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  • Pick Up the Pieces

    Excursions in Seventies Music

    de John Corbett ...
    Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. With Pick Up the Pieces, John Corbett transports us back in time to this thrillingly tumultuous era through ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation

    de John Corbett ...
    "Hyper-insightful and . . . thoroughly entertaining . . . an essential read for anyone interested in the complex yet accessible world of musical improvisation." —Glenn Kotche, drummer and composer, WilcoImprovisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • West Dickens Avenue

    A Marine at Khe Sanh

    de John Corbett ...
    In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War—and one of the greatest battles in military ... Leer más

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  • Microgroove

    Forays into Other Music

    de John Corbett ...
    Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from oral history and journalistic portraiture to deeply engaged cultural critique. Corbett advocates ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Vinyl Freak

    Love Letters to a Dying Medium

    de John Corbett ...
    From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend’s mind, documenting and reflecting on his decades-long love affair with vinyl. Discussing more than 200 rare and out-of-print LPs, Vinyl Freak is ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Extended Play

    Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein

    de John Corbett ...
    In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. With a special emphasis on African American and European improvisers, the book explores the ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    West Dickens Avenue

    A Marine at Khe Sanh

    de John Corbett ...
    Narrado por Eric Conger ...

    Abreviado

    2 hora 2 minutos

    In January 1968, the 26th Marine Regiment was ordered to a place in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. John Corbett, an untested replacement in a clean, green uniform, and his fellow leathernecks were responsible for building and defending the combat base, and holding positions on the strategic hills overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail as it crossed into Laos and South ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Making Connections

    A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges

    Online collaboration can be a powerful means of encouraging language learners to make connections between their local community and people from other cultural backgrounds. In doing so, learners develop their language skills while exploring different attitudes, values and beliefs. The authors of this book draw on 20 years of participation in numerous online intercultural exchanges to offer teachers ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching

    Series Libro 36 - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. It provides a concise summary of the intellectual and pedagogical traditions that have shaped intercultural language education, from ethnography to critical pedagogy and cultural studies. The book offers clear illustrations of the practical ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • English in Medical Education

    An Intercultural Approach to Teaching Language and Values

    Series Libro 24 - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    This book addresses recent developments in medical and language education. In both fields, there have been methodological shifts towards 'task-based' and 'problem-based learning'. In addition, both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and linguistic skills to address issues of cultural competence. English in Medical Education responds to these changes by re-imagining the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Scotland as Science Fiction

    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    When Helping Hurts

    How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

    Completo

    9 hora 13 minutos

    With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation.Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD