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  • Fifty Key Stage Musicals

    Edited by Robert W. Schneider, Shannon Agnew ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    This volume in the Routledge Key Guides series provides a round-up of the fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of musical theater discourse in the English-speaking world.Each entry summarises a show, including a full synopsis, discussion of the creators' process, show's critical reception, and its impact on the landscape of musical theater.This is the ideal primer ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Daoist Reflections from Scholar Sage

    by Damo Mitchell, Paul Mitchell, Lauren Faithfull, Donna Pinker, Tino Faithfull, Dr Seb Smith, Roni Edlund, Linda Hallett, Ellie Talbot, Kulsoom Shah, Richard Agnew, Robert Aspell ...
    This collection of fascinating short reads on Daoist thought, including Chinese medicine brings together some of the most popular articles from the Scholar Sage online magazine, alongside new material from Damo Mitchell. It includes:· How the teaching of the 'three worms' (Sanchong) demonstrates the way Daoism pulls together models of the physical, energetic, spiritual and psychological· A ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Anomie, Strain and Subcultural Theories of Crime

    by Joanne M. Kaufman ...
    Series series The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology
    Anomie, strain and subcultural theories are among the leading theories of crime. Anomie theories state that crime results from the failure of society to regulate adequately the behavior of individuals, particularly the efforts of individuals to achieve monetary success. Strain theories focus on the impact of strains or stressors on crime, including the inability to achieve monetary success through ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Secret Life of the American Musical

    How Broadway Shows Are Built

    by Jack Viertel ...
    New York Times Bestseller: "Both revelatory and entertaining . . . Along the way, Viertel provides some fascinating Broadway history." — The New York Times Book ReviewAmericans invented musicals—and have a longstanding love affair with them. But what, exactly, is a musical? In this book, longtime theatrical producer and writer Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their ... Read more

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  • Stephen Sondheim

    A Life

    by Meryle Secrest ...
    In the first full-scale life of the mostimportant composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master ofmodernist compositional style--but ... Read more

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  • Not Since Carrie

    40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops

    by Ken Mandelbaum ...
    The "essential and hilarious" book that highlights almost 200 musicals and examines how they became Broadway's biggest fails ( The New Yorker ).Ken Mandelbaum offers the behind-the-scenes story of the development of almost two hundred musical flops that played Broadway between 1950 and 1990, along with a reevaluative and often revisionist study of their quality.Here they all are, from such ... Read more

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  • Dance with Demons

    The Life Jerome Robbins

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    The first biography of the celebrated Broadway and Hollywood choreographer and director—a complex man of extraordinary genius and overwhelming demons.His work on such legendary shows as The King and I, West Side Story, Gypsy, Funny Girl, and Fiddler on the Roof made him one of the most influential and creative forces in the history of American theater. His collaborators, friends, and enemies were ... Read more

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  • Great American City

    Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

    by Robert J. Sampson ...
    This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ... Read more

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  • Billie Holiday

    The Musician and the Myth

    by John Szwed ...
    **• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography •Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent**When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered ... Read more

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  • Great Debates in Criminology

    by Chad Posick, Michael Rocque ...
    This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered ... Read more

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  • The Psychology of Diversity

    Beyond Prejudice and Racism

    by James M. Jones, John F. Dovidio, Deborah L. Vietze ...
    The Psychology of Diversity presents a captivating social-psychological study of diversity, the obstacles confronting it, and the benefits it provides.Goes beyond prejudice and discrimination to discuss the personal and social implications of diversity for both majority and minority group membersConsiders how historical, political, economic, and societal factors shape the way people think about ... Read more

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