Title:
For the love of music invitations to listening / Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe.
Author:
Steinberg, Michael, 1928-2009.
Rothe, Larry.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Beginnings. How I fell in love with music ; Preliminary : the professor's legacy -- Creators. Another word for Mozart ; Thinking of Robert Schumann ; The sacred, the profane, and the gritty affirmations of music ; Franz Schubert, a rich possession ; Encountering Brahms ; Schoenberg, Brahms, and the great tradition ; First-rate second-class composer ; Sibelius and Mahler : what more could there be? ; Remembering Rachmaninoff ; Erich Wolfgang Korngold : a meditation ; Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and others) ; On the trail of W.A. Mozart ; What they saw ; A short life of J.S. Bach ; Stravinsky's ear-stretching, joy-giving legacy -- The recent scene. A visit with Lou Harrison ; George Perle : composing a way of life ; A quintet for American music ; Three American composers in pursuit of the white whale ; A century set to music -- Missionaries. Making America musical : a salute to Theodore Thomas ; Sigmund Spaeth, someone you should know ; Isaac Stern on music and life ; B.H. Haggin the contrarian -- Affairs to remember. Loving memories of movie music ; Vienna trilogy : vignettes from the city of music ; Music, true or false ; Why we are here -- Postlude. The sounds we make.
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
0195162161 (alk. paper)
Subject:
Music -- History and criticism.
Music appreciation.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Beginnings. How I fell in love with music ; Preliminary : the professor's legacy -- Creators. Another word for Mozart ; Thinking of Robert Schumann ; The sacred, the profane, and the gritty affirmations of music ; Franz Schubert, a rich possession ; Encountering Brahms ; Schoenberg, Brahms, and the great tradition ; First-rate second-class composer ; Sibelius and Mahler : what more could there be? ; Remembering Rachmaninoff ; Erich Wolfgang Korngold : a meditation ; Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and others) ; On the trail of W.A. Mozart ; What they saw ; A short life of J.S. Bach ; Stravinsky's ear-stretching, joy-giving legacy -- The recent scene. A visit with Lou Harrison ; George Perle : composing a way of life ; A quintet for American music ; Three American composers in pursuit of the white whale ; A century set to music -- Missionaries. Making America musical : a salute to Theodore Thomas ; Sigmund Spaeth, someone you should know ; Isaac Stern on music and life ; B.H. Haggin the contrarian -- Affairs to remember. Loving memories of movie music ; Vienna trilogy : vignettes from the city of music ; Music, true or false ; Why we are here -- Postlude. The sounds we make.
Physical Description:
xiii, 251 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10160523
Publication Date:
2006.
Title:
For the prevention of cruelty the history and legacy of animal rights activism in the United States / Diane L. Beers.
Author:
Beers, Diane L.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-294) and index.
Resurrecting the voice : animal advocacy in history -- A movement takes shape : the origins of animal advocacy -- Leaders and followers : the new humanitarians -- "The voice of the voiceless" : early campaigns, 1866-1915 -- Reaching out to the mainstream : animal advocacy evolves, 1915-45 -- "Our most strenuous protest" : antivivisection before 1945 -- The road to liberation : the rise of the postwar movement and the era of legislation, 1945-75 -- Epilogue.
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Publisher:
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press,
Publication Place:
Athens, Ohio :
ISBN:
0804010862 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804010870 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804010870
Subject:
Animal rights movement -- United States -- History.
Animal welfare -- United States -- History.
Animal rights -- United States -- History.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Resurrecting the voice : animal advocacy in history -- A movement takes shape : the origins of animal advocacy -- Leaders and followers : the new humanitarians -- "The voice of the voiceless" : early campaigns, 1866-1915 -- Reaching out to the mainstream : animal advocacy evolves, 1915-45 -- "Our most strenuous protest" : antivivisection before 1945 -- The road to liberation : the rise of the postwar movement and the era of legislation, 1945-75 -- Epilogue.
Physical Description:
xvi, 312 p. : ill.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10156421
Publication Date:
c2006.
Title:
For tranquility and order family and community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800-1850 / Laura M. Shelton.
Author:
Shelton, Laura Marie, 1973-
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Community, gender, and "barbarity" in early republican Sonora -- For the sake of tranquility : marriage and consensual unions -- Against religion and civilization : illicit relationships -- Death, debt, and inheritance : families and the circulation of credit -- By all laws, divine, positive, natural, and civil : reciprocity and obligation between young and old -- Servant or son? : the negotiation of labor relations in Sonora's local courts.
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Publisher:
University of Arizona Press,
Publication Place:
Tucson :
ISBN:
0816528071
9780816528073
9780816501144 (e-book)
Subject:
Families -- Mexico, North.
Communities -- Mexico, North.
Women -- Mexico, North -- Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Community, gender, and "barbarity" in early republican Sonora -- For the sake of tranquility : marriage and consensual unions -- Against religion and civilization : illicit relationships -- Death, debt, and inheritance : families and the circulation of credit -- By all laws, divine, positive, natural, and civil : reciprocity and obligation between young and old -- Servant or son? : the negotiation of labor relations in Sonora's local courts.
Physical Description:
xiv, 206 p. : ill., maps.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10487190
Publication Date:
c2010.
Title:
For Virginia and for independence twenty-eight Revolutionary War soldiers from the Old Dominion / Harry M. Ward.
Author:
Ward, Harry M.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Virtute et Armis -- Marines -- Alexander "Sawny" Dick -- Coast Guard -- John "Jack" Cropper -- Continental Infantry -- Richard Clough Anderson -- John Chilton -- Peter Francisco -- Nathaniel Gist -- William Grayson -- William Heth -- Josiah Parker -- Richard Parker -- Charles "Charley" Porterfield -- Thomas Posey -- Gustavus "Gusty" Brown Wallace -- Continental Cavalry -- George Baylor -- Theodorick Bland, Jr. -- William Washington -- Continental Artillery -- Charles Harrison -- Militia -- James Innes -- Robert Lawson -- Edward Stevens -- John "Jack" Jouett -- State Legion -- Charles Dabney -- Anna Maria Lane -- Overmountain Men -- William Campbell -- William Crawford -- Spies -- James Armistead Lafayette -- Quartermaster -- Edward Carrington -- Commissioner of War -- William Davies -- Appendix.
"These portraits of 28 Virginia Revolutionary soldiers expand the historical record of those who have earned the appellation of hero. Whether as infantryman, cavalryman, marine, militiaman, spy, frontier fighter or staffer, all performed with distinction that contributed to victory"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher:
McFarland & Co.,
Publication Place:
Jefferson, N.C. :
ISBN:
9780786461301 (softcover : alk. paper)
9780786486014 (e-book)
Subject:
Soldiers -- Virginia -- Biography.
Heroes -- Virginia -- Biography.
Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
Virginia -- Biography.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Introduction: Virtute et Armis -- Marines -- Alexander "Sawny" Dick -- Coast Guard -- John "Jack" Cropper -- Continental Infantry -- Richard Clough Anderson -- John Chilton -- Peter Francisco -- Nathaniel Gist -- William Grayson -- William Heth -- Josiah Parker -- Richard Parker -- Charles "Charley" Porterfield -- Thomas Posey -- Gustavus "Gusty" Brown Wallace -- Continental Cavalry -- George Baylor -- Theodorick Bland, Jr. -- William Washington -- Continental Artillery -- Charles Harrison -- Militia -- James Innes -- Robert Lawson -- Edward Stevens -- John "Jack" Jouett -- State Legion -- Charles Dabney -- Anna Maria Lane -- Overmountain Men -- William Campbell -- William Crawford -- Spies -- James Armistead Lafayette -- Quartermaster -- Edward Carrington -- Commissioner of War -- William Davies -- Appendix.
Physical Description:
vi, 219 p. : ports.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10505767
Publication Date:
2011.
Title:
Forager-traders in south and southeast Asia long-term histories / edited by Kathleen D. Morrison and Laura L. Junker.
Author:
Morrison, Kathleen D.
Junker, Laura Lee, 1958-
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-275) and index.
Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Part I. South Asia: -- Introduction / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a biocultural perspective on trade and subsistence / John R. Lukacs -- Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India / Gregory L. Possehl -- Gender and social organization in the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills / Allen Zagarell -- Pepper in the hills: upland-lowland exchange and the intensification of the spice trade / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Part II. Southeast Asia: -- Introduction / Laura L. Junker -- Hunters and traders in northern Australia / Sandra Bowdler -- Foragers, farmers, and traders in the Malayan Peninsula: origins of cultural and biological diversity / Alan Fix -- Economic specialization and inter-ethnic trade between foragers and farmers in the prehispanic Philippines / Laura L. Junker
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge :
ISBN:
052181572X
0521016363 (pbk.)
Subject:
Hunting and gathering societies -- Southeast Asia -- History.
Southeast Asia -- History.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Historicizing adaptation, adapting to history: forager-traders in South and Southeast Asia / Introduction / Hunting and gathering strategies in prehistoric India: a biocultural perspective on trade and subsistence / Harappans and hunters: economic interaction and specialization in prehistoric India / Gender and social organization in the reliefs of the Nilgiri Hills / Pepper in the hills: upland-lowland exchange and the intensification of the spice trade / Introduction / Hunters and traders in northern Australia / Foragers, farmers, and traders in the Malayan Peninsula: origins of cultural and biological diversity / Economic specialization and inter-ethnic trade between foragers and farmers in the prehispanic Philippines /
Physical Description:
xxi, 288 p. : ill., maps.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I. South Asia: -- Part II. Southeast Asia: --
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10070227
Publication Date:
2002.
Title:
Foraging behavior and ecology / edited by David W. Stephens, Joel S. Brown, and Ronald C. Ydenberg.
Author:
Stephens, David W., 1955-
Brown, Joel S. (Joel Steven), 1959-
Ydenberg, Ronald C.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-586) and index.
Foraging : an overview / Ronald C. Ydenberg, Joel S. Brown and David W. Stephens -- Models of information use / David W. Stephens -- Neuroethology and foraging / David F. Sherry and John B. Mitchell -- Cognition for foraging / Melissa M. Adams-Hunt and Lucia F. Jacobs -- Food acquisition, processing, and digestions / Christopher J. Whelan and Kenneth A. Schmidt -- Herbivory / Jonathan Newman -- Energy storage and expenditure / Anders Brodin and Colin W. Clark-- Provisioning / Ronald C. Ydenberg -- Foraging in the face of danger / Peter A. Bednekoff -- Foraging with others : games social foragers play / Thomas A. Waite and Kristin L. Field -- Foraging and population dynamics / Robert D. Holt and Tristan Kimbrell -- Community ecology / Burt P. Kotler and Joel S. Brown -- Foraging and the ecology of fear / Joel S. Brown and Burt P. Kotler -- On foraging theory, humans, and the conservation of diversity : a prospectus / Michael L. Rosenzweig
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Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Publication Place:
Chicago :
ISBN:
9780226772639 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226772646 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226772632 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226772640 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Animals -- Food.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Foraging : Models of information use / Neuroethology and foraging / Cognition for foraging / Food acquisition, processing, and digestions / Herbivory / Energy storage and expenditure / Provisioning / Foraging in the face of danger / Foraging with others : Foraging and population dynamics / Community ecology / Foraging and the ecology of fear / On foraging theory, humans, and the conservation of diversity :
Physical Description:
xv, 608 p. : ill.
Formatted Contents Note:
an overview / games social foragers play / a prospectus /
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10271869
Publication Date:
2007.