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  • Music and Technology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark Katz ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devices. This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, “music technology” tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Groove Music

    The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ

    by Mark Katz ...
    It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every corner of the world. But hip-hop was born in the streets of New York in the 1970s when a handful of teenagers started experimenting ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Violin

    A Research and Information Guide

    by Mark Katz ...
    The violin was first mentioned in a book in the sixteenth century. An abundant and diverse literature on the instrument has grown since then, and a complete general guide to these materials has not been produced in the modern era. The last, Edward Heron-Allen's De Fidiculis Bibliographia , was published in1894. This book fills that void, organizing and annotating information on the violin from a ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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    The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World

    by Mark Katz ...
    Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of American culture. Hip hop has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Capturing Sound

    How Technology Has Changed Music

    by Mark Katz ...
    There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. Fully revised and updated, this ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Children Who Fail at School But Succeed at Life

    Lessons from Lives Well-Lived

    by Mark Katz ...
    Understanding resiliency and student success by studying people who succumbed to risk but later triumphed.A number of people who failed in school currently enjoy meaningful and successful lives. They include, though they are by no means limited to, those with attention and executive function challenges, learning disabilities, learning and behavioral challenges arising out of traumatic events in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Third World in Soviet Military Thought

    by Mark Katz ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1982, this study traces the development of Soviet military thinking on the Third World and assesses its importance for the conduct of Soviet foreign policy. Changes in Soviet military thought often reflect changes in Soviet attitudes towards and expectations from involvement in Third World conflicts. This work from Dr. Katz meditates upon the changing role of the USSR in post ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century

    Edited by Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, Mark A. Loewenstein ...
    Series Book 84 - Studies in Income and Wealth
    Categorizing race and ethnicity for twenty-first-century statistics and economics.The increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the US population raises the question of whether the race and ethnicity categories and definitions used by federal statistical agencies to create demographic statistics on which government officials, business decision-makers, and private citizens rely fully reflect the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leaving without Losing

    The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan

    by Mark N. Katz ...
    As the United States withdraws its combat troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, politicians, foreign policy specialists, and the public are worrying about the consequences of leaving these two countries. Neither nation can be considered stable, and progress toward democracy in them—a principal aim of America and the West—is fragile at best. But, international relations scholar Mark N. Katz asks: Could ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Leaving without Losing

    The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan

    by Mark N. Katz ...
    As the United States withdraws its combat troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, politicians, foreign policy specialists, and the public are worrying about the consequences of leaving these two countries. Neither nation can be considered stable, and progress toward democracy in them—a principal aim of America and the West—is fragile at best. But, international relations scholar Mark N. Katz asks: Could ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • How to Eat

    All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered: A Food Science Nutrition Weight Loss Book

    by Mark Bittman, David Katz ...
    Bestselling author Mark Bittman and physician David Katz cut through all the noise on food, health, and diet to give you the real answers you needWhat is the “best” diet? Do calories matter? And when it comes to protein, fat, and carbs, which ones are good and which are bad? Mark Bittman and health expert David Katz answer all these questions and more in a lively and easy-to-read Q&A format. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World

    by Mark Katz ...
    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    Since 2001, the US Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of American culture. Hip hop has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists call ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook