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- catalog abstract "As in the first volume of The Great Philosophers, Professor Jaspers leads the reader close to the personality of each thinker, showing his philosophy as it was lived as well as thought and evaluating its significance today.".
- catalog abstract "Includes over 300 illustrations, chapters on whaling and clipper ships, and a directory of maritime museums.".
- catalog abstract ""This book is about living patterns of city residents - the way they allocate their time to different activities in the course of a day, the rhythm of these activities around the clock, and the locus of these pursuits in city space. It looks into variations in activity patterns among subsocietal segments in the population, and it eplores postualted antecendent ties these patterns may have with felt needs and preference."--Page vii.".
- catalog abstract "This book attempts to place the fishery management problems of the North Pacific Ocean in the context both of their historical treatment and of the unfolding future of exploitation and management, including the impact of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.".
- catalog abstract "Margaret Mead, America's most famous anthropologist, offers an intimate portrait of her long-time colleague and friend, Ruth Benedict. The first met when Mead was Benedict's student at Barnard in the 1920s; their professional association and their friendship were close and lasting. Beginning with Benedict's early life, Mead discusses her long struggle, as a woman, to attain an identity of her own, her early interests as a writer and poet, and her reasons for laying aside poetry for full-time scholarship. She grappled with the problems of a middle-class marriage and suburban household and eventually broke away to establish herself as a scholar and writer of distinction. As an anthropologist, her fame spread far beyond her profession with the publication of her first book, Patterns of Culture. With the coming of World War II, Benedict shifted her attention to an anthropological study of contemporary, highly developed cultures. The culmination of this interest was the publication of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and the establishment of the Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures project, a broad-based interdisciplinary research project which she headed until her untimely death in 1948. Complementing the biography are seven selections from Benedict's writings which show the range of her thought as well as the beauty of her writing, including her lecture as retiring President of the American Anthropological Association.--From publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of riddles and other witticisms from the Appalachians of Kentucky.".
- catalog abstract "Guide to identifying tracks of wildlife including, mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, insects and other invertebrates.".
- catalog abstract "The life of a Jewish intellectual and romantic, in Germany, 1771-1833.".
- catalog abstract "Crotalus durissus is a polytipic species of rattelsnake which, in contrast to Lachesis mutus, strictly avoids rain forest. If the ranges of the subspecies of this Crotalid are consedered, two are found on islands i.e. Crotalus durissus marajoensis on Marajó and Crotalus durissus unicolor on Aruba (p. 166). - There is a list of the fauna inhabited on Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire (p. 59-60).".
- catalog abstract "Over 150 case studies of the media's decision-making process at all levels provide insight into the quality and reliability of our sources of information.".
- catalog abstract ""The Solar Energy Panel was organized jointly by the NSF and NASA in January 1972, and comprised of nearly 40 scientists and engineers possessing expertise in solid state physics, chemistry, microbiology, power engineering, architecture, photovoltaics, and the thermal sciences as well as several economists, environmentalists, and sociologists. The Panel was charged with assessing the potential of solar energy as a national energy resource and the state of the technology in the various solar energy application areas, and with recommending necessary research and development programs to develop the potential in those areas considered important. The scope of the Panel's activities was defined to include all applications of direct solar energy, as well as power from wind, ocean thermal differences, and useful energy from replenishable organic materials. This report presents the findings of the Panel."--Page 1.".
- catalog abstract "Songs and other poems of the most primitive people now alive.".
- catalog abstract "The thesis of Jane Jacobsʹ The Economy of Cities remains remarkably fresh and provocative three decades later. Cities, she asserts, are not the result of processes most scientists and economists have assumed they were: Cities do not develop because a pre-existing rural economic base develops and eventually becomes strong enough to support an essentially parasitic urban growth. Instead, Jacobs argues, cities are the prerequisite for any kind of rural economy. Where there are no cities, there are no sustainable rural economies, and the rural economy depends on the city rather than the other way around. Jacobs defines "city" as a "settlement that consistently generates its economic growth from its own local economy"; population centers of any size that have never done this do not meet her definition of city. Likewise, Jacob defines "urban" as "pertaining only to cities ..."--Review from http://classes.seattleu.edu/multidisciplinary/urbanstudies/resource/reviews/economy.htm (Oct. 18, 2012).".
- catalog abstract "Ecological effects of oil pollution in marine environment and technological aspects of prevention, control and cleanup.".
- catalog abstract "During an era in which the experimental method was all but taken over by the physiologists and biochemists, Grafton Elliot Smith dominated the world of anatomy, and transformed the intellectural climate of his time and also helped to mould the intellectual climate in which scientists operate today. This symposium will appeal to all those concerned with primate evolution and the question of man's ancestry and the process of cultural evolution.".
- catalog abstract "This study covers only a small portion of the full story as the history ends in 1822. After this year, Boston's government changed from a town to a city. The early 1820's also mark the dividing line in the North between the intense concern with yellow fever that followed Philadelphia's epidemic of 1793 and the advent of Asiatic cholera in 1832. Moreover, in the 1830's and 1840's a new phase in the history of public health, the so-called sanitary reform movement, became apparent. Many have looked upon this period as the beginning of the modern public health movement; consequently the earlier years have been neglected and their history is less well known. Although this work is restricted to Boston, by and large, all American colonies shared the same essential homogeneity, and the same diseases. Thus the history of public health in Boston becomes significant for the whole American experience. -- from Preface.".
- catalog abstract "Brief humorous verse on a variety of topics.".
- catalog abstract "This book fills a major gap in the current spate of books on the Nazis and their leader. It provides the reader with a pictorial history of the events in Germany from 1918 to 1945. The elaborate symbolism and psychology of Nazism and the complex personality of Hitler himself are studied in detail through a wealth of carefully chosen illustrations which include still photographs, film clips, posters, cartoons and propaganda material. The result is a wholly absorbing cultural and social history of Nazism, much of it drawn from sources never used in a book before.".
- catalog abstract "The widow of astronaut Virgil (Gus) Grissom tells the tragic and heroic story of her husband and family caught up in America's race for the moon.".
- catalog abstract ""Though the battle was crucial to the outcome of the American Civil War, the full story of Shiloh has never until now been told. Commonly considered a draw, Shiloh represented in fact a major reversal for the Confederacy -- a Confederacy that mounted at the outset one of the most incredible surprise attacks in American history and came within a hair's breadth of inflicting a major disaster upon the North. Yet circumstances common to war -- confusions, misjudgments, human frailities -- resulted in eventual defeat. Depending entirely upon original sources, Mr. Sword views this bitter conflict from both sides in a blow-by-blow, shot-by-shot account that is as dramatic as it is comprehensive and authoritative. Shiloh was a battle that took critical measure of two of America's most famous soldiers, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman. Furthermore, Shiloh saw the death (perhaps at the hands of his own men) of one of the highest-ranking American generals ever to die on the battlefield, Albert Sidney Johnston, C.S.A., and cost the lives of nearly 4,000 other Americans. Despite the decisive importance of the battle of Shiloh, it has until now remained a virtually undiscovered subject for study. The reasons are not hard to find. They are simply that the bitterness of the controversy that Shiloh engendered plus the complexity of the battle itself resulted in contradictory currents that obsured both the facts and their significance. But now Wiley Sword has put it right in a masterful reconstruction that is also an original and valuable contribution to American history"--Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "A poetry anthology in which fourteen American poets of varied ethnic backgrounds explore their own origins and the process of assimilation that has helped shape this country.".
- catalog abstract "An overweight, sensitive boy gains the insight and strength to overcome his problems through his search for and discovery of a friend's grandfather, known as the Goat Man.".
- catalog abstract "Russia at the turn of the century provides the setting for comedy sketches about life's minor tragedies.".
- catalog abstract "The adventures of John Dough, the human-sized gingerbread man brought to life by an Arab elixir, and Chick, the world's first incubator baby, as they travel from the Island of Phreex to the kingdom of Hilo.".
- catalog abstract "A 14th-century illuminated manuscript, The Life of St. Denis, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, contains thirty remarkable illustrations of contemporary life as it flourished on the Seine and on the Paris bridges. Virginia Wylie Egbert is the first to focus attention on the bridge scenes in the lower third of the illuminations and to relate them in a systematic way to the social life of the period. In an effort to determine how realistic the bridge scenes are in their portrayal of everyday life, the author has gone to mediaeval writings and documents. Her telling quotations range from peddler's street cries to a description of attempts to reduce pollution in the streets of Paris. In her introduction, Mrs. Egbert gives an account of the manuscript and discusses its style and relationship to a small group of other manuscripts.".
- catalog abstract "Bob Slocum, an average, middle-aged man with a good job, slowly becomes more and more unhappy with the routine of his life.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses the beliefs and culture of the Indians living between the Great Plains and the Pacific coast and examines the hostility and cruelties they confronted with the white man during a period of three centuries.".
- catalog abstract "Natural history and color illustrations of 327 species.".
- catalog abstract "Reference to Balzac on p. 105.".
- catalog abstract "Translations selected from the Levy ed.(London,1921);arrangement based on the Schlechts ed.(Munich,1954-56).".
- catalog abstract "Diagrams and text illustrate the fundamental principles as well as the tactics and strategies of this ancient board game.".
- catalog abstract "This International Symposium was organized in observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the School of Dentistry of the University of Alaama in Birmingham. Immunoglobulin A was chosen as the subject of the Symposium because of its broad scope in relation to all biologic sciences, as well as for its particular relevance to prevention of the most common human disease-dental caries. More than 500 scientists, from 13 countries, met in Birmingham, Alabama to review critically past and current research on IgA and to outline goals for integrating future investigations of the many facets of the IgA system.".
- catalog abstract "Designed to serve as a text for a first course in linear algebra.".
- catalog abstract "A text dealing with the environments of the world.".
- catalog abstract "Four cautionary tales for grown-ups, each laced with fun and horrible surprises.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of the Supreme Court justice who strengthened the Supreme Court and made it a fully equal third branch of the government.".
- catalog abstract "The place of music in worship has varied widely throughout the centuries. In the last two decades, music for the church has undergone drastic changes in style, in function, and in the attitudes of the people who perform it and listen to it. Understanding these changes is easier if we know the viewpoints of the past. Opinions on Church Music will help the reader do just that. In a representative selection of letters, essays, sermons, memoirs, dedications, prefaces, and other documents taken from the writings of musicians, critics, historians, clergymen, and the lay public, this anthology reflects a wide range of reactions to the musical scene as it touches upon the church. - Publisher.".
- catalog abstract "An anthology of famous and little-known prayers, arranged in diary form, one or more for each day of the year. The prayers are relevant to various aspects of life and have been taken from many religions and writers.".
- catalog abstract "Photographs and simple text capture two weeks in the life of a handicapped boy learning to live successfully in a world made for people without handicaps.".
- catalog abstract "Describes the status of women in various tribes, marriage and divorce laws, and daily life at the beginning of recorded history.".
- catalog abstract "A young Venezuelan, fleeing political strife in Caracas, plunges into the tropical forest and there discovers and loves the ethereal Rima, the sole survivor of a vanquished people.".
- catalog abstract "Papers presented at the International Symposium on Man-made Lakes: their problems and environmental effects held in Knoxville, Tennessee, May 3-7, 1971.".
- catalog abstract "In an overcrowded world where acquiescence is the law of survival, a New Haven man petitions the government for more space.".
- catalog abstract ""In this astonishing, luminous and terrifying work, Carlos Castaneda at last completes the long journey into the world of sorcery that began with his now-legendary meeting with don Juan ... In a sense, Castaneda's three earlier books, each of them the story of a triumphant and daring journey into the unknown, have been merely the long pereparation for Tales of Power, in which don Juan's task of educating Castaneea, of making him 'a man of knowledge' and 'a man of power, ' is brought to an unexpected conclusion in a series of dazzling tricks, visions and lessons, ending in an explanation which is at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell"--Cover.".
- catalog abstract "The Hebrew people's exodus from Egypt is viewed through the eyes of Leah as she experiences it from her childhood to old age.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the fear of and resulting attacks on foreigners in the United States throughout its history.".
- catalog abstract "From The Books Inside Cover: Kidnapping! The theft of a human being! The word is ripped from today's headlines, and the name of Patty Hearst, Paul Getty, Reg Murphy and Victor Samuelson are on everyone's lips. But few people know the long and colorful, often grim and occasionally comic history of the crime, with stories as full of suspense, inventiveness and bizarre variety as the human mind has been able to conceive.".
- catalog abstract "An easy-to-read introduction to eleven different dinosaurs--their size, their diet, the pronunciation of their names, and their distinctive characteristics.".
- catalog abstract "In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.".
- catalog abstract "Considers S. 428, to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide assistance to local education agencies in establishing bilingual education programs. May 26 hearing was held in Corpus Christi, Tex.; May 29 hearing was held in Edinburgh, Tex.; and May 31 hearing was held in San Antonio, Tex.; pt. 2: Continuation of hearings on S. 428. June 24 hearing was held in Los Angeles; July 21 hearing was held in New York City.".
- catalog abstract ""Presents, in simple form, the descriptions and culture of the 500 species most likely to interest the average home gardener ... The book answers three significant questions: "What is that shrub or tree?" "How do I grow it?" "What can I use it for?"--Pref. Indexed, line drawings and color illustrations.".
- catalog abstract "Selected narratives and photographs provide a composite view of cowboy life in late nineteenth-century Texas, the Indian Territory, and Kansas, illuminating the persisting mythic image of the cowboy in American culture.".
- catalog abstract "Historical and sociological analysis of specific social problems.".
- catalog abstract ""A report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation."".
- catalog abstract "Archibald MacLeish and the word -- Van Wyck Brooks's second phase -- The boys in the back room: James M. Cain ; n O'Hara ; William Saroyan ; Hans Otto Storm ; John Steinbeck ; Facing the Pacific -- Max Eastman in 1941 -- T.K. Whipple -- The antrobuses and the earwickers -- Alexander Woollcott of the phalanx -- The poetry of Angelica Balabanoff -- Mr. Joseph E. Davies as a stylist -- Thoughts on being bibliographed -- Through the embassy window: Harold Nicolson -- Kay Boyle and the Saturday Evening Post -- The life and times of John Barrymore -- Never apologize, never explain": the art of Evelyn Waugh -- John Mulholland and the art of illusion -- What became of Louis Bromfield -- J. Dover Wilson on Falstaff -- A toast and a tear for Dorothy Parker -- A treatise on tales of horror -- A guide to Finnegans wake -- A novel by Salvador Dali -- A long talk about Jane Austen -- "You can't do this to me!" shrilled Celia -- Aldous Huxley in the world beyond time -- Vladimir Nabokov on Gogol -- Katherine Anne Porter -- A picture to hang in the library: Brooks's Age of Irving -- Why do people read detective stories? -- Bernard Shaw on the training of a statesman -- Reexamining Dr. Johnson -- Leonid Leonov: the sophistication of a formula -- Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd? -- "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" -- Glenway Wescott's war work -- A cry from the unquiet grave -- Tales of the marvellous and the ridiculous -- Thackeray's letters: a Victorian document -- Splendors and miseries of Evelyn Waugh -- George Saintsbury's centenary -- Ambushing a best-seller -- The apotheosis of Somerset Maugham -- William Saroyan and his darling old Providence -- Oscar Wilde: One must always seek what is most tragic -- George Grosz in the United States -- An old friend of the family: Thackery -- Gilbert without Sullivan -- George Saintsbury: gourmet and glutton -- Books of etiquette and Emily Post -- A dissenting opinion on Kafka -- Jean-Paul Sartre: the novelist and the existentialist -- The musical glasses of Peacock -- Edith Wharton: a memoir by an English friend -- The sanctity of Baudelaire -- Van Wyck Brooks on the Civil War period -- An analysis of Max Beerbohm -- The original of Tolstoy's Natasha -- The most unhappy man on Earth -- William Faulkner's reply to the civil-rights program -- In memory of Octave Mirbeau -- A reivival of Ronald Firbank -- Paul Rosenfedl: three phases.".
- catalog abstract "Here is a new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.".
- catalog abstract "Autobiography of the English theologian, novelist, and scholar, concerning his early years. The author's spiritual journey from Chrisitanity to atheism and then back to Christianity.".
- catalog abstract "Includes Chaucer; Spenser; Shakespeare; Bacon; Donne; Milton; Dryden; Swift; Pope; Johnson; Boswell.".
- catalog abstract "Photographs selected are of people much seen or talked about at that time - leaders in the world of literature, theater, art, music, sport, politics, and society. Also chosen were pictures of celebrities very much of that era.".
- catalog abstract "For fieldworkers in the social sciences.".
- catalog abstract ""'Discussion is based mainly on birds.'"".
- catalog abstract "A youngster relates the terrible problems that occurred after her mother went to work and how the family solved them.".
- catalog abstract "Essays by nine Southern historians.".
- catalog abstract "A penetrating investigation into Kissinger's complex character and rise to prominence in diplomatic circles. Bibliog.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of poetical essays revealing the social conscience of the modern English novelist.".
- catalog abstract ""The authors rightly approach the castle as the center of medieval life. Their story ranges well beyond the castle gate, but it centers on Chepstow, a well-preserved fortress on the Welsh border. The twelfth-century Lord of Chepstow, William Marshall, turns up with a companion knight on the tournament circuit in France."--Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "Poems and photographs dealing with the themes of love, identity, city and country life, and childhood.".
- catalog abstract "A selection of articles first published in the Architectural review showing details of buildings designed in the 17th and 18th centuries.".
- catalog abstract "A tale in nonsense verse of a pig so very plump he only sat and moaned all day because he could not jump.".
- catalog abstract "Provides a comprehensive and organic historical survey of the black movement toward freedom in the United States.".
- catalog abstract "Relates the experiences of a young Jewish couple when they are confined to a ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.".
- catalog abstract "The issue of Reconstruction did not suddenly appear in 1865 or 1867. Almost as soon as the Civil War began in 1861 there were discussions among government officials and in the press about what postwar America -- especially the South -- should be like. - p. 1.".
- catalog abstract "This book does not overlap with my earlier book, The Theory of Economic Growth, partly because the fist book is philosophical while the second is operational, but mainly because I had not yet had experience of most of the problems discussed in the second book while I was writing the first. In order to be comprehensive the second book would need the extensive discussion of economic institutions and their improvement which appears in the first, but I have resisted the temptation to repeat myself, since most readers of this book will also access to the earlier one.".
- catalog abstract ""The substance of the following pages, with the exception of chapter III ... was read before the New York School of Philanthropy, as the Kennedy lectures for 1911."--Pref.".
- catalog abstract ""In this book, originally published in 1953, zoologist Sir James Gray explores the development of different kinds of animal movement, from swimming to crawling to jumping, and then examines the mechanics of the variety of possible movements made by different creatures. The text is amply illustrated by both illustrations and photographs, and is aimed primarily at a younger audience. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in zoology and the physics and biology of motion."--P. 4 of cover.".
- catalog abstract "The Author recalls the misadventures and pleasures of her two-week cruise on a barge on the river Shannon.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of the black ballet dancer who gave up his career as a star with the New York City Ballet to found the Dance Theatre of Harlem.".
- catalog abstract "Comprehensive dictionary of almost 100,000 terms from 100 scientific and technological disciplines. Entries indicate disciplines pertinent to terms. Concise definitions. Marginal illustrations. Miscellaneous appendixes, including international graphic symbols. Pronunciation, syllabication, and origin of words not indicated.".
- catalog abstract "Collection of 188 folktales collected in spring of 1965. Also includes an analysis of the tales, sketch of the land and people, glossary.".
- catalog abstract "Tom, hero to his Italian family and friends of New York's Bronx, Marty, his wife, and her eccentric genius of a father, a famous anthropologist, Prof. Maitland, who cannot resist championing lost causes; Ballard, a Negro whose scientific background is at odds with the pull back to the war his people are waging; an ex-Communist, haunted by his personal tragedy. Set against them are the millionaire couple who have granted the right to "the dig", and who show a shallow concern for the findings. a possible lost site of a lost tribe of Glade Indians. And Ira deKay, an utterly surrealist character, whose one aim becomes the acquisition of Tom's remote, beautiful, arrogant wife.".
- catalog abstract "The Jewish catalog is a collection of far-ranging topics that should aid any Jew - whether steeped in tradition or just discovering Judaism - to become personally involved in aspects of Jewish life, customs, cooking, crafts and creation.".
- catalog abstract "The story of John Grimes, a young man living in Harlem in the 1930's. His relationship with his strict preacher-father, Gabriel, who moved from the South to escape his past, is the central focus of this compelling drama.".
- catalog abstract "Autobiography of a spy for the pro-Israel anti-British forces. Published only a few years after Israel's creation, the book describes her work and the lives of her partners in resistance, who were part of an illegal movement of mostly young people in Palestine who fought against British control of the territory.".
- catalog abstract "Introduces members of the primate order, discussing their evolution, physical characteristics, social behavior, and living environments.".
- catalog abstract ""Liscano finds contemporary Venezuelan literature to be 'somehow rural.' He studies changes fueled by generational successions and more recently by the cultural industry and international literary taste-makers. Emphasizes contemporary writers and movements, but includes a brief study of the pervasive influence of Andrés Bello and Simón Rodríguez"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.".
- catalog abstract "An account of socialism.".
- catalog abstract "The Castro revolutin is unique. In some measure, this uniqueness stems from the closeness of Cuba geo- graphically to the United States and the tight hold on the Cuban economy that U.S. business interest held in pre-Castro times. He virtually destroyed this economic link and rid Cuba of N. American influence political life.".
- catalog abstract "Lectures delivered at Williamstown, Massachusetts, in July and August, 1923.".
- catalog abstract "Contains primary source material.".
- catalog abstract "Contains primary source material.".
- catalog abstract "It contains three lists: one of 3520 items of printed material, described critically and arranged alphabetically by years; a catalog of 702 portraits of Cromwel; and a group of lists including sixty-two satirical prints, eight busts, six masks, twenty medals, three statues, three plaques, and fourteen miscellaneous drawings. These are accompanied by a preface of explanation which disclaims completeness and absolute accuracy, but makes some convincing arguments for the worth of such an effort; a short essay on the 'The Historic Cromwell'; and a system of cross references and indexes.--Historical Outlook".
- catalog abstract "A Study of documents left by the early explorers and settlers of southern Quebec give information on the subsistence practises, settlement patterns and geographical distribution of the native populations by band, neighbourhood and language. Also includes data from archaeological studies in the Lake Abitibi area.".
- catalog abstract "Study of medical acculturation among the non-conservative (i.e., Christian) Iroquois on the Six Nations Reserve; purpose is to determine the nature and extent of non-conservative reliance on western medical technology in both the family and the community.".
- catalog abstract "Selección de poemas publicados por Manuel González Prada entre 1871 y 1886.".
- catalog abstract "Over 1700 references to multidisciplinary journal literature. Also contains a list of books. Arranged alphabetically under journal titles. No index.".
- catalog abstract "Collection of essays on various aspects of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain. Includes much information on the emigration of British church members to the United States, and their contribution to Mormon church history.".
- catalog abstract "A studio performance of one of Handel's best known operas by the English National Opera. The Opera, a tale of love and power based on Shakespeare's play, was first performed in 1724 at the Haymarket Theatre in London using castrati singers in the heroes roles. This lavish production follows modern practice in using women in these parts, and in particular, Dame Janet Baker creates the virtuoso role of Julius Caesar.".
- catalog abstract "A live performance of Puccini's last opera. Set in ancient China, the beautiful Princess Turandot offers herself and the throne of China to the suitor who can answer three riddles. Those who fail to answer correctly lose Turandot and their lives as well. Prince Calaf tries his luck and wins.".
- catalog abstract "The action of the opera is set at the height of the California Gold Rush.".