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Jazz Mosaic brings the joy of jazz music into your classroom every day through a variety of age-appropriate, play-centered lessons that can be easily integrated into your existing curriculum. Students will learn about jazz greats, styles, and history through activities and cross-curricular connections that are creative and engaging. Easy to teach, the music lessons are appropriate for children in pre-school through third grade. The accompanyin...

This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles, rose to become Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then created other No. 1 hits , including Barenaked Ladies' "One Week, " as one of the most successful female record producers of all time. Now an award-...

Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.'One of the greatest listeners and feelers of music [who] has once again inspired me as a listener and musician' Steven Page, Barenaked Ladies'Extraordinary insights about music, emotion, and the brain... An instant classic' Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized MindThis Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music. It's also t...

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A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favourite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits as one of the most successful female ...

A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favourite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits as one of the most successful female ...

When you listen to music, do you prefer lyrics or melody? Intricate harmonies or driving rhythm? The "real" sounds of acoustic instruments or those of computerized synthesizers? Drawing from her successful career as a music producer (engineering hits like Prince's "Purple Rain"), professor of cognitive neuroscience Susan Rogers reveals why your favorite songs move you. She explains that we each possess a unique "listener profile" based on our ...

The thrill of quiet adventure. The constant hope of discovery. The reminder that the world is filled with wonder. When I bird, life is bigger, more vibrant." That is why Susan Fox Rogers is a birder. Learning the Birds is the story of how encounters with birds recharged her adventurous spirit.  When the birds first called, Rogers was in a slack season of her life. The woods and rivers that enthralled her younger self had lost some of their lus...

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In this dazzling literary collection, writers explore and celebrate their lives with and love for birds?detailing experiences from Alaska to Bermuda, South Dakota to Panama. In When Birds are Near, fresh new voices as well as seasoned authors offer tales of perseverance, adventure, and fun, whether taking us on a journey down Highway 1 to see a rare Condor, fighting the destruction of our grasslands, or simply watching the feeder from a kitche...

This third book in the Travelling Solo series, not only covers a single week in The Gambia, but reflections on previous visits. In the first book, Vietnam: Journey of Unexpected Delights, the author, who thought she was joining a tour group, unintentionally found that she was travelling solo. What could have been a lonely and stressful holiday, turned out to be a magical experience, such that she has specifically chosen to travel solo ever sin...

This is the second book in the Travelling Solo series covering a fascinating journey to parts of Argentina and Brazil, including vibrant Buenos Aires, stunning Iguazu Falls, magnificent Patagonian glaciers and the captivating Amazon Jungle. In the first book, Vietnam: Journey of Unexpected Delights, the author, who thought she was joining a tour group, unintentionally found that she was travelling solo. What could have been a lonely and stress...

What would you do if you were travelling alone believing that you were joining a tour group for a holiday, only to find that you are the only person in the group? What turned out to be very different holiday from that expected, is shared with warmth and humour.This delightful travelogue in its easy to read style, will not only inspire you to travel solo, but absorb you into the culture and experience of Vietnam.Susan has the rare ability to dr...

Most people during their lifetime experience some contact with the spirit world. Their reactions can vary from laughing off such nonsense as coincidence to praying for the demon to leave them alone. But what would you do if a ghost wanted to be your friend? In this, the authors first book dealing with the spirit realm, she relates the true story of Norman, a ghost who has returned to become her spirit guide, protector, and friend. The story fo...

This workbook aims to help teens and adults develop their vocabulary through reading passages written at an appropriate level. The workbooks are organized around four themes: health, wildlife, the environment, and popular culture. Each lesson presents a non-fiction passage that relates to one of the four themes and a set of activities. The workbook activities can be completed independently, with a tutor, or with a group. Repetition is essentia...

Vocabulary Boosters 3 aims to help teens and adults develop their vocabulary through reading passages written at an appropriate level. The workbook is organized around four themes: health, wildlife, the environment, and popular culture. Each lesson presents a non-fiction passage and a set of activities that relate to one of the four themes. The workbook activities can be completed independently, with a tutor, or with a group. Because repetitio...

This workbook aims to help teens and adults develop their vocabulary through reading passages written at an appropriate level. The workbooks are organized around four themes: health, wildlife, the environment, and popular culture. Each lesson presents a non-fiction passage that relates to one of the four themes and a set of activities. The workbook activities can be completed independently, with a tutor, or with a group. Repetition is essentia...

Antarctica's legend as a fascinating, forbidding place is confirmed and expanded in these insider articles. Covering everything from "Happy Camper School” to washing dishes to what it's like to fall in love in a place where the sun never goes down (or never comes up), these articles limn a world of colorful characters (human and otherwise) and breathtaking backdrops. The humor runs high here in work by Karen Joyce, who recounts an odd afternoo...

In this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of her kayak. Years of dipping her paddle into the waters off the village of Tivoli made the river her own: her reach.

Gifts is a vibrant and much needed book in today's society. At a time when people across our nation, who have found a relationship with God and want to serve Him, it is so important that we find our place in the body of Christ as revealed through the personality of God, His Holy Spirit.This book will take you on a grand biblical journey of God's gifts of grace and their motivational implications. It will also help you realize that God's Holy S...