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  • Religions Can Be a Problem, but God Is Great

    Volume 1

    by Geoffrey H. Baker ...
    This book originated in a request from the author's teenage grandson for guidance when confronted by religion. Accordingly, Geoffrey Baker, who spent his career as an architect and teacher, decided to do what he could to help.As the title explains, there are so many interpretations of belief, some self-serving, others controlling and punitive, that religions can be a problem. The more he looked ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Rethinking Social Action through Music

    The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín's Music Schools

    by Geoffrey Baker ...
    How can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action through Music (SATM)?This ground-breaking book examines the development of the Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (the Network of Music Schools of Medellín), a network of 27 schools founded in Colombia’s second city in 1996 as a response to its reputation as the most dangerous city on Earth. Inspired by El Sistema, the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Belief in Evidence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    by Geoffrey A. Baker ...
    Series series Law and Literature
    What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declared in 1785 that 'we give the name of evidence to whatever is a ground of belief', and such defining formulations both echo and were echoed by seminal writings on the law of evidence. The ideas of ... Read more

    $80.39 CAD

  • Imposing Harmony

    Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

    by Geoffrey Baker ...
    Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the cathedral, Cuzco’s musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Architecture of James Stirling and His Partners James Gowan and Michael Wilford

    A Study of Architectural Creativity in the Twentieth Century

    by Geoffrey H. Baker ...
    Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century. This book provides the most comprehensive critical survey of Stirling's work to date, charting the development of his ideas from his formative years, through his partnership with James Gowan, on to his period in practice as sole partner; and finally, his partnership with Michael Wilford. Using archival ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Design Strategies in Architecture

    An Approach to the Analysis of Form

    by Geoffrey H. Baker ...
    Modern architecture has become extremely complex and its study has been made more difficult by changes in fashion and a proliferation of design modes. In this book, Geoffrey Baker develops a methodology for design analysis that reveals the underlying organisation of buildings. Part One explains the nature and role of architecture in a wide-ranging discussion extending from geometry to symbolism. ... Read more

    $148.40 CAD

  • Buena Vista in the Club

    Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

    by Geoffrey Baker, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American music
    In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept and then promote rap as part of Cuba’s national culture. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion

    Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists

    by Geoffrey A. Baker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of the avant-garde experimentalism versus critical realism debates from the twentieth century, Geoffrey A. Baker highlights the often violent ... Read more

    $119.69 CAD

  • Joshuah Ben Ya'Akob Ben Gennesaret

    by Geoffrey Scott-Baker ...
    Joshuah Ben Ya'akob Ben Gennesaret , better known to the world as Jesus Christ, is sitting alone in a small candle lit room high on the plateau of Masada during the mass suicide of 73AD. Old, tired and distraught that his people should be driven to this bloody end the octogenarian commits the story of his turbulent life to parchment. He tells of his childhood and the ministry that took Palestine ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Putney Debates

    by The Levellers ...
    In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions

    Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Keith Baker ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively analyse and problem-solve how to manage the decline of fossil fuels as the world tackles climate change and shifts towards a low-carbon energy transition. The overall findings are straight-forward and unsurprising: although fossil fuels have powered the industrialisation of many nations and improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people, ... Read more

    $243.99 CAD

  • A Critical Review of Scottish Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Policy

    Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Keith Baker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Covering issues of policy and practice, planning, legislation and regulation of a range of sustainable energy technologies in the context of devolved government, key experts explore these issues in terms of the ongoing Scottish ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD