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Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture
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"Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture" is a revised and expanded edition of this classic work, providing a thorough treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology and music that has led to the state of electronic music today. Beginning with an early history of electronic music before 1945, the book ...
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The Routledge Guide to Music Technology
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With the world of music technology exploding and expanding around us every day, music students need a concise and easy-to-read guide to this new technological universe. This handy, A-to-Z reference more than amply fulfils that need. From DVDs and CD-ROMs, to MP3s and I-Pods, "The Guide" includes: definitions of key concepts; biographies of key ...
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Dawn of the Dinosaur Age: The Late Triassic & Early Jurassic Epochs
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"Dawn of the Dinosaur Age" presents the first act in the drama that would become the Mesozoic Era, the Age of Reptiles. The rise of the first dinosaurs is the story of opportunity and evolutionary innovation. The first dinosaurs, after living in the shadows of larger, more dominant reptilian kin, took advantage of major mass extinctions at the end ...
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Early Life: The Cambrian Period
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The first bursts of life found in the fossil record were single-celled bacteria and algae, the foundation of life that led to the extraordinary cavalcade of organisms that have walked the stage of Earth ever since. From the initial signs of life in the Precambrian Period to the end of the Cambrian Period about 488 million years ago, "Early Life" ...
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Jazz
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Thom Holmes, William Duckworth (Foreword by)
American popular music reflects a rich cultural diversity. From Aaron Copland to Miles Davis to Elvis Presley to Muddy Waters, the United States has produced some of the most influential and beloved musicians and performers of the 20th century. The blues, jazz, and rock and roll - musical genres loved around the world - were born here, and ...
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The First Vertebrates: Oceans of the Paleozoic Era
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Vertebrates are the most familiar of all animals on Earth, with humans being but one of about 45,000 species of living vertebrates. The rise of the first vertebrates is synonymous with the Paleozoic Era, a span of increasing ecological complexity where the first explosion of life occurred in the seas. In this fully illustrated volume, "The First ...
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Last of the Dinosaurs: The Cretaceous Period
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In the Early and Late Cretaceous periods, changing geological and ecological conditions created opportunities for the expansion of dinosaurs. These worldwide geologic and climate shifts of the Cretaceous period allowed for the evolution of Saurischian - lizard-hipped - dinosaurs and Ornithischian - bird-hipped - dinosaurs, including several ...
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Meat-Eating Dinosaurs: The Theropods
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Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes
-- Each book explores the dinosaurs' bodies, behaviors, origins and evolution, and possible causes of their extinction. -- When complete, this series will comprise a library of all the sub-orders of the dinosaurs.
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Gigantic Long-Necked Plant Eating Dinosaurs: The Prosauropods and Sauropods
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Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes
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Early Humans: The Pleistocene & Holocene Epochs
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Thom Holmes
The human species is relatively new to the planet in geologic terms. With origins reaching back only a few million years, the rise of humans from primate ancestors is a remarkable evolutionary success story. "Early Humans" traces the beginnings of the human species, its success and adaptability, and the development of such innovations as human ...
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The Rise of Mammals: The Paleocene & Eocene Epochs
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The Paleocene epoch was a time of recovery for mammals and birds, survivors of the Mesozoic era. As the Earth continued to change as the continents drifted further apart, it was a world of evolutionary experiments, as birds and mammals each found ways to fill the ecological gaps left vacant by the disappearance of the dinosaurs. "The Rise of ...
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Dino Dung: The Scoop on Fossil Feces
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Dr. Karen Chin, Thom Holmes, Karen Carr (Illustrator)
World-famous "Dung Detective" Dr. Karen Chin explains how coprolites (a.k.a. fossil feces) tell stories that bones cannot tell themselves--like which plants and animals lived together in the ancient past. Full color.
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The Age of Mammals: The Oligocene & Miocene Epochs
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Thom Holmes
About 15 million years ago, the diversity of mammals worldwide reached an astounding peak. As the continental landmasses shifted and temperate climates encouraged flowering plants, woodlands, and grasses to grow in abundance, mammals stepped into ecological niches left vacant by the extinction of the dinosaurs. The Oligocene and Miocene epochs saw ...
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Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds
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Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes, Michael William Skrepnick (Illustrator)
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March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch
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"March Onto Land" depicts life's migration from the sea to the land and the rise of the first terrestrial organisms. Following the appearance of the first land plants and terrestrial invertebrates, some animals with backbones ventured out of the water. After gaining a toehold on dry land, terrestrial vertebrates grew in number and diversity to ...
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Time of the Giants: The Middle & Late Jurassic Epochs
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Thom Holmes
The story of best-known dinosaurs is told in "Time of the Giants". The Middle and Late Jurassic Periods saw the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth - the sauropods. But the giants were not alone; other kinds of dinosaurs were diversifying rapidly as well. Most notably, predatory dinosaurs began their own trend towards gigantism, and the ...
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Fossil Feud: The First American Dinosaur Hunters
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Thom Holmes, Cameron Clement (Illustrator)
Relates the life stories of two nineteenth-century American dinosaur paleontologists and gives details of the bitter feud that existed between them.
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Armored, Plated, and Bone-Headed Dinosaurs: The Ankylosaurs, Stegosaurs, and Pachycephalosaurs
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Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes, Michael William Skrepnick (Illustrator)
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Great Dinosaur Expeditions and Discoveries: Adventures with the Fossil Hunters
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Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes, Michael William Skrepnick (Illustrator)
The extinction of the dinosaurs has baffled scientists for years, but the existence of dinosaurs and the fossils left behind have intrigued people even longer. From the first important dinosaur fossils discovered in 1822 to the latest findings in the field of paleontology, this complete series explores all the suborders of dinosaurs in detail, ...
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Baby Dinosaurs: Eggs, Nests, and Recent Discoveries
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Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes
The extinction of the dinosaurs has baffled scientists for years, but the existence of dinosaurs and the fossils left behind have intrigued people even longer. From the first important dinosaur fossils discovered in 1822 to the latest findings in the field of paleontology, this complete series explores all the suborders of dinosaurs in detail, ...
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Prehistoric Flying Reptiles: The Pterosaurs
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Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes
The extinction of the dinosaurs has baffled scientists for years, but the existence of dinosaurs and the fossils left behind have intrigued people even longer. From the first important dinosaur fossils discovered in 1822 to the latest findings in the field of paleontology, this complete series explores all the suborders of dinosaurs in detail, ...
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Fossil Feud: The Rivalry of the First American Dinosaur Hunters
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Relates the life stories of two nineteenth-century American dinosaur paleontologists and gives details of the bitter feud that existed between them.
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Peaceful Plant-Eating Dinosaurs: The Iguanodonts, Duckbills, and Other Ornithopods
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Thom Holmes, Laurie Holmes
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Dino Dung
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World-famous "Dung Detective" Dr. Karen Chin explains how coprolites (a.k.a. fossil feces) tell stories that bones cannot tell themselves--like which plants and animals lived together in the ancient past.
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Primates and Human Ancestors: The Pliocene Epoch
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In the story of human origins, the first primates were small, unremarkable tree dwellers in a world full of diverse mammals of all sizes. Over several million years, primates branched out into the groups known as monkeys and apes. Their larger brains led to new variety in mammal adaptation that led to the development of social groups and ...
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