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Le jazz (Que sais-je? ; #2392)
By Lucien Malson, Christian Bellest. 2007
Les origines et caractéristiques du jazz et ses différents styles, dans l'ordre de leur apparition, du "spiritual" aux genres actuels…
: ragtime, blues, jazz New Orleans, jazz mainstream, bebop, cool jazz, hard-jazz, free-jazz et jazz-rock. 2007, c1987.L'âme de Hegel et les vaches du Wisconsin (Critiques, Analyses, Biographies Et Histoire Litteraire Ser. #Vol. 6042303)
By Alessandro Baricco, Françoise Brun. 1998
Le chant d'Orphée selon Monteverdi
By Philippe Beaussant. 2002
De l'Orfeo de Monteverdi, oeuvre carrefour qui conclut la Renaissance et d'où naît le baroque, Philippe Beaussant éclaire tous les…
aspects à la lumière de la peinture, de la philosophie et de la poésie de l'époque. Inspiré par un thème musical, un texte littéraire d'une profonde sensibilité.Au coeur de l'orchestre
By Christian Merlin. 2012
Grasping heaven: Tami L. Fisk, a young doctor's journey to China and beyond
By Annelies Wilder-Smith, Einar P Wilder-Smith. 2010
Hope for the hopeless: the Charles Mulli mission
By Paul H Boge, Marina H Hofman Willard. 2012
Charles Mulli was abused by his father and abandoned by his family. Forced to beg from hut to hut in…
Kenya to survive, Mulli worked his way out of poverty and became a wealthy businessman, but never forgot the struggle of street children. Hearing the call of God, Mulli sold everything he owned and began rescuing street children from the slums of Kenya and gave them a home at Mully Children's Family. His journey of faith challenged him to trust Christ in desperate times, confront evil forces and believe in God for even greater miracles of healing and deliverance. And in the wake of the postelection violence that recently shook Kenya to its core, Mulli risked everything to follow the call of Christ and to bring hope to the hopeless. Sequel to "Father to the Fatherless". 2012.Bent hope: a street journal
By Tim Huff. 2008
Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff's unique and extensive twenty-year ministry among homeless and street-involved youth and adults…
in Toronto. These gripping true-life stories surface quietly from unforgiving corridors of fear, hurt and uncertainty that unexpectedly and supernaturally transform into fascinating places of intimacy and godly anticipation. c2008.Keep on standing
By Darlene Polachic. 2002
The 1989 student massacre in Lubumbashi, Zaire under the brutal rule of dictator/president Mobutu Sese Seko was almost the end…
for brothers Michel, Fabian and Aliston Lwamba. Escaping with only their lives, that day was a grim and deadly reality marking the beginning of an incredible saga that changed their lives forever. During the chaos, the Lwambas were separated from each other, living in refugee camps for over five years, and leaving many of their relatives for dead. They survived violence, disease, depression and starvation before they met God and found in Him both the reason and the will to keep on standing. 2002.Jonathan Edwards, the great awakener: The Great Awakener (Hereos of the faith ; #5)
By Helen Kooiman Hosier. 1999
Known mostly for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards was a man of towering…
intellect, responsible in large part for America's first "Great Awakening." 1999.Jazz anecdotes
By Bill Crow. 1990
Is this live?: inside the wild early years of MuchMusic : the nation's music station
By Christopher Ward. 2016
On August 31, 1984, the Nation’s Music Station launched. The dream child of TV visionary Moses Znaimer and John Martin,…
Much was live and largely improvised, and an entire generation of Canadians grew up watching the VJs and embraced the new music that became the video soundtrack of our lives. Stories of the bands, the music, the videos, the specialty shows, the style and the improvisational approach to daily broadcast life at Much are told by the people who were there - the colourful cast of on-air VJs, the artists who found their way into our living rooms as never before, and the people behind the cameras. 2016.This music myth-debunking volume is organized by subjects such as song lyrics, deaths, and the origins of album and song…
titles. Some of the rumours and mysteries Edwards untangles are old favourites, such as Paul McCartney's alleged death, Robert Johnson's purported sale of his soul to the devil, and the subject of Carly Simon's "You're so Vain." Others are more recent and obscure, such as Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro's death, what's not tattooed on Tom Waits's chest, and the inspiration for the White Stripes's "Hotel Yorba." Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 2006.I will love you forever: a true story about finding life, hope, and healing while caring for hospice babies
By Cori Salchert, Marianne Hering. 2018
In their lives: great writers on great Beatles songs
By Andrew Blauner. 2017
An anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. Arranged chronologically…
by the date of the song's release, these essays highlight both the Beatles' evolution as well as the span of generations their music affected. 2017.In a sun scorched land: an African experience compiled from letters home
By Leona Lane. 2009
Yielding to the yearning for Africa, Leona and Cyril Lane left the comfort of family and friends in the Canadian…
North and took up the challenge of a volunteer assignment with C.PP.S. Mission Projects in Central Tanzania. It was not an easy time for them. They often felt isolated and unappreciated, suffered from Malaria and various, often violent stomach ailments, were tormented by mosquitoes, driver ants and flies, and faced injury every time they drove on the horrendous roads. Yet, in spite of those difficulties, it was, for them, one of life's most affirming experiences. 2009.Bad singer: the surprising science of tone deafness and how we hear music
By Tim Falconer. 2016
The author is part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia -- tone-deafness. The book chronicles his…
quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. 2016.Facing terror
By Carrie McDonnall. 2005
George Whitefield: pioneering evangelist (Heroes of the faith. #4.)
By Bruce Fish, Becky Durost Fish. 2000
Amy Carmichael: a life abandoned to God (Heroes Of The Faith Ser.)
By Sam Wellman. 1998
In 1895 Amy Carmichael embraced a mission that would last for the remaining 56 years of her life. The Dohnavur…
Fellowship in India would become, under her loving guidance, a place of sanctuary for more than a thousand orphans. This is her story. 1998.Brother Andrew: God's undercover agent (The christian Library Ser.)
By Alan Millwright, Clifford Cummings. 1987