The Tangent. The Music That Died Alone

“The Classical Music Book” позволит вам узнать о величайших классических произведениях мира и музыкальных традициях • Эта книга входит в увлекательную серию “Big Ideas”, объясняющую сложные темы простыми словами. Это всеобъемлющее руководство рассчитано как на новичков, стремящихся узнать что-то новое, так и на экспертов, желающих освежить свои знания! “The Classical Music Book” предлагает читателям свежий и яркий взгляд на классическую музыку благодаря красивым иллюстрациям и понятным схемам • Благодаря этой книге вы сможете познакомиться с выдающимися композиторами и их произведениями • – Более 90 произведений известных композиторов, от раннего периода до наших дней • – Для объяснения основных концепций используются факты, схемы и графики • – Для объяснения обширных тем используются яркие и интересные иллюстрации • – Простой и понятный текст • От Моцарта до Мендельсона: “The Classical Music Book” отличается от прочих книг об истории музыки, представляя собой исчерпывающий путеводитель по истории классической музыки и биографиям выдающихся композиторов

The job of the skin is to keep things in… • On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless • Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable…monster*! • Where did it come from? How should the islanders deal with it? And what, most importantly, are they going to do with Dave? • The first book from a new leading light of UK comics, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is an off-beat fable worthy of Roald Dahl. It is about life, death and the meaning of beards • (*We mean a gigantic beard, basically.)

Артист: The Tangent, • Жанр: Rock, • Альбом: Auto Reconnaissance, • Формат носителя: LP

One hundred years on • On 18 July 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was unleashed by the Allied forces against an entrenched German army outside the town of Ypres. it was to be the opening salvo of one of the most ferociously fought and debilitating encounters of the First World War • Few battles would encapsulate the utter futility of the war better that what became known as the Battle of Passchendaele. By the time the British and Canadian forces finally captured Passchendaele village on 6 November, the Allies had suffered over 271,000 casualties and the German army over 217,000 • Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth shows how ordinary men on both sides endured this constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately felled

The fifth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing • Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo • Written in the 1960s, 10 books completed in 10 years, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo – a husband and wife team from Sweden. They follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction; without his creation Ian Rankin’s John Rebus or Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander may never have been conceived. The novels can be read separately, but are best read in chronological order, so the reader can follow the characters’ development and get drawn into the series as a whole

Packed with memorabilia and anecdotes from the Twisted Wheel in Manchester to the mighty Wigan Casino, The Story of Northern Soul is the definitive history of the Northern Soul scene • What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others. The Northern Soul scene has confounded its critics by surviving and growing into an adult dance phenomenon whose followers share a passion for the music of Black America unrivalled anywhere else in the world. The Story of Northern Soul takes the first ever in-depth look at the culture, the music, the artists and the people frequenting the all-night venues which are synonymous with the British Soul Scene