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  • Survival of the Beautiful

    Art, Science, and Evolution

    by David Rothenberg ...
    "The peacock's tail," said Charles Darwin, "makes me sick." That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetics than the practical. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bug Music

    How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise

    by David Rothenberg ...
    " Bug Music is a cool groove of biology, music, and human culture from an interspecies musician and scholar fully in tune with nature." —John Marzluff, author of Gifts of the CrowWhen the Northeastern United States cicadas emerge from their seventeen-year cycle, those who experience this great sonic invasion compare their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse. This unending ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Fortune in My Eyes

    A Memoir of Broadway Glamour, Social Justice and Political Passion

    by David Rothenberg ...
    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, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Sir John Gielgud, Charles Boyer, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, Charles Laughton, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nightingales in Berlin

    Searching for the Perfect Sound

    by David Rothenberg ...
    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 strange and unsettling sort of composition—an eclectic assortment of chirps, whirs, trills, clicks, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whale Music

    Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound

    by David Rothenberg ...
    The marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science.Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence—not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining, Whale Music uses the enigma of whale sounds to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sudden Music

    Improvisation, Sound, Nature

    by David Rothenberg ...
    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 musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Flower of Paradise

    Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music

    by David J. Rothenberg ...
    There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres--one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular--both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each does so through highly stylized derivations of traditional medieval song forms--Marian prayer derived from earlier Gregorian ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • The Book of Music and Nature

    An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts

    Edited by David Rothenberg, Marta Ulvaeus ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    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 collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Understanding the New Proxy Wars

    Battlegrounds and Strategies Reshaping the Greater Middle East

    Edited by Peter Bergen, Candace Rondeaux, Daniel Rothenberg, David Sterman ...
    Proxy warfare will shape the conflicts of the twenty-first century for the foreseeable future. Yet the popular understanding of proxy wars remains largely shaped by the experience of the Cold War. In reality, in the Greater Middle East and its periphery today, the growing power of regional states and non-state actors, combined with the proliferation of new technology, has reshaped proxy conflicts, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism

    Edited by Liane Rothenberger, Martin Löffelholz, David H. Weaver ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This handbook critically analyzes cross‐border news production and “transnational journalism cultures” in the evolving field of cross-border journalism. As the era of the internet hasfurther expanded the border‐transcending production, dissemination andreception of news, and with transnational co‐operations like the European Broadcasting Union and BBC World News demonstrating different kinds of ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond

    Liturgy, Sources, Symbolism

    Edited by Benjamin Brand, David J. Rothenberg ...
    It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie in a decisive reorientation of the field that began approximately four decades ago. For much of the twentieth century, research on medieval music had focused on the discovery and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Pediatric Thoracic Surgery

    Edited by Steven Rothenberg, David Crabbe, Alex Auldist, D.H. Parikh ...
    In most parts of the world the treatment of adults with surgically correctable abnormalities of the thorax and its contents is provided by specially trained thoracic surgeons. On the other hand, in children pediatric general surgeons usually take on this role because of their training in the surgical care of sick infants and children, and their experience with the management of congenital ... Read more

    $215.99 USD