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Songs of Earth
Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/The Association for Cultural Equity
An important update of Alan Lomax’s standard-setting Cantometrics system, the first to characterize and classify the mighty instrument of the human voice
The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China
An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan qinggui
By Yifa
University of Hawaii Press
Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840
Codes of Silence
The University of Arizona Press
Astros and Asterisks
Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained
Edited by Jonathan Silverman
University of Texas Press
An in-depth and multiperspectival look at the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its roots in the culture of baseball fandom.
Mathematics and Religion
Our Languages of Sign and Symbol
By Javier Leach
Templeton Press
Mathematics and Religion: Our Languages of Sign and Symbol is the sixth title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this volume, Javier Leach, a mathematician and Jesuit priest, leads a fascinating study of the historical development of mathematical language and its influence on the evolution of metaphysical and theological languages.
Invitation to an Execution
A History of the Death Penalty in the United States
Edited by Gordon Morris Bakken
University of New Mexico Press
These original essays examine the complex history of the death penalty, focusing on specific geographic areas to illuminate the circumstances of law and politics.
The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi
Detective Stories of Old Edo
University of Hawaii Press
The Sign in Music and Literature
Edited by Wendy Steiner
University of Texas Press
A unique gathering of semiotic approaches to art: from Saussurian linguistics to transformational grammar, from Prague School aesthetics to Peircean pragmatism, from structuralism to poststructuralism.
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