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  • The Yellow Road Not Taken

    by Stephan Michael Loy ...
    The Yellow Road Not Taken is NOT your momma's Wonderful Wizard of Oz. If you're looking for the heartwarming, sugary simplicity of the original L.Frank Baum story, run. Run now. Run far away. If you're ready for a happily acerbic, satirical sendup in which the Cowardly Lion suffers from crippling anxiety, the Tin Woodsman is a psychopath, and the Scarecrow is gloriously, undeniably brainless, then ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transformatnl Theory Aesthetcs

    by Michael Stephan, Trevor Pateman ...
    First Published in 1990. How we perceive and respond to the visual image has been a traditional concern of psychologists, philosophers and art historians. Today, where the visual image increasingly permeates our everyday life and consciousness, the question becomes ever more relevant. How do we, for instance, instinctively ‘know’ what it is that a picture represents without having to be taught? ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Experiencing Ornette Coleman

    A Listener's Companion

    by Michael Stephans ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    Saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ornette Coleman, along with pianist Cecil Taylor, was one of the founding forces of the Free Jazz movement which took the music world by storm in the 1950s and 60s. His brilliance as an instrumentalist at first positioned him as a polarizing figure, but eventually brought him recognition as an American original and international jazz ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Experiencing Jazz

    A Listener's Companion

    by Michael Stephans ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener’s Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying listening experience with an extensive range in structure and form, from the syncopated swing of big bands ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Conqueror's Realm

    by Stephan Michael Loy ...
    In the mid-twenty-first century, the United States goes through a fundamental change. White people are now only the largest minority in America. Will they surrender power to the coalition to follow, or fight "to keep what's theirs"? So begins a terrible, violent game of chess played for the heart and soul of a nation.Welcome to the world of Steve Tallman, the driven producer of a celebrated news ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migrating from Oil- to Electricity-Powered Vehicles: Modeling Germany's Transition to the EV until 2040 in System Dynamics

    by Michael Stephan, Anna Feller ...
    Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1.0, Otto Beisheim School of Management Vallendar (Kuehne Foundation Chair in Logistics Management), language: English, abstract: Replacing traditional internal combustion engine cars by electric vehicles (EVs) offers significant advantages, such as lower CO2 emissions, lower noise pollution and lower ... Read more

    $38.98 USD

  • A Transformation Theory of Aesthetics

    by Michael Stephan ...
    This book develops a theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental changes, or transformations. It is essential reading to those seriously involved in linking the arts and cognitive sciences. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Open Systems: Physics, Metaphysics, and Methodology

    by Michael E. Cuffaro, Stephan Hartmann ...
    Scientific and philosophical inquiry often assumes that systems can be studied in isolation, yet real-world systems are never truly closed. They constantly interact with their environment, exchanging energy, information, and matter. This openness challenges fundamental assumptions about determinism, causality, and emergence, raising profound questions about how we model, explain, and understand ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Admirers, Fanciers and Devotees

    The Early History of Fandom

    Edited by Daniel Cavicchi, Stephan Michael Schröder ...
    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    This book offers the first multidisciplinary perspective on the formation and practices of fandoms before the term 'fan' was borrowed from the world of sport to describe enthusiastic filmgoers in the 1910s. The focus is on nineteenth-century theatre, opera and literature, where fannish audiences were indispensable participants in the emerging cult of celebrity surrounding actors, opera singers and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Creating Urban and Workplace Environments for Recovery and Well-being

    New Perspectives on Urban Design and Mental Health

    Edited by Stephan Pauleit, Michael Kellmann, Jürgen Beckmann ...
    Series series Advances in Recovery and Stress Research
    This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities for recovery, and promote the resilience of individuals in urban communities.Connecting research from different scientific disciplines, the book provides a broader perspective of creating healthy lifestyle in society. It focuses on mental health and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer

    The Pinkerton Files, Volume 1

    by Stephans, Michael ...
    In On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer, author Michael Stephans has created a rich, multifaceted paean to jazz icon Bob Brookmeyer, the much beloved musical genius who passed away in 2011, four days short of his 82nd birthday. On the Way to the Sky is a hybrid book in that it’s part memoir, part biography, with over a dozen essays by such luminaries as Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XVIII

    18th International Conference, PPSN 2024, Hagenberg, Austria, September 14–18, 2024, Proceedings, Part I

    Edited by Michael Affenzeller, Stephan M. Winkler, Anna V. Kononova, Heike Trautmann, Tea Tušar, Penousal Machado, Thomas Bäck ...
    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This multi-volume LNCS set, LNCS 15148-15151, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2024, held in Hagenberg, Austria, in September 2024.The 101 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 294 submissions. The papers presented in these four volumes are organized in the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD