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Exploring the development of jazz music from its nineteenth-century roots in blues and ragtime, through swing and bebop, to fusion and contemporary jazz styles, JAZZ: THE FIRST 100 YEARS, NON-MEDIA EDITION, 3e equips you with a true feel for the vibrant, ever-changing sound of jazz. Completely up to date, the book devotes a full third of its coverage to performers from the 1960s to the present day. It also includes expansive coverage of women ...

Reflecting the wide variety of ideas and hypotheses concerning decapod phylogeny, the world¿s leading decapodologists assemble their knowledge in this volume for the sole purpose of elucidating these relationships. These experts present methodological updates for research on the diversity and relationships of the decapods, provide an overview of current understanding of the systematics within select major decapod assemblages, and take steps to...

Because every single one of us will die, most of us would like to know what if anything awaits us afterward, not to mention the fate of lost loved ones. Given the nearly universal vested interest we personally have in deciding this question in favor of an afterlife, it is no surprise the vast majority of books on the topic affirm the reality of life after death without a backward glance. But the evidence of our senses and the ever-gaining stre...

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This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general speeches, legislation and parliamentary questions, and then mapping these on to media coverage and what the public believes (according to poll evidence)...

Elevated intraocular pressure is the most significantrisk factor in glaucoma but the mechanisms of retinalganglion cell death in remain incompletelyunderstood. Animal models of glaucoma provide a wayto study the possible pathogenesis of glaucomatousretinal ganglion cell death and to assess potentialneuroprotective strategies. In this volume, Dr Keith Martin describes in detailhow a trabecular laser glaucoma model can be used tostudy changes oc...

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