Résultats pour "music" dans Plein-air et nature

Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans first inhabited the earth.

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music - its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it - and the human brain. Levitin draws on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen.

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner of the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award “[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book Review A...

Dr. Mark Benecke liebt Tiere aller Art, Insekten vielleicht ein kleines bisschen mehr. Tiere, das erzählt Benecke in aller Anschaulichkeit, befinden sich auf Augenhöhe mit dem Menschen. Und sie haben viele beeindruckende, sympathische und amüsante Eigenschaften. Man betrachte beispielsweise den Oktopus: Außergewöhnlich klug, hat er es gerne eher entspannt und macht oft Quatsch. Oder den Buntbarsch, der depressiv wird, wenn man ihn mit der falschen Partnerin verkuppelt.

This light-hearted collection of memoirs tells the compelling story of a company executive who walked away from global corporations and immersed himself in the world of non-profit; in this case, WWF, one of the world's largest conservation organizations. After years of working in the corporate sector, C.Y. Chong decided to pursue a new avenue of work. He joined WWF International as a finance manager and was soon promoted to director of finance; however, this book is about his non-financial experiences.