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Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This study explores the nature of musical competence. Using the collaborative structure of gamelan - Javanese ensemble music - as a point of departure, this work lays the foundation for a comprehensive theory of musical competence and interaction.
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How Healthy Are We?: A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presents the key findings from the survey, "Midlife in the US" (MIDUS) conducted by the MacArthur Foundation, on physical health, quality of... Læs mere
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Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Social Identity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this ethnography of American gay suburbanites, Wayne H. Brekhus demonstrates that who one is depends at least in part on where and when one is. He shows that lifestyling, and integrating occurs not only among gay men but across a broad range of social categories.
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Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, this book exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced German's conceptions of modernity and national culture.
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Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This work shows how women between the 12th and 16th centuries were able to carve out areas of influence by exploiting the institutional church and by... Læs mere
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Sade: A Biographical Essay (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The writings of the Marquis de Sade have attained a widely acclaimed position in the canon of world literature, Sade is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual... Læs mere
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Quantitative Genetic Studies of Behavioral Evolution (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the theory and methods of quantitative genetics and presents case studies that illustrate the many ways in which the methods can be applied.... Læs mere
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Antidiscrimination Law and Minority Employment: Recruitment Practices and Regulatory Constraints (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A critique of 30 years of antidiscrimination law in the United States, this book explains why equal opportunity and affirmative action policies have failed to improve black employment since the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Why have demographic changes and schooling failed to resolve youth unemployment? How effective have economic policies aimed to improve labour... Læs mere
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Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This text provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. It examines topics such as role of melody in generating rhythm.
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Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Proposes radical interpretations of key episodes of Galileo's career, including his telescopic discoveries of 1610, the dispute over sunspots,... Læs mere
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The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Bess traces the technological transformations that shook post-war France, and shows how they led, in turn, to the rise of... Læs mere
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