The volume contains, in clear print, 9 wind concerti (and Andante for Flute, K.315): Bassoon (K.191), Flute & Harp (K.299), Flute (K.313 & 314),Horn (K.412, 417, 447, 495), Clarinet (K.622). A good buy.

In presenting a musical score the reader or potencial buyer has to be aware of the works included in it. Nothing has been said about the concertos included (or excluded) and it is very hard to make a decision (to buy or not to buy) based upon such un incomplete information.

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While the Concerto in C and even the Triple concerto and Fantasia are sometimes heard in the concert hall, on eof Beethovens most beautifully experimental works is his choral fantasy. He originally conceived the piece as a trial to insure that the combination of a chorus and an orchestra in a non-liturgical context would "work." He included rather dramatic and extensive nearly candential solo piano portions to make the work a smorgasboard of timbre and performance oppertunity. It is thanks to the seamlessness of the fantasy that we have the great 9th Symphony to enjoy. A fantastic resource for any student of Musicology

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I felt guilty for feeling grateful & blessed after reading what the Belida's had to endure, because for years I was angry that the doctors had for so long misdiagnosed my Grandmother,who I loved so very much. When the doctors finally got it right we had less than a month with her for she had "the big C". I now know even more so that God was merciful.

I want Candace to know I think she's inspiring, courageous & has reminded me of the loving God that is in my life and with all the things I go through I want to feel I would be able to "Dare to Stand"...

I still pull this off the shelf now and then, ten years after taking the course that I bought it for.

The title is a bit of an understatement--it covers not just traditional dialectology, but sociolinguistics, as well. It's very readable, and a good introduction to the field(s).

This is the essential textbook in this particular area of linguistics. I recommend this in tandem with Clive Uptons Excellent Atlas of English Dialects. An interesting book for even the casual reader. This was a set text at my university for the course on Dialectology.

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Learn about sunken treasure, lighthouses, ships, rescues-at-sea, and many other shipwreck-related topics (all augmented by museum-like photos).

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I cannot think of a greater challenge to organizations today than to find, hire, and then keep peak performers. This is one of two books which I have just read which suggest excellent strategies and tactics to meet this challenge. (The other is The Employee Recruitment and Retention Handbook, authored by Diane Arthur.) But what if an organization now has few -- if -- any peak performers? Obviously, it must develop them. How? In Hidden Value, O'Reilly and Pfeffer explain how great companies achieve extraordinary results with ordinary people.

You can also hire peak performers. (They think in terms of investment and ROI rather than of cost. So must you.) In my opinion, an opinion with which Chambers may agree, organizations must be constantly, indeed aggressively involved in recruiting all the time. That is to say, at least decision-makers must be identifying "the best and the brightest" workers employed elsewhere. Perhaps there is no need for them now. Even so, it is important to know who they are, to establish contact with them, and then stay in touch. Chambers suggests a number of effective strategies and tactics to do so.

He organizes his material within three predictable Parts: Finding Peak Performers, Hiring Peak Performers, and Keeping Peak Performers. In this volume, he could have added a fourth Part: Recapturing Peak Performers. (He has already addressed many of the key employee-recapture issues in two previously published works, The Bad Attitude Survival Guide: Essential Tools for Managers and No Fear Management: Rebuilding Trust, Performance and Commitment in the New American Workplace.) What I find especially interesting about Chambers' observations and recommendations is that they are equally relevant to finding, obtaining, keeping, and (yes) recapturing customers. His recommendations are based on essentially the same principles although, obviously, strategies and tactics appropriate to employees will be different from those appropriate to customers. In any event, Chambers seems to have covered all of the proverbial "bases" such "Developing Real-World Needs Assessments" (Chapter 2 in Part I), Aligning the Interview and the Needs Assessment (Chapter 7 in Part II), and "Creating the Culture of Retention" (Chapter 10 in Part II). The final chapter summarizes key points. The material seems to be based on a wealth of real-world experience.

As Chambers explains, "This book was written to provide you, the frontline manager, with the real-world tools you need to increase your ability to find, hire, and keep peak-performing employees. You will not find a lot of theory or academically driven processes to program your behavior. You will find experience-based skills and strategies to help you find and keep the people who will have a positive impact on your productivity and, frankly, increase your value as a manager." I include this last portion of the explanation because so many other books on this same general subject (many of them first-rate) seem to approach it in terms of organizational best interests. Fair enough. If I understand Chambers correctly, he addresses the enlightened self-interest of the individual manager. In my opinion, that differentiates his book from them. Therein lies its unique value.

This is an excellent anthology of Whittaker Chambers' writings from his moonlighting as a communist journalist to the period after his fall out with the Reds. He follows his subsequent migration to Time and his days penning for the National Review. If you've read and enjoyed his autobiography, Witness, than you will probably enjoy this book.

For forty years the accepted establishment view of Whittaker Chambers was that of a fat, rumpled weirdo, obsessed, presumably for some kind of degenerate sexual reasons, with the destruction of Alger Hiss, a man who was in every way his better. Even the publication and excellent sales of his extraordinary memoir, Witness, could not erase that caricature from the minds of the elites. I remember a PBS miniseries about the Hiss case, which must date from the late 70's or early 80's (I checked; it looks like it was, fittingly, broadcast in 1984), which portrayed Hiss as a victim, if not an outright innocent. But then the pendulum began to swing :

-First came the 1978 publication of Allen Weinstein's authoritative book, Perjury : The Hiss-Chambers Case, which convinced most of the holdouts of the guilt of Alger Hiss.

-Then, in 1984, Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Chambers the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

-Five years later came this collection of the journalism of Whittaker Chambers, Ghosts on the Roof, which began the process of restoring his literary reputation.

-The fall of the Soviet Union unleashed a flood of government secrets from both US and Russian files which exposed both the extent and success of Soviet efforts to penetrate the US government, media and Hollywood in the 30's & 40's and peace groups in the subsequent decades.

-In 1995, the VENONA intercepts were revealed, with their decoded messages confirming that the Rosenbergs and Hiss, among others, had been Soviet agents.

-Finally, the publication in 1997 of the first serious biography, Whittaker Chambers : A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus, and the truly bizarre moment on Meet the Press when Clinton CIA nominee Tony Lake could not bring himself to declare Alger Hiss guilty, even fifty years after the fact, forced a major re-examination of Chambers, his legacy, and the legacy of those who were simply unable to accept his charges no matter the evidence (like Lake and like CNN in their Cold War series).

After all of that, it is perhaps now possible to contemplate Chambers the writer in a somewhat more neutral, less partisan, light. This collection includes everything from political essays to reflections on the Hiss case to movie and book reviews to a set of historical essays on Western Culture written for LIFE. Among the best pieces are a review of Finnegans Wake and a tribute to Joyce on his death; a review of the movie version of Grapes of Wrath, which Henry Luce said was the best film review ever published in TIME; a really scathing review of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; and the prophetic title essay.

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The outstanding piece though may well be the one that Teachout chose for the title. Ghosts on the Roof ran in TIME on March 5, 1945, shortly after the Yalta Conference, when the Allies were still basking in the glow of having cooperated to defeat Hitler. With admirable foresight, Chambers pricked this gonfalon bubble. The essay fantasizes that the ghosts of Nicholas and Alexandra and the other murdered Romanovs descend upon the roof of the Livadia Palace at Yalta to watch the goings-on. There they meet Clio, the Muse of History, who has likewise come to observe the Big Three Conference. When History expresses her surprise at finding the Romanovs there, they reveal that they have become fans of Stalin and have converted to Marxism, actually Stalinism. The Tsar and Tsarina explain that Stalin is achieving conquests which even Peter the Great never dared and now come Britain and America as virtual supplicants, unwittingly giving him the opportunity to grab more land in the East in exchange for entering the war with Japan. They share the Marxist belief that in the years following the war, England and the U.S. will collapse because of the internal contradictions of capitalism. Clio tells them that this will not happen, that the years to come will see a conflict between two opposing faiths, leading to "more wars, more revolutions, greater proscriptions, bloodshed and human misery." The Tsarina asks why she does not intervene to avert this, and Clio answers that humans never learn from History and :

Besides, I must leave something for my sister, Melpomene to work on.

Melpomene, Clio's sister, is the Muse of Tragedy. Here, years before he became embroiled in the Hiss case, long before the Cold War started, before the Atomic Age had even dawned, is Whittaker Chambers warning the West of the future it faces and forecasting it uncannily.

These essays, and the many others included here, make for really interesting reading. They reveal Chambers to be both a gifted and a prescient writer. His opinions on the Arts stand up extremely well. His assessments of political situations were as much forty years ahead of their time; particularly perceptive in this regard is one ("Soviet Strategy in the Middle East" [National Review October 26, 1957]) in which he predicted how the Soviets would foster Arab radicalism in the Middle East. All in all, the book serves to add depth and heft to a man who spent almost half a century as a caricature, who was more an undeserving victim of Anti-Anti-Communism than any of those who were blacklisted were "victims" of Anti-Communism. It is altogether fitting that the 20th Century, which Chambers did so much to redeem, ended with his reputation ascendant and those of his opponents in rapid decline.

GRADE : A