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The Craft of Piano Playing
Scarecrow Press 2003; US$ 46.99Presenting a new, comprehensive and highly original approach to piano technique with a fascinating series of exercises to help the reader put this approach into practice, this guide uses numerous musical examples and sketches to show how many common movement habits at the keyboard are counterproductive. Fraser provides a new way of manipulating the... more...
Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis
Scarecrow Press 2013; US$ 94.99In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II , historian Kevin A. Mahoney provides a detailed combat history of the crucial role played by this air force from November 1943 through May 1945. Presented by month in chronological order, Mahoney describes all the major bombing and fighter missions carried... more...
The Basketball Draft Fact Book
Scarecrow Press 2013; US$ 119.99On June 2 nd , 1947, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL) held the first college basketball draft in the history of the sport. The two leagues selected a combined 100 college seniors, including future Hall of Famers Harry Gallatin, Andy Phillips, and Jim Pollard. Since then, over 9,000 draft choices... more...
The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot
Scarecrow Press 2013; US$ 44.99The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story recounts the story of President Abraham Lincoln?s role in the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864. This engagement stands apart in American history as the only time a sitting American president came under enemy fire while in office. In this new study of this overlooked moment in American... more...
Baseball's Most Notorious Personalities
Scarecrow Press 2013; US$ 44.99Of the 17,000-plus players who have donned major league uniforms over the years, not all were particularly nice or ethical. In fact, the actions of a handful were so heinous, they left an indelible mark on the sport. In Baseball?s Most Notorious Personalities: A Gallery of Rogues, Jonathan Weeks thoroughly examines this dark side of our National... more...
Sports Fans 2.0
Scarecrow Press 2013; US$ 64.99As of 2012, Twitter has over 100 million active users worldwide, generating close to 230 million Tweets per day. Encouraged by sports shows that incorporate social media as a major component of their programming strategies, sports fans and athletes have proven to be some of the most prolific and adept users of Twitter and other social media platforms.... more...
The A to Z of the Reagan-Bush Era
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99The Reagan-Bush era witnessed some of the most dramatic events of the latter half of the 20th century: the collapse of the Soviet Union, a presidential assassination attempt, political scandal, a stock market crash, military invasions, and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. The A to Z of the Reagan-Bush Era relates these events and provides... more...
The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 189.99The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders is a comprehensive bibliography of books, pamphlets, chapters in books, periodical articles, manuscripts, microforms, and tape recordings dealing with the Movement and its influence on art, literature, and music, as well as theology; authors include scholars in these fields, as well as the fields of history,... more...
Historical Dictionary of Husserl's Philosophy
Scarecrow Press 2007; US$ 89.99Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is widely regarded as the founding figure of the philosophical movement of 'phenomenology.' Husserl's philosophical program was both embraced and rejected by many, but in either case, his ideas set the stage for and exercised an enormous influence on the development of much of the philosophy that followed. In particular,... more...
The A to Z of the Broadway Musical
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99Since the latter part of the 19th century, the Broadway musical has remained one of the most popular genres in entertainment and its history is related in detail in The A to Z of the Broadway Musical. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 900 dictionary entries on Broadway shows, playwrights, directors, producers, designers,... more...









