The late Mr. Hadcock's "The Working Clarinetist" is a must have for anyone seriously interested in pursuing a career in clarinet performance. He covers all of the bases, from orchestral repertoire, solo literature, basic techniques of breathing, hand position, and sound, and then tops it all off with practical knowledge of equipment. Particularly useful are the LEGIBLE versions of unattainable orchestral excerpts such as Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin". The excerpt commentary is written as though Mr. Hadcock were sitting next to you giving you a personal lesson. All is easily understood and extremely helpful. My thanks to his dear wife for sharing this gem of clarinet literature with the rest of us. BUY IT NOW!

Forget that this is the best collection of orchestral excerpts for the clarinet ever compiled. This book is the single most thorough and pragmatic book ever written on playing the clarinet. The excerpts contain not only audition repertoire, but also difficult tutti passages in order to help both people who are performing these works with an orchestra as well as people who are preparing for auditions. In the extensive and insightful notes on each excerpt, Hadcock offers tips in both contexts - audition and on the concert stage with an orchestra. The rest of the book examines every aspect of playing the clarinet including the mental, psychological, and at times, the philosophical. To top it all off, Hadcock infuses wit, humor, and most of all, compassion into this cornucopia of information.

This is a wonderful book, full of sound, practical and necessary information for clarinetists of all levels--I can't think of another book on the clarinet that offers so much. There is an extensive l54 page-section dealing with tips on how to play most of the most important orchestral excerpts. There are sections on the basics--hand position, embouchure, articulation, and intonation. There are sections on auditioning, on making and adjusting reeds, even on basic clarinet repair. And there are master classes on the Mozart and Nielsen concertos. This book is a treasure trove of information which will be useful to all clarinetists everywhere. And equally wonderful is the way it is written--for those not fortunate enough to have known Pete it is as though he is speaking directly to you. The prose throughout the book captures his warmth and spirit as a teacher and player.

While the title caught my eye, the subject captured my interest. The authors take you through a history of the Protestant church in America and talks about how the mainstays of reviaval, mourner's benches, campmeetings and more became part of American church life. An absolute must read for every Christian!

In this important work, Bruce Marshall has brought a robust Trinitarian way of thinking about truth and the justification of belief into the wider human discussion of truth and knowledge as it is currently being engaged by analytic philosophers. The author follows George Lindbeck (see "Nature of Doctrine") and attempts to answer the difficult questions that arose as a result of his presentation of a "post-liberal" approach to theological claims which is really more of a return to classical Christian approaches to theology, especially as synthesized by Thomas Aquinas.

Each year I pick the best book read that year. In 1946 I read 78 books--48 fiction and 30 non-fiction. This great book was the best one I read that year

The documentation provided was good, but the plates were a bit disappointing. I would have liked more detailed views, but this is a subject that is extremely difficult to pursue and often the information simply does not exist. The uniforms of this period were often gaudy and impractical, but oddly enough the Republic was able to buy the most up-to-date weapons and equipment. The image of the buckskin clad, fur capped backwoodsman is a myth when it comes to the Texas Republic. As time marches on, hopefully more information will surface. For students of this period, I would recommend this book.

Sir Bruce Marshall has provided a significant historical service to the followers of Texas, Texans and those who follow them with the publication of this tome of authenticity. Never before has there been available to historians a reference of the many impressive uniforms worn by the various military services of the nation of Texas. In the short ten year life of that republic, its admirable uniforms are only a representation of its many accomplishments before signing its treaty of annexation with the federal government. The fact that Marshall both edited and illustrated the book personally only adds to its impressiveness.

This book is pictorially and historically a masterpiece at depicting the uniforms of the Texas Republic even though it only existed as an independent nation for ten years. It helps us in the North to better understand the fraternity and even occasional superciliousness of Texans and why the Presidents Bush emulate and claim them. The pictures in this book are a treat to the eyes of those who enjoy the military history of other countries.

Part way through the book I found myself thinking, 'Gee, I hope they can save the Titanic'! Told mostly from first-hand accounts of survivors, this is an engrossing read, and Marshall pulls off a nice bit of imagery about the way the sea looked after the tragedy.

I own an original copy of this book from 1912 and have read it a number of times over the years. This is the book to read if you are looking for personal accounts of what happened aboard the Titanic. This book provides a fascinating account of the disaster through interviews conducted only weeks after the ship sunk. It's a tough book to put down.

I've read many of the books/articles containing the detailed historical accounts about the demise of the Titanic and I must say that holding this 76 year old book in my hands, reading the yellowed pages barely maintaining their binding, I feel closer to that catastrophe than any current day book or technical article has ever made me feel.

This is a thrilling account of one British officer's determination to survive and, even more, do everything possible to help win the war. The things this man experienced are almost incomprehensible, yet he endured it all with spirit and never let his fellow men down. It's one of the better-written post-war memoirs I've read, and one of the most enthralling.

When World War II began, Frederick Yeo-Thomas was running the Paris fashion house of Molyneux. At his age, he could have easily sat out the war, parachuting into occupied France as an agent of Britain's Special Operations Executive. He was one of Britain's most heroic secret agents, and played a major role in the growth of the French Resistance. He survived the war, but just barely.

Readers of Leo Marks' "Between Silk and Cyanide" will recognize Yeo-Thomas...he was a man for whom Marks had intense admiration.

The writing style of "White Rabbit" is craftsmanlike but not exceptional.

This book reads stranger than any fiction I can recall. The events that take place for this covert operator in WWII france will make a man doubt his own ability to confront adversity of a similar kind and to indure torture and a certain expectation of a gruesome death. An Iron will, indomitable spirit and some good fortune add up to the survival of a man who was a member of the greatest covert organization to ever exist in the free world. I personally know the son of one of the characters in the book and after talking to him about his fathers comments on The White Rabbit I can reassure you that as amazing as this story is, it is true.

I'm surprised this travesty is still in print. "Not in McLuhan's style" is a kind understatement; Powers demonstrates flagrant misunderstanding and confusion of basic McLuhanesque ideas. Try 'Laws of Media' or 'Understanding Electric Language' instead.

This book is for the McLuhan enthusiast who would like to figure out the ground on which McLuhan stands. It is chock full of McLuhan's ideas, but not presented in McLuhan's typical style. Published 9 years after McLuhan's death, it seems likely that co-author Bruce Powers assembled the material for publication.

If you are not already very familiar with McLuhan's thoughts and earlier writings, this book is not for you. If you are already very familiar with McLuhan's words, you won't find anything new, but you will find some of McLuhan's basic ideas amplified and extrapolated.

Essentially an essential book for the McLuhanite.

Powers says that this book is not about "final answers." By God he's right! And he proceeds to effloresce a wondrous garden wrought of the print medium brimming over with fresh probes, "osmic space," brains "astonied," the secret lives of "sense ratios," and other electrific, outsized insights and invitations into the futurepresent. One could readily argue and effectively so that "The Global Village..." is indeed a worthy extension of the medium of Professor McLuhan himself, ringing true and resonating orchestrally with the spirit and vivacity of that bright, iridescent, warm and radiant bulb which, tragically, went out suddenly and left us in darkness on New Year's Eve, 1980.

Feed forward 9 years. Powers'/McLuhan's "tetrad" is a mesmerizingly rich metaphor lending clarity and intensity to McLuhan's seminal 1964 probicon, "Understanding Media--The Extensions of Man." This "new" 1989 book is a MUST-read, a reverent continuance of McLuhan's oeuvre, a virtual channeling of his spirit, and in various ways easier to grasp perhaps, more accessible even, than the monumentally revolutionary/visionary UMTEOM.

The beauty of McLuhan and by protraction Dr. Bruce Powers here is that these men are not pedants but facilitators. Their goal, much like that of Carl Rogers or George B. Leonard or Joseph Campbell, is not to pound stuff into brainpans, but to gently yet insistently open up minds to possibilities, perils, challenges, potentialities and joys imperative in the present reality/"reelity?" or whatever one wishes to term the agardish within which each of us swims, breathes, eats, creates, dances, defecates, procreates and seethes.

If McLuhan is the sorcerer, Bruce Powers is his worthy apprentice, now successor. In fact he veritably invites all of us to be successors (McLuhanatics?), to become involved (the essential definition of "cool"). This book is exciting, invigorating, pulsating, intensely involving and above all, highly rewarding. We need more extensions of McLuhan like this one. This is a superb nonbook, a hybrid medium, and a seamless read. TGV will get your probing juices flowing. It's as revitalizing as pure MDMA (as far as "the mdma is the message" goes). Buy this deceptively modest paperback, and step into it like a hot bath.