New Dog Checklist. Edition 7, 2019, completely reworked. All you need to know and do when you get a new Adult Dog. In Checklist format to tick off. Convenient and concise!"Down to Earth Real Advice - Must Read""Essential for bringing a new member into your pack""Tim Carter has a no nonsense practical approach to explaining the 'how' and 'why' of how dogs think and what actually works""It is packed with information you can use and will save you time, money and en...

Euridice was one of several music-theatrical works commissioned to celebrate the wedding of Maria de' Medici and King Henri IV of France in Florence in October 1600. As the first 'opera' to survive complete, it has been viewed as a landmark work, but its libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini and music by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini have tended to be studied in the abstract rather than as something to be performed in a specific time and place. Staging “Euridice” explores how newly-discovered doc...

House Training Dogs to Behave Well in a High Value Home - Complete Indoor Dog Training For Dog Lovers!"Hugely informative, there is so much stuff in here that I didn't know, and it has already helped me with my four month old puppy. Housetraining and housebreaking are truly very different things""Wonderful book/guide, very simple to use methods, the results are phenomenal""Excellent Guide!! Tim writes with the DOG in mind with emphasis on not over-thinking, over-correc...

Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break into song on the dramatic stage? -- and shrouded in mystique. In this engaging and entertaining guide, renowned music scholar Tim Carter unravels its many layers to offer a thorough introduction to Italian opera from the sevent...

New Puppy Checklist. Edition 7, 2019, completely reworked. All you need to know and do when you get a new puppy. In Checklist format to tick off. Convenient and concise!"It has a LOT of information, gets right to the point and helps you to not fail""A comprehensive but concise eye opener.""Great checklist and book. Very clear and straight forward. I would certainly recommend this even experienced dog owners""Tim really knows how to get into the mindset of a pupp...

The backstage story of the timeless Broadway hit, and how Rodgers and Hammerstein brought it to life: "Meticulously researched" ( Publishers Weekly).Oklahoma! premiered on Broadway in 1943 under the auspices of the Theatre Guild, and today it is performed more frequently than any other Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. In this book, Tim Carter offers the first fully documented history of the making of this celebrated American musical.Drawin...

Puppy Development Guide - Puppy 101 for Dog Lovers: The Secrets to Puppy Training without Force, Fear, and Fuss!280 pages in the book (based on print edition), plus 1,360 pages linked through to the largest dog authority site on the internet. This book is an information powerhouse at your fingertips like no other. Nothing is left out.The Puppy Development Guide does not show you how to teach your dog to sit - for such basics you can look in your local newspaper. This book is ...

How can we best understand the rules of Mozart's musical games? His first symphony, written in E flat major when he was just nine years old, sits at the opposite end of the tonal spectrum of his final concerto in A major. Through his diligent attention to -- and the creative reconsideration of -- tuning and temperament, instrumentation, musical intertextualities, and key-specific idioms, Mozart demonstrated the breadth of his musical ingenuity. By incorporating distinctive musical techniqu...

Dog Training Toolkit - The World's Only!This is Tim's book that has been called "The greatest invention since the emergence of dogs". If you are still fairly new to dogs then the Dog Training Toolkit is too advanced, as it is way ahead of all dog training advice you find elsewhere.So clearly, this Toolkit is not for beginners. But if you think you already know a lot about dog training then the Dog Training Toolkit may be just what you need. It is more than a book. It is the m...

This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction. If the focus there was primarily on archival documents, here it is on the actual music. The starting-point is similar - the rise of the 'new music' for solo voice and basso continuo in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence, in particular the songs of Giulio Caccini. But it moves on...

This collection of reprinted essays starts from the author's doctoral research on Jacopo Peri and the rise of opera and solo song in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence. It extends to broader issues concerning music and patronage in the city as they affected individual composers, patrons and institutions, and thence to the commerce of music printing and the book trade. It concludes with an attempt to suggest a broader view of these various issues as they impact upon musi...

Dogs Unleashed: From On-Leash To Off-Leash - Leash Training For Dog Lovers!A comprehensive no-nonsense description of the most successful leash training tricks - compiled by Tim Carter, founder of the largest breed authority site in the world.Stressed during dog walks? Your dog pulling you down the road? Doesn't heel when you need it? Doesn't come when you call? You already had the shoulder, elbow, wrist, or back strained??Enough is enough! No more dreaded dog walks. N...