Crossing Borders: My Journey in Music (Baca Max)(Paperback)

Crossing Borders: My Journey in Music (Baca Max)(Paperback)

Max Baca is one of the foremost artists of Tex-Mex music, the infectious dance music sweeping through the Texas-Mexico borderlands since the 1940s. His Grammy-winning group, Los Texmaniacs, and his extensive work with the accordionist Flaco Jim nez established the Albuquerque-born and San

A Father's Dream: My Family's Journey in Music (Quintanilla Abraham)(Paperback)

A Father's Dream: My Family's Journey in Music chronicles the life of a musician, performer, man of God, and successful Mexican American entrepreneur. This is the story of a man who has experienced great joy and even greater pain, but by holding onto the strength embedded in each of us, embracing

The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria (Yazbek Samar)(Paperback)

Samar Yazbek was well-known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the

Portals - Gates, Stiles, Windows, Bridges, & Other Crossings (Lewis Philippa)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating journey into thresholds and crossing

Teaching Primary Music (Daubney Alison)(Paperback)

High quality music education can start children on a journey that lasts a lifetime. Teaching Primary Music gives beginning primary school teachers clear guidance on how to successfully teach music without recourse to specialized training. This helpful text places music within the wider context of

The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey (Abelar Taisha)(Paperback)

Some twenty years ago, anthropologist Carlos Castaneda electrified millions of readers by describing his initiation--under the Yaqui Indian brujo Don Juan--into an alternate reality. Now Taisha Abelar, who was taught by the female members of Don Juan's group, recounts her own 'crossing' in this

Northumberland & the Scottish Borders (Kelsall Dennis)(Paperback / softback)

28 fabulous walks in the hill country of the Scottish Borders, the Cheviots, Northumberland National Park and along stretches of the coast and Hadrian's Wall. Graded by length and ranging from 3 to 13 miles, all routes come with a clear, large-scale OS map, GPS waypoints and highlight where to

Scottish Borders Folk Tales (Spence James P.)(Paperback)

This lively and entertaining collection of folk tales from the Scottish Borders is rich in stories tall and true, ancient and recent, dark and funny, powerful and fantastical. Here you will find tales of Thomas the Rhymer, Tam Linn, the Lochmabon Harper, Muckle Moued Meg, and Michael Scott the

Max Richter Piano Works (Richter Max)(Paperback)

(Music Sales America). For the first time in print, 15 works complete with notes for each written by Max Richter. Selections include The Blue Notebooks, Infra 3, Leo's Journal and

The Power of Music: Psychoanalytic Explorations (Kennedy Roger)(Paperback)

Music has the power to take us on an emotional and intellectual journey, transforming the listener along the way. Roger Kennedy examines the nature of such a journey in this uplifting

Butcher's Crossing (Williams John)(Paperback / softback)

Will makes up his mind to be one of those men, but the journey, the killing, harsh conditions and sheer hard luck will test his mind and body to their

Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home (Alcalde M. Cristina)(Paperback)

In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that

Amateurs Without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion (Schnable Allison)(Paperback)

Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching

Walking Away from Hate: Our Journey Through Extremism (Manning Jeanette)(Paperback)

As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought a refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle class upbringing and Lauren traded suburbia for a life of

Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (Miller Todd)(Paperback)

Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision-and work toward-a bold new reality.'Todd Miller cuts through the facile media

Westering - Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast (Mitchell Laurence)(Paperback / softback)

From Great Yarmouth to Aberystwyth, Westering is a coast-to-coast journey crossing the Fens, Leicester, the Black Country and central Wales. It connects landscape, place and memory to evoke a narrative unravelling the deep topography, and following a westerly route that runs against the grain of

Kentucky Traveler: My Life in Music (Skaggs Ricky)(Paperback)

In Kentucky Traveler, Ricky Skaggs, the music legend who revived modern bluegrass music, gives a warm, honest, one-of-a-kind memoir of forty years in music--along with the Ten Commandments of Bluegrass, as handed down by Ricky's mentor Bill Monroe; the Essential Guide to Bedrock Country Songs, a

Book of Trespass - Crossing the Lines that Divide Us (Hayes Nick)(Paperback / softback)

A journey across England through the eyes of a trespasser and a meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, The Book of Trespass is an innovative and utterly original exploration of the fences that divide us. 'Brilliant, passionate and political . . . The

Music in Cuba (Carpentier Alejo)(Paperback)

Originally published in 1946 and never before available in English, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical history, it is a work of literature. Drawing on such primary documents as church circulars and musical scores, Carpentier encompasses European-style elite

Miracle in Music City (Grant Natalie)(Paperback)

In this third title in the Faithgirlz Glimmer Girls series by Natalie Grant, Miracle in Music City, the Glimmer Girls are at it again--looking for a mystery to solve. Gloria wants her daughters to learn they aren't too young to make a difference, so she gets them involved in her annual benefit and

Crossing the Chasm - Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers (Moore Geoffrey A.)(Paperback / softback)

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore, the world's leading high-tech and communications guru, throws out old marketing ideas to clear space for the special realities of the high-tech market. Based on a revolutionary new model and filled with practical insights, Crossing the Chasm is a landmark

The Great Greenfield Bake-Off, 158 (Warner Gertrude Chandler)(Paperback)

Jessie and Benny are participating in the Great Greenfield Bake-Off, a local baking competition for kids. But ingredients get mixed up during the competition and then the power goes out. Is someone trying to put an end to the

Bigger than the Facts (Baeke Jan)(Paperback)

Jan Baeke, the award-winning Dutch poet, has, in Greater than the Facts (Groter dan de feiten, 2007), created an intriguing filmic world in which tensions are rife and nothing is quite as it seems. It is a world whose elements keep recurring, coalescing little by little into dreamlike leitmotifs -

Performing Music Research: Methods in Music Education, Psychology, and Performance Science (Williamon Aaron)(Paperback)