The 1996 Grand Prix season was a battle between three highly different personalities: Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve. This book gives an account of the season as it unfolded in episodes of increasing tension and unexpected developments.

Racers : The Acclaimed Story of the 1996 Grand Prix Season Richard Williams

Richard Williams

Sports & Outdoors

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Enzo Ferrari: A Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Yellow Jersey Press

Out of His Head (Abacus Books)

Arts & Photography

Music

SPHERE

'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions'. Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also, notoriously, the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous hours), there has been nothing like it since. Its atmosphere - slow, dark, meditative, luminous - became all-pervasive for a generation, and has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever since. Richard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music - identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing - while making effortless connections to painting, literature, philosophy and poetry. This makes for an elegant, graceful and beautifully-written narrative.

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

Faber Faber Ltd

A new addition to the Murphy series features the zany antics of troublemakers Roger Friday and Marsha Cessano, in a mixed-up and out-of-control adventure about real kids and real fun. Reprint.

Good Grief...Third Grade

Children's Books

Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic Paperbacks

Dylan

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

No popular entertainer has been more closely scrutinized than Bob Dylan. His garbage has been emptied, his lyrics computer-scanned, his daily wherabouts logged with an obsessive thoroughness worthy of J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. And still he is a mystery. Above all performers, Dylan showed his generation how to seize the licence they unanimously demanded: the right to express themselves. Before him, Elvis loosened the restrictions of class and race; then the Beatles and the Stones subverted the outmoded codes of domestic and public behaviour. But Dylan did more: his use of language liberated lyricists, moving them beyond Tin Pan Alley's teenagers-in-love themes, and his attitudes shaped the development of other performers who would themselves influence millions. It is usually said that Dylan has constantly re-invented himself. Only in such a way can his extraordinary changes of direction - such as the espousal of electric rock in 1965-66, the dive into Nashville balladry in 1969, the conversion to born-again Christianity in 1979 - be explained. So extreme, so demanding of both himself and his audience were these shifts that it seemed they could only be the produce of a kind of perverse cunning. However, according to him, his evolution has been natural, consistent, a series of logical responses to both inner growth and outside pressures. His story is now told within that frame of reference, establishing a more accurate interpretation of the relationship between Dylan's life and his art.

Dylan: A Man Called Alias

Arts & Literature

Book by Richard Williams, Editors of Time Life Books

The Loggers (Old West Time-Life Series)

EDITORS OF TIME/LIFE BOOKS

Business & Money

Time-Life-Books

If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake

Richard Williams Pat Grant Porter Ellen Levine

Pat Grant Porter

Perfection Learning

Herbie Jones and the Class Gift

Richard Williams Suzy Kline

Teen & Young Adult

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