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  • Mr. Beethoven

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    **Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths PrizeBased on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job.**It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Penguin Companion to Classical Music

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Modern Music and After

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    Over three decades Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war and the struggles of the ensuing peace were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • let me tell you and let me go on

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    Two novels from the perspective of Hamlet’s Ophelia—the first set before the events of the play, the second after—written entirely by remixing and repurposing the character’s dialogue from Shakespeare’s original text.“So: now I come to speak.” With this line, Shakespeare’s Ophelia starts telling her story. In let me tell you, this newly revealed woman uses exactly the same words Shakespeare gave ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Information, Institutions, and Local Government in England, 1550-1700

    Turning Inside

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    The years between 1550 and 1700 saw significant changes in the nature and scope of local government: sophisticated information and intelligence systems were developed; magistrates came to rely more heavily on surveillance to inform 'good government'; and England's first nationwide system of incarceration was established within bridewells. But while these sizeable and lasting shifts have been well ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Modern Music and After

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of the ensuing peace, were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora

    Archetypes of Transition

    by Paul Griffith ...
    Series series The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
    Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation are indexed in terms of a visionary gestalt according to which inner and outer realities unify creatively in natural and metaphysical orders. ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    Olivier Messiaen was one of the outstanding creative artists of his time. The strength of his appeal, to listeners as well as to composers, is a measure of the individuality of his music, which draws on a vast range of sources: rhythms of twentieth-century Europe and thirteenth-century India, ripe romantic harmony and brittle birdsong, the sounds of Indonesian percussion and modern electronic ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Educating for Eternity

    The History of Latter-day Saint Primary and Secondary Schools

    by E. Vance Randall, Scott C. Esplin, Casey Paul Griffiths ...
    Educating for Eternity tells the sweeping story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its nearly two-century commitment to K12 education, from log cabins in Kirtland to academies across the American West and schools spanning Mexico, the Pacific, and South America. Rooted in a theology that declares “the glory of God is intelligence,” this volume explores how faith, persecution, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Song of Songs

    by Paul Griffiths ...
    Series series Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
    Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.A rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Sex and Death

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology

    by Kim Sterelny, Paul E. Griffiths ...
    Is the history of life a series of accidents or a drama scripted by selfish genes? Is there an "essential" human nature, determined at birth or in a distant evolutionary past? What should we conserve—species, ecosystems, or something else?Informed answers to questions like these, critical to our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, require both a knowledge of biology and a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genetics and Philosophy

    An Introduction

    by Paul Griffiths, Karola Stotz ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology
    In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz show how the concept of the gene has evolved and diversified across the many fields that make up modern biology. By examining the molecular ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD