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publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Mbira's Restless Dance
An Archive of Improvisation
ISBN: spiral: 9780226626277,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2021
912 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 597 musical examples
912 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 597 musical examples
Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya's "Mbira's Restless Dance" documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart...
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£65,00
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Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961
Scholars, Singers, Missionaries
ISBN: HB: 9780226740348,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 12 musical examples, 2 tables
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 12 musical examples, 2 tables
This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Maria Busse Berger exposes previously unseen historical relationships such as those between the modern r...
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£44,00
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Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
ISBN: HB: 9780300250022,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
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Brief Natural History of Civilization
Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780300245912,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and na...
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A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900
ISBN: PB: 9780300253740,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore...
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Art of Mbira
Musical Inheritance and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9780226628684,
ISBN: HB: 9780226628547,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2019
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples
Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the ana...
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£36,00
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£102,00
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For Money and Elders
Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9780226655758,
ISBN: HB: 9780226655611,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch. Yet efforts from critics and academics to diagnose...
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Contesting Leviathan
Activists, Hunters, and State Power in the Makah Whaling Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780226657400,
ISBN: HB: 9780226657370,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Stop Mugging Grandma
The "Generation Wars" and Why Boomer Blaming Won't Solve Anything
ISBN: HB: 9780300236835,
Yale University Press,
August 2019
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Millennials have been incited to regard their parents' generation as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the Sixties for the cultural and economic problems of today. But is it true that young people have been victimized by their el...
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Life by Algorithms
How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World
ISBN: PB: 9780226627564,
ISBN: HB: 9780226627427,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources; the algorithms that r...
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