Books by David Schiff

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

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the first composer to receive the United States National Medal of Arts, Elliott Carter is widely lauded as one of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' most preeminent figures in classical music and modernism. David Schiff, Carter's former student and lifelong associate, offers here the first full overview of Carter's life and complete oeuvre. This newest addition to the Master Musicians Series paints with a fine brush thefascinating story of one of America's greatest and most prolific composers.

Arguably the most important American composer of the century, Elliott Carter often has been more highly regarded in Europe than in his native land. Interest in his work has grown rapidly in recent years, however, and the celebration of his ninetieth...

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.