Böcker utgivna av Terra Nova Press

"A genre-bending novel of 1001 nights of no-holds-barred, pre-code American movies distilled into a single fevered dreamworld"--

An indispensable guide to a deeper understanding of the nature of the human voice and its harmonic possibilities from East to West.Overtone Singing is the most comprehensive book ever written on the hidden harmonies of the human voice. Ethnomusicologist and vocalist Mark van Tongeren offers fascinating insights into the timeless and universal aspects of sound and vibration. Grounded in the author’s decade-long study of Asian music, the book draws upon field work, interviews with Eastern and Western musicians, and copious scholarship to present a multidisciplinary vision of sound that runs from global music to the science of acoustics and perception, onward to the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of music. Written in a nontechnical style, this generously illustrated book is an indispensable guide for musicians, listeners, and performers seeking a deeper understanding of the nature of the human voice and its harmonic possibilities from East to West.

"Gripping, exhilarating and inspiring." Sir Ranulph Fiennes, world's greatest living explorer.Why did some people in history achieve at an epic level and others did not? What were they doing that was different from their contemporaries? And how can we bring these insights into our modern lives to help us achieve our own successes?Starring an international cast of real-life people:Roald Amundsen -- the great Norwegian explorerIsambard Kingdom Brunel -- the greatest engineer the world has ever seenTheodore Roosevelt -- the cowboy turned statesmanAudacious Goals, Remarkable Results reveals the bold ambitions that set each of these maverick leader's larger-than-life projects into motion.Written by the award-winning author duo: decision scientist Brad Borkan and historian David Hirzel (co-authors of When Your Life Depends on It), their new book reveals in thrilling ways, the outsized risks and setbacks Amundsen, Brunel and Roosevelt endured. It also shows their remarkable legacy for our planet.Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results dives deeply into their famous projects such as:The harrowing building of the first tunnel under a river in the 1820s - an achievement with lasting impact on all cities today,How today's time zones were precipitated by the Great Western Railway (then the longest and fastest in the world),The epic construction of the Panama Canal, andOne man's quest for the South Pole.It takes you up close and personal to the hardships and triumphs that turned these flawed individuals into legendary champions. Their endeavors are inspiring and gripping examples of the nature of the human spirit - showing our need to achieve and the desire to dream big to accomplish something magnificent and lasting.If you enjoy books about real-life action, adventure, success and failure, such as Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, or Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, you will love Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results.Buy Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results today and be prepared to be awed by the Explorer, the Engineer and the Statesman. You may never look at the world in the same way again.And get ready to become inspired to undertake your own epic adventures.

An in-depth look at Jaanika Peerna's iconic work, through essays, images of works and performances, and the artist's own words.Much of Jaanika Peerna’s recent work is a lament to glaciers and natural ice. Her ongoing project Glacier Elegy forms the central core of this publication. The book presents an in-depth look at this iconic work, through essays, images of works and performances, and the artist’s own words. In doing so, it shows how a contemporary artist in her prime addresses the climate emergency.  The book touches on ecological grief and looks at how Peerna and other key contemporary artists have used the subject of ice to highlight the global climate emergency. It includes essays by Robert MacFarlane, Janet Passehl, Celina Jeffery, and an interview by Joana P. R. Neves, situating Peerna's work and envisioning how creative acts imagine ecological relations in the face of rapidly changing climates and environments, giving voice to the difficult emotions of fear, trauma, grief, and mourning. Peerna's work offers us a way through. "Whether in her large-scale gesture drawings on Mylar that become expansive installations, her smaller sculptural pieces that become receptacles for delicate inscriptions of light, or her videos and performances, at the core of Peerna’s work is a concern for the embodied, sensorially engaged subject in dynamic relation to the spatial and material world."—Taney Roniger

Secrets of master guitarists, revealed in conversation.Guitar Talk is a collection of interviews with twenty-three of the most creative guitarists of our time. The book celebrates the enormous range of approaches and sounds that exist in the modern guitar. The instrument can howl, scrape, scratch, scream, sing, pluck, and soothe. What stands out in this book is not so much the instrument itself, rather the wonderful and idiosyncratic personalities of these bold souls, their sometimes wild, often zigzagging, and ultimately profound journeys toward beauty, meaning, and excellence in their work.We find out that jazz icon Bill Frisell won a high school band contest playing R&B tunes, beating out future members of Earth Wind and Fire. We learn which of Nels Cline's compositions he wishes to have played at his funeral. Michael Gregory Jackson recounts painful episodes of racism as he stretched between the chasm of avant jazz, rock, and R&B in the 1980s. Many more revelations, amusements, and philosophies abound from maestros like Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Ralph Towner, Bill Frisell, Mary Halvorson, Henry Kaiser, Ava Mendoza, and many more of the most interesting guitarists working today.

A day in the inner and outer lives of a college professor, blogger, divorced father, thinker, and yearner. What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller The End of Science, answers that question in his genre-bending new book Pay Attention, a stream-of-consciousness account of a day in the life of his alter ego, Eamon Toole-a blogger, college professor, and divorced father.This work of fact-based fiction, or "faction," follows Toole as he wakes up in his rented apartment in upstate New York, meditates with the mantra "Duh," commutes via train and subway to an engineering school in New Jersey, teaches a William James essay on consciousness to freshmen, squabbles about Thomas Kuhn with colleagues over lunch, takes a ferry to Manhattan and spends the evening with his bossy, Tarot-reading girlfriend, Emily, on whom he plans to spring a big question. Throughout the day, Toole struggles to be rational while buffeted by fears and yearnings. Thoughts of sex and death keep intruding on his ruminations over quantum spookiness, the neural code, the Singularity and free will. Pay Attention is a profane, profound meditation on the entanglements of our inner and outer worlds and the elusiveness of truth.

Grab a warm blanket. This book puts you right into the action of the life-and-death decisions made by early Antarctic explorers. It is filled with unforgettable stories about the challenges and decisions they faced on the ice.While we might not be pulling sledges across Antarctica in the early 1900s, this book also reveals valuable lessons in leadership, team work, and sheer grit and determination that can help all of us make better decisions in our lives today.In When Your Life Depends on It, you’ll discover:11 of the greatest survival stories in the history of explorationHow to make decisions fast without feelings of doubt or guiltHow to improve your team and leadership skills, which are valuable in any profession.When it is right to take a big risk.How to succeed against all oddsCo-written by a decision scientist and an Antarctic historian, When Your Life Depends on It is filled with tales of resilience that resonate with people who love travel and adventure as well as those seeking insights into human behavior. It reveals the mind-set of the brave men who risked, and in some cases gave their lives, for science, discovery and exploration.Buy When Your Life Depends on It today to learn about one of the most remarkable periods of history and in the process learn new strategies to improve your own personal and business decision making. “A remarkable book”Sir Ranulph Fiennes -- the greatest Polar explorer in our lifetime“The Polar book of the year”Jonathan Shackleton -- descendant of Ernest Shackleton