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Author:John Corbett
A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation
Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe they're even suspicious of it. John Coltrane's saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrix's feedback drenched guitar solos, Ravi Shankar's sitar extrapolations--all these sounds seem like so much noodling or jamming, indulgent self-expression. "Just" improvising, as is sometimes said. For...- $15.00
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Author:John Corbett
An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching
This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. It provides a concise summary of the intellectual and pedagogical traditions that have shaped intercultural language education, from ethnography to...- $39.95
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An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching
This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. It provides a concise summary of the intellectual and pedagogical traditions that have shaped intercultural language education, from ethnography to...- $139.95
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Bullets for Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, C. 1933
This haunting dossier--anonymously assembled and found in a thrift store--gives an unprecedented and intimate lowdown on the Chicago mafiaWriter, curator, and gallerist John Corbett struck thrift gold at a going-out-of-business Chicago junk shop when he stumbled onto a browned and brittle manuscript intimately documenting...- $38.00
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Author:John Corbett
Intercultural Language Activities [With CDROM]
Intercultural Language Activities offers practical teaching ideas which encourage learners to reflect on their own language and culture, as well as that of others. Topics covered in the fourteen chapters include childhood, food, sport, icons, politics and body language. The book also helps learners...- $66.00
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Author:John Corbett
Language and Scottish Literature: Scottish Language and Literature Volume 2
This practical introduction to ways of using theories of language to explore different aspects of Scottish literature includes material on: varieties of Scots and Scottish English; linguistic approaches to literary studies; the grammar of texts; vocabulary; metaphor; poetic metre; language in use; point of...- $37.95
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Author:John Corbett
Making Connections: A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges
This book is a practical, down-to-earth guide for language teachers interested in running online intercultural exchanges. It is informed by the latest research on language teaching and intercultural telecollaborations, and situated in the reality of classrooms around the world.Author: John Corbett, Hugo Dart, Bruno...- $19.95
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Making Connections: A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges
This book is a practical, down-to-earth guide for language teachers interested in running online intercultural exchanges. It is informed by the latest research on language teaching and intercultural telecollaborations, and situated in the reality of classrooms around the world.Author: John Corbett, Hugo Dart, Bruno...- $64.95
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Author:John Corbett
Microgroove: Forays into Other Music
Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from oral history and...- $31.95
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Author:John Corbett
Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music
Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest--from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco....- $30.00
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Author:John Corbett
Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art
Brash, brilliant and funny, the Chicago Imagists--from the Hairy Who and Nonplussed Some to False Image and Marriage Chicago Style--receive a full appraisal in this electrifying volumeThis amply illustrated catalog surveys the work of the group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists, who...- $55.00
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Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium
From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend's mind, documenting and reflecting...- $104.95
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Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium
From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend's mind, documenting and reflecting...- $26.95
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