The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
If you like book The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogée of th…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent histor…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly huma…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Monkey: The Journey to the West
Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a r…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (th…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, #5)
Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series?the Magic Tree House! Have you ever met a real live ninja? Jack and Annie do when the Magic Tree House …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology.
Buy this book on Amazon
The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narr… -
-
His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)
The title story of this collection refers to Holmes' emergence from retirement to help the government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. Several of the detective's earlier…
Buy this book on Amazon -
On Freedom
A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Me…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Walking
The philosophies of Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)—hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profound thinker on humanity's happiness—have greatly influenced the American character, and his writings …
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human conditio…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House, #2)
Peacocks for dinner and boys in skirts?
Buy this book on Amazon
That's what Jack and Annie find when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the Middle Ages for another wild adventure. In the Great Gall of the castle, a … -
Pensées
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation no…
Buy this book on Amazon