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  • A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation

    by John Corbett ...
    "Hyper-insightful and . . . thoroughly entertaining . . . an essential read for anyone interested in the complex yet accessible world of musical improvisation." —Glenn Kotche, drummer and composer, WilcoImprovisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pick Up the Pieces

    Excursions in Seventies Music

    by John Corbett ...
    Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. With Pick Up the Pieces, John Corbett transports us back in time to this thrillingly tumultuous era through ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • West Dickens Avenue

    A Marine at Khe Sanh

    by John Corbett ...
    In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War—and one of the greatest battles in military ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Translation Studies

    Edited by Defeng Li, John Corbett ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive grounding in key issues of corpus-informed translation studies, while showcasing the diverse range of topics, applications, and developments of corpus linguistics.In recent decades there has been a proliferation of scholarly activity that applies corpus linguistics in diverse ways to translation studies (TS). The relative ease of availability of corpora and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Extended Play

    Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein

    by John Corbett ...
    In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. With a special emphasis on African American and European improvisers, the book explores the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Multilingual Education Yearbook 2023

    Teaching with Technology in English-Medium Instruction Universities in Multilingual China

    Edited by John Corbett, Edith M.Y. Yan, Jackie Yeoh, Juyoung Lee ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides a wealth of insights into the use of technology to deliver university courses with English as the medium of instruction (EMI). It presents practical case studies from a number of Chinese HE institutions that offer degree programmes in English. The cases illustrate the benefits to be gained from collaborative action research among English language educators and subject ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Difficult Times

    Conflict, Crisis, and Creativity

    Edited by Prue Holmes, John Corbett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication
    This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises.The book draws on case studies from a range of educational contexts in the Global South which engage in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • COVID-19 Pandemic, Crisis Responses and the Changing World

    Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences

    Edited by Simon X.B. Zhao, Johnston H.C. Wong, Charles Lowe, Edoardo Monaco, John Corbett ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences. This book covers topics ranging from geopolitical relations to regional integration, public health governance and even the evolution of professional practices in the time of COVID-19. It constitutes a precious and timely interdisciplinary reference for anyone ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Making Connections

    A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges

    by Prof. John Corbett, Hugo Dart, Bruno Ferreira de Lima ...
    Online collaboration can be a powerful means of encouraging language learners to make connections between their local community and people from other cultural backgrounds. In doing so, learners develop their language skills while exploring different attitudes, values and beliefs. The authors of this book draw on 20 years of participation in numerous online intercultural exchanges to offer teachers ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry

    Edited by John Corbett, Ting Huang ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This volume addresses the global reception of "untranslatable" concrete poetry. Featuring contributions from an international group of literary and translation scholars and practitioners, working across a variety of languages, the book views the development of the international concrete poetry movement through the lens of "transcreation", that is, the informed, creative response to the translation ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Edinburgh Companion to Scots

    Edited by John Corbett ...

    $38.99 USD

  • Microgroove

    Forays into Other Music

    by John Corbett ...
    Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from oral history and journalistic portraiture to deeply engaged cultural critique. Corbett advocates ... Read more

    $28.79 USD