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Shelter Sign and Symbol

Product Description: Exploratory work on vernacular architecture.

By Paul Oliver

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Hardcover:

9780879510688, titled "Shelter, Sign, and Symbol" | Overlook Pr, November 7, 1977, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Book by Oliver, Paul

Paperback:

9780879511128 | Overlook Pr, November 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Exploratory work on vernacular architecture.

The Story of the Blues

Product Description: Now available in an updated edition, Paul Oliver's classic history of the blues is widely recognized as the definitive work on the subject. Featuring more than two hundred vintage photographs and a new introduction by the author, the engaging, informative volume brings to life the African American singers and players who created this rich genre of music, as well as the settings and experiences that inspired them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul Oliver

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Hardcover:

9781555533557 | New sub edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, May 1, 1998), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Now available in an updated edition, Paul Oliver's classic history of the blues is widely recognized as the definitive work on the subject.

9780517364246 | Random House Value Pub, April 1, 1982, cover price $9.99 | also contains Daughter of Twin Oaks

9780801954412 | Reissue edition (Chilton Book Co, January 1, 1982), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Now available in an updated edition, Paul Oliver's classic history of the blues is widely recognized as the definitive work on the subject.

Paperback:

9781555533540 | Reprint edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, April 30, 1998), cover price $29.95

9780801958540 | Reissue edition (Chilton Book Co, January 1, 1982), cover price $9.95

Conversations With the Blues

By Paul Oliver

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Paperback:

9780818012235 | Horizon Pr, November 1, 1983, cover price $9.95

Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records

Product Description: In this innovatory book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions presented on Race records. When blues first reached a large audience it was through the 'Race records' issued specifically for black purchasers in the 1920s...read more

By Paul Oliver

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Hardcover:

9780521248273 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $59.95 | also contains Fearless Negotiating | About this edition: In this innovatory book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions presented on Race records.

Songsters and Saints

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By Paul Oliver

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Paperback:

9780521269421 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $44.99

Dwellings: The House Across the World

By Paul Oliver

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Hardcover:

9780292715547 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $40.00

Paperback:

9780292715554 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $27.50

Blues Off the Record: Thirty Years of Blues Commentary

Product Description: Paperback, 4to, 297pp with index. Gift inscription on title page. Else fine. All domestic orders $100 and over will be upgraded to USPS Priority shipping at no additional cost.

By Paul Oliver

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Paperback:

9780306803215 | Da Capo Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Paperback, 4to, 297pp with index.

Screening the Blues: Aspects of the Blues Tradition

By Paul Oliver

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Paperback:

9780306803444 | Da Capo Pr, March 21, 1989, cover price $16.95

Blues Off the Record: 30 Years of Blues Commentary

By Paul Oliver

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Hardcover:

9780859361538 | Seven Hills Books, August 1, 1989, cover price $24.95

The Blackwell Guide to Blues Records

Discusses the history of the blues, and recommends important records in each regional blues tradition

By Paul Oliver (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780631165163 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1989, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history of the blues, and recommends important records in each regional blues tradition

Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues

Examines themes, backgrounds, and motivation of the blues from the 1920s to the 1950s

By Paul Oliver

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Hardcover:

9780521374378 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 27, 1990), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This is a new, thoroughly revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues.

Paperback:

9780521477383 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1994), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Examines themes, backgrounds, and motivation of the blues from the 1920s to the 1950s

9780521377935 | 2 revised edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Examines themes, backgrounds, and motivation of the blues from the 1920s to the 1950s

Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution to Popular Music

Product Description: What is "black music"? Do all musicians play it? Can whites play "black music"? These are difficult yet fundamental questions which Paul Oliver addresses at length in this volume, which places the contribution of black musicians to popular music in its socio-historical contexts...read more

By Paul Oliver (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780335152988 | Open Univ Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: What is "black music"?

Paperback:

9780335152971 | Open Univ Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $34.95

Architecture: An Invitation

Product Description: Book by Oliver, Paul; Hayward, Richard

By Richard Hayward and Paul Oliver

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Hardcover:

9780631161295 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1990, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Book by Oliver, Paul; Hayward, Richard

The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues/With Cd Supplement Bound in Book

Discusses the history of the blues, and recommends important records in each regional blues tradition

By Paul Oliver (editor)

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Paperback:

9780631183013 | Revised edition (Blackwell Pub, November 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history of the blues, and recommends important records in each regional blues tradition

Early Blues Songbook

Product Description: Eighty-five songs made famous by the greatest American blues singers and players. With many rare photographs and a 50-page history of the blues. Includes: See See Rider, The Blues Ain't Nothin But, T'aint Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do, How Long How Long Blues, and Salty Dog Blues...read more

By Paul Oliver (editor)

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Paperback:

9780846424925 | Beekman Books Inc, December 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Eighty-five songs made famous by the greatest American blues singers and players.

9780860019428 | Music Sales Corp, December 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Eighty-five songs made famous by the greatest American blues singers and players.

Dunroamin: The Suburban Semi and Its Enemies

Product Description: Born between the Wars, British suburbia has endured and prospered, despite being so often the butt of architectural and social snobbery. In words and pictures, this book investigates the suburbs in which half the population of Britain live.

By Ian Bentley, Ian Davis and Paul Oliver

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Paperback:

9780712660297 | Pimlico, November 1, 1994, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Born between the Wars, British suburbia has endured and prospered, despite being so often the butt of architectural and social snobbery.

Competence and Accountability in Education

Product Description: Offers a variety of views on competence and accountability in education and means of achieving it. The study looks at NVQ assessment, competence in the nursing context, initial teacher-training, the professional teaching environment, and ideas for a blueprint for education in the next 25 years...read more

By Peter McKenzie (editor), Philip Mitchell (editor) and Paul Oliver (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781857422795 | Arena, July 1, 1995, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Offers a variety of views on competence and accountability in education and means of achieving it.

The New Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues

Product Description: This is the fully revised edition of Paul Oliver's successful The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues. It has been entirely rewritten to take account of the CD revolution in which some 6,000 blues CDs have been issued over the last five years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Cowley (editor) and Paul Oliver (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780631201632 | Subsequent edition (Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1996), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This is the fully revised edition of Paul Oliver's successful The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues.

Paperback:

9780631196396 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1996, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This is the fully revised edition of Paul Oliver's successful The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues.

The Management of Educational Change: A Case-Study Approach

Product Description: This work examines the management of educational change, covering literacy skills for 11-year olds, distance education for community nurses, the application of TQM to a college of further education, and management of workplace learning. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul Oliver (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781857423792 | Arena, December 1, 1996, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This work examines the management of educational change, covering literacy skills for 11-year olds, distance education for community nurses, the application of TQM to a college of further education, and management of workplace learning.

Product Description: From advertising to zydeco, this volume provides a guide to scholarly literature on the popular music of the world. It covers non-biographical aspects of the field, including genres, the industry, social and cultural contexts, musical practices, geographical locations and theory and method...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Horn (compiler), Dave Laing (compiler), Paul Oliver (compiler), John Shepherd (editor), Philip Tagg (compiler) and Peter Wicke (compiler)

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Hardcover:

9780720123449 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 1, 1997, cover price $240.00 | About this edition: From advertising to zydeco, this volume provides a guide to scholarly literature on the popular music of the world.

Conversation With the Blues

Reproduced in a larger format containing a new introduction and a compact disc, a collection of interviews with blues musicians--from the segregated South to the urban North--conducted in 1960 features photographs taken by the author. UP. (view table of contents)

By Paul Oliver (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521591812 | 2 har/com edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $119.99 | About this edition: Reproduced in a larger format containing a new introduction and a compact disc, a collection of interviews with blues musicians--from the segregated South to the urban North--conducted in 1960 features photographs taken by the author.

Research

Product Description: Author and teacher Paul Oliver follows the evolution of the research process from initial design of an investigation, through data collection and analysis, to writing the results. Oliver shows that it is possible to carry out straightforward research of almost any kind and achieve satisfactory results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul Oliver

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Paperback:

9780844200156 | Teach Yourself, March 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Author and teacher Paul Oliver follows the evolution of the research process from initial design of an investigation, through data collection and analysis, to writing the results.

How to Study

Product Description: Book by Oliver, Paul (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul Oliver

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9780844202327 | Teach Yourself, November 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Oliver, Paul

Estudiar con exito/ How to Study

Product Description: El libro contiene ideas que permiten mejorar la planificacion del trabajo y del esfuerzo en el tiempo de estudio y, con ello, conseguir los mejores resultados: Explica como prepararse y organizar los recursos necesarios para el estudio...read more

By Paul Oliver

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Paperback:

9788436813920 | Piramide Ediciones Sa, June 30, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: El libro contiene ideas que permiten mejorar la planificacion del trabajo y del esfuerzo en el tiempo de estudio y, con ello, conseguir los mejores resultados: Explica como prepararse y organizar los recursos necesarios para el estudio.

Lifelong and Continuing Education: What Is a Learning Society?

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By Paul Oliver (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781840149050 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, August 1, 1999, cover price $130.00

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