From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years.

Chapters:    
01 The Early, Middle and Renaissance Periods  [1:13]
02 The Baroque and Classical Periods  [1:18]
03 The Romantic Period   [1:17]
04 The Twentieth Century   [1:17]

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The Global Paradox of Obesity and Malnutrition
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Eyewitness: Civil War
This illustrated history offers a stunning array of reproductions and photographs of the sites, people, and artifacts associated with the war. The book is divided into 29 two-page chapters covering such topics as the slavery debate, the election of 1860, raising armies, camp life, women during the war, Gettysburg, and the Confederacy surrender.

This revised edition is more of a history than an encyclopedic study, although it is a thorough review of the literature of the occult and the paranormal, mystical, and religious roots of what can broadly be termed "consciousness." The study is filled with useful information, although it tends to accept the information without evaluating how it fits into the fabric of science, when often the data directly conflict with the rest of science. One wonders, for example, why the magician James Randi's exposure and duplication of psychic surgery is not mentioned (although his work on faith healing is). Most of the healings described have little or no scientific evidence to back them up. They may be useful in suggesting future research, but by themselves the data, and this book, must be used with caution.