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“philip glass”

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  • Words Without Music

    A Memoir

    by Philip Glass ...
    New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Chicago Tribune Literary AwardFinalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing"Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York TimesPhilip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Philip Glass: The Comlete Piano Etudes

    by Philip Glass ...
    THE TWENTY ETUDES FOR PIANO were composed during the years from 1991 to 2012. Their final configuration into Book 1 and Book 2 was determined by the music itself in the course of its composition.Book 1 (Etudes 110) had a twin objective — to explore a variety of tempi, textures and piano techniques. At the same time it was meant to serve as a pedagogical tool by which I would improve my piano ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Words without Music

    A Memoir

    by Philip Glass ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 6 min

    World-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has almost single-handedly crafted the dominant sound of late twentieth-century classical music. In Words without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice: that of a born storyteller and insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow one to experience the moments of creative fusion when ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Moondog

    by Robert Scotto, Philip Glass ...
    The basis of a full-length documentary."Moondog is one of America’s great originals."-Alan Rich, New York MagazineHere is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century: a blind and homeless man who became the most famous eccentric in New York and who, with enormous diligence, rose to prominence both in major label pop music recordings in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to Tantra

    The Transformation of Desire

    by Lama Thubten Yeshe ...
    What is tantra? Who is qualified to practice it? How should it be practiced? What are the results? According to Buddhism, every human being has the potential to achieve profound and lasting happiness. And according to the tantric teachings of Buddhism, this remarkable transformation can be realized very quickly if we utilize all aspects of our human energy - especially the energy of our desires ... Read more

    $23.00 CAD

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    The Apocalypse Factory

    Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

    by Steve Olson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

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    It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize ... Read more

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    Becoming Ella Fitzgerald

    The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

    by Judith Tick ...
    Narrated by Carmen Jewel Jones ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 55 min

    Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist.Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer's difficult ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Mirror of Great Britain

    A Life of King James VI and I

    by Clare Jackson ...
    Narrated by Emma Gregory ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 20 min

    King James, often overlooked or, more often, cruelly stereotyped, presents a fascinating figure: a diplomat whose long reigns encompassed extraordinary dramas. James identified himself with the "Mirror of Great Britain," a spectacular jewel commissioned upon his accession to the English throne, which not only furnished him with one of his favorite metaphors―that of the mirror, with its limitless ... Read more

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    The Story of Stories

    The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art

    by Kevin Ashton ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    A KIRKUS EARPHONES AWARD WINNERAn irresistible and enchanting journey through human history—from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones—that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never been told until now. MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

    by Richard Bell ...
    Narrated by Richard Bell ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    **WINNER OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE“American history as if from a barstool, not a lecture podium. Giddy, rollicking, and bold.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife"Accessible and impassioned entry to anyone interested in understanding the nation's founding from a dazzling, kaleidoscopic perspective. " —Ned Blackhawk, National Book Award-winning author of The ... Read more

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    Who Owns This Sentence?

    A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

    by David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu ...
    Narrated by David Bellos ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 8 min

    Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed ... Read more

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    The Mattering Instinct

    How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

    by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Kaser ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns with a revelatory book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: the longing to matter.Drawing on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Goldstein argues that this ... Read more

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