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On Photography
On Photography is Susan Sontag’s influential collection of essays exploring how photographs shape the way we see the world. Writing with sharp insight, Sontag argues that taking a photograph is never neutral — it is an act of selection, interpretation, and even power.
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- 9781250374745
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- 224 pages, 5.35 x 0.55 x 8.2 inches
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- 770.1 SON o
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
In This Is Your Brain on Music, neuroscientist and former musician Daniel Levitin explores how and why music affects us so deeply. Blending scientific research with real musical examples—from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen—he explains how the brain interprets rhythm, melody, harmony, and timbre.
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- Reprint Ed.
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- 9780452288522
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- 352 pages, 5.26 x 0.73 x 7.94 inches
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- 781.11 LEV t
American Born Chinese
American Born Chinese weaves together three seemingly unrelated stories: Jin Wang, a Chinese American teen struggling to fit in at his new school; the legendary Monkey King, who seeks to transcend his identity; and Danny, whose life is upended each year by the arrival of his cousin Chin‑Kee, an exaggerated embodiment of racist stereotypes.
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- Reprint Ed.
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- 9781250811899
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- 240 pages, 6.05 x 0.55 x 8.5 inches
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- 741.5973 YAN a
Art as Therapy
Art as Therapy proposes a bold idea: art is not just for museums or experts—it is a practical tool for understanding ourselves and improving our emotional lives. Alain de Botton and John Armstrong argue that artworks contain insights that can help us navigate common human challenges such as love, work, anxiety, self‑understanding, and mortality.
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- Reprint Ed.
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- 9780714872780
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- 240 pages, 5.25 x 0.75 x 7.88 inches
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- 701.1 BOT a
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
This Is Your Brain on Music explores the deep relationship between music and the human brain, revealing how rhythm, melody, harmony, and memory interact to shape our emotional and cognitive lives. Drawing on research in neuroscience and psychology, Daniel Levitin explains how the brain interprets musical patterns, why certain songs evoke powerful memories, and how musical expertise develops thr…
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- Reprint Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780452288522
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- 352 pages, 5.26 x 0.73 x 7.94 inches
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- 781.11 LEV t
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing is John Berger’s groundbreaking exploration of how we look at art—and how our ways of seeing are shaped by culture, power, and history. Based on his influential BBC series, the book challenges traditional assumptions about European painting, advertising, and visual representation.
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- 1st Ed.
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- 9780140135152
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- 176 pages, 5.13 x 0.61 x 7.81 inches
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- 701.18 BER w
Perfecting Sound Forever
Perfecting Sound Forever is Greg Milner’s sweeping history of how recording technology has transformed music over the last century. Beginning with Thomas Edison’s 1915 claim that a recording could perfectly reproduce a live performance, Milner follows the technological breakthroughs that reshaped listening: the discovery of magnetic tape, the invention of the compact disc, the rise of digit…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780865479388
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- 432 pages, 13.92 x 2.44 x 21.29 cm
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- 781.49 MIL p
How Music Works
How Music Works is David Byrne’s insightful, genre‑spanning exploration of what music is, how it’s made, and why it matters. Drawing on his career with Talking Heads, his collaborations with Brian Eno, and decades of experimentation, Byrne examines how music is shaped by acoustics, architecture, technology, economics, and cultural context.
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- Reprint Ed.
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- 9780804188937
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- 384 pages, 6.54 x 1.58 x 8.35 inches
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- 781.1 BYR h
Listen to This
Listen to This gathers more than a decade of Alex Ross’s writing for The New Yorker, offering a vibrant, accessible journey through the world of music. Ross moves fluidly between genres — from Schubert, Brahms, and Verdi to Radiohead, Björk, and Led Zeppelin — showing how music of all kinds expresses the complexity of human emotion and culture.
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- Reprint Ed.
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- 9780312610685
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- 400 pages, 5.5 x 0.89 x 8.25 inches
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- 781.17 ROS l
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Rest Is Noise is Alex Ross’s acclaimed exploration of how the 20th century sounded. Moving from pre‑WWI Vienna to Paris in the 1920s, from the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin to postwar America and the experimental scenes of New York, Ross traces how composers responded to—and were shaped by—the century’s upheavals.
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- 9780374249397
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- 640 pages, 6.33 x 1.44 x 9.27 inches
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- 780.904 ROS t
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