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“We Shall Overcome” is an American folk song that has influenced American and world history like few others. At different points in time it has served as a labor movement song, a civil rights song, a hymn, and a protest song and has long held strong individual and collective meaning for the African-American...

Moving back through Dewey, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Rousseau, the lineage of Western music education finds its origins in Plato and Pythagoras. Yet theories not rooted in the ancient Greek tradition are all but absent. A Way of Music Education provides a much-needed intervention, integrating ancient...

Quiero Tocar El Bajo by Victor M. Barba is a tremendous book for the bass. Written for both acoustic or electric bass, in this book you'll find all you need to learn the basics. The book features 20 progressive studies, basic music theory, and many scales. Every example or song is presented in standard...

Victor Hugo was a great French writer during the Romantic Movement in the nineteenth century.  Hugo was also an esteemed poet and his classic novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame are still among the most widely read books throughout the world.  This edition of Bug-Jargal includes a table of contents.

While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently...

Quiero Tocar La Guitarra, (I want to play the guitar) by Victor M. Barba is one of the best books for guitar. Finally there is an "Easy to understand" book to learn how to play the basics on the guitar. The only book that includes music notes, music note names, tablature, guitar graphics...

If you’ve ever wanted to play the trumpet and thought it too difficult to learn, and you're looking for an easy book to get you started, look no further! Victor M. Barba's book, Quiero Tocar la Trompeta [I Want to Play the Trumpet], is here! Finally, there is an easy-to-understand book to learn...

The Catalan is a solid yet flexible chess opening system that is popular on all levels. Both amateurs and top-level strategists such as Vladimir Kramnik and Vishy Anand employ this opening to put a lot of unpleasant pressure on Black.In The Powerful Catalan grandmaster Victor Bologan presents a complete...

Giuseppe Verdi's career forms one of the loveliest arcs in musical history. The passion of his works resonates universally, while the sophistication of his middle and late operas satisfies demanding ears and tastes. In Verdi: The Operas and Choral Works, Victor Lederer surveys every one of the master's...

A Singing Ambivalence is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans—responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group’s songs reveal...

Der Guernseyer Kapitän Lethierry besitzt zwei Dinge, die ihm teuer sind: Das Dampfschiff "Durande", das seine gesamte wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Existenz verkörpert, und seine verwaiste Nichte Déruchette, die er nach Kräften verwöhnt. Durch die Schuld des abgrundtief schlechten...

(SHORT STORY) Although I have been loose with the facts and changed names and dates to avoid copyright violation, this story was inspired by actual events. Adjacent to where I work is a basement littered floor to ceiling with "antiques" (aka junk). Among the wreckage is a shelf of National Geographic...

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. II, No. 4) October 2010 Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and education. Contributors...

Vi a young African American boy grew up too fast. Intrigued by the fast life and glamour his cousin Fly lived who was in the drug trade, his Uncles Rome, Burlow and Chill were successful in the Street Lottery (Number Racketeering) business backed by two different Italian Familys. The car, money, Jewelry,...