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9780199234080 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 24, 2013, cover price $150.00
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9780691157443 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 28, 2013, cover price $45.00
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9780199227341 | Har/com edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 8, 2012), cover price $150.00
Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural sound. He has spent the last 40 years recording ecological soundscapes and has archived the sounds of over 15,000 species - half of the wild soundscapes he has on tape don't exist anymore because of human actions. Krause divides natural sound into three categories. Biophony is the sound made by animals and plants, like the shrimp that makes noises underwater equivalent to 165 decibels; geophony is natural sound, like wind, water and rain, which led different tribes to have different musical scales; and anthrophony is human-generated sound, which affects animals as it changes, for example causing disoriented whales to become beached. In The Great Animal Orchestra he invites us to listen through his ears to all three as he showcases singing trees, contrasting coasts, and the roar of the modern world. Just as streetlights engulf the stars, Krause argues that human noise is drowning out the sounds of nature, but that our focus on the visual today is blinding us to this. The Great Animal Orchestra shows why it is critical to preserve what remaining soundscapes we have, and will make you hear the world entirely differently.
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9780316086875 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, March 19, 2012), cover price $26.99
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9780316086868 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, March 12, 2013), cover price $15.99
9781781250006 | Gardners Books, April 1, 2012, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural sound.
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9780525950738 | E P Dutton, August 19, 2008, cover price $25.95
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9780143167815 | Reprint edition (Penguin Group Canada, August 11, 2009), cover price $20.00
9780452295483 | Reprint edition (E P Dutton, July 28, 2009), cover price $16.00
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9780143143376 | Abridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, August 19, 2008), cover price $34.95
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9780674021921 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 31, 2006, cover price $25.95
9780297643173, titled "The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind And Body" | Orion Pub Co, June 30, 2005, cover price $42.85 | About this edition: An examination of our language instinct.
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9780674025592, titled "The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body" | Harvard Univ Pr, October 31, 2007, cover price $23.00
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9780062504142 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Examines the uses of percussion and rhythm throughout history and around the world
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9781888358209 | Grateful Dead Prod, August 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines the uses of percussion and rhythm throughout history and around the world
9780062503978 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the uses of percussion and rhythm throughout history and around the world
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9780805280579 | Schocken Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $11.95
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