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Our popular guide is now available in eBook format. We show how students and other world travellers can get paid to travel overseas by teaching English as a foreign language (TOEFL, ESL, EFL, etc). If you want to spend a few months or several years in an exotic destination then this is a popular...

(Educational Piano Solo). Jazz Etude Inspirations is a collection of eight original piano etudes inspired by some of the most important jazz pianists in history. Etudes in the style of legendary greats Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Jelly Roll Morton, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Count Basie...

Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers who ever lived. He is also one of the most misunderstood, as both man and musician, and looks destined to remain among the most controversial. Widely misrepresented as an emotional voluptuary and typecast as a crazy Russian genius, he was, in fact, a highly...

Beethoven bestrides the history of music like no other. Without him it would have been a very different story. This biographical portrait reveals a titanic personality, both vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a...

Chamber music is the most intimate, and arguably the most joyful and sociable, form of music-making in the world. It may also be the oldest, and its scope is all-embracing, ranging from infectious light entertainment to profound explorations of the human spirit, from boisterous humour to the outer reaches...

War-hero, huckster, showman and womanizer extraordinaire, Frenchman André Surmain has defied the critics and pulled off something really quite remarkable - forging a reputation for the Lutèce as the finest restaurant not just in New York but in the whole of the United States. “What...

Sometimes, life can get boring and you have to look a little harder to be entertained. Perhaps working in a candy-filled dungeon-like wharehouse, attending a NASCAR race in the pouring rain or even melting action figures and setting fire to a public park is where you might find some sought after fun....

The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. The composer is noteworthy and controversial because of his radical early works, his interest in non-Western...

Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today. The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands,...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is felt by many people to be the greatest composer who ever lived. Dominated and shaped by a highly intelligent but frustrated and ambitious father, his story sees the development of a unique genius, from precocious and often endearing childhood to liberated fulfilment, unexpected...

New York Times Bestseller: This true Depression-era story of a down-and-out fighter’s dramatic comeback is “a delight” (David Halberstam). James J. Braddock was a once promising light heavyweight. But a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the...

Up-to-the-minute Merle Oberon. This book is your ultimate resource for Merle Oberon. Here you will find the most up-to-date 172 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Merle Oberon's Early...

A groundbreaking collection of original essays, Stages of Reality establishes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between stage and screen media. This comprehensive volume explores the significance of theatricality within critical discourse about cinema and television. Stages...

Join loveable twin sisters Shubha and Shanti as they embark on a journey throughout India. On their travels, they will visit historical monuments and spiritual centers and investigate the origins of the multifaceted cultures of India. With every challenge they face on their adventures, they will develop...