Product Description: A new voice in the nature-nurture debate can be heard at the interface between evolution and development. Phenotypic integration--or, how large numbers of characteristics are related to make up the whole organism, and how these relationships evolve and change their function--is a major growth area in research, attracting the attention of evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and geneticists, as well as, more broadly, ecologists, physiologists, and paleontologists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Until Scott Joplin, ragtime music was regarded as low class and unrefined. His compositions--such as "Maple Leaf Rag"--helped ragtime earn national prominence in the early 1900s, but it was not until the 1970s, that Joplin was award posthumously the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Treemonisha...read more

Traces the life of the well-known ragtime pianist and composer who wrote over 500 pieces of music, including a ballet and two operas