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    Forgotten Authors, The - Men - The Complete Edition

    Don't let great literature die

    by Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William E Burton, Georges Eekhourd, Anatole France, Théophile Gautier, Perceval Gibbon, Stefan Grabinski, William Dean Howells, Thomas Mann, John Willaim Polidori ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry, Robert Maskell ...

    Unabridged

    65 hours 15 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of Breath

    by Reginald Gibbons, William Goyen ...
    Goyen passes on traditional conventions of plot and character. The House of Breath is an address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in small Texas town, Charity. The novel is a meditation on the nature of identity and origins, memory, and time's annihilation of life. This is the restored version, going back to Goyen's originally published version from 1950 with an ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Video Games and Classical Music

    by William Gibbons ...
    Series series Oxford Music/Media Series
    Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about classical works and their histories from interactive iPad games. World-renowned classical orchestras frequently perform concerts of game music to sold ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools

    Exploring the Tapestry of Modern Storytelling

    by Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Thompson Seton, Richard Harding Davis, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Mary Mapes Dodge, Rudyard Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, Owen Johnson, O. Henry, William Sharp, Perceval Gibbon, Ian Maclaren, Joel Chandler Harris, Morgan Robertson, Phyllis Bottome, David Gray, J. M. Barrie, S. Weir Mitchell, Walter A. Dyer, Leo Tolstoy, Stacy Aumonier ...
    Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools is a curated exploration of the variances in tone, technique, and thematic depth that defined the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The anthology showcases an impressive amalgamation of narratives that traverse genres from adventure to social commentary, aligning with the educational needs of burgeoning readers. From the gripping accounts of morality ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Volume 1

    by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury ...
    Series Book 1 - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    In judging the 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' it should carefully be observed that it falls into two parts which are heterogeneous in the method of treatment. The first part, a little more than five-eighths of the work, supplies a very full history of 460 years (A.D. 180–641); the second and smaller part is a summary history of about 800 years (A.D. 641–1453) in which ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound

    Edited by William Gibbons, Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The music and sounds of video games have become an inescapable part of our world. Not only do these sonic elements profoundly shape the experiences of billions of players every day, but also the soundscapes of games have stretched out from our living rooms to encompass spaces as diverse as pinball arcades, concert halls, museums, and classrooms across the globe. Research on game music and sound is ... Read more

    $184.49 USD

  • Music In Video Games

    Studying Play

    Edited by K.J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like Donkey Kong and Super ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Music in the Role-Playing Game

    Heroes & Harmonies

    Edited by William Gibbons, Steven Reale ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games, or RPGs. Known for their narrative sophistication and long playtimes, RPGs have long been celebrated by players for the quality of their cinematic musical scores, which have taken on a life of their own, drawing large audiences to ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $62.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences

    Edited by William J. Hardcastle, Fiona E. Gibbon, John Laver ...
    Series Book 119 - Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners.Combines new and influential research, along with articulate overviews of the key topics in theoretical and applied areas of ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • The Progress of the Century

    Exploring the Century's Transformative Vision

    by Andrew Lang, Alfred Russel Wallace, Goldwin Smith, William Osler, James Gibbons, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, William Ramsay, Sir Norman Lockyer, Thomas Curtis Clarke, A. T. Mahan, W. M. Flinders Petrie, Edward Caird, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Alexander V. G. Allen, Richard J. H. Gottheil, William W. Keen, Elihu Thomson ...
    The anthology, *The Progress of the Century*, offers a sweeping exploration of intellectual and cultural advancement at the dawn of the 20th century. It compiles works that reflect the period's burgeoning curiosity and innovation across scientific, philosophical, and historical domains. Readers will encounter an impressive range of literary styles, from incisive essays and thought-provoking ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon (Complete)

    by William Lewis Herndon & Lardner Gibbon ...
    Attached to the U. S. ship Vandalia, of the Pacific squadron, lying at anchor in the harbor of Valparaiso, in the month of August, 1850, I received a communication from the Superintendent of the National Observatory, informing me that orders to explore the Valley of the Amazon would be sent me by the next mail steamer. The ship was then bound for the Sandwich Islands, but Captain Gardner, with ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Measure for Measure

    by William Shakespeare, Angela Stock ...
    Series series The New Cambridge Shakespeare
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of Measure for Measure Angela Stock has written a new ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

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