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  • The Hum of the World

    A Philosophy of Listening

    by Lawrence Kramer ...
    The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquires tangible form. The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Experience

    A History

    by Lawrence Kramer ...
    A lyrical, provocative journey into the art, memory, and meaning of experience.What does it mean to have an experience? When did we begin to believe we could "have" one at all? In Experience: A History, Lawrence Kramer traces the cultural birth of experience as a singular, life-defining event. Moving lyrically between criticism and memoir, he guides readers from Petrarch and Nietzsche to Virginia ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    The Chuckwagon Trail [Dramatized Adaptation]

    A Chuckwagon Trail Western 1

    by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, Michael Mowen, Christopher Graybill, Michael Glenn, Bradley Smith, Thomas Keegan, Eric Messner, Zeke Alton, David Jourdan, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Henry Kramer, Lawrence Redmond, Casie Platt, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Richard Rohan, Todd Scofield, Carolyn Kashner, Ken Jackson, James Lewis, Terence Aselford, Matthew Bassett, Marty Lodge, Matthew Ward, Nora Achrati, Dani Stoller, Michael John Casey, Steven Carpenter, Peter Holdway, Eva Wilhelm, Colleen Delany, James Keegan, Scott McCormick, Dylan Lynch, Jonathon Church ...
    Series series Chuckwagon Trail

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    National bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone spin a breakneck tale about a heroic chuckwagon cook who knows just what to do when cowboys get hungry—for revenge...Framed for murder, Dewey “Mac” McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west—as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expression and Truth

    On the Music of Knowledge

    by Lawrence Kramer ...
    Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These models derive from five theses that connect expression to description, cognition, the presence and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Experiencing Sound

    The Sensation of Being

    by Lawrence Kramer ...
    From the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life.Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience—sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the widespread notion that vision takes pride of place among the senses and demonstrates how paying attention ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Music and the Forms of Life

    by Lawrence Kramer ...
    Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Thought of Music

    by Lawrence Kramer ...
    What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In this third volume in a trilogy on musical understanding that includes Interpreting Music and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Interpreting Music

    by Lawrence Kramer ...
    Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning—even the very concept of music—while breaking ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in the Work Place

    by Solotoff Lawrence, Henry S. Kramer ...
    Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in the Work Place provides complete coverage of legal and practical problems from both employers' and employees' points of view. It is a must-have source that attorneys and human resources professionals can turn to for up-to-date information.You'll learn how employers can protect themselves against the numerous pitfalls that could result in litigation, what ... Read more

    $710.69 USD

  • Musical Meaning and Human Values

    Edited by Keith Chapin, Lawrence Kramer ...
    Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the relation of meaning in this broad humanistic sense to the shaping of fundamental values. The volume ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Walt Whitman and Modern Music

    War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood

    Edited by Lawrence Kramer ...
    Series series Border Crossings
    Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Drum-Taps

    The Complete 1865 Edition

    by Walt Whitman ...
    Series series NYRB Poets
    Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,” Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America’s most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to create ... Read more

    $8.99 USD