised to visit Babar Ahmad as a friend before he became a Member of Parliament (MP), and was liable to be monitored (along with some 20 ...
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The Stones
An incredible treasure, five and a half tons of uncut emeralds and rubies, is sitting in Geneva, on sale at a bargain price. But of course there’s a catch; the sellers are rulers of various African countries who want both to unload their loot in secret and at the same time prevent a powerful cartel from getting its hands on the hoard and changing the political map of the continent. Into this morass of danger and treachery steps Christopher Rose, an American living in Greece and desperately down on his luck. One of the most formidable perils Christopher faces is the beautiful woman who seduces him and then literally gives him the keys to a kingdom. But the greatest danger of all, he finally realizes, is inside him.
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Perspectives on the Music of Christopher Fox
Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his work many of the major expressions of European cultural activity - Darmstadt, Fluxus, spectralism, postminimalism and more - are assimilated to produce a voice which is uniquely resonant and multifaceted. In this, the first major study of his work, musicologists, composers, thinkers and practitioners scrutinize aspects of Christopher Fox's music, each exploring elements that relate to their own distinct areas of practice, tracing Fox's compositional trajectory and situating it within post-war contemporary European music practice. Above all this book addresses the question: How can one person dip his fingers into so many paint pots and yet retain a coherent compositional vision? The range of Fox's musical concerns make his work of interest to anyone who wants to study the development of so-called new music spanning the latter twentieth century into the twenty first century.
