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Here is the most comprehensive history of Brazilian music available in English. Concise yet remarkably detailed, it provides professional musicologists and music lovers alike with a clear outline of the major trends, important composers, and currents of thought that have shaped the folk, popular, and art music that are an important part of Brazil's unique cultural heritage. The Music of Brazil contains over seventy musical examples representing musical idiom and form throughout recent history. A useful glossary introduces the reader to the key terms of Brazilian music, from agogo-a percussion instrument composed of two bells-to xocalho-a wooden or metal rattler. Product details Format Paperback | 224 pages ...

Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources. Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues. Grounded in a belief in the power of informed citizens, Collier proposes a series of international standards that ...

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. 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 the original work. Product details Format Hardback | 86 pages Dimensions 152 ...

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. 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 the original work. Product details Format Hardback | 284 pages Dimensions 152 ...

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In this book, contributions from several experts specializing in the area of flood risk management are assembled into a single volume. Application and testing of numerical and statistical models that can simulate the complex reality along with effective flood management strategies that are being implemented in various nations are presented. This collection of topics will provide an update to the reader as to the state of the art in this important technical field. Product details Format Hardback | 328 pages Dimensions 170 x 244 x 1...

Im dritten Band, schafft es die Menschheit endlich, sich aus den Klauen des Bösen zu befreien. Tino ist zu einem erwachsenen Engel geworden und findet mit Hilfe seiner Freunde die Waffen Gottes, um endlich dem Lord der Finsternis Einhalt zu gewähren. Interessant wird es für den Leser, weil auch die dunkle Seite zu Wort kommt. Product details Format Paperback | 220 pages Dimensions 133 x 203 x 12mm | 231g ...

"In graphic novel format, follows Peter Pea as he travels through and explains the workings of the human digestive system"-- Product details For ages 9-12 Format Paperback | 24 pages Dimensions 144.78 x 220.98 x 2.54mm | 68.04g ...

Bedeutung der Effizienzmessung für ein wertorientiertes Management Wertorientiertes Marketing Kundenwert als Bestandteil des Unternehmenswertes Kundenwertbasierte Segmentierung und Effizienzmessung Ganzheitliches Kundenwertmodell zur Effizienzmessung Empirische Anwendung des Modells zur kundenwertbasierten Effizienzmessung Handlungsempfehlungen Product details Format Paperback | 329 pages Dimensions 148 x 210 x 19mm | 422g ...

As if being an 8th grader wasn't hard enough, a meteor strikes and makes all of the students at Stanhope Boarding School really super. And why is Belinda Zee suddenly being so nice? Product details For ages 9-12 Format Hardback | 32 pages Dimensions 170 x 262 x 8mm | 227g ...

An endearing story of love and grief as one girl follows the clues in a scavenger hunt left behind by her best friend, perfect for fans of Bridge to Terabithia and Nine, Ten. WHEN YOU'VE LOST WHAT MATTERS MOST, HOW DO YOU FIND YOUR WAY BACK HOME? Joy Fonseca is dreading her 13th birthday, dreading being reminded again about her best friend Lukas's senseless death on this day, one year ago -- and dreading the fact he may have heard what she accidentally blurted to him the night before. Or maybe she's more worried he didn't hear. Either way, she's decided: she's going to finally open the first clue to their annual birthday scavenger hunt Lukas left for her the morning he died, hoping the rest of the clues are still out there. If they are, they might lead Joy to whatever last words Lukas wrote, and toward understanding how to grab onto the future that is meant to be hers. I truly loved it! Baskin and Polisner seamlessly unfold one touching relationship after ...

This reprint of 'Cytogenetic and Genome Research' contains contributions discussing the subject in-depth. 'Cytogenetic and Genome Research' is a well-respected, international peer-reviewed journal in genetics. Product details Format Paperback | 146 pages Publication date 31 Dec 2020 Publisher S Karger AG ...

Das Immunsystem als Blockbuster: vom Macher des YouTube-Kanals »kurzgesagt«Philipp Dettmer, Gründer und Kopf von »kurzgesagt - in a nutshell«, einer der weltweit erfolgreichsten Wissenskanäle auf YouTube, erklärt unser Immunsystem anschaulich, unterhaltsam und witzig – passend in eine Zeit, in der viele genauer wissen möchten, wie die Immunabwehr unseres Körpers eigentlich funktioniert. In jeder Sekunde unseres Lebens werden wir angegriffen. Bakterien, Viren, Pilzsporen und andere Lebewesen wollen in unseren Körper eindringen, unsere Energie rauben und uns krank machen. Doch dann werden sie von einer riesigen Armee Zellen angegriffen, unserem Immunsystem. Die Zellen kämpfen wie ein T-Rex auf Speed und opfern ihr eigenes Leben für uns. Ohne Immunsystem würden wir innerhalb von Sekunden sterben. Das klingt simpel, ist aber in Wirklichkeit kompliziert, wunderschön und einfach erstaunlich.   »Mit seinen großartigen Vergleichen und genialen Erklärungen für komplizierte Gedanken gibt Philipp...