The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian BachIn Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electr
In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie weaves a spell binding and polyphonic account of our greatest composer's life and work and how it drove the audio revolution of the past century and how that very revolu
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for GodIn the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questi
Showing that great things can happen when high art meets new technology, the author of the award-winning The Life You Save May Be Your Own examines how modern musicians have made Bach's music new in o
Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an in
Radu Ioanid's account of the destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the regime of Ion Antonescu, based upon privileged access to secret East European government archives, is an unprecedented analysis o
Rescuing the Children is the memoir of Vivette Samuel, who at age twenty-two began working for the ?uvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, or Society for Assistance to Children). The OSE and similar organi
