Deceased
from Greensboro, NC
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American original. A spellbinding piano virtuoso, he was America's first internationally recognized composer, whose "classical" works received accolades from Hector Berlioz and Victor Hugo, and whose arch-romantic melodies became for Americans the standard expressions ...
Author
S. Frederick Starr
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
608
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195072375
EAN Code
9780195072372
ISBN #
2
This is a concise but comprehensive history of Buddhism in Korea. In the West, Buddhism is a religion that everyone has heard of but one that few truly understand aside from Buddhists themselves. For almost 2,500 years, Buddhism has been dominant on the Indian subcontinent, based on the traditions, ...
Author
Frederick Starr
Binding
Paperback
Pages
38
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1507883838
EAN Code
9781507883839
ISBN #
10
Pennsylvania German Pow-Wow is a collection of articles on the healing practice of pow-wow. Come learn about this fascinating practice known as pow-wow, as well as the customs, traditions and beliefs of the Pennsylvania German people. Seven articles written between 1889-1902, as well as a new articl...
Author
John C Ramsey, Emma Gertrude White, Letitia Humphreys Wrenshall, W J Wintemberg, J G Owens, W J Hoffman M.D., Frederick Starr
Binding
Paperback
Pages
102
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1542775205
EAN Code
9781542775205
ISBN #
9
Excerpt from Ancient Pictures for Little Moderns, or Things Once Seen by Jewish ChildrenIt is a sad thing that the Jews have always had a hard time. They have always, as a race been troubled and oppressed by other nations. Once they had a beautiful and great city and a loved land, but their beautifu...
Author
Frederick Starr
Binding
Paperback
Pages
54
Publisher
Forgotten Books
ISBN #
1332719457
EAN Code
9781332719457
ISBN #
8
. . . that rare thing, a piece of careful scholarship that is also superby entertaining . . . Starr, who is president of Oberlin College and has been associated with the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, is also a professional jazz musician, and his knowledgeable affection for the music...
Author
S. Frederick Starr
Binding
Paperback
Pages
390
Publisher
Limelight Editions
ISBN #
0879101806
EAN Code
9780879101800
ISBN #
7
Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and T...
Author
S. Frederick Starr
Binding
Paperback
Pages
528
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
0765613182
EAN Code
9780765613189
ISBN #
6
This definitive, detail-packed biography is the first of Frederick Starr (1856-1933), a founding father of American anthropology at the University of Chicago. It presents a major reevaluation of Starr’s place as the missionizer of anthropology, illuminates the consequences of the professionalization...
Author
Donald McVicker
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
450
Publisher
AltaMira Press
ISBN #
0759120978
EAN Code
9780759120976
ISBN #
5
Although I had already inquired for them from Ilocano boys, my first actual knowledge of Filipino riddles was due to Mr. George T. Shoens, American teacher among the Bisayans. He had made a collection of some fifty Bisayan riddles and presented a brief paper regarding them at the Anthropological Con...
Author
Frederick Starr
Binding
Paperback
Pages
82
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN #
1490527699
EAN Code
9781490527697
ISBN #
4
Stephen Frederick Starr (born on March 24, 1940) is the founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. He is also a noted musician. ...
Frederick Starr (September 2, 1858 August 14, 1933), aka Ofuda Hakushi in Japan, was an American academic, anthropologist, and "populist educator" born at ...