With nearly 6,000 quotations arranged historically and annotated extensively, you'll know not just who said what, but get the full story behind the quote. Follow any of the more than five hundred topics (from Abolition to Zeal) and you will get a nutshell history of what great (and not-so-great) Americans had to say about each one. Quotations are arranged chronologically in each topic, allowing the reader to trace patterns of thought over time. Fully indexed by author (including brief biographical sketches) and keyword, this is an essential reference for anyone interested in the great people and ideas of American history.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations

Literature & Fiction

Rawson, Hugh

Miner, Margaret

United States

Oxford University Press

Incorporating the latest research into human allergies, this updated handbook describes different types of allergies and their symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment and discusses food and drug allergies, asthma, hay fever, sinus conditions, occupational allergies, and allergies in children. Original.

Allergies: The Complete Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Daily Management

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Young, Stuart H.

Alternative Medicine

Plume

The American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations

Rawson, Hugh N.

Reference

Dutton Books

Resonant Gaps examines the ways in which Charles Baudelaire exploited certain powers of figurative language while writing on music, particularly that of Richard Wagner. Unlike many recent music/literature studies, Margaret Miner focuses less on the possible convergences of text and music than on their productive distances and divergences.At the heart of this study is Baudelaire's 1861 essay Richard Wagner et Tannhauser à Paris, which is included in this volume in the French text of the 1861 Dentu edition. Called a "long-meditated work of circumstance" by its author, Richard Wagner is the only piece of music criticism that Baudelaire ever attempted, despite the prominence of music as a theme and a metaphor throughout his writings. In the essay, says Miner, Baudelaire strove to erase the distinction between reading about Wagner's music and listening to it. Continually sidestepping expectations and evading classification, Baudelaire makes connections among musical understanding, concrete or spatial distance, and the abstract or conceptual distance between different arts.Miner discusses such topics related to Baudelaire's project as his repertoire of textual and rhetorical maneuvers, including italicization, quotation, personification, digression, and metaphor; his assessment of the music's seductive ability to surround and suffuse the listener; and the misunderstandings about and prejudices against Wagner and his music that hampered its critical reception in France. Throughout her study, Miner also refers to similar literary undertakings by Liszt, Nietzsche, Mallarmé, and Proust, which involved the music of Wagner and Debussy.Miner argues that Baudelaire's aim in attempting to lessen or suppress various distances that he discovers between his text and the music is not to freeze movement entirely but to inscribe his writing on Wagner's music so that the two might travel together over an aesthetic landscape that shelters rather than separates them.

Resonant Gaps: Between Baudelaire and Wagner (English and French Edition)

History & Criticism

University of Georgia Press

Describes types of allergies and their symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and covers food and drug allergies, asthma, hay fever, sinus conditions, occupational allergies, and allergies in children

Dobozin, Bruce S.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Consumer Reports Books

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