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The Crossley ID guide. Eastern birds
\"640 ... scenes created from 10,000 of the author's photographs ... lifelike in-focus scenes show birds in their habitats, from near and far, and in all plumages and behaviors\"--P. [4] of cover.
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The best writing on mathematics
An anthology of the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world, featuring promising new voices as well as some of the foremost names in mathematics.
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The Place of the Painter
ONE of the recurring interests in the art world is the revaluation of predecessors which goes on from period to period. After long neglect or under-appreciation, a Greco or a Piero delia Francesca is suddenly presented in a new light as a period arrives at a new way of looking at painting by reason of altered attitude toward pictorial organization or use of color or treatment of space.
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A BUBBLE WITH A SLOW LEAK
The bubble metaphor for speculative booms is unfortunate; real- world bubbles made of soap and water burst suddenly and irrevocably. Major speculative bubbles, on the other hand, tend to deflate over a period of years. Instead of a dramatic one-day crash, the real denouement is apparent only to those who count the days: Over an extended period of time, there will have been somewhat more down days than up days. If one looks at a chart of daily returns over these years, it is hard to see the end of the bubble. There's no one day on which investors say: \"Today is the day to get out.\" But all this talk about the bubble is obscuring a major, troubling shift in how people invest and why. The current boom has been bolstered greatly by our confidence in the economy and in technology. Confidence is a critical factor in any decision to invest. But that confidence is normally not so overreactive to news. We are in the longest business expansion ever, with generally good news for years about inflation and unemployment rates, and about company earnings. But the U.S. stock market has soared far more than these indicators would suggest - to truly stratospheric levels. A gradual decline is a slow disaster; it can be just as devastating as a sudden shock. Either way, investors lose a lot of money. And a longtime erosion in market confidence reverberates throughout the economy. Consider the \"crash\" of October 1929, which - contrary to popular perception - played out for several years. After the Standard & Poor's (S&P) Composite peaked on Sept. 7 of that year, there were some spectacular one-day drops, but there were also spectacular one-day increases. The drops of Oct. 28-29 are widely remembered, but these big drops were almost entirely reversed by April 10, 1930. Then the decline resumed. The S&P Composite fell 86 percent between its top on Sept. 7, 1929, and its bottom on June 1, 1932, and this cumulative decline was the result of 365 up days and 431 down days.
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School lunch politics : the surprising history of America's favorite welfare program
From the Publisher: Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. 'School Lunch Politics' covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentieth-century nutrition science, through the establishment of the National School Lunch Program in 1946, to the transformation of school meals into a poverty program during the 1970s and 1980s.
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MUSIC; Visits to Valhalla: The Ectasy And the Agony
''The tables d'hote prepared at the inns are not sufficient to satisfy all the hungry people, . . . Anarchy reigns . . . everyone is calling and shrieking, and the exhausted waiters pay no attention to the rightful claims of an individual. As a matter of fact, throughout the whole duration of the festival, food forms the chief interest of the public . . . cutlets, baked potatoes, omelettes, all are discussed much more eagerly than [Wagner]'s music.'' In public, [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky] praised the work: ''Its extraordinary beauty, especially symphonic beauty, which is remarkable, as Wagner had no stated intention of writing an opera in the style of a symphony. I feel a respectful admiration for the immense talents of the composer and his wealth of technique, such as has never been heard before.'' But privately he told his brother, Modeste: ''Yesterday the performance of 'Rheingold' took place. From the scenic point of view it interested me greatly, and I was also much impressed by the marvellous staging of the work. Musically it is inconceivable nonsense.'' '' 'Die Walkre' is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon, or even a House of Commons debate. These are the love duet in the first act, Brunnhilde's announcement of death in the second, the ride of the Valkyries and the 'fire-charm' in the third. For them the ordinary playgoer endures hours of Wotan, with Christopher Sly's prayer in his heart. 'Would 'twere over!' Now, I am one of those elect souls who are deeply moved by Wotan. I grant you that as a long-winded, one-eyed gentleman backing a certain champion in a fight and henpecked out of his fancy because his wife objects to the moral character of the champion, he is a dreary person indeed . . . but to one who has understood all its beauties, its lofty aspirations, its tragedy, there is nothing trivial, nothing tedious in 'Die Walkure.' '' Leo Delibes, the French composer, declared that he preferred those Wagnerian operas in which ''there are girls, because, you know, girls are always amusing.'' Vincent d'Indy, a fellow French composer who saw the Munich performances of ''Rheingold'' and ''Walkure'' in 1869-70, thought the ''[Ring]'' was not opera, but a sung epic poem, and far better not staged at all, for ''the 'Ring' admirably fulfills all the requirements of epic, and shows the tremendous weaknesses.
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