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Reflections and DialoguesPraxial Music Education is a collection of essays by nineteen internationally recognized scholars in music education. Each essay offers critical reflections on a key topic in contemporary music education.  The starting point of each essay, and the unifying thread of this collection, is the "e;praxial"e; philosophy...

A New History of the Western Front in World War IThe incredible story of the men and women who created the complex and heroic medical infrastructure that saved so many lives during the First World War, from the stretcher bearer on the frontline whose hands bore the scars of splintering, rotting handles to the surgeon working 36 hour stints in...

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume 9W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois&'s sociological and...

Philosophy in AutobiographyAugustine's Confessions is a masterpiece of world literature. Written by Augustine in his forties, at the height of his philosophical and rhetorical skills, the Confessions is at once autobiographical, philosophical, theological, and psychological. The aim of the eight essays commissioned for the present volume is to...

Narratives of Nineteenth-Century MusicWhen the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany&'s past. The GDR was heralded as the second German Enlightenment, a society in which the rational...

Intercommunal Ties and Historical NarrativeThis volume explores the relationship between Thucydides and ancient Greek historiography, sociology, and culture. Drawing on modern anthropological enquiries on kinship and the sociology of ethnicity and emotions, it argues that inter-communal kinship has a far more pervasive importance in Thucydides than...