Книги. Художественная литература. Учебники и пособия.

Geoffrey Budworth

Knots have been around for thousands of years, used for hundreds of vital specialist tasks on land and sea. Anyone can learn to tie them, for professional use, for sport and leisure, or just for fun - and with a little practice they will soon acquire an impressive repertoire.

This indispensable directory for music business professionals has been completely updated for 2009, with more than 15,000 U.S. and international contacts in more than 28 categories. These include club talent buyers, college and festival bookers, commercial and college radio programmers, promoters and publicists, film and TV music supervisors, distributors, marketing services, and other essential contacts. Highlights of this 10th edition include more than 800 new performance opportunities, song contests, CD compilation contacts, and e-commerce services.

Eric Sloane, Eric Hatch

Spirited reminders of yesteryear, clamoring bells in all their forms — from sleigh to church — ring of America and freedom. In this charmingly illustrated book that begins in ancient times, Mr. Americana and co-writer Hatch share their boundless enthusiasm for the subject, covering types, sounds, and famous bells, including the world's largest — one that never tolled.

William Duckworth

CREATIVE APPROACH TO MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS (WITH KEYBOARD AND GUITAR INSERT), 10E is a reader-friendly, creative text that focuses on music fundamentals through written and aural exercises. In addition, the text strives to teach students how to create music through learning rhythm, melody, scales, intervals and triads.

Scott Allen Nollen

As two of the highest grossing and most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello made over 30 films between 1940 and 1956. Their comedies offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and provided the hope of laughter as the nation prepared for, participated in, and demobilized after World War II. This is the first book to focus in detail on the immensely popular wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the production, content, and reception of 18 films within the context of wartime events on the home front and abroad. The films covered include the service comedies "Buck Privates", "In the Navy", and "Keep 'Em Flying"; more mainstream comic relief films such as "Pardon My Sarong" and "Who Done It?"; and post-war experiments such as "Little Giant" and "The Time of Their Lives". While each film is covered in-depth, the entire output of the team is given a thorough critical...

Action! presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and present, from around the world, working in a variety of genres, budgets and production environments from major studios to indie and DIY. The result is a vibrant group portrait of the filmmaking art, a kind of festival in words that explores everything from the enormous creative and personal satisfactions to the challenges and frustrations of the process.

Roger Price, Leonard Stern

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Ari Marmell

It is the dawn of a new age in the Multiverse. The balance of power is shifting and Agents of Artifice brings readers to the heart of a planeswalker struggle...In Agents of Artifice, Ari Marmell reimagines planeswalkers, taking fans deeper than ever into the lives of the Multiverse's most powerful beings: Jace Beleren(TM), the prodigal son, a powerful telepath whose choices now will forever determine his path as a mage; Liliana Vess(TM), a temptress whose beauty belies a dark secret and even darker associations; and Tezzeret(TM), leader of an interplanar consortium whose quest for knowledge may be undone by his lust for power.Follow these characters in their quests for knowledge and power. Will Jace's choices lead him astray of the right path? Will Liliana's past finally catch up with her? Will Tezzeret allow hubris to obscure his vision?

William Shakespeare

Usually classifed as a "problem comedy", All's Well that Ends Well invites a fresh assessment. Its psychologically disturbing presentation of an agressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery won it little favour in earlier centuries, and both directors and critics have frequently tried to avoid or simplify its uncomfortable elements. More recently, several distinguished productions have revealed it as an exceptionally penetrating study of both personal and social issues. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible. She explains how the very discords of style can be seen as a source of theatrical power and complexity, and offers a fully reconsidered, helpfully annotated text for both readers and actors.

Daniel Eagan

A truly unique reference book that tells the stories behind the 450 most important American films, as chosen by the Library of Congress America's Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Chosen by filmmakers and the public under the auspices of the Library of Congress, the 450 titles in the National Film Registry run the gamut from big-budget Hollywood blockbusters to landmark independent, documentary, animation, and avant-garde masterpieces and experimental shorts, and each year 25 more films are added to the list. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birth of a Nation, and Boyz n the Hood. Others are more obscure, such as Blacksmith Scene (1893), The Blue Bird (1918), The Docks of New York (1928), Star Theatre (1902), and A...

How do we 'know' music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Each essay is analytical in some sense, but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The book represents a wide range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy listening, Turkish Arabesk) and deals with issues as broad as methodology, modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication.

Stephen A. Martin

The definitive sourcebook on the life and work of Archibald Knox.

This book is an introduction by leading experts in the field to the fascinating subject of translating audiovisual programs for the television, the cinema, the Internet and the stage and the problems the differences between cultures can cause.

Staff, Alfred Publishing

Audition Repertoire for the Advancing Pianist, Book 1 contains music that is motivating and balanced in terms of period contrast and style. The book includes two programs, featuring piano works that have formed the basis of audition repertoire throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries. Titles: Invention No. 4 in D Minor (Bach, Johann Sebastian) * Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI: 37 (First Movement) (Haydn, Franz Joseph) * Hunting Song, Op. 19, No. 3 (Mendelssohn, Felix) * Bagatelle Op. 5, No. 3 (Tcherepnin, Alexander) * Bagatelle Op. 5, No. 8 (Tcherepnin, Alexander) * Sonata in D Minor, K. 9, L. 413 (Pastorale) (Scarlatti, Domenico) * Sonata in G Minor, Op. 49, No. 1 (Second Movement) (Beethoven, Ludwig van) * Moment Musical in A-Flat Major, Op. 94, No. 2 (Schubert, Franz) * Capriccio, Op. 84, No. 1 (Faure, Gabriel).

Ladrica Menson-furr

This book provides a guide to the political and historical context of the 1950s and to the African American cultural context.August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected African American playwright. His cycle of plays spanning the decades of the twentieth century have been profoundly influential in the American theatre, and highly acclaimed. "Fences" represents the decade of the 1950s and when it premiered in 1985 it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil rights movement, it also concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration of the life of its protagonist, even though it takes place at his funeral. Critics and scholars have lauded August Wilson's work for its universality and its ability, especially in Fences, to transcend racial barriers and earned him the titles of "America's greatest playwright" and "African American Shakespeare." The guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to "Fences", giving students...