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  • Breathless

    Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and The Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia

    Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature.Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Cros, Paul ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breathless

    Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia

    Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Cros, Paul Valéry, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Jules Verne, and Antonin Artaud, Allen S. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Brand Benefits Playbook

    Why Customers Aren't Buying What You're Selling--And What to Do About It

    2024 Global Book Awards FinalistFrom two of the world’s leading experts on branding, brand benefits, and positioning, this strategic guide reveals how focusing on brand benefits can transform organizations and help them win in the marketplace.Today’s customers think less about products and more about brands, no matter whether those brands are organizational, nonprofit, individuals, or service ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Illusory Dwellings

    Aesthetic Meditations in Kyoto

    Essays on the nature, production, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, inspired by the author’s experiences in Kyoto.Illusory Dwellings is not a guide concerning what to see in Kyoto, but a philosophical meditation on how to travel and observe in this capital of traditional Japanese art.Both intimate and scholarly, the book accompanies the reader on visits to famed gardens ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Mindfulness Essentials

    by Allen Weiss ...
    Allen Weiss is a senior teacher of mindfulness meditation at InsightLA, the Director of Mindful USC and teaches mindfulness to companies and teams through insight4peace.com. This book reads like a friendly user manual on the essentials of mindfulness meditation. In particular, it explains why people meditate, how it works, and how it can help you. The author knows that meditation is hard for many ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook

    Culinary Cartoons for the Humorously Famished

    At the time of his death, Charles Addams was working on this project, a cookbook with never-before-seen artwork and never before tasted and very macabre recipes—published here for the first time, along with some classic Addams cartoons about food and cooking.Food and eating were a couple of Charles Addams's favorite subjects. Hungry cannibals, witches gathering around a cauldron, or a king over ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Grain of the Clay

    Reflections on Ceramics and the Art of Collecting

    People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss’s engaging exploration of the meaning and practice of collecting through his relationship with Japanese ceramics. Weiss unfolds their world of materiality and pleasure and the culture and knowledge ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Zen Landscapes

    Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics

    The essential elements of the dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form and a mythic domain, these gardens exhibit precise craftsmanship and exquisite miniaturization. However, their apparent minimalism belies a profound complexity, which must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings and seasons, and especially in relation ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Phantasmic Radio

    The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio. In this original work of cultural criticism, Allen S. Weiss explores the meaning of radio to the modern imagination. Weaving together cultural and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Mobilizing for Elections

    Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia

    Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary tremendously, both across and within countries. Mobilizing for Elections presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Military Social Work

    The need has never been more crucial for community health providers, programs, and organizations to have access to training in addressing the unique behavioral health challenges facing our veterans, active duty military, and their families.Handbook of Military Social Work is edited by renowned leaders in the field, with contributions from social work professionals drawing from their wealth of ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Brand Admiration

    Building A Business People Love

    Brand Admiration uses deep research on consumer psychology, marketing, consumer engagement and communication to develop a powerful, integrated perspective and innovative approach to brand management. Using numerous real-world examples and backed by research from top notch academics, this book describes how companies can turn a product, service, corporate, person or place brand into one that ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD