Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American FortuneEmpty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance.
TTC - Great Masters: Mozart - His Life and MusicCourse No. 752 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Introduction 2. Leopold and the Grand Tour 3. Mozart the Composer—The Early Music 4. Paris 5. The Flight from Salzburg and Arrival in Vienna 6. Life in Vienna 7. Operas in Vienna 8. The Last Years
Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles streams ran red with blood, and the United States was truly born.
Discover Magazine gives its readers the real story: on-the-scene photography, highly personal portrait shots, and cutting edge scientific imagery. The design is elegant and refined--not dry like a textbook, not glossy and remote like a travel guide. Every issue contains a balance of big-idea, text driven stories and more image-rich features that convey the feel of where and how the most amazing research happens.