Meet Teddy, a young bear cub who can no longer live with his bear parents.Like many children in foster care, Teddy must learn to live in two worlds as he navigates new relationships while holding onto the love of his first home.We Wish We Could: A Foster Care Story is a heartfelt picture book that explores themes of love, loss, belonging, and resilience. Through gentle storytelling and tender illustrations, children in care - and the families who s...

As one of the leaders in the renaissance of Spanish music at the turn of the twentieth century, Isaac Albéniz was regarded as the founder of the Spanish "national school." Always fascinated with the music of Andalucia, Albeniz composed numerous small but beautifully performed portraits of his native Spain. These brightly colored piano pictures of his native land are sufficient reason for him to be called "the Liszt of Spanish music." Six pieces or "pages from an album" from his opus 165 "E...

Enrique Granados (1867-1916), one of Spain's greatest twentieth-century composers, was a fine pianist and teacher who composed numerous works for the piano, his favorite instrument. His Escenas Poeticas (Poetic Scenes) and Escenas Romanticas (Romantic Scenes) are two suites which show pianistic influences of Grieg, Schumann and Liszt. These two suites are not as well known in America, nor are they as "Spanish sounding" as some of his other works; however, they still reflect the composer's ...

Good drainage contributes to the delivery of sustainable, innovative and resilient buildings, and is essential for our health and wellbeing. However, designers and architects can often leave drainage to be implemented by specialists in isolation of other design considerations, resulting in costly changes, rework and repairs, operational discomfort and poor user experiences that could have been avoided. Written for building designers and allied professionals, homeowners and managers as well...

This book is designed to prepare the aspiring jazz guitarist to arrange and improvise in a jazz style. Playing by ear is stressed from the very first exercise. You will learn 12-bar blues, 8-bar blues, and standards, as well as how to create fill-ins, improvise, develop ideas, play comping chords, develop a walking bass line, and more. Scales, chords, and arpeggios for the development of technical skills, ear training, and fingerboard knowledge cover the NITE fingerboard, and in all keys. ...

Brazilian classical/jazz guitar virtuoso Carlos Barbosa-Lima and John Griggs have collaborated in writing these five extended, original solo compositions. These pieces explore a wide variety of Brazilian jazz rhythms, harmonies, and tone colors. Thoughtfully written in separate standard notation and tablature editions, these pieces would best be played on a nylon-string guitar by the intermediate to advanced guitarist. Includes access to online audio featuring Barbosa-Lima's performance of...

This innovative and comprehensive arpeggio studies book takes the guitarist past the studies of Sor, Coste, Aguado, Giuliani, and Carcassi. These studies explore the entire fingerboard within the harmonic evolution of the 20th century with the key of E as the basic guide. The book deals with harmonies from triads through thirteenths in new, exciting ways--information which is extremely practical and invaluable for contemporary guitar performance!

The complete set of Twelve Spanish Dances transcribed and arranged for guitar. The transcriptions remain true to the original piano score, but have been arranged in an idiomatic style for the guitar. The Spanish Romantic compositional style of Enrique Granados comes through in these elegant dances. The simplistic and intimate nature of the melodies make them very accessible for the guitar. These arrangements are a fresh approach to the familiar dances and an incentive to play some of the l...

Brazilian guitar virtuoso Carlos Barbosa-Lima and guitarist/ instructor John Griggs present this collection of short pieces by various Classical composers, plus a few of their own original compositions. Beginning to intermediate in difficulty, each piece has been meticulously set for solo guitar in standard notation and tablature. Selections include works by Handel, Purcell, Jeremiah Clark, Corelli, Scarlatti, Pachelbel, Zipoli, Mozart, Telemann, and J.S. Bach. The online audio offers perf...

The Opus 210, by Louis Kohler is a delightful collection of 32 pieces ranging from very easy to medium-difficult. Kohler, like many of his contemporaries, Robert Schumann, Peter Tchaikowsky, and later Claude Debussy, wrote collections of character pieces for beginning students to play.The pieces in this collection are lighthearted in spirit with simple harmonic progressions and straight- forward rhythms. They can be categorized as character pieces (short pieces with programmatic ti...

On June 6 1944 - 'D-Day' - Allied troops landed in France, opening a way to eventual victory. In this provocative reappraisal of the Second World War, John Grigg suggests that the Allied invasion could have been launched successfully in the previous year, reducing considerably the scale of the war's human tragedy.'By 1943, Grigg notes, we already had air supremacy in the ETO and more than enough trained troops to launch a cross-Channel invasion; besides, with the Wehrmacht still de...

John Grigg's four volume life of Lloyd George is one of the great political biographies. This, the final volume, opens with Lloyd George's succession to the Premiership in December 1916, when Britain faced starvation and defeat through the German U-boat campaign, its allies France, Russia and Italy were tottering, the Liberal Party was bitterly divided and unrest in Ireland was growing. Worst of all, military chiefs regarded themselves as at least the equals of the government. To resolve t...