Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road To Reality (2005) provided a comprehensive yet readable guide to our present understanding of the laws that are currently believed to govern our universe. In Cycles of Time, he moves far beyond this to develop a completely …
Felix Mendelssohn has long been viewed as one of the most historically minded composers in western music. This book explores the conceptions of time, memory and history found in his instrumental compositions, presenting an intriguing new perspective on his ever-popular music. Fo…
This is a study of four colossal medieval works -- the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart -- which are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke Sunderland is able to argue for an aesthe…
