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1) Sounds wild and broken: sonic marvels, evolution's creativity, and the crisis of sensory extinction
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"A rich exploration of how the evolution of both natural and manmade sounds have shaped us and the world, and how the world's acoustic diversity is currently in grave danger of being destroyed. We live on a planet that is wrapped in the diverse acoustic marvels of song and speech. Yet never has this diversity been so threatened as it is now. Braiding his experience as a listener and an ecologist with the latest scientific discoveries, David Haskell...
2) Hi!
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming couplets capture a series of greetings between animals, as an owl's "hoo" is answered by a cow's "moo," and a bird's "chirp" leads to an anteater's "slurp."
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278 pages : ilustrations, music ; 22 cm
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Bug Music is the first book to consider the radical notion that we humans got our idea of rhythm, synchronization, and dance from the world of insect sounds that surrounded our species during the millions of years over which we evolved. Bug Music continues Rothenberg's in-depth research and spirited writing on the relationship between human and animal music, and it follows him as he explores insect influences in classical and modern music, plays...
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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What's that noise? Explore the strange sounds houses make - especially when it's dark outside! Introduces readers to basic scientific concepts involving energy, structures, and matter that explain all those things that go bump, bang, and creak in the night.
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331 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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"With forays into archaeology, neuroscience, biology, and design, Cox explains how sound is made and altered by the environment, how our body reacts to peculiar noises, and how these mysterious wonders illuminate sound's surprising dynamics in everyday settings, from your bedroom to the opera house"--Amazon.com.
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
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Learn all about the most disgusting and dreadful aspects of sound -- from flatulent whoopee cushions to glass-smashing opera singers and music-loving pigs.
Explores the science of sound and the disgusting aspects of it, including ear anatomy, revolting sounds, and animal noises.
17) The farm concert
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16 pages : color illustrations ; 49 cm.
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A farmer has trouble sleeping when several animals make their own sound very loudly.
18) Ahwoooooooo!
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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After making several unsuccessful attempts to mimic the sounds of other animals, Little Wolf goes to his grandfather and learns how to howl.
19) One frog sang
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Introduces the numbers one through ten as more and more frogs join in the evening song. Count on these frogs for a luminous read-aloud bursting with lyrical sound play and visual surprises.
20) Squeak!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A mouse wakes up with a squeak, and his noise sets off a chain reaction of animals waking each other up.
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