Best movie themes : 45 timeless themes from your favorite films : piano, vocal, guitar.

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The fossil chronicles : how two controversial discoveries changed our view of human evolution / by Falk, Dean

Table of Contents: “…Of paleopolitics and missing links -- Taung : a fossil to rival Piltdown -- Taung's checkered past -- Sulcal skirmishes -- Once upon a hobbit -- Flo's little brain -- Sick hobbits, quarrelsome scientists -- Whence Homo floresiensis? …”
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The Lord of the rings : the mythology of power / by Chance, Jane, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien's life and works -- Introduction : a voice for the dispossessed -- "Queer" hobbits : the problem of difference in the Shire -- The political hobbit : The fellowship of the ring -- Knowledge, language, and power : The two towers -- Power and the community : The return of the king -- Conclusion : heroic narrative and the power of structure.…”
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The lord of the rings : the mythology of power / by Chance, Jane, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien's life and works -- Introduction: a voice for the dispossessed -- "queer" hobbits: the problem of difference in the Shire -- The political hobbit: The fellowship of the ring -- Knowledge, language, and power: The two towers -- Power and the community: The return of the king -- Conclusion: heroic narrative and the power of structure.…”

The lord of the rings the mythology of power / by Chance, Jane, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien's life and works -- Introduction : a voice for the dispossessed -- "Queer" hobbits : the problem of difference in the Shire -- The political hobbit : The fellowship of the ring -- Knowledge, language, and power : The two towers -- Power and the community : The return of the king -- Conclusion : heroic narrative and the power of structure.…”
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Little Species, Big Mystery : the Story of Homo Floresiensis / by Argue, Debbie

Table of Contents: “…The discovery -- Nicknaming Homo floresiensis 'the Hobbit' -- Controversy from the start -- Fitting Homo floresiensis on the family tree -- What's in a name? …”
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The plants of Middle-earth : botany and sub-creation / by Hazell, Dinah, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Hobbit names -- From Shire to Mordor : a botanical tour of Middle-earth -- Ithilien : the garden of Gondor -- Forests and trees -- Restoration and recovery.…”

Bilbo's last song : at the Grey Havens / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973

Symphony no. 1 : the Lord of the Rings : for wind orchestra / by Meij, Johan de, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm) -- 5. Hobbits.…”

Lord of the rings & Firebird suite /

Table of Contents: “…Gandalf (The Wizard) ; Lothlorien (The Elvenwood) ; Gollum (Sm'eagol) ; Journey in the Dark ; Hobbits / Johan de Meij (41:15) -- The Firebird Suite / Igor Stravinsky (20:06).…”
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Tolkien and C.S. Lewis : the gift of friendship / by Duriez, Colin

Table of Contents: “…(1933-1939) -- Two journeys there and back again : The pilgrim's regress and The Hobbit (1930-1937) -- Space, time, and the "New Hobbit" (1936-1939) -- World War II and after : Charles Williams comes to Oxford (1939-1949) -- A professors's wardrobe and magic rings (1949-1954) -- Surprised by Cambridge and disappointed by Joy (1954-1963) -- A farewell to Shadowlands (1963-1973) -- The gift of friendship : "who could have deserved it?"…”

Sway : the irresistible pull of irrational behavior / by Brafman, Ori

Table of Contents: “…Anatomy of an accident -- The swamp of commitment -- The Hobbit and the missing link -- Michael Jordan and the first-date interview -- The bipolar epidemic and the chameleon effect -- In France, the sun revolves around the earth -- Compensation and cocaine -- Dissenting justice.…”

Against democracy / by Brennan, Jason, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Hobbits and hooligans -- Ignorant, irrational, misinformed nationalists -- Political participation corrupts -- Politics doesn't empower you or me -- Politics is not a poem -- The right to competent government -- Is democracy competent? …”

Sacred bliss : a spiritual history of Cannabis / by Ferrara, Mark S.

Table of Contents: “…Vendānta, Sādhu priests, and the "Lord of Bhang" -- Shamans, Sufis, and the "Green Man" -- Chinese pharmacopoeia and the golden flower -- Dagga cults, Coptic churches, and the Rastafari -- Peak-experiences and the ineffable -- Hashish eaters, hobbits' leaf, and the pantagruelion.…”
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The Darwinian tourist : viewing the world through evolutionary eyes / by Wills, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…How domesticated animals changed the world ; The great migration ; The San and the Hobbits -- A final postcard.v.…”
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Making the American religious fringe : exotics, subversives, and journalists, 1955-1993 / by McCloud, Sean

Table of Contents: “…Exoticism and the dangers of religious zeal: differentiating fringe from mainstream, 1955-1965 -- Race, class, and the subversive Cold War other: depicting the Nation of Islam, 1959-1965 -- The Buddha, the Hobbit, and the Christ: depicting the middle-class fringe, 1966-1972 -- Making the cult menace: brainwashing, deprogramming, mass suicide, and other heresies, 1973-1979 -- Essentializing the margins: the American religious fringe into the nineties.…”

The return of the king by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973

Homer Simpson ponders politics : popular culture as political theory /

Table of Contents: “…J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again.…”
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The map of Wilderland : ecocritical reflections on Tolkien's myth of wilderness / by Lehning, Amber

Table of Contents: “…The lands of Arda -- Rangers in the mountains -- Elves in the forest -- Hobbits in the shire -- Part III. The wilderness of myth -- Tolkien and American wilderness philosophy -- Tolkienian wilderness in the information age -- Tolkienian courage and wilderness today.…”

Meditations on Middle Earth /

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien / Raymond Feist -- Awakening the elves / Poul Anderson -- A changeling returns / Michael Swanwick -- If you give a girl a hobbit / Esther M. Friesner -- The Ring and I / Harry Turtledove -- Cult classic / Terry Pratchett -- A bar and a quest / Robin Hobb -- Rhythmic pattern in The Lord of the rings / Ursula K. …”