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Published by Walker & Co, 2011
ISBN 10: 0802719961ISBN 13: 9780802719966
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The award-winning creator of the acclaimed documentary "The Music Instinct: Science & Song," explores the power of music and its connection to the body, the brain, and the world of nature. Only recently has science sought in earnest to understand and explain this impact. One remarkable recent study, analyzing the cries of newborns, shows that infants' cries contain common musical intervals, and children tease each other in specific, singsong ways no matter where in the world they live. Physics experiments show that sound waves can physically change the structure of a material; musician and world-famous conductor Daniel Barenboim believes musical sound vibrations physically penetrate our bodies, shifting molecules as they do. The Power of Music follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture, to discover: how much of our musicality is learned and how much is innate? Can examining the biological foundations of music help scientists unravel the intricate web of human cognition and brain function? Why is music virtually universal across cultures and time-does it provide some evolutionary advantage? Can music make people healthier? Might music contain organzing principles of harmonic vibration that underlie the cosmos itself?.
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Published by Walker & Co, 2003
ISBN 10: 0802714021ISBN 13: 9780802714022
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. For nearly forty years, Chet Raymo has walked a one-mile path from his house in North Easton, Massachusetts, to the Stonehill College campus where he has taught physics and astronomy. The woods, meadows, and stream he passes are as familiar to him as his own backyard, yet each day he finds something new. "Every pebble and wildflower has a story to tell," Raymo says.In The Path, Raymo chronicles the universe he has found by closely observing every detail of his route. He connects the local to the global, the microscopic to the galactic, with a scientists's curiosity, a historian's respect for the past, a child's capacity for wonder. With each step, the landscape he traverses becomes richer and more multidimensional, opening door after door into astromnomy, geology, biology, history, and literaure."The flake of granite in the path was once at the core of towering mountains pushed up across New England when continents collided," he writes. "The purple loosestrife beside the stream emigrated from Europe in the 1800s as a garden ornamental, then went wantonly native in a land of wild frontiers. The light from the star Arcturus I see reflected in the brook beneath the bridge at night has been traveling across space for forty years before entering my eye. I have attended to all of these stories and tried to hear what the landscape has to say . I have attended, too, to language. How did the wood anemone and Sheep Pasture get their names? What does the queset of Queset Brook signify in the language of Native Americans? Scratch a name in a landscape, and history bubbles up like a spring."The path also reveals the stories of nineteenth-century industrialists who transformed natural resources into power, and turn-of-the-century landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, who championed an ideal of nature tamed by conscious intent. In its transformations over the centuries, Raymo writes, the path "encapsulates in many surprising ways the history of our nation and of our fickle love affair with the natural world."Recognizing that his path is commonplace, and that we all have such routes in our lives, Raymo urges us to walk attentively, stopping often to watch and listen with care. His wisdom and insights inspire us to turn local paths-- whether through cities, suburbs, or rural areas-- into doorways to greater understanding of nature and history.
Published by Walker & Co, 2007
ISBN 10: 0802715745ISBN 13: 9780802715746
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting"-the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe's most voluble people have kept silent so long.Ghosts of Spain is the fascinating result of that journey. In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Delving into such emotional questions as who caused the Civil War, why Basque terrorists kill, why Catalans hate Madrid, and whether the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dreamed of a return to Spain's Moorish past, Tremlett finds the ghosts of the past everywhere. At the same time, he offers trenchant observations on more quotidian aspects of Spanish life today: the reasons, for example, Spaniards dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat, and how women have embraced feminism without men noticing.Drawing on the author's twenty years of experience living in Spain, Ghosts of Spain is a revelatory book about one of Europe's most exciting countries.
Published by Walker & Co, 2011
ISBN 10: 0802717373ISBN 13: 9780802717375
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible, drawn from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in both Western and Eastern traditions, using the same techniques of editing, redaction, and adaptation that produced the holy books of the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic religions.The Good Book consciously takes its design and presentation from the Bible, in its beauty of language and arrangement into short chapters and verses for ease of reading and quotability, offering to the non-religious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of secular humanist traditions that are older, far richer and more various than Christianity.Organized in 12 main sections----Genesis, Histories, Widsom, The Sages, Parables, Consolations, Lamentations, Proverbs, Songs, Epistles, Acts, and the Good----The Good Book opens with meditations on the origin and progress of the world and human life in it, then devotes attention to the question of how life should be lived, how we relate to one another, and how vicissitudes are to be faced and joys appreciated.Incorporating the writing of Herodotus and Lucretius, Confucius and Mencius, Seneca and Cicero, Montaigne, Bacon, and so many others, The Good Book will fulfill its audacious purpose in every way.
Published by Walker & Company, 1987
ISBN 10: 0802766994ISBN 13: 9780802766991
Seller: TextbookRush, Grandview Heights, OH, U.S.A.
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Published by Walker & Company, 2011
ISBN 10: 080277914XISBN 13: 9780802779144
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Published by Walker & Company, 2011
ISBN 10: 0802720870ISBN 13: 9780802720870
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Published by Walker & Company, 2004
ISBN 10: 0802789145ISBN 13: 9780802789143
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Published by Walker & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 0802798225ISBN 13: 9780802798220
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Published by Walker & Company, 2010
ISBN 10: 0802720854ISBN 13: 9780802720856
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Published by Walker & Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0802775365ISBN 13: 9780802775368
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Published by Walker & Company, 2010
ISBN 10: 0802721680ISBN 13: 9780802721686
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Published by Walker & Company, 2013
ISBN 10: 0802735444ISBN 13: 9780802735447
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Published by Walker & Company, 2007
ISBN 10: 0802796834ISBN 13: 9780802796837
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Published by Walker & Company, 2013
ISBN 10: 0802721885ISBN 13: 9780802721884
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Published by Walker & Company, 1995
ISBN 10: 0802774539ISBN 13: 9780802774538
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Published by Walker & Company, 2012
ISBN 10: 0802723543ISBN 13: 9780802723543
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Published by Walker & Company, 2000
ISBN 10: 0802713610ISBN 13: 9780802713612
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Published by Walker & Company, 2011
ISBN 10: 080271594XISBN 13: 9780802715944
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Published by Walker & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 0802717071ISBN 13: 9780802717078
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Published by Walker & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 1596915412ISBN 13: 9781596915411
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Published by Walker & Company, 2013
ISBN 10: 0802779646ISBN 13: 9780802779649
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Published by Walker & Company, 2013
ISBN 10: 0802728391ISBN 13: 9780802728395
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Published by Walker & Company, 1998
ISBN 10: 0802713440ISBN 13: 9780802713445
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Published by Walker & Company, 2001
ISBN 10: 0802787649ISBN 13: 9780802787644
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Condition: Good. Leo Dillon (illustrator). Ships SAME or NEXT business day. We Ship to APO/FPO addr. Choose EXPEDITED shipping and receive in 2-5 business days within the United States. See our member profile for customer support contact info. We have an easy return policy.
Published by Walker & Co, 2006
ISBN 10: 0802777414ISBN 13: 9780802777416
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: New. First Edition. For forty years and in nine previous books, scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur has challenged church orthodoxy and guided thousands of readers on subjects as controversial as the true nature of Christ and life after death. Now, in his most radical and groundbreaking work, Harpur digs deep into the origins of Christianity. What he has discovered will have a profound effect on the way we think about religion.Long before the advent of Jesus Christ, the Egyptians and other peoples believed in the coming of a messiah, a madonna and her child, a virgin birth, and the incarnation of the spirit in flesh. The early Christian church accepted these ancient truths as the very tenets of Christianity but disavowed their origins. What began as a universal belief system based on myth and allegory became instead, in the third and fourth centuries A.D., a ritualistic institution headed by ultraconservative literalists. "The transcendent meaning of glorious myths and symbols was reduced to miraculous, quite unbelievable events. The truth that Christ was to come in man, that the Christ principle was potentially in each of us, was changed to the exclusivist teaching that the Christ had come as a man."Harpur's message is clear: Our blind faith in literalism is killing Christianity. Only with a return to an inclusive religion will we gain a true understanding of who we are and who we are intended to become. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Gerald Massey and Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Tom Harpur has written a book of rare insight and power.
Published by Walker & Company, 2008
ISBN 10: 0802716067ISBN 13: 9780802716064
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Published by Walker & Co, 2005
ISBN 10: 0802714579ISBN 13: 9780802714572
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In all early cultures, weaving represented the image of creation. In this beautiful book, Martin presents the history, folklore, and techniques of weaving through various cultures. She explains and illustrates the three basic weave structures-plain weave, twills, and satins-along with many famous weaving patterns. Traditions of dyeing, fiber preparation, and spinning are introduced along with the rich legacy of myths and legends they have engendered. Diagrams illustrate the construction of various looms, from the simple backstrap loom to the complex and revolutionary Jacquard loom. For anyone who has ever knitted, sewn, or woven, this book is a treasure.
Published by Walker & Company, 2013
ISBN 10: 0802734855ISBN 13: 9780802734853
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Published by Walker & Company, 2004
ISBN 10: 0802789013ISBN 13: 9780802789013
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