E-Books

Muslims on the Americanization Path? By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John L. Esposito
2000 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0195135261 | PDF | 3 MB
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States. There are more Muslims in America than in Kuwait, Qatar, and Libya together. Leaving aside immigration and conversion, birthrate alone ensures that in the first part of the twenty-first century Islam will replace Judaism as the nation's second largest religion.Like all religious minorities in America, Muslims must confront a host of difficult questions concerning faith and national identity. Can they become part of a pluralistic American society without sacrificing their identity? Can Muslims be Muslims in a state that is not governed by Islamic law? Will the American legal system protect Muslim religious and cultural differences? Is there a contradiction between demanding equal rights and insisting on maintaining a distinctively separate identity? Will the secular and/or Judeo-Christian values of American society inhibit the Muslim practice of religious faith? While the Muslims of America are indeed on the path to Americanization, what that means and what that will yield remains uncertain. In this thoughtful and wide-ranging volume, fourteen distinguished scholars take an in-depth look at these issues and examine the varied responses and opinions of the Muslim community.

Seema Yasmin, "Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure - The Illustrated Women's History Celebrating Diversity and Empowerment"
English | ISBN: 0062947036 | 2020 | 192 pages | PDF | 66 MB
Winner of the 2021 International Book Awards

Muslim Europe: How Religion and Empire Transformed European Society by Gavin Murray-Miller
English | December 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1666939986 | 420 pages | MOBI | 5.55 Mb
Europe and the Islamic world have shared a long and conflicted history. From the Middle Ages to the global War on Terror, the image of two civilizations perpetually at war has endured. However, a closer look at the past suggests this was not always the case. Muslim Europe follows the lives of imperialists, journalists, and Muslim activists who attempted to challenge the idea of two opposing civilizations locked in eternal conflict. Rich in detail, it tells the stories of English officials who once declared Britain the greatest "Muslim power" on the face of the earth and recounts the extraordinary political campaign that saw a French Muslim elected to the National Assembly against all odds. The "age of empire" brought Islam into European public life like never-before, inspiring Muslims on the continent to take to the press and mount political movements guided by desires for greater social recognition. In chronicling the forgotten history of Europe's early Muslim communities across empires, Muslim Europe proposes a new history for Europe, highlighting the contributions made by Muslim subjects and citizens in search of a more just and tolerant society.

Michael Haas, "Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler"
English | ISBN: 0300266502 | 2023 | 416 pages | MOBI | 2 MB
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?

Music in Esports by Eulalia Febrer-Coll
English | July 21, 2025 | ISBN: 103262535X | 210 pages | MOBI | 5.10 Mb
This book invites the reader to expand their idea of esports as an independent niche and consider it an integral part of a growing multi‑ and transmedia ecosystem that includes the global entertainment industry, where music plays an essential role.

Music and the Irish Literary Imagination By Harry White
2009 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0199547327 | PDF | 2 MB
Harry White examines the influence of music in the development of the Irish literary imagination from 1800 to the present day. He identifies music as a preoccupation which originated in the poetry of Thomas Moore early in the nineteenth century. He argues that this preoccupation decisively influenced Moore's attempt to translate the 'meaning' of Irish music into verse, and that it also informed Moore's considerable impact on the development of European musical romanticism, as in the music of Berlioz and Schumann. White then examines how this preoccupation was later recovered by W.B. Yeats, whose poetry is imbued with music as a rival presence to language. In its readings of Yeats, Synge, Shaw and Joyce, the book argues that this striking musical awareness had a profound influence on the Irish literary imagination, to the extent that poetry, fiction and drama could function as correlatives of musical genres. Although Yeats insisted on the synonymous condition of speech and song in his poetry, Synge, Shaw and Joyce explicitly identified opera in particular as a generic prototype for their own work. Synge's formal musical training and early inclinations as a composer, Shaw's perception of himself as the natural successor to Wagner, and Joyce's no less striking absorption of a host of musical techniques in his fiction are advanced in this study as formative (rather than incidental) elements in the development of modern Irish writing. Music and the Irish Literary Imagination also considers Beckett's emancipation from the oppressive condition of words in general (and Joyce in particular) through the agency of music, and argues that the strong presence of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Jan?cek in the works of Brian Friel is correspondingly essential to Friel's dramatization of Irish experience in the aftermath of Beckett. The book closes with a reading of Seamus Heaney, in which the poet's own preoccupation with the currency of established literary forms is enlisted to illuminate Heaney's abiding sense of poetry as music.

David Hesmondhalgh, "Music Streaming around the World"
English | ISBN: 0520409051 | 2025 | 270 pages | EPUB | 31 MB
Music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and those offered by Chinese web giant Tencent are now central to everyday musical activity across much of the world, with enormous ramifications for musical culture in modern societies. Bringing together case studies from twelve countries, Music Streaming around the World provides the first international account of how streaming is shaping music culture today by considering the implications of streaming platforms for the production, distribution, and consumption of recorded music around the globe.

Music Composition 101: A Handbook For Aspiring Composers by Ellen Roberts
English | May 13, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C56Q5HPZ | 150 pages | EPUB | 0.35 Mb
Unlock Your Musical Brilliance: "Music Composition 101: A Handbook For Aspiring Composers" is your passport to the captivating world of music creation. From the first note to the final crescendo, this comprehensive guide ignites your creativity and empowers you to compose your own masterpieces. Dive into the foundational elements of pitch, melody, and harmony, and unleash your imagination as you explore advanced topics like orchestration, notation, and performance preparation.

Mushroom Growing Guide
English | September 4, 2025 | ISBN: 9798232973292 | 56 Pages | EPUB (True) | 2.63 MB
Unlock the Power of Mushrooms: The Future of Sustainable Farming

Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema By Haidee Wasson
2005 | 327 Pages | ISBN: 0520227778 | PDF | 2 MB
Haidee Wasson provides a rich cultural history of cinema's transformation from a passing amusement to an enduring art form by mapping the creation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, established in 1935. The first North American film archive and museum, the film library pioneered an expansive moving image network, comprising popular, abstract, animated, American, Canadian, and European films. More than a repository, MoMA circulated these films nationally and internationally, connecting the modern art museum to universities, libraries, women's clubs, unions, archives, and department stores. Under the aegis of the museum, cinema also changed. Like books, paintings, and photographs, films became discrete objects, integral to thinking about art, history, and the politics of modern life.