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Attractive short pieces for the beginner, with illustrations. A useful supplement to Me and My Piano and the earlier stages of Piano Lessons Book 1. The Studies book contains easy melodic studies in the form of short pieces, each concentrating on specific technical points including legato and staccato playing, equality of fingers, singing tone and dynamics.

In the years following the Act of Uniformity in 1549, musicians seemed to thrive on the challenge of the New Prayer Book.

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Isaiah Berlin's translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreakWhen the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns t...

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As time progresses, biology becomes more and more fragmented and specialized and it becomes increasingly difficult to see how all the dis- ! parate facts fit together. It is completely proper that biologists should have sought to reduce complex biological wholes into their parts, and it is natural that studies on the products of this reduction should have diverged from more holistic studies on evolution and ecology. Yet the biological parts, w...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good. John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he pursues his inquiry, he uncovers a shabby, evil world of murder, blackmail, and black magic. He begins to feel more trapped than trapping. In contrast to a stagnant summer in Londo...

A small boy imagines what it would be like to have his own rainbow to play with.