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  • Listening to China

    Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839

    by Thomas Irvine ...
    Series series New Material Histories of Music
    From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800. These sounds were gathered by diplomats, trade officials, missionaries, and other travelers and transmitted back to Europe, where they were reconstructed in the imaginations of writers, philosophers, and music historians such as Jean-Philippe ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Pariah

    Children of Esseth

    by Thomas Irvine ...
    On the planet of Esseth, in the small island nation of Korra, very few people know the truth of the universe. One denizen of Korra, Cio, spends most of his days protecting and coddling seven-year-old Keira Darrenger, the castle-dwelling, golden-haired heiress to D-Corp, the planets largest mercenary company and Cios employer. Life is simple and pleasant until the day Cio meets a bizarre woman ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Dreams of Germany

    Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor

    Edited by Neil Gregor, Thomas Irvine ...
    Series Book 18 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    $19.99 CAD

  • Dark Fire

    Refuge, #4

    by Cynthia Sax ...
    Series Book 4 - Refuge
    What the Beast wants, the Beast gets.Dare's savage nature has made him an outcast among his kind. The silver-scaled Dracheon warrior can't control his inner beast. It's too strong. When his primitive instincts told him his destined mate was on Carinae E, he had no choice. He had to travel to the outlaw planet. There, he hoped to meet a female powerful enough to survive his Drache.He finds Faylee, ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Music

    The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

    by Mr. Michael Haas ...
    With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Cipher

    by Kathe Koja ...
    Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook.Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the ... Read more

    $3.96 CAD

  • Adorno

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    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    by Stefan Müller-Doohm ...
    'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century.This authoritative biography ranges across the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

    Edited by Eva Kolinsky, Wilfried van der Will ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Spy High

    Never Say Spy, #9

    by Diane Henders ...
    Series Book 9 - Never Say Spy
    "Fierce and fantastic – a totally different type of heroine who keeps you clinging to the edge of your seat!"…If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy's life…After four uneventful months spent guarding her boss's eccentric hippie parents on an isolated raincoast commune, bookkeeper-turned-secret-agent Aydan Kelly is beginning to hope mildewed undies will be the only hazard she'll ... Read more

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  • Becoming a Nazi Town

    Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars

    by David Imhoof ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Becoming a Nazi Townreveals the ways in which ordinary Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. Casting the origins of Nazism in a new light, David Imhoof charts the process by which Weimar and Nazi culture flowed into each other. He analyzes this dramatic transition by looking closely at three examples of everyday cultural life in the mid-sized ... Read more

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    Demon slayer Bree Molina has always felt an attraction for fellow hunter Andras. She knew he was handsome and brave...but she's shocked to discover that Andras is a demon, too! That's just the first revelation Andras has in store for Bree. The demon world has put a price on her head--and the only way Andras can save Bree is by making her his mate.... ... Read more

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