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  • Mozart and the Nazis

    How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon

    by Erik Levi ...
    A music historian uncovers Nazi Germany's use of Mozart as a WWII propaganda tool in this "intriguing study [that] comprehends a range of vital topics" ( Choice).As the Nazi war machine expanded its bloody ambitions across Europe, the Third Reich sought to promote a sophisticated and even humanitarian image of German culture through the tireless promotion of Mozart's music. In this revelatory book ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945

    Propaganda, Myth and Reality

    Edited by David Fanning, Erik Levi ...
    Series series Routledge Music Handbooks
    Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship, the prime objective being to change the musical fabric of these ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • No Barriers

    A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon: The Young Adult Adaptation

    by Erik Weihenmayer, Buddy Levy ...
    2018 Colorado Book Awards finalist in the Creative Nonfiction and National Bestseller and Honorable Mention Award Winner in the Outdoor Literature category of the 2017 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) — "A beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought possible." —Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling authorErik Weihenmayer has a long history of turning ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Music and Displacement

    Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond

    by Sean Campbell, Ruth F. Davis, Björn Heile, Jehoash Hirshberg, Sydney Hutchinson, Max Paddison, Peter Petersen, Jim Samson, Philip V. Bohlman, Michael Beckerman ...
    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism

    by Helen Hardacre, Keigo Komamura, Weitseng Chen, Erik Esselstrom, Saburo Horikawa, Rintaro Kuramochi, Levi McLaughlin, Mari Miura, Yoshihide Soeya0, Makiko Ueda1, Christian Winkler2, Tatsuhiko Yamamoto3, Koichi Nakano4, Sung Ho Kim5, Timothy S. George6, Franziska Seraphim8 ...
    Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • No Barriers

    A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon

    by Erik Weihenmayer, Buddy Levy ...
    "More than an incredible adventure story . . . a beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought possible." —Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Lightning RodFinalist, Colorado Book AwardHonorable Mention, National Outdoor Book AwardsErik Weihenmayer is the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    No Barriers

    A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon

    by Erik Weihenmayer, Buddy Levy ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 34 min

    2018 Colorado Book Awards finalist in Creative Nonfiction, and National Bestseller and Honorable Mention Award Winner in the Outdoor Literature category of the 2017 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA)“A beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought possible.” —Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling authorErik Weihenmayer is the first and only... ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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