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  • The Devil in the Bush

    de Matthew Head ...
    Series Libro 1 - Dr. Mary Finney
    A missionary doctor is on the hunt for a killer in the Belgian Congo in this 1945 mystery series debut exploring WWII-era Colonial Africa.World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo, the biggest problem is finding a cold beer. That's the case, at least, for Hooper Taliaferro, a U.S. government gofer sent to Africa on a vague errand related to the war effort. What he ... Leer más

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  • Murder at the Flea Club

    de Matthew Head ...
    Series Libro 4 - Dr. Mary Finney
    A medical missionary in post-WWII Paris is out to solve the murder of a nightclub singer in this 1955 mystery by the author of The Devil in the Bush.Paris at the height of its post-War chic is a far cry from the African backwaters that Hoop Taliaferro has been calling home. But with his American charm and American dollars, he fits in anywhere. He especially fits in at the Flea Club, a naughty ... Leer más

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  • The Congo Venus

    de Matthew Head ...
    Series Libro 3 - Dr. Mary Finney
    When a Belgian beauty dies in the Congo, "sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Dr. Mary Finney" is on the case in this "witty, well-written" mystery from 1950 ( The New York Times).It doesn't take a lot to be the belle of the expat community in Leopoldville, a tiny outpost in the Belgian Congo. A pulse and a pair of pumps will do the trick. Liliane Morelli brought more than that to the party, but it ... Leer más

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  • The Cabinda Affair

    de Matthew Head ...
    Series Libro 2 - Dr. Mary Finney
    The author of The Devil in the Bush returns to Colonial Africa in a mystery that is "at once an absorbing whodunit and a distinguished novel of atmosphere" ( The New York Times).World War II is over but US gofer Hooper Taliaferro is still in Africa, typing up Uncle Sam's loose ends. The latest end is in Cabinda, a tiny Portuguese colony with gaily painted buildings and a history of slave-trading. ... Leer más

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  • The Accomplice

    A Novel of Suspense

    de Matthew Head ...
    The Accomplice, first published in 1947 as part of the Inner Sanctum Suspense Specials, is a psychological crime thriller in the mode of Ruth Rendell or Patricia Highsmith. The plot centers on Hank Bewley, studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, who meets an attractive young woman, Corrie Waters, and her breathtakingly handsome boyfriend, Lex Abbott. The events that transpire follow a sordid and ... Leer más

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  • Sovereign Feminine

    Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany

    de Matthew Head ...
    In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Orientalism, Masquerade and Mozart's Turkish Music

    de Matthew Head ...
    Series series Royal Musical Association Monographs
    Matthew Head explores the cultural meanings of Mozart's Turkish music in the composer's 18th-century context, in subsequent discourses of Mozart's significance for 'Western' culture, and in today's (not entirely) post-colonial world. Unpacking the ideological content of Mozart's numerous representations of Turkey and Turkish music, Head locates the composer's exoticisms in shifting power relations ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • The House With Two Front Doors

    de Matthew Head ...
    Have you ever seen an abandoned house in the countryside and wondered how it came to be in such a state of disrepair? Have you ever looked at such a house from a distance and felt, for some unexplainable reason, that you really don’t want to go inside it? The house with two front doors is just such a house. In the summer of 1954 Peter Smith takes his best friend George Bedford on a typical ... Leer más

    $1.33 USD

  • Howard Skempton: Conversations and Reflections on Music

    de Esther Cavett, Esther Cavett, Matthew Head, Matthew Head, Heather Wiebe, Howard Skempton, Pwyll Ap Siôn ...
    Howard Skempton has contributed to British musical life for more than half a century, as composer, performer and commentator. His music is characterised by simplicity yet sophistication and is appreciated by lay and specialist listeners in equal measure. Skempton studied in London with Cornelius Cardew in the late 1960s, co-founding the Scratch Orchestra, and has written over 600 pieces since then ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Bane of Bernicia

    de Matthew Harffy ...
    Series Libro 11 - The Bernicia Chronicles
    PREORDER BANE OF BERNICIA NOW - THE THRILLING NEW BERNICIA CHRONICLES ADVENTURE!Anglo-Saxon warlord Beobrand must navigate the caprices of kings as he fights for his honour and his life. The unmissable new Bernicia Chronicles novel from Matthew Harffy.Returning from a dangerous mission to Rome, warlord Beobrand looks forward to peace at home, but bloodshed remains his constant companion.While ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • For Lord and Land

    a thrilling novel about the fight for supremacy between two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms

    de Matthew Harffy ...
    Series Libro 8 - The Bernicia Chronicles
    THE UNMISSABLE NEW BERNICIA CHRONICLES NOVEL, BANE OF BERNICIA, AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW!Greed and ambition threaten to tear the north of Anglo-Saxon England apart in this exciting historical adventure.AD 651. War rages between the two kingdoms of Northumbria. Kin is pitted against kin and friend becomes foe as ambitious rulers vie for supremacy.When warlord Beobrand of Ubbanford travels south ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The World Beyond Your Head

    On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

    de Matthew B. Crawford ...
    In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind.We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD