Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 9780226823270, 9780226823263, 022682327X

The rise of responsibility in world politics 9781108867047, 9781108490948

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The Rise of Music in the Ancient World: East and West

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The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West 9780486466613, 0486466612

In this groundbreaking, all-encompassing work, an eminent musicologist explores the evolution of music. It ranges from t

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The science of music

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Probably the best simple PID tuning rules in the world

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Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World 9781782382379

In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and t

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Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions [Core Textbook ed.] 9781400823710

The last few decades have witnessed an extraordinary transfer of policy-making prerogatives from individual nation-state

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The music of the spheres: Music, science, and the natural order of the universe 9780387944746, 0387944745

This book provides the parallel histories of music and science, from celestial harmony to cosmic dissonance. For centuri

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Music and Politics in San Francisco: From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War 9780520950092

This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco’s musical life during the first half of the twentieth century,

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Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts 9780231890168

Looks at what researchers of science and technology, principally anthropologists, historians, philosophers, political sc

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