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    Gloves Past and Present (UNABRIDGED)

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    3 hours 38 min

    From the preface: "For thirty years I have devoted myself to the practical problems of the glove industry, and my connection with one of the substantial firms of master-merchant-glovers in the world has taught me how little gloves are known or appreciated by the millions of persons who buy them and wear them. The pursuit of glove lore--the historic romance of the glove--has long since been with me ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • The Legal Recognition of Animal Sentience

    Principles, Approaches and Applications

    This book explores the movement towards the recognition of animal sentience in the law. It explores some first principles underpinning the recognition of animal sentience, including the nature and scope of sentience provisions, the connection between sentience and empathy, drafting issues, and the relationship between sentience recognition and animal rights. The book highlights the operation of ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Knitting the Semantic Web

    The Semantic Web, extends the popular, day-to-day Web, enabling computers and people to effectively work together by giving information well-defined meaning. Knitting the Semantic Web explains the interdisciplinary efforts underway to build a more library-like Web through “semantic knitting.” The book examines foundation activities and initiatives leading to standardized semantic metadata. These ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century

    In this book, the contributors reconsider the fundamentals of Music as a university discipline by engaging with the questions: What should university study of music consist of? Are there any aspects, repertoires, pieces, composers and musicians that we want all students to know about? Are there any skills that we expect them to be able to master? How can we guarantee the relevance, rigour and ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Eclipse of Dreams

    The Undocumented-Led Struggle for Freedom

    Refugees, asylum seekers, family separation, migrant detention. As the current US administration ratchets up a racist and dehumanizing immigration policy, it often seems that pretty much anything would be a better. The authors of this book have a somewhat longer memory than our mainstream media. They were, for the most part, DREAMers who fought for the passage of the DREAM Act under the Obama ... Read more

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  • For the Good of the World

    Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global Agreement Now

    ‘A must read’ Gordon Brown‘A truly excellent book’ Sir David KingThe three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling’s view, are climate change, technology and justice.In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree on a set of values that will allow us to confront the numerous threats facing the planet, or will we simply continue with our disagreements and antipathies ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Who Needs Classical Music?

    Cultural Choice and Musical Value

    During the last few decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between "high" and "low" art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and "Blue Suede Shoes" are equally valuable as cultural texts. In Who Needs Classical Music?, Julian Johnson challenges these assumptions about the relativism of cultural judgements. The author maintains that music is more than just "a ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Childhood in a Global Perspective

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    This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Teaching Music Musically (Classic Edition)

    Series series Routledge Education Classic Edition
    'There are countless gems within these pages ... Swanwick seems to write from more experience as a musician and teacher than most others who write for this audience. There is a real sense of his having been there. - Patricia Shehan Campbell, Professor of Music, University of Washington, USA'... contains the essential and highly valued hallmark of ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Musicology: The Key Concepts

    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including:AutobiographyMusic and ConflictDeconstructionPostcolonialismDisabilityMusic... ... Read more

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  • Rights for Robots

    Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law

    Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots.Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is completed by ... Read more

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  • Music, Mind and Education

    Keith Swanwick explores the psychological and sociological dimensions of musical experience and the implications of these for children's development and music education in schools and colleges. Music is seen, with the other arts, as contributing to the growth of mind, with deep psychological roots in play. Swanwick examines the ways in which children make their own music, and confirms that there ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD