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Uncanny Magazine Issue 20
January/February 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The January/February 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Elizabeth Bear, S.B. Divya, Arkady Martine, Marissa Lingen, Sunny Moraine, Vivian Shaw, and R.K. Kalaw, reprinted fiction by Vandana Singh, essays by Fran Wilde, John Wiswell, Iori Kusano, Rebecca...
From Boulanger to Stockhausen
Interviews and a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Bálint András Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively snippets from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. The interviewees...
by Bálint András Varga
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences or from, say, the natural world? What influences, past and present, have influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style, and when does this degenerate into self-repetition? These are questions...
Rock Music in American Popular Culture II
More Rock ¿n¿ Roll Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
From “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)?” to a list of all song titles containing the word “werewolf,” Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources continues where 1995’s Volume I left off. Using references and illustrations drawn from contemporary...
The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste
Reflections on New Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is...
by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Montague Rhodes James
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
This volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Asquith, Cynthia: “The Corner Shop” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Benson, E. F.: “The Face” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Bierce, Ambrose: “The Middle Toe of the...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
All Monsters Must Die
An Excursion to North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung.
In 1978, North Korea celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding, and Kim Jong-il, who at the time is the head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, orders the kidnapping of the greatest South...
by Joshua Palmatier, David B. Coe, Faith Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
What does it mean to be “temporally deactivated?”
Experience a historical moment through the intervention of a time travel agency. Be trapped inside a time bubble—willingly—so that you can save the universe from Darkness over and over again. Step outside of time at the order of your...
Shattered
A Collection of Dark Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Shattered; A Collection of Dark Poetry and Prose, is a poignant collection that revives the age-old art of writing poetry. S. B. Lacroixs unique writing style breathes life into words that bleed with emotion.
The reader is taken on a poetic journey where the somber side of the human condition...
Mixed Race 3.0
Risk and Reward in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Have you been asked, "what nationality are you" or "what country are you from"?Have you been puzzled when forms tell you to "select only one ethnicity"?Have you been disturbed to hear that you’re the "face of a colorblind future"?If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this book is for...
All About Words
Increasing Vocabulary in the Common Core Classroom, Pre K-2
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inaugural title in the Common Core State Standards for Literacy Series, edited by Susan B. Neuman and D. Ray Reutzel.
Vocabulary forms a relentless divide between children who succeed and those who do not. This divide is often between poor children and their privileged counterparts. Without...
Light on Life
The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
B.K.S. Iyengar--hailed as "the Michelangelo of yoga" (BBC) and considered by many to be one of the most important yoga masters--has spent much of his life introducing the modern world to the ancient practice of yoga. Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance as an exercise for physical...
September 11 in History
A Watershed Moment?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had “changed everything” permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations....