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  • Couldn't Have a Wedding without the Fiddler

    The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island

    by Ken Perlman ...
    Series series Charles K. Wolfe Music Series
    Canada’s Prince Edward Island is home to one of the oldest and most vibrant fiddling traditions in North America. First established by Scottish immigrants in the late eighteenth century, it incorporated the influence of a later wave of Irish immigrants as well as the unique rhythmic sensibilities of the Acadian French, the Island’s first European inhabitants. In Couldn’t Have a Wedding without the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo

    A Complete Tutor for the Intermediate and Advanced Player - A Clawhammer Encyclopedia for Players of All Levels

    by Ken Perlman ...
    One of the world's top players addresses nearly every aspect of the popular 5-string banjo style known as clawhammer or frailing. Chapter themes include fundamentals; advanced and experimental techniques; arranging and backup; how to play reels, hornpipes, jigs and other fiddle tunes; how to approach such genres as ragtime, bluegrass, klezmer, blues, calypso, and a wide variety of "national" and ... Read more

    $41.21 CAD

  • Celtic and New England Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo

    Formerly Basic Clawhammer Banjo

    by Ken Perlman ...
    A compilation of favorite solos on Irish, Scottish and New England fiddle tunes arranged for banjo by one of America's foremost clawhammer banjoists, Ken Perlman. Formerly published under the name Basic Clawhammer Banjo. In notation and tablature. ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD

  • The Society of the Spectacle

    by Guy Debord ...
    Translated by Fredy Perlman, Ken Knabb ...
    Series series Critical Editions
    'The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible...' - The New Yorker'Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now' - The Guardian'Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.' - Michael LöwyFirst published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Burnout Society

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Crisis of Narration

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force.Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community – the community of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Vita Contemplativa

    In Praise of Inactivity

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity – even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahâyâna Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains why Zen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct. But despite Zen Buddhism's hostility towards theory and discourse, it is possible to reflect philosophically on Zen Buddhism and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Non-things

    Upheaval in the Lifeworld

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things – a constantly expanding "infosphere" of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives.Byung-Chul Han's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Disappearance of Rituals

    A Topology of the Present

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Agony of Eros

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Series Book 1 - Untimely Meditations
    An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Scent of Time

    A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD