Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
By: Joanna Demers
3.95
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, comm…
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1. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more
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"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"You might say that the universe plays the blues."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?"-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. How to Listen to Jazz
By: Ted Gioia
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A "radiantly accomplished" music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listenin… read more
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"Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both."-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
"In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing."-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
"When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice the theft."-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
"The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exact…"-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
3. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
4. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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5. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By: Alex Ross
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more
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7. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
8. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By: Harlan Ellison
5.00
Format: 398 pages, ebook
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more
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9. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
10. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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11. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
12. Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
By: David Toop
3.41
Format: 32 pages,
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13. As serious as your life: John Coltrane and beyond
By: None , Val Wilmer
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reissue of a jazz classic with photos by the author who is a well known photographer. read more
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14. Knots
By: R.D. Laing
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
R.D. Laing's new book marks a fascinating departure--in form and content--from his previous works. … read more
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15. The Way of Zen
By: Alan W. Watts
4.17
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more
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"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
16. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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17. Bringing Out the Dead
By: Joe Connelly
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Frank Pierce has given CPR on dance floors. He's seen an 11-year-old boy shot off his bicycle and b… read more
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18. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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19. Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
By: Joanna Demers
3.95
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, comm… read more
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