Jon's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:49:07 -0700 60 Jon's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Truth and Method 213142 Truth and Method is Gadamer's magnum opus. An astonishing synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, theology, the theory of law and classical scholarship, it is undoubtedly one of the most important texts in twentieth century philosophy. Looking behind the self-consciousness of science, he discusses the tense relationship between truth and methodology. In examining the different experiences of truth, he aims to "present the hermeneutic phenomenon in its fullest extent."]]> 640 Hans-Georg Gadamer 082647697X Jon 5 4.15 1960 Truth and Method
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This book will mean many things to many readers. An important, insightful, erudite, kaleidoscopic text, Gadamer's book has already become indispensable to this reader in all matters of human creativity. In fact, Truth and Method has led the way to other Gadamer texts, such as The Enigma of Health, and others. Really great book.
]]> <![CDATA[Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re-Discovering Antiquity Through The Dreams Of Poliphilus]]> 790953 256 Esteban Alejandro Cruz 1412053242 Jon 0 to-read 4.20 2006 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re-Discovering Antiquity Through The Dreams Of Poliphilus
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]]> <![CDATA[The Books of Enoch: A Complete Volume Containing 1 Enoch (The Ethiopic Book of Enoch), 2 Enoch (The Slavonic Secrets of Enoch), 3 Enoch (The Hebrew Book of Enoch)]]> 9377025 The First Book of Enoch (The Ethiopic Book of Enoch)
The Second Book of Enoch (The Slavonic Secrets of Enoch)
The Third Book of Enoch (The Hebrew Book of Enoch)
The Book of Fallen Angels, The Watchers, and the Origins of Evil:
With Expanded Commentary on Enoch, Angels, Prophecies and Calendars in the Sacred Texts -

The Books of Enoch: A Complete Volume Containing - 1 Enoch (The Ethiopic Book of Enoch), 2 Enoch (The Slavonic Secrets of Enoch), 3 Enoch (The Hebrew Book of Enoch). Now, the major books making up the body of Enochian literature are presented to the public in a single volume. Joseph Lumpkin is the author of the best-selling work, "The Lost Book of Enoch." His work on both 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch have met with wide acceptance and plaudits. Now Lumpkin has completed his work on The Third Book of Enoch. 3 Enoch has not been available to the general public for over eighty years. His previous releases of 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch are placed along side The Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch,) which has been translated using Hebrew source materials and contains "in-text" commentary. This expansive volume contains copious notes and commentaries in all three books, designed to guide the reader through the difficulties of language, theology, and mystical references. It is a necessary resource for those curious about Angels, Demons, Watchers, Nephilim, Melchizedek, the angel Metatron, or the Merkabah (chariot of God). This volume is an indispensable resource for those engaged in the study of religion, religious history, angelology, demonology, mysticism or the Kabbalah.
]]> 440 Enoch Jon 0 to-read 4.17 -300 The Books of Enoch: A Complete Volume Containing 1 Enoch (The Ethiopic Book of Enoch), 2 Enoch (The Slavonic Secrets of Enoch), 3 Enoch (The Hebrew Book of Enoch)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process]]> 486012
While focusing on the process and the stories behind specific works, the composers also touch on topics that will interest anyone involved in creative work. They discuss teachers and mentors, the task of revision, relationships with performers, and the ongoing struggle for a balance between freedom and discipline.

They reveal sources of inspiration, artistic goals, and the often unexpected ways their musical ideas develop. Some describe personal tonal systems; others discuss the impact of computers and other electronic tools on their work; still others reflect philosophically on the inner impulses and outer influences that continue to drive them.

While serious music has a reputation for being difficult and inaccessible, The Muse That Sings provides a powerful antidote. The composers in this book speak clearly and thoughtfully in response to key questions of concern to all readers interested in contemporary music.

Each interview has been edited to stand alone as a concise meditation on muse and technique, and the book includes selected discographies as well as brief biographical sketches.

Anyone with an interest in twentieth-century music or in the creative process will find this lively collection a valuable source of inspiration and insight.]]> 288 Ann McCutchan 0195168127 Jon 0 currently-reading 4.44 1999 The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process
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]]> Being and Time 92307 589 Martin Heidegger 0060638508 Jon 5 4.04 1927 Being and Time
author: Martin Heidegger
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1927
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]]> <![CDATA[The World According to Wavelets: The Story of a Mathematical Technique in the Making]]> 552299 352 Barbara Burke Hubbard 1568810725 Jon 0 3.71 1996 The World According to Wavelets: The Story of a Mathematical Technique in the Making
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]]> The Death of Virgil 27426
Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem - and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.]]> 493 Hermann Broch 0679755489 Jon 3 4.15 1945 The Death of Virgil
author: Hermann Broch
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1945
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology]]> 605456
Cover illustration by Susana Krause]]> 211 Paul Radin 0805203516 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 3.84 1954 The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology
author: Paul Radin
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average rating: 3.84
book published: 1954
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life]]> 28257707 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited�"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.]]> 212 Mark Manson Jon 0 to-read 3.87 2016 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization]]> 360876
In this engaging and accessible account, Stuart Isacoff leads us through the battles over that scale, placing them in the context of quarrels in the worlds of art, philosophy, religion, politics and science. The contentious adoption of the modern tuning system known as equal temperament called into question beliefs that had lasted nearly two millenia–and also made possible the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, and all who followed. Filled with original insights, fascinating anecdotes, and portraits of some of the greatest geniuses of all time, Temperament is that rare book that will delight the novice and expert alike.]]> 288 Stuart Isacoff 0375703306 Jon 0 to-read 3.87 2001 Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
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]]> <![CDATA[The Other World, According to Descriptions in Medieval Literature]]> 6112343 0 Howard Rollin Patch 0374962898 Jon 0 to-read 4.20 1950 The Other World, According to Descriptions in Medieval Literature
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]]> <![CDATA[Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella]]> 1337430 256 D.P. Walker 0271020458 Jon 0 to-read 3.78 1958 Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hero With a Thousand Faces]]> 588138
Myth, according to Campbell, is the projection of a culture's dreams onto a large screen; Campbell's book, like Star Wars, the film it helped inspire, is an exploration of the big-picture moments from the stage that is our world. It is a must-have resource for both experienced students of mythology and the explorer just beginning to approach myth as a source of knowledge.]]> 416 Joseph Campbell 0691017840 Jon 0 4.15 1949 The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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]]> <![CDATA[Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing]]> 155329 310 Rosemary Radford Ruether 0060669675 Jon 0 to-read 4.05 1992 Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
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]]> Pedagogy of the Oppressed 72657 Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.]]> 183 Paulo Freire 0826412769 Jon 4 4.30 1968 Pedagogy of the Oppressed
author: Paulo Freire
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]]> People with Holes 15714830 262 Heather Fowler 9780982991 Jon 5 3.92 2012 People with Holes
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]]> Beautiful Ape Girl Baby 29520549
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BEAUTIFUL APE GIRL BABY

"Unique and hilarious! I laughed my ass off."
Lauren Becker, author of If I Would Leave Myself Behind

"Heather Fowler is a magician and she proves it once again with this rollicking and wonderfully subversive debut novel. Like her acclaimed short fiction, Beautiful Ape Girl Baby is bursting with energy and wit, humor and heart, cutting social commentary and evocative emotional depth. It’s the kind of book that burns, leaves a mark, and reminds you of the possibilities of fiction."
Andrew Roe, author of The Miracle Girl

"Fowler has written something impossible and brilliant: Confederacy of Dunces meets Mighty Joe Young meets Pantagruel meets Heathers. I have never read anything like this book, and I'm always thankful for the few times as a reader I get to say that. So thankful for the funny, fierce, feminist words of Heather Fowler."
Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and Other Short Stories and the collection May We Shed These Human Bodies

"A dark gleaming star of a novel--wild, visceral, yet full of innocence. Fowler never fails to make the strange beautiful, and all that we're told should be beautiful deliciously strange."
Angela Readman, Winner of the Rubery Book Award

"What happens when magical realism meets feminism? Heather Fowler''s tour de force of a novel, that’s what. Although drawing inspiration from a rich tradition that includes Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carolyn Forché, and more recently, Emily Capettini, Ms. Fowler has created an fully realized imaginative world that is entirely her own. At turns darkly humorous and deadly serious, this novel offers an incisive and powerful presentation of gender as socially constructed, an arbitrary and chance assemblage of cultural norms. As the book unfolds, Ms. Fowler harnesses the resources of the literary arts to build, piece by piece, a more just society. Heather Fowler is a writer to watch."
Kristina Marie Darling, author of Scorched Altar: Selected Poems & Stories 2007-2014

"In Beautiful Ape Girl Baby Heather Fowler has crafted a new, loopy, adult Grimm’s Fairy Tale. As audacious as all her fiction, this new book cuts a little deeper; its cleverness carries wit, fancy, and a searching, searing romanticism, all as lightly as a
basket for grandma. There’s love, there’s conflict, there’s bittersweet romance, there’s magic. Heather Fowler is an enchantress. I’d follow her ape baby anywhere."
Corey Mesler, author of Memphis Movie and Robert Walker

"With so much fiction being derivative these days, what Fowler has done with Beautiful Ape Girl Baby is truly sui generis. The life of Beautiful is both a romp through the life of an unconventional heroine (and at times anti-heroine), trying to be herself in a world that is often at odds with her desires and sensibilities--and an instruction manual on the rewards of being true to oneself at all costs. While Beautiful's antics are many and she often finds herself in the throes of the "toska," she possesses wit, charm and a heart full of scar tissue, but is always, in her own, way triumphant. It's a wild romp and well worth it!"
Michelle Reale, author of The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance and If All They Had Were Their Bodies

"To read Heather Fowler’s Beautiful Ape Girl Baby is to be invited into the lucid dream of a brilliant mind. It might be easier to call this magic realism or even a modern fable, but there is something else at play here that, for me, is not captured in those phrases. There is the beauty of nightmares in this book, with the tender, profound truth of humanity at its core."
Grant Bailie, author of Cloud 8, Mortarville, and TomorrowLand.]]> 295 Heather Fowler 193905611X Jon 5 currently-reading 4.11 Beautiful Ape Girl Baby
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]]> <![CDATA[Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World]]> 64895 294 Mark Kurlansky 0099268701 Jon 0 3.92 1997 Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters]]> 18378020 240 Robert Pinsky 0393348970 Jon 0 3.59 2013 Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
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]]> <![CDATA[The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary]]> 25019 The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.]]> 242 Simon Winchester 0060839783 Jon 5 3.84 1998 The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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]]> <![CDATA[The Culture of Fashion. A New History of Fashionable Dress (Studies in Design)]]> 1350151 244 Christopher Breward 0719041252 Jon 5 3.58 1995 The Culture of Fashion. A New History of Fashionable Dress (Studies in Design)
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average rating: 3.58
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[The Second Life Of Art: selected essays of Eugenio Montale]]> 2062966 354 Eugenio Montale 0912946849 Jon 0 3.62 1982 The Second Life Of Art: selected essays of Eugenio Montale
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Awesome collection of essays by this brilliant writer. Well worth it.
]]> <![CDATA[Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience]]> 412794 256 Henry David Thoreau 0451523776 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 3.57 1849 Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry]]> 165081 The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts are a strong misreading of those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of criticism and post-structuralist literary theory. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.

Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorable quotations, this second edition of Bloom's classic work maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded - neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics. A new introduction, centering upon Shakespeare and Marlowe explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking, and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past quarter of a century.]]> 204 Harold Bloom 0195112210 Jon 0 blood-hunger-child 3.77 1973 The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
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]]> A Map of Misreading 376411
For the first time, in a new preface, Bloom will consider the map of misreading drawn by contemporary poets such as Ann Carson and Henri Cole. Bloom's new exploration of contemporary poetry over the last twenty years will illuminate how modern texts relate to previous texts, and contribute to the literary legacy of their predecessors.]]> 240 Harold Bloom 0195162218 Jon 0 blood-hunger-child 3.78 1975 A Map of Misreading
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]]> <![CDATA[Perfume: The Story of a Murderer]]> 343 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.]]> 263 Patrick Süskind Jon 4 blood-hunger-child 4.05 1985 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[The World as Will and Representation, Volume II]]> 445747 For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration. In 1958, a new translation by E. F. J. Payne appeared which decisively supplanted the older one. Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr. Arthur HĂĽbscher. Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotatioins in half a dozen languages, and Mr. Payne has provided a comprehensive index of 2,500 items. It is thus the most useful edition for the student or teacher.]]> 720 Arthur Schopenhauer 0486217620 Jon 5 4.24 1844 The World as Will and Representation, Volume II
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]]> <![CDATA[Music and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations (Iannis Xenakis)]]> 2325423 337 Iannis Xenakis 1576471071 Jon 4 blood-hunger-child 4.39 2007 Music and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations (Iannis Xenakis)
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[Fragrance: The Story of Perfume from Cleopatra to Chanel]]> 176369 This book is more than a historical overview of one of the world's oldest industries, although it's comprehensive, well-researched, and scrupulously accurate in its details. Neither is it just a book of pretty pictures, even though it's abundantly illustrated with lovely drawings and photographs that include every variety of perfume bottle, ads, paintings, as well as famous (and infamous) figures. Fragrance pursues its subject's very essence, with a rich panoply of insights that ranges from the botanical origins of fragrant oils and the role of aromatics in economic and religious life to the ways in which scents influence behavior and chemists extract, preserve, and reproduce fragrances. A fascinating stirring of the senses.]]> 320 Edwin T. Morris 0486426726 Jon 3 blood-hunger-child 3.71 2002 Fragrance: The Story of Perfume from Cleopatra to Chanel
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]]> Classical Music, Why Bother? 1051713 180 Joshua Fineberg 0415971748 Jon 4 blood-hunger-child 3.64 2006 Classical Music, Why Bother?
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average rating: 3.64
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]]> Rhythm and Transforms 1711047 William A. Sethares 1846286395 Jon 0 to-read 4.83 2007 Rhythm and Transforms
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]]> If I Am A Musical Thinker 2547116 56 Benjamin Boretz 0882680021 Jon 5 4.67 1984 If I Am A Musical Thinker
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]]> OPEN SPACE 12/13 12977651
We want to create a hospitable space for texts which, in one way or another, might feel somewhat marginal � or too 'under construction' � for other, kindred publications.

The people who populate our contributing/editing/reading/listening community are composers (in whatever medium), performers, historians, ethnologists, theorists, critics, philosophers, scholars and seekers of any kind who feel drawn to participate with us in scouting expressive frontiers. We hope you'll want to join this exchange.

This is double issue 12/13 of this ongoing series.]]> 293 Benjamin Boretz Jon 5 4.67 2011 OPEN SPACE 12/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Spectral Music 1: History and Techniques (Contemporary Music Review)]]> 3365725 100 Joshua Fineberg 9057551314 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.60 Spectral Music 1: History and Techniques (Contemporary Music Review)
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]]> <![CDATA[Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpos]]> 3642124 260 Wande Abimbda 1890157007 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 3.92 1997 Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpos
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> <![CDATA[Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory]]> 1154325 239 Houston A. Baker Jr. 0226035387 Jon 4 blood-hunger-child 3.70 1985 Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
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average rating: 3.70
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell]]> 14515 224 Luca Turin 0061133833 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 3.73 2006 The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
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average rating: 3.73
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]]> Perfumes: The A-Z Guide 6094265 The Emperor of Scent) and Tania Sanchez exalt, wisecrack, and scold through their reviews with passion, eloquence, and erudition, making this book a must-have for anyone looking for a brilliant fragrance—or just a brilliant read.]]> 640 Luca Turin 0143115014 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.30 2008 Perfumes: The A-Z Guide
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]]> Poetry As Discourse 1408222 192 Antony Easthope 0416327303 Jon 3 blood-hunger-child 3.46 1983 Poetry As Discourse
author: Antony Easthope
name: Jon
average rating: 3.46
book published: 1983
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism]]> 711651 Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition's theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system for
interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. His critical approach relies heavily on the Signifying Monkey--perhaps the most popular figure in African-American folklore--and signification and Signifyin(g).
Exploring signification in black American life and literature by analyzing the transmission and revision of various signifying figures, Gates provides an extended analysis of what he calls the "Talking Book," a central trope in early slave narratives that virtually defines the tradition of
black American letters. Gates uses this critical framework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God , Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man , and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo --revealing how these works signify on the black
tradition and on each other.
The second volume in an enterprising trilogy on African-American literature, The Signifying Monkey --which expands the arguments of Figures in Black --makes an important contribution to literary theory, African-American literature, folklore, and literary history.]]> 290 Henry Louis Gates Jr. 019506075X Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.01 1988 The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
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name: Jon
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1988
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]]> <![CDATA[The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession]]> 14546 The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.]]> 352 Chandler Burr 0375759816 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.16 The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
author: Chandler Burr
name: Jon
average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy]]> 248718 336 Robert Farris Thompson 0394723694 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.26 1983 Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
author: Robert Farris Thompson
name: Jon
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions) (Volume 8)]]> 1686052 324 Robert D. Pelton 0520067916 Jon 4 blood-hunger-child 3.79 1980 The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions) (Volume 8)
author: Robert D. Pelton
name: Jon
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1980
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Natural Flavor and Fragrances: Chemistry, Analysis, and Production (ACS Symposium Series)]]> 6535729 will pay a premium for natural foods. While modern synthetic methods permit the economical production of artificial F&F on a large scale, the natural F&F industry remains important. Why is this so? How do the chemical, biological, and agricultural sciences support the natural F&F industry? What is
the state of current natural F&F research? These are questions this volume attempts to address. Even considering only the value of F&F derived from essential oils, natural F&F constitute approximately a $2 billion annual business. The impact of F&F is best appreciated when you consider that a flavor
or fragrance typically contributes only a very small part, both in cost and volume, to a finished product. Many analytical tools available do not have a detector that is as sensitive to taste or odor as a human (or many animals for that matter). The challenge for researchers is to sift F&F
information from all the data obtained from the various analytical techniques. The intent of this book is to give the reader and appreciation for the many facets of the chemistry, analysis and production of natural flavors and fragrances. It is a field where each one of us who can smell and taste
are active participants. New foods, plants, processes, packages and aromas are developed each day. Keeping researchers abreast of the many new facets of the natural F&F field have led to development of this chapter and the ACS symposium that served as the basis of this book.]]> 232 Carl Frey 0841239045 Jon 3 blood-hunger-child 3.00 2005 Natural Flavor and Fragrances: Chemistry, Analysis, and Production (ACS Symposium Series)
author: Carl Frey
name: Jon
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chemistry of Fragrances (RSC Paperbacks)]]> 2843801 294 D.H. Pybus 0854045287 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.20 1999 The Chemistry of Fragrances (RSC Paperbacks)
author: D.H. Pybus
name: Jon
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, #6)]]> 2201949 390 Iannis Xenakis 1576470792 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.07 1971 Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, #6)
author: Iannis Xenakis
name: Jon
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1971
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts]]> 913855 144 Baba Ifa Karade 0877287899 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.20 1994 The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts
author: Baba Ifa Karade
name: Jon
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> The World of Perfume 2236318 Book by Pavia, Fabienne 141 Fabienne Pavia 157715004X Jon 3 blood-hunger-child 3.82 1996 The World of Perfume
author: Fabienne Pavia
name: Jon
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1996
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Perfume and Flavor Chemicals (Aroma Chemicals) 2 Book Set]]> 7427464 1200 Steffen Arctander 0931710375 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.67 Perfume and Flavor Chemicals (Aroma Chemicals) 2 Book Set
author: Steffen Arctander
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average rating: 4.67
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]]> Jitterbug Perfume 8682 Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left.]]> 342 Tom Robbins 1842430351 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.24 1984 Jitterbug Perfume
author: Tom Robbins
name: Jon
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Arts-Sciences: Alloys (Aesthetics in Music Series, #2)]]> 2325422
Xenakis is responding to a panel of noted French masters from the various disciplines in w which he has worked and cleverly manages to answer specific questions in one field while simultaneously addressing perhaps less-initiated exponents from other, seemingly unrelated areas. He succeeds in unraveling the intricate web between the arts and sciences, thereby demonstrating their inter-dependency as in the components of alloys.]]> 133 Iannis Xenakis 0918728223 Jon 4 blood-hunger-child 4.50 1994 Arts-Sciences: Alloys (Aesthetics in Music Series, #2)
author: Iannis Xenakis
name: Jon
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[On Sonic Art (Contemporary Music Studies)]]> 968671 372 Trevor Wishart 371865847X Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.04 On Sonic Art (Contemporary Music Studies)
author: Trevor Wishart
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Music and Narrative Since 1900]]> 13697197 444 Michael L. Klein 0253006449 Jon 4 blood-hunger-child 4.67 2012 Music and Narrative Since 1900
author: Michael L. Klein
name: Jon
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale]]> 1726680 444 William A. Sethares 1852337974 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.61 2004 Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
author: William A. Sethares
name: Jon
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2004
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]]> <![CDATA[Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Sound Composition]]> 2036040 0 Trevor Wishart 0951031317 Jon 0 to-read 3.29 Audible Design: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Sound Composition
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]]> <![CDATA[Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness]]> 20876890 Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness translate love and lust into disorder. How we hear our own need and the way it sounds to others proves in these enthralling stories an imperfect but utterly captivating conversation, a destructive yet dynamic discourse between well-being and disease, images and words.]]> 296 Heather Fowler 1938466284 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 4.21 2014 Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness
author: Heather Fowler
name: Jon
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Dahomean Narrative: A Cross-Cultural Analysis]]> 2810451
Published as a companion piece to Northwestern University Press's West African Folktales, Dahomean Narrative provides the basic texts of material collected in the field, and shows how they were collected, analyzed, and theorized in the anthropological and folklore disciplinary traditions of Herskovits's day. The result is a wide-ranging collection, culled from an entire narrative tradition, that remains unique among anthropological publications.]]> 490 Melville J. Herskovits 0810116502 Jon 0 blood-hunger-child 4.00 1998 Dahomean Narrative: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
author: Melville J. Herskovits
name: Jon
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume]]> 8518451 304 Tilar J. Mazzeo 0061791016 Jon 0 blood-hunger-child 3.47 2010 The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume
author: Tilar J. Mazzeo
name: Jon
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2010
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]]> Odun-ifa Ifa Festival 3642118 680 Abosede Emanuel 1904855784 Jon 0 blood-hunger-child 4.59 1978 Odun-ifa Ifa Festival
author: Abosede Emanuel
name: Jon
average rating: 4.59
book published: 1978
rating: 0
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]]> The Sacred IFA Oracle 2014319 547 Afolabi A. Epega 189015718X Jon 0 blood-hunger-child 4.36 1995 The Sacred IFA Oracle
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name: Jon
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[IFA, The Yoruba God of Divination in Nigeria and the United States]]> 6131091 240 Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason 1592216412 Jon 0 blood-hunger-child 4.33 2008 IFA, The Yoruba God of Divination in Nigeria and the United States
author: Louis Djisovi Ikukomi Eason
name: Jon
average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction]]> 10521549 The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of biopolitics has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic. Lemke explains that life has become an independent, objective and measurable factor as well as a collective reality that can be separated from concrete living beings and the singularity of individual experience. He shows how our understanding of the processes of life, the organizing of populations and the need to govern individuals and collectives lead to practices of correction, exclusion, normalization, and disciplining. In this lucidly written book, Lemke outlines the stakes and the debates surrounding biopolitics, providing a systematic overview of the history of the notion and making clear its relevance for sociological and contemporary theoretical debates

]]> 162 Thomas Lemke 0814752993 Jon 5 blood-hunger-child 3.67 2011 Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space]]> 276135
O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system.

These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.

With an introduction by Thomas McEvilley and a brilliantly cogent afterword by its author, Brian O'Doherty once again leads us on the perilous journey to center to the art Inside the White Cube .]]> 120 Brian O'Doherty 0520220404 Jon 5 3.97 1985 Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[Music Theory and its Methods: Structures, Challenges, Directions (Methodology of Music Research)]]> 18064753 333 Denis Collins 3631616597 Jon 5 currently-reading 5.00 2013 Music Theory and its Methods: Structures, Challenges, Directions (Methodology of Music Research)
author: Denis Collins
name: Jon
average rating: 5.00
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]]> Tunnel Vision 22589398 Some mysteries are better left unsolved.

It’s been fifteen years since Mandy Reasoner was murdered—a crime for which her boyfriend, Duke, was convicted. But when best friends Betty and June discover that Mandy was June’s long-forgotten aunt, they decide to pursue the mystery. Galvanized by the growing community who doubts the evidence against Duke and is rallying to free him, the two girls start on a path that will bring them not only to Duke himself but smack into Nickel, a canny, tough-as-nails teenage P.I. attempting to keep his own life together. They make a good team, but Nickel is on his own mission of revenge, and the web of lies surrounding Mandy’s murder is growing ever thicker.

The closer they get to the truth, the less clear the path becomes. Will they survive the fight to bring Mandy’s killer to justice?

Award-winning author Aric Davis brings back his captivating anti-hero, Nickel, in Tunnel Vision, a work of edgy noir about unlikely friendship and long-overdue justice.

]]> 300 Aric Davis 1477874941 Jon 2 3.38 2014 Tunnel Vision
author: Aric Davis
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average rating: 3.38
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rating: 2
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]]> Infinite Jest 6759
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.]]> 1088 David Foster Wallace Jon 5 4.26 1996 Infinite Jest
author: David Foster Wallace
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[Understanding David Foster Wallace (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)]]> 6752 208 Marshall Boswell 1570035172 Jon 0 to-read 3.88 2003 Understanding David Foster Wallace (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
author: Marshall Boswell
name: Jon
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman]]> 98685
Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation’s greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started.

In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman’s work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.]]> 531 James Gleick 0679747044 Jon 5 4.11 Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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]]> Me Talk Pretty One Day 4137 272 David Sedaris 0349113912 Jon 5 4.01 2000 Me Talk Pretty One Day
author: David Sedaris
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 2000
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]]> Not My Father's Son 20604350
When television producers approached Alan Cumming to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show, he hoped to solve the mystery of his maternal grandfather's disappearance that had long cast a shadow over his family. But this was not the only mystery laid before Alan.

Alan grew up in the grip of a man who held his family hostage, someone who meted out violence with a frightening ease, who waged a silent war with himself that sometimes spilled over onto everyone around him. That man was Alex Cumming, Alan's father, whom Alan had not seen or spoken to for more than a decade when he reconnected just before filming for Who Do You Think You Are? began. He had a secret he had to share, one that would shock his son to his very core and set into motion a journey that would change Alan's life forever.

With ribald humor, wit, and incredible insight, Alan seamlessly moves back and forth in time, integrating stories from his childhood in Scotland and his experiences today as the celebrated actor of film, television, and stage. At times suspenseful, at times deeply moving, but always incredibly brave and honest, Not My Father's Son is a powerful story of embracing the best aspects of the past and triumphantly pushing the darkness aside.]]> 294 Alan Cumming 0062225065 Jon 0 to-read 3.95 2014 Not My Father's Son
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]]> Under the Volcano 31072
Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.]]> 423 Malcolm Lowry 0060955228 Jon 0 to-read 3.78 1947 Under the Volcano
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> <![CDATA[Five Lines, Four Spaces: The World of My Music]]> 6658751 305 George Rochberg 0252034252 Jon 5 4.14 2009 Five Lines, Four Spaces: The World of My Music
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name: Jon
average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception]]> 107971 Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.

In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes � in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death.]]> 240 Michel Foucault 0679753346 Jon 5 3.97 1963 The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
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book published: 1963
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]]> John Cage (Critical Lives) 13226434 In this new biography, Rob Haskins explores Cage’s radical approach to art and aesthetics and his belief that everyday life and art are one and the same. Scrutinizing Cage’s emphasis on chance over intention, which rejected traditional artistic methods and caused an uproar among his peers, Haskins elucidates the ideas that lay behind these pillars of Cage’s work. Haskins also demystifies the influence of Eastern cultures, particularly Zen Buddhism, on Cage, including his use of the Chinese text I Ching as his standard composition tool in all his work after 1951. Adding to our understanding of the art, music, and ideas of the twentieth century, this book provides an engaging look at a man who continues to challenge and inspire artists worldwide.]]> 180 Rob Haskins 186189905X Jon 4 currently-reading 4.14 2012 John Cage (Critical Lives)
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]]> An Honest Ghost 18186933 An Honest Ghost, consists entirely of sentences appropriated from over 500 books. Whitaker limited himself to using 300 words per book (in accordance with Fair Use); never taking two sentences together; and never making any changes, even to punctuation. An index includes all attributions. The experience of acknowledging each sentence as literary artifact, combined with the imagined accretion of books that built An Honest Ghost, deftly mirrors the burgeoning nostalgia in the narrator’s voice and, most fittingly, in the careful reader’s heart.]]> 150 Rick Whitaker 1937543382 Jon 0 to-read 3.48 2013 An Honest Ghost
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average rating: 3.48
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]]> <![CDATA[The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World]]> 585024
As a society we have become more aware of the toxic wastes that can enter our bodies through the air we breathe and the water we drink. In fact, the pollution of our sonic environment is no less real. Schafer emphasizes the importance of discerning the sounds that enrich and feed us and using them to create healthier environments. To this end, he explains how to classify sounds, appreciating their beauty or ugliness, and provides exercises and &ldquo;soundwalks&rdquo; to help us become more discriminating and sensitive to the sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, and an attempt to imagine what it might become in the future.]]> 320 R. Murray Schafer 0892814551 Jon 5 4.07 1977 The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1977
rating: 5
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]]> VALIS 216377 VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.]]> 242 Philip K. Dick 0679734465 Jon 5 3.93 1981 VALIS
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Jon
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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