Authors
- Mark Johnson
- Johnson Helen
Price: $127.36
Review Are We Nearly There Yet? / Out of the Ark Music:
Publication date: 1981-06
Dewey code: 784.0924
Price: $3.95
Review On Stage With Johnny Cash / Creative Paperbacks Inc:
Publication date: 2001-10
List Price: $175.71
Price: $128.27
Review Soundbites Prepack / Heinemann Library:
Publication date: 2005-01-21
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $36.15
Price: $78.17
Review Songs on Favourite Themes (Fun Songs for the Early Years) / Scholastic:Fun songs for the early years provides you with everything you need to start each day with a song! This book and CD set gives you 15 favourite songs on CD and supports them in the book with: Music and lyrics; Actions; A range of activity ideas; Photocopiable pages. Songs are a great way to engage children in learning, develop their attention and concentration skills and stimulate their ideas.
Publication date: 1990
Dewey code: 759.5
Review Le grand cheval de Leonard: Le projet monumental de Leonard de Vinci (Art/aventures) / A. Biro:
Publication date: 1998-01
List Price: $179.57
Price: $131.09
Review Great Buildings / Steck-Vaughn:Part of the GREAT BUILDINGS series, this title examines the famous landmark in Rome, and the momentous events it has witnessed. Covers how and why it was built, how it was used, and what has happened to it since, with the aid of photographs and artwork.
Authors
- Juliet Perkins
- Antonio Teixeira
- Antonio Jose Da Silva
Dewey code: 782.1
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review A Critical Study and Translation of Antonio Jose Da Silva's Cretan Labyrinth: A Puppet Opera (Mellen Studies in Puppetry, V. 5) / Edwin Mellen Press:Labirinto de Creta is one of the eight Portuguese satiric operas, first performed in the Lisbon puppet theatre from 1733 to 1738. Their librettist, Antonio Jose da Silva, is an enigmatic and ill-fated figure. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1705, he was sentenced to death at an auto-da-fe in Lisbon in 1739, for having practiced Judaism. By profession a lawyer, he frequented music circles, collaborating with the composer Antonio Teixeira on at least four occasions. Labirinto de Creta, combining a love intrigue with a comic treatment of the myth of Theseus slaying the Minotaur, is a thinly veiled satire on contemporary Portugal. With spoken dialogue, numerous musical items, and stage effects such as shipwreck, explosions and earthquake, the opera is suited to performance by actors as well as by puppets as in the original production, though unfortunately the score is not extant. Apart from the comedy of situation, the humor derives from the ebullient wit and puns of the servants, who mock their master's high-flown expressions of love and jealousy, and ridicule the despotic, hierarchical society in which they have to survive. This English translation, the first of any of these operas, is acc.
Publication date: 1966
Review Modern puppetry, (Blishen books) / Joseph:
Authors
- Rene Goscinny
- "Uderzo"
- "Goscinny"
Publication date: 1993
Review Asterix and the Magic Carpet (Children's Choice) / Listen for Pleasure:More capers from Asterix and Obelix and the Citizens of Gaul.
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 793
Price: $6.95
Review Nick Huckleberry Beak's Blow Up Brilliant Ballons / Southwater Publishing:Learn how to blow, bend, twist, tie and decorate balloons with this fun book.
Publication date: 1995-08-01
Price: $1.79
Review Spider-Man (Sticker Books) / Golden Books:
Creator: Judith Orner Bruce
Publication date: 1999-05
Dewey code: 741
Price: $4.95
Review Crazy About Colored Pencils / Walter Foster Pub:
Publication date: 1978-03-16
Review Things to Make with Everyday Objects / Souvenir Press Ltd:Instructions for using easily obtainable materials to make simple, useful objects, including toys, games, decoration, and gifts.
Publication date: 1992-01-31
Review Cartoons (Films) / Hodder Wayland:This series deals with the background to the history of film-making, and each book concentrates on a particular genre of film. This volume focuses on cartoons, and explores the skill of the animators and the way in which their characters impress themselves on the imagination. The author has researched the background and developments of the cartoon/animation industry and writes about some of its most famous creations, as well as different techniques from around the world.
Publication date: 1981-06
Price: $7.95
Review El Perro Del Hortelano (Grant & Cutler Spanish Texts) / Grant & Cutler:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1991-10-01
Dewey code: 780.71
Price: $32.95
Review MUSIC EDUCATN THEORY & PRACT PB (Falmer Press Library on Aesthetic Education) / Falmer Press:
Publication date: 1998-12-01
Price: $126.26
Review Imaginary Dances / Ward Lock Educational Co Ltd:
Publication date: 1997-09-30
Price: $145.97
Review Kids Only (Kids Only Songbook & Cassette Packs) / Mary Glasgow Magazines:"Kids Only" cassette and book are the perfect way to introduce English into your classroom. A comprehensive selection of songs, chants and action games can be found in the "Kids Only" cassette and this accompanying 32 page book. The repetition of these songs and chants will ensure your pupils will memorise them quickly and unconsciously - and will learn with ease. Craft activities and plenty of photocopiable material allow children to practise further the vocabulary and ideas introduced in the songs.
Publication date: 2004-10-30
Dewey code: 780.9031
List Price: $131.95
Price: $131.93
Review Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1520-1550: A Documented Chronology (Music Reference Collection) / Praeger Publishers:This annotated chronology of western music is the third in a series of outlines on the history of music in western civilization. It contains a 120-page annotated bibliography, followed by a detailed, documented outline that is divided into ten chapters. Each chapter is written in chronological order with every line being documented by means of abbreviations that refer to the annotated bibliography. There are short biographies of the theorists and detailed discussions of their works. The information on music is organized by classes of music rather than by composer. Also included are lists of manuscripts with descriptions of their contents and notations as to where they may be found. The material for the outline has been taken from primary and secondary sources along with articles from periodicals. Like the other two volumes in this series, Music History from the Late Roman through the Gothic Periods, 313-1425 and Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1425-1520, this volume will be an important research tool for anyone interested in music history.
Publication date: 2004-12-30
Dewey code: 306.4842
List Price: $149.95
Price: $149.90
Review Music and Tourism: On the Road Again (Aspects of Tourism) / Multilingual Matters Limited:Music and Tourism is the first book to comprehensively examine the links between travel and music. It combines contemporary and historical analysis of the economic and social impact of music tourism, with discussions of the cultural politics of authenticity and identity. Music tourism evokes nostalgia and meaning, and celebrates both heritage and hedonism. It is a product of commercialisation that can create community, but that also often demands artistic compromise. Diverse case studies, from the USA and UK to Australia, Jamaica and Vanuatu,illustrate the global extent of music tourism, its contradictions and pleasures.
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Are We Nearly There Yet?, On Stage With Johnny Cash, Soundbites Prepack, Songs on Favourite Themes (Fun Songs for the Early Years), Le grand cheval de Leonard: Le projet monumental de Leonard de Vinci (Art/aventures), Great Buildings, A Critical Study and Translation of Antonio Jose Da Silva's Cretan Labyrinth: A Puppet Opera (Mellen Studies in Puppetry, V. 5), Modern puppetry, (Blishen books), Asterix and the Magic Carpet (Children's Choice), Nick Huckleberry Beak's Blow Up Brilliant Ballons, Spider-Man (Sticker Books), Crazy About Colored Pencils, Things to Make with Everyday Objects, Cartoons (Films), El Perro Del Hortelano (Grant & Cutler Spanish Texts), MUSIC EDUCATN THEORY & PRACT PB (Falmer Press Library on Aesthetic Education), Imaginary Dances, Kids Only (Kids Only Songbook & Cassette Packs), Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1520-1550: A Documented Chronology (Music Reference Collection), Music and Tourism: On the Road Again (Aspects of Tourism)Top headlines: Quit your job and make your game: Created by two guys with a big idea and little money, "World of Goo" is proof that small-time game developers fueled by nothing more than a unique vision and a willingness to take big risks are coming up with some the year's most compelling, distinctive and buzzed-about games. ›09:38 No sweat: Obamas work fitness into daily routine: Many women recoil at the thought of baring their arms in sleeveless dresses or blouses, but not Michelle Obama half of the fabulously fit new first couple. ›17:21 19 Nov, Wed Suri Cruise tops list of hot Hollywood tots: Suri Cruise, the 2-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, tops Forbes.coms second annual list of Hollywoods 10 Hottest Tots. ›17:11 19 Nov, Wed FDA panel: Superbug-fighting antibiotic is safe: Federal health advisers said an antibiotic developed by Theravance appears safe and effective for fighting "superbug" bacteria, despite potential risks for pregnant women. ›20:15 19 Nov, Wed Single-celled giant upends early evolution: Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth. ›21:23 Brazil cops blame 10 for deadly air crash: A police investigation found that 10 government and airline officials were to blame for Brazil's worst air disaster, saying they failed to properly train pilots, authorities said Wednesday. ›13:18 For many CEOs, private jets the only way to fly: Some in Congress pounced this week on what they view as the hypocrisy of auto executives flying on corporate jets to Washington to ask for public help. ›00:17 21 Nov, Fri Commentary: When deflation is a good thing: Could it be that in this case a whiff of deflation may help us get out of the crisis? ›19:17 Astronauts finish up spacewalk No. 2: Spacewalking astronauts performed more repair work on a jammed joint at the international space station on Thursday, keeping a tight grip on all their tools so nothing would get away this time. ›00:00 21 Nov, Fri Fewer Mexicans leaving homeland: Mexican emigration has dropped 42 percent over the last two years, the government said Thursday. 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