Prairie Directory of North America: The United States, Canada, and Mexico
Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz
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The first single, comprehensive source for locating North American public prairies, grasslands, and...
The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence
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American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing...
The Pygmy Hippo Story: West Africa's Enigma of the Rainforest
Phillip T. Robinson, Knut M. Hentschel and Gabriella L. Flacke
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Though the pygmy hippopotamus has been designated as a flagship species of West African forests...
Theory-Based Ecology: A Darwinian Approach
Liz Pasztor, Zoltan Botta-Dukat, Gabriella Magyar and Tamas Czaran
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Ecology is in a challenging state as a scientific discipline. While some theoretical ecologists are...
Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach
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Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach is an...
Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives
David Clarke and Eric F. Clarke
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What is consciousness? Why and when do we have it? Where does it come from, and how does it relate...
Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls
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Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the...
Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes
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When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking...
Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual
Jeffers Engelhardt and Philip Bohlman
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Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading...
Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema
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Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the...