What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do 10 violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD or vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers these questions and many more in HOW MUSIC WORKS, an intriguing and original guide to acoustics. In a clear, accessible, and e...(展开全部)

Korean edition of HOW MUSIC WORKS: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond by John Powell.

What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do 10 violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD or vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers these questions and many more in HOW MUSIC WORKS, an intriguing and original guide to acoustics. In a clear, accessible, and e...(展开全部)

作者：阿多諾(Theodor W. Adorno) 阿多諾(Theodor W. Adorno, 1903-1969)，德國哲學家、社會學家、美學家、音樂學家、作曲家，「法蘭克福學派」主要成員，在上述各領域影響深遠，著有《啟蒙辯證法》、《現代音樂的哲學》、《多稜鏡：文化批判與社會》、《否定的辯證法》、《美學理論》。 譯者：彭淮棟 新竹縣竹東鎮人，東海大學外文系畢業，台灣大學外文研究所肄業，曾任出版公司編輯，現任報紙編譯。譯有《後殖民理論》、《意義》、《俄國思想家》、《自由主義之後》、《西方政治思想史》（麥克里蘭）、《鄉關何處》、《現實意義》、《美的歷史》、《醜的歷史》、《貝多芬：阿多諾的音樂哲學》、《音樂的極境：薩依德音樂評論集》、《論晚期風格：反常合道的音樂與文學》等書。

The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as those interested in music. The book ...(展开全部)

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond is an exploration of psychoanalysis’ often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its multifaceted heritage. Throughout the chapters, the contributors write about psychoanalysis’ relationship with queerness, the ways in which queerness is represented in the psychoana...(展开全部)

How would you like to see your students' performance jump by a letter grade or more? "The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, 2e" provides a flexible solution for the intro psych course. King's appreciative perspective - treating psych as an integrated science that places function before dysfunction - with its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic tool helps students know...(展开全部)

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that...(展开全部)

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that...(展开全部)

[英] 帕特里克·狄龙 狄龙是英国建筑师与历史学家，曾获得过普利策奖。他为儿童写过一本《英国的故事》，并为大人撰写过另外两本评价极高的《最后的革命》与《琴酒的近代欧洲史》。他喜欢研究建筑，也热爱说故事，他表示“书写《建筑的故事》是最过瘾的创作经验！”。 [英]斯蒂芬·比斯蒂 比斯蒂是英国知名手绘插画家，剖面图大师。他热爱历史、建筑与绘画，惯用墨水与水彩创作，据说他画画不用尺，每一张图都是他一笔一笔画下来的。他的画受到儿童与成人的喜爱，目前引进到国内的图书有《科学全景图：典藏版》《古代文明惊奇透视》《DK儿童穿越时空的旅行》。知识插画领域的贡献让他荣获1993年纽约时报最佳绘本 (The New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award)，以及 2004 年英国儿童文学图书大奖 (The UK Literary As...(展开全部)