The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon
English | July 12, 2001 | ISBN: 0801438187, 0801487501 | 317 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Xenophon's masterpiece, The Education of Cyrus, is a work that was admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on leadership. Also known as the Cyropaedia, this philosophical novel is loosely based on the accomplishments of Cyrus the Great, founder of the vast Persian Empire that later became the archrival of the Greeks in the classical age.
Emotion and the Arts by Mette Hjort
English | Sep. 4, 1997 | ISBN: 0195111052, 0195111044 | 311 Pages | PDF | 16 MB
How best to explain emotions produced by works of art? What goes on when we feel emotion for an abstract art such as music? How is it that we can intelligibly feel emotion for persons and situations that we know are fictional?
Brahms and His World by Walter Frisch
English | Nov. 1, 1990 | ISBN: 0691027137, 0691143439 | 479 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Unlike some recent volumes on Brahms, which have served mainly to bring together miscellaneous papers read at conferences, this collection seeks to locate the composer more directly in the context of his personal, professional, and musical environment.