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28 produkter
Nightingales in Berlin
Searching for the Perfect Sound
Inbunden, 2019
255 kr
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A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions,—from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art.But have you ever listened closely to a nightingale’s song? It’s a …
Writing the Future
Progress and Evolution
Av David Rothenberg, Wandee J. Pryor
Häftad, 2004
542 kr
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Why Birds Sing
A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song
Häftad, 2006
346 kr
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The astonishing richness of birdsong is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Evolutionists have never been able to completely explain why birdsong is so inventive and why many species devote so many hours to singing. The standard explanations of defending territories and attracting mates …
Hand's End
Technology and the Limits of Nature
Häftad, 1995
400 kr
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"Hand's End" offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers …
Hand's End
Technology and the Limits of Nature
E-bok, 1995
453 kr
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Hand''s End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature—the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers …
World and the Wild
Expanding Wilderness Conservation Beyond Its American Roots
Av David Rothenberg, Marta Ulvaeus
Häftad, 2001
287 kr
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Can nature be restored to a pristine state through deliberate action? Must the preservation of wilderness always subordinate the interests of humans to those of other species? Can indigenous peoples be entrusted with the guardianship of their own wild resources? This collection of international …
Is It Painful to Think
Conversations with Arne Naess
Häftad, 1992
287 kr
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Although he is known primarily as the inventor of the phrase "deep ecology," Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess's thoughts and approaches have waded through all the major streams and events of our times. From a childhood during World War I through the study of psychoanalysis in Freud's Vienna, …
Wild Ideas
Häftad, 1995
288 kr
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A new view of what’s “wild,” and a new path for environmentalism.At the very heart of American respect for nature, historically and philosophically, is the notion of the wild. This notion comes under scrutiny in Wild Ideas, a collection of essays that bring a fresh and refreshing perspective to the …
Book of Music and Nature
Av Marta Ulvaeus, David Rothenberg
Häftad, 2009
311 kr
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This innovative book, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this …
Sudden Music
Improvisation, Sound, Nature
E-bok, 2016
472 kr
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Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a …
Sudden Music
Improvisation, Sound, Nature
E-bok, 2016
470 kr
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Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a …
Bug Music
How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise
Av David Rothenberg, DANIELA RAPP m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
259 kr
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In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the North Eastern United States emerged from their seventeen year cycle - the longest gestation period of any animal. In listening to cicadas, as well as other humming, clicking, and thrumming insects, Bug Music is the first book to consider the radical notion …
Survival of the Beautiful
Art, Science, and Evolution
E-bok, 2012
123 kr
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A brilliant investigation of why nature is beautiful and how art has influenced science ''Rothenberg''s passionate optimism - a belief in the beauty of nature, and vice versa - together with his elegant prose turns Survival of the Beautiful into an exhilarating and thought provoking trip'' Sunday …
Fortune in My Eyes
A Memoir of Broadway Glamour, Social Justice and Political Passion
E-bok, 2000
253 kr
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David Rothenberg''s multilayered life thrust him into Broadway''s brightest lights, prison riots, political campaigns, civil rights sit-ins, and a Central American civil war. In his memoir, Fortune in My Eyes , his journey includes many of the most celebrated names in the theater: Richard Burton, …
Fortune in My Eyes
A Memoir of Broadway Glamour, Social Justice, and Political Passion
Häftad, 2015
232 kr
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David Rothenberg's multilayered life thrust him into Broadway's brightest lights, prison riots, political campaigns, civil rights sit-ins, and a Central American civil war. In his memoir, Fortune in My Eyes, his journey includes many of the most celebrated names in the theater: Richard Burton, …
Stadt der Nachtigallen
Berlins perfekter Sound
E-bok, 2020
170 kr
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David Rothenberg hat Musik mit Walen, Insekten, mit Wasser und Wind gemacht: Den perfekten Sound haben ihm dann aber die Berliner Nachtigallen geliefert, die dort imWettkampf mit dem Stadtlärm über sich hinauswachsen.Der amerikanische Musikologe und Musiker Rothenberg, eine Ikone der …
Parliament of Minds
Philosophy for a New Millennium
Av Michael Tobias, J. Patrick Fitzgerald m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1087 kr
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In this companion volume to the national public television documentary of the same name, interviews of philosophy luminaries expose the relevance of philosophy to everyday life.A Parliament of Minds brings together groundbreaking interviews with a diverse cross-section of contemporary philosophers, …
Parliament of Minds
Philosophy for a New Millennium
Av Michael Tobias, J. Patrick Fitzgerald m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
422 kr
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In this companion volume to the national public television documentary of the same name, interviews of philosophy luminaries expose the relevance of philosophy to everyday life.A Parliament of Minds brings together groundbreaking interviews with a diverse cross-section of contemporary philosophers, …
Always the Mountains
Häftad, 2007
475 kr
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David Rothenberg is one of our most eloquent observers of the interplay between nature, culture, and technology. These nineteen pieces exemplify what has been called Rothenberg's "amiable" mix of interests, styles, and approaches.In settings that range from wildest Norway to his own front porch in …
Sudden Music
Improvisation, Sound, Nature
Häftad, 2016
505 kr
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Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a …
Survival of the Beautiful
Art, Science, and Evolution
Häftad, 2013
121 kr
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A brilliant investigation of why nature is beautiful and how art has influenced science'Rothenberg's passionate optimism - a belief in the beauty of nature, and vice versa - together with his elegant prose turns Survival of the Beautiful into an exhilarating and thought provoking trip' Sunday …
Whale Music
Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound
Av David Rothenberg, Scott McVay
Häftad, 2023
329 kr
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