This well-balanced introduction to the tradition-rich world of jazz offers something for everyone from the beginner to the more experienced musician or listener. Now complete with an audio CD with samples from key works to enhance the listening experience, this new edition looks at the origins and development of jazz and gives insight into its musical structures and the ways in which it is played. It also covers important practitioners and bands and provides readers with extensive advice on starting their own collections of recorded jazz.

Teach Yourself Jazz

Arts & Photography

Dale, Rodney

Music

McGraw=Hill

Machines in the Home (Discoveries and Inventions)

Machines in the Home describes the development of domestic technology--heating and lighting, cooking, laundry, carpet sweeping, the modern bathroom, and assorted gadgetry.

Children's Books

Weaver, Rebecca

Science, Nature & How It Works

Oxford University Press

The Industrial Revolution (Discoveries and Inventions)

What did developments in the harnessing of power (wind, water, steam) and methods of transport (canals, roads, railroads) do for the average family? Here's the story of how nothing was ever the same after the amazing advances of the industrial age.

Dale, Henry

Timekeeping describes changing ways of thinking about time, the emergence of the calendar, and the quest for a more accurate means of measuring the minutest fractions of a second.

Timekeeping (Discoveries and Inventions)

Teen & Young Adult

Discusses the development of domestic technology--heating and lighting, cooking, laundry, the modern bathroom, carpet sweeping, and assorted gadgetry

Science & Math

Technology

Examines the industrial revolution, discussing how developments in the harnessing of power and methods of transportation changed the way we work and play

History

Describes the changing ways of thinking about time, the emergence of the calendar, and the quest for a more accurate means of measuring time

From the early typewriter to the word processor, from Bell's first telephone to the fax machine--how our lives in the workplace have changed.

Machines in the Office (Discoveries and Inventions)

Americas

How did the invention of the first "horseless carriages" come about? How were they transformed into what we would recognize as a motor car? How were the vital components developed and how have they been refined over the years? Histories of the early motor car are often concerned with the finished product rather than the parts that made it up. In this fascinating survey, Rodney Dale looks in detail at the development of the engine - including ignition, carburator, and lubrication - and the chassis - including steering, brakes and transmission. Illustrations are drawn from a wide range of patents, newspapers, advertisements and illustrations from contemporary sources. Some of the peripheral effects of early cars are also dealt with: the development of the road system to cope with increased loads, speed and use; the response of the legal authorities to some of the new issues which motor transport raised; the growth of the major automobile organizations; and a way of life increasingly governed by the ready accessibility of road transport.

Early Cars (Discoveries and Inventions)

Early Railways (Discoveries and Inventions)

Railroads are more than trains and tracks. Here's the story of the invention and development of the railroad, plus the intricacies of timetabling, the first tickets, railway architecture and much more.

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Teach Yourself Jazz

Machines in the Home (Discoveries and Inventions)

The Industrial Revolution (Discoveries and Inventions)

Timekeeping (Discoveries and Inventions)

Machines in the Home (Discoveries and Inventions)

The Industrial Revolution (Discoveries and Inventions)

Timekeeping (Discoveries and Inventions)

Machines in the Office (Discoveries and Inventions)

Early Cars (Discoveries and Inventions)

Early Railways (Discoveries and Inventions)