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The International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music is a publication of the Croatian Musicological Society. It features original scholarly articles on music aesthetics, the sociology of music, the social history of music, and the history of ideas in music. The journal has been published since 1970, with articles written in English, French, and German. In addition to articles, it features reviews, announcements and reports on conferences.
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Description #1 by Music44: The Sheet Music Store:
Schott. The book aims to be a guide through the little universe which is the working place of the man who writes music. As such it talks predominantly to the layman,although the expert composer may also find some stimulation in it... From the center of basic theory the discussion will spread out into all the realms of experience which border the technical aspects of composing, such as aesthetics, sociology, philosophy, and so on.
Description #2 by Exotic India Art:
History - About the Book
The study of the biochemical functions of living beings. Which dates back to at least the time of Hippocrates? Now touches all areas of the life sciences. The history of this study most familiar to the layman as well as the scientist is that of individual minds and great discoveries. But how has the field of science we now call biochemistry emerged from its roots in physiology and chemistry as a distinct discipline, with a separate scientific community and body of established knowledge? How has the direction of its study been guided in the past, and what are its prospects for the future?
In this volume, 10 prominent scientists offer perspectives and insights from the fields of physiology, plant biology, microbiology, genetics, biophysics, molecular biology, immunology and biotechnology to answer these questions with regard to India. They examine not only the major discoveries, developments and research that shaped the direction of the discipline, but also the research groups and institutions that made them possible. This comprehensive analysis includes the role and influence of various funding agencies; the establishment of formal training programmers, university departments and research institutions; and the founding of professional societies for furthering the progress of various fields of research. In the course of this study, the volume also considers issues such as the ethical implications of new developments in biotechnology, and the practical applications of research in agriculture, medicine, forensics, industry, etc.
Reflecting the immense and varied scope of the subject, this exhaustive volume offers a prospect of a vast and evolving field with an increasingly influential and important presence in India--that will interest students, researchers and teachers of biology, chemistry and biochemistry, as well as those interested in the history of scientific developments in the country.
About the Author
DP Chattopadhyaya, MA LLB, PhD (Calcutta and London School of Economics), Dlitt (Honoris Causa) studied and researched on law, philosophy and history, and taught at various universities in India, Asia, Europe and the USA from 1954 to 1994. Founder Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (198 1--I 990) and President-cumChairman of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1984 1991), Chattopadhyaya is currently the Project Director of the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture (PHISPC) and Chairman of the Centre for Studies in Civilizations (CSC). Among his 37 publications, of which he has authored 19 and edited or coedited 18, are Individuals and Societies (1967); Individuals and Worlds (1976); Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx (1988); Anthropology and Historiograph of Science (1990); Induction, Probability and Skepticism (1991); Sociology, Ideology and Utopia (1997); Societies, Cultures and Ideologies (2000); Interdisciplinary Studies in Science, Sociqy, Value and Civilization Dialogue (2002); Philosophy of Science, Phenomenology and Other Essqys (2003); Philosophical Consciousness and Scientific Knowledge: Conceptual Linkages and Civiliational Background (2004); Se7J' Sorcery and Science: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives (2004); Religion, Phi losophi and Science
(2006); Aesthetic Theories and Forms in Indian Tradition (2008) and Love, Lfr and Death (2010). He has also held high public offices, namely, of Union cabinet minister and state governor. He is a life member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of the International Institute of Philosophy, Paris. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1998 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2009 by the Government of India.
DP Burma was trained as a physical chemist but later moved to biological sciences. He received his training in biochemistry from stalwarts like RH Burr, BL Horecker and the Nobel Laureate Severo Ochoa. Initially he was associated with the Bose Institute and then the Department of Biochemistry, University College of Science, both at Kolkata. Finally he moved to the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. His major scientific contribution was in the area of protein synthesis. He and his wife, Professor Maharani Chakravorty, developed the molecular biology unit of BHU to an international level. He is also the co-author, with Professor Maharani Chakravorty, of Music of Life: Development of Molecular Biology: A Personal Account.
Maharani Chakravorty was trained as a plant physiologist but later moved to biochemistry. She earned her postdoctorate training in the laboratory of Professor BL Horecker at the School of Medicine at New York University. She had her formal training in bacterial genetics and bacterial viruses in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA. In 1967, she became the first Indian to be trained in the DNA--RNA hybridization technique at an International Cell Research Organization (ICRO)-organized course at Naples.
Description #3 by Paddle.com:
Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century and is centrally important for philosophy political theory aesthetics and theory of art the study of modern European literatures and music the history of ideas sociology psychology and cultural studies. In this volume an international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory including Horkheimer Adorno Marcuse Benjamin and Habermas as well as lesser known but important thinkers such as Pollock and Neumann. The volume surveys the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history while at the same time showing the diversity among its proponents that contributes so much to its richness as a philosophical school. The result is an illuminating overview of the entire history of Critical Theory in the twentieth century an examination of its central conceptual concerns and an in-depth discussion of its future prospects.