My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music (Fleisher Leon)(Paperback)

My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music (Fleisher Leon)(Paperback)

My Nine Lives is a powerful and stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era--an inspiring tale of courage, compassion, and triumph over outstanding odds. At the peak of his career, celebrated pianist Leon Fleisher suddenly lost the use of two fingers on his right hand

The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Plutarch)(Paperback)

Nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen The lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they

Music As Medicine particularly in Parkinson's (Bryan Daphne)(Paperback)

Music can play an important part in our lives yet how many of us appreciate the effect it has on our brains, bodies and moods, or understand how we can use music as a medicine? Music has the power to reduce everyday symptoms, such as stress, insomnia, pain, depression, and even snoring, as well as

On the Road Not Taken - A memoir about the power of music (Dodgson Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir of self-discovery though music in middle age, as heard on Radio

Songaminute Man - How Music Brought My Father Home Again (McDermott Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of fourteen, growing up in 40s Wednesbury. The heartbreaking true account of his son struggling to come to terms with his father's dementia. A tribute to the unbreakable bond between father and

Wave - A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami (Deraniyagala Sonali)(Paperback / softback)

A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief -- of learning to live with grief -- that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously

Desert Food Webs in Action (Fleisher Paul)(Paperback)

Snakes, lizards, rabbits, mice, mountain lions, and hawks are some of the many animals that make up a desert food web. But do you know how desert animals depend on cactuses, grasses, and other plants to stay alive? Or why tiny insects, fungi, and bacteria may be among the most important living

A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi (Waldoff Leon)(Paperback)

In this memoir, Waldoff searches into his Russian-Jewish parents' experience and that of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, revealing times of acceptance and prosperity, but also of fears of anti-Semitism when a Jew is convicted of murder and fears of Klan

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

One Way Ticket - Nine Lives on Two Wheels (Vaughters Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

ONE WAY TICKET is the story of a man and modern

Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Eidsheim Nina Sun)(Paperback)

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses

Weaving Chiapas: Maya Women's Lives in a Changing World (Castro Apreza Yolanda)(Paperback)

In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers' cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to

Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul: The Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath (Macaraig Nina)(Paperback)

Bathhouses (hamams) play a prominent role in Turkish culture, because of their architectural value and social function as places of hygiene, relaxation and interaction. Continuously shaped by social and historical change, the life story of Mimar Sinan's emberlitaş Hamamı in Istanbul provides an

Paramedic (Spilsbury Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Find out about careers that help shape and save the lives of

The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Mane Gucci)(Paperback)

The New York Times bestselling memoir from the legendary Gucci Mane spares no detail in this 'cautionary tale that ends in triumph' (GQ). For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is 'as wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself' (Complex). The

Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music (Warner Dan)(Paperback)

We live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren't a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and the rarefied, new timbres of Stockhausen's

Homesick - Why I Live in a Shed (Davies Catrina)(Paperback / softback)

The memoir of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home, nature and

The Lives of Lee Miller (Penrose Antony)(Paperback)

Collected in this compelling volume are the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst,

CAREERS(Paperback)

Many students complete their secondary schooling unsure of the career path they wish to pursue. Still very few complete post-secondary education knowing their chosen career path. Information to guide students on choosing their career paths is not readily available locally. The few career guidance

Nine Lives of Pakistan - Dispatches from a Divided Nation (Walsh Declan)(Paperback / softback)

Police Officer (Spilsbury Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Find out about careers that help shape and save the lives of

Humboldt's Gift (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may

Paris to the Moon - A Family in France (Gopnik Adam)(Paperback / softback)

Adam Gopnik's memoir of five years as an American family man in

Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Dalrymple William)(Paperback / softback)

Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered