The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit

Music and the Mind

Anthony Storr · 212 pages

Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most intangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this challenging book, he explores why this should be so. Music is a succession of tones through time. How can a sequence of sounds both

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks · 400 pages

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelli

The Inner Game of Music

Barry Green, W. Timothy Gallwey · 248 pages

Beethoven

Maynard Solomon · 400 pages

Maynard Solomon's Beethoven, first published in 1977, was instantly hailed as a major reinterpretation of the life, personality, and works of the enigmatic genius. Now, a generation later, the book has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded by the author to incorporate new materials and the findings of later research. Solomon divides Beethoven's life and works into four periods. In part o

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin · 321 pages

This book explores the connection between music and its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it and the human brain.

Fat Is a Feminist Issue

Susie Orbach · 203 pages

Abstract: Compulsive eating is rooted in the social inequality of women. Drawing on case study experience, the meaning of fatness and thinness in our society is explored, and self-help guidelines are provided for individual or group use. Anorexia nervosa is discussed, based on the author's reading and talks with those afflicted. Medical interventions, as detailed here are part of the problem rathe

Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement: A Guide for Officers and Their Families

Kevin M. Gilmartin · 142 pages

This book is designed to help law enforcement professionals overcome the internal assaults they experience both personally and organizationally over the course of their careers. These assaults can transform idealistic and committed officers into angry, cynical individuals, leading to significant problems in both their personal and professional lives.

Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance (Audiobook)

Richard Restak · 275 pages

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner

Julie A. Fast, John D. Preston · 216 pages

Hypnotize Yourself

Emilie Leyes

The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance

Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy

Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most Out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone With Mental Illness Accept Treatment

Xavier Francisco Amador · 204 pages

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! : A Self-help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo, Edward M. Hallowell · 444 pages

With over a quarter million copies in print, You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! is one of the bestselling books on attention deficit disorder (ADD) ever written. There is a great deal of literature about children with ADD. But what do you do if you have ADD and aren't a child anymore? This indispensable reference -- the first of its kind written for adults with ADD by adults with ADD -- focu

SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient - Powered by the Science of Games

Jane McGonigal · 466 pages

A renowned game designer describes how she recovered from a debilitating concussion by turning her therapeutic process into a digital game that became the subject of a major NIH research study.

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Julie Smith · 368 pages

The Amazing Generation

Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson

Pam Munoz Ryan · 40 pages

An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and civil rights activist, who was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra

Andrea Davis Pinkney · 32 pages

A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.

Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath

Tony Iommi, T.J. Lammers · 407 pages

The life and career of Tony Iommi, a rock guitarist for the band Black Sabbith.

Ronnie: The Autobiography

Ron Wood, Jeffrey Robinson · 384 pages

An account of the long-term Rolling Stone member's career also describes his relationships with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts; his evolution as a musician at the height of the band's success; and his perspectives on the music scene of the 1960s.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Angela Y. Davis · 427 pages

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articul

The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend

Steve Turner · 310 pages

Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen

Al Jourgensen · 278 pages

A memoir from the hard-living rock musician and producer, who survived prolonged drug addiction--twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse--before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live.