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by Carl Vigeland
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
A fresh, accessible guide to Mozart's life and works
Over a period of roughly twenty years, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 600 finished pieces of music. If you were the director of a major symphony orchestra, you could program only works by Mozart for an entire year—and still...
What Makes It Great?, Enhanced Edition
Short Masterpieces, Great Composers
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
A fresh guide to classical music from the acclaimed creator of NPR's "What Makes It Great"™
Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for two decades with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR's Performance Today, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout...
NFL Unplugged
The Brutal, Brilliant World of Professional Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Blood, guts, and glory-veteran players reveal the NFL you never see on TV
Behind every glittering NFL game on television is a world of happy pain for a hundred men. NFL Unplugged lets you see that world through the eyes of the pros who live and sweat in it. Here are the places the cameras don't...
Get a Grip
Your Two Week Mental Makeover
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Learn how to change your life for the better-in just two weeks!
Everyone has things about themselves they'd like to change, relationships they'd like to be smoother, or something in the past they'd like to be more at peace with, but it's not always easy to know what to do or how to get started....
The 9 Intense Experiences
An Action Plan to Change Your Life Forever
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
What are the 9 most intense experiences—the transformative steps that can improve your life starting now? How do these experiences generate happiness, health, and success in every aspect of your life? Why have people throughout the centuries valued them and why do so few people today realize their...
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The first definitive biography of music legend Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder's achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are extraordinary. During a career that has spanned almost fifty years, he has earned more than thirty Top 10 hits, twenty-six Grammy Awards,...
Carl Sagan
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
A penetrating, mesmerizing biography of a scientific icon
"Absolutely fascinating . . . Davidson has done a remarkable job."-Sir Arthur C. Clarke
"Engaging . . . accessible, carefully documented . . . sophisticated."-Dr. David Hollinger for The New York Times Book...
The Case for Pluto
How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
In support of Pluto-the cutest and most unfairly treated planet
Pity poor Pluto: It's a planet that was discovered because of a mistake, a planet that turned out not to be a planet at all, thanks to a still-disputed decision made in 2006. And yet, Pluto is the planet best-loved by Americans,...
Chopin and Beyond
My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
One of the world's greatest classical pianists reveals how the "other world" transformed his life and career
By any measure, Byron Janis has had an extraordinary musical career. His discovery of two long-lost Chopin scores made headlines around the world, and he has been honored many...
Spoken Soul
The Story of Black English
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
"Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."
–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university
"A lively, well-documented...
All the Things You Are
The Life of Tony Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The first complete biography of singing legend Tony Bennett
Among America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible...
All American
The Rise and Fall of Jim Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
"All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic titans like Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner marched across the planet, and he is the perfect guide to their enormous triumphs and tragedies. This is epic...
In the Wings
Behind the Scenes at the New York City Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
"Here is New York City Ballet as it really is- the good, the not so good, and the majestically beautiful. It's a true story, and it's told by someone who can honestly claim that he was there."
Size Matters Not
The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The life and times of Warwick Davis, star of Ricky Gervais's forthcoming sitcom, Life's Too Short
Actors work their entire careers hoping to achieve the kind of cult movie hero status that Davis achieved at the age of eleven playing Wicket W. Warrick, the lead Ewok in Star Wars: Return of the...