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  • The Sound Of No Hands Clapping

    A Memoir

    by Toby Young ...
    When even his friends refer to him as 'a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane,' the odds of Toby Young scoring - in any sense - appear to be slim. But then HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS, his memoir about failing to take Manhattan, becomes an international bestseller. Now Tinseltown beckons. After receiving ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How To Lose Friends And Alienate People

    A Memoir

    by Toby Young ...
    In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan-Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now-so why couldn't he? But things didn't quite go according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Opera Remixed

    by Toby Young ...
    Series series Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice
    Opera Remixed critically examines operatic hybridity and considers the opportunities and challenges of disrupting traditional paradigms of classical singing. Accounts of crossover forms like 'popera' and musical theatre explore alternative approaches to operatic vocality, examining how entrenched genre ideologies are challenged by creative agents, practices, and technologies at work near opera's ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Dance Music

    Edited by Hillegonda C Rietveld, Toby Young ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Electronic dance music is increasingly the focus of a multitude of academic research projects around the world but has been drastically under-represented in accessible core published material. This innovative scholarly collection provides an important 'first stop' for researchers and students wishing to work in this area. It examines the key features of numerous electronic dance music scenes and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • What Every Parent Needs to Know

    How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary School

    by Toby Young, Miranda Thomas ...
    The bestselling, step-by-step guide to the primary school curriculum from Toby Young and Miranda Bondy.What is your child learning each day in school? How can you tell if they are doing well or badly? And what can you do to help?This practical, detailed and user-friendly manual contains absolutely everything you need to know about primary schooling and the UK curriculum, ensuring your child will ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Composition

    Edited by Toby Young ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    There are as many ways of creating music as there are composers in the world, with a vast array of possible methods and practices. This book provides essential critical and practical tools for composers as they try to navigate this complex landscape, whilst also offering provocations for practitioners discovering their own voices and solidifying their place in their musical communities. Designed ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music

    Edited by Mark Doffman, Emily Payne, Toby Young ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself. The ways that music can modify, intensify, and even dismantle our understanding of time's passing is at the foundation of musical experience, and is common to listeners, composers, and performers alike. The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music provides a range of compelling new scholarship that examines the ... Read more

    $206.99 CAD

  • The Sound of No Hands Clapping

    A Memoir

    by Toby Young ...
    Young is back with the eagerly awaited follow-up to his account of a hilariously failed attempt to conquer the Manhattan social and professional scene in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. All the elements that turned Toby's earlier memoir into a bestseller from coast to coast and on both sides of the Atlantic are back, too. Well, some things have changed for Toby-he has married his ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • School Choice around the World

    … And the Lessons We Can Learn

    by Christopher J. Counihan, Nick Cowen, Corey A. DeAngelis, Triin Lauri, Kaire Põder, M. Danish Shakeel, Patrick J. Wolf, Toby Young ...
    This volume of essays examines the empirical evidence on school choice in different countries across Europe, North America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It demonstrates the advantages which choice offers in different institutional contexts, whether it be Free Schools in the UK, voucher systems in Sweden or private-proprietor schools for low-income families in Liberia. Everywhere experience ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

    by Toby Young ...
    Narrated by Toby Young ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 28 min

    In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan—Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now—so why couldn’t he? But things didn’t go quite according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Sound of No Hands Clapping

    A Memoir

    by Toby Young ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling-and laugh-out-loud funny How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.When even his friends refer to him in print as "a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet, and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane," the odds of Toby Young scoring—in any sense—appear to be slim. But then How to Lose Friends ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Narrated by George Guidall ...

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