Julia Simon: 11 books

Spontaneity, immediacy and feeling characterize the blues as a genre. Whether it's the movement of call and response, the expressive bends and wails of voice and instruments or the synergistic relationship between audience and performers, the blues embody a kind of "living in the moment" aesthetic....

Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation, engaged in public debates about music, and wrote...

A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work. The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities....

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.”...

Es gibt Spiele, an die erinnert man sich noch Jahre später. Nicht immer sind es großartige Siege – auch schmerzhafte Niederlagen, ein in allerletzter Minute verhinderter Abstieg oder eine für das private Glück schicksalhafte Partie können einen nachträglich ein Leben lang begleiten. Jeder...

Chers lecteurs, à partir de ce mois de septembre 2013, la Revue des Deux Mondes change de présentation. Depuis 1829, les changements ont été nombreux. Pourtant, la plus ancienne revue d’Europe n’a jamais dévié de son cap : décrire, analyser les multiples domaines de la société humaine,...

Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most. What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they...

The first edition received widespread praise, including from eminent scholars such as Gita Sen and Amina Mama (see quotes below) The only book on the subject to cover the Global South as a whole and to bring together such a wide variety of disciplines and approaches. Offers a critical feminist perspective on development. Bridges the gap between development scholarship and feminist activism. 

Nach siebzig Jahren als Teil der Sowjetunion, nach Bürgerkriegsjahren, Unabhängigkeitsbestrebungen und Krieg mit Russland wächst in Georgien heute eine neue Generation heran, die auch in der Literatur neue Töne anschlägt. Dreizehn junge Autorinnen nehmen uns mit auf eine Reise durch Georgien...

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning can leak from past to...

The social and emotional needs of children have become increasingly important to educators in recent years, as the impact they have on improving behaviour and promoting inclusion has become evident. Written in an accessible style for busy practitioners, this book gives advice on creating an...