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Stapled Wraps. Condition: Fine. A scarce issue of this outstanding Russian music journal (founded in 1991). In lieu of a verbal description, I've attached scans of the cover and four inside pages for your perusal. CONTENTS; Remembering Great Musicians - Magda Matsulevich: pianist, aesthete, and person; Review Materials - Alexander Solodovnikov, more; Creative Portrait - Leonora Dmitrerko; Jubilee - Music Master Mikhail Pletenev; Creative Collective - Musical Culture; Festivals; Methodical Works. 44 (48) pages. CONDITION: a bright, solid, unmarked, uncreased copy with negligible shelf-wear - now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag with archival backing board.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: As New. V nastoyashchej knige s pozitsii biologa rassmatrivayutsya nekotorye naibolee sushchestvennye predstavleniya o yazyke cheloveka, bez znaniya kotorykh nevozmozhno ponyat ego printsipialnoe otlichie ot yazykov zhivotnykh. Obsuzhdayutsya fakty i gipotezy otnositelno vozmozhnykh putej stanovleniya yazyka v evolyutsii cheloveka. Rech v knige idet takzhe o mnogoobraznykh svyazyakh yazykovogo povedeniya lyudej s osobennostyami nashego mozga, o vsevozmozhnykh sposobakh kommunikatsii, sozdannykh chelovekom na baze estestvennogo razgovornogo yazyka yazyki svistov i zhestovye yazyki, flazhnye kody, pismennost. Chast knigi posvyashchena opisaniyu sposobov kommunikatsii pchel, ptits, delfinov i chelovekoobraznykh obezyan. V zaklyuchitelnykh glavakh opisany popytki uchenykh nauchit zhivotnykh popugaev, delfinov, tyulenej i shimpanze obshchatsya s lyudmi s pomoshchyu tak nazyvaemykh yazykov-posrednikov. Kniga budet polezna ne tolko spetsialistam - psikhologam, lingvistam, etologam, antropologam, zoologam, no i shirokomu krugu chitatelej.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Bound in toned white cloth with gold lettering to the front cover and spine. Gold and silver illustration of a seabird to the front cover. Dated 1973 on the copyright and title page. 375 pages, followed by a section of unpaginated black and white images. In Russian throughout (title and copyright page have English translations). Good condition. Binding is strong and tight. Corners square. Covers are discolored and toned, but free of any bumps or rubbing. Pages toned. Endpapers and page edges have darker toning and some foxing. No marks or writing to be found. Overall good condition. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Thomas Lovejoy's name is not written in this set. It will come with a card stating provenance, with a picture of Lovejoy.

This book, the first monograph in English on the 14 Palearctic wheatear species, contains a thorough analysis of the co-ordinated evolution of their main morphological and behavioural features. As most of the species inhabit arid landscapes, the author has been able to present a wide ranging comparative discussion about how these remarkable birds adapt to an existence in extreme desert conditions. Some have expanded their ranges into temperate zone and even subarctic landscapes and the book describes how their life strategies have changed accordingly. Also examined, all within the framework of an integral system of adaptation, are evolutionary trends affecting changes in body size and plumage coloration, foraging behaviour, breeding dispersion, motor signal behaviour and vocalizations. Special attention is paid to the development of signal and communication behaviour in groups of closely related species at different stages of their divergent evolution. Sofia, Moscow. Pensoft. 439 pp., num. figs, maps, illustrations and tabs, hardcover gr. 8 [17 x 24 cm].

This book is the first monograph in English on the 34 shrike species distributed across Africa, Eurasia and North America. These birds have attracted the attention of ornithologists for a long time, mainly because of their predatory nature and the methods which they use to dispatch their prey. In the book, the most important information on shrikes of the World is summarized, much of which has accumulated in the ornithological literature and obtained by the author himself. These voluminous empirical data are also used by the author in an attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the group at different stages of its phylogenesis, from the early origins of the family Laniidae, presumably in Africa, through the secondary expansion of species across Eurasia and into the New World. Also examined here, all within the framework of an integral system of adaptation, are evolutionary trends affecting changes in bodysize and plumage coloration, foraging behavior, breeding dispersion, motor signal behavior and vocalizations. Special attention is paid to the devel opment of signal and communication behavior in groups of closely related species at different stages of their divergent evolution. The breakdown of iso lating mechanisms, leading to hybridization and a local fusion of closely related species in their sec ondary contact zones, its causes and dynamics, is another fascinating topic dealt with in the book. The results of recent molecular studies on shrikes are discussed as well. The author, an exceptionally skilled observer and interpreter of bird behavior, has drawn on his immense experience of many hours spent watching shrikes in the field and has reared young shrikes in captivity. The book's thought-provoking text is well supported by an array of diagrams, tables, drawings by the author, and color photographs of birds and habitats. Sofia, Moscow. Pensoft. 910 pp., num. color plates, color & b/w figs, maps, tabs, hardcover gr. 8 [17 x 24 cm].