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View book details for Capturing Sound
How Technology Has Changed Music
University of California Press
There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history …
University of California Press
Despite the historical importance of the Vietnam War, we know very little about what the Vietnamese people thought and felt prior to the conflict. Americans have tended to treat Vietnam as an extension of their own hopes and fears, successes …
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The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture
University of California Press
The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's …
University of California Press
"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch …
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Orson Welless Pan-American Odyssey
University of California Press
Variously described as a work of genius, a pretentious wreck, a crucially important film, and a victim of its director's ego, among other things, It's All True, shot in Mexico and Brazil between 1941 and 1942, is the legendary movie …
University of California Press
Physics and chemistry are distinguished from biology by the way generalizations are codified into theories tested by observation and experimentation. Some theories have been sufficiently tested to qualify as laws. In ecology, generalizations worthy of being called theories are less …
View book details for Not by Design
Retiring Darwins Watchmaker
University of California Press
More than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the universe necessitated a designer. Today, some 150 years since Darwin's On the …
View book details for From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry
Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950
University of California Press
How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the …
View book details for The Silk Weavers of Kyoto
Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry
University of California Press
The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft …
University of California Press
This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how …
View book details for Ocean
Reflections on a Century of Exploration
University of California Press
The past one hundred years of ocean science have been distinguished by dramatic milestones, remarkable discoveries, and major revelations. This book is a clear and lively survey of many of these amazing findings. Beginning with a brief review of the …
View book details for God in the Tumult of the Global Square
Religion in Global Civil Society
University of California Press
How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive …
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The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa
University of California Press
The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict. Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANCs liberal democratic platform and …
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Making Sense of Pediatric Pain
University of California Press
Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending anothers internal state, language is all that we have to …
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David Baltimore's Life in Science
University of California Press
Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the …
View book details for Barrio Rising
Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
University of California Press
Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin Americas most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was risingunruly, contentious, …
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Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
University of California Press
The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach …
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Film Libraries before Home Video
University of California Press
Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction …
Taylor and Francis
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five …
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Supporting student success
Taylor and Francis
Encouraging Diversity in Higher Education: Supporting Student Success provides an overview of the widening participation movement in Higher Education in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and New Zealand. It argues that universities should revitalise their learning and teaching practices …
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How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs
Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated bestseller explores more than 200 classic riffs, from Cream and Led Zeppelin, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, U2, and the White Stripes. The first half of the book analyzes classic rock riffs and reveals …
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A Comprehensive Guide to Public Tent and RV Campgrounds
Falcon Guides
The classic guide to Montana's gorgeous campgrounds, now completely updated and revised!Camping Montana details nearly 300 public campgrounds accessible by vehicle--from Kalispell to Miles City and everywhere in between. Outdoor enthusiasts are sure to find the perfect spot in which …
View book details for Trauma Surgery
Volume 2: Thoracic and Abdominal Trauma
Trauma surgery has increasingly become a specialized field inspired by different principles and philosophy. A good trauma surgeon is a surgeon who knows how to perform abdominal, vascular, thoracic, urologic, gynecologic, and orthopaedic procedures and is able to repair multiple …
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Protocollo Montreal per la valutazione delle abilita comunicative
Il Protocollo Montreal per la valutazione delle Abilita Comunicative, adattamento in lingua italiana del Protocole Montreal d'Evaluation de la Communication, e il primo strumento clinico di valutazione delle abilita comunicative in pazienti con danno cerebrale (lesione emisferica destra, trauma cranico) …
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A Comprehensive Surgical Approach
This book initiates the descriptions of the practical performance of different hysterectomies with conventional and robotically assisted laparoscopy, laparotomy and vaginal surgery. Laparoscopic hysterectomy has been out as an additional technique for hysterectomies for the last couple of decades. As …
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