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by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Don't read another book on pentatonic scales until you have read this book. Culture and the Pentatonic Scale is an inside look into the history of the pentatonic scale and its uses. Teachers will be able to use this as an excellent resource for their students. Musicians and non-musicians will read...
The Fabulous Sylvester
The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change-the '70s-as told through the life of ultra-fabulous superstar Sylvester
Imagine a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San...
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
America and China, 1776 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day
From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's...
by Henry M. Piironen
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Read them, love them, quote them, the often witty, the often cerebral, and sometimes even hilarious quotes of this book. Find the perpetual diamonds of wisdom and truth, while enjoying the rest.
by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Discover how you can understand and love the genre of music we call jazz. Jazz...For Those Who Don't Appreciate It is a guide for helping people appreciate jazz music more. It contains important information on how to listen to jazz, history of jazz and helpful techniques for listening to jazz. Everyone who loves music should read this important, amazing book.
Elvis
The Story of the Rock and Roll King
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
An only child, a mama's boy-Elvis was a shy kid who struggled to make friends and found comfort singing in church and learning guitar. While in high school, he continued his music but was often ridiculed by students. On a whim, he recorded a song for his mom's birthday at Sun Record Studios as part...
Fever
The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
The first major biography of the legendary singer—an enthralling account of a charismatic artist moving through the greatest, most glamorous
era of American music
"I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Peggy Lee, the North Dakota girl who sang...
Parallax
The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy's most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star.
The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the...
Casting with a Fragile Thread
A Story of Sisters and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past.
A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood in colonial Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—behind...
by David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American history
From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy’s...
The Day the World Went Nuclear
Dropping the Atom Bomb and the End of World War II in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe, but in the Pacific, American soldiers face an enemy who will not surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest...
Thick As Thieves
A Brother, a Sister--a True Story of Two Turbulent Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
A memoir about two siblings who loved each other (sometimes); the thrill of the shoplift, the power of the written word, the agony of addiction, and the joy of someone who understands you and still stays true
Steve Geng—thief, addict, committed member of Manhattan's criminal semi-elite—was...
by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
What do Tupac, Eminem, Cassidy, Common and Jin have in common? They're great freestylers. Discover your ability to freestyle with our ebook. This ebook is for those who already know how to write and rap hip hop lyrics. If you don't know how to do this, the ebook “A Guide For Writing Hip Hop Lyrics”...
The Magician and the Cardsharp
The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
A famous magician's journey to find the greatest cardsharp ever evokes the forgotten world of magic where Americans found escape during the Great Depression
It has the nostalgic quality of an old-fashioned fable, but Karl Johnson's The Magician and the Cardsharp is a true story that lovingly...