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  • Running with the Devil

    Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

    by Robert Walser ...
    "A solid, scholarly analysis of the power, meaning, musical structure, and sociopolitical contexts of the most popular examples of heavy metal." — Library JournalDismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Couch City

    Socrates Against Simonides

    by Harry Berger ...
    Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato's kalos kagathos, showing Socrates to be trapped in a double ventriloquism, tethered to his interlocutors' speech acts even as they are tethered to his.Plato's Republic and Protagoras both reserve a small but ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Herbal Remedies and Natural Medicine - Made Simple

    9 Simple Steps to Holistic Healing: Strengthen Immunity & Improve Wellbeing with Home Remedies for Every Age

    by Laurel Harris ...
    Narrated by Myriam Berger ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Fitness & Self Care for Seniors

    Unabridged

    4 hours 33 min

    Unlock the secrets to dynamic health with the power of Natural Medicine and Herbal Remedies—even if you're a beginner!Are you searching for natural, cost-effective solutions for your family’s health? Curious about the healing power of herbs but unsure how to use them safely? If so, this guide is for you.Step into the age-old practice of Herbal Remedies trusted for centuries. Tired of the side ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harrying

    Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad

    by Harry Berger, Jr. ...
    Harrying considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare’s Henriad—Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Berger combines close reading with cultural analysis to show how the language characters speak always says more than the speakers mean to say.Shakespeare’s speakers try to say one thing. Their language says other things that often question the speakers’ motives or ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Metal, Rock, and Jazz

    Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience

    by Harris M. Berger ...
    A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio's Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene.This vivid ethnography of the musical lives of heavy metal, rock, and jazz musicians in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio shows how musicians engage with the world of sound to forge meaningful experiences of music. Unlike most popular music studies, which only provide a scholar's view, this book is based on intensive ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures

    Edited by Harris M. Berger, Friedlind Riedel, David VanderHamm ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures brings ideas from the phenomenological tradition of Continental European philosophy into conversation with theoretical, ethnographic, and historical work from ... Read more

    $146.39 CAD

  • Metal, Rock, and Jazz

    Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience

    by Harris M. Berger ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    This vivid ethnography of the musical lives of heavy metal, rock, and jazz musicians in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio shows how musicians engage with the world of sound to forge meaningful experiences of music. Unlike most popular music studies, which only provide a scholar's view, this book is based on intensive fieldwork and hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews. Rich descriptions of the musical ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Metal Rules the Globe

    Heavy Metal Music around the World

    Edited by Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger, Paul D. Greene ...
    During the past three decades, heavy metal music has gone global, becoming a potent source of meaning and identity for fans around the world. In Metal Rules the Globe, ethnographers and some of the foremost authorities in the burgeoning field of metal studies analyze this dramatic expansion of heavy metal music and culture. They take readers inside metal scenes in Brazil, Canada, China, Easter ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Global Pop, Local Language

    Edited by Harris M. Berger, Michael Thomas Carroll ...
    Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination of these?Global Pop, Local Language examines how performers and audiences from a wide range of cultures deal with the issue of language choice and dialect in ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Global Pop, Local Language

    Edited by Harris M. Berger, Michael Thomas Carroll ...
    With contributions by Maria Elena Cepeda, Cece Cutler, John Fenn, Morgan Gerard, Paul D. Greene, David R. Henderson, Dave Laing, Edward Larkey, Anthony McCann, Tony Mitchell, Lillis Ó Laoire, Alex Perullo, Jack Sidnell, Maria Paula Survilla, C. K. Szego, Sue Tuohy, and Jeremy WallachWhy would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • CI Changes from Suggestion Box to Organisational Learning

    Continuous Improvement in Europe and Australia

    Edited by Harry Boer, Anders Berger, Ross Chapman, Frank Gertsen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: A consideration of continuous improvement (CI) practice and performance. It brings together the results of a survey conducted simultaneously in a number of countries, with the express intention of building up understanding of how companies throughout the world are managing the process of implementing and, perhaps more importantly, sustaining, the process of ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Figures of a Changing World

    Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture

    by Harry Berger, Jr. ...
    Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats metonymy as the basic organizing trope of traditional culture and metaphor as the basic organizing trope of modern culture. On the one hand, metonymies present themselves as analogies that articulate or ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD