Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker
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Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a...
Chasing Shadows: The Life and Death of Peter Roebuck
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Part biography, part personal reflection and part investigation, Chasing Shadows: The Life And Death...
Chopin's Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann
Gregor Benko and Edward Blickstein
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Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history's most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest...
Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan
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This book tells the story of one of the most individual jazz stylists of his time.Lee Morgan began...
Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece
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Regarded as ancient Greece's greatest orator, Demosthenes lived through and helped shape one of the...
Didier Drogba: From Tito to Drogba
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Didier Drogba. is best known for his career at Chelsea,whose supporters voted him the club's...
For the Fourth Generation
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For the Fourth Generation takes its title from a family memoir by Eva O'Malley written in 1954. In...
Friendships in Constant Repair: Perspectives on the Life of Stephen Oliver
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Stephen Oliver was quite simply, one of the most talented composers of his generation. His premature...
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America
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Now in paperback! A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild...