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Written in a lively, non-technical style, On the Art of Singing is a comprehensive manual that deals with all aspects of singing, from the physiology and acoustics of the singing voice to career-building....

First published in 1869,    Culture and Anarchy debates questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold asks what good culture can do and how it can best be disseminated. This edition reproduces the first book version and enables readers to appreciate its historical context and its continued importance....

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction.  As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual...

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which was unknown to the Western world        until its first publication in 1954, speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path,        or Mahayana, and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such        attainment can happen, as shown here, by means of knowing the One Mind, the...

A Concise GuideWhat was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions, offering an entertaining guide for both novice listeners and...