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"[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life's sound." -The New York
Times Book Review A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of
our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and
the perils that sonic diversity now faces We live on a planet alive
with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these
wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound
and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution's
creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the
streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and
adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to
beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In
the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different
continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep
history of animal groups and their movements around the world, and
the quirks of aesthetic evolution. Starting with the origins of
animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell
illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of
our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins
in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn
that human music and language belong within this story of ecology
and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or
smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us
to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets,
and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory
ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic
diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The
appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an
important guide in today's convulsions and crises of change and
inequity. Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen,
wonder, belong, and act.
An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and
the joys and threats of human music, language and noise. 'A
symphony, filled with the music of life . . . fascinating,
heartbreaking, and beautifully written.' ELIZABETH KOLBERT, author
of The Sixth Extinction 'Sounds Wild and Broken affirms Haskell as
a laureate for the earth, his finely tuned scientific observations
made more potent by his deep love for the wild he hopes to save.'
NEW YORK TIMES 'Wonderful . . . a reminder that the narrow aural
spectrum on which most of us operate, and the ways in which human
life is led, blocks out the planet's great, orchestral richness.'
GUARDIAN We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech.
David George Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In
rainforests shimmering with insect sounds and swamps pulsing with
frog calls we learn about evolution's creative powers. From birds
in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how
animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the
waves, we hear our kinship to beings as different as snapping
shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In the startlingly divergent sonic
vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the
legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animals and their
movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution.
Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole
arc of Earth's history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the
emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory
flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and
electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language
belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also
destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the
living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled
oceans, and loud city streets to show that sonic crises are not
mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and
so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative,
less beautiful. Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen,
wonder, act. 'Absolutely fascinating.' MARIELLA FROSTRUP, TIMES
RADIO 'Enlightening and sobering.' JINI REDDY, METRO
Heaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly
illustrated history of the Pacific Northwestâs beloved bivalve,
the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and
clam beds from 11,500 years ago, this book covers the history of
oyster cultivation through contemporary aquaculture in coastal
Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, northern California, and
southeastern Alaska. Generations of oyster farmers, Native and
non-Native, have weathered many challenges to continue the harvest.
Their vivid individual accounts are braided together with
significant history, such as the major contributions of Japanese
immigrants prior to World War II and the 1994 Rafeedie decision
that affirmed shellfish harvesting rights held by Northwest tribes.
The book also sheds light on the innovations that made oysters an
enduringly popular food, from the creation of so-called sexless
oysters that could be consumed year-round to breakthroughs in
contemporary oyster cuisine. Now fully updated and expandedâand
chock-full of âoysterabiliaââthis classic text shares new
insights on emerging challenges to the oyster farmerâs life as
well as increased coverage of the roles of women and contemporary
tribes in building this cultural tradition, past and present.
Newcomers and aficionados alike will also be delighted by the
carefully selected recipes, both historic and contemporary, from
the regionâs top chefs. As the old saying goes, when the tide is
out, the table is set.
This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in
the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a
gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this
rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word
usage within The New York Times, starting in 1900. It is not always
obvious how the changes identified necessarily reflect a stronger
prejudice toward laissez-faire free market capitalism, and so much
of the book seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which the
changing language indeed carries with it a political message. This
analysis is made through exploration of five major areas of focus:
"economics rhetoric" scholarship and the growing "behavioral
economics" school of thought; the discourse of government and
taxation; the changing meaning of "competition," and "competitive";
changing attitudes toward labor; and the celebration of growth
relative to the decline in attention to economic justice and social
equality.
Flash and Crash Days deals with the theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially its postmodernist directors, women playwrights and theatre companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 1960s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the wake of the 1968 state of siege declared by the generals? Did the return to civilian government fail to create conditions for a new theatre? This book examines how the absence of censorship, on the one hand, and the exigencies of protest and ideological purity on the other have given rise to a variety of theatrical modes which Brazil has never experienced in the past, allowing all voices the opportunity to be heard.
Calling all equestrians and horse enthusiasts! Inside Out: Horse gives you an exclusive look at the many exciting parts of the horse, from the powerful muscles that create its gallop, to the special stomach that helps digest more than twenty pounds of grass a day. Alongside beautiful illustrations and photographs, an interactive die-cut model reveals the different systems of the horse.
A major contemporary playwright and director. By the late 1970s,
internationally known performance groups such as Els Joglars, La
Fura dels Baus or La Cubana had precipitated a decline in
text-based Catalan theatre, reversed in the mid 1980s with the
appearance of a younger generation of playwrights led by Sergi
Belbel. Influenced by contemporary European rather than Spanish or
Catalan drama, his work was very different from the realist idiom
favoured by playwrights of the Franco generation. Butplaywriting is
only one aspect of Belbel's work as a theatre practitioner. He also
has a highly successful career as a director of Spanish, Catalan
and foreign plays [a number of which he himself has translated],
and, since 2006,he has held the position of Artistic Director of
the National Theatre of Catalonia. This study examines these three
key aspects of his career, as well as Ventura Pons's film
adaptations of his plays. Finally, it considersthe reception of his
plays in several countries, analysing his evolving relationship
with critics at home and abroad. DAVID GEORGE is Professor of
Hispanic Studies at Swansea University.
First Published in 1968. This second edition includes the 'Tragedy
of Negrais' as a new appendix. Originally published in 1928 for the
University of Rangoon and the sequel three years later- 'Tragedy of
Negrais' as a journal for the Burma Research Society. During the
Japanese occupation of Burma from 1942 to 1945 unsold copies were
lost or destroyed. This volume is a reprint of the original
research into the East India Company's records at the India Office.
They tell the story of English relations with Burma from the days
of Elizabeth I to the beginning of the long break which started in
1762, which started due to the incident in 1759 known as the
'massacre of Negrais' and ended in 1795.
Drawing on a rich, yet untapped, source of Scottish
autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight
into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives.
Over 80 such personal documents, including diaries and
autobiographies, manuscript and published, clerical and lay,
feminine and masculine, are examined and placed both within the
context of seventeenth-century Scotland, and also early-modern
narratives produced elsewhere. In addition to the focus on
narrative, the study also revolves around the notion of conversion,
which, while a concept known in many times and places, is not
universal in its meaning, but must be understood within the
peculiarities of a specific context and the needs of writers
located in a specific tradition, here, Puritanism and evangelical
Presbyterianism. These conversions and the narratives which provide
a means of articulation draw deeply from the Bible, including the
Psalms and the Song of Solomon. The context must also include an
appreciation of the political history, especially during the
religious persecutions under Charles II and James VII, and later
the changing and unstable conditions experienced after the arrival
of William and Mary on her father's throne. Another crucial context
in shaping these narratives was the form of religious discourse
manifested in sermons and other works of divinity and the work
seeks to investigate relations between ministers and their
listeners. Through careful analysis of these narratives, viewing
them both as individual documents and as part of a wider genre, a
fuller picture of seventeenth-century life can be drawn, especially
in the context of the family and personal development. Thus the
book may be of interest to students in a variety of areas of study,
including literary, historical, and theological contexts. It
provides for a greater understanding of the motivations behind such
personal expressions of early-modern religious faith, whose echoes
can still be heard today.
Throughout the twentieth century Scottish literary studies was
dominated by a critical consensus that critiqued contemporary
anti-Catholic by advancing a re-reading of the Reformation. This
consensus understood that Scotland's rich medieval culture had been
replaced with an anti-aesthetic tyranny of life and letters. As a
result, Scottish literature has consistently been defined in
opposition to the Calvinism to which it frequently returns. Yet, as
the essays in this collection show, such a consensus appears
increasingly untenable in light both of recent research and a more
detailed survey of Scottish literature. This collection launches a
full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between
literature and reformation in early modern Scotland. Previous
scholarship in this area has tended to dismiss the literary value
of the writing of the period - largely as a reaction to its regular
theological interests. Instead the essays in this volume reinforce
recent work that challenges the received scholarly consensus by
taking these interests seriously. This volume argues for the
importance of this religiously orientated writing, through the
adoption of a series of interdisciplinary approaches. Arranged
chronologically, the collection concentrates on major authors and
texts while engaging with a number of contemporary critical issues
and so highlighting, for example, writing by women in the period.
It addresses the concerns of historians and theologians who have
routinely accepted the established reading of this period of
literary history in Scotland and offers a radically new
interpretation of the complex relationships between literature and
religious reform in early modern Scotland.
This second edition provides busy teachers, other educational
professionals and parents with user-friendly text and worksheets to
enable them to identify and provide provision for gifted and
talented children. The author takes a multi-dimensional view of
ability and believes in educating the whole child, with a
curriculum of opportunity that provides high level learning
experiences. The book has been updated in view of the developments
in the education of gifted and talented children, with particular
attention paid to: strategies for differentiation; thinking skills;
and subject-specific enrichment.;This book is a practical companion
to the author's popular "The Challenge of the Able Child", (David
Fulton Publishers, 1997). By using many photocopiable worksheets
and helpful checklists, and always bearing in mind the needs of the
busy practitioner, this book should prove useful for anyone working
in this area of education. Teachers, GATCOs, teaching assistants
and parents should find the information clear and the suggested
strategies rooted in good practice for teaching children of all
abilities.
"Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship
Period" deals with the theater produced in Brazil during the 1980s
and 1990s, especially postmodernist directors, women playwrights,
and theater companies. It attempts to answer the following
questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 60s wither
during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the
wake of the 1968 state of siege declared by the generals? Did the
return to civilian government fail to create conditions for a new
theater? A cursory glance at what little U.S. commentary on
Brazilian theater has appeared in recent years could well lead one
to answer all of the above questions in the affirmative. Scholars
beyond Brazil's borders appear to have bonded with those
individuals and companies which contested and then fell victim to
repression in the 1960s and 1970s. So pervasive is this scholarly
trend that a vacuum, an empty stage has been created. There seems
to be an unstated assumption that theater in Brazil thrives only
under repression and dictatorship. It is an illusory vacuum. "Flash
and Crash Days" examines how the absence of censorship, on the one
hand, and the exigencies of protest and ideological purity on the
other, have given rise to a variety of theatrical modes which
Brazil has never experienced in the past, allowing all voices the
opportunity to be heard in the marketplace of artistic ideas:
women's perspectives, particularly those expressed by playwrights;
sexual identity, including gender construction and gay
perspectives; psychological issues; the individual in society;
religion; formal experimentation
Many able children are underachieving in schools because teachers
and parents are failing to identify and therefore adequately
provide for their special needs. This work aims to assist teachers
in becoming more patient and observant in the classroom so that
they can accurately define their objectives in providing for these
children. It also aims to help teachers and parents discover the
excitement, challenge and pleasure of teaching able children and
helping them to achieve their considerable potential.;This edition
includes updates and additions in computer technology, new
resources and an expanded bibliography.
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This second edition provides busy teachers, other educational
professsionals and parents with user-friendly text and worksheets
to enable them to identify and provide provision for The author
takes a multi-dimensional view of ability and believes in educating
the whole child, with a curriculum of opportunity that provides
high-level learning experiences. The book has been updated in view
of the developments in the education of gifted and talented
children, with particular attention paid to strategies for
differentiation, thinking skills and subject-specific enrichment.
This book is a practical companion tot he author's popular The
Challenge of the Able Child. By using many photocopiable worksheets
and helpful checklists, and always bearing in mind the needs of the
busy practitioner, this book will useful for anyone working in this
area of education. Teachers, GATCOs, teaching assistants and
parents should find the information clear and the suggested
strategies rooted in good practice for teaching children of all
abilities.
This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in
the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a
gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this
rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word
usage within The New York Times, starting in 1900. It is not always
obvious how the changes identified necessarily reflect a stronger
prejudice toward laissez-faire free market capitalism, and so much
of the book seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which the
changing language indeed carries with it a political message. This
analysis is made through exploration of five major areas of focus:
"economics rhetoric" scholarship and the growing "behavioral
economics" school of thought; the discourse of government and
taxation; the changing meaning of "competition," and "competitive";
changing attitudes toward labor; and the celebration of growth
relative to the decline in attention to economic justice and social
equality.
First Published in 1968. This second edition includes the 'Tragedy
of Negrais' as a new appendix. Originally published in 1928 for the
University of Rangoon and the sequel three years later- 'Tragedy of
Negrais' as a journal for the Burma Research Society. During the
Japanese occupation of Burma from 1942 to 1945 unsold copies were
lost or destroyed. This volume is a reprint of the original
research into the East India Company's records at the India Office.
They tell the story of English relations with Burma from the days
of Elizabeth I to the beginning of the long break which started in
1762, which started due to the incident in 1759 known as the
'massacre of Negrais' and ended in 1795.
'My favourite book of the year' - Kate Humble, Radio Times 'This is
a book for literary connoisseurs, fact-lovers and
environmentalists. In short, it is a book about trees and people,
for everyone.' - BBC Countryfile 'Eclectic, brilliant and
beautifully written, David Haskell reboots our aromatic memory
reminding us of how our lives are intertwined with the wonder of
trees. A treat not to be sneezed at.' - Sir Peter Crane, FRS
'Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree is a transportive olfactory journey
through the forest that sets the sense tingling. Every chapter
summons a new aroma: leaf litter and woodsmoke, pine resin and
tannin, quinine and bay leaf - life in all its glorious complexity.
David George Haskell is a knowledgeable, witty and erudite
companion, who takes us by the hand and leads us through the world,
reminding us to breathe it all in. This book is a breath of fresh
air.' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment Thirteen Ways to
Smell a Tree takes you on a journey to connect with trees through
the sense most aligned to our emotions and memories. Thirteen
essays are included that explore the evocative scents of trees,
from the smell of a book just printed as you first open its pages,
to the calming scent of Linden blossom, to the ingredients of a
particularly good gin & tonic: In your hand: a highball glass,
beaded with cool moisture. In your nose: the aromatic embodiment of
globalized trade. The spikey, herbal odour of European juniper
berries. A tang of lime juice from a tree descended from wild
progenitors in the foothills of the Himalayas. Bitter quinine, from
the bark of the South American cinchona tree, spritzed into your
nostrils by the pop of sparkling tonic water. Take a sip, feel the
aroma and taste three continents converge. Each essay also contains
a practice the reader is invited to experience. For example, taking
a tree inventory of your own home, appreciating just how many
things around us came from trees. And if you've ever hugged a tree
when no one was looking, try breathing in the scents of different
trees that live near you, the smell of pine after the rain, the
refreshing, mind-clearing scent of a eucalyptus leaf crushed in
your hand. Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree also contains everyday
practices the reader is invited to experience. For example, taking
a tree inventory of your own home, appreciating just how many
things around us came from trees. And if you've ever hugged a tree
when no one was looking, try breathing in the scents of different
trees that live near you, the smell of pine after the rain, the
refreshing, mind-clearing scent of a eucalyptus leaf crushed in
your hand.
This book combines elements of economic and business history to
study business ethics from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
This book begins with so-called primitive people, showing how
humans began to exchange goods and commodities from trade as a way
to keep peace and prosper. The ancients considered the value and
ethics of business, and many of their reflections influenced
medieval Catholic thinkers and business participants. Protestants
elevated working and profit-making to the respectable and virtuous,
and some groups, such as Quakers, came to exemplify good business
ethics. This book draws on the work of economists and historians to
highlight the importance of changing technologies, religious
beliefs, and cultural attitudes, showing that what is considered
ethical differs across time and place.
This book combines elements of economic and business history to
study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It
concentrates on American and British business history, delving into
issues such as slavery, industrialization, firm behavior and
monopolies, and Ponzi schemes. This book draws on the work of
economists and historians to highlight the importance of changing
technologies, religious beliefs, and cultural attitudes, showing
that what is considered ethical differs across time and place.
First published in 2004, David George's majestic compendium of
criticism relating to Shakespeare's Coriolanus was recognised as a
major contribution to teaching and scholarship on the play. This
new edition has been updated with a new supplementary introduction
by the author tracing criticism on the play since that first
publication, including materialist, psychoanalytic and feminist
readings, as well as further readings of the play's politics. As
with all titles in the series, this edition increases our knowledge
of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics,
editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate
sections, both critical opinions about the play across the
centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their
impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement
of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased
dialogue, whereas the substantial introduction offers a critical
evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and
methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our
understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean
criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to
century.
People once thought that sharks weren't very smart. It turns out those
people were WRONG!
Wise-cracking sharks set the record straight in this funny, fact-filled
book for young shark lovers. Sharks have their own way of thinking. And
their way of thinking has made them one of the top predators in the
ocean. Sharks can sniff out injured animals over great distances. As
hunters, they use their special electro-sense to zero in on hidden
prey. They have taste buds in their razor-sharp teeth. And, like
people, sharks are playful and curious, and they can learn and
remember.
In Are You Smarter Than...A Shark?, discover what makes a shark a
shark, and what makes them different from other fish. Learn about
countershading, mermaid's purses, dermal denticles, and more. Explore a
shark's watery world and meet their finny friends and weird relatives.
Five "Test Your Shark Smarts" activities let you test your senses
against a shark's senses. Can you identify a secret ingredient through
smell alone? Is your hearing better above or below water? How do your
teeth compare to those of different sharks? Who would win a tasting
contest? Best yet, Are You Smarter Than...A Shark? has humor.
Funny jokes and cartoon illustrations, along with robust information,
make this a book you'll want to dive into again and again.
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