The Mixtape of My Life: A Do-It-Yourself Music Memoir (Elder Robert K.)(Paperback)

The Mixtape of My Life: A Do-It-Yourself Music Memoir (Elder Robert K.)(Paperback)

The perfect gift for music lovers, The Mixtape of My Life is a guided journal that offers prompts and questions to get everyone recalling the pivotal songs that have shaped our lives. No matter which musical generation you belong to, or whether your musical tastes range from doo-wop to Daft Punk,

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons. 'I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew

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

The Music of the Future (Barry Robert)(Paperback)

The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it's a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine a future for music. Encompassing utopian

In My Life - A Music Memoir (Johnson Alan)(Paperback / softback)

From being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as a small child living in condemned housing in ungentrified West London in the late 1950s, to going out to work as a postman humming 'Watching the Detectives' by Elvis Costello in 1977, Alan Johnson's

The Music of Life (Revised) (Khan Inayat)(Paperback)

A transcendent exploration of the nature and effects of sound by the Sufi master. The Music of Life is the definitive collection of Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings on sound, presenting the Sufi master's vision of the harmony that underlies and infuses every aspect of our lives. Inayat Khan explores

Tuning Up at Dawn - A Memoir of Music and Majorca (Graves Tomas)(Paperback / softback)

A loving portrait of the other Majorca, and of a blissful life there revolving around the magic of music - a book to savour, perfect for escaping those crowded

Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It - Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir(Paperback / softback)

Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley (Ginell Cary)(Paperback)

WALK TALL: THE MUSIC & LIFE OF JULIAN CANNONBALL

The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma (Epstein Helen)(Paperback)

This intrepid memoir tracks sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma 'invents its own genre,' wrote Sherry Turkle. 'The author suspects sexual abuse in her

All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song (Collins Shirley)(Paperback)

A memoir from one of Britain's legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians.A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, All in the Downs, Collins tells the story of

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

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas (Lovato Roberto)(Paperback)

The Life of Gluckel of Hameln: A Memoir (Abrahams Beth-Zion)(Paperback)

A fascinating memoir of one of Judaism's earliest female writers, translated from the original YiddishGl ckel of Hameln was a marvel of her time: an accomplished businesswoman as well as the mother of twelve. Devastated by the death of her beloved husband in 1689, she proceeded to write the

Recording Classical Music (Toft Robert)(Paperback)

Recording Classical Music presents the fundamental principles of digitally recording and editing acoustic music in ambient spaces, focusing on stereo microphone techniques that will help musicians understand how to translate 'live' environments into recorded sound. The book covers theory and the

Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music (Fogerty John)(Paperback)

The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival. Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced their instantly

Greco Files: A Brit's-Eye View of Greece (Hayes John)(Paperback)

Greco Files is part memoir and part commentary. It traces the real-life experiences of a couple of retired British teachers as they fashion a new chapter in their lives in a Greek village as the 21st Century unfolds. Put in the context of Greek mythology, history and geography, and set against a

Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (Garland Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Elder Edda(Paperback / softback)

Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and

A Quiet Life (Oe Kenzaburo)(Paperback)

A Quiet Life is an uncanny blend of the real with the imagined, of memoir with fiction. A Quiet Life is narrated by Ma-chan, a twenty-year-old woman. Her father is a famous and fascinating novelist; her older brother, though severely brain damaged, possesses an almost magical gift for musical

Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife (Moody Raymond)(Paperback)

The bestselling author of Life After Life, Raymond Moody, offers a stunning, myth-busting memoir of everything he has learned in a lifetime studying 'the other side' and our connection to it. The grandfather of the NDE (near death experience) movement, Raymond Moody has, in the words of Dr. Larry

Music in the Galant Style (Gjerdingen Robert)(Paperback)

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century,

The Life of J.-K. Huysmans (Baldick Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author whose life it chronicles, but a work of literature in its own right. First published fifty years ago, Baldick's classic biography presents a compelling

Ian Fleming: A Personal Memoir (Harling Robert)(Paperback)

Forged during the Second World War, the close and abiding friendship of Robert Harling and Ian Fleming, one of the twentieth century's most iconic authors, would go on to define the lives and literature of both men. But beneath the pair's charm, charisma and creativity was an altogether darker