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We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But wh...
In the last thirty years, work in analytic philosophy of art has flourished, and it has given rise to considerably controversy. Stephen Davies describ...
Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the sacred manuscripts of the ancient city of Timbuktu, Mali. Ali is a former shepherd boy, train...
A Philosophical Exploration
Stephen Davies addresses such questions as: What are musical works?; are they discovered or created?; of what elements are they comprised?; how are th...
Thrilling, tense and hard-hitting, Chessboxer is perfect for fans of Netflix's The Queen's Gambit 'Gripping and surprising. I gulped it down' Sarah Cr...
In the meticulously revised third edition of this comprehensive guide, authors Elaine Morgan and Stephen Davies build upon the foundations that have m...
The Voyage of the Keying, 1846โ1855
In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Comm...
and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Music
Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of music, written by Stephen Daviesโone of the most distinguished...
Get the Edge in Business; Master Strategy, Marketing, and Finance; Enjoy a Business School Education in a Book
If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset. From finance and strategy to leadership and marketing, THE ULTIMATE MBA BOOK is a dyn...
Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution
Explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature reaching back hundreds of thousands of year...
Monograph comprising theoretical and empirical analyses of industrial process Innovation in the UK - developing an economic model, examines the time f...
Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this accessible and insightful introduction outlines the central theories and ongoing deb...
Representing Stephen Davies's best shorter writings, these essays outline developments within the philosophy of music over the last two decades, and s...
Assessing the Consequences for Competition
. . . for practitioners considering whether to use economists to evaluate merger proposals, this book provides a relevant insight into the types of in...
In the face of increasing environmental stresses, there is a critical need to improve water-use efficiency in many arid and semiarid agroclimatic zone...
Danny is a freelance IT specialistโthat is, a hacker. He and his pal Omar are both skilled at parkour, or freerunning, a discipline designed to enab...
Over the uppy downy dunes, across the dark, wide river and up the steep, steep mountain, Penda lovingly carries a bowl of milk to her father in the gr...
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices f...
The Case for Privatising the BBC
The BBC holds a special place in the world of broadcasting. It derives its funding from a compulsory levy on people who may not even use the service. ...
Structure, Strategy, and the Competitive Mechanism
This book fills an important gap in our knowledge of the organization of EU manufacturing industry. At the empirical level, it draws on a newly constr...
What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are
Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in hum...
`A particularly useful, informative and stimulating work for any reader with an interest in the philosophy of art.' Katerina Bantinaki, Analysis --...
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Tracing its origins back to 1822 in Whampoa, the Marinersโ Club in Hong Kong was established to meet a specific need for an Anglo-Chinese society de...
This book considers occlusion within the different disciplines of clinical dentistry, taking into account the challenges specific to each, in order to...
A New Joined-vowel Script System of Phonetic Shorthand ...
All aboard for the Bobo Road! Fatima and Galo load the luggage while their dad Big Ali drives the bus. Help count on bikes, sacks of rice, melons and ...
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Hilda and her friends Wood Man and Frida are on the case when ships start disappearing in Trolberg Bay....
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Almost every schoolchild learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But did he? And if he hadnโt invented it, would we be still living in th...
New Zealand in 1981 is a one-party state. The prime minister is holding secret talks with his Australian counterpart to create a new political Austral...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838....
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Join our beloved heroine as she encounters her very first troll, negotiates peace with some very persnickety elves, and reunites two lovelorn ancient ...
A Life in Chess
Samuel Lipschutz was born in Hungary in 1863 and emigrated to New York in 1880. He joined the Manhattan and New York chess clubs, and soon became cham...
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