Titles: Reade: Prelude; Romance * Traditional: Pierrot; Hatikvah; Finnish Folksong; Shepherd's Hey; The Apple From The Orchard; Berdolin's Sweetheart * Schumann: The Merry Peasant; By The Fireside * Diabelli: Scherzo * Foster: Beautiful Dreamer * Reinecke: Landler * Haydn: German Dance * Tchaikovsky[...]

Throughout its 34-year Cold War career with the USAF and CIA, the top secret Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane was the world's fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft. Dedicated to strategic reconnaissance, the Blackbird was so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. The co-autho[...]

In this third edition the author has arranged the material in six major parts: context; tools; techniques; methods; management; and discipline. New chapters have been included on such topics as object-oriented analysis and design methods, rapid applications development and process re-engineering.[...]

80 Graded Studies for Clarinet brings together in two books a broad selection of 19th-century study repertory, with studies by Baermann, Berr, Demnitz, Klose, Lazarus, Lefevre, Muler, Rose, Stark, Vanderhagen, and Wiedemann - all virtuosi of their day. Also included are a number of specially compose[...]

80 Graded Studies for Saxophone brings together in two books a broad selection of 18th and 19th century repertory, with studies by Arban, Baermenn, Blatt, Brod and others. Also included are a number of specially composed studies by Paul Harris.
The studies are arranged in increasing difficulty f[...]

Fantasy artists of all skill levels and any artist interested in folklore, mythology, and legends will delight in these innovative and simple watercolor techniques that result in brightly-colored, fantastic dragons. Step-by-step instructions combined with photographs offer a wealth of practical advi[...]

Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary currency of nature. In recent years, however, the concept of information has gained importance. Why? In this book, eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information, from quantum information to biological and d[...]

Paul Davies' "The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe" is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' - why isn't the universe teeming with alien life? If aliens ever contact us, it will be the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsi[...]

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Corporate boards play a central role in corporate governance and are thus regulated in the corporate law and corporate governance codes of all industrialized countries. Yet while there is a common core of rules on the boards considerable differences remain. These differences depend partly on shareho[...]

Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical agents convince us that we have capacities beyond the[...]