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  • Music and Citizenship

    by Martin Stokes ...
    Series series Oxford Theory in Ethnomusicology
    Critical citizenship practices and the language of today's populism have never been more sharply opposed. Today's insistent efforts to anchor citizenship narratives in national belonging now confront a variety of 'flexible' or 'differentiated' citizenships - plural, performative, and decentered practices of rights claiming mutually defining 'the political', its subjects, and its others on a ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Thalidomide Catastrophe

    How it happened, who was responsible and why the search for justice continues after more than six decades.

    by Martin Johnson, Raymond G. Stokes, Tobias Arndt ...
    “This momentous book is the first comprehensive history of thalidomide…It demonstrates how many thousands of victims could have been spared very late in the day if Chemie Grunenthal had taken any notice of the early alarms: … [It] carries conviction by its scientific rigour, and the clarity of the writing. Fifty years after the deaths and sufferings, the thalidomide tragedy is marked by … the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islam and Popular Culture

    Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, Martin Stokes ...
    Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the “Arab Spring,” while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Istanbul

    Between the Global and the Local

    by Ayfer Bartu, Tanil Bora, Sema Erder, Ayse Oncu, Martin Stokes, Jenny White, Yael Navaro-Yasin ...
    Series series World Social Change
    This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is identified as a battleground between East and West, Islam and secularism. Yet the authors argue that beyond these clichés lies a complex reality as Istanbulites simultaneously try to accommodate, understand, challenge, and shape the sweeping transformations ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • J.S. Bach

    The Complete Cantatas

    by Richard Stokes, Martin Neary ...
    This volume contains parallel texts and translations of all Bach's church and secular cantatas that have come down to us complete. They have been translated into an accurate and readable English style that does not attempt to render the rhythm and rhyme scheme of the original German texts but allows the reader to appreciate the beauty and atmosphere of the poetry set by Bach. The volume also ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers

    AfroSF, #1

    by Nnedi Okorafor, Sarah Lotz, Tendai Huchu, Cristy Zinn, Ashley Jacobs, Nick Wood, Tade Thompson, S.A. Partridge, Chinelo Onwualu, Uko Bendi Udo, Dave de Burgh, Biram Mboob, Sally-Ann Murray, Mandisi Nkomo, Liam Kruger, Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, Joan De La Haye, Mia Arderne, Rafeeat Aliyu, Martin Stokes, Clifton Gachagua, Efe Okogu ...
    Series Book 1 - AfroSF
    AfroSF is the first Pan-African anthology of Science Fiction. It is comprised of original works only, from stellar established and upcoming African writers: Nnedi Okorafor, Sarah Lotz, Tendai Huchu, Cristy Zinn, Ashley Jacobs, Nick Wood, Tade Thompson, S.A. Partridge, Chinelo Onwualu, Uko Bendi Udo, Dave de Burgh, Biram Mboob, Sally-Ann Murray, Mandisi Nkomo, Liam Kruger, Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Celtic Modern

    Music at the Global Fringe

    Edited by Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    The study of 'Celtic' culture has been locked within modern nationalist paradigms, shaped by contemporary media, tourism, and labor migration. Celtic Modern collects critical essays on the global circulation of Celtic music, and the place of music in the construction of Celtic 'Imaginaries'. It provides detailed case studies of the global dimensions of Celtic music in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World

    Essays in Honour of Owen Wright

    Edited by Martin Stokes, Rachel Harris ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    This volume of original essays is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East. Wright’s work, which comprises, at the time of writing, six field-defining volumes and countless articles, has reconfigured the relationship between historical musicology and ethnomusicology. No account of the transformation of these fields in ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Help Yourself!

    A Story of FBI Corruption

    by Martin Kaiser ...
    My first job was with RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. I was assigned to the image conversion lab to assist in designing low light level television pickup tubes. Using one of those tubes I accidentally discovered the light-emitting-diode (LED). Midway through my career with RCA I was sent to Barbados, B.W.I. to develop and install a proof of concept site for the Over-the-Horizon-Radar ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Help Yourself! ... a Story of FBI Corruption

    by Martin L. Kaiser III ...
    Martin L. Kaiser, Inc. was established in 1965 to service all industrial companies in the Baltimore area.One day, the author made a wrong turn after leaving the American Brewery, his favorite customer. He found himself in front of Fort Holabird, the training center for Army intelligence – and the next thing he knew, he was in the spy business.Kaiser began manufacturing intelligence equipment (bugs ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The New (Ethno)musicologies

    by John Baily, Michelle Bigenho, Caroline Bithell, Martin Clayton, Nicholas Cook, Fabian Holt, Laudan Nooshin, Tina K. Ramnarine, Jim Samson, Jonathan P. J. Stock, Martin Stokes, Abigail Wood, Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as "New." What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s or have they also transformed? What directions might or should it take in the new millennium?The New ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    A Tor.Com Original

    by Nnedi Okorafor ...
    Series series A Tor.Com Original
    Nnedi Okorafor's "Hello, Moto" has been adapted by C.J. Obasi into the short film Hello, Rain.There is witchcraft in science and a science to witchcraft. Both will conspire against you eventually in Okorafor's dark fantasy tale, A Tor.com Original.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD