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|  | The Art & Craft of Black-&-White Photography by George Schaub
The fundamentals of black-and-white photography are presented in an accessible and down-to-earth manner in this detailed book which includes over 100 photo examples, most of which were taken by the author. AUTHOR: George Schaub
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Trade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests 
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 | Curtains & Shades by Melanie Paine, Reader's Digest Editors
Description not available.Guides the amateur decorator through various techniques for creating simple and sophisticated window treatments, from evaluating a window for appropriate curtains or shades, to choosing the right colors, patterns, pleatings, valances, and embellishments. AUTHOR: Melanie Paine, Reader's Digest Editors
PUBLISHER: Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Home Improvement
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 | Fanny Mendelssohn by Camille Naish, Francoise Tillard
Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1805-1847), like her younger brother Felix, demonstrated prodigious musical talent as a child. In their youth, Fanny and Felix were inseparable friends; they encouraged each other, collaborated in musical endeavors, and received the same education and training from distinguished tutors. But as an adolescent, Fanny was told by her father that her role as a woman was to concern herself with her home and that music could be only secondary, even though she had become a remarkable pianist and composer. She married Wilhelm Hensel, a respected portrait painter who encouraged her musical talents. Fulfilling her domestic role as wife and as mother of their son, Sebastian, she continued to compose - principally lieder - and to organize concerts in her home that became an integral part of the Berlin musical scene. Her talents were warmly received during a journey to Italy, particularly by Gounod, who heard her play from memory the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. At forty years of age Fanny finally went against the orders of her father and of Felix and published her compositions. She had just begun to receive critical praise when she died suddenly at the age of forty-two. Her death was a devastating blow to Felix, who survived her by barely six months. This book, originally published in French in 1992, is the first and only authoritative biography of Fanny Mendelssohn and contains a complete list of her published compositions. Set against the backdrop of a privileged life in Berlin in the early nineteenth century, Francoise Tillard`s vivid portrait describes an exceptional artist - she left behind four hundred works - who could have held her own among thegreatest if she had not been prohibited from venturing into the professional world. AUTHOR: Camille Naish, Francoise Tillard
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Dangerous Crossroads by George Lipsitz
In cities around the globe, immigrant populations are finding their identity by making music which combines their own experiences with the forms of the mainstream culture they have come to inhabit. Dangerous Crossroads surveys an extraordinary range of these musical fusions: Puerto Rican Bugalu in New York; Algerian rai in Paris; Chicano punk in Los Angeles; Indigenous rock in Australia; chanson Quebecois in Montreal; swamp pop in Houston and New Orleans; reggae, bhangra, and juju in London; and zouk, rap, and jazz in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Throughout, Lipsitz highlights the issues that unite inter-ethnic music fusions across geographic boundaries. He demonstrates that what might be interpreted as a postmodern process of meaningless juxtapositions of musical forms ripped from their original contexts may actually be a redeployment of traditional music to serve untraditional purposes. Lipsitz explores the ways in which ethnic difference in popular music enables musicians from aggrieved populations to enjoy the rewards of mainstream culture while boldly stating their divergence from it, and how it offers a utopian model of inter-cultural cooperation, at the same time making a spectacle out of ethnicity and reinforcing ethnic divisions. Some inter-ethnic music has become part of significant movements for social change; in other instances it has played a reactionary role. But in all the case studies in this book, inter-cultural fusion music displays the contours of ethnic anxiety in an age characterized by the rapid movement of people, capital, and images across national borders. AUTHOR: George Lipsitz
PUBLISHER: Verso
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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 | Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean
Description not available.A group of Allied agents is sent into the heart of the Austrian Alps in 1944 to rescue a military staff member from an inaccessible Nazi stronghold before he is forced to expose plans for D-Day. Reprint. AUTHOR: Alistair MacLean
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Mystery & Thrillers
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 | The Big Book of Halloween by Laura D. Dover
This lively, colorful guide to Halloween is loaded with projects, ideas, and information for both kids and adults - everything you need to celebrate the year's scariest season with style. In addition to more than 50 projects (complete with detailed instructions and full-color photographs), you will find frightening ghost stories (with spooky illustrations), as well as a wealth of Halloween lore. AUTHOR: Laura D. Dover
PUBLISHER: Lark Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Hobbies & Interests
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