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“tommy west”

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  • Audiobook

    Obvious Candidate, The

    Land Your Dream Job, Get Paid More To Do It, and Take Command Of Your Career!

    by Tommy West ...
    Narrated by Tommy West ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 49 min

    WARNING:THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU SO IRRESISTIBLE THAT YOU MAY HAVE TO TURN COMPANIES AWAY!The job search process is BROKEN-the average American job search takes 5 months, the vast majority of applications are never seen by human eyes, and 82% say that searching for a job is extremely stressful.It's an epidemic full of stress, rejection, and guesswork... but it doesn't have to be for you.The Obvious ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hip-Hop and Philosophy

    Rhyme 2 Reason

    by Derrick Darby, Tommie Shelby ...
    Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit - and often explicit - in hip-hop ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    $7.99 USD

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  • Listening through the Noise

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    by Joanna Demers ...
    Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with whether sound, in itself, bears meaning. Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Pretentiousness

    Why It Matters: An Essay

    by Dan Fox ...
    Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that’s making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It’s an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose ... Read more

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  • Transmission and the Individual Remix

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to Kraftwerk. A VINTAGE EBOOK ORIGINAL.Tom McCarthy is one of the most vital young voices in contemporary literature, and in this essay he identifies the signals that have been repeating, pulsing, modulating ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • European Aesthetics

    A Critical Introduction from Kant to Derrida

    by Robert Wicks ...
    The only book to cover the evolution of one of the most important areas of philosophyThe birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason. But as science flourished in Europe, violence and brutality did not abate. In the French Revolution, thousands were guillotined and the death toll was vast. Philosophers asked whether we had become dehumanised by rationality and ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey

    Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination

    Edited by Azucena Cruz-Pierre, Dr Donald A. Landes ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy
    From his initial writings on imagination and memory, to his recent studies of the glance and the edge, the work of American philosopher Edward S. Casey continues to shape 20th-century philosophy. In this first study dedicated to his rich body of work, distinguished scholars from philosophy, urban studies and architecture as well as artists engage with Casey's research and ideas to explore the key ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Taste

    Food and Philosophy

    by Carolyn Korsmeyer ...
    Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human experience, and they continually inspire writers and artists. Carolyn Korsmeyer explains how taste came to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful

    by Edmund Burke ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity until the eighteenth century, and replaced metaphysics with psychology and even ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Sublime in Modern Philosophy

    Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature

    by Emily Brady ...
    In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and ... Read more

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  • Michael Fried and Philosophy

    Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality

    Edited by Mathew Abbott ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, and anti-theatricality can throw new light on problems in and beyond philosophical aesthetics. ... Read more

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