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L’Africaine

The Facsimile

Edited By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£99.99

The genesis of Meyerbeer’s last opera, L’Africaine, is legendary. A glorious posthumous tribute, it was a favourite of tenors like Caruso and Domingo. This fascinating facsimile of the manuscript uniquely gives us Meyerbeer’s original intentions.

Gaps and the Creation of Ideas

An Artist’s Book

By: Judith Seligson

£99.99

This artist's book is a portrait of the space between things, from neurons to comic-book frames. Juxtaposing quotations and images from hundreds of sources, it explores the gap as a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, art, and popular culture.

This artist’s book is a portrait of the space between things, from neurons to comic-book frames. Juxtaposing quotations and images from hundreds of sources, it explores the gap as a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, art, and popular culture.

Health at Work, Ageing and Environmental Effects on Future Social Security and Labour Law Systems

Edited By: Lourdes Mella Méndez, Nuno Cerejeira Namora, Duarte Abrunhosa e Sousa

£105.99

This volume analyses the challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, affecting people's work and rights. With a global perspective, it provides solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems.

This volume analyses the challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, affecting people’s work and rights. With a global perspective, it provides solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems.

Digital Work and Personal Data Protection

Key Issues for the Labour of the 21st Century

Edited By: Lourdes Mella Méndez, Nuno Cerejeira Namora, Duarte Abrunhosa e Sousa

£105.99

International contributors explore the impact of new information technologies on the labour market, covering work, rights, health, and personal data protection. With chapters in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, this book will appeal to lawyers, academics, and HR experts.

The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers

Insights from around the World

Edited By: Nuno Cerejeira Namora, Duarte Abrunhosa e Sousa

£110.99

This book analyses the challenges of the current labour market, focusing on the balance of power in employment contracts. International contributors discuss the future of work, worker protection, the limits of employers’ power, and workers' rights with new technologies.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Jephtas Gelübde (Jephtha's Vow) - Orchestral Score

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£120.00

Though Meyerbeer's first opera, Jephtas Gelübde (1812), failed at its premiere, this score contains the seeds of his future greatness. It reveals his famed orchestral virtuosity and psychological exploration, pointing beyond Gluck toward Weber-Wagner.

Though Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde (1812), failed at its premiere, this score contains the seeds of his future greatness. It reveals his famed orchestral virtuosity and psychological exploration, pointing beyond Gluck toward Weber-Wagner.

Operetta

A Sourcebook, Volumes I and II

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier

£139.99

From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta's international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.

From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta’s international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.

Complete Libretti of Giacomo Meyerbeer, in the Original and in Translation, in Five Volumes, The

Edited By: Richard Arsenty

£249.99

This volume presents the libretto for Meyerbeer’s final grand opéra, L’Africaine. A fictional treatment of Vasco da Gama's voyage, it is a mixture of history and fairytale. In this edition, the original text and its English translation are on facing pages.

This volume presents the libretto for Meyerbeer’s final grand opéra, L’Africaine. A fictional treatment of Vasco da Gama’s voyage, it is a mixture of history and fairytale. In this edition, the original text and its English translation are on facing pages.

The Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lexicography Collection

Edited By: Cambridge Scholars

£375.00

This collection brings together the practical and theoretical aspects of Lexicography, a newly accepted academic discipline.

The Cambridge Scholars Publishing Applied Linguistics Collection

Edited By: Cambridge Scholars

£650.00

This collection brings together the pick of our recent publishing in Applied Linguistics. This area of study has a global appeal, reflected here with authors, editors and contributors from dozens of countries.