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  • Debt and Redemption in the Blues

    The Call for Justice

    by Julia Simon ...
    Series series American Music History
    This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come.Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-Reconstruction South, Jim Crow America, and the civil rights era, Julia Simon finds a deep symbolism in the lyrical representations of romantic and ... Read more

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  • Decision Maker's Playbook, The

    12 Tactics for Thinking Clearly, Navigating Uncertainty and Making Smarter Choices

    by Simon Mueller, Julia Dhar ...
    The Decision Maker's Playbook is an easy-to-use, “how-to” toolkit to improve managers' decision making, using visualisations, relevant examples and actionable checklists that cater to its main target group: analytically interested, busy managers and entrepreneurs.The Decision Maker's Playbook will help readers navigate a complex world. Along the four chapters of the books, it will help you in:<st. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Rousseau Among the Moderns

    Music, Aesthetics, Politics

    by Julia Simon ...
    Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation, engaged in public debates about music, and wrote at length about musical theory. Critical analysis of Rousseau’s work in music has been principally ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1

    A Cookbook

    by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck ...
    Series Book 1 - Mastering the Art of French Cooking
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The definitive cookbook on French cuisine for American readers: "What a cookbook should be: packed with sumptuous recipes, detailed instructions, and precise line drawings. Some of the instructions look daunting, but as Child herself says in the introduction, 'If you can read, you can cook.'" —Entertainment Weekly“I only wish that I had written it myself.” —James ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson

    Blues, Race, Identity

    by Julia Simon ...
    Series series American Music History
    Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson mastered multiple instruments. He recorded with jazz icons such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, and he played vaudeville music, ballads, and popular songs.In this book, Julia Simon takes a ... Read more

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  • Time in the Blues

    by Julia Simon ...
    Spontaneity, immediacy and feeling characterize the blues as a genre. Whether it's the movement of call and response, the expressive bends and wails of voice and instruments or the synergistic relationship between audience and performers, the blues embody a kind of "living in the moment" aesthetic. At the same time, the blues genre has always responded in a unique way to its historical moment, its ... Read more

    $90.39 CAD

  • The LEGO Ideas Book

    by Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March, Catherine Saunders ...
    Series series Lego Ideas
    A brand-new edition of the best-selling LEGO® book of all time! - with hundreds of all-new models!Unlock your imagination with this colorful treasury of more than 100 new building ideas created by LEGO® fan builders. Learn tips and tricks to become a better builder. Find out how professional LEGO designers get their ideas and meet the fan builders. Get inspired to make your own brick-built ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Simca's Cuisine

    One Hundred Classic French Recipes For Every Occasion

    by Simone Beck ...
    Millions know Simone “Simca” Beck as Julia Child’s French partner in creating the two unforgettable volumes of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Simca’s Cuisine offers the delectable recipes that Beck personally treasured most. She presents family specialties from the well-thumbed notebooks of her mother and grandmother as well as recipes from her life in Normandy, Alsace, and Provence where ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • From the Shadow of the Blues

    My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption

    by John Lee Hooker Jr. ...
    A powerful memoir of redemption from the son of blues legend John Lee HookerBorn in Detroit and exposed to the music world from an early age, John Lee Hooker Jr. began singing as a featured attraction in his father's shows as a teenager. His father was a sharecropper's son who became known for hit songs like “Boogie Chillin,” “I'm in the Mood,” and “Boom Boom,” and in 1972, he and his father ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Theology and the Blues

    by Justin McLendon, Michael A.L. Broyles, Coldwell Daniel IV, William L. Ellis, Douglas Groothuis, Edward Komara, Jonathan Lower, Jessica McMillan, Michael Sharp0, Alex Sosler1, Julia Simon2, Mark Winborn3 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a genre of music born from suffering. The great Mississippi Delta bluesman, Muddy Waters, once said, "The blues was born ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Vizby

    The Naughty Dog - Book 1

    by Karla Johnston, Roland Simons ...
    Illustrated by Julia Pike ...
    Series Book 1 - Vizby The Naughty Dog
    Welcome to Vizby's world!Welcome to Vizby's world! Vizby is one of the happiest, naughtiest and cleverest dogs of them all. Vizby is an irrepressible Hungarian Vizsla. She just lives her life to the maximum and everyone loves her. Here you will join Vizby's universe in New Farm (Brisbane) with her amazing Ma and neighbours. Find out just how naughty Viz can be!Aimed at 7 to 12-year olds, this book ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Blackstone's Employment Law Practice 2012

    Edited by Gavin Mansfield, John Bowers QC, Damian Brown, Simon Forshaw, Anthony Korn, Julia Palca, David Reade QC ...
    Drawing together comprehensive coverage of practice and procedure in the employment tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, and Central Arbitration Committee, Blackstone's Employment Law Practice 2012 is an essential purchase for any serious employment practitioner. Ideal for preparing for and during a case in tribunal or court, it includes trusted advice on specialist topics, such as the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD