Includes a new chapter on John Cage. Alex Ross's award-winning international best-seller, 'The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century', has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians; this is his much anticipated next book[...]

The stunning new novel of World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller.[...]

Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who "has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations."--The New York Times Book Review[...]

Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright s Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of America s premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the author s trip to Africa s Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana, it speaks eloquently of[...]

Listen, Slowly is a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Award winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns the true mea[...]

It's a thumbs-up for this movie-inspiredguide to learning Spanish Pop in a movie in your DVD player Turn on the Spanish soundtrack in the DVD optionsmenu Open up Listen 'n' Learn Spanish with Your FavoriteMovies, and relax as you learn core Spanishvocabulary and phrases It is as easy as that to lea[...]

The author of The New Read-Aloud Handbook presents a collection of fifty read-aloud selections from such well-loved tales as Bambi, Charlotte's Web, Ozma of Oz, Ramona the Pest, Where the Red Fern Grows, James and the Giant Peach, and Gentle Ben. Simultaneous.[...]

A simple yet revolutionary alternative to helicopter parenting and tiger moms
Tired of nagging, pleading, negotiating, or yelling just to get your kids to do the simple things you ask? There is a better way.
The best English import since "Supernanny "and an instant bestseller in the U.K., [...]

The newly updated edition of the classic guide to assessing and treating pain and injury
For more than twenty-five years, "Listen to Your Pain" has been a leading resource for understanding pain and injury problems. Now revised and updated based on recent research, this comprehensive, fully ill[...]

Hear, Listen, Play! is a book for all music teachers who are curious about the worlds of ear-playing, informal learning, improvisation, and vernacular music. Starting with a discussion of how popular musicians learn in the informal realm, the book then applies many aspects of their learning practice[...]

Fears, feeding, and sleep problems, croup and tantrums, stomachaches, asthma: these are some of the problems that every parent worries about at one time or another. According to Dr. Brazelton, most of these are a normal part of growing up. Only if parents add their own anxieties to the child's natur[...]

Barry Kernfeld provides an introduction to jazz, discussing its musical concepts, procedures and styles, providing the background to this musical art. The book is organized around 21 historical jazz recordings - from the New Orleans Rhythm Kings' "Tin Roof Blues" (1923) to Ornette Coleman's "Honeymo[...]

Even the best ideas have little value if they are not explained clearly, concisely, and convincingly to others. Scientists, engineers, health care professionals, and technology specialists become leaders in their fields not just by way of discovery, but by communication. In this essential book, two [...]