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  • The Life of a Song

    The stories behind 100 of the world's best-loved songs

    Discover the stories behind the songsTHE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song's biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intriguing factoids, these bite-sized essays will delight music fans and send you scurrying back to listen to the songs in all their beauty and mystery.Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Life of a Song Volume 2

    The Stories Behind 50 More of the World's Best-loved Songs

    When great songs have been written and released, they often take on a life of their own, reshaped and given new life, transcending genres.THE LIFE OF A SONG is a compilation of weekly columns written for FT Weekend, containing the biographies of 50 songs that have been born, reborn, sometimes hideously mangled, but often reinvigorated by new generations of artists.Here you will find songs that ... Read more

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  • The Gift Economy

    by David Cheal ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book, first published in 1988, David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life, relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology, particularly those of Durkheim ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Life of a Song Volume 1

    The fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved songs

    Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant?These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful ... Read more

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  • Families in Today's World

    A Comparative Approach

    by David Cheal ...
    An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family and family structures. It then moves on to discuss over a dozen major topics; from interaction and meaning ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    A Library of America Special Publication

    The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n’ roll legendsJonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal ... Read more

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

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  • Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa

    by Neil Slaven ...
    Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. Revised and updated, Electric Don Quixote is still the most comprehensive chronicle of his extraordinary life and career.Author, Neil Slaven, brings together the complex strands of Zappa's life and work in a book that will please not just Zappa fans but anyone interested in the history of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Citizens of Hope and Glory: A Story of Progressive Rock

    The Story of Progressive Rock

    by Stephen Lambe ...
    Created in the late 1960s, fashionable in the early 1970s and hated in the 1980s Progressive Rock has a colourful and eventful story. Many of the genres main protagonists, including Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, remain as popular as ever, while lesser-known names like Camel, Caravan, Renaissance, Van der Graaf Generator and Gentle Giant retain cult status.Prog expert ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The Age of Responsibility

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Music

    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    An entertaining trivia compendium flush with fun facts about all things music.From boogie-woogie to Beethoven, from Prince to Pavarotti, from the bards of Broadway to the rebels of rock 'n' roll—it's all here. Uncle John has created this harmonious collection of tuneful tales for music lovers everywhere.Uncle John has proven once again that he is in tune with our legion of loyal readers. This 516 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • School and Society

    Series series Thinking About Education Series
    This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including:New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.New references added to the useful Additional Resources section.School and Society, Fifth Edition uses realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thinking about problems related to school and society ... Read more

    $29.69 USD