A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for a year at university. Martin Luther King was 'reading the Bible...
Stolba offers a chronological presentation of the sweep of Western music and its composers, beginning with the music of antiquity and proceeding to the...
In this work the author guides the reader through five developments in the history of western music; starting with the invention of notation by an 11th...
This is a unique jazz reference book that covers jazz with much more range and depth than other jazz histories or reference books. Most of the major...
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter...
Alyn Shipton provides a comprehensive and entertaining account of jazz history, while challenging many of the assumptions and mythologies that have surrounded...