Bøker av David Schiff

The most complete bathroom design sourcebook, filled with accessible design solutions and practical advice

Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately-classical, jazz, and popular-this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899-1974) at the center of the story, David Schiff explores music written during the composer's lifetime in terms of broad ideas such as rhythm, melody, and harmony. He shows how composers and performers across genres shared the common pursuit of representing the rapidly changing conditions of modern life. The Ellington Century demonstrates how Duke Ellington's music is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, more influential than anything by Schoenberg, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B.

This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems.

An accessible introduction to Luhmanns' complex work as well as an exploration of his claim that jurisprudence is part of laws self-description.