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  • The Case of Stephen Downing

    The Worst Miscarriage of Justice in British History

    by Stephen Downing ...
    The memoir of a man wrongfully convicted of murder and his 27 years spent in the U.K. prison system until his conviction was overturned.On September 12, 1973, seventeen-year-old, naïve gardener Stephen Downing returned from his lunch break to discover the badly beaten, unconscious, thirty-two-year-old Wendy Sewell lying on the footpath of Bakewell Cemetery close to Catcliff Wood and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hands of Pianists

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The Hands of Pianists’ narrator is a neurotic freelance writer who aims to prove that pianos kill elite pianists. For decades, he has grappled with the guilt that followed an accident in which he sawed off his talented sister’s fingers, ending her promising career at the keyboard. His investigations centre on the violent deaths at 31 of three great pianists, his detective work taking him from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Lasting Record

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius.A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return flight from Australia - where he toured in 1953 - ploughed into a mountain south of San Francisco and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Agents & Spies Short Stories

    by Sara Dobie Bauer, Joseph Cusumano, David Downing, Shane Halbach, Stephen Kotowych, Colt Leasure, Jonathan MacGregor, Jo Miles, Josh Pachter, Tony Pi, S. L. Scott, Dan Stout, Lauren C. Teffeau ...
    Series series Gothic Fantasy
    New authors and collections. Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of empire and traditional war have been replaced by cyber warfare but the subtle, lethal methods of agents and spies remain the same, and so has the power of great writing, with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Aesthetics of Music

    Musicological Perspectives

    Edited by Stephen Downes ...
    Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay includes musical examples from works in the 18th, 19th, and into the 20th century. Topics have been ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of African Famine

    Edited by R. E. Downs, Donna O. Kerner, Stephen P. Reyna ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Food Supply and Policy
    Originally published in 1991. This volume explores the combination of political and economic forces that influence different levels of food supply. The book begins with a discussion of famine theories, ranging from cultural ecology to neo-Marxism. Following this survey is a series of essays by anthropologists, geographers, economists and development practitioners that explores the role of Western ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Deadly Developments

    Edited by Stephen and Downs Reyna ...
    Ten anthropologists trace the machinations of war and the effects of violence in capitalist states, from their formation to the present. This collection, the newest volume in the War and Society series, questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history, and anthropology. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Gustav Mahler

    by Stephen Downes ...
    Series Book 123 - Critical Lives
    Gustav Mahler’s status as an icon of fin-de-siècle Viennese music is assured, with his works now staples of the concert repertoire. His life story has been told in numerous biographies, films and novels, yet he remains an ambiguous, provocative figure. Mahler was a composer who challenged musical form and style but identified with German Enlightenment and Romantic culture, disliking many ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • To Die For

    by Stephen Downes ...
    In this glorious celebration of food and eating, Stephen Downes, one of Australia's foremost food critics and food writers, leads readers through the 100 food experiences they must have before they expire, based on his own culinary encounters, and his astonishing food knowledge and expertise. Some of these experiences are as simple and affordable as making and eating homemade mayonnaise, while ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Szymanowski Companion

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, violin, vocal and choral compositions. The profile and popularity of Szymanowski's music outside Poland ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Mural

    by Stephen Downes ...
    Mural is a haunting ‘confession’ by a psychopath known only as D. Held in a secure facility, he has been asked by his psychiatrist to write down his thoughts, admissions, anxieties and uncertainties. They are at first revealed through the stories of other people’s lives and obsessions.Specifically, D is pre-occupied with a British man who spent his early years as a schoolteacher in Australia ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education

    by Daniel E. Cullen, John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Donald Downs, Jakub Grygiel, Stephen H. Wirls, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr., Robert P. George, Yuval Levin, Wilfred M. McClay0 ...
    The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity ... Read more

    $89.99 USD