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Vendor: Julia Amisano
Music Theory Grade 1
Do you remember how quickly those music books from your childhood, got complicated and difficult to follow? As New York professional music teacher Michael Miller says, "As a Musician and Instructor, I have found that music theory books tend to be cumbersome and complicated...- $12.99
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Vendor: James Jeans
Science & Music
Originally published in the 1930s. A fascinating book describing the main outlines of such parts of science, both old and new, as are specially related to the questions and problems of music. It conveys such information in a simple non-technical manner making the subject...- $36.99
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Vendor: Dee Hansen
The Music and Literacy Connection
The second edition of The Music and Literacy Connection expands our understanding of the links between reading and music by examining those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for music learning and language arts literacy in the pre-K, elementary, and secondary levels.Author:...- $114.00
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Vendor: Rob Silver
The Bebop Dorian Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This guide maps out BEBOP DORIAN and its Modes, including BEBOP DORIAN, PHRYGIAN add 6, LYDIAN add b6, MIXOLYDIAN ADD b5, AEOLIAN ADD 3, LOCRIAN ADD 2, IONIAN ADD b2 and SUPER LOCRIAN ADD 7 for you on 6 string guitar in standard tuning.Each...- $11.99
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The Bebop Dominant Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This guide maps out THE BEBOP DOMINANT SCALE and its Modes, including: THE BEBOP DOMINANT SCALE, AEOLIAN ADD 6/DORIAN ADD b6, PHRYGIAN ADD b5/LOCRIAN ADD 5, IONIAN ADD b5, MIXOLYDIAN ADD b3/DORIAN ADD 3, AEOLIAN ADD b2/PHRYGIAN ADD 2, LYDIAN add b2 and LOCRIAN...- $10.99
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Vendor: Rob Silver
The Eight Tone Spanish Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This guide maps out THE EIGHT TONE SPANISH SCALE and its Modes, including: THE EIGHT TONE SPANISH SCALE, IONIAN ADD b3, DORIAN ADD b2, LYDIAN AUGMENTED ADD b2, PHRYGIAN ADD 7, LYDIAN ADD b7, MIXOLYDIAN ADD b6 and AEOLIAN ADD b5 for you on...- $11.99
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The Hungarian or Gypsy Minor Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This book maps out THE HUNGARIAN MINOR SCALE, also known as the GYPSY MINOR SCALE or the DOUBLE HARMONIC MINOR SCALE and its Modes, including: THE HUNGARIAN MINOR SCALE, THE ORIENTAL SCALE, IONIAN AUGMENTED #2, LOCRIAN bb3 bb7, DOUBLE HARMONIC, LYDIAN #6 #2, ALTERED...- $9.99
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Vendor: Rob Silver
The Melodic Minor Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This guide maps out THE MELODIC MINOR SCALE and its Modes, including: THE MELODIC MINOR SCALE, DORIAN b2, LYDIAN AUGMENTED, LYDIAN DOMINANT/LYDIAN b7, THE HINDU SCALE, LOCRIAN NATURAL 2 and SUPER LOCRIAN for you on 6 string guitar in standard tuning. Each scale or...- $10.99
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Vendor: Rob Silver
The Harmonic Minor Scale and its Modes for Guitar
This guide maps out the Harmonic Minor Scale and its Modes, including: THE HARMONIC MINOR SCALE, LOCRIAN NATRAL 6, IONIAN #5, DORIAN #4, DOMINANT or SPANISH PHRYGIAN, LYDIAN #2 and ALTERED bb7 for you on 6 string guitar in standard tuning.Each scale or mode...- $9.99
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Vendor: Amy Hite
Music Note Story Speller Series: Sea Creatures (Bass and Treble Clef Notes)
Sea Creatures is part of the Music Note Story Speller Series collection. This series is designed to help music students enjoy learning to read their notes. It is often helpful to take the music away from the instrument and practice note reading on its...- $9.99
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Vendor: Kunio Hara
Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. A crucial step in the two artists' collaboration was the creation of the album,...- $22.95
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Vendor: Paul C. Jasen
Low End Theory: Bass, Bodies and the Materiality of Sonic Experience
Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories, organ workshops, burial mounds, sound art, studios, dancefloors, infrasonic anomalies,...- $51.95
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Vendor: Rose Bridges
Yoko Kanno's Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
Cowboy Bebop is one of the most beloved anime series of all time, and if you ask its fans why, you can expect to hear about its music. Composer Yoko Kanno created an eclectic blend of jazz, rock, lullabies, folk and funk (to list...- $90.00
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Vendor: Amy Hite
Music Note Story Speller: African Safari Animals (Treble Clef Notes)
African Safari Animals is part of the Music Note Story Speller Series collection. This series is designed to help music students enjoy learning to read their notes. It is often helpful to take the music away from the instrument and practice note reading on...- $9.99
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Vendor: Brent Coppenbarger
Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician
Rhythms, melodies, and harmonies are the building blocks of music. In Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician, Brent Coppenbarger offers a full range of methods to help musicians, not only grasp, but remember those key elements upon which the music they...- $52.00
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Vendor: Michael Goddard
Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music
Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones...- $37.95
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Vendor: George Heussenstamm
Hal Leonard Harmony & Theory - Part 1: Diatonic
(Music Instruction). George Heussenstamm, composer of more than 85 published works and author of The Norton Manual of Music Notation, taught college-level theory for several decades. Unable to find what he considered a suitable text, he wrote his own, honing it through practical classroom...- $29.99
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Vendor: Richy Roy
Secrets of a Wedding DJ: Theories on Song Selections and Playlists
Secrets of a Wedding DJ teaches you a brand new way to approach DJing weddings. This is the first book to specifically dissect an entire reception and tell you exactly what songs should be played and why. DJ Richy Roy has performed for hundreds...- $8.98
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Vendor: Anupama Pattabiraman
Thinking Musically
In a world full of discord and disharmony, everyone agrees that music basically rocks. But few of us know the why, the how or the what of music: why certain songs sound inherently sad, how singers and musicians find a harmony or improvise in...- $14.99
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Vendor: Luke Zecchin
Lead Guitar Breakthrough: Fretboard Navigation, Theory & Technique (Book + Online Bonus)
THE FIRST STEP TO PLAYING LIKE A PRO IS THINKING LIKE ONE. Guitar players frequently face the same roadblocks in their playing. Many feel stunted creatively, stuck playing the same old things, and unsure how to move forward. These issues are caused by some...- $11.99
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Vendor: David Barrett
Elementary Music Theory for Orthodox Liturgical Singing
This is a textbook on elementary music theory that uses the hymnology of the Orthodox Church as examples to allow the singer to simultaneously learn to read music while learning the hymnology itself. Most chapters cover this aspect of music reading and, additionally, there...- $25.00
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Vendor: Maureen Cox
Harmony Is Fun in a Nutshell
In HARMONY IS FUN IN A NUTSHELL, her latest book on harmony at the keyboard, MAUREEN COX, guides you in a step-by-step, easy way to master the following topics: tonic, dominant and subdominant chords supertonic, mediant and submediant chords chords in root position, first...- $9.95
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Prep 2 Rudiments Ultimate Music Theory Answer Book: Prep 2 Rudiments Ultimate Music Theory Answer Book (identical to the Prep 2 Theory Workbook), Save
The Prep 2 Music Theory Rudiments Answer Book (Ultimate Music Theory) is easy to use and is identical to the Prep 2 Rudiments Music Theory Workbook.The Ultimate Music Theory Prep 2 Rudiments Answer Book features these concepts and more!Ultimate Music Theory's time-saving accelerated learning...- $34.97
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Vendor: Glory St Germain
Prep 2 Rudiments Ultimate Music Theory: Prep 2 Rudiments Ultimate Music Theory Workbook includes the UMT Guide & Chart, 12 Step-by-Step Lessons & 12 R
The Prep 2 Rudiments Workbook by Ultimate Music Theory is an impressive workbook with 12 Lessons, Review Tests, Guide & Chart plus 80 Downloadable Flashcards.The Ultimate Music Theory Prep 2 Rudiments Workbook (124 pages) features these concepts and more PITCH - Grand Staff, Landmarks,...- $34.97
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Vendor: Taura Eruera
Rhythm Book 102: Eighth Note Rhythm Patterns
Who is this rhythm book for? This book is for you--the struggling musician or the frustrated rhythm teacher. This rhythm music book is for you--the struggling musician, determined to confidently play, eighth note, rhythm patterns, by ear or sight, on your melodic or harmonic...- $12.69
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Vendor: Don Latarski
Practical Theory for Guitar: A Player's Guide to Essential Music Theory in Words, Music, Tablature, and Sound, Book & Online Audio [With CD]
A guitar player's guide to music theory. This book is a complete theory course with recorded examples that put everything in an applicable, musical context. The recording includes all the musical examples and play-along tracks.Author: Don LatarskiISBN-10: 0898986923ISBN-13: 9780898986921Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1993Pages: 160Format:...- $30.99
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Vendor: Nina Sun Eidsheim
The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music
In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre-the...- $102.95
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Vendor: Nina Sun Eidsheim
Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses...- $27.95
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Vendor: Matthew Santa
Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music
Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Period Music is the first book to present a comprehensive course text on advanced analysis of rhythm and meter. This book brings together the insights of recent scholarship on rhythm and meter in...- $59.95
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Vendor: Roger Hickman
Mikl Rsa's Ben-Hur: A Film Score Guide
In this book, Roger Hickman focuses on the confluence of traditions, trends, and innovations that shaped one of film's greatest scores.Author: Roger HickmanISBN-10: 0810881004ISBN-13: 9780810881006Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2011Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d- $53.00
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Vendor: Henry Stobart
The New (Ethno)Musicologies
This collection of essays addresses and critically examines key issues in contemporary ethnomusicology. Set in two parts, the volume explores ethnomusicology's shifting disciplinary relationships and plots a range of potential developments for its future.Author: Henry StobartISBN-10: 0810861011ISBN-13: 9780810861015Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2008Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight:...- $77.00
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Vendor: Miguel Mera
Mychael Danna's The Ice Storm: A Film Score Guide
This book studies the music and sound in Ang Lee's film The Ice Storm, providing a unique insight into the collaborative processes that influenced the development and evolution of the score, and illustrating how the politics of filmmaking interacts with creativity.Author: Miguel MeraISBN-10: 0810859416ISBN-13:...- $55.00
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Vendor: Ben Winters
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide
Winner of the Academy Award for best dramatic score in 1938, the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood is seen by many as the archetypal accompaniment to a Warner Brothers swashbuckler, and it established the score's composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, as one of...- $55.00
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Vendor: Henry Martin
Counterpoint: A Species Approach Based on Schenker's Counterpoint
Counterpoint helps music theory and music composition students improve their musicianship by examining the voice leading that underlies Western tonal music. It proceeds by developing species counterpoint in the tradition of Johann Joseph Fux and his famous Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), but with attention...- $52.00
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Vendor: Martin Boykan
Silence and Slow Time: Studies in Musical Narrative
This book proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of playing or listening during a real performance. 'Narrative, ' in this context, refers to the rhythm of a piece and the way it shapes the succession of events,...- $103.00
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Vendor: Susan Bernstein
Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire
A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the nineteenth century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing upon an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Reading Romantic reactions to music together with linguistic...- $32.00
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Vendor: Peter Kivy
Music Alone
What makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener finds attractive and rewarding? In addressing these questions, Peter Kivy continues his highly regarded exploration of the philosophy of musical aesthetics. He considers here what he believes to...- $56.95
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Vendor: Various Authors
Instant Scale & Chord Guide for Keyboards
Key signatures and chord symbols are doors to facility at the keyboard - doors too often locked by insufficient understanding. This guide unlocks them with clear, simple explanations. Features: major and minor scales - guidelines for scale fingering - chord charts which include major,...- $12.00
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Vendor: Mike Christiansen
Fingerboard Theory for Guitar: A Music Theory Text for Guitarists
This book contains concepts of music theory presented in such a way as to be easily understood by guitarists. All of the concepts are presented sequentially in an easy-to-follow format using the guitar fingerboard as the visual tool. Contents include: scales, key signatures, intervals,...- $22.99
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Vendor: David Huckvale
Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer distinctively incorporated into its horror films. This...- $29.95
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Music and Mythmaking in Film: Genre and the Role of the Composer
This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical methods that modern composers employ to underscore and accompany the visual events. Each chapter begins with an...- $35.00
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Vendor: Franco Sciannameo
Nino Rota, Federico Fellini, and the Making of an Italian Cinematic Folk Opera Amarcord
Federico Fellini entered the pantheon of 20th-Century artists for his path-breaking films like, La dolce vita (1960) and Otto e mezzo (1963). However, it was with Amarcord (1973), that Fellini achieved universal fame. That celebration of youth and memory transcends all barriers of ethnic...- $39.95
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Vendor: Walter Klosowski
The Circle of Fifths: A Complete Diatonic Reference for Music
THE UNABRIDGED CIRCLE OF FIFTHS This volume is dedicated to showcasing all diatonic material found in each and every key of music that exists on the circle of fifths. The term diatonic realm is used in this book to describe that musical realm of...- $14.95
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Vendor: Carolyn Abbate
Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century
Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that...- $55.00
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Vendor: Arthur Tillman Merritt
Sixteenth-Century Polyphony
Author: Arthur Tillman MerrittISBN-10: 0674180887ISBN-13: 9780674180888Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1939Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d- $65.00
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Vendor: Ebenezer Prout
Counterpoint: Strict and Free
Prout's still indispensable work is profusely illustrated with musical examples woven directly into the text. Strict Counterpoint is the preliminary technical work for actual musical composition. At the time of original publication, Ebenezer Prout was Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy...- $19.50
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Vendor: Simon Smith
Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625
Presupposing no specialist musical knowledge, this book offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic role of music in the plays of Shakespeare and his early seventeenth-century contemporaries. Simon Smith argues that many plays used music as a dramatic tool, inviting culturally familiar responses to...- $41.99
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Vendor: Paolo Susanni
Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality: Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles
This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple,...- $62.95
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Vendor: Stefan Kostka
Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music
Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the...- $170.00
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Music and Its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings
A fascinating aspect of the study of music in medieval Islamic and Judaic writings is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the works and treatises in which it is covered. In addition, such works verbalize an art that was transmitted orally and took shape...- $64.95
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Music Instruction Study Theory Books
Music instruction study theory books are a diverse collection of resources designed to assist musicians of all levels in expanding their knowledge and skills in music theory and performance. These books cover a wide range of musical subjects, ranging from basic music theory to advanced instrumental techniques.
One of the primary purposes of music instruction study theory books is to teach musicians the fundamental principles of music theory. This includes topics such as notation, rhythm, harmony, and melody. In addition to theory, music instruction study theory books also focus on developing practical skills in various instruments and musical styles. There are books dedicated to specific instruments, such as piano, guitar, violin, and many more. These instrument-specific books provide detailed instruction on technique, fingerings, and exercises to improve proficiency and mastery of the instrument. They delve into the specific techniques, styles, and improvisation methods associated with each genre, enabling musicians to broaden their musical horizons and explore new avenues of expression. Furthermore, music instruction study theory books often include comprehensive exercises and practice materials. These exercises are designed to reinforce the concepts and techniques taught in the book, allowing musicians to develop a solid foundation and improve their musical abilities through regular practice.
Whether you are a beginner just starting your musical journey or an advanced musician looking to deepen your understanding and skills, music instruction study theory books offer a wealth of knowledge and guidance. They are ideal for self-study or can be used as supplementary materials in music lessons or classes.
Intermediate and advanced musicians can also benefit from our extensive collection. We have books that delve deeper into music theory, offering in-depth explanations of topics such as harmony, counterpoint, composition techniques, and more. These resources are designed to challenge and inspire you, helping you expand your repertoire and unlock new artistic possibilities.
At White Rain Book House, we believe that music instruction study theory books should be comprehensive and informative, but also engaging and enjoyable to read. That's why we carefully curate our collection, ensuring that each book we offer is written by knowledgeable and experienced authors who have a passion for their subject matter. We want to provide you with books that not only teach but also inspire and ignite your creativity.