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Jazz in Its Time
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 19.95From record album liner notes to serious academic pieces, Martin Williams has been perceptively chronicling the development of jazz for over three decades. In this, his newest collection of jazz writings, Williams brings together many of his best pieces and covers new ground, with short columns on Teddy Wilson and George Winston and a longer article,... more...
Jazz Changes
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 19.95Jazz Changes is the late Martin Williams's third and perhaps best collection of jazz portraits, interviews, narrative accounts of recording sessions, rehearsals, and performances, important liner notes, and far reaching discussions of musicians and their music. The collection includes thirty years of Williams's finest pieces taking readers on an engaging... more...
The Jazz Tradition
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 39.99A blend of musical history and criticism, this study of jazz includes chapters on King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. In addition to an expanded essay on Count Basie, this edition includes pieces on Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans and the World Saxophone Quartet. more...
The Doctrine of Salvation in the First Letter of Peter
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 82.00Provides an invaluable theological discussion of the concept of salvation in the first letter of Peter. more...
Post-Tensioned Concrete Floors
Taylor & Francis 1995; US$ 140.00Post-tensioning is the most versatile form of pre stressing, a technique which enables engineers to make the most effective use of the material properties of concrete, and so to design structural elements which are strong, slender and efficient. Design in post-tensioned concrete is not difficult and, if done properly, can contribute significantly to... more...
A Generation of Change, a Lifetime of Difference?
The Policy Press 2009; US$ 39.95This original book provides an overview of changes in social and fiscal policy since the 1970s, using an original and unique lifetime simulation approach to analyse how changes in these policies would affect people of low median and high income living in 1979, 1997 and 2008 if they lived their whole lives under the policy rules in place in these years. more...
Defending the Social Licence of Farming
CSIRO Publishing 2011; US$ 55.00The authors document the definition of and issues associated with the 'social licence to farm'. more...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 5.99200th Anniversary Edition Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs Writing as Linda Brent ?It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly forget them if I could. Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with these gloomy recollections come tender... more...
Dual Attraction
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 25.95For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious--and potentially illuminating--variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS makes greater awareness of all forms of... more...
Politicking Online
Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 26.95Of the many groundbreaking developments in the 2008 presidential election, the most important may well be the use of the Internet. In Politicking Online contributors explorethe impact of technology for electioneering purposes, from running campaigns andincreasing representation to ultimately strengthening democracy. The book reveals how social... more...









