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Based on The Complete Musician, the text goes beyond the undergraduate level to address students as colleagues and explores analytical applications that are appealing and practical. The text provides a means to discuss the perception and cognition, the analysis and performance, and the composition and reception of common-practice tonal music. Each chapter ends with two- to three-page "Analytical Extensions, " which introduce one new topic thro...

W. David Lewis was, until his death in September 2007, a Distinguished University Professor at Auburn University. His other books include Iron and Steel in America and Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century.

Isaac Phillips Roberts was born in Seneca County, New York, in 1833. He came to Cornell University as Professor of Agriculture in 1873, and shortly afterward was made Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture andExperiment Station.

New editions of the classic stories, ideal for kids who are just beginning to read on their own. Uses humour, rhythm and bright, colourful illustrations to encourage even the struggling child.

This introductory textbook for Media and Communication Studies students is designed to encourage observation and evaluation of the European media in the digital age, enabling students to grasp key concepts and gain a broad and clear overview of the area. It also introduces the principal debates, developments (legislative, commercial, political and technological) and issues shaping the European media today, and examines in depth the mass media,...

Bestselling author and the most famous woman in a flak jacket Kate Adie sets out on a fascinating journey to discover just who is attracted to living dangerously - and why.

A cutting-edge look into design and research of state-of-the-art mobile technologies for children.

In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cariboo country of northern British Columbia. The ninth daughter in a family of 12 children, Lily is an observant child who tucks away every image of life in rugged Quesnel during the 1930s for one unforgettable tale after another. She has carefully selected many of her father's early photographs to ill...

D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period.

Do you think going green will give you a competitive advantage, even save you money? Do you think your customers are more likely to buy if you are green? Do you want to do better by the environment and your community? If so, you are not alone. Many feel the need to go green. Jonathan Estes in Smart Green turns this need into value and lays out the steps for going green.?Read it and get ahead of your competition and the green tsunami sweeping t...

THE ACCIDENTAL ARTIST was an ongoing exhibition in Second Life at Odyssey, June 2008 - January 2009, by Alan Sondheim, with help from Sugar Seville, Azure Carter, Gary Nanes, Sandy Baldwin, and Frances van Scoy at the Virtual Environments Laboratory, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. The show changed daily and the gave me an opportunity to study the phenomenology of a virtual world in relation to avatar-human objectivity. Th...

In 1909 HFS Morgan decided to design and build a single seater three-wheeler just for his own interest and in 1912 the Morgan Motor Company was founded The Company has always been associated with Motor Sport and after WWI demand for Morgans was high. With the arrival of the Austin Seven, sales began to decline and the last Morgan three-wheelers were made just after the second world war.

Children, Play, and Development offers a comprehensive look at children's play from birth to adolescence. Stressing the developmental and psychological importance of play, the text discusses the relationship of play to the physical, social, intellectual, and emotional growth of the child.

Drawing upon the work of Quine, Rawls, Rorty and others, Gutting challenges the standard view about what philosophers have achieved.

An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is an illuminating glimpse into the solitary passions of one of our greatest artists.While training for the New York City Marathon, Haruki Murakami decided to keep a journal of his progress. The result is a memoir about his intertwined obsessions with running and writing, full of vivid recollections and insights, including t...

An award-winning educator celebrates the power of reading aloud to children, and offers parents and caregivers essential advice on choosing appropriate titles for their children along with techniques for reading aloud effectively.

A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery, MY SISTER MY LOVE is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the Jon Benet Ramsey murder, 'When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbors - and even the young girl's own family', this book explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and takes the reader into a twiste...

From the author of the international number one bestseller I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE comes a magnificent novel of a life turned upside-down by tragedy - and the search for a way to carry on in the aftermath.

From the author of the internationally bestselling THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVE. At the dawn of the twenty-first century Adam Kellas finds himself hurled on a journey between continents and cultures. In his quest from the war-torn mountains of Afghanistan to the elegant dinner tables of north London and then the marshlands of the American South, only the memory of the beautiful, elusive Astrid offers the possibility of hope.

Leona Hewitt, disguised in men's formal evening clothes, has secretly made her way into Lord Delbridge's private museum to find a relic stolen from her family. But someone else is in the dimly lit gallery on the same errand: a tall, black-cloaked man whose very voice is enough to put her in a trance. Thaddeus Ware, a mesmerist with psychic gifts, is accustomed to fearful reactions from others - women in particular. But Leona, a gifted crystal ...