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Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples - Anthony R. DelDonna - Google Books
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The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public and religious spheres of contemporary society. The…
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Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&lpg=RA1-PA22&ots=6TxYSOtrbp&dq=cup%20has%20its%20own%20rules&hl=de&pg=RA1-PA22#v=o
Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport,…
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Voicing the Ineffable: Musical Representations of Religious Experience - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=FkuUE1AF7VkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Voicing+the+Ineffable#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The relationship between music and religion has long been a clearly delineated one. Up to the late Middle Ages, music employed for ritual expressions of faith in sacred contexts was contrasted with secular music, then mostly played in open spaces. The…
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Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin - Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=tQztAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=Waldron+DeWitt+Miller&source=bl&ots=oM2l_wc0K4&sig=vXPmGpAKhejn
Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific…
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Music as Social and Cultural Practice: Essays in Honour of Reinhard Strohm - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=P_PkiLDVccAC&pg=PA128&dq=ambrosio+cotes&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD06CnhpXgAhUOKlAKHcEuAnoQ6AEIQDA
The linking theme of the essays collected here is the intersection of musical work with social and cultural practice. Inspired by Professor Strohm's ideas, as is fitting in a volume in his honour, leading scholars in the field explore diverse…
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Sports around the World: History, Culture, and Practice [4 volumes]: History ... - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=mYBtMajLAaAC&pg=RA1-PA415&dq=alain+prost+armenian&hl=de&sa=X&ei=qq5VUturEYal4ASMyoG4Cg&ved=0CEwQ
Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport,…
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Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=VlGUjDq_YlEC&pg=PA311&dq=chimpanzees+termites+share+tools&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjChPbh4L3NAhVG6
The ontogeny of each individual contributes to the physical, physiological, cognitive, neurobiological, and behavioral capacity to manage the complex social relationships and diverse foraging tasks that characterize the primate order. For these reasons…
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Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic ... - Herbert Gintis - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=XuqhzQb3pmgC&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=Homo+parochius&source=bl&ots=Ci0tCVMDqr&sig=BblXyAKVbma06qKsH
The study of strategic action (game theory) is moving from a formal science of rational behavior to an evolutionary tool kit for studying behavior in a broad array of social settings. In this problem-oriented introduction to the field, Herbert Gintis…
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Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&pg=RA2-PA97&lpg=RA2-PA97&dq=mass+panic+peru+1964&source=bl&ots=6TA2ZJrocm&sig=xzhO
Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport,…
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Richard Wagner and His World - Google Books
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and…