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  • CONGRESS AND THE POLITICS OF SPORTS
    COLTON C. CAMPBELL AND DAVID A. DULIO
    This volume covers an aspect of Congress mostly untouched in literature, examining Congress through the lens of sports. Across a set of broad and probing chapters, this book offers insights into some of the historic and contemporary challenges that sports have presented to Congress, along with highlighting the ways in which Congress has impacted the sports industry. The authors...

    $1,240.00

  • DECK AND PORT, OR, INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA
    WALTER COLTON
    Deck and Port, or Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California is a memoir written by Walter Colton, an American chaplain, and writer, about his experiences during a naval expedition to California in 1846-1847. The book describes the journey of the U.S. Frigate Congress from Boston to the Pacific Coast, including their encounters with Native America...

    $39.70

  • THE LAND OF GOLD THREE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA
    WALTER COLTON
    The Land of Gold: Three Years in California is a memoir written by Walter Colton, who was a chaplain in the United States Navy and the first American alcalde, or mayor, of Monterey, California. The book chronicles his experiences in California from 1846 to 1849, during the time of the California Gold Rush. Colton describes his journey to California, his work as a chaplain, and ...

    $39.70

  • PATTERNS IN POSTSOVIET LEADERSHIP
    TIMOTHY COLTON / ROBERT C TUCKER
    This book summarizes leadership and general political developments in the Soviet Union since the onset of the reforms. It explores new developments and old continuities in elite politics in the Russian Federation and other post-Soviet states during the period of transition and consolidation. ...

    $1,200.00

  • EVERYONE LOSES
    SAMUEL CHARAP / TIMOTHY J. COLTON
    Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country. This Adelphi book argues that the crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all the parties are worse off and international security has deteriorated. This negativ...

    $580.00

  • ANGEL SONG: MEDIEVAL ENGLISH MUSIC IN HISTORY
    LISA COLTON
    Although medieval English music has been relatively neglected in comparison with repertoire from France and Italy, there are few classical musicians today who have not listened to the thirteenth-century song ‘Sumer is icumen in’, or read of the achievements and fame of fifteenth-century composer John Dunstaple. Similarly, the identification of a distinctively English musical st...

    $1,420.00

  • GENDER, AGE AND MUSICAL CREATIVITY
    CATHERINE HAWORTH / LISA COLTON
    From the perennially young, precocious figure of 'little orphan Annie' to the physical and vocal ageing of the eighteenth-century castrato, interlinked cultural constructions of age and gender are central to the historical and contemporary depiction of creative activity and its audiences. Gender, Age and Musical Creativity takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues of identi...

    $1,240.00

  • WRITING THROUGH WRITER'S BLOCK
    AARON COLTON
    Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike’s Henry Bech to Stephen King’s Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace’s Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan Castro, Salvador Plascencia, Nam Le, Ben Lerner, Sheila Heti, and Andrew Martin. Writing Through Writer’s Block offers the first book-length analysis of the archetype of the b...

    $1,648.58

  • TODO PUEDE ESPERAR MENOS EL AMOR
    COLTON
    Agotado

    $48.00