The Nutcracker

The NutcrackerTchaikovsky's enchanting Christmas fairy tale is his most popular work and, along with Swan Lake, the world's most frequently performed ballet. The work is a masterpiece of orchestration (including the historic first use of the celesta, in Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) and is essential study for students of orchestral combinations and effects. Musicians will rejoice that previously difficult to find favorites like Waltz of the Snowflakes and Spanish

books on english idioms

Thirty Years that Shook Physics offers both scientists and laymen a highly readable introduction to the brilliant conceptions that helped unlock many secrets of energy and matter and laid the groundwork for future discoveries

translator Stanley Appelbaum has provided an informative introduction and a commentary on each poem

precalculus

Model T Fords and Hollywood movie stars

elderly former slaves recall what it was like to wake before sunrise and work until dark

1819 second edition

books on knitting charts

wheel and axle

workhouses

This Dover edition includes fully 100 photographs

fine shape