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    Self-Love for Men

    by Bennett Clayton ...
    Narrated by Dylan Teter ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 59 min

    Are you experiencing anxiety and stress due to personal loss? Do you want to process your emotions in a safe environment so that you can move on?Men’s mental health has often been ignored under the garb of gender roles. We have been frequently called upon to be “the stronger sex” without any attention to the damaging impact this has on our wellbeing.Presently, most of the resources in the arena of ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s

    Portrayal of the East

    by Bennett Zon ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book is in four themed sections. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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  • Paul Scott: The Raj Quartet and Staying On

    by John Lennard ...
    A historically informed and informing study guide to of Scott's four great novels of British India - The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils - and of the popular coda, Staying On. The book covers Paul Scott's Life and works, the British Raj, imperial decay, civil and military India, the Indian independence movement, the birth of India and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Other Classical Musics

    Fifteen Great Traditions

    by Michael Church, Scott DeVeaux, Ivan Hewett, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus, Robert Labaree, Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Will Sumits, Terry E. Miller, Neil Sorrell0, David Hughes1, Frank Kouwenhoven2, Richard Widdess3, Jonathan Katz4, Roderic Knight5 ...
    Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The EconomistWhatis classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical music is just one. ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Enlightenment Orientalism

    Resisting the Rise of the Novel

    by Srinivas Aravamudan ...
    Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Cage

    by Rob Haskins ...
    Series Book 43 - RB-Critical Lives
    American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912–92) is best known for his experimental composition 4’33,” a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during the duration of the piece. The purpose, Cage said, was for the audience to listen to the sounds of the environment around them while the piece was performed. Groundbreaking pieces such as 4’33”, as ... Read more

    $25.09 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Carl Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • A Scots Song

    A Life of Music

    by James Macmillan ...
    The celebrated composer shares the story of his musical development and discusses the inspiration he finds in spirituality and his Scottish roots.Sir James MacMillan first burst into prominence in 1990 with the premiere of his composition The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie, about a 17th century Scottish woman who confessed to withccraft. A steady stream of works followed, many of which combined ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge History of World Music

    Edited by Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Edward Elgar and His World

    Edited by Byron Adams ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy worldwide. Leading scholars examine the composer's life in Edward Elgar and His World, presenting a ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures

    by Anders Hallengren ...
    In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change. It is also a book on self-confidence and presents different ways to self-knowledge and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD