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  • Emotion and Meaning in Music

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    "Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning."—David Kraehenbuehl, Journal of Music Theory"This is the best study of its kind to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Style and Music

    Theory, History, and Ideology

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others.Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music. ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Music, the Arts, and Ideas

    Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture

    by Leonard B. Meyer ...
    Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967. ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Rings of Continuous Functions

    by Leonard Gillman, Meyer Jerison ...
    Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
    Designed as a text as well as a treatise for active mathematicians, this volume begins with an unusual notice: "The book is addressed to those who know the meaning of each word in the title." As such, it constituted the first systematic account of the theory of rings of continuous functions, and it has retained its secure position as the basic graduate-level book in this area.The authors focus on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How I Predicted the Injury to President Reagan Sixteen Years Before the Event

    by Karl Leonard Meyer S.J. ...
    The prediction was part of a hypothesis seeking to investigate whether God endowed his right to liberty from school attendance and contained in a typewritten letter to the president of the United States in 1965, Lyndon Banes Johnson. Mr. Meyer was nine years old at the time and does not retain a copy of that letter, but remembers its contents due to the scientific knowledge of average survival age ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dracula

    by Bram Stoker, Jeffrey Meyers ...
    Bram Stoker’s gothic horror masterpiece pits good against evil and life against death, all under the thrall of the original vampire....“Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!”He is a creature of darkness. His face deathly pale, his eyes ablaze with the fires of hell. He has been dead for centuries, yet he may never die. He waits in his crumbling castle in the mountains of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Jewish South Jersey

    by Leonard F. Vernon, Allen Meyers ...
    Series series Images of America
    Initial Jewish settlements in South Jersey emerged in the mid-19th century and offered a safe haven for people to re-create strong families and practice religion freely, without fear of government-sponsored violence. Looking for work, German Jews first migrated from their community in Philadelphia to Trenton, and then spread south to Wildwood. Although Jewish settlers were mainly known as ... Read more

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  • Dracula's Guest

    by Bram Stoker ...
    "Dracula's Guest" is a short horror story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. It was first published in 1914, some two years after Stoker's death, as part of the book Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, an anthology of Bram Stoker's short stories selected by his widow Florence.It is widely believed that "Dracula's Guest" was originally intended to be the first chapter of Dracula and was removed ... Read more

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  • The Lair of the White Worm

    by Bram Stoker ...
    What do you get when an Australian finds his way to England? Hair-raising adventures, lots of madness and romance and some demented turns of fate!'The Lair of the White Worm' is a horror tale by Bram Stoker, published in the author's last years. In a world where strange horrors lurk amidst bizarre creatures, the novel follows the life of Adam Salton, a well-off Australian, who is invited by his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lady of the Shroud

    A Vampire Tale – Bram Stoker's Horror Classic

    by Bram Stoker ...
    In 'The Lady of the Shroud,' Bram Stoker weaves a masterful tale of gothic intrigue and supernatural romance, exploring themes of love, duality, and the clash between modernity and tradition. Set against the mystique of the Adriatic, the novel employs a rich, descriptive style while incorporating elements of epistolary structure, which heightens its suspenseful narrative. Stoker infuses the text ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)

    by Suzanne Collins ...
    Series series The Hunger Games
    The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

    by Suzanne Collins ...
    Series Book 1 - The Hunger Games
    This Special Edition of The Hunger Games includes the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of The Hunger Games; an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne Collins and YA legend Walter Dean Myers on writing about war. The Special Edition answers many questions fans have had over the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD