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  • Transformatnl Theory Aesthetcs

    by Michael Stephan, Trevor Pateman ...
    First Published in 1990. How we perceive and respond to the visual image has been a traditional concern of psychologists, philosophers and art historians. Today, where the visual image increasingly permeates our everyday life and consciousness, the question becomes ever more relevant. How do we, for instance, instinctively ‘know’ what it is that a picture represents without having to be taught? ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Experiencing Ornette Coleman

    A Listener's Companion

    by Michael Stephans ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    Saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ornette Coleman, along with pianist Cecil Taylor, was one of the founding forces of the Free Jazz movement which took the music world by storm in the 1950s and 60s. His brilliance as an instrumentalist at first positioned him as a polarizing figure, but eventually brought him recognition as an American original and international jazz ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Experiencing Jazz

    A Listener's Companion

    by Michael Stephans ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener’s Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying listening experience with an extensive range in structure and form, from the syncopated swing of big bands ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • A Transformation Theory of Aesthetics

    by Michael Stephan ...
    This book develops a theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental changes, or transformations. It is essential reading to those seriously involved in linking the arts and cognitive sciences. ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Lifestyle Medicine

    Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease

    Edited by Andrew Binns, Stephan Rossner, Michael Sagner, Garry Egger ...
    Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases—primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles—in contrast to the microbial 'causes' of infectious disease. Our lifestyle choices have a profound ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Admirers, Fanciers and Devotees

    The Early History of Fandom

    Edited by Daniel Cavicchi, Stephan Michael Schröder ...
    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    This book offers the first multidisciplinary perspective on the formation and practices of fandoms before the term 'fan' was borrowed from the world of sport to describe enthusiastic filmgoers in the 1910s. The focus is on nineteenth-century theatre, opera and literature, where fannish audiences were indispensable participants in the emerging cult of celebrity surrounding actors, opera singers and ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Conqueror's Realm

    by Stephan Michael Loy ...
    In the mid-twenty-first century, the United States goes through a fundamental change. White people are now only the largest minority in America. Will they surrender power to the coalition to follow, or fight "to keep what's theirs"? So begins a terrible, violent game of chess played for the heart and soul of a nation.Welcome to the world of Steve Tallman, the driven producer of a celebrated news ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XVIII

    18th International Conference, PPSN 2024, Hagenberg, Austria, September 14–18, 2024, Proceedings, Part I

    Edited by Michael Affenzeller, Stephan M. Winkler, Anna V. Kononova, Heike Trautmann, Tea Tušar, Penousal Machado, Thomas Bäck ...
    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This multi-volume LNCS set, LNCS 15148-15151, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2024, held in Hagenberg, Austria, in September 2024.The 101 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 294 submissions. The papers presented in these four volumes are organized in the ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD

  • Open Systems: Physics, Metaphysics, and Methodology

    by Michael E. Cuffaro, Stephan Hartmann ...
    Scientific and philosophical inquiry often assumes that systems can be studied in isolation, yet real-world systems are never truly closed. They constantly interact with their environment, exchanging energy, information, and matter. This openness challenges fundamental assumptions about determinism, causality, and emergence, raising profound questions about how we model, explain, and understand ... Read more

    $68.49 CAD

  • On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer

    The Pinkerton Files, Volume 1

    by Stephans, Michael ...
    In On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer, author Michael Stephans has created a rich, multifaceted paean to jazz icon Bob Brookmeyer, the much beloved musical genius who passed away in 2011, four days short of his 82nd birthday. On the Way to the Sky is a hybrid book in that it’s part memoir, part biography, with over a dozen essays by such luminaries as Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Early Vascular Aging (EVA)

    New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection

    Edited by Pedro Guimarães Cunha, Pierre Boutouyrie, Michael Hecht Olsen, Peter M Nilsson, Stephane Laurent ...
    Early Vascular Aging (EVA): New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection, Second Edition continues to be the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on premature alterations in artery structure and function. The book presents a novel approach to the problem of cardiovascular disease, showing it in relation to great vessels disease and revealing a comprehensive approach to the problem of ... Read more

    $150.39 CAD

  • Comrades and Brothers

    Communism and Trade Unions in Europe

    Edited by Michael Waller, Stéphane Courtois, Marc Lazar ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions
    Originally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries. The first part of the book deals with cases of communist strength, where the communist part had close links with a particular trade union (France, Italy, Spain). The second part looks at cases where social ... Read more

    $64.57 CAD