The Complete Classical Music Guide
The Complete Classical Music Guide

Author: DK

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-04-16

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1465401342

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Material from Classical Music (Eyewitness Companion) with updates. This book is a guide to every aspect of the long and ongoing story of Western classical music. It reveals in a stimulating and lively way the exceptionally gifted individuals who have shaped the musical landscape over a millennia, from the chanting monks of the middle ages to the bold exponents of minimalism of the last 100 years. Personal and creative profiles of composers, both major and minor, form the heart of the book and offer rich insights into the qualities of their music and an ideal introduction to the range and diversity of the Classical repertoire.

The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age

Author: Arnold Shaw

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0195060822

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F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper.

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2015-2016
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2015-2016

Author: William M. Simons

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-03-24

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1476628866

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Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research. This collection of 15 new essays selected from the 2015 and the 2016 symposia examines topics whose importance extend beyond the ballpark. Presented in six parts, the essays explore Biography: From Mythology to Authenticity, Gender and Generations, Race and Ethnicity on the Base Paths, Ballparks Abandoned and Envisioned, Baseball Cinema, and Business, Law and the Game.

At the Feet of the Master
At the Feet of the Master

Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti (Alcyone)

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781442158887

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At the Feet of the Master was the first book published by Jiddu Krishnamurti. Written when he was 14 under the name "Alcyone" and published in 1910, it has been translated into 40 languages. There has been some debate over whether the author was Krishnamurti or his mentor C.W. Leadbeater. Krishnamurti never said that he wrote the work, and in the foreword he says: "These are not my own words but of the Master who taught me." He was referring to Leadbeater's claim that the Master Kuthumi was releasing the instruction to the young boy during the night while he was asleep. The book is considered a theosophical classic.

Heritage Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction #601
Heritage Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction #601

Author: Ivy Press

Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation

Published: 2004-02

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9780965104159

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March 17, 2004, Dallas, Texas Signature Auction catalog for Heritage Vintage Movie Posters (Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers). Contains 468 lot descriptions and each lot is pictured.

Using the Biological Literature
Using the Biological Literature

Author: Diane Schmidt

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-04-14

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1466558571

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The biological sciences cover a broad array of literature types, from younger fields like molecular biology with its reliance on recent journal articles, genomic databases, and protocol manuals to classic fields such as taxonomy with its scattered literature found in monographs and journals from the past three centuries. Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition is an annotated guide to selected resources in the biological sciences, presenting a wide-ranging list of important sources. This completely revised edition contains numerous new resources and descriptions of all entries including textbooks. The guide emphasizes current materials in the English language and includes retrospective references for historical perspective and to provide access to the taxonomic literature. It covers both print and electronic resources including monographs, journals, databases, indexes and abstracting tools, websites, and associations—providing users with listings of authoritative informational resources of both classical and recently published works. With chapters devoted to each of the main fields in the basic biological sciences, this book offers a guide to the best and most up-to-date resources in biology. It is appropriate for anyone interested in searching the biological literature, from undergraduate students to faculty, researchers, and librarians. The guide includes a supplementary website dedicated to keeping URLs of electronic and web-based resources up to date, a popular feature continued from the third edition.