This Intrada has been scored for 5 natural trumpets and timpani from the original single line of music. Alternate parts for trombones have been included for the two low voices. This work was premiered
Even the brightest and most hard-working students aren’t expected to score a perfect 2400 on their SAT college entrance tests, but students who approach perfection with scores of 2100 or higher are vi
Two renowned children’s book creators teamed up to make this stirring picture book that tells the story of how, over a century, wolves were persecuted in the United States and nearly became extinct. G
Particular Places: A Traveler’s Guide to the Best Ohio Road Trips (Orange Frazer Press, $16.95) shows that there is much more to the Buckeye State than cornfields and cows. In fact, according to autho
This book is a call for universal human rights and secular democracy in the Muslim world. It lays out why democratic change in Iran must be nonviolent, why womens' rights trump some interpretations o
We all know that we have to cut our "carbon footprint" and become more green-conscious. Farrelly (architecture, University of Sydney, Australia) admits that she is part of the problem, too. She puts f
This guide has the detail needed to grasp Microsoft's new querying technology, and concise explanations to help users learn it quickly. For those already applying LINQ, the book serves as an on-the-jo
Packed off to her estranged uncle's failed rural school in England while her mother vacations with a new lover, teenaged Anna Ware finds solace in her friendship with an aging war photographer and dis
In this collection of stories, Hercule Poirot investigates the mystery of the film star and the diamond, the absurdly cheap flat, a million dollar robbery, the curse of a pharoah's tomb, a jewel robbe
These laugh-out-loud stories from New Hampshire and Vermont are set during the four seasons of the year. The storyteller in his appealing dialect tells little-known tales, among them A"Mothah SkunkA"
This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new section that explores t
Eleven-year-old Herman is not that different from other boys—except that he is going bald. Presented with this dilemma, Herman uses his fertile imagination and comical viewpoint on life to navigate th
Tyger! Tyger! is a beautiful picture book about tigers living in the jungles of Thailand. There they had ruled for hundreds of years respected as the goods and spiritual guardians of the jungle. Howev
She's the host of a wildly popular, top-rated morning show. Bride of a high-society golden boy. A veritable household name. An immigrant rags-to-riches story that's the American dream personified-and
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia
“I’ve always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they’d still say I’m a dark personality.”—Tim BurtonTim Burton’s career began at Disney
When Grandpap teaches Charlie how to plant watermelon seeds in the spring, Charlie hopes they’ll grow a "Wishing Watermelon." Grandpap has never heard of such a thing, and when he asks Charlie what he
(Music Minus One). Native son Tim Laughlin decided he wanted to create in the style, but not necessarily using the tried and true classics, of the "Crescent City." So he assembled an extraordinary ban
Award-winning author Elisha Cooper uses his renowned soft yet lively watercolors to celebrate the cherished act of visiting the beach."Away to the beach! Away to sand and salt water, to rolling dunes
Colourful scenes with flaps to reveal details of life in Ancient Rome.Bright, clear illustrations show scenes such as a gladiator fight at the Colosseum, the workings of a Roman Bath and the Roman leg
BrindDiscovered as a baby in Sir Edmund's kennels, Brind has grown up with the mastiffs. He plays with them, eats with them, and sleeps in their den. Brind understands dogs better than he understands
Two children rejoice in their home up in a tree, free from parental guidance and earthbound concerns. But when beavers gnaw their ladder into matchsticks, the children aren’t sure they want to be quit
Describes the life of the pilot who, in 1932, was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, and who was later lost at sea while attempting to fly around the world.
Fiction. "ULTRAVIOLETA is in the first place a mind that is spacious, with spangled depths on the order of William Blake and Phillip K. Dick. Our Mental Travelers are shining, friendly, off-hand
Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop. Written while Jean Grosjean was a prisoner in the Second World War, Terre du temps, his first book, was published by Gallimard in 1946 and attracte
Fiction. Fred Misurella's collection of stories, Lies to Live By, tells the complex, and sometimes secret truth about what it is to be alive in these complicated times. THe eight stories in this colle
Follow the path of the awe-inspiring polar bear as it strives to survive in an age-old Arctic habitat threatened by global warming.Huge, magnificent, and solitary, a polar bear moves through the froze
Reluctantly working at her father's tavern which is frequented by loutish sailors, early 1800s teen Rosie finds herself without a family or livelihood after a brawl ends her father's life and she is t
Imitation is not the low-level, cognitively undemanding behavior it is often assumed to be, but rather—along with language and the ability to understand other minds—one of a trio of related capacities
In this beautifully illustrated picture book, a little Chinese boy named Long-Long accompanies his grandfather into the city to sell cabbages in order to buy food and decorations for the New Year. Sel
Everybody’s a star, a brilliant creation. The trouble is finding the right constellation!Ellie McSnelly and Carrie O’Toole, the winning pair of friends from The Brand New Kid, are back in a new advent
Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying Victorian mansion, for what already seems like forever. They aren’t allowed to leave the prop
Carter Cox is a talented but dissipated freelance photojournalist living in New York City's East Village with his sad dog and bad habits. Though he travels to exotic places taking pictures of models a
As far as her family and friends are concerned, Frieda has been the grieving widow for long enough. At 35, she's still (relatively) young, still (adequately) attractive. Her sex drive is very much ali
Bierce's classic work of satirical wit and Steadman's pointed pen redefine the way we see even the seemingly simplest of terms.Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but n
Thoroughly revised in the light of recent scholarly discovery, this edition covers all the great prophetic figures, and also goes beyond the Old Testament to examine the role of prophecy in the New Te
A unique collection of poems from three writers living under the shadow of the Civil WarThree great American poets, all of whom preferred the solitary life, and yet each responded, in very different w
Written to accompany an exhibition at the Moesgard Museum in Aarhus, Denmark in 2003-2004, this handsome volume describes the culture and civilization of the region south of Cairo on the upper Nile Ri
A title in the BCP Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. Fadeev's "The Rout" (1927), tells the story of a group of Bolshevik partisans. Th
In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing thephenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomercountries like Taiwan have incr
