If you have ever felt the pulsating beat of the timbales, those electrifying steel drums native to Puerto Rico, or the reverberating sound of the djembe, the wooden hand drum born in Africa, then you know the power of percussive instruments. One shake of a rain stick or a few scratches on a washboard has the ability to turn an ordinary song into something far more profound. The intent of this volume is to guide researchers, students, and those with a general curiosity about percussion instruments in their efforts to expand their understanding of this dynamic and wide-ranging group of...

From the outbreak of war in September 1939, all the way to the smoldering ruins of Berlin in 1945, via Palestine, Tobruk, El Alamein, D-Day, Nijmegen, and the crossing of the Rhine, this is a unique first-person account of World War II. The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Stanley Christopher s regiment, went to war as amateurs, equipped with courage but very little else, and ended up one of the most experienced, highly trained, and most valued armored units in the British Army. Their journey through the war, learning through mistakes and tragedy as well as from a determined desire to improve, can,...

Filling the gap between textbooks of quantitative genetic theory, and software manuals with details on analytical methods but little context on which methods to use, this book covers topics of classical phenotypic data analysis for prediction of breeding values in animals and plants, and provides an overall review of tools for using DNA markers.