An examination of race and political/cultural/religious movements in the West in the context of transatlantic debates on modernity. It explains the relationship to political developments in the Third World.

Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside Russia. Brown shows how Musorgsky, though essentially an amateur with no systematic training in composition, emerged in his first opera, Boris Godunov, as a supreme musical dramatist. Indeed, in this opera, and in certain of his piano pieces in Pictures at an Exhibition, Musorgsky produced some of the most startlingly novel music of the whole nineteenth century. He was also one of the most original of all song composers, with a prodigious gift for uncovering the emotional content of a text. As Brown illuminates Musorgsky's work, he also paints a detailed portrait of the composer's life. He describes how, unlike the systematic and disciplined Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky was a fitful composer. When the inspiration was upon him, he could apply himself with superhuman intensity, as he did when composing the initial version of Boris Godunov. Sadly, Musorgsky deteriorated in his final years, suffering periods of inner turmoil, when his alcoholism would be out of control. Finally, unemployed and all but destitute, he died at age forty-two. His failure to complete his two remaining operas, Khovanshchina and Sorochintsy Fair, Brown concludes, is one of music's greatest tragedies. Written by one of the leading authorities on nineteenth-century Russian composers, Musorgsky is the finest available biography of this giant of Russian music.

Compilation of conference papers on the UK marc computer based information retrieval system developed by the staff of the British national bibliography from the library of congress system, for use in library operations in the UK - covers theoretical and technical aspects of computerised cataloguing and classification, cost and efficiency considerations, equipment needs, future trends, etc. Bibliography pp. 104 to 107. Conference held in southampton 1969 mar 28 to 30.

Written by a team of experts from the Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Southampton, this book covers the key areas of UK and international maritime law in a concise and accessible format suitable for anyone new to the area. The table of contents include: Conflicts of Law o Charterparties, Bills of Lading and Cargo Claims, International Trade and Shipping Documents, Carriage of Passengers, The Liabilities of the Vessel, International Regulations for Ship Operators, Their Verification and Enforcement, Marine Pollution, Public International Law Aspects of Shipping Regulation, Marine Insurance and Reinsurance, Procedures for Enforcement, European Union Competition Law in the Maritime Sector.