A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.
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Author:Byrne, DavidSummary: - Author:Ridley, MattSummary:
Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience...
- Author:Mohr, MelissaSummary:
Holy Sh*t tells the story of two kinds of swearing--obscenities and oaths--from ancient Rome and the Bible to today. With humor and insight, Melissa Mohr takes readers on a journey to discover how "swearing" has come to include both...
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Author:Cavanagh, Sarah RoseSummary:We have always been a social species, and the advent of social media has amplified these tendencies. This can be positive, but it can also create political polarization and promote conspiracy theories. Cavanagh leaves no stone unturned...
- Author:Azoulay, DanSummary:
What was romance like for Canadians a century ago? What qualities did marriageable men and women look for in prospective mates? How did they find suitable partners in difficult circumstances such as frontier isolation and parental...
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In GUSH, more than 100 women and nonbinary writers from Canada and around the world take apart the bloody instruction of menstruation: its cultures, its lessons, its equipment, and its lexicon. Co-edited by Ariel Gordon, Tanis MacDonald...
- Author:Steinman, JonSummary:
Makes a compelling case for how food co-ops, as alternatives to corporate grocery giants, are spurring the creation of delicious local food economies and stronger communities, while changing the global food system for the better. 2019...
- Author:Vee, JimmySummary:
Marketing gurus Jimmy Vee and Travis Miller team with Infotainment maven Joel Bauer to provide listeners a breakthrough program for attracting new customers with minimal effort. It's impossible to get new customers without hard-selling...
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Author:Campbell, Robert A.Summary:Governance and Social Leadership examines the inadequacies of current theories on leadership in order to help us better understand the process of leadership and to suggest mechanisms for change. The proliferation of examples of poor...
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Author:Droyd, AnnSummary:In the bright buzzing room, it is time to power down. Here is a modern bedtime story about bidding our gadgets goodnight. Don't worry, though. They'll be waiting for us, fully charged, in the morning.
- Author:Crook, ChristinaSummary:
It’s time we choose joy over fear. Empowerment over anxiety. JOMO over FOMO. How do we get there? By taking up good burdens. The things we’re most proud of in life—the child we’re raising; the marathon we completed; the major project we...
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Author:Wermuth, Laurie Ann.Summary:This book uses a critical theoretical perspective to explore the links between social variables like race, class, and gender, and the health of populations around the world.Global Inequality and Human Needs includes case studies from...
- Author:Hanley, Charles J.Summary:
The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning seventy years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history and the root of a nuclear crisis that grips the world to this day. In this vivid, emotionally...
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Author:Wright, Jennifer AshleySummary:Throughout history, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the plagues they've suffered. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome and morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history as well as the stories of the heroic...
- Author:Frost, MarkSummary:
Frost takes listeners back to the 1975 World Series in this thrilling account of the greatest baseball game ever played. The Reds and Red Sox endured three soggy days of inactivity to reach game six. But all that downtime could not...
- Author:Roose, KevinSummary:
The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. Robots...
- Author:Hernandez, JessicaSummary:
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American...
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Author:Rambukkana, NathanSummary:Adultery scandals involving politicians. Dating websites for married women and men. News reports on raids of polygamous communities. It seems that non-monogamy is everywhere: in popular culture, in the news, and before the courts....
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Author:Butler, JudithSummary:"In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to...
- Author:Epstein, AlexSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energyFor over a decade, philosopher and energy expert...
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