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How ethnological show business shaped European and American perceptions of Africa and Africans.

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Offers the English-speaking reader intimate contact with one of the most basic Heideggerian concepts

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A comprehensive history of North American railroad electrification.

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Saint Lambert's Nouveau traite de l'accompagnement de clavecin, de l'orgue, et des autres instruments of 1707 supplements his earlier harpsichord treatise, Les Principes du clavecin of 1702. The Nouveau traite is a method book specifically designed for the accompanist rather than the solo performer. It offers practical suggestions to help the accompanist play the correct harmony without having to read all the notated parts at the same time. Saint Lambert discusses accompanying from unfigured and partly figured basses, and his was one of the first attempts to codify bass progressions into specific formulas, for which he assigns appropriate harmonies. He describes possible departures from the usual rules of accompaniment and examines performance techniques used by tasteful accompanists in order to create not merely a correct but an artistic accompaniment. John Powell presents Saint Lambert's text in a readable English translation with musical examples in modern notation. He compares Sain

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Applying gesture to explore performance, therapeutic, and compositional practices

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A comprehensive critical study of the 315 extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the 12th and 13th centuries and then, provides brief biographies of the 42 troubadours whose music survives.

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The battle of Heligoland Bight was the first major action between the British and German fleets during the First World War. The British orchestrated the battle as a warning to the German high command that any attempt to operate their naval forces in the North Sea would be met by strong British resistance.

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Provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction

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As an Official Army Photographer, Mac Fleming's assignment was to take motion pictures of significant wartime events for the US Army. In the pouch intended to carry his first-aid kit on his belt, he instead carried a small personal camera, which he used to take pictures of the people and places that interested him, capturing in his field notes details of the life he observed. From these records, Fleming has assembled this absorbing private chronicle of war and peace. Assigned to the European Theater in February 1945, he filmed the action from the battle for the Remagen Bridge across the Rhine, to the fighting in the Hartz Mountains, on to the linkup with the Russian forces at the Elbe River. After the armistice, Fleming helped document how the Allied Expeditionary Force established a military government in Germany to cope with masses of POWs, establish control of the country, deal with the atrocities committed by the German army, and help thousands of newly released slave laborers retu

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Examining tragedy as one of the highest forms of human expression for both the ancients and the moderns, this book presents what Greek tragedy and German philosophy reveal about the meaning of art for ethical life.

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One of the most comprehensive, entertaining studies of bird vocalisations available. It offers a global survey of modes of singing, encompassing more than 5,000 species of singing birds, with special analyses of nearly 200 species with highly developed songs.

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A study of the music of the Baroque period, with a focus on the 17th century. It examines composers and genres from Russia, the Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, and Latin America. It also includes musical examples from various genres and instrumental combinations.

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Monitor lizards (genus Varanus) have attracted a great deal of interest - these large and impressive lizards are often the centerpiece of reptile house exhibits. This title presents an account of virtually things important that is known about monitor lizards, beginning with species accounts and proceeding to various modern comparative analyses.

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The siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations. This book brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.

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Presents a journey through the universe of signs in search of how the natural world came to mean something to someone. This book shows that life at its most basic depends on the survival of messages, written in the code of DNA molecules, and on the tiny cell - the fertilized egg - that must interpret the message and from it construct an organism.

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Opens the beauty and power of Arabic poetic masterpieces to Western readers.

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The story of expeditions into Africa in search of dinosaur bones.

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Based on the words and works of working-class artists in Brazil, Sacred Art holds rich, fresh information for all who care about art and religion.

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Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was the most influential composer for the organ in the 20th century. Using Messiaen's own analytical and aesthetic notes as a point of departure, this title offers commentary on the performance of Messiaen's 66 organ works. It provides background information on the composition and premiere of each piece.

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Drawing on Foucault's concept of ethics as an "art of living," this book shows how Beauvoir developed an individual ethic as an intellectual woman. It illustrates how closely Beauvoir's life and work were intertwined-how she lived her philosophy and philosophized her life.

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A broad survey and analysis of Islamic activist movements throughout the Muslim world

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