Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World

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Wild Soundscapes is the first comprehensive guide to listening to--and recording--nature. Learn how to tune in to nature's biophonies, or creature symphonies; how to use simple microphones to hear more; and how to record, mix, and play with sounds you gather. Keep it simple or launch yourself into a new creative field. Whether you're an amateur naturalist, novice field recordist, musician, want to create your own natural sound library, or just want to gain further appreciate of the natural world, this is the book for you.

Bernie Krause, a professional field recordist and bioacoustician, shares his expertise in exploring nature's sonic landscapes. Wild Soundscapes comes with a full-length CD, narrated by Krause, sampling a variety of natural sounds: the crashing sea, the singing of ants, the bugling of Yellowstone elk, the plop of falling Costa Rican crabs, and more. With the help of this CD, Krause demonstrates techniques and tricks for field recording success.

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A 5 star and a 1 star rating in one book.......2007-07-03

I think its important to know whats the book about: Its about nature, the sounds of nature, the spirit of field recording. Its about memories from Bernie Krause, some nice stories, its getting you into "how to hear right".
Its not about recording technique, if you never did recording before it might help you and get you started, but if you have a little experience about field recording its not of much help, I not found only basic hints and very, very few about professional recording. So to me its a clear 5 star as its a brilliant started book and nice to read but only a 1 star book for lacking up to date technical and advanced recording aspects.

AMAZING book and a must have for anyone interested in sound.......2007-02-12

This book is like a bible of sound for me. Bernie Krause takes you on a sonic adventure that doesn't stop. AND you get an accompanying CD to really accent his thorough notes on the recordings of these beautiful and remote places. Some people use photographs to tell their stories of the wild, this book gives you a sonic story that is far more telling than a photograph. It is more vivid, more rich, and more REAL.

Only if you are new to the field.......2005-10-27

I have been professionally recording nature sounds for about 5 years. I bought the book to see if there was something I could learn from an accomplished artist. I didn't learn anything. Sorry to say the booked could have been summed up in a few paragraphs. How many ways can you write about the same paragraph to fill a book? Look elsewhere if you want to read about technical insight, recording issues, and artist flair.

valuable information by an enthusiastic pro.......2005-01-28

Wonderfully entertaining and informative, this book went with me to a remote island where I used it to create my most successful recordings to date.

I subtract one star because Krause makes comments suggesting that the sounds of the city are not to be enjoyed. I enjoy all of the ambient sounds of natural environments, including non-native species, and industrial sounds.

While he goes to great lengths to suggest that noises such as a jet pass-over detrimentally interrupt natural environments, the point fails to support the subject of the book. The information is well taken, but disturbing; which broke the magic of the book for me. That subject deserves its own book. This one deserved a more narrow focus.

Enhanced with an accompanying 55 minute CD.......2003-01-04

Wild Soundscapes: Discovering The Voice Of The Natural World by naturalist and soundscape recorder Bernie Krause is an engaging introduction to the wondrous world of natural soundscapes. Simple listening exercises, advice for recording natural sounds, equipment tips fill the pages of this practical, "user friendly", and thoroughly enjoyable guide to the "singing" of ants, the quiet rustle of desert sand dunes, and much, much more. Enhanced with an accompanying 55 minute CD of fascinating wildlife and wilderness audio soundscapes, Wild Soundscapes is a unique and very highly recommended addition to any personal, professional, academic, or community library Nature Studies or Out Door Recreation reference collection.

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Best in Class.......2005-06-07

Get it if you can find it. Nelson's classic is one of the best, most thorough field guides to Rocky Mountain Plants - flowers, trees, shrubs, grasses - ever written.

I own about 10 different botanical field guides, but Nelson's is the one I always turn to when I need to verify a find. Spectacular reference work.

Handbook of plants of the Colorado Front Range;: Keys for the identification of the ferns, conifers, and flowering plants of the Central Rocky Mountains ... from the Plains to the Continental Divide

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Handbook of plants of the Colorado Front Range;: Keys for the identification of the ferns, conifers, and flowering plants of the Central Rocky Mountains ... from the Plains to the Continental Divide
William A Weber
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A handbook of wetland plants of the Rocky Mountain region

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A handbook of wetland plants of the Rocky Mountain region
David J Cooper
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ASIN: B00071ZB3S

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Recent theoretical advances have turned the idea of representing biological sequences in a continuous coordinate space a reality, which sets the stage for a new generation of sequence analysis tools, including iterative maps. This book provides an accessible introduction to the new theory, illustrates its algorithmic implementation, and suggests new formulations for sequence querying, alignment, clustering, entropy, and statistical characterization. The author provides both MATLAB and Web-based software that readers can use to develop their own algorithms, illustrates the formulation of iterative procedure with graphical representations, and includes end-of-chapter examples and exercises.

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Market: Physicists, chemists, biochemists, and biologists. Here's the first book to gather the vast range of experimental data in electron spin resonance (ESR) into a single volume. Concise yet comprehensive, it offers an easy-to-use collection of up-to-date experimental data, methods, and theory. The Handbook includes key contributions from leading scientists and provides over 200 tables and figures. Although specific ESR subfields are covered in numerous books and journals, the Handbook of Electron Spin Resonance is the only comprehensive reference to present extensive tabulation of data and experimental results. The Handbook also provides introductions to theoretical backgrounds, methods, and instrumentation.

Electron Spin Double Resonance Spectroscopy

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Electron Spin Double Resonance Spectroscopy
Larry Kevan , and Lowell D. Kispert
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Electron Spin Resonance: A Comprehensive Treatise on Experimental Techniques/Second Edition

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Electron Spin Resonance: A Comprehensive Treatise on Experimental Techniques/Second Edition
Charles P. Poole
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Second edition of classic reference offers overall summary and bibliography of experimental techniques and a balanced treatment of both theoretical and practical aspects of ESR instrumentation. Includes coverage of enhancement techniques, helices and acoustic spin resonance; how to build and use ESR spectrometer. References. 411 text figures. 1982 edition.

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This book treats the Atiyah-Singer index theorem using the heat equation, which gives a local formula for the index of any elliptic complex. Heat equation methods are also used to discuss Lefschetz fixed point formulas, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a manifold with smooth boundary, and the geometrical theorem for a manifold with smooth boundary. The author uses invariance theory to identify the integrand of the index theorem for classical elliptic complexes with the invariants of the heat equation.

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Peter B. Gilkey
the Heat Equation, and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem. Second Edition. Invariance Theory
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) never left Brazil and rarely traveled outside his native city of Rio de Janeiro, yet he is widely acknowledged by those who have read him as one of the major authors of the nineteenth century. His works are full of subtle irony, relentless psychological insights, and brilliant literary innovations. Yet, because he wrote in Portuguese, a language outside the mainstream of Western culture, those with access to his writings are relatively few. This book is designed not only to call new attention to this master but also to raise questions about the nature of literature itself and current alternative views on how it can be approached. Four essays address the question of Machado's "realism" in the five masterpiece novels of his maturity, especially Dom Casmurro. The noted contributors include John Gledson (University of Liverpool), João Adolfo Hansen (Universidade de São Paulo), Sidney Chalhoub (Universidade de Campinas), and Daphne Patai (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). Dain Borges of the University of California at San Diego says, "[This is the] only collection explicitly debating the question that polarizes contemporary Brazilian criticism of Machado de Assis: was he a sophisticated late realist, or was he a pioneering anti-realist, even a postmodernist? The [essayists] marshal their evidence and argument with virtuosity and arrive at sharply opposing conclusions.''

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Machado is a universal genius!
Not even the dead escape jealousy
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Dom Casmurro (Library of Latin America)
Machado de Assis , and Joao Adolfo Hansen
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The unreliable narrator and the fictional memoir are long-standing literary traditions. Nineteenth-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis uses both to brilliant effect in his novel Dom Casmurro. Narrated by Bento Santiago, this memoir looks back over a life filled with the suspicion of betrayal: Bento is convinced that his wife had an affair with his best friend, and that his son was the result of it. Though he has no real evidence to support this belief, Bento becomes so obsessed with it that, in the end, he commits crimes far worse than the suspected adultery to avenge himself. The memoir itself is a kind of justification for his actions; Bento, now alone, recreates the environment of his childhood and attempts to rewrite the facts of his life--in essence, reconstructing the past.

Among readers familiar with Latin American literature, Machado is considered a master. His novels blend black comedy with deadly accurate social commentary and an unerring perception of human psychology to create works that are brilliant, complex without being opaque, and joys to read. The Oxford University Press edition is ably translated by John Gledson and accompanied by critical essays that will help orient readers unfamiliar with Machado's work.

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"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old palm-tree, and I believed in old palm-trees even more than in old books. Birds, butterflies, a cricket trying out its summer song, all the living things of the air were of the same opinion." So begins this extraordinary love story between Bento and Capitu, childhood sweethearts who grow up next door to each other in Rio de Janeiro in the 1850s. Like other great nineteenth century novels--The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary--Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel from the realism of its contemporaries, and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric and wildly unpredictable narrative style. Far from creating the illusion of an orderly fictional "reality," Dom Casmurro is told by a narrator who is disruptively self-conscious, deeply subjective, and prone to all manner of marvelous digression. As he recounts the events of his life from the vantage of a lonely old age, Bento continually interrupts his story to reflect on the writing of it: he examines the aptness of an image or analogy, considers cutting out certain scenes before taking the manuscript to the printer, and engages in a running, and often hilarious, dialogue with the reader. "If all this seems a little emphatic, irritating reader," he says, "it's because you have never combed a girl's hair, you've never put your adolescent hands on the young head of a nymph..." But the novel is more than a performance of stylistic acrobatics. It is an ironic critique of Catholicism, in which God appears as a kind of divine accountant whose ledgers may be balanced in devious as well as pious ways. It is also a story about love and its obstacles, about deception and self-deception, and about the failure of memory to make life's beginning fit neatly into its end. First published in 1900, Dom Casmurro is one of the great unrecognized classics of the turn of the century by one of Brazil's greatest writers. The popularity of Machado de Assis in Latin America has never been in doubt and now, with the acclaim of such critics and writers as Susan Sontag, John Barth, and Tony Tanner, his work is finally receiving the worldwide attention it deserves. Newly translated and edited by John Gledson, with an afterword by Joao Adolfo Hansen, this Library of Latin America edition is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated translation of the novel available. It offers English-speaking readers a literary genius of the rarest kind.

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Machado is a universal genius!.......2007-08-27

Every Brazilian knows that Machado de Assis is among the top 5 writers in the world and now the world will discover the genius of this Brazilian who is already for us a universal genius! He is even better than Flaubert and Zola and we recommend all his books!

Luiz

Not even the dead escape jealousy.......2005-08-16

After a slow start and a rather meek continuation, the last third of the book is dazzling, with jealousy running amok: 'wishing to know what might be in my wife's head'.

A woman promises God that if she has a son, he will become a priest. But the adolescent has absolutely no call to become a padre. On the contrary, he falls in love with a beauty.
In order to escape from the holy vow, the Church agrees in a most jesuitic way that if a substitute is found, the promise will be fulfilled.
The subsequent marriage turns out not to be the paradise hoped for.

This book contains some mild criticism of the Church with its paternosters and Ave Marias as penances for committed sins. The pact with God is treated as a commercial note: 'The Creditor (God) was a multimillionnaire; He was not dependent upon payment in order to eat, and consented to postponements without even increasing the rate of interest.'
'Jehovah is a Rothschild, only much more human: he does not make moratoriums, he pardons the debt in full, provided the debtor truly wished to mend his ways'.

The sex is also very innocent ('silk garters') compared to today's eccentricities.

The confession of the main character is not without some acrid self-mockery: 'The Church has established in the confessional the most authorative of legal services and in confession the most trustworthy of instruments for the adjustment of moral accounts between man and God. But my incorrigible timidity closed this sure door to me. How a man changes! Today I go so far as to publish it.'

The overall picture of Brazil at the end of the 19th century is appalling: poverty, leprosy, slavery, the all importance of the catholic Church. But for the author, this state of affairs is in no way exceptional.

This book is a worth-while read.

Dom Casmurro - Coorection.......2004-06-23

In my review about Machado de Assis I made a mistake. He's probably the most important writer in the 19th century and not 18th. Sorry about that.

review about "dom casmurro".......2003-09-30

I didn`t like that book very much because it is very bad to understand the story, it uses a formal language. But, the story is very nice and intersting.

Universal and Classic.......2003-02-04

Machado de Assis is one of the most important artist of the 18th Century. In my opinion, Machado created a new style, absolutely new during the time were romantics and realism was very popular. Machado is beyond and excels any common style, including the modern Naturalism that appeared in the 19th Century.
Any person interested in literature, should read Machado. Machado has the same importance as Flaubert, Proust, J. Joyce and few other writers.

Amor de Capitu: O romance de Machado de Assis sem o narrador Dom Casmurro : recriaÃ§Ã£o literÃ¡ria

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Amor de Capitu: O romance de Machado de Assis sem o narrador Dom Casmurro : recriaÃ§Ã£o literÃ¡ria
Fernando Tavares Sabino
Manufacturer: Ãtica
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8508071299
Release Date: 1999-01-01

THE BRAZILIAN OTHELLO OF MACHADO DE ASSIS:A STUDY OF DOM CASMURRO

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THE BRAZILIAN OTHELLO OF MACHADO DE ASSIS:A STUDY OF DOM CASMURRO

Manufacturer: University of California Press Berkeley, CA
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ASIN: B000AVMPIY

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The Brazilian Othello of Machado de Assis; a study of Dom Casmurro
Helen Caldwell
Manufacturer: Berkeley, University of California Press
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The Deceptive Realism of Machado De Assis: A Dissenting Interpretation of Dom Casmurro (Liverpool Monographs in Hispanic Studies, 3)

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The Deceptive Realism of Machado De Assis: A Dissenting Interpretation of Dom Casmurro (Liverpool Monographs in Hispanic Studies, 3)
John Gledson
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Dom Casmurro

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Critical edition, with annotations, discussion, commentary and photographs.

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Dom Casmurro
machado assis
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Dom Casmurro

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