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  • The BeatTips Manual
    Amir Said
    Out of the ruins of the South Bronx disaster came an artistically rich and deeply influential street culture: hip hop. From the start, hip hop coalesced around its music. Revered everywhere for its sound, style, force, rawness, and honesty, hip hop/rap music is one of the most popular and inclusive music traditions in the world. Although half of hip hop/rap music s power and ap...
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    57,35 €

  • Dating and Sex
    Amir Said
    The doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a fitting analogy and guide for dating and sex and the types of bonds that we form from these interpersonal relationships. Why some couples stay together (or why some bonds last) and why others ultimately split up (and why some bonds crash), often speaks to self-preservation. People in relationships - serious or casual - st...
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    19,98 €

  • Everyday Routine
    Amir Ali Said
    Everyday Routine: Poems from New York to Paris by Amir Ali Said (Performance Day) is a collection of poems that is refreshing in its style and direct in its candor.  Featuring unique insights on pop culture and the evolving ideologies of a young man moving from adolescence to adulthood, Everyday Routine: Poems from New York to Paris is a journey into the mind of a millennial as...
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    11,00 €

  • The Truth About New York
    Amir Said
    New York City is tough to figure out. For short-term visitors, this usually isn't a concern. But for long-term visitors, those who plan to or have already relocated, understanding NYC is a must. For many, the task of learning NYC becomes little more than a wishful bargain with time. But time and patience alone doesn't necessarily help you figure out NYC. That's wha...
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    34,44 €

  • Medium Speed in the City Called Paris
    Amir Said
    Medium Speed in the City Called Paris: Poems, Vol. 1 by Amir Said (The Truth About New York) is a collection of poems that is bold in its approach and broad in its appeal.  From the intricate nuances of city life in Paris and New York to the complex issues of race and inequality to love — won, lost, and disregarded — to the battle of man vs. machine (computers and networks), Me...
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    10,90 €

  • The Truth About New York
    Amir Said
    New York City is tough to figure out. For short-term visitors, this usually isn’t a concern. But for long-term visitors — those who plan to or have already relocated — understanding NYC is a must. For many, the task of learning NYC becomes little more than a wishful bargain with time. But time and patience alone doesn't necessarily help you figure out NYC.  That’s what mak...
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    17,39 €

  • The Art of Sampling
    Amir Said
    The art of sampling — one of the most innovative music processes to emerge in the late-twentieth century — stands today as both a celebrated art form and a cultural activity within the hip hop/rap music tradition and beyond.  'The Art of Sampling' (Amir Said, author of 'The BeatTips Manual'), examines this complex and controversial music process, and presents a ...
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    32,34 €

  • Ghetto Brother
    Amir Said / Benjy Melendez
    Benjy Melendez, founder of the Ghetto Brothers street gang, social activist, and lead singer of the Ghetto Brothers band, now tells his story: a memoir of life as a late 1960s/early 1970s street gang member, of a musician on the cusp of stardom, a fighter for peace, and a man on a quest to reclaim his Jewish roots. With chilling detail and candor, Benjy Melendez opens up as nev...
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    13,22 €

  • The BeatTips Manual
    Amir Said
    ’The BeatTips Manual’ (Amir Said) is the definitive study of the art of beatmaking (hip hop production). Brilliantly divided into five major parts - a riveting History part, an extensive Instruction (how-to) part, an insightful Interviews part, which features exclusive interviews with DJ Premier, DJ Toomp, Marley Marl, 9th Wonder and more, an explosive Music Theory part, and a...
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    39,50 €

  • Performance Day
    Amir Ali Said
    Performance Day: Short Stories, Poems, and Other Writings from a Curious Teen, the debut book by teenage author Amir Ali Said. In this engaging, wonderfully written collection of short stories, poems, film reviews, editorials, mini-memoirs, and more, Amir Ali Said takes you into the mind of a New York City teenager, as he combines his imagination with his deep curiosity about t...
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    10,77 €

  • After Khomeini
    Said Amir Arjomand
    For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W. Bush’s 'axis of evil' even before the appearance of Ahmadinejad. But what is the reality? How did Ahmadinejad rise to power, and how much power does he really have? What are the chances of normalizing relations with Iran? In After Khomeini, Sa�d Amir Arjomand paints a subtle and perceptive portrait of conte...
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    56,18 €

  • Constitutional Politics in the Middle East
    Said Amir Arjomand
    This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution-making in the Middle East. The historical background and setting are fully explored in two substantial essays by Linda Darling and Saïd Amir Arjomand, placing the contemporary experience in the contexts, respectively, of the ancient Middle Eastern legal and political tradi...
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    76,02 €

  • Turban for the Crown
    Said Amir Arjomand
    The Iranian revolution still baffles most Western observers. Few considered the rise of theocracy in a modernized state possible, and fewer thought it might result from a popular revolution. Said Amir Arjomand’s The Turban for the Crown provides a thoughtful, painstakingly researched, and intelligible account of the turmoil in Iran, revealing the importance of this singular eve...
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    30,18 €

  • Authority and Political Culture in Shi’ism
    Saïd Amir Arjomand
    The major theme of this book is authority in Shi`ism with special emphasis on its institutionalization in different historic periods from the beginning of Shi`ism in the Middle Ages to the present.Part I presents new material on important or neglected issues that are at the center of current scholarly debate, including the fundamental relationship between knowledge and authorit...
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    46,42 €