Johann Michael Bossard

On May 14, 1737, Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708–76), a twenty-nine-year-old music theorist and composer in Hamburg, published a Sendschreiben (“letter”) describing the experience of a...

This open access book explores the various manifestations of the archangel Michael in history, politics, and popular culture. One of the most venerated intermediate beings of the b...

Der Ulmer Arzt Johann Franc (1649–1725) hinterließ unter dem Titel "Ephemeris" eine in ihrer Art einzigartige Sammlung medizinischer Fallbeobachtungen aus seiner Praxis. Von eigene...

This chapter is the second of three chapters to look at the relationship between a Thomaskantor, who oversaw the church music, and a Kapellmeister (music director) of the public co...

When Major Michael Donnelly was instructing his U.S. Air Force student pilots, he used to tell them three things: Timing is everything; it's nice to be lucky; and there is no justi...

Michael Mann first made his mark as a writer for such television programs as Starsky and Hutch, Police Story, and Vegas. In 1981 he made his feature film directing debut with the J...

This book explores the impact of localities and regions on universities and shows how the diversity of the higher education landscape is critically affected by the geophysical char...