In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-2636-1
Author:  Fred Plotkin

Best selling author Julia Cameron explains how to maintain creativity and use it to its fullest... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-56455-467-8
Author:  Julia Cameron

Cindy Rivka Marshall`s eagerly awaited first recording celebrates Jewish rituals, miracles, and delicacies.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-938756-69-9
Author:  Cindy Rivka Marshall

"Every once in a while a writer of particular skills takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea..." ... Read More

ISBN:  1-59007-284-7
Author:  Mark Kurlansky

The dignified mother of a ruthless African dictator travels to England to seek treatment for her failed eyes from a renowned ophthalmologist.... ... Read More

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Author:  Lee Blessing

The panel discusses the lasting influence of Russian emigre George Balanchine, who brought his own style of ballet to the world.... ... Read More

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Author:  Merrill Ashley ,  Jacques d`Amboise ,  Peter Martins ,  Arthur Mitchell, ,  Anna Kisselgoff

The celebrated Broadway composer and the premier singer of his works discuss Stephen Sondheim`s mastery of the modern musical.... ... Read More

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Author:  Stephen Sondheim ,  Barbara Cook, ,  Stephen Holden

Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of t ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1153-4
Author:  Anthony Trollope

Each autumn, in conjunction with the conferring of The National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People`s Literature.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7435-3986-9
Author:  Stephen King

Anyone who has ever loved a book will relish this playful, yet deeply literate collection of essays celebrating the joy of reading.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-788767-49-6
Author:  Anne Fadiman

Edward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based upon Mozart`s own letters and memoirs.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-4001-0098-4
Author:  Edward Holmes

This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language... ... Read More

ISBN:  9-626-34068-1
Author:  Hesketh Pearson

Four playwrights discuss what it takes to write a new play and get it produced, and where the playwright`s inspiration comes from.... ... Read More

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Author:  Nilo Cruz ,  Tony Kushner ,  Neil LaBute ,  Terrence McNally

In an insightful and frank discussion, John Currin talks about his work`s evocative images and the tradition of the nude in painting.... ... Read More

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Author:  John Currin ,  Michael Kimmelman

In an interesting conversation, Dave Matthews talks about the multiplatinum band he started and its growth from a grassroots phenomenon to one of the top-grossing touring bands in America.... ... Read More

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Author:  Dave Matthews ,  Jon Pareles