The Musical Topic

Author: Raymond Monelle
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253112362
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The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral.

The Hunt In Ancient Greece

Author: Judith M. Barringer
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801874602
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But the idea certainly appealed to their self-representation and ideology of
kaloskagathos as manifested in literature and vase painting, where hunters on
foot and horseback hunt boar and deer. As part of this ideology, aristocrats saw
themselves as the inheritors of heroic, Homeric culture and status; thus the hunt
was also imbued with heroic overtones. The likening of quotidian hunt to heroic
or mythical deed finds expression on Attic vases, where everyday and mythical
hunting are ...

Governing Morals

Author: Alan Hunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646895
Size: 67.89 MB
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This book is a broad-ranging history of moral regulation focusing on Britain and the US.

Human Intelligence

Author: Earl Hunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139495119
Size: 47.65 MB
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This book is a comprehensive survey of our scientific knowledge about human intelligence, written by a researcher who has spent more than 30 years studying the field, receiving a Lifetime Contribution award from the International Society ...

The Hunt

Author: Andrew Fukuda
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250008565
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When he's chosen for a once in a lifetime opportunity to hunt the last remaining humans, Gene's carefully constructed life begins to crumble around him.

Hunt For The Jews

Author: Jan Grabowski
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025301087X
Size: 69.81 MB
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" Jan Grabowski's penetrating microhistory tells the story of the Judenjagd in Dabrowa Tarnowska, a rural county in southeastern Poland, where the majority of the Jews in hiding perished as a consequence of betrayal by their Polish ...

The Family Romance Of The French Revolution

Author: Lynn Hunt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520082700
Size: 61.80 MB
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This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics.

Greater Perfections

Author: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812235067
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" "Greater Perfections explores the meanings of "garden" and its relationship to other interventions into the natural world.

Brian S Hunt

Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 0375890475
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Gary Paulsen expertly delivers a riveting story that brilliantly combines two of his great themes: the human animal's place in nature, and the mysterious and wonderful bond between humans and dogs. “The Brian books reveal nature and ...