Jazz

Jazz [paperback] Morrison, Toni [Jan 01, 1993]

Arts & Photography

MORRISON, Toni.

Music

Plume/Penguin

An entertaining personality profiler gathers evaluations from the individuals, partners, family, friends, and co-workers to explain how to evaluate one's own and others' personalities, assess their influence on one another, and develop one's personal talents, self-worth, effectiveness, and relationship skills, in a guide that includes color-coded tests and self-scoring devices. Reprint.

Who Do You Think You Are? Explore Your Many-Sided Self with the Berkeley Personality Profile

Harary, Keith

Donahue, Eileen

Self-Help

Food hacker and host of CMT's "Top Secret Recipe," Todd Wilbur is the author of a series of unique cookbooks which reveal simple secret recipes for creating home versions of America's most popular brand-name foods. With over 5 million Top Secret Recipes books in print, Todd designs each recipe through careful research, trial-and-error, creative reverse-engineering, and obsession. Readers will not only be fascinated with the back stories and impressed with the accuracy of the formulas, but will also find that they can save money when recreating these signature dishes at home and will enjoy the ability to now customize their favorite foods to suit specific diets and health concerns

Top Secret Recipes: More Classics

Todd Wilbur

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing more than an evolutionary accident, Levitin poses that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even more so than language. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, he reveals: • How composers produce some of the most pleasurable effects of listening to music by exploiting the way our brains make sense of the world • Why we are so emotionally attached to the music we listened to as teenagers, whether it was Fleetwood Mac, U2, or Dr. Dre • That practice, rather than talent, is the driving force behind musical expertise • How those insidious little jingles (called earworms) get stuck in our head A Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, This Is Your Brain on Music will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into an obsession at the heart of human nature.

Levitin, Daniel J.

The Flag, the Poet and the Song: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner

Irvin Molotsky

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