(Willis). This version of Thompson's popular Modern Course book (3rd Grade) comes with audio files online. Pieces at this level include Burgmuller's famous Ballade in C Minor and Thompson's original piece, "Tarantella."

In Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, the rehabilitation of female curiosity between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries is thoroughly investigated for the first time, in a comparative perspective that confronts two epistemological and religious traditions. In the context of the early modern blooming "culture of curiosity," women's desire for knowledge made them both curious subjects and curious objects, a double relation to curiosity that is meticulously inquired into by the authors in this volume. The social, literary, theological and philosophical...