The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's thriller allegory of a medical experiment gone wrong and dual personalities, one the essence of good, the other the essence of evil, fighting for supremacy in one man. Filled with suspense the book has had such an impact in popular culture that the expression "Jekyll and Hyde" has itself become synonymous with extremes of or inconsistent behavior.

"John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, the band had feared...

"In this . . . resource, readers will learn about the craft of fiction. Simple explanations describe many of the most common types of fiction, as well as the parts that make it up. Age-appropriate examples and authors help explain the various elements and types of fiction"--Amazon.

Nine Disney standards arranged for beginning piano students to enjoy, including: Alice in Wonderland * Best of Friends * Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) * Heigh-Ho * Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) * Little April Shower * Some Day My Prince Will Come * Whistle While You Work * You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!.

Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and performances-short films, TV series, advertisements, music videos, and media appearances-in the fabric of popular culture. The book's thesis is that Waititi's playful comic style draws on an ironic reading...

A visual journey though decades of Def Leppard history from one of rock's most legendary photographers-includes commentary from the band. Def Leppard's unstoppable hard rock anthems have sold tens of millions of albums worldwide and won the band a legion of dedicated fans. This fully authorized visual history follows them from the new wave of British heavy metal to their massive Pyromania and Hysteria albums to the sustained power of their records...

The first book in the English language on the history of baroque music does not need either apology or justification. Histories of music have been written usually as quick surveys of the entire field and if they specialize at all they concentrate as a rule on a single composer. It is a strange though incontestable fact that by far the great majority of music books deal with composers rather than their music. This attitude is a survival of the hero-worship...

This winning collection falls easily under the hands, yet preserves the spirit and expressive harmonies of the originals. Includes: Beauty and the Beast * Circle of Life * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * I'm Late * Little April Shower * A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme) * You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! * You'll Be in My Heart.

Every fan of the Universal Horror films of the 1930s knows that James Whale directed four of the best of those films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). But do they know he served as a Second Lieutenant in the British Army on the Western Front in the First World War, going to France in July 1916 and serving in the trenches? Do they know the details of his service? Do they know...

Colm Tóibín on Joni Mitchell • James Wood on The Who • Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush • Daniel Handler on Eurythmics • Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders • Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of their lives. In Heavy Rotation, twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' Queen Is Dead transformed him into an...