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  • Recruited by Aliens

    by James A. Davis ...
    A group of teenage street magicians in New York performed for difficult audiences. For example, they conducted magic shows for people waiting in line for events, such as, a theater show, a full restaurant, or a museum exhibit. People in line are typically an ornery bunch. Conditions are never good. It's either too hot, or it's about to rain. Even on perfect days, their feet began to swell. They ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Music History Classroom

    Edited by James A. Davis ...
    The Music History Classroom brings together essays written by recognized and experienced teachers to assist in the design, implementation, and revision of college-level music history courses. This includes the traditional music history survey for music majors, but the materials presented here are applicable to other music history courses for music majors and general education students alike, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Listening Across Borders

    Musicology in the Global Classroom

    Edited by James A. Davis, Christopher Lynch ...
    Series series Modern Musicology and the College Classroom
    Listening Across Borders: Musicology in the Global Classroom provides readers with the tools and techniques for integrating a global approach to music history—within the framework of the roots, challenges, and benefits of internationalization—into the modern music curriculum. Contributors from around the world offer strategies for empowering students to critique the economic, ideological, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century

    Church, Stage, and Concert Hall

    by Chiara Bertoglio, Callum Blackmore, James A. Davis, Matthew Hoch, Joyce L. Irwin, Thomas J. Kernan, Bogumila Mika, Joseph E. Morgan, Siegwart Reichwald, Matthew Roy, Christopher Ruth0, David Salkowski1, Megan Sarno2, Barbara Swanson3, Joshua A. Waggener4, Sonja Wermager5, Dr. Eftychia Papanikolaou6, Markus Rathey8, Jennifer D. Walker0 ...
    Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music and aesthetic debates of the long nineteenth century. The essays in this volume view the category of the sacred not as a monolithic attribute that applies only to music written for and performed in a religious ritual. Rather, the ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Falling Stars

    by James A Davis ...
    Kurt Matthews is bewildered by an old mans story of a legend, of Warajo and the falling stars. He now has strange dreams of events of long ago, what did it all mean! Who was Warajo? Follow Kurt on his quest for the answers, to these puzzling questions! FALLING STARS is mans survival! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Music Along the Rapidan

    Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia

    by James A. Davis ...
    In December 1863, Civil War soldiers took refuge from the dismal conditions of war and weather. They made their winter quarters in the Piedmont region of central Virginia: the Union’s Army of the Potomac in Culpeper County and the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia in neighboring Orange County. For the next six months the opposing soldiers eyed each other warily across the Rapidan River.In ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Maryland, My Maryland

    Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War

    by James A. Davis ...
    Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. “Maryland, My Maryland” was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War, yet its story is full of ironies that draw attention to the often painful and contradictory actions and ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Saving Time

    by Jodi Taylor ...
    Series Book 3 - The Time Police
    **PRE-ORDER KILLING TIME - BOOK FIVE IN THE TIME POLICE SERIES - NOW**From the bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S.Life is good for Team Weird, now heroes and fully fledged Time Police officers. Luke can't wait to bear arms. Jane has a date. And Matthew still hasn't had his hair cut.But Time waits for no one and neither do criminal masterminds. A major threat to the Timeline is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Researching Writing

    An Introduction to Research Methods

    by Joyce Kinkead ...
    Researching Writing is an accessible, informative textbook that teaches undergraduates how to conduct ethical, authentic research in writing studies. The book introduces students to the research approaches used most often and offers a course framework for professors creating or teaching research courses themselves.Author Joyce Kinkead lays out the research process, including finding and defining ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Teaching Naked

    How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

    by José Antonio Bowen ...
    You've heard about "flipping your classroom"—now find out how to do it! Introducing a new way to think about higher education, learning, and technology that prioritizes the benefits of the human dimension. José Bowen recognizes that technology is profoundly changing education and that if students are going to continue to pay enormous sums for campus classes, colleges will need to provide more than ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Inside Graceland

    Elvis' Maid Remembers

    by Nancy Rooks ...
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