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  • Models and Modeling in the Sciences

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Stephen M. Downes ...
    Biologists, climate scientists, and economists all rely on models to move their work forward. In this book, Stephen M. Downes explores the use of models in these and other fields to introduce readers to the various philosophical issues that arise in scientific modeling. Readers learn that paying attention to models plays a crucial role in appraising scientific work.This book first presents a wide ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education

    by Daniel E. Cullen, John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Donald Downs, Jakub Grygiel, Stephen H. Wirls, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr., Robert P. George, Yuval Levin, Wilfred M. McClay0 ...
    The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Case of Stephen Downing

    The Worst Miscarriage of Justice in British History

    by Stephen Downing ...
    The memoir of a man wrongfully convicted of murder and his 27 years spent in the U.K. prison system until his conviction was overturned.On September 12, 1973, seventeen-year-old, naïve gardener Stephen Downing returned from his lunch break to discover the badly beaten, unconscious, thirty-two-year-old Wendy Sewell lying on the footpath of Bakewell Cemetery close to Catcliff Wood and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hands of Pianists

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The Hands of Pianists’ narrator is a neurotic freelance writer who aims to prove that pianos kill elite pianists. For decades, he has grappled with the guilt that followed an accident in which he sawed off his talented sister’s fingers, ending her promising career at the keyboard. His investigations centre on the violent deaths at 31 of three great pianists, his detective work taking him from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mural

    by Stephen Downes ...
    Mural is a haunting ‘confession’ by a psychopath known only as D. Held in a secure facility, he has been asked by his psychiatrist to write down his thoughts, admissions, anxieties and uncertainties. They are at first revealed through the stories of other people’s lives and obsessions.Specifically, D is pre-occupied with a British man who spent his early years as a schoolteacher in Australia ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • A Lasting Record

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius.A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return flight from Australia - where he toured in 1953 - ploughed into a mountain south of San Francisco and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Paris on a Plate

    by Stephen Downes ...
    More than thirty years ago a green and unsophisticated Methodist boy from Oz had to be taught how to dress his salad correctly in a tiny Paris bistro, and felt the first stirring that he could 'perhaps nurture an interest in food'. Stephen Downes, now a renowned restaurant critic, returns to the city of lights and Michelin stars to test France's legendary reputation for fine dining. Is Paris still ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Die For

    by Stephen Downes ...
    In this glorious celebration of food and eating, Stephen Downes, one of Australia's foremost food critics and food writers, leads readers through the 100 food experiences they must have before they expire, based on his own culinary encounters, and his astonishing food knowledge and expertise. Some of these experiences are as simple and affordable as making and eating homemade mayonnaise, while ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • After Mahler

    Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of Mahler's music to the output of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • Gustav Mahler

    by Stephen Downes ...
    Series Book 123 - Critical Lives
    Gustav Mahler’s status as an icon of fin-de-siècle Viennese music is assured, with his works now staples of the concert repertoire. His life story has been told in numerous biographies, films and novels, yet he remains an ambiguous, provocative figure. Mahler was a composer who challenged musical form and style but identified with German Enlightenment and Romantic culture, disliking many ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Muse as Eros

    Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination

    by Stephen Downes ...
    The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology

    by Stephen Downes ...
    Series series Royal Musical Association Monographs
    The desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski's work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, Christ, Narcissus or Orpheus, and the gospel he proclaims tells of the resurrection and freedom of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD