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Science Of Percussion Instruments

By: Thomas D Rossing

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Science Of Percussion Instruments

By: Thomas D Rossing

Percussion instruments may be our oldest musical instruments, but only recently have they become the subject of extensive scientific study. This book focuses on how percussion instruments vibrate and produce sound and how these sounds are perceived by listeners.

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981310564X

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A Lonesome Warrior

A True Story of a Near-Death Experience

By: Thomas L. Little, Esq.

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A Lonesome Warrior

A True Story of a Near-Death Experience

By: Thomas L. Little, Esq.

I helped Tommie with the editing of ‘A Lonesome Warrior'... therefore read this book twice and have come to feel I know this Warrior. Tommie enjoys life to the extremes. He manages to root out the very highs and lows of his full life and is kind enough to allow us to know the feelings they brought to him as well as how he handled each. He’s a tough Marine that can cry. I found him to be a man of his convictions and not afraid of following them to where ever they take him. A man with profound insight who, sees a need, and then organizes and teaches those that can fill that need. A man I admire. He’s managed to fill his life with such variety of experiences that it seems he should be at least twice his age. All in all, a read like I’m sure you have never encountered before. Russ Payne

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469153793

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The Physics of Musical Instruments

By: Neville H. Fletcher,Thomas D. Rossing

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The Physics of Musical Instruments

By: Neville H. Fletcher,Thomas D. Rossing

The history of musical instruments is nearly as old as the history of civilization itself, and the aesthetic principles upon which judgments of musical quality are based are intimately connected with the whole culture within which the instruments have evolved. An educated modem Western player or listener can make critical judgments about particular instruments or particular per formances but, to be valid, those judgments must be made within the appro priate cultural context. The compass of our book is much less sweeping than the first paragraph might imply, and indeed our discussion is primarily confined to Western musical instruments in current use, but even here we must take account of centuries of tradition. A musical instrument is designed and built for the playing of music of a particular type and, conversely, music is written to be performed on particular instruments. There is no such thing as an "ideal" instrument, even in concept, and indeed the unbounded possibilities of modem digital sound-synthesis really require the composer or performer to define a whole set of instruments if the result is to have any musical coherence. Thus, for example, the sound and response of a violin are judged against a mental image of a perfect violin built up from experience of violins playing music written for them over the centuries. A new instrument may be richer in sound quality and superior in responsiveness, but if it does not fit that image then it is not a better violin.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461229804

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Principles of Vibration and Sound

By: Thomas D. Rossing,Neville H. Fletcher

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Principles of Vibration and Sound

By: Thomas D. Rossing,Neville H. Fletcher

An ideal text for advanced undergraduates, the book provides the foundations needed to understand the acoustics of rooms and musical instruments as well as the basics for scientists and engineers interested in noise and vibration. The new edition contains four new chapters devoted primarily to applications of acoustical principles in everyday life: Microphones and Other Transducers, Sound in Concert Halls and Studios, Sound and Noise Outdoors; and Underwater Sound.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475738226

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Revelation (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)

By: Thomas R. Schreiner

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Revelation (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)

By: Thomas R. Schreiner

Find academic sophistication, pastoral sensitivity, and accessibility in the award-winning BECNT series 2024 Christian Book Award® Winner (Bible Reference Works) In this addition to the award-winning BECNT series, leading evangelical biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner offers a substantive commentary on Revelation. Schreiner's BECNT volume on Romans has been highly successful, with nearly 40,000 copies sold. In this volume, Schreiner presents well-informed evangelical scholarship on the book of Revelation. He leads readers through the text of Revelation to help them better understand the meaning and relevance of this biblical book. As with all BECNT volumes, this informative, balanced commentary features: ● Detailed interaction with the Greek text ● Extensive research ● Chapter-by-chapter exegesis ● A blend of scholarly depth and readability ● An acclaimed, user-friendly design The BECNT series aims for academic sophistication with pastoral sensitivity and accessibility, making it a useful tool for pastors, church leaders, students, and teachers.

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Baker Books

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1493441736

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South Carolina Postcards

Southern Carolina: Beaufort to Barnwell

By: Howard Woody,Thomas L. Johnson

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South Carolina Postcards

Southern Carolina: Beaufort to Barnwell

By: Howard Woody,Thomas L. Johnson

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this agolden agea can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in Americaas history. This fascinating new history of Southern CarolinaaAllendale, Bamburg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jaspera showcases more than two hundred of the best vintage postcards available from 1900 to the 1930s.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738568848

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Moby-Dick, Or The Whale

Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

By: Herman Melville,G. Thomas Tanselle

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Moby-Dick, Or The Whale

Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

By: Herman Melville,G. Thomas Tanselle

In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. This scholarly edition is based on collations of both editions published during Melville's lifetime, it adopts 185 revisions and corrections from the English edition and incorporates 237 emendations by the series editors. This is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

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Northwestern University Press

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0810102684

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9780810102682

Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

By: Duncan C. Thomas

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Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

By: Duncan C. Thomas

Environmental epidemiology is the study of the environmental causes of disease in populations and how these risks vary in relation to intensity and duration of exposure and other factors like genetic susceptibility. As such, it is the basic science upon which governmental safety standards and compensation policies for environmental and occupational exposure are based. Profusely illustrated with examples from the epidemiologic literature on ionizing radiation and air pollution, this text provides a systematic treatment of the statistical challenges that arise in environmental health studies and the use epidemiologic data in formulating public policy, at a level suitable for graduate students and epidemiologic researchers. After a general overview of study design and statistical methods for epidemiology generally, the book goes on to address the problems that are unique to environmental health studies, special-purpose designs like two-phase case-control studies and countermatching, statistical methods for modeling exposure-time-response relationships, longitudinal and time-series studies, spatial and ecologic methods, exposure measurement error, interactions, and mechanistic models. It also discusses studies aimed at evaluating the public health benefits of interventions to improve the environment, the use of epidemiologic data to establish environmental safety standards and compensation policy, and concludes with emerging problems in reproductive epidemiology, natural and man-made disasters like global warming, and the global burden of environmentally caused disease. No other book provides such a broad perspective on the methodological challenges in this field at a level accessible to both epidemiologists and statisticians.

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OUP Oxford

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0191552690

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9780191552694

Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics

By: Thomas A. Weber

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Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics

By: Thomas A. Weber

A rigorous introduction to optimal control theory, with an emphasis on applications in economics. This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of optimal control theory for deterministic continuous-time systems in economics. The theory of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is the backbone of the theory developed in the book, and chapter 2 offers a detailed review of basic concepts in the theory of ODEs, including the solution of systems of linear ODEs, state-space analysis, potential functions, and stability analysis. Following this, the book covers the main results of optimal control theory, in particular necessary and sufficient optimality conditions; game theory, with an emphasis on differential games; and the application of control-theoretic concepts to the design of economic mechanisms. Appendixes provide a mathematical review and full solutions to all end-of-chapter problems. The material is presented at three levels: single-person decision making; games, in which a group of decision makers interact strategically; and mechanism design, which is concerned with a designer's creation of an environment in which players interact to maximize the designer's objective. The book focuses on applications; the problems are an integral part of the text. It is intended for use as a textbook or reference for graduate students, teachers, and researchers interested in applications of control theory beyond its classical use in economic growth. The book will also appeal to readers interested in a modeling approach to certain practical problems involving dynamic continuous-time models.

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MIT Press

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0262015730

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9780262015738

The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

Secretary of State in the reign of queen Anne

By: Thomas Macknight

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The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

Secretary of State in the reign of queen Anne

By: Thomas Macknight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.

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3375004052

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9783375004057

Foundations of Nanotechnology, Volume Two

Nanoelements Formation and Interaction

By: Sabu Thomas,Saeedeh Rafiei,Shima Maghsoodlou,Arezo Afzali

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Foundations of Nanotechnology, Volume Two

Nanoelements Formation and Interaction

By: Sabu Thomas,Saeedeh Rafiei,Shima Maghsoodlou,Arezo Afzali

The collection of topics in this book reflects the diversity of recent advances in nanoelements formation and interactions in nanosystems with a broad perspective that is useful for scientists as well as for graduate students and engineers. One of the main tasks in making nanocomposites is building the dependence of the structure and shape of the nanoelements, forming the basis for the composite of their sizes. This is because with an increase or a decrease in the specific size of nanoelements, their physical–mechanical properties such as the coefficient of elasticity, strength, and deformation parameter, vary by over one order. The calculations show that this is primarily due to a significant rearrangement of the atomic structure and the shape of the nanoelement. The investigation of the above parameters of the nanoelements is technically complicated and laborious because of their small sizes. When the characteristics of powder nanocomposites are calculated, it is also very important to take into account the interaction of the nanoelements since the changes in their original shapes and sizes in the interaction process and during the formation of the nanocomposite can lead to a significant change in its properties and a cardinal structural rearrangement. In addition, the studies show the appearance of the processes of the ordering and self-assembling leading to a more organized form of a nanosystem. The above phenomena play an important role in nanotechnological processes. They allow nanotechnologies to be developed for the formation of nanostructures by the self-assembling method (which is based on self-organizing processes) and building up complex spatial nanostructures consisting of different nanoelements. The study of the above dependences based on the mathematical modeling methods requires the solution of the aforementioned problem at the atomic level. This requires large computational aids and computational time, which makes the development of economical calculation methods urgent. The objective of this volume is the development of such a technique in various nanosystems.

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CRC Press

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1771880287

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The American Drug Culture

By: Thomas S. Weinberg,Gerhard Falk,Ursula Adler Falk

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The American Drug Culture

By: Thomas S. Weinberg,Gerhard Falk,Ursula Adler Falk

The American Drug Culture uses sociological and other perspectives to examine drug and alcohol use in U.S. society. The text is arranged topically, rather than by categories of drugs, and explores diverse contexts of drug use including popular culture; sexuality; the legal and criminal justice systems; other social institutions; and mental and physical health. It features more coverage of alcohol, the most widely-used drug in the U.S., than other texts for this course. Authors Thomas S. Weinberg, Gerhard Falk, and Ursula Falk include case studies from their field research to give you empathetic insights into the situation of those with substance and alcohol use disorders.

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SAGE Publications

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1506304699

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9781506304694

The Musicology of Record Production

By: Simon Zagorski-Thomas

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The Musicology of Record Production

By: Simon Zagorski-Thomas

Simon Zagorski-Thomas sets out a framework for the study of record production using current ideas from psychology and sociology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107075645

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9781107075641

Understanding Kidney Diseases

By: Hugh C. Rayner,Mark Thomas,David Milford

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Understanding Kidney Diseases

By: Hugh C. Rayner,Mark Thomas,David Milford

This text aids medical students and trainee doctors in developing their knowledge of the conditions covered and improving their ability to clinically assess patients and formulate a management plan. Once doctors are comfortable in interpreting these graphs, they can use them in consultations with patients about their kidney condition and so support self-management by patients, an increasingly important aspect of healthcare. Kidney diseases and the speciality of nephrology have traditionally been regarded as difficult to understand. This is compounded by the use of complex definitions and terminology. These complex definitions result from a need to categorise kidney diseases according to the way kidney function changes over time, and then to express this in numbers and words. Central to the assessment of patients is the measurement of kidney function. In our teaching of medical students and trainee doctors, as well as in our clinical practice and interaction with GPs and consultant colleagues, we have found that viewing graphs of patients’ kidney function (estimated glomerular filtration rate, or eGFR) against time is a much easier way of understanding kidney diseases. It provides the patient’s ‘kidney history’ and leads into a description of the natural history and management of their condition. We were surprised to find that this graphical approach is not used routinely in teaching or in daily clinical practice. We therefore believe there is a need for a book that uses this approach and we thus sought to compile a collection of illustrative case studies covering an array of disease categories, together with patients’ eGFR readings.

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Springer

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3319234587

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Introduction to High-Temperature Superconductivity

By: Thomas Sheahen

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Introduction to High-Temperature Superconductivity

By: Thomas Sheahen

Drawing from physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, ceramics, and metallurgy, high-temperature superconductivity (HTSC) spans nearly the entire realm of materials science. This volume presents each of those disciplines at an introductory level, such that readers will ultimately be able to read the literature in the field.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306470616

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9780306470615

Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

An Activity-Based Approach

By: Richard Beach,Chris M. Anson,Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch,Thomas Reynolds

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Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

An Activity-Based Approach

By: Richard Beach,Chris M. Anson,Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch,Thomas Reynolds

Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum discussions, etc.—to engage students in understanding and creating digital texts. It therefore integrates reading and writing instruction through goal-driven activities supported by uses and affordances of digital tools. This book also provides a framework for designing these activities that encourage students to define purpose and audience, make connections between digital texts and people, collaborate with others, employ alternative modes of communication and gain new perspectives, and constructing identities; practices that are linked to addressing the high school English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. The book also describes ways to use digital tools to support these practices—for example, using digital tools to foster students’ collaborative reading and writing. The book also describes use of digital feedback and e-portfolio tools to foster students’ reflection on their uses of these practices.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442228741

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9781442228740

Angiotensin Vol. II

By: Thomas Unger,Bernward A. Schölkens

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Angiotensin Vol. II

By: Thomas Unger,Bernward A. Schölkens

Nearly thirty years ago, in 1974, the volume on Angiotensin edited by Irvine H.Page and F. Merlin Bumpus expanded the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Even after two decades the multiplicity of its actions appears not to have been fully discovered. To call attention to its many functions is one of the purposes of this book. This new edition of the volume on Angiotensin attempts to provide an updated account of the knowledge and findings accumulated since the complexity of angiotensin was so accurately recognized.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540406417

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9783540406419

Autonomic Nervous System

Chapter 32. Chronic activation of the baroreflex and the promise for hypertension therapy

By: Thomas E. Lohmeier,Radu Iliescu

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Autonomic Nervous System

Chapter 32. Chronic activation of the baroreflex and the promise for hypertension therapy

By: Thomas E. Lohmeier,Radu Iliescu

Recent technical advances have renewed interest in device-based therapy for the treatment of drug-resistant hypertension. Findings from recent clinical trials regarding the efficacy of electrical stimulation of the carotid sinus for the treatment of resistant hypertension are reviewed here. However, a major goal of this article is to summarize experimental studies that have provided a conceptual understanding of the mechanisms that account for the long-term blood pressure lowering of arterial pressure with baroreflex activation. In so doing, the mechanistic insight from these studies may help to identify subsets of this heterogeneous population that stand to benefit the most. In this regard, because clinical, experimental, and theoretical evidence indicates that the kidneys play a dominant role in long-term control of arterial pressure, this article focuses on the mechanisms that link baroreflex-induced reductions in central sympathetic outflow with increases in renal excretory function that lead to sustained reductions in arterial pressure. Despite the encouraging findings from recent clinical trials, more basic research and additional clinical trials are needed to better define the benefit of baroreflex activation therapy in resistant hypertension and in other states of sympathetic activation such as heart failure and advanced renal disease.

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Elsevier Inc. Chapters

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012808006X

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9780128080061

Foundations of Nanotechnology - Three Volume Set

By: A. K. Haghi,Sabu Thomas,Moein MehdiPour MirMahaleh,Saeedeh Rafiei,Shima Maghsoodlou,Arezo Afzali

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Foundations of Nanotechnology - Three Volume Set

By: A. K. Haghi,Sabu Thomas,Moein MehdiPour MirMahaleh,Saeedeh Rafiei,Shima Maghsoodlou,Arezo Afzali

Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology-commonly referred to collectively as nanotechnology-is believed by many to offer extraordinary economic and societal benefits. Nanotechnology is generally defined as the ability to create and use materials, devices, and systems with unique properties at the scale of approximately 1 to 100 nm. Nanotechn

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CRC Press

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1498757073

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Measure for Measure

A Musical History of Science

By: Thomas Levenson

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Measure for Measure

A Musical History of Science

By: Thomas Levenson

In this imaginative investigation of the links between science and art, Levenson explores how we have come to understand and experience the natural world through instruments both scientific and musical. As he traces the development of the organ, the microscope, Stradivarius's miraculous violins and cellos, and computers, Levenson reveals why science itself is an art. 48 b&w line drawings.

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