The Genevan violin virtuoso and composer Gaspard Fritz (1716-83) studied in Turin with G.B. Somis, a pupil of Corelli and himself a teacher of other well-known violin virtuosi. It is known that some of Fritz's published "Trios, Solos and Concertos" were sh..
With her supple, low register voice and on-the-money guitar work, Mary Flower is one of the best blues-based singer/songwriters working today. Classics by Bo Carter, Skip James, and Charlie Patton sit comfortably next to a half-dozen originals. Smart arran..
Music has been a strong political, unifying force for the Latvian people. It rose slowly, out of folk songs, during the 700 years of oppression by Russian tsars and German overlords. Poetry and song, with their indirect and symbolic undertones, became an i..
The ECTACO Partner ELv800 is a bilingual English Latvian electronic talking dictionary and travel audio phrasebook. It features state-of-the-art English speech recognition and highly advanced English voice synthesis powered by the latest Text-to-Speech tec..
File TUMBLEWEED. Complete anthology containing 19 tracks never before on CD from legendary Wollongong outfit who (mostly) went on to form Tumbleweed.Includes their J.Mascis produced debut 7" unreleased & live tracks & 16-page booklet with liner notes by L..
Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a tiny nuclear bomb. Suspicions swirled around Russia''s FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. But what really happened?..
This correspondence, which Formakov mailed home to his family in Riga, provides readers with a firsthand account of the workings of the Soviet penal system and testifies to the hardships of daily life for Latvian prisoners in the Gulag.
Alfred Bilmanis. PREFACE: A handbook on Latvia is being published at this time to satisfy many requests from interested Americans who would like to knoiv more than is offered by some diction aries, yearbooks and almanacs, etc., about Latvias geo graphy, ..
They soon embark on an adventure that takes them into a different world, a world where Lethavian, The Dark Spirit, protected by the Purple Crystal, rules supreme. Befriended by Willie and Cameron McDougal they embark on a quest to destroy Lethavian before ..
From the 1870s, the expanding sugar industry began to swallow up rural communities and destroy the traditional land tenure system, as the great sugar estates-the “latifundia” dominated the economy. Perez chronicles the popular resistance to the..
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Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail ..
