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Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human... (more)
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Illusions
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar.... In ... (more)
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they'll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed.
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The Cello Suites
J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
by Eric Siblin
“This is one of the most extraordinary, clever, beautiful, and impeccably researched books I have read in years. A fascinating story deftly told—and, for me at least, ideally read with Bach’s thirty-six moevements playing softly in the background; a recipe for literary rapture.”—Simon Winchester, author of the New York Times best-seller The Professor and the Madman “The quest was part Homer but also part George... (more)
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The Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success
by James Bach
"A Buccaneer-Scholar is anyone whose love of learning is not muzzled or shackled by any institution or authority; whose mind is driven to wander and find its own place in the world." The volatility of the job market and the limitless opportunities afforded by the internet have forever changed people's attitudes about schooling. In this world of rapid technological development, people are becoming successful,... (more)
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There's No Such Place as Far Away
by Richard Bach
When she was about to turn five, a little girl named Rae Hansen invited Richard Bach to her birthday party. Though deserts, storms, mountains, and a thousand miles separated them, Rae was confident that her friend would appear. There's No Such Place As Far Away chronicles the exhilarating spiritual journey that delivered Rae's anxiously awaited guest to her side on that special day--and tells of the powerful and... (more)
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One
by Richard Bach
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
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Decima sinfonia
by Franco Scaglia
El mundo de la música clásica se revoluciona cuando el prestigioso director de orquesta Roland Thomas interpreta, en un concierto privado, la supuesta reconstrucción del primer movimiento de la mítica Décima Sinfonía de Beethoven. Uno de los invitados al acontecimiento, el joven musicólogo Daniel Paniagua, sospecha al escuchar una música tan sublime y le asaltan las dudas: ¿Y si la partitura original de la Décima... (more)
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The Bridge Across Forever
A True Love Story
by Richard Bach
More than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach's timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love "We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!" "The opposite of loneliness, it's not... (more)
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Flying: The Aviation Trilogy: Book 2
Biplane
by Richard Bach
In a sublime journey toward understanding time and space, Richard Bach takes flight through American skies in a 1929 biplane. Soaring from New Jersey to California, he learns to navigate by following railroads and highways, masters the dangers of thunderstorms, and tastes the exhilaration of flyingeet above the ground. Biplane describes a magnificent personal quest.
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The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (Standard Version)
by Joseph Machlis, Kristine Forney
With nearly three million copies sold over eight editions, The Enjoyment of Music is the best-selling music appreciation text of all time. Spanning the Middle Ages through the twenty-first century, the text offers a thorough introduction to the elements of music, a broad overview of the history of musical styles, and fascinating cultural contexts and perspectives. The Ninth Edition of this classic text features... (more)
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The New Bach Reader
by Christoph Wolff
Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide... (more)
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J. S. Bach (Vol 1)
by Hazel Lin
Independent of his international renown as a humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist--a reputation that rests largely upon this book, one of the great full-length studies of composer Johann Sebastian Bach's life and work. Schweitzer's J.S. BACH is among the definitive reference works on Bach and is high on the list of required reading for music students.
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Het woeden der gehele wereld: Roman
by Maarten 't Hart
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Eleven Great Cantatas
by Johann Sebastian Bach, Opera and Choral Scores
Among them: No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden," No. 21, "Ich hatte viel Bekümmerniss," No. 78, "Jesu, der du meine Seele," No. 80, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," and seven more in the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work
by Martin Geck
Two hundred and fifty years after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach remains one of the most compelling figures in the history of classical music. In this major study of the composer's life and work, Martin Geck follows the course of Bach's career in rich detail--from his humble beginnings as an organ tuner and self-taught court musician to his role as Kapellmeister and cantor of St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. Geck... (more)
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New Bach Flower Body Maps: Treatment by Topical Application
by Dietmar Kra?mer
Dietmar Kramer, one of Germany's most innovative practitioners of Bach Flower Therapy, has developed powerful new therapeutic applications that remain true to Edward Bach's wish for simplicity and ease of use. New Bach Flower Body Maps details Kramer's unique system of diagnosis, in which 242 areas of the body are correlated with each Bach Flower Remedy, and are mapped out in diagrams indicating the... (more)
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The Piano Teacher
by Elfriede Jelinek
The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of... (more)
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Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo
We've answered your requests and have added this newly re-engraved edition of the famous Bach Goldberg Variations to the popular Belwin Classic Library. This publication includes editorial markings by the well-known Bach expert Hans Bischoff, whose editions are often preferred by teachers and students. Also included are a preface listing source materials and Bischoff's table of Baroque embellishments. Our... (more)
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St. Matthew Passion in Full Score
by Johann Sebastian Bach, Opera and Choral Scores
Great choral masterpiece long considered the noblest, most inspired musical treatment of the crucifixion of Christ. Scored for a vast ensemble of double chorus, soloists, double orchestra and two organs; reprinted from the definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition.

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