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  • The New Analog

    Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World

    An NPR Best Book of the Year: "A pointedly passionate look at what's been lost in the digital era." — Los Angeles TimesA longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered that transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both creators ... Leer más

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  • Why Sound Matters

    Series series Why X Matters Series
    A poignant consideration of the material aspect of sound and how it fundamentally shapes our experience of the world, both in its presence and absenceFrom the joyous communal connections fostered through shared auditory experience to the devastating impact of noise pollution in the deep sea, musician and author Damon Krukowski urges readers to reconsider the significance of sound and its role in ... Leer más

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  • Ascoltare il rumore

    La riscoperta dell'analogico nell'era della musica digitale

    Traducido por Chiara Veltri ...
    Series series BIGSUR
    Negli ultimi decenni il mondo della musica ha attraversato una rivoluzione. La tecnologia audio analogica, così fedele alla percezione dei sensi umani, è stata sostituita da quella digitale, che registra e riproduce il suono attraverso una codifica binaria di 0 e 1. I vinili sono stati rimpiazzati di volta in volta dai cd, dagli mp3, dai servizi di streaming; la musica è stata semplificata e resa ... Leer más

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  • The Pirates Laffite

    The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf

    An "engrossing and exciting" account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast ( Booklist, starred review).At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the US ... Leer más

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  • The Secret History of Home Economics

    How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

    **"Deeply researched and crisply written." —Margaret Talbot,?The New YorkerThe surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.**The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded ... Leer más

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  • Few Call It War

    Religious Terrorism: Then and Now

    "A highly readable and well-documented account of the use and abuse of religion for violent political ends . . . This is a book well worth reading" (Timothy J. Demy, ThD, PhD, coauthor of In the Name of God).Most Americans could not fathom how Islamic terrorists could bring down the World Trade Center or an army psychiatrist could turn on his own soldiers, taking their lives in the name of his ... Leer más

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  • Why We Lost

    A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

    A commander's "compelling" behind-the-scenes view of the United States at war after 9/11, from high-level strategy to combat on the ground ( The Wall Street Journal).Over his thirty-five year career, Daniel P. Bolger rose through the ranks of the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Perhaps more than anyone else, he was witness to the full extent ... Leer más

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  • Empire's Crossroads

    A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

    de Carrie Gibson ...
    A "wide-ranging, vivid" narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean ( The Observer).Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson ... Leer más

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  • A Generation on Trial

    U.S.A. v. Alger Hiss

    The story of Whittaker Chambers, HUAC, and the case that defined the McCarthy era, as reported by one of the twentieth century's most respected journalists.In August 1948, a former Communist Party member named Whittaker Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that a secret cell of Communists had infiltrated Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration. Chief among ... Leer más

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  • Black Potatoes

    The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1850

    Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is "a fascinating account of a terrible time" ( Kirkus Reviews).In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Leer más

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