A good collection of songs, but what makes this collection really shine are the arrangements. Non-standard, gorgeous chord sequences, rhythmic interest, but still reasonably easy to play. And fun to sing along with.My favorite songbook for sight-reading practice.

This was the book that I used to get my Novice amateur radio license. It contains all of the theory and regulations that you will see on the exam, inlcuding radio wave propagation, electrical principles, radio theory, block diagrams, and so forth. One month of study using "Tune In The World" will get you your novice ticket. This is not only the best book to start with, it should be your only book to start with!

I have an old paperback of this book, first published in the '70s (?). In addition to being an informative look at radio broadcasting during the golden age, focusing especially on the soaps but also on such dramatic anthologies as Mr First Nighter, it is also quite hilarious. Ms. Higby's inside knowledge as a radio actress includes many uproarious anecdotes. Written in a light, breezy style, it is sure to entertain even those with little interest in old-time radio. Very enjoyable.

If you're a fan of soap operas, and communication about them on the internet, this is the BOOK for you! Ms. Baym's book is filled with insightful and thought-provoking information on a group of individuals in a newsgroup on the internet who all came together to discuss the good and bad of their favorite soap opera(s). And along the way, found a community of friends they never thought possible. In her long and dedicated research, Ms. Baym delves into the communication she discovered, both verbal and nonverbal of a group of people, many women, but also men, and discovers much more about them than what appears on the surface. Her conclusions are quite intriguing! She finds the common bonds between them and shows how they are not only gifted and talented individuals, but how they are able to personify themselves through they're words, acts and deeds. She also talks at length about the changes over the years and gives factual evidence as the internet became larger. The growth is written into her story. It is a fun-filled odyssey into one group of people brought together with one common bond from all walks of life, from locations all over the world and it is quite a fascinating journey. Don't waste any time - get this book!

Brava Nancy Baym!

This is a beautiful story about a little girl, Annie Jo, who lives among a family of birds while she is temporarily separated from her own parents. A very poetic book accompanied by lovely illustrations. It's a perfect story to read on a warm summer's night just before you go to sleep.

It is a constant source of mystery to me why the publishers of out-of-print MHL books don't reprint them immediately. It's not as though they can argue that there's not a big market for them. HarperCollins, do the reading public (and your own profit margin) a favor: REISSUE THIS BOOK!!!

If you enjoy historical fiction and are interested in British military campaigns in Africa than this is a "must have" addition to your library. Historically accurate, with well-developed characters and richly described action, you will enjoy this story that traces the conflict through the eyes of four men - three Anglo and one Zulu. Through their experiences, culminating in the battle at Insandhlwana, you will gain valuable insight into British colonial history and the the circumstances of this campaign.

I checked out this book because I was mentioned in a footnote and wanted to know what she said about ME. It turns out that she not only summarized my work well but took an incredibly clear and interesting sweep across the field of music/brain research. It actually works as the utilitarian self-help book but also is an astonishingly useful guide to opening specialized personal inquiries in musical psychology. It's like a survey course you can actually use in real life. I know this stuff, but I'm actually trying it her way and it helps! I wish there were a money book this good so I could get rich--for now I'll have to settle for getting saner and happier. One step at a time, eh?

I recently bought & re-read this book (at the age of 37) for the first time in 25 years. It holds up amazingly. An astounding tale of a female Holden Caulfield, a lovable outcast who pursues her anemic English teacher with a sincere, wholehearted, doomed obsession. The story's backdrop is fascinating as well - New York City in the mid-60s, hippie sensibilities beginning to show in the town but her own family mired in snooty Republican affluence. JF McAllister's parents are NOT proud of their androgynous, strong-minded, free-spirited daughter. But boy, they should be. This is a memorable, delightful, hilarious, agonizingly poignant book.

Few conductors have excited such derision as Malcolm Sargent. Even in his lifetime, 'Flash Harry' - the sobriquet by which he was best known- seemed to attract as much attention for his impeccable grooming and his sexual prowess as he did for his enduring musicianship and much begrudged success as a conductor. Sargent's abiding image, reproduced on the jacket of this brilliant new biography, was that of a Promenade King: the genial monarch who presided over the Albert Hall for almost twenty years in a vivid show of British musical jingoism. One of the prevailing merits of this book is that it disabuses the history of British music of this faulty image and restores perspective to Sargent and his vital role in English musical life.

Richard Aldous has written a compelling biography which echoes in its nimble prose Sargent's own demeanour as a conductor. Aldous has travailed in the archives ( these notably include Sargent's own papers and major collections at the BBC, EMI and the Public Record Office) to recover the details of the conductor's extraordinary private and public lives, but he wears this learning lightly. The result is a book which is gracefully written but which nevertheless focuses squarely on Sargent's significance as an icon of British cultural history.

Sargent's private life was one marked by intense sadness. The death of his daughter Pamela in 1944, a difficult and finally estranged relationship with his wife and a similarly strained relationship with his son, Peter (who discussed his father at length with the author of this book) are hauntingly counterpointed by Aldous against the glittering prizes of Sargent's professional career. At another remove, the sometimes hilarious chronicle of sex-and-shopping stories (without much shopping) threaded throughout the narrative features a cast of characters straight from Evelyn Waugh. The index boasts, among others, Diana Bowes-Lyon, Lady Mary de Zulueta, Sidonie Goossens, Marina, Princess of Greece and Denmark and Edwina Mountbatten. Nevertheless, as Aldous succinctly remarks, Sargent 'enjoyed a love life that was physically active but emotionally stagnant.' Lady de Zulueta (his assistant in the 1950s) describes Sargent's frenetic socialising as 'an anaesthetic for having no happy home of his own.'

It is the public figure, however, that merits this striking retrieval of a lonely life. The crowning achievement of this book is that it first recovers the reach of Sargent's musicianship (notably by comparison with Thomas Beecham, who comes off rather badly here) not only in terms of Sargent's renowned abilities as a choral and orchestral conductor of enormous drive and popularity, but also with regard to his special relationship with contemporary composers including Walton and Sibelius. Aldous then redeems Sargent from his tired reputation as a prom idol and looks instead to his role in moving serious music to the centre of British public life. In this respect, chapter eight of this biography, subtitled 'The Baton and the Blitz' is exemplary. Aldous shows how Sargent, especially through his performances of The Dream of Gerontius rallied English public morale at a time when bombs rained down on London. The war years - but not only these- show Sargent at his best in this biography, because the conductor's vital instinct for showmanship found a worthy purpose. What Aldous describes as 'the mid-century transition to mass culture' - a process which animated Sargent's career and then blighted it in retrospect - gained sharp, new meaning in the crisis of war.
Tunes of Glory is a decisive contribution to British cultural history. It has already begun to attract the kind of controversy that its subject did during his lifetime, but that fact testifies to its significance.

Tunes of Glory has stood up well over the years. Perhaps no other Scots literary work since the war has explored in such depth the issue of Scots identity and the relationship of Scotsman to hearth, home, and Great Britain. The duty of military service in a society still dependent upon class, ritual, and an overmasculinized sense of obligation, sets the stage for conflict between two visions of Scotland, two visions of Britain, and two senses of the fading empire. It was faithfully made into a stunning film with Alec Guinness, John Mills, and Gordon Jackson.