Xenophon 'A History of My Times'Xenophon's 'Hellenica' (here translated as 'A History of My Times') covers 411 to 362 BC. A period which begins with the fall of Athens...
Pierre Boulez 'Boulez on conducting, conversations with Cécile Gilly' (translated by Richard Stokes)'It seems wrong to me systematically to equate expressiveness with dynamics: to play each crescendo as loudly as possible does not...
Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway 'We Were Soldiers Once… And Young''They are the Gold Star children, war's innocent victims, and their pain shimmers across the years pure and undimmed. They pass through...
Derek Walcott 'The Odyssey, A Stage Version'It's difficult to judge a piece written for the stage by reading the written word, but my impression is that Derek Walcott's adaptation...
Iain M. Banks 'Look to windward'This is not really a bad book. The story is well told, the ideas and characters fairly interesting, everything is wrapped up in a...
John Tipler 'Lotus 78 and 79, The Ground-Effect Cars'Air had always flowed under racing cars, but it was not until 1977 that a racing car appeared that really took advantage of it. By...