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Review Doubleday Canada  / John Lennon: The Life Publication date: 2008-10-28
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $40.00
Price: $131.13

Review John Lennon: The Life / Doubleday Canada:

Drawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Philip Norman gives us the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published. For this masterpiece of biography, Philip Norman set himself the challenge of looking afresh at every aspect of Lennon’s much-chronicled life. He has not just dug deep into the archives, including his own vast collection of tapes and notebooks dating back to the 60s, but spoken to hundreds of witnesses, from every walk of life and every stage of Lennon’s. The interviewees include Sean Lennon, whose moving reminiscences reveal his father as never before, and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candour about her marriage to John. In his brilliant Shout!, we were shown a band; in John Lennon, Philip Norman gives us a portrait of a man. It reconciles as never before the contradictions of this endlessly fascinating character–the volatile and violent hippie, the phenomenally wealthy advocate of no possessions, the family man and junkie–and his journey from Liverpool suburbia to becoming one of the presiding geniuses of pop culture.

Publication date: 1945-10-29
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00

Review Beethoven (French Edition) / French & European Pubns:


Review Authorhouse  / Stand or Fall: An Autobiography of a Stuntman Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 790
Price: $18.67

Review Stand or Fall: An Autobiography of a Stuntman / Authorhouse:


Publication date: 1993-03

Review I Must Be in There Somewhere / ISIS Publishing:

An autobiography of Joss Ackland, arguably one of Britain's leading actors, covering his professional life in the theatre, television and cinema. It also looks at his early life in London and South Africa, and his personal and family life.

Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $147.93

Review Elgar's Legacy: A Centennial History of the Malvern Concert Club / Elgar Editions:


Review Doubleday Canada  / John Lennon: The Life Publication date: 2008-10-28
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $40.00
Price: $131.13

Review John Lennon: The Life / Doubleday Canada:

Drawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Philip Norman gives us the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published. For this masterpiece of biography, Philip Norman set himself the challenge of looking afresh at every aspect of Lennon’s much-chronicled life. He has not just dug deep into the archives, including his own vast collection of tapes and notebooks dating back to the 60s, but spoken to hundreds of witnesses, from every walk of life and every stage of Lennon’s. The interviewees include Sean Lennon, whose moving reminiscences reveal his father as never before, and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candour about her marriage to John. In his brilliant Shout!, we were shown a band; in John Lennon, Philip Norman gives us a portrait of a man. It reconciles as never before the contradictions of this endlessly fascinating character–the volatile and violent hippie, the phenomenally wealthy advocate of no possessions, the family man and junkie–and his journey from Liverpool suburbia to becoming one of the presiding geniuses of pop culture.

Review Cambridge University Press  / Monteverdi Creator: Tim Carter
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1994-06-24
Dewey code: 782.0092
List Price: $135.00
Price: $131.00

Review Monteverdi / Cambridge University Press:

Paolo Fabbri's Monteverdi, first published in Italian, is the leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, rightly called the "father of modern music. " A large number of contemporary documents, including some 130 of his own letters, offer rich insights into the composer and his times, also illuminating the many and varied contexts for music-making in the most important musical centers in Italy. This newly revised translation brings an indispensable text to a much broader readership.

Review Omnibus Press  / The Miles Davis Companion (The Companion Series) Creator: Gary Carner
Publication date: 1997-09-22

Review The Miles Davis Companion (The Companion Series) / Omnibus Press:


Review Omnibus Press  / The Miles Davis Companion (The Companion Series) Creator: Gary Carner
Publication date: 1997-09-22

Review The Miles Davis Companion (The Companion Series) / Omnibus Press:


Review Authorhouse  / Stand or Fall: An Autobiography of a Stuntman Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 790
Price: $18.67

Review Stand or Fall: An Autobiography of a Stuntman / Authorhouse:


Review Cambridge University Press  / Monteverdi Creator: Tim Carter
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1994-06-24
Dewey code: 782.0092
List Price: $135.00
Price: $131.00

Review Monteverdi / Cambridge University Press:

Paolo Fabbri's Monteverdi, first published in Italian, is the leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, rightly called the "father of modern music. " A large number of contemporary documents, including some 130 of his own letters, offer rich insights into the composer and his times, also illuminating the many and varied contexts for music-making in the most important musical centers in Italy. This newly revised translation brings an indispensable text to a much broader readership.

Publication date: 1945-10-29
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00

Review Beethoven (French Edition) / French & European Pubns:


Review University of California Press  / Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring Publication date: 1987-12-09
Dewey code: 785.320924
Price: $58.00

Review Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring / University of California Press:


Creator: Hans Gaertner
Edition: Supplement
Publication date: 2000-12
Dewey code: 808
List Price: $232.00
Price: $231.99

Review Vitae Parallelae, vol. I, fasc. 1: Theseus et Romulus, Solon et Publicola, Themistocles et Camillus, Aristides et Cato maior, Cimon et Lucullus (Bibliotheca ... et Romanorum Teubneriana) (German Edition) / K.G. SAUR VERLAG:

The first fascicle of the first Vitae volume contains biographies often needed by philologists and scholars of ancient history. In this edition, renowned international Plutarch specialist Hans Gärtner has included comprehensive "Addenda et Corrigenda" and misprint notes.

Review University of California Press  / Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring Publication date: 1987-12-09
Dewey code: 785.320924
Price: $58.00

Review Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring / University of California Press:


Review Naxos  / Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos)) Creator: Jeremy Siepmann
Publication date: 2003-12
Price: $35.99

Review Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos)) / Naxos:

For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No man's music is more universal; few men's lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one his modest height he was a giant. The great bonus of this audio-biography is that the development of Beethoven's music can be heard in the context of his life. What did he write in those early, ambitious years when he was at the peak of his musical powers? What did he write when beset with anxiety over his failing hearing? And what was the music that insisted on pouring out of him, even though he couldn't hear it himself? Jeremy Siepmann draws us into the private world of Ludwig van Beethoven, with the composer portrayed with such rugged vividness by Bob Peck.

Publication date: 1993-03

Review I Must Be in There Somewhere / ISIS Publishing:

An autobiography of Joss Ackland, arguably one of Britain's leading actors, covering his professional life in the theatre, television and cinema. It also looks at his early life in London and South Africa, and his personal and family life.

Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $147.93

Review Elgar's Legacy: A Centennial History of the Malvern Concert Club / Elgar Editions:


Review Naxos  / Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos)) Creator: Jeremy Siepmann
Publication date: 2003-12
Price: $35.99

Review Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos)) / Naxos:

For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No man's music is more universal; few men's lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one his modest height he was a giant. The great bonus of this audio-biography is that the development of Beethoven's music can be heard in the context of his life. What did he write in those early, ambitious years when he was at the peak of his musical powers? What did he write when beset with anxiety over his failing hearing? And what was the music that insisted on pouring out of him, even though he couldn't hear it himself? Jeremy Siepmann draws us into the private world of Ludwig van Beethoven, with the composer portrayed with such rugged vividness by Bob Peck.

Creator: Hans Gaertner
Edition: Supplement
Publication date: 2000-12
Dewey code: 808
List Price: $232.00
Price: $231.99

Review Vitae Parallelae, vol. I, fasc. 1: Theseus et Romulus, Solon et Publicola, Themistocles et Camillus, Aristides et Cato maior, Cimon et Lucullus (Bibliotheca ... et Romanorum Teubneriana) (German Edition) / K.G. SAUR VERLAG:

The first fascicle of the first Vitae volume contains biographies often needed by philologists and scholars of ancient history. In this edition, renowned international Plutarch specialist Hans Gärtner has included comprehensive "Addenda et Corrigenda" and misprint notes.

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John Lennon: The Life, Beethoven (French Edition), Stand or Fall: An Autobiography of a Stuntman, I Must Be in There Somewhere, Elgar's Legacy: A Centennial History of the Malvern Concert Club, John Lennon: The Life, Monteverdi, The Miles Davis Companion (The Companion Series), The Miles Davis Companion (The Companion Series), Stand or Fall: An Autobiography of a Stuntman, Monteverdi, Beethoven (French Edition), Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring, Vitae Parallelae, vol. I, fasc. 1: Theseus et Romulus, Solon et Publicola, Themistocles et Camillus, Aristides et Cato maior, Cimon et Lucullus (Bibliotheca ... et Romanorum Teubneriana) (German Edition), Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring, Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos)), I Must Be in There Somewhere, Elgar's Legacy: A Centennial History of the Malvern Concert Club, Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos)), Vitae Parallelae, vol. I, fasc. 1: Theseus et Romulus, Solon et Publicola, Themistocles et Camillus, Aristides et Cato maior, Cimon et Lucullus (Bibliotheca ... et Romanorum Teubneriana) (German Edition)

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