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 Symphony No. 5 (Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere) $8.99 I give this disc 5 stars because that's what it deserves. No, you cannot fully appreciate this on the first listen. There's no hooks. It's raw and pure. Just the way I like it. What Glenn is trying to do hear is give the listener a real experience of his impression of what music is... I believe if you listen with your body, to what he has to show you, it could be a very enlightening experience. I have nothing but appreciation for the guy... he's a pioneer.  Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists $44.99 Even though this book is intended for linguists doing fieldwork, it is an absolute must for those who create languages for fun. Why? Well, the purpose of the book is to teach a fieldworker how to write a descriptive grammar for the language s/he's working on. It points out everything that should be recorded, and gives examples of different phenomena from different languages. Well, guess what? A language creator is essentially a fieldworker working on an undiscovered language: his/her own. This book will guide a language creator in creating a grammar of his/her own language, and, when you get stuck, it's always helpful to see how natural languages do things. As a language creator, I highly recommend this book to anyone who creates languages. (And, as a linguist, I highly recommend this book to anyone who's doing fieldwork, of course.)  The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century $32.50 An analysis of the 17th century Dutch preoccupation with vision, the discovery and use of the microscope, lenses, optical devises, the study of the retina and how we see, new ideas of perspective and a discussion of the work of noted scholars of the day, as Keppler and Huygens. A fascinating discussion of Vermeer painting exactly what he saw while Rembrandt painting "the invisible human depths." A very fine study designed to help us think and see. |
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