Katie Melua • Piece By Piece • Piano, Vocal and Guitar Songbook
Piece By Piece picks up where Calling Off The Search left off and shows Katie Melua maturing into a singer-songwriter destined for greater things. From a sultry, bluesy Shy Boy to Blues In The Night which shows off the dexterity of her voice. Even Katie's cover versions are expertly chosen, as witnessed by her take on The Cure's sublime Just Like Heaven. As anyone who has heard the first single from the album, Nine Million Bicycles, will testify, Piece By Piece is set to become at least as successful as her debut disc.
Capote's novel shows the promise of a future master; Campbell's interpretation shows the promise of a good reader. Campbell is better at narration than dialogue as her efforts to differentiate characters, especially males, are forced, and much of her reading is flat or breathy. But she handles some of Capote's best writing with a range and flare that bode well for future audios.
Kings and Vikings - Scandinavia and Europe A.D. 700 - 1100
Sawyer's book is an exploration using current research of what and who the vikings were. Far from the blood thirsty raiders of Bede and the chroniclers, or the peaceful traders of modern hopes, it shows the vikings to have mingled both activities.
The importance of Henry VII is the subject of heated debate. Did his reign mark the start of a new era, or was its prevailing characteristic continunity with the past? The pamphlet: · emphasizes the lasting political stability established during the reign · demonstrates the difference between Henry's policies and those of the Yorkists · shows how successors built on Henry's legacy · argues that victory at Bosworth in 1485 can be seen as initiating a genunine 'Tudor revolution in government'.
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the fear that always takes hold as new technology replaces the old. In fact, as Bilton shows, the digital era we are part of is, in all its creative and disruptive forms, the foundation for exciting and engaging experiences not only for business but society as well.
