Signs: Lettering in the Environment: Lettering in the Environment

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Letterforms surround us: inscriptions or names on buildings, directional signs for road networks, and signs within and around buildings. This book focuses on the letterforms and typography found in public places that help us to navigate towns, cities, and countrysides and that contribute to a sense of place. Featuring 700 color images of examples from around the world, it discusses the function and execution of signage. Part resource, part celebration, it brings together material that is of key interest to graphic designers, lettering artists, architects, and all those who are concerned with how towns and cities look and function.

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I'm very happy of my purchase........2006-03-10

The book is very interesting, the shipment was quick but I had to pay 5,50 to Poste Italiane when I recieved the book.

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Great Book.......2004-12-01

From northern lakes cradled by ancient hills, to remote desert canyons, to grassy backyard jungles, nature's places define our world. Each place is an event, constantly being remade, defined by all that happens there ... the rise and fall of the wind, changes in light, the first mallard returning to a vernal pond, the last red maple leaf of autumn.

In this book, with eighty-two exquisite photographs, Rod Planck celebrates the magic of place and time. With abiding respect for the natural world and exacting technical skill, Rod creates images that open our eyes to the special places and special moments that surround us. Insightful captions reveal the essence of each photograph's natural history and the techniques used to record these moments on film.

I've known Rod and his work for several years. This is some of his finest work. He is a great nature photographer, a knowledgeable naturalist, as well as a terrific teacher.

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Helps us lighten the load of life on a daily basis........2001-03-01

Educational and entertaining, this book relays convincing evidence as to the psychological and physiological benefits of humor. The author gives concrete and helpgful techniques and suggestions as to how we can begin to bring more joy and laughter into our lives. Lots of humorous anecdotes and examples bring the points home. I found this book informative and motivational.

A staple item for the humor lover's bookshelf.......2001-02-28

Since reading this book in 1994, I have used it as a reference for my life AND work. Using a warm and witty style of writing, Allen teaches us the physiological and emotional benefits of mirth. My favorite chapter title is "Strike While the Irony is Hot!" So clever!! I recommend this book to friends who are facing life challenges and to everyone who attends my workshops. On a more personal note, since embracing The Healing Power of Humor, I felt freer to add a little levity to my Aunt Alice's funeral. My family was amazingly grateful. Me too!

A real pick-me-up.......1999-03-16

Wonderful book, which truly elevated my spirits so much that people started complimenting me about my positive attitude. Good bedtime reading. Chapters are written so that you study one "lesson" per day.

This book will convince you to keep humor in your life.......1998-11-20

This book showed me the evidence that I need to have humor in my life on a daily basis. I have always loved humor, but until I read this book I didn't really realize the powerful effect it has on me and my family. This book will help anyone learn how to have a more healthy, mind, body and spirit. --Tom Antion

An essential book for anyone going through difficult times.......1998-07-19

When a friend from college was diagnosed with a termanal brain tumor, I sent him and his family a copy of this book. Several times he and his wife told me how helpful this book was for all of them during these terrible times. It gives everyone permission to access appropriate humor to feed the spirit, and allow us to find joy in the midst of suffering and sorrow. Great and inspiring ideas and suggestions.

The Joyful Christ: The Healing Power of Humor

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The Joyful Christ: The Healing Power of Humor
Cal Samra
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Healing Khadijah Hussein: A Humor Novel about Burqas, naqib, Malaysia, Culture-clash and the power of friendship

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Healing Khadijah Hussein: A Humor Novel about Burqas, naqib, Malaysia, Culture-clash and the power of friendship
Rosemary I. Patterson, Phd.
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The scene is set as Khadijah Hussein, a westernized, fashionable, Malaysian fashion model and the mother of two turns up at her local Mosque dressed in a Burqa complete with a veil. She is unable to communicate except to utter Muslim prayers. Khadijah's frantic husband contacts her Singapore alumni group including psychiatrist, Dr. Linda Belgrove, who diagnoses Khadijah as having suffered "Identity Fracture, the worst case she have ever seen." Members of Khadijah's alumni group decide to take her on a voyage of rediscovery to well known healing sites in Asia, Europe and America to restore Khadijah's identity and allow her to return to her children and husband. The result is a tongue-in-cheek look at Identity issues in Muslim Malaysia following the invasion of Iraq. Culture-clash, thousands of years old religious traditions, and the meaning of life are all examined in this fast-paced Humor Novel set in Malaysia, Singapore, Hawaii, France, Arizona, and the former North Borneo.

Laugh After Laugh: The Healing Power of Humor

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The result of 14 years of research

Laugh After Laugh: The Healing Power of Humor
Raymond A. Moody Jr.
Manufacturer: Headwaters Pr
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The result of 14 years of research.......2003-07-10

"Laughter and humor are phenomena which, in order to be understood, must be looked at and evaluated from numerous, interrelated perspectives."

Dr. Raymond A. Moody, Jr. was born on June 30, 1944. he taught philosophy at East Carolina University and conducted humor workshops throughout the country.

In this book, the author traces the history of humor from the Biblical advice of "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine," to modern examples of how laughter and humor have been shown to heal the body. Moody also shows how medicine relies too heavily on the technical science of medicine and overlooks our God-given ability to aid the healing process through the use of a good sense of humor.

The contents include:

A Doctor Looks at Laughter
Healing By Humor: Some Examples
Humor and Health: The History of an Idea
Laughter and Disease
Laughter and Madness
The Pathology of Laughter: Occupational and Iatrogenic Causes
Society and Healing Humor
Why Humor Works
Humor and the Healing Professions

After reading the description of how a laugh occurs, how could you ever think of laughing in the same way? Have you ever wondered why you sometimes laugh until you cry? Why is it socially contagious?

If you enjoy this book, you might also enjoy: Smilosophy by M.D. Gray

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This 90 minute audio explains the value of humor and helps to reframe irrational thoughts from being "Oh No's" to "Ah Ha's." It provides you with techniques and tools to help you view life as more of a joy than a job.

The Healing Power of Humor (Techniques for getting through loss, setbacks, upsets, disappointments, difficulties, trials, tribulations, and all that not-s-funny stuff)

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The Healing Power of Humor (Techniques for getting through loss, setbacks, upsets, disappointments, difficulties, trials, tribulations, and all that not-s-funny stuff)
Allen Klein
Manufacturer: Jeremy Tarcher, inc.
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Laughter The Best Medicine: The Healing Powers of Happiness, Humour and Joy

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Laughter The Best Medicine: The Healing Powers of Happiness, Humour and Joy
Robert Holden
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Laughter is one of our most valuable and basic human needs. This book presents over 50 simple techniques to help you build confidence, feel good about yourself and learn to have fun again.

The healing power of humor.(GUEST EDITORIAL): An article from: Clinical Psychiatry News

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The healing power of humor.(GUEST EDITORIAL): An article from: Clinical Psychiatry News
Arthur Trotzky
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Release Date: 2005-07-25

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This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by International Medical News Group on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 627 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The healing power of humor.(GUEST EDITORIAL)
Author: Arthur Trotzky
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 33 Issue: 5 Page: 22(1)

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The healing powers of a good laugh: An article from: The Exceptional Parent

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The healing powers of a good laugh: An article from: The Exceptional Parent
Laura Apel
Manufacturer: Psy-Ed Corporation
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Release Date: 2005-09-13

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From Stone Bridge Press, award-winning publishers of The Anime Encyclopedia, Hayao Miyazaki, and The Astro Boy Essays, comes a must-have guide to 100 essential Japanese animation films, TV series, and made-for-video series, from 1950s classics to the latest Cartoon Network hits.

Looking for something specific? Eight unique icons make reviews easy to browse. From Akira to Naruto, Pokemon to Sailor Moon, anime veterans Brian Camp and Julie Davis present over 100 black & white images alongside summaries, style notes, rare facts, viewer-discretion guides, and critical comments on films that fans absolutely— zettai!—must see.

Julie Davis is the former editor-in-chief of Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly. A writer and editor in San Francisco, Davis has translated manga for Viz (now Viz Media) and has contributed to Otaku USA and Manga: The Complete Guide.

Brian Camp, program manager at CUNY-TV in New York, was a regular contributor to Animerica: Anime & Manga Monthly, and has taught a course on anime at New York's School of Visual Arts. Camp has also contributed to Animation World, Film Library Quarterly, the Motion Picture Guide, and the New York Daily News.

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A disaster of post-modern mumbo-jumbo

100 Anime (Bfi Screen Guides)
Philip Brophy
Manufacturer: British Film Institute
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Tentacles from the bowels of the earth. Machines from another dimension. Cyborgs designed by ghostly children. Planets destroyed by psychic amoeba. Welcome to the wonderfully complex and disorienting world of Japanese animation--anime. 100 Anime is not a guide to this world; it is a ticket to keep you lost in sensory overload. This expansive and mind-blowing book delves deep into the chaotic meaning forged by anime's mutation of Eastern/ Western themes, images, and sounds. Read it in order to navigate the postwar shock waves that still propel Japan's mass media.
100 Anime offers stimulating revelations of the wild world of anime and gives an overview of how vast the anime industry is in comparison to live- action cinema; how important the calligraphic vein of Japanese culture is in its dissemination of highly graphic material; and how the westernized reading of Japanese iconography requires a complete and irre trievable dumping of Judeo Christian Eurocentric postulations of semiotics, symbolism, and mythology.

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A disaster of post-modern mumbo-jumbo.......2006-04-05

There is barely an intelligible sentence in this book. The author has little knowlege of the tropes or history of Japanese animation, and knowing this, abuses most of the five syllable words in the OED in a feeble attempt to snow the reader with false erudition.

It is impossible to imagine that this book passed even the most rudimentary editorial reviewing process.

The small number of illustrations presented in the book are of uniformly poor quality. The names of characters are fluffed in a number of places.

There is simply no excuse for the existence of this book.

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100 Anime
Philip Brophy
Manufacturer: BFI Publishing
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ASIN: B000K71X3Q

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An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for such popular music as "The Wedding March" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Rejecting the view of the composer as a craftsman of felicitous but sentimental, saccharine works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works. Here are engaging analyses of Mendelssohn's distinctive masterpieces--the zestful Octet, puckish Midsummer Night's Dream, haunting Hebrides Overtures, and elegiac Violin Concerto in E minor. Todd describes how the composer excelled in understatement and nuance, in subtle, coloristic orchestrations that lent his scores an undeniable freshness and vividness. He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time. Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Readers will discover many new facets of the familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time.

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Excellent biography of a great musician we do not pay enough attention to nowadays.......2005-12-27

Felix Mendelssohn lived only thirty-eight years (Feb 1809- Nov 1847) and yet he had a profound impact on the way Art Music continues to be enjoyed in our time even if he is himself unjustly too far from the public consciousness and his musical works not, while not unperformed, are not performed nearly enough considering their musical quality and artistic merit. He was a man of prodigious genius, manifold talents, and a genuinely gracious and generous man. All rare gifts in this world.

This excellent and much needed modern biography of this most important musician was written by R. Larry Todd. The author gave the book a perfect subtitle - "A Life in Music" because Mendelssohn's whole life, since his early accomplishments as a prodigy, was devoted to composing, performing, conducting, and championing past composers such as Bach and newer young composers and performers who shared his views on the musical arts. The book makes very enjoyable reading because of the way Todd intertwines the life and the music that came out of it. Mendelssohn, like some but more than many composers, wrote and modified pieces for specific occasions and for certain performers. I found the numerous musical examples to be well chosen and illuminating. However, if you cannot read music, you can still understand what they author is saying form his clear and to the point prose.

Felix's grandfather was the famous philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and his father, Abraham, was a prominent banker so Felix and extremely talented sister Fanny did not have to struggle to develop their talents. Abraham converted to Christianity and his children were raised with a Christian faith. Felix's Protestant faith was clear in his music to the day he died even though that aspect of his life is downplayed too much nowadays. Both Fanny and Felix were brilliant piano virtuosos and Felix was also a virtuoso on the organ and violin. They both composed well, but more emphasis was placed on Felix because he was the male and, from available evidence, the greater genius.

It was natural to compare Felix to Mozart, as young prodigies are too this day. In Felix's case it was a warranted comparison, even if his art was not as transcendent as Mozart's. Felix was a brilliant improviser. While every well trained keyboardist (especially organists) were expected to be able to improvise any number of pieces and styles upon provided material, or on material they made up, the kind of ability that Mendelssohn had in this area was beyond brilliant. He was not only capable of solving canons on the fly or harmonizing and making variations on a chorale, he could also turn the subject into a fugue, a double fugue, and more.

Then there is also his memory. There was a concert series where he was repeating a Schubert trio that he had performed a month earlier. However, the music for the piece was only on the stands for the string players. No problem, Mendelssohn played the piano part from memory. However, in order to not draw attention to himself and make his memory the point of the performance, he had the page turner just reach up and turn the pages of whatever was on the music rack to make it look like he was reading from the score!

He could also draw and paint beautifully. Professor Todd provides us with many beautiful samples of Mendelssohn's work and it is very beautiful. Fanny also married an artist and it was he who drew Fanny shortly before her premature death and Felix upon his death bed a few months later. Mendelssohn traveled widely. Like many other young men from wealthy families, he went on a grand tour of Europe and met many of the important people of his day, both artists and men of position in government and business. He always impressed people favorably because of his personal grace, great talents, and, well, charisma. It was a different kind of magnetism than, say, a Liszt. But Mendelssohn had it nonetheless. People were excited when he walked into a room. Musicians played better under his leadership.

And though I believe Mendelssohn is no less a victim of a change in taste than was J. S. Bach was in Felix's day, I know he is a great composer who deserves more attention than he gets in the current repertoire. His symphonies are of high quality, his piano and organ music has much merit, and his oratorios were highly acclaimed and widely performed even in the mid-twentieth century. His songs were often sung, and his chamber music delighted both performers and listeners. So, what changed? Personally, I believe it is our present addiction to irony and a kind of narcissistic attachment to extremes. Mendelssohn does not offer this and so doesn't speak to many people. His music is full of great craft in counterpoint and harmony; his texts are full of health, love, devotion, pride, and faith. To some nowadays he sounds a bit corny. Like all great artists, he is a mirror in which we see ourselves clearly, but think we judge the artist who is actually above our judgment. And we come off poorly if we do not appreciate his genius.

So, if Mendelssohn is "forgotten" how does he affect our approach to Art Music (Classical Music) today? Simple. He was one of the first to lead the orchestra with a baton from the front, to great positive effect. He helped in the revival of J.S. Bach including the b-minor mass and the St. Matthew Passion. His approach to editing texts for publication looked toward our current standard of printing only what the composer wrote as an "Urtext" with editorial emendations clearly marked and separate if possible. He also helped form several great orchestras and when he traveled he helped raise the level of performers all over the world. These traditions live on. Would that we honor the man who authored them.

It is true that his own tendencies toward perfectionism prevented him from ever settling on a libretto for an opera, something he had always wanted to write. However, he left us much to appreciate and it is our fault if we don't explore his works and perform it in our homes, amateur ensembles, and professional musical organizations.

There is more that I could write, but most importantly go read this excellent book and listen to the music of this great man and genius of music.

A landmark in Mendelssohn scholarship.......2003-11-18

As a Mendelssohn specialist I pre-ordered this book, and have been working my way through it for the past few weeks. I cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone who is interested in this remarkable composer and his music. It has many points to commend it for scholars(extensive recourse to important but obscure archival documents, correction of major and minor factual errors that have persisted in all the previous Mendelssohn biographies, etc.), and just as much to commend it to general readerships: it's elegantly written, well balanced, informative on contextual, musical, and biographical fronts, etc. Fanny is arguably as present in the pages of this book as she was in Mendelssohn's life. And, not least of all, it's remarkably affordable. I am a former student of Professor Todd (having gotten my Ph.D. from Duke University in 1994), but can also say that I offer these remarks without any bias other than that of being one who admires the music and life of Mendelssohn.

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Unlike most 19th Century composers who had to struggle to make a living, Felix Mendelssohn came from a very wealthy family. He never had to work, but he worked harder to fulfill his family's expectations than many who suffer poverty. He was an extremely gifted musical genius who wrote some of his best works while he was still a teenager.

Mendelssohn gained fame as a conductor, and as the organizer of many music festivals in Germany and in England where he was always enthusiastically welcomed. Unlike some composers who only performed their own work, Mendelssohn had a passion for presenting the best music of all periods. He was also very generous in helping younger composers by playing their work.

His weakness was being unable to say no to the many requests he received for performances. He was a perfectionist who devoted his energy to presenting the highest possible level of musical perfection. As his fame spread, he had little time left for his own compositions. Mendelssohn died at the age of 38, essentially from

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BEYOND DESIRE A NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF FELIX AND CECILE MENDELSSOHN

Manufacturer: Random House
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The Life and Work of Sydney Long
Joanna Mendelssohn
Manufacturer: Copperfield
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ASIN: 0959632948

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Excellent Teaching Tool!

Hidden Music: The Life of Fanny Mendelssohn
Gloria Kamen
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Excellent Teaching Tool!.......2006-10-14

This book is special because it is one of the few books on classical, women composers aimed at middle school students. It explains in clear prose Fanny Mendelssohn's life and why she was not as famous as her brother, even though she was probably just as talented. Kamen examines the social structures that made it nearly impossible for women to perform and publish music without being looked at as plebeian. Although Kamen is slightly simplistic in her blaming of Fanny's brother, father and husband for her lack of fame, the book is aimed at middle school where a more complete, and therefor complex view of the situation might be too sophisticated for the average student to grasp. This book would be perfect for a middle school student interested in music to read, a music class to read as part of their study of the classical period, or any class that wishes to study the social status of women in the nineteenth century.

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Fluent, clear guide to a much-maligned composer
Tracing of Significant Composer
An Extremely Enjoyable Experience

The Life of Mendelssohn (Musical Lives)
Peter Mercer-Taylor
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn (Cambridge Companions to Music)

ASIN: 0521639727

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This biography of composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn traces his development from musical child prodigy to a conductor whose influence as an advocate of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven is still felt to this day. A great deal of attention is paid to Mendelssohn's early nineteenth-century cultural surroundings and the book includes interpretation and discussion of major works, without use of musical examples or technical language, placing them within the context of his personal and public life. This is the first new biography of Mendelssohn to appear in some seventeen years.

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Fluent, clear guide to a much-maligned composer.......2004-03-08

Previously unfamiliar to me, Peter Mercer-Taylor is a fluent narrator (though he does not always write as well as he can, and at times lapses into Madison Avenue vulgarity). For all who esteem this much-maligned composer, Mercer-Taylor will prove an exceptionally clear guide to the surprisingly large amount of Mendelssohn's output which we almost never hear. I recently gave this book as a wedding present to a bride much enamoured of Mendelssohn's achievement; she seems to have found Mercer-Taylor thoroughly readable and satisfying.

Tracing of Significant Composer.......2003-05-01

Mendelssohn is traced through his life as to influences, both spiritually, musically and elsewhere.

Raised in upper class surroundings, he and sister Fanny were certainly cultivated in rich musical and literary heritage. So no surprise that Mendelssohn honored his musical heritiage and was fond of Bach especially.

Climb to fame capsulated well in this biographical look with specific references given at appropriate times on musical and theological insights. This all culminates late in his life with tension over all his duties both musically and family and they take their toil.

Never happy living in Germany, persistently traveling which also for sure took its toll. Creative output continues to reverberate throughtout concert halls.

Truly a tightly written account of significant musical contributor.

An Extremely Enjoyable Experience.......2001-04-04

With a smooth and easy-to-read style that is brimming with factual details and emotive feelings, Mr. Mercer-Taylor's writing provides a concise and highly articulate story of Felix Mendelssohn's life. Mendelssohn's many significant contributions as a composer, musician, conductor, teacher and adminstrator are presented in an interesting collage of personalities and historical events of the times. In particular, the author's description of Mendelssohn's music captures its essence perfectly. An extremely enjoyable reading experience.

Beyond Desire - A Novel Based on the Life of Felix & Cecile Mendelssohn

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Beyond Desire - A Novel Based on the Life of Felix & Cecile Mendelssohn
Pierre LaMure
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Beyond Desire A Novel Based on The Life of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn

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Beyond Desire A Novel Based on The Life of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn
Pierre LaMure
Manufacturer: New York: Random House, 1955
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Beyond Desire, a novel on the Life of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn

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Beyond Desire, a novel on the Life of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn
Pierre La Mure
Manufacturer: Random House c1955
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An entertaining and moving portrayal of Felix Mendelssohn's passion for music, for his wife, for life...

Beyond Desire: A Novel Based on the Life of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn
Pierre La Mure
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An entertaining and moving portrayal of Felix Mendelssohn's passion for music, for his wife, for life..........2007-05-30

This is a novel, not a biography, and certain historical facts have been changed- some sources state Mendelssohn first performed Bach's Passion of St Matthew aged twenty, not shortly before his death at the age of thirty -eight as recounted in the novel.
No matter; the novel's spirit, its themes; love and family, ambition and duty, friendship and loyalty, physical and moral courage, transcend literal truth but is still informative. It is an absorbing, entertaining, moving and accessible read even for a musical ignoramus - such as me.
I have read it many times and keep finding new things in it - surely one sign of a good novel.

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Another 201 Puzzles, 5 Levels of Difficulty!

The incredible popularity of Su Doku shows no sign of slowing, and for every fan of the fascinating and addictive number game, this second volume of The Essential Book of Su Doku will provide further hours of captivating, challenging fun.

Whether you've already caught the Su Doku bug and are eagerly searching for more puzzles to tax your brain, or you are interested in discovering what the fuss is all about, The Essential Book of Su Doku 2 has something for everyone, diehard players and novices alike.

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Doctor Who-The Masters of Luxor (Doctor Who: The Scripts)
Anthony Coburn
Manufacturer: Titan Books Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
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