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  • The Scapegoat

    A Novel

    by Sara Davis ...
    " The Scapegoat is a novel of disquiet and disturbance, with an atmosphere of perfect dread. Think Patricia Highsmith or Jim Thompson, that blend of menace and brilliance. Sara Davis had me shivering. This is the debut novel of a marvelous new talent." —Victor LaValle, author of The ChangelingN is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mozart and His Piano Concertos

    by Cuthbert Girdlestone ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Composers
    This classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of Mozart's piano concertos. In addition to establishing the lines along which the genre developed, the concertos also shed light upon the technical and inspirational growth of their creator.The first full-length survey devoted to these works, this scholarly book presents a full, concrete musical analysis that makes liberal use of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Notes on the Piano

    by Ernst Bacon ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Piano
    "Should be a bedside reader for every author, composer, singer, critic, or layman interested in music." — Critic's ChoiceAn accomplished composer, pianist, writer, and teacher presents an easy and entertaining guide for players at all levels of expertise. Ernst Bacon offers valuable tips on working, listening, and playing habits in five sections that cover "The Performer," "The Learner," "The ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Mythologizing of Mark Twain

    Edited by Sara Davis, Philip D. Beidler ...
    Readers of Mark Twain seldom doubt his genius, but defining that genius and locating its source continue to challenge students of American literature. Equally elusive is an explanation of the intriguing phenomenon of Twain as a mythic figure, both shaper and embodier of an American mythos. Perhaps no single critical approach can adequately assess the complex force behind Samuel Clemens and Mark ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Music of Liszt

    by Humphrey Searle ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Composers
    Virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt was a key figure in the evolution of modern music. Most of his 700 compositions, which range from romantic impressionism to daring experimental pieces, were written for the piano. This survey by a well-known British composer and musicologist constitutes the most authoritative English-language study of Liszt's works. "Mr. Searle is himself a composer of progressive ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Getting More Out of Restorative Practice in Schools

    Practical Approaches to Improve School Wellbeing and Strengthen Community Engagement

    by Sue Attrill, Beverley Turner, Carole Edgerton, Lyndsay Broadfoot, Samia Farooq, Sharon Fitzpatrick, Kerri Berkowitz, Cindy Zwicky, David Yusem, Terence Bevington, Katie Cebula, Annie O’Shaughnessy, Denise Quinlan, Anna Gregory, Nathan Wallis, Sara Davis, Michael Friedman, Jim McGrath, Julia Hennessy, Nici Nixon ...
    Restorative practice (RP) has been successfully implemented in schools for decades and is primarily associated with improving behaviour and relationships, by changing the culture of problem solving in the school. However, it has huge untapped potential to support initiatives in other areas, and this book provides examples of how RP can enhance the effectiveness of these other practices.Split into ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Song and Silence

    Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders

    by Sara Davis ...
    In the sunny, subtropical Sipsongpanna region, Tai Lues perform flirtatious, exoticized dances for an increasingly growing tourist trade. Endorsed by Chinese officials, who view the Tai Lues as a "model minority," these staged performances are part of a carefully sanctioned ethnic policy. However, behind the scenes and away from the eyes and ears of tourists and the Chinese government, a different ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Wayside Teaching

    Connecting with Students to Support Learning

    by Sara Davis Powell ...
    Wayside teaching is about intentionally practicing what educators do every day in perhaps unintentional ways: relate to students. This practical, research-based guide illustrates how wayside teaching—the informal curriculum, implicit instruction, and mentoring that happens in sometimes unintentional ways—can be intentionally practiced across grade levels to enhance learning and boost student ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Scapegoat

    by Sara Davis ...
    Narrated by Michael Brusasco ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father-unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. His investigation leads him to a hotel built over a former Spanish mission, a site with a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • A Pianist's A–Z

    A piano lover's reader

    by Alfred Brendel ...
    'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.'Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Chopin

    Life and Work of the Great Musician

    by J. Huneker, E. Hubbard, &Al. ...
    This book deals with the history of a great musician: Frederic Chopin.What would the piano playing world do without the music of Frederic Chopin? We can hardly think of the piano without thinking of Chopin, since he wrote almost exclusively for the universal instrument. His music touches the heart always rather than the head, the emotional message far outweighs the intellectual meaning. It is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Notes on Chopin

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Bernard Frechtman ...
    An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century's most important figures, André GideAndré Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer "betrayed . . . deeply, intimately, totally violated" by a music community that had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. As a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus