Composing a Life

Reducere. Mary Catherine Bateson author of the landmark bestseller "Composing a Life "gives us an inspiring exploration of a new life stage that she calls Ad...

Reducere. Johannes Brahms, the frail little son of poor parents, spent the first years of his life in a wretched tenement in the old harbor city of Hamburg. ...

Reducere. How do you "Quilt a Face?"How do you bring your favorite people to life with fabric?Fabric portrait artists and teachers, Phyllis Cullen and Cindy ...

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending h...

Reducere. In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Mercè Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, w...

Reducere. In recent years, urban uprisings, insurrections, riots, and occupations have been an expression of the rage and desperation of our time. So too hav...

Reducere. David Dewey has compiled the most comprehensive book on watercolors featuring modern materials and methods for mastering this medium. In this compl...

Reducere. Imagine leaving everything you've ever known--your friends, family, and home--to travel along roads you've never seen before, getting help from peo...

Young David has a school assignment to learn about Beethoven and his music. Fortunately, his grandfather can not only play Beethovens music for him...

Young David has a school assignment to learn about Beethoven and his music. Fortunately, his grandfather can not only play Beethovens music for him...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Bay Area Book of the Year A book unlike anything ever written by a comp...

A hundred short biographies of people who worked at the secret wartime codebreaking base of Bletchley Park, and went on in their postwar lives to a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert E. RobertsA trained classical musician, Robert E. Roberts forsook composing harpsichord music to become a gifted tat...

Reducere. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardBilly Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave, published i...

Reducere. **2018 Nautilus Book Award Winner***"She was a free-flying soul, with a heart full of fire, Who undeniably followed her creative desire. From the m...

Reducere. "Sens-Plastique has now been a companion of mine for nearly 20 years, and so far as I am concerned, Malcolm de Chazal is much the most original and...

Reducere. The first definitive biography of music legend Stevie WonderStevie Wonder's achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and produce...

Reducere. Karl Geiringer's biography of Brahms is generally regarded as the finest study of the composer ever published in any language. It is based upon the...

Description"Colors burst across each page, with layers of collage-work emphasizing the richness of Mitchell's influences and imagination. Will spea...

Reducere. Luke's narrative about Jesus followed the conventions for ancient biography. Trained in rhetoric, Luke employed the genre of the encomium, which re...

A reissue of a classic that represents the culmination of over 40 years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to stude...

What Would You Focus On If You Were No Longer Weighed Down By Your Unwanted Responsibilities?If you want to add something meaningful to your life, ...

Reducere. unforgivable Blood -the forgotten secrets of a family's ruin; is Yusuf T. Woods latest novel debuting as the first installment of a new original se...

Reducere. Being musical does not necessarily mean being a musician; it doesn't mean playing the piano at parties or composing songs for lovers. It is a way o...

Reducere. A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms fr...

Reducere. Along with playing games, practice is essential for mastering go technique; namely, practice in analyzing positions and reading out all their varia...

Each of the twelve chapters of How Poems Get Made examines a specific aspect of the poetic medium: diction, syntax, rhythm, echo, figure, repetitio...

Reducere. DescriptionSt. Ephrem the Syrian (306-379) is perhaps one of the most prolific Fathers of the Eastern Church, composing four-hundred liturgical hym...

DescriptionAn exceptional debut novel that explores the stifled, unspoken feelings of a music teacher and his former student, and the damage done b...

Reducere. Nik Vanelli drives a delivery truck by day and is the front man of a popular local band, Lapis Lazuli, on the weekends. But he never expected to ha...

Reducere. Join author Robert Goldstein and his wife, Melinda Denson, on a seemingly idyllic trip to celebrate his retirement by traversing Canada on the remn...

"A beautiful book... an instant classic of the genre." --Dwight Garner, New York Times - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice MIT psycholog...

Reducere. The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and techno...

Reducere. The Interior Design Reference & Specification Book collects the information essential to planning and executing interior projects of all shapes and...

"I may assert Eternal ProvidenceAnd justify the ways of God to men"John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to th...

Reducere. "A deeply meaningful collection that navigates important nuances of identity."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Nepantla Familias brings together Me...

Reducere. In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. at master would become Kin...

Reducere. In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy. The book includes key explanat...

Reducere. DescriptionR. H. Swaney brings a depolarizing voice to the poetry world with this debut collection. Amongst the topics of mental health, self-love,...

[An] illuminating memoir. --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York TimesThe story of a composer's life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditatio...

Reducere. Ida Lupino did not want to be an actress; composing and writing were her major interests. Ida branched out into film directing and producing in 194...

Reducere. "...entertaining and edifying and will inspire anyone who dreams of working in wine, or just dreams of wine."- Brian Keyser, Co-Author Composing Th...

Reducere. Learn to figure paint in watercolor with a world-renowned instructor The Natural Way to Paint will teach you a natural approach to seeing and paint...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Qui Duc NguyenIn 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnames...

Reducere. Description"Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless." --Heather Ros...

The art of composing spontaneous songs that express spiritual understanding has existed in Tibet for centuries. Over a hundred of these profound so...

Reducere. DescriptionDunes of Fire was completed in the summer of June 2016, after two years of composing its plot and characters. Just like a vintage wine, ...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet the new world sensation. It's Tufti.Why is it that nothing seems to work out the way you want it to, despitethe fact that you act a...