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Shen Fan
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Shanghai : ShanghArt Gallery,

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父母昨日书: 李瑞 范元甄通信集: 1938-1949
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ISBN: 9787218060736 Year: 2008 Publisher: 广州 广东人民出版社

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Riding the river home : a complete and annotated translation of Fan Chengda's (1126-1193) Diary of a boat trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu).
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ISBN: 9789629963026 Year: 2008 Publisher: Hong Kong Chinese university press

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杭州师范大学学报(社会科学版)/#/杭州師範大學學報(社會科學版) [[Hang Chou Shih Fan Ta Hsueh Hsueh Pao (She Hui K'O Hsueh Pan )]]
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Hangzhou : Hangzhou shi fan da xue xue bao bian ji bu

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Transformative works and cultures.
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Year: 2008 Publisher: [Silver Spring, MD] : Organization for Transformative Works


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Transformative works and cultures.
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Fame
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ISBN: 1317488512 1315710293 1282947443 9786612947445 1844654265 9781317488514 9781844651573 1844651576 9781315710297 9781317488491 9781317488507 9781138161108 1317488504 Year: 2008 Publisher: Durham : Acumen Publishing,

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Once a title held only by a privileged few, fame went hand-in-hand with respect and hard work. To be famous meant that you had achieved something noteworthy, or had an exceptional talent. But things have changed, as demonstrated by the number of singularly untalented people who are currently famous. Why has there been such a shift in our notion of fame and why has the desire for fame become such a powerful motivation for so many people? Mark Rowlands brings his philosophical expertise to bear on our concept of fame and explores the reasons behind its radical transformation. To understand this “new variant fame”, Rowlands argues, we must engage in an extensive philosophical excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in fourth-century BC Athens. Rowlands reveals that our presentday notion of fame and the extremes that accompany it are symptoms of a significant cultural change: the decline of Enlightenment ideas has seen individualism eclipse objectivism about value, so much so that what characterizes Western society today is its constitutional inability to distinguish quality from bullshit. This, argues Rowlands, is the predicament in which we find ourselves today and which explains how fame can now be unconnected with any discernible distinction: we have lost any grip on the idea that there might be objective standards of evaluation even for some of the most important choices we make. A fascinating mix of amusing anecdote and serious philosophical reflection, Fame presents us with a new way of looking at and understanding fame as we now know it, one that shows us how and why we have become the fame-hungry people we are today. It is a book written for anyone who has wondered how the world could ever have turned out like this.


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Mozart's Così fan tutte : a compositional history
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ISBN: 1282620940 9786612620942 1846156637 1843834065 Year: 2008 Publisher: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press,

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WINNER of the Mozart Society of America 'Marjorie Weston Emerson Award' for 2008 This study proposes a hypothesis to account for some of the opera's long-standing 'problems'. It suggests that Mozart considered the idea that the pairings in Act II should not be crossed: that each of the two disguised officers should seek to seduce his own woman. Although this alternative plot structure was rejected, signs of it may remain in the final score, in the uneasy co-existence of dramatic duplicity and musical sincerity, and in the ending, in which the easy restitution of the original couples seems not to take account of the new passions that have been aroused. Evidence that several of the singers were re-cast is also presented. In addition to these radically new ideas about the conceptual genesis of Cos©Ơ, the book also provides a full account of the work's compositional history, based on early Viennese and Bohemian copies. Four different versions are identified, including a significant revision in which Mozart removed the Act II finale canon. The composer's probable involvement in the 1791 Prague production is also discussed. IAN WOODFIELD is Professor of Historical Musicology, School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen's University Belfast.

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