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Based on a treasure trove of private documents of Taffanel's previously unpublished letters and papers, \u003cem\u003eTaffanel: Genius of the Flute\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the rich story of his multi-faceted career as a player, conductor, composer, teacher, and leader of musical organizations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As a player, Taffanel had a rare vision of the flute as a serious, expressive instrument and is credited with re-establishing it in the mainstream of music. He was also an inspiring teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, to whom many modern flutists can trace their roots. In 1879, Taffanel founded the Société de musique de chambre pour instruments à vent (Society of Chamber Music for Wind Instruments), reviving the wind ensemble music of Mozart and Beethoven, and breaking the dominance of piano and strings in recital and chamber music. From 1890, he served as chief conductor at the Paris Opera and the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire (Paris Conservatory Orchestra)--the first time a flutist, rather than a string player, had been appointed to such key positions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Edward Blakeman expertly places these and many other elements of Taffanel's story in the rich political and cultural backdrop of the time, evoking Conservatoire intrigues, the Société des concerts, and Taffanel's relationships with various musicians and major composers. Blakeman details the circumstances surrounding landmark commissions, performances, and repertoire, and weaves the details from Taffanel's correspondence with first-person interviews and flute lore. What emerges is a portrait of an all-around musician who was also a modest and genial man.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward Blakeman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Editor of Live Music at BBC Radio 3 in London, in charge of broadcasting opera, orchestral concerts, and the annual summer season of the BBC Proms. 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Together, the two men spearheaded one of the greatest intellectual revolutions in modern history, and their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heretic in Darwin's Court\u003c\/i\u003e explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace--Victorian traveler, scientist, spiritualist, and co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of natural selection. After examining his early years, the biography turns to Wallace's twelve years of often harrowing travels in the western and eastern tropics, which place him in the pantheon of the greatest explorer-naturalists of the nineteenth century. Tracing step-by-step his discovery of natural selection--a piece of scientific detective work as revolutionary in its implications as the discovery of the structure of DNA--the book then follows the remaining fifty years of Wallace's eccentric and entertaining life. In addition to his divergence from Darwin on two fundamental issues--sexual selection and the origin of the human mind--he pursued topics that most scientific figures of his day conspicuously avoided, including spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough there may be disagreement about his conclusions, Wallace's intellectual investigations into the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe itself remain some of the most inspired scientific accomplishments in history. 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He also invites the reader to look more closely at the brilliant succession of ten influential books that grew naturally out of his busy life, highlighting the ideas that connect them and excavating their origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the publication of his tenth book, the smash hit, \u003cem\u003eThe God Delusion\u003c\/em\u003e, a \"resounding trumpet blast for truth\" (Matt Ridley), Richard Dawkins was catapulted from mere intellectual stardom into a circle of celebrity thinkers dubbed, \"The New Atheists\"--including Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003cem\u003eA Brief Candle in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e, Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life's brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this hugely entertaining sequel to the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling memoir \u003cem\u003eAn Appetite for Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion--and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century--\u003cem\u003eThe God Delusion\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled \"one of the best nonfiction writers alive today\" (Steven Pinker) and a \"prize-fighter\" (\u003cem\u003eNature\u003c\/em\u003e), Richard Dawkins cheerfully, mischievously, looks back on a lifetime of tireless intellectual adventure and engagement. 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In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code--the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things--acclaimed bestselling science writer Matt Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity in the English Midlands through a lackluster education and six years designing magnetic mines for the Royal Navy to his leap into biology at the age of thirty-one and its astonishing consequences. 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Rosenblatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarwin did not discover evolution. He didn't trip over it on the way to somewhere else the way Columbus discovered the New World. Like the atom, planetary orbits, and so many other scientific constructs, evolution was invented in order to explain striking phenomena. And it has been most successful. A century and a half has not simply confirmed Darwin's work, it has linked evolution to the mechanisms of life on the molecular scale. It is what life does. Where Darwin had drawn his theories from forest and field, we now set them in the coiling and uncoiling of twists of DNA, linking where they might, with a host of molecular bits and pieces scurrying about. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDarwin, himself, however, has been a closed story. A century and a half of study of the man and his work, including close readings of his books, his notebooks and letters, and even the books he read, has led to a working appreciation of his genius. The 'success' of this account has, however, kept us from seeing several important issues: most notably, why did he pursue evolution in the first place? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuckets from an English Sea\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new view of what inspired Darwin and provoked his work. Stunning events early in the voyage of the \u003cem\u003eBeagle\u003c\/em\u003e challenged his deeply held conviction that people are innately good. This study of 1832 highlights the resources available to the young Darwin as he worked to secure humanity's innate goodness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis B. Rosenblatt taught for over 30 years, chiefly at the Park School, but also at Leeds University and Gallaudet College. He is now retired after a fifteen year career as a science consultant for the Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM Education. 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Richards\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid Darwin see evolution as progressive, directed toward producing ever more advanced forms of life? Most contemporary scholars say no. In this challenge to prevailing views, Robert J. Richards says yes-and argues that current perspectives on Darwin and his theory are both ideologically motivated and scientifically unsound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This provocative new reading of Darwin goes directly to the origins of evolutionary theory. Unlike most contemporary biologists or historians and philosophers of science, Richards holds that Darwin did concern himself with the idea of progress, or telos, as he constructed his theory. Richards maintains that Darwin drew on the traditional embryological meanings of the terms \"evolution\" and \"descent with modification.\" In the 1600s and 1700s, \"evolution\" referred to the embryological theory of preformation, the idea that the embryo exists as a miniature adult of its own species that simply grows, or evolves, during gestation. By the early 1800s, however, the idea of preformation had become the concept of evolutionary recapitulation, the idea that during its development an embryo passes through a series of stages, each the adult form of an ancestor species. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Richards demonstrates that, for Darwin, embryological recapitulation provided a graphic model of how species evolve. If an embryo could be seen as successively taking the structures and forms of its ancestral species, then one could see the evolution of life itself as a succession of species, each transformed from its ancestor. 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Wulf's pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt's name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. 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The book is a critical analysis of Charles Darwin's \"\"On the Origin of Species\"\" and argues that natural selection, as proposed by Darwin, is not inconsistent with the principles of natural theology. Gray, a prominent American botanist and Harvard professor, was a contemporary of Darwin and a supporter of his theory of evolution. However, Gray believed that natural selection alone was not sufficient to explain the complexity and diversity of life on Earth. Instead, he argued that the process of evolution was guided by a divine intelligence, which he referred to as \"\"natural theology.\"\" In the book, Gray provides a detailed examination of Darwin's theory, pointing out areas where he believes it falls short and offering his own interpretations of the evidence. 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Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 58\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48859560575230,"sku":"9781166277550","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/GG181-17vh9781166277550.webp?v=1788448689"},{"product_id":"wild-among-us-true-adventures-of-a-female-wildlife-photographer-who-stalks-bears-wolves-mountain-lions-wild-horses-and-other-ellu-hardcover","title":"Wild Among Us: True Adventures of a Female Wildlife Photographer Who Stalks Bears, Wolves, Mountain Lions, Wild Horses and Other Ellu - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Anne Toth-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***USA BEST BOOK AWARD, E-LIT BRONZE MEDAL AWARD \u003c\/strong\u003e\u0026amp; \u003cstrong\u003eLIVING NOW GOLD MEDAL WINNER.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Have you ever been stalked by a bear? Pat Toth-Smith has and lives to tell her story. Her exploits, combined with the award-winning photography, create an experience to behold; reading that is not just for the passing of time.\" Suzanne Gattis, Pacific Book Review \"Wild Among Us\" is full of the hazardous encounters Pat, a young female photographer has faced in the field. Experiences of being cornered by two large bull moose, growled at by a grizzly mom protecting her cub, and a prolonged stare down by an over 1.000-pound grizzly bear on a remote trail in Alaska. Her encounters not only include the perils associated with stalking wildlife but also the sometimes-dangerous situations she navigates as she travels the highways alone with human predators. 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You're crazier than I thought.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything seemed to be a blur-I was as afraid as when I encountered my first bear. I then ran into the market and made a beeline to the bathroom. The time in the bathroom seemed to last forever. Ten minutes went by. I kept asking people coming in about \"nutty guy\" and if he was still out there. Twenty minutes. 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