The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
By: John Mauceri
4.02
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries durin…
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1. 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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- music
- cultural
- history
- nonfiction
"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
2. The Primarchs (The Horus Heresy, #20)
By: Nick Kyme , Gav Thorpe , Graham McNeill , Rob Sanders , Christian Z. Dunn
3.61
Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Created in the Emperor’s own image, the primarchs had long thought themselves to be princes of the … read more
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3. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.10
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nas… read more
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- nonfiction
"Only the autodidacts are free."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"More data means more information, but it also means more false information."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not intere…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
4. The Unremembered Empire (The Horus Heresy, #27)
By: Dan Abnett
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Believing Terra has already fallen to the Warmaster, Primarch Roboute Guilliman founds the Imperium… read more
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"Death does not discriminate. It is so even handed, so scrupulously fair, that it seems not fair at all. - Eeron Kleve, Iron Hand's Captain"-Dan Abnett, The Unremembered Empire (The Horus Heresy, #27)
5. 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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- music
- cultural
- history
- nonfiction
6. Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
By: Carlos Santana , Brad Tolinski , Alan di Perna
3.00
Format: None pages,
By a pair of veteran music writers, an unprecedented history of the electric guitar, its explosive … read more
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7. Fear to Tread
By: James Swallow
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, Sanguinius - angelic primarch of the IXth Legion - wa… read more
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8. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
By: Mary Beard
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. Angel Exterminatus
By: Graham McNeill
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Perturabo - master of siegecraft, and executioner of Olympia. Long has he lived in the shadow of hi… read more
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10. For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)
By: Ian Fleming
3.66
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: this entry relates to the collection of short stories under the title of "For You… read more
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"I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone,…"-Ian Fleming, For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)
11. The Damnation of Pythos
By: David Annandale
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Dropsite Massacre at Isstvan V, a battered and bloodied force of Iron Hands… read more
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12. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
By: M.T. Anderson
4.35
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the l… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
"Some love is so powerful after all, that it must always include sadness, because encrypted within it is the knowledge that someday it will come to an end."-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the ones who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator ... It is easy for us all to imagine we are heroes whe…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"Gradually, like the emigration of an insidious, phantom population, Leningrad belonged more to the dead than to the living. The dead watched over streets and sat in snow-swamped buses. Whole apartmen…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
"This is a tale of microfilm canisters and secret police, of Communists and capitalists, of battles lost and wars won. It is the tale of a utopian dream that turned into a dystopian nightmare. It is t…"-M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
13. Mark of Calth
By: Dan Abnett , Aaron Dembski-Bowden , Graham McNeill , John French , Guy Haley , Anthony Reynolds , Rob Sanders , David Annandale , L.J. Goulding
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this all-new collection of Horus Heresy stories, witness the untold tales of the Underworld War.… read more
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14. The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Marvelous. . . . A wonderful book."--Humana.Mente "Rovelli is the dream author to conduct us on th… read more
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15. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
By: Oliver Sacks
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a H… read more
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16. Betrayer
By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden
3.87
Format: 252 pages, ebook
The Shadow Crusade has begun. While the Ultramarines reel from Kor Phaeron's surprise attack on Cal… read more
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17. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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18. Scars
By: Chris Wraight
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Jaghatai Khan and his White Scars Legion must choose - the Emperor or Horus? Fresh from their conqu… read more
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19. Vulkan Lives
By: Nick Kyme
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
The latest title in Black Library's bestselling series, the Horus Heresy.In the wake of the Dropsit… read more
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20. Shadows of Treachery
By: Dan Abnett , Nick Kyme , Gav Thorpe , Aaron Dembski-Bowden , Graham McNeill , John French , Christian Z. Dunn
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
From the battlefields of Phall and Isstvan, to the haunted shadows of Terra itself - the greatest w… read more
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21. Vengeful Spirit
By: Graham McNeill
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
On the planet of Molech, the Titan Legions go to war against the armies of Horus. Once the favoured… read more
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22. Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)
By: Michael Moorcock
3.90
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders i… read more
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23. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
24. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
25. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
26. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
By: Alexander Mikaberidze
4.34
Format: 936 pages, Hardcover
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely assoc… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
By: Edward Dolnick
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
28. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
29. Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art
By: Nicholson Baker
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed and bestselling writer Nicholson Baker, a deeply personal account of his journey… read more
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30. The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
By: John Mauceri
4.02
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries durin… read more
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- music
- cultural
- history
- nonfiction
31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
