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(P/B) CUBA AND ITS MUSIC: FROM THE FIRST DRUMS TO THE MAMBO
A groundbreaking account of the history, influence, and importance of Cuban music This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making a case for Cuba as fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. Revealed are how the music of black slaves transformed 16t...
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(P/B) THE IRON HEEL
The Iron Heel appeared in 1908. By 1947, Philip Foner was calling it "probably the most amazingly prophetic work of the twentieth century." To us, looking backward from the closing decades of the century, this claim does not seem extravagant. For with every passing year, The Iron Heel now sems more timely, more vital. When Jack London wrote this novel in 1906, the Russian revolution of 1905 was being crushed by the Czar's army, secret police, and terrorist gangs. Few people anticipated that out of this terrible defeat would emerge the triu...
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(P/B) DANCING BAREFOOT
Dancing Barefoot is the full and true story of Patti Smith, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American artists of the rock 'n' roll era, a performer whose audience and appeal reach far beyond the parameters of rock. An acclaimed poet, a respected artist, and a figurehead for many liberal political causes, Patti Smith soared from an ugly-duckling childhood in postwar New Jersey to become queen of the New York arts scene in the 1970s. This book traces the brilliant trajectory of her career, including the fifteen reclusive ye...
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(P/B) THE HEMINGWAY COOKBOOK
Ernest Hemingway's insatiable appetite for life was evident in his writing and equaled by little else than his voracious appetite for good food and drink. The Hemingway Cookbook collects, for the first time, more than 125 recipes from Hemingway's life and art featuring such unique dishes as Dorado Fillet in Damn Good Sauce, Woodcock Flamb? in Armagnac, Campfire Apple Pie, and Fillet of Lion washed down with Campari and Gordon's Gin or a cool Cuba Libre. These pages are enriched by family photos, dining passages from stories such as A Movea...
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(P/B) ORGANIC CRAFTS
Parents, teachers, and caregivers looking for ideas on how to get children outdoors and instill in them a love of nature can find more than 75 creative crafts, games, and activities using objects that kids can collect from nature in this idea book. As children make race cars out of rocks, create paint from plants, and assemble funny grass masks, they learn to be environmentally friendly - absorbing information on recycling, reducing waste, and inspiring others to protect nature. Organized by the various natural materials needed, the crafts...
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(P/B) SHOW TIME!
Gotta dance! Gotta sing! Gotta do most anything because it's show time! In Show Time! kids will learn to become "triple threat" performers, developing their skills as singers, dancers, and actors through more than 80 activities that include imitating a musician or musical instrument, acting out a song, creating a mirror dance, making puppets and playbills, and more. Along the way, they'll learn about the history of musicals, discover musicals about history, and find out how to get it all together before the curtain goes up. Show Time! is p...
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(P/B) FUNNY BONES
Kids love to be funny! Every classroom or neighborhood has a kid whose greatest ambition is to make people laugh - and all kids love to laugh at the jokes and antics of their friends. Funny Bones is designed to bring out the humor in every kid. For those who already have a comic streak, it provides wonderful new material for routines and scenes. For shyer children, it boosts self-confidence and a sense of fun. The first few chapters tackle the idea of comedy and what makes it funny, introducing famous comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Lil...
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(P/B) SUNNY DAYS AND STARRY NIGHTS
Adults and preschoolers can discover the outside world together with this updated and newly illustrated edition of this popular nature activity book. Tailored to the abilities and interests of preschool children, this book contains 67 activities selected to enhance young children's creativity, observational skills, and understanding of the natural world. By examining insects and pebbles, discovering wind and sun, or observing the growth of seedlings, preschoolers will delight in the many ways the world comes alive. Using household items li...
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(P/B) ON STAGE
Kids will learn about theater with games and activities that cover basic theater vocabulary, puppetry and pantomime, sound effects, costumes, props, makeup, and more....
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(P/B) GREEN THUMBS
Summer time is growing time! Classroom time is growing time! Combine a joy of the upcoming summer, gardening, with these quick and simple, yet intriguing and enjoyable lessons in planting. Your students will grow from budding gardeners, discovering what it takes to make things grow, to experienced field-testers with fun activities that require only readily available materials. (from the publisher)...
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