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  • Auguste Comte: Volume 3

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Mary Pickering ...
    Series series Auguste Comte Intellectual Biography
    This volume continues to explore the life and works of Auguste Comte during his so-called second career. It covers the period from the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon in late 1851 to Comte's death in 1857. During these early years of the Second Empire, Comte became increasingly conservative and anxious to control his disciples. This study offers the first study of the tensions within his movement. ... Read more

    $96.79 USD

  • Piano and Song

    Enriched edition. How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

    by Friedrich Wieck, Kelsey Bates ...
    Translated by Mary Pickering Nichols ...
    In "Piano and Song," Friedrich Wieck offers an insightful exploration of the intimate relationship between piano performance and vocal expression, advocating for a harmonious integration of musical elements. This pedagogical text, reflecting the Romantic era's emphasis on emotive expression, serves as both a practical guide for pianists and a philosophical treatise on the nature of music-making. ... Read more

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  • Piano and Song

    How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances

    by Friedrich Wieck ...
    Translated by Mary Pickering Nichols ...
    In "Piano and Song," Friedrich Wieck masterfully intertwines the intricacies of pianistic technique with the emotive power of song composition. This seminal work offers a profound exploration of the relationship between piano performance and vocal melody, emphasizing the importance of a symbiotic interaction in music-making. Wieck's literary style is both didactic and reflective, enriched by his ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Shadow Lab, Volume Three

    by Brendan Deneen, Jeff Abbott, Jamie Brenner, Adam Chromy, Ed Cho, Richie Frieman, Arin Greenwood, Marie Hoy-Kenny, Joanna Pickering, Elizabeth Wanic0, various authors1, Lee Matthew Goldberg3, Tyrone Thomas4 ...
    Narrated by various narrators2 ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Shadow Lab Anthologies

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    A stunning collection of ten thrilling short stories, it’s Shadow Lab, Volume Three!In The Henchman’s Wife—by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott—a woman’s husband is killed protecting an ungrateful Russian crime boss, so the quiet, unassuming widow decides to find the killer and take her own brand of revenge.In Gold Party by USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner and Adam Chromy, a ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

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  • Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific

    Transnational Lives, Human Rights and State Control

    by Claudia Tazreiter, Leanne Weber, Sharon Pickering, Marie Segrave, Helen McKernan ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the experiences of temporary migrants in the Asia-Pacific region. It develops the original concept of 'fluid security' to analyse the way in which persons carry a set of tools, strategies and attitudes across spatial, temporal and imagined borders. This concept applies a mobilities lens to human security in order to take into account the aspirations and needs of mobile ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Love, Order, and Progress

    The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte

    Edited by Michel Bourdeau, Mary Pickering, Warren Schmaus ...
    Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on positive or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations associated with the ancien regime. This volume offers the most comprehensive English-language overview of Auguste Comte's philosophy, the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Shivery Shades of Halloween

    by Mary McKenna Siddals ...
    Illustrated by Jimmy Pickering ...
    A rollicking, rhyming Halloween romp—in every color!What color is Halloween? Why, it’s as green as an “eerie glow, evil grin, vile brew, clammy skin,” as white as “cobwebs clinging, a misty trail, a skull, a spook, a face gone pale . . .” Children will learn their colors as they follow a cute little creature on his adventure through haunted halls, moonlit forests . . . perhaps even a Halloween ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Shivery Shades of Halloween: Read & Listen Edition

    by Mary McKenna Siddals ...
    Illustrated by Jimmy Pickering ...
    A rollicking, rhyming Halloween romp—in every color!What color is Halloween? Why, it’s as green as an “eerie glow, evil grin, vile brew, clammy skin,” as white as “cobwebs clinging, a misty trail, a skull, a spook, a face gone pale . . .” Children will learn their colors as they follow a cute little creature on his adventure through haunted halls, moonlit forests . . . perhaps even a Halloween ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Auguste Comte

    by Mike Gane ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure.Comte’s contributions to the history and philosophy of science have decisively influenced positive ... Read more

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  • The Romantic Machine

    Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon

    by John Tresch ...
    In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What is Literature for?

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 30 November 2006

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literature”, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The End of the Soul

    Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

    by Jennifer Hecht ...
    On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD