by Jon Cohan (1999)
"This book, fully authorized by Zildjian, tells the exciting story of the world's most popular cymbal company on the monumental occasion of its 375th anniversary .... The Zildjian story is told firsthand by the Zildjian family members and by the legendary drummers who participated in the important musical movements of the 20th century"--Jacket.
Lauren Redniss
A biography of the Ziegfeld star discusses the social and cultural movements that shaped her career, in a portrait that discusses such topics as her entry into the Ziegfeld Follies at the age of fourteen and her interactions with numerous famous figures.
Lila Perl
Follows the life and career of the Jewish entertainer, who performed in theater, movies, radio, and television for more than eighty years.
Lisa Jardine
"In The Awful End of Prince William the Silent, Lisa Jardine explores the historical ramifications of the first assassination of a head of state with a hand-gun. The shooting of Prince William of Orange in the hallway of his Delft residence in July 1584 by a French Catholic - the second attempt on his life - had immediate political consequences: it was a serious setback for the Protestant cause in the Netherlands, as its forces fought for independence from the Catholic rule of the Habsburg empire. But, as Jardine illustrates, its implications for those in positions of power were even more far-reaching, as the assassination brutally and irrevocably heralded the arrival of a lethal new threat to the security of nations: a weapon that could be concealed and used to deadly effect at point-blank range." "Queen Elizabeth I, William's close Protestant ally, was devastated by his death and, being the subject of assassination plots herself, thrown into panic; in the aftermath of William's murder, legislation was enacted in the English Parliament making it an offence to bring a pistol anywhere near a royal palace. Elizabeth's terror was not misplaced - as Jardine observes, this assassination was the first in a long and bloody line that would take in those of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, and is all too relevant even today."--BOOK JACKET.
[Hartmut Hegeler
www.anton-praetorius.de Anton Praetorius was born in 1560 in Lippstadt / Westphalia in Germany. He studied theology and became principal of the humanistic Latin school in Kamen/ Westphalia. Here Praetorius got married, but he lost his wife by the pestilence. In 1597 he was appointed as protestant pastor of the earl of Buedingen/ Ysenburg (near Frankfurt/Main). Here he witnessed the torture of 4 women accused of being a witch. He got so upset by the torture that he protested violently it says in the court documents. He succeeded in stopping the trial against the last still living woman. As a consequence he got fired by the earl. Then Praetorius wrote the "Gruendlicher Bericht ueber Zauberey und Zauberer" to protest against the trials against witches and against torture. At first he published the book in 1598 by an assumed name ("Johannes Scultetus"). In 1602 he dared to publish it by his own name. The book was widely spread and published again in 1613 and posthum in 1629. Praetorius died in 1613 in Laudenbach/ Bergstrasse (near Heidelberg). The biography is called "Anton Praetorius, Kaempfer gegen Hexenprozesse und Folter" (fighting against trials of witches and fighting against torture). The book is written in German, it has 270 pages, about 100 pictures (30 colour photos of the places where Praetorius has lived), an index of the names and places, bibliography and about 1000 footnotes.