This richly illustrated book charts the heady days of Beatlemania, the golden years of the studio band and the solo careers the four pursued following the acrimonious break-up in 1970. These stunning photographs, supported by a detailed commentary, capture our enduring love affair with the group that influenced a generation,rewrote the record books and changed the course of popular music.

Use this book to start playing straight awa no previous musical knowledge required.Teaches you the basics of acoustic and electric guitar technique.Includes valuable advice on buying an instrument and amplifier.Diagrams and photographs make it easy for you to find notes and chords Explains the workings of song structures,and shows you how to play simple solos and ccompaniments.Find out how to liven up practice sessions by using tape recorders and other electronics.Includes an easy-to-use interactive DVD companion to the book.

Specially arranged and simplified, these Beethoven works for beginner pianists will delight students and teachers alike. They include such popular melodies as "Für Elise," "Ode to Joy," and the opening of the Moonlight Sonata, along with excerpts from other sonatas and highlights from the symphonies.

Calligraphy is writing made exciting；this comprehensive book provides a full set of alphabet styles and a wealth of applications for them all。Make alphabet designs，write on wavy lines？decorate letters and use gold？play with special effects of colou r and pattern．Never before has writi ng been such fun！

Fun-to-play, pedagogically sound piano arrangements include themes from Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata and Haydn's Surprise Symphony, along with such favorites as Schumann's "Tr umerei," Brahms's "Lullaby," Chopin's "Prelude," Tchaikovsky's "Marche Slave," Moussorgsky's "Promenade" (from Pictures at an Exhibition), and many more. Includes 20 piano arrangements.

Beginning pianists will love playing these beloved favorites in musically attractive, easy arrangements: "Jingle Bells," "Deck the Halls," "Joy to the World," "Silent Night," "Away in a Manger," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "O Little Town of Bethlehem," "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," 12 more. Includes illustrations.

This new gathering of the world's greatest classical themes follows Bergerac's highly successful My First Book of Classical Music. Here are ever-popular themes from the symphonies, concertos, and operas of such masters as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and many others. For children and beginners of any age. Dover Original.

This Scooby-Doo Art Kit gives children a fun way to explore the artist in each of them!A perfect activity companion for your Scooby-Doo ! Read &Solve mystery series!Dray paint color and enjoy!

"As a chronicler of natural history today, Frans Lanting is a singular extraordinary talent. He has the mind of a scientist, the heart of a hunter, and the eyes of a poet." National Geographic, Washington "This book is a personal interpretation of the penguins I met, rather than a natural history of all penguins," Frans Lanting writes. "I wanted to create an impression of who these penguins are and what they go through. I hope my work will be seen as an homage to the individual within them all." More bang for your buck! "...a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review"

BJrthdogs, Halloween, Valentine's Dog, Christmas, parties-make cards for oil gour friends and fomilg! Follow the simple, clear step-bg-step pictures and amazing photographs to create over 50 fabulous cards, each graded to show how eosg theg ore to make. With over 250 stickers, press-out cord templates, and special messages to copg, gou con make cards that evergone will love to receive.

THE FIFTIES IN PICTURES is one of a series of books that together provide a comprehensive pictorial history of the 20th century, decade by decade. With over 250 pictures, this volume is a unique record of the moments that shaped the 1950s: from the French defeat in Indo-China to the Communist triumph in Cuba, from racial desegregation in Little Rock to the grip of apartheid in South Africa, from Sugar Ray Robinson's pink Cadillac to the world's first jet airliner.

Now a major motion picture, discover the beloved Newbery Medal-winning story of Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke. Join Jess and Leslie as they form an unlikely friendship and create the imaginary land of Terabithia. There they rule as king and queen, until a terrible tragedy occurs that helps Jess understand just how much he has learned from Leslie.

Make beautiful motifs to decorate windows and mirrors,and transform plain glass iars,bottles and boxes into decorative objects.Follow the step-by-step photography to learn the skills of glass painting and experiment with the many techniques inside.

The Understanding Art series provides the student or non-specialized reader with a basic introduction to a period or movement by presenting a wide-ranging selection of artists and their works, illustrated by full-color reproductions and discussed in relation to each other and the period or movement they represent. Comprehensive in scope and inviting in design, these books are as appealing for browsing as they are for research. Supplements school curriculum in art. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The growth and development of Impressionism is fully described and illustrated in this handsome, comprehensive volume. The lives of the founders of the movement and their followers are revealed through a knowledgeable text and 352 full-color reproductions. Here is the story of one of the most popular schools of art, one that continues to fascinate and enchant us. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Students of all ages will delight in these 26 simple piano arrangements of familiar melodies such as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," "Wachet Auf," and highlights from the Brandenburg Concertos, Goldberg Variations, and Inventions, plus menuets, gavottes, bourrées, and other fun-to-play pieces.

Ranging over hundreds of years—and countless styles—with breathtaking virtuosity, George Deem has repainted the history of Western art. Deem's special gift is to paint, with witty sympathy, his own "revisions" of famous works, revisions that look like the originals but transform them in some way. Now, in the most comprehensive collection of his work ever assembled, the amazing scope of Deem's devotion to his subject, art itself, can be seen. The greatest American and European artists are represented; their work, at first glance, seems uncannily perfect. Here is an exquisite Vermeer, looking so much like the original that it takes a moment to realize there is no woman holding a water pitcher in the corner of the room. And here is Cubist Cache, Deem's tour de force imagining of what Parisians do with their cubist art when they go away on vacation. As a special feature the book includes a die-cut, ready-to-assemble version of Deem's quotation of Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, a cube in which we view the f

During her brief career Marilyn appeared in several classic movies，winning acclaim from the public and critics alike，but despite all her outward success she did not find settled happiness in Hollywood，She frequently played the role of the attractive“dumb blonde”，but as an intenlligent，talented，and complex woman，it was a stereotype from which she would spend much of her life attempting to escape。she was also haunted by the specter of her unsettled childhood，which appeared to translate into restlessness throughout her life，and a series of failed marriages and pregnancies did nothing to shake off her insecurities。images of Marilyn Monroe is a superb collection of photographs that tells the story of Marilyn’s private and professional life，from her first steps in Hollywood，through her relationships with some of America’s most celebrated men，to her success as one of the movie industry’s most bankable stars，covering the highs and lows along the way。

Beginning pianists and their teachers will love this attractive compilation of immortal music by Chopin. Fun-to-play, pedagogically sound arrangements include the theme from the "Raindrop" Prelude, "Minute" Waltz, the charming Lullaby, and melodic highlights from the most familiar preludes, mazurkas, waltzes, impromptus, and etudes. From the lyrical Fantaisie-impromptu and delightful "Butterfly" Etude to the brilliant strains of the world-famous "Military" Polonaise and "Heroic" Polonaise, these arrangements of twenty-three of Chopin's best-loved pieces are guaranteed to be favorite additions to any beginning pianist's repertoire. Bergerac has written exclusively for pianists at the elementary level since 1967--over 30 years of creating original music and wonderfully satisfying arrangements of the world's best-loved music. His expert settings explore a full-sounding piano within the natural capabilities of the beginning performer. An added bonus in this new collection are the informal notes that preface e

A great and lasting favorite in the vast symphonic literature, Antonin Dvorak's "New World" Symphony is among the composer's most enduring and appealing works, exceptionally popular worldwide ever since its premiere in 1893. The work rose out of the composer's three-year stay in the United States, blending echoes of American Indian impressions with music that reflects Dvorak's Bohemian home- land. Folksy, evocative, spontaneous, endlessly melodic, and rhythmically alive and inventive, his Symphony No. 9 is the composer at his very best and most char-teristic. This work appears in full score with original instrumentation, bar-numbered move-ments, and ample margins at the bottom of each score page for notes and analy-sis. Ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall, this affordable,high-quality, convenient-sized volume will be the edition of choice for music stu-dents and music lovers alike.

When danger calls, help is one Super away! Slipcase with Velcro closure, 20 blank folded cards (5 images repeating 4 times), 20 envelopes

Scrooge is the meanest old man you're likely to meet - and his story opens on a winter's day as cold as his heart. But Scrooge is in for a shock. In this retelling of the classic tale by Charles Dickens, three Christmas spirits take Scrooge on a ghostly journey through life. Coming face to face with his past and present is bad enough, but what of his terrifying future?