(Piano Personality). Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer released her debut solo album, produced by Ben Folds, in 2008. This collection contains all 12 songs: Ampersand * Astronaut * Guitar Hero * Leeds United * Oasis * The Point of It All * and more, plus an intro/performance notes by Amanda and[...]

Balfour, who collaborated with the late Palmer on the first edition of this biography, has taken the opportunity to review the impact this talented car designer had on the motor industry, and includes some photographs that were not used in the first book.[...]

Robert Palmer's extraordinary knowledge and boundless love of music were evident in all his writing. He was an authority on rock & roll, blues, jazz, punk, avant-garde, and world music--often discovering new artists and trends years (even decades) before they hit the mainstream. Noted music writer A[...]

An illustrated self-portrait is a collection of personal and professional anecdotes that recount many of the golf icon's experiences in an accessible manner, in a volume complemented by 12 removable facsimiles of such personal items as a tip card on how to work around various golf challenges, and mo[...]

This is the first book in English to provide a truly comprehensive view of Shining Path ("Sendero Luminoso" ), a major guerilla movement in Peru. "Sendero" 's Maoist principles first begin in the 1960s with a small band of supporters and no attention from the outside world, but later emerged as the [...]

In its fifth year (1793-1794), the French Revolution faced a multifaceted crisis that threatened to overwhelm the Republic. In response the government instituted a revolutionary dictatorship and a "reign of terror," with a Committee of Public Safety at its head. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative [...]

Learn to play the piano and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about how to sit at the piano, fingerings, the keyboard'[...]

"The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles" makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chron[...]