Kunst & Kultur

An accessible scientific explanation for the traditional rules of voice leading, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.

Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest.

In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-`n'-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value.

The story of Venice's Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, `the Unfinished Palazzo', told through the lives of three of its most unconventional, passionate and fascinating residents - Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim.

An intimate portrait of what makes a rock star by Virginia Grohl, the mother of Dave Grohl, one of the generation's most gifted and loved musicians. From Cradle to Stage features an exclusive introduction by Dave Grohl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A celebration of the human body and spirit in more than 100 photographs - all nude, all taken at night. These photographs illustrate the hard work and the dedication it takes to succeed in dancing, acting, photography.

Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings.

SEX DRUMS ROCK 'N' ROLL! THE HARDEST HITTING MAN IN SHOW BUSINESS

Notes for Flutists: A Guide to the Repertoire is the only single-source reference of essential historical and analytical information about 35 of the best-known pieces written for the instrument. Its contextual and theoretical insights make this text an indispensable resource for teachers as well as student, professional, and amateur flutists.

An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English Literature's most celebrated novelists.

A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir - both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft-from Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history's most successful TV shows,Breaking Bad.

Collection of articles written for the journal Wireless world (now Electronics world), 1976-2012.

One of the first European explorers to fall obsessively in love with the realm of pyramids and pharaohs, Emile Prisse d'Avennes made an outstanding contribution to Egyptology with his illustrations of Ancient Egyptian architecture, sculpture, paintings, and industrial arts. This world premiere brings together the complete collection of Prisse...