Bücher von Don Campbell

In his groundbreaking book, The Mozart Effect(R), Don Campbell revealed the enormous healing powers of classical music. Now he shows you how to help the children in your life experience the same benefits.You don't have to be an expert on classical music to use this wise and compassionate book. Focusing each chapter on a particular age -- from prenatal through age ten -- Don Campbell explains how music is the perfect tool to improve children's language, movement, and social skills at home, school, and play. He presents dynamic, inventive ways to invigorate a child's imagination, and supplies simple exercises, musical menus, and entertaining games that will improve your child's memory. At once practical and profound, The Mozart Effect(R) for Children is an invaluable resource for all parents and educators who want to help their children imagine, achieve, and grow in every aspect of their lives.

Anyone who has ever seen a two-year-old start bouncing to a beat knows that music speaks to us on a very deep level. But it took celebrated teacher and music visionary Don Campbell to show us just how deep, with his landmark book The Mozart Effect.Stimulating, authoritative, and often lyrical, The Mozart Effect has a simple but life-changing message: music is medicine for the body, the mind, and the soul. Campbell shows how modern science has begun to confirm this ancient wisdom, finding evidence that listening to certain types of music can improve the quality of life in almost every respect. Here are dramatic accounts of how music is used to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, and even mental illness.Always clear and compelling, Campbell recommends more than two dozen specific, easy-to-follow exercises to raise your spatial IQ, "sound away" pain, boost creativity, and make the spirit sing!

A group of terrorists hijack a plane and imprison over three hundred hostages deep in the Cambodian jungle, during a time of political terror in that country. Axel Neilson, a renegade Norwegian intelligence operative, and Major John Derwent of the British army are sent on a mission through the jungle to rescue the hostages. Target Zero combines the literary flair of Hemingway, with the story writing skills of MacLean, to produce an action adventure of the highest order.