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  • FOCUS: IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    Focus: Irish Traditional Music, Second Edition introduces the instrumental and vocal musics of Ireland, its diaspora in North America, and its Celtic neighbors while exploring the essential values underlying these rich musical cultures and placing them in broader historical and social context. With both the undergraduate and graduate student in mind, the text weaves together pa...

    $1,340.00

  • LET SLEEPING DRAGONS LIE
    GARTH NIX / SEAN WILLIAMS
    From two New York Times–bestselling authors, two knighted friends go on a quest with their magical swords to protect their kingdom from evil. Odo and Eleanor are excited to be knights. Only . . . nobody's asking them to go on a quest. So they're stuck at home, using their trusty and talkative swords to defend their village when there's cause for defense. But mostly it's just . ...

    $179.00

  • THE ETHNOMUSICOLOGISTS' COOKBOOK, VOLUME II
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    This companion to The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook combines scholarship with a unique approach to the study of the world's foods, musics, and cultures. Covering over four dozen regions, the entries in these collection each include a regional food-related proverb, a recipe for a complete meal, a list of companion readings and listening pieces, and a short essay that highlights t...

    $1,380.00

  • THE STONE MAGE & THE SEA
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    The Stone Mages rule the huge deserts of red sand. The vast coastlines are ruled by Sky Wardens. Magic is everywhere, but not all have the power to control and direct it. Any child found to have magical ability is sent to the Haunted City to be trained in the Change. On the coast of the Strand, Sal and his father arrive in the small, apparently normal town of Fundelry, where th...

    $119.00

  • THE SKY WARDEN & THE SUN
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    Sal's life has been thrown into turmoil and he is on the run, from more than one pursuer, it appears. He is accompanied by his newfound friend Shilly and he is not entirely sure where he wants to go—but Shilly is. She wants to find her teacher Lodo's old teacher, the Mage Van Haasteren, which means they must head north to the Interior, where Sal's mother was born. The journey i...

    $119.00

  • THE STORM WEAVER & THE SAND
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    Sal and his friend Shilly have been joined by a third refugee, Skendar, by the time they make their way to the remote island that is the home of the famous, feared Haunted City, home of the Sky Wardens. Sal's great aunt, the Syndic, is also there, and she is determined to keep Sal under control, even if she has to imprison him to do it.   But there are greater threats even than...

    $119.00

  • ORPHANS OF EARTH
    SEAN WILLIAMS / SHANE DIX
    The sole survivors of the human race... and their time is running out. In the wake of Earth's fall, Peter Alander has just one choice: to use the alien Gifts left behind on his distant colony world to warn other missions of their impending demise, a second wave of alien ships, this time intent on destroying everything in their path. Without the Gifts, humanity would have no hop...

    $119.00

  • HEIRS OF EARTH
    SEAN WILLIAMS / SHANE DIX
    On the brink of extinction, a suicide mission is humanity's last hope. The Gifts of an alien race called the Spinners gave Peter Alander hope for the future of humanity. All the Gifts did, though, was draw down the wrath of the Starfish, another alien race apparently intent on wiping out all forms of competition. Caught between the two, humanity faces the hard decision of evolv...

    $119.00

  • THE DARK IMBALANCE
    SEAN WILLIAMS / SHANE DIX
    The ruins of Sol System have been empty for thousands of years. A place of death and mystery, it is shunned by all--until now. DEADLINE TO DESTRUCTION: Renegade intelligence agent Morgan Roche arrives hot on the heels of the clone warriors--enemies she has been charged by the High Humans to stop before they destroy everything. What she finds--the largest fleet assembled in half...

    $119.00

  • THE DYING LIGHT
    SEAN WILLIAMS / SHANE DIX
    Morgan Roche is a renegade, fleeing the agents she used to work for in the Commonwealth of Empires. Her quest to understand Adoni Cane has led her to a terrible truth. He is one of a breed of genetically enhanced warriors that once terrorized the galaxy. And there might be more of them, waking up to begin fighting anew. AN INTERSTELLAR TRAP: A whole solar system has disappeared...

    $119.00

  • THE PRODIGAL SUN
    SEAN WILLIAMS / SHANE DIX
    Morgan Roche, commander in the intelligence arm of the Commonwealth Empires, has been charged with protecting the AI known as The Box on a secret voyage across the galaxy. But en route her ship is ambushed by the Dato Bloc, and she is forced to crash-land on a nearby prison planet. MAROONED ON SCIACCA'S WORLD: Battling deadly inmates and treacherous guards, she fights her way t...

    $119.00

  • ECHOES OF EARTH
    SEAN WILLIAMS / SHANE DIX
    In this "dazzling adventure" from the New York Times–bestselling author, a man adrift in space finds himself facing the edge of madness (Jack McDevitt). The Frank Tipler is just one of a thousand survey vessels sent out into the bubble of space surrounding Earth, seeking habitable worlds and signs of advanced life. Its crew has stumbled across artifacts left behind by a benevol...

    $119.00

  • GEODESICA ASCENT
    SEAN WILLIAMS / SHANE DIX
    The year is 2438. Humanity has migrated to the stars in discrete waves, driven by evolving technologies and new ways of being human. The far-flung Arc Systems struggle under the yoke of their newest rulers—Exarchs from Sol, whose monopoly on faster-than-light communication gives them absolute control of a growing interstellar empire. But humans weren't the first to conquer the ...

    $119.00

  • GEODESICA DESCENT
    SEAN WILLIAMS / SHANE DIX
    An alien artifact's mysteries could spark humanity's collapse in the second novel of the Geodesica Duology from the  New York Times–bestselling authors.   Revolution spreads like wildfire through humanity's interstellar empire, sparked by the opening of Geodesica and the destruction of an entire inhabited system. But who was ultimately responsible? And who will pay the price?  ...

    $119.00

  • THE ETHNOMUSICOLOGISTS' COOKBOOK
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    Named one of New York Times Top-20 Cookbooks of 2006. Have you ever wanted to host a full evening of Indian food, culture, and music? How about preparing a traditional Balinese banquet? Or take a trip to Cairo and enjoy an Egyptian feast? The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook takes you around the world on a culinary journey that is also a cultural and social odyssey. Many cookbooks ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE GARLAND HANDBOOK OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUSIC
    TERRY E. MILLER AND SEAN WILLIAMS
    The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part one provides...

    $2,060.00

  • IMPOSSIBLE MUSIC
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    In an emotionally compelling tale crackling with originality, when a teen musician goes deaf, his quest to create an entirely new form of music brings him to a deeper understanding of his relationship to the hearing world, of himself, and of the girl he meets along the way.  Music is Simon's life—which is why he is devastated when a stroke destroys his hearing. He resists attem...

    $328.49

  • CRASHLAND
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    M. T. Anderson meets Cory Doctorow in the exciting sequel to Twinmaker, from #1 New York Times bestseller Sean Williams, who also coauthors the Troubletwisters series with Garth Nix. Clair and Jesse have barely been reunited when the world is plunged into its biggest crisis since the Water Wars. The d-mat network is broken. The world has ground to a halt. People are trapped, in...

    $119.00

  • TWINMAKER
    SEAN WILLIAMS
    M. T. Anderson meets Cory Doctorow in this teen debut from #1 New York Times bestseller Sean Williams, who also coauthors the Troubletwisters series with Garth Nix. When a coded note promises improvement—the chance to change your body any way you want, making it stronger, taller, more beautiful—Clair thinks it's too good to be true, but her best friend, Libby, falls into a dead...

    $119.00