The Music Workbook contains pages of coloring, tracing, matching, ear training and listening that have been carefully designed to reinforce the musical concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 2. In full color, 48 pages.,

Psychologists present brand new ways of understanding - and appreciating - "The Twilight Saga". It doesn't take a trained psychologist to see that "The Twilight Saga" has tapped into its readers' psyches...but psychology has plenty to offer when it comes to understanding what makes "Twilight" so dearly loved. Led by husband-and-wife team E. David Klonksy, PhD, and Alexis Black, the psychologists contributing to "The Psychology of Twilight" look at love, family, vampires, were-wolves, and our "Twilight" obsession, and offer more than a dozen fascination new angles on the series - just in time for the November 2011 release of "Breaking Dawn", part one. Why Edward captivates Bella (it's not the perfect face or chiseled abs - it's as chemical as Edward's attraction to the smell of Bella's blood), Vampirism as eating disorder (and what we can learn from how the Cullens cope), and, "Twilight's" rejection of strict dualities like good/evil and human/monster and what that has to do with the way our minds proce

The old certainties of the Cold War have been swept away by the new tide of detente that has washed over the superpowers. But even if international superpower relations have changed, human nature has not altered very much. The new powder keg is the Middle East where this adventure story is set. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This lively and imaginative book is being used to helpchildren learn about music and sound while they develop the abilityto listen, concentrate, be creative, improvise; and trust oneanother. Using audiocassettes or CDs of popular songs and simpleinstruments, children and adults get to play listening games,concentration games, musical quizzes, and more. The games are notcompetitive--they encourage and reward children for participating,not for winning.

These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grewout of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange betweentwo of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: DanielBarenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, andEdward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentatoron the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said aPalestinian-American; they are also close friends. As they range across music, literature, and society, they openup many fields of inquiry: the importance of a sense of place;music as a defiance of silence; the legacies of artists from Mozartand Beethoven to Dickens and Adorno; Wagner’s anti-Semitism; andthe need for “artistic solutions” to the predicament of the MiddleEast—something they both witnessed when they brought young Arab andIsraeli musicians together. Erudite, intimate, thoughtful andspontaneous, Parallels and Paradoxes is a virtuosiccollaboration.

What's the secret to writing a hit song? It's as simple as1-2-3-4-5-6 Innovative, practical, and inspiring, "Six Steps toSongwriting Success" presents a surefire step-by-step approach tomastering the elements consistently found in hit songs. AuthorJason Blume, a songwriter with the rare distinction of having hadsongs on the Country, Pop, and RandB charts simultaneously, haspacked this book with such key aids as the three-step lyric writingtechnique used by the pros; lyric, melody, and demo checklists; andtools for self-evaluation-plus many other exercises that work.Blume's warm, humorous style features motivational anecdotes andentertaining stories of how hit songs came to be written andrecorded. Get "Six Steps to Songwriting Success," and get on thecharts

Though Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) achieved lasting international acclaim as an Art Nouveau painter, graphic designer, and decorator, his outstanding photography is not as well known. His photographic sketchbook and personal visual diary, comprising photographs from the mid-1880s until the end of his life, constitutes a unique and profound artistic statement. This mosaic of captured moments reveals the intimate and personal basis of both Mucha's own life as an artist and the time period in which he lived. The behind-the-scenes glimpses of his studio provided here prove that Mucha--the creator of the ideal of Art Nouveau beauty--was one of the pioneers of the classic nude in Czech photography. This is the first time such a large selection of Mucha's extensive photographic work has been assembled as a book. Many of the photos in this book, never before published, reveal hitherto unknown aspects of Mucha's work, which will be of interest to the general reader and the photographic connoisseur alike. --This text refe

An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, evenbefore he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in'Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded byextraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was inMoscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wallcame down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the ageof 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and sincethen he has been up close and personal with some of the most famouswomen in the world: Julia Roberts, Madonna, Sharon Stone andDonatella Versace. Whether sweeping the floor for the RoyalShakespeare Company or co-starring with Faye Dunaway and anorang-utan in 'Dunstan Checks In' (they both took ages to getready), Rupert Everett always brings as much energy and talent tohis life as he does to his career. A superb raconteur and a keenobserver of human folly (especially his own), Rupert Everett turnshis life into a captivating story of love, fame, glamour, gossipand drama.

Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whosesingle-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. Inthe course of his long career in the northern Italian city ofCremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments;approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by anysubsequent violin-maker. In this fascinating book, Toby Fabertraces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerlesscreations–five violins and a cello–and the one towering artist whobrought them into being. Blending history, biography, meticulousdetective work, and an abiding passion for music, Faber takes usfrom the salons of Vienna to the concert halls of New York, andfrom the breakthroughs of Beethoven’s last quartets to the firstphonographic recordings. This magnificent narrative invites us toshare the life, the intrigue, and the incomparable beauty of theworld’s most marvelous stringed instruments.