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    The World in Motion

    by Thomas Christensen ...
    A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN TIME: Discover surprising stories of the pioneering men and women who ushered the world toward modernity in this continent-spanning slice of world history.Features 140 full-color reproductions of period artwork, engravings, maps, and drawings, with fascinating sidebars throughout.The early 17th century was a time of enormous change in most regions of the world. The advent of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis

    by Thomas Christensen ...
    Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the term in the nineteenth century. Thomas Christensen weaves a rich story in which tonality emerges as a theoretical construct born of anxiety and alterity ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

    Edited by Thomas Christensen ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Bach Perspectives, Volume 3

    Creative Responses to Bach, from Mozart to Hindemith

    by Thomas Christensen, Ludwig Finscher, Walter Frisch, Stephen Hinton, William Kinderman, Robert L. Marshall ...
    Series series Bach Perspectives
    Launched in 1995, Bach Perspectives has become the premier English-language serial book series dedicated to cutting-edge Bach scholarship. The University of Illinois Press now offers the first four volumes in open access editions available for free to all interested readers.The third volume of the acclaimed series features a roster of scholars analyzing the crucial influence of J. S. Bach’s music ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire

    by José Manuel Prieto ...
    Translated by Carol Christensen, Thomas Christensen ...
    Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Lost in the Cold War

    The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW

    by John T. Downey, Thomas Christensen, Jack Downey ...
    Series series A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations
    In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Solid Waste Technology and Management

    Edited by Thomas Christensen ...
    The collection, transportation and subsequent processing of waste materials is a vast field of study which incorporates technical, social, legal, economic, environmental and regulatory issues. Common waste management practices include landfilling, biological treatment, incineration, and recycling – all boasting advantages and disadvantages. Waste management has changed significantly over the past ... Read more

    $342.00 USD

  • River of Ink

    [An Illustrated History of Literacy]

    by Thomas Christensen ...
    With its title harkening back to the sack of Baghdad in 1258—when the Tigris ran black with the ink of books flung into the water by Mongol invaders—River of Ink is a collection of essays that range widely across time and cultures to illuminate the role of literature and art throughout history. Christensen draws from a panoply of subjects, from the writings of prehistoric Chinese cultures known ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • From Classical to Quantum Plasmonics in Three and Two Dimensions

    by Thomas Christensen ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This thesis provides a comprehensive introduction to two active research directions within the field of plasmonics: (i) nonclassical, or quantum, aspects of the plasmonic response; and (ii) two-dimensional plasmonics, a recent innovation in the field stimulated by the advent of two-dimensional materials. It discusses the fundamentals of this field in detail, and explores several current research ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Work of Music Theory

    Selected Essays

    by Thomas Christensen ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years, the selected articles provide a historical conspectus about a range of vital topics in the history of music theory, focusing in particular upon writings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Christensen ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Song of the Chattahoochee (Unabridged)

    by Sidney Lanier ...
    Narrated by Larry Riddick, Thomas Christensen, Dolores Jones ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    In the heart of the American South, where the Chattahoochee River flows, a symphony of nature and human experience unfolds. "The Song of the Chattahoochee" is a lyrical masterpiece by Sidney Lanier, a poet who found solace and inspiration in the river's embrace. Through vivid imagery and evocative language, Lanier captures the river's journey, from its humble beginnings to its grand finale at the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    A New Global History

    Edited by Patrick Boucheron, Stephane Gerson ...
    Short essays offer a kaleidoscopic, “provocative history of France” and its place within the world—from its prehistoric frescoes and Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015 (New Yorker).“A major work, exhaustive, controversial and fresh—and entirely relevant to Anglophone readers”—that redefines how we write about national and world history (Guardian).Bringing together an impressive group of ... Read more

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