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Rhythm Changes

Jazz, Culture, Discourse

By: Alan Stanbridge

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Rhythm Changes

Jazz, Culture, Discourse

By: Alan Stanbridge

Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses – especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism – that have influenced its creation, interpretation, and reception. Tackling diverse issues, such as race, class, nationalism, authenticity, irony, parody, gender, art, commercialism, technology, and sound recording, the book’s perspective on artistic and cultural practices suggests new ways of thinking about jazz history. It challenges many established scholarly approaches in jazz research, providing a much-needed intervention in the current academic orthodoxies of Jazz Studies. Perhaps the most striking and distinctive aspect of the book is the extraordinary eclecticism of the wide-ranging but carefully chosen case studies and examples referenced throughout the text, from nineteenth century literature, through 1930s Broadway and film, to twentieth and twenty-first century jazz and popular music.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000755479

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9781000755473

Treasures Of Canada

By: Alan Samuel

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Treasures Of Canada

By: Alan Samuel

This tome is an extensive record of Canadas treasures including art, architecture, historical sites, and spots of natural beauty.

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400

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Dundurn

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1459711246

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9781459711242

Molecular Biology of Cancer

By: Fiona Macdonald,Christopher Ford,Alan Casson

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Molecular Biology of Cancer

By: Fiona Macdonald,Christopher Ford,Alan Casson

Molecular Biology of Cancer has been extensively revised and covers heredity cancer, microarray technology and increased study of childhood cancers. It continues to provide a detailed overview of the process which lead to the development and proliferation of cancer cells, including the techniques available for their study. It also describes the means by which tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes may be used in the diagnosis and in determining the prognosis of a wide variety of cancers, including breast, genitourinary, lung and gastrointestinal cancer.

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269

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Garland Science

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0203503449

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9780203503447

Gloucestershire

The Vale and the Forest of Dean

By: David Verey,Alan Brooks

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Gloucestershire

The Vale and the Forest of Dean

By: David Verey,Alan Brooks

Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean and its companion, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county unusually rich in attractive and interesting buildings. The area covered lies on both sides of the River Severn, rising from flat alluvial lands to the lower slopes of the Cotswold Escarpment on the east and the rough wooded hills of the Forest of Dean on the Welsh border, with its distinctive industrial inheritance. Architecture is generally more varied and unpredictable than in the Cotswolds: stone, timber, brick and stucco all have local strongholds. The Vale is most famous for its two great churches, Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, both Norman buildings with brilliantly inventive late medieval modifications. The other major settlement is the spa town of Cheltenham, with its fine parades of Regency terraces. Country houses include Thornbury Castle, greatest of Early Tudor private houses, timber-framed manors such as Preston Court, and the extravagantly Neo-Gothic Toddington; churches range from the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon pair at Deerhurst to Randall Wells's Arts-and-Crafts experiment at Kempley. Amongst the memorable post-war landmarks are the suspension bridges and nuclear power stations on the banks of the Severn, and Aztec West, one of the best British business parks, on the northern fringes of Bristol. Visitors and residents alike will find their understanding and enjoyment of west Gloucestershire transformed by this book.

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964

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Yale University Press

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0300097336

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9780300097337

The Medieval English Universities

Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500

By: Alan B. Cobban

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The Medieval English Universities

Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500

By: Alan B. Cobban

First published in 1988, this book traces the evolution of Oxford and Cambridge from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries. An overall view of the functioning of the universities, touching on the development of the academic hierarchy and teaching offered by these institutions, is given in this single-volume reappraisal of the institutions.

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500

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Taylor & Francis

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1351885804

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9781351885805

Precambrian Geology

The Dynamic Evolution of the Continental Crust

By: Alan M. Goodwin

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Precambrian Geology

The Dynamic Evolution of the Continental Crust

By: Alan M. Goodwin

The main goal of this book is to provide a modern comprehensive statement on the Earth's Precambrian crust. It uses geographic and tectonic location, lithostratigraphy, geochronology, and petrogenesis as a basis for considering Precambrian coastal evolution--including the role of plate tectonics. Detailed consideration is given to the endogenic and exogenic processes which formed the continental crust and also to its subsequent secular evolution across Precambrian time**An essential reference volume for every Precambrian geologist.

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681

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Elsevier

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1483288552

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9781483288550

The Monkey's Voyage

How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life

By: Alan de Queiroz

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The Monkey's Voyage

How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life

By: Alan de Queiroz

Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In the past decade, however, that theory has foundered, as the genomic revolution has made reams of new data available. And the data has revealed an extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story that has sparked a scientific upheaval. In The Monkey’s Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes the radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being: frogs and mammals rode on rafts and icebergs, tiny spiders drifted on storm winds, and plant seeds were carried in the plumage of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In other words, these organisms were not simply constrained by continental fate; they were the makers of their own geographic destiny. And as de Queiroz shows, the effects of oceanic dispersal have been crucial in generating the diversity of life on Earth, from monkeys and guinea pigs in South America to beech trees and kiwi birds in New Zealand. By toppling the idea that the slow process of continental drift is the main force behind the odd distributions of organisms, this theory highlights the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the history of life. In the tradition of John McPhee’s Basin and Range, The Monkey’s Voyage is a beautifully told narrative that strikingly reveals the importance of contingency in history and the nature of scientific discovery.

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370

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Basic Books (AZ)

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0465020518

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9780465020515

Transgenic Plant Research

By: Alan R. Lindsey

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Transgenic Plant Research

By: Alan R. Lindsey

This text is split into four main sections: gene transfer techniques; transgenic approaches to gene isolation; manipulation of plant development, biochemistry and physiology; and predictability of transgene expression.

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304

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Routledge

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135140718X

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The Pluto System After New Horizons

By: S. Alan Stern

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The Pluto System After New Horizons

By: S. Alan Stern

Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. After Voyager accomplished its final planetary reconnaissance at Neptune in 1989, Pluto and its cohort in the Kuiper Belt beckoned as the missing puzzle piece for completing the first reconnaissance of our solar system. In the decades following Voyager, a mission to the Pluto system was not only imagined but also achieved, culminating with the historic 2015 flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft. Pluto and its satellite system (“the Pluto system”), including its largest moon, Charon, have been revealed to be worlds of enormous complexity that fantastically exceed preconceptions. The Pluto System After New Horizons seeks to become the benchmark for synthesizing our understanding of the Pluto system. The volume’s lead editor is S. Alan Stern, who also serves as NASA’s New Horizons Principal Investigator; co-editors Richard P. Binzel, William M. Grundy, Jeffrey M. Moore, and Leslie A. Young are all co-investigators on New Horizons. Leading researchers from around the globe have spent the last five years assimilating Pluto system flyby data returned from New Horizons. The chapters in this volume form an enduring foundation for ongoing study and understanding of the Pluto system. The volume also advances insights into the nature of dwarf planets and Kuiper Belt objects, providing a cornerstone for planning new missions that may return to the Pluto system and explore others of the myriad important worlds beyond Neptune.

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684

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University of Arizona Press

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0816542104

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9780816542109

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

By: Alan G. Gibb

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Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

By: Alan G. Gibb

?This book covers all the necessary aspects of our knowledge on nasopharyngeal carcinoma, from anatomy, histopathology, epidemiology, experimental studies, clinical manifestations, clinical and laboratory diagnostic methods to the latest imaging techniques. It also contains all of the information necessary for the clinician to reach the proper staging of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and to treat the tumor efficiently. In addition, it offers guidance on screening family members in order to better control very early tumors or even precancerous conditions. This second and fully revised edition updates comprehensively the knowledge on nasopharyngeal carcinoma and provides readily available access to the experience accumulated in an endemic region covering many aspects of this disease. The editors also provide an up-to-date and comprehensive reference of interest to all who interact with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, whether it be in a clinical, laboratory or research setting. The authors of various chapters are specialists in their respective fields, and this new edition is again carefully edited by Andrew van Hasselt and Alan Gibb.

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Chinese University Press

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9622018335

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9789622018334

ABC Civil Aircraft Markings 2001

By: Alan James Wright

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ABC Civil Aircraft Markings 2001

By: Alan James Wright

Covers the whole civil aviation scene regarding aircraft registered in Britain, as well as those overseas airliners likely to be seen in British skies.

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0711027811

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9780711027817

Rhythm Changes

Jazz, Culture, Discourse

By: Alan Stanbridge

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Jazz, Culture, Discourse

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Rhythm Changes

Rhythm Changes

Treasures Of Canada

Treasures Of Canada

Molecular Biology of Cancer

Molecular Biology of Cancer

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

The Medieval English Universities

The Medieval English Universities

Precambrian Geology

Precambrian Geology

The Monkey's Voyage

The Monkey's Voyage

Transgenic Plant Research

Transgenic Plant Research

The Pluto System After New Horizons

The Pluto System After New Horizons

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

ABC Civil Aircraft Markings 2001

ABC Civil Aircraft Markings 2001

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