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God is for real: and he longs to answer your most difficult questions
By Todd Burpo, David Drury. 2017
People are tired of pat answers offered up in churchy language explaining away their questions; we want the down-and-dirty truth.…
What bothers us about life and faith is real and gritty. We need a plainspoken voice to offer God's answers to difficult struggles and painful doubts. Todd helps articulate the questions people have, then gives them relevant biblical wisdom for taking their next steps in faith. 2017.How music works
By David Byrne. 2012
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and…
responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history. 2012.Learn how to make even the noisiest gear dead quiet, getting instruments to sound crisp and distinct in a mix,…
making drum programs and sequences sound like they were played live, getting the most out of a limited number of tracks or mixer channels, blending tracks together into a professional-sounding mix, and how to avoid the most common mistakes amateur recordists make. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.How to enjoy opera (Melvyn Bragg's arts series)
By Charles Osborne. 1987
Written concisely for the non-opera goer, the author covers the development of opera to the present century and lists 100…
popular operas with their stories, from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" in 1689 to "Sweeney Todd" by Stephen Sondheim in 1978. 1987.How to really parent your teenager: raising balanced teens in an unbalanced world
By Rob Suggs, Ross Campbell. 2006
Emphasizing God's commitment to be personally involved in our lives, Dawson shares the lessons of a lifetime of faithful obedience…
to God. Through stories and biblical teaching, she helps readers discover the excitement of learning how to listen to God, joyfully obey him, and experience the wonder of the results that follow. c2001.How Nashville became Music City, U.S.A: 50 years of Music Row
By Michael Kosser. 2006
How a single studio in a tiny house in Nashville became Music Row, a ten-block area populated by hundreds of…
talented people whose job is to simply make music. It's the place where Elvis ushered in rock 'n' roll with "Heartbreak Hotel," Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and Willie Nelson taught America to love soulful ballads, and Bob Dylan recorded three of his most important albums. Features stories from publishers, songwriters and others who describe the evolution of this fabled centre of music. 2006.Hear the wind blow: American folk songs
By Scott R Sanders. 1985
Harpur's Heaven and Hell
By Tom Harpur. 1983
The religion editor of the "Toronto Star" has brought together some of his finest and most provocative articles, in expanded…
and updated version. Includes interviews with Gordon Sinclair and Mother Teresa. 1983. Uniform title: Heaven and Hell.Halftime: moving from success to significance
By Bob Buford, Max Bloomquist. 2008
Buford believes the second half of your life can be better than the first, but you need to figure out…
what you want to do with that half. If this is a time of revitalization and for catching a new vision for living, these important questions must be asked: What am I really good at? What do I want to do? What is most important to me? What do I want to be remembered for? If my life were absolutely perfect, what would it look like? 2008.Handel's Messiah: a celebration
By Richard Luckett. 1992
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the first performance of this popular oratorio, Lucket has drawn on a variety…
of scholarly sources to piece together a picture of what took place in Dublin in 1742. He describes Handel's eager acceptance of the invitation to Ireland, his problems with a crotchety librettist, the original soloists, the initial audience, and the appreciation that surrounds the work to this day. 1992.God's power to change your life (Living with purpose.)
By Richard Warren. 2006
What does it take to become more loving, live more peacefully, develop patience? Drawing simple but powerful truths from the…
Bible, Warren gives practical guidance for specific types of change, and links you with the power to actually make the changes you long to make. 2006.For the love of music: interviews with Ulla Colgrass
By Ulla Colgrass. 1988
In interviews with 22 of the world's finest musicians, Pinchas Zukerman discusses conducting, Yo-Yo Ma reminisces about his musical training,…
Teresa Stratas reflects on artistic temperament, and Glenn Gould defends Muzak. 1988.Footprints: the story behind the poem that inspired millions
By Margaret Fishback Powers. 1993
The true story of an inspirational poem that Powers had written in the 1960's, then lost when her family moved…
across the country to Vancouver in the early 1980's. It resurfaced several years later on plaques, cards, calendars, and posters. 1993.Emotions, can you trust them?: Can You Trust Them?
By James Dobson. 1980
Based on commentaries originally presented during the first intermissions of Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. Father Lee, a professor of…
classics, analyzes and interprets works by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Strauss. 1995.Early jazz: its roots and musical development (History of jazz ; #1)
By Gunther Schuller. 1968
Jazz from its beginnings through the early 1930s. Schuller explores sound recordings made since the advent of jazz and responds…
to hypothetical questions a musician might ask. He shows how elements of jazz grew out of African music, stresses the shift of emphasis from the music to the performer, and notes the difficulty of studying something as ephemeral as improvised sounds. Followed by "Swing Era". 1986. (History of jazz ; 1)Divo: great tenors, baritones, and basses discuss their roles
By Helena Matheopoulos. 1986
Presents in-depth interviews with leading international male singers. Includes such artists as Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Simon…
Estes, and analyzes their interpretations from both the musical and the dramatic angles. 1986.Crazy love: Overwhelmed By A Relentless God
By Francis Chan. 2008
The God of the universe is crazy about you! His love is the most powerful thing in the world and…
He wants to give it to you, so you can live for Him. If you have made a commitment to follow Christ, then read Crazy Love to be reminded and challenged in your walk. Sharing from his own life struggles and sacrifices, author Francis Chan issues a call for selfless, Christ-like living. Let the love you have received from God impact your life like never before. 2008.Beyond forgiveness: the healing touch of church discipline
By Don Baker. 1984
Church discipline is supposed to be a loving but firm action to confront sin in a Christian's life and help…
them be restored to the church family. Too often it is a harsh exclusion from the fellowship without any expectation of reconciled relationship. c1984.