Noah's Ravens : Interpreting The Makers of Tridactyl Dinosaur Footprints

Anna works in the Russian Department of China Radio International in Beijing. She’s been dreaming of hosting her own show and now she has the chance to make her dream come true. After receiving an editorial assignment to prepare a programme about China’s 'makers', Anna goes on a journey across the country to find out who they are. Inventors, engineers, visionaries and creators – Chinese 'makers' have existed for as long as China itself. They are the people behind the country’s technological progress and their innovations have an impact on the whole world.

For more than 40 years, Jesper Hoffmeyer has been committed to the idea of developing a semiotics of nature, or biosemiotics as he chose to call this effort, that could intelligibly explain how all the phenomena of inherent meaning and signification in living nature - from the lowest level of sign processes in unicellular organisms to the cognitive and social behavior of animals - can emerge from a universe that was not so organized and meaningful from the very beginning (Claus Emmeche, Kalevi Kull, Frederik Stjernfelt (ed.), Reading Hoffmeyer, rethinking biology, Tartu 2002, p. 41).

This book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919–2012) György Kurtág (1926–) and Sándor Veress (1907–92). Although all three composers are of Hungarian origin, their careers followed radically different paths. Whereas, Kurtág remained in Budapest for most of his career, Anhalt and Veress left: the former in 1946 and immigrated to Canada and the latter in 1948 and settled in Switzerland. All three composers have had an extraordinary impact in the cultural environments within which their work took place.