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  • Creating a Powerful Brand

    It's Not Just Business, It's Personal

    by Andrew Ford ...
    The digital revolution has dramatically changed the way customers gather information about brands. You are no longer in charge of your brand and reputation, your customers are. By understanding and utilizing the power of social media you can be in control of your brand. In Creating a Powerful Brand you'll learn the five key steps to creating and managing your personal brand. ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apache 2 Pocket Reference

    For Apache Programmers & Administrators

    by Andrew Ford ...
    Even if you know the Apache web server inside and out, you still need an occasional on-the-job reminder -- especially if you're moving to the newer Apache 2.x. Apache 2 Pocket Reference gives you exactly what you need to get the job done without forcing you to plow through a cumbersome, doorstop-sized reference.This Book provides essential information to help you configure and maintain the server ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Song Remains the Same

    800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies

    by Andrew Ford, Anni Heino ...
    An illuminating history of the song for every kind of music loverOften today, the word ‘song’ is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony: apparently, they’re all songs.But they’re not. From Sia to Springsteen, Archie Roach to Amy Winehouse, a song is a specific musical form. It’s not so much that they all have verses and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Shortest History of Music

    From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé - 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song

    by Andrew Ford ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    From prehistoric songwriting to digital recording, discover the history of the world’s favorite art formNo other art is as popular—or pervasive—as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles—even the brand-new Beyoncé. But things weren’t always this way.In this brisk, breakneck history under 300 pages, award-winning composer, author, ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Illegal Harmonies

    Music in the Modern Age

    by Andrew Ford ...
    Listen. What do you hear?We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These are examples of what the American composer John Cage called “illegal harmony”.In response to the noisiest ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Sound of Pictures

    Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity

    by Andrew Ford ...
    The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices.In The Sound of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • European Human Rights Grey Zones

    The Council of Europe and Areas of Conflict

    by Andrew Forde ...
    Forde examines the effectiveness of the human rights system of the Council of Europe (CoE) in conflict-affected regions and advances a novel approach to understanding how the European Convention on Human Rights can better serve the 10+ million rights-holders living in so-called human rights 'grey zones'. Building on the premise that nowhere in Europe should be deprived of access to Europe's human ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Memory of Music

    by Andrew Ford ...
    The Memory of Music is a moving and evocative memoir that will appeal to music lovers everywhere.In this evocative and moving book, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford shares the vivid musical experiences – good, bad and occasionally hilarious – that have shaped his life.Ford's musical journey has traversed genres and continents, and his loves are broad and deep.The Memory of Music takes us from ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Homer

    The Poetry of the Past

    by Andrew Ford ...
    Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preserved in writing, he examines these questions in the light of Homeric poetry. Through fresh readings of the Iliad and the ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Criticism

    Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece

    by Andrew Ford ...
    By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from. Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Earth Dances

    Music in Search of the Primitive

    by Andrew Ford ...
    Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring . . . Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture.With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews, including with Liza Lim and Brian Eno, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford explores the relationship ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Good Music

    Letters on Art and Life

    by J. M. Coetzee, Andrew Ford ...
    In 2021, the writer J.M. Coetzee and the composer Andrew Ford collaborated on a music-theatre piece, The Blessing. Following this, Coetzee and Ford began a correspondence in which they reflect on human creativity in all its forms.They exchange thoughts on Beethoven and Elgar, on J.S. Bach and Stravinsky, on Jacqueline du Pré, Bruce Springsteen and the future of jazz. Besides music, their letters ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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