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Quintet: Five Journeys Toward Musical Fulfillment
David Blum

Cornell University Press, 1999

Quintet presents compelling portraits of five artists known and loved by aficionados of classical music: the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the conductor Jeffrey Tate, the violinist Josef Gingold, the pianist Richard Goode, and the opera singer Birgit Nilsson. This gracefully written book offers a deeply personal look at the lives of these immensely talented ...
  
  











  



  
Flash in the Pan: Life and Death of an American Restaurant
David Blum

Simon & Schuster, 1992

underrated classic
I first heard about this book from the introduction to "Kitchen Confidential," where the author Anthony Bourdain compared it to Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London." He was right. It's hard to find but worth the wait. This story of "The Falls," a hip New York ...
  
  











  



  
Tick... Tick... Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes
David Blum

HarperCollins, 2004

Entertaining Look at People, Stories, Behavior and Ethics
60 Minutes is one of those television icons that all of us know something about. My daughter has a list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows Ever!" on her bulletin board and it lists 60 Minutes in 6th place. But how many of us have watched every broadcast? Probably no ...
  
  











  



  
Overload: Attention Deficit Disorder and the Addictive Brain
David K. Miller, Kenneth Blum

Andrews Mcmeel Pub, 1996

This Book Was Really Ahead Of It's Time!!
It was sad for me to see that this book is currently out of print. I am researching the connection between alcoholism and ADD. This book is revolutionary but due to the fact that it was published several years ago - I feel that it did not recieve the attention that ...
  
  











  



  
Lizzie McGuire Cine-Manga, Vol. 3 - When Moms Attack & Misadventures in Babysitting

TokyoPop, 2003

Lizzie is having major trouble controlling her parents these days, and she's not sure how to deal. She finally scores her first babysitting gig - but her dad doesn't trust her enough to do the job right, and ends up making it ten million times harder. And, when Lizzie's long-awaited overnight science trip finally arrives, Lizzie's mom insists on ...
  
  











  



  
Casals and the Art of Interpretation
David Blum

University of California Press, 1980

An approachable text on interpetation from a master musician
David Blum writes an insightful and rewarding text based on notes taken from rehearsals, master classes, and personal conversations with Pablo Casals. According to Blum, the idea for the book came from Antony Hopkins who encouraged him to take his notes and memories ...
  
  











  



  
Revelation (Shepherd's Notes)
Edwin Blum

B&H Publishing Group, 1999

A readable commentary for the young Christian.
This commentary is aimed for the young Christian and the group study leader. It is well designed and easy to navigate. It is also reasonably detailed and readable. Generally it gives the various alternative interpretations for difficult texts, including the rapture ...
  
  











  



  
The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute
Harold P. Blum, Morris Eagle, ...

New York Review of Books, 1995

Freudians Release Their Pent Up Hostility
Frederick Crews really knows how to tap that deep reservoir of hostility found in modern Freudian psychoanalysts. In 1993 and 1994 FC wrote two essays in the New York Review of Books debunking Freud in the first, and tearing to shreds the recovered memory movement in ...
  
  











  



  
The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri Quartet (Cornell Paperbacks)
David Blum, the Guarneri Quartet

Cornell University Press, 1987

music inside scoop
Fascinating look into the specifics of how a string quartet actually works. Lots of inside information.
  
  











  



  
My Wall Street Journal
Tony Hendra, David Blum, ...

New York Press, 2008

Terrific Journal Spoof.
Good fun read. Short, Probably a collectible someday, maybe. We'll keep our copy safely preserved, tucked away.
  
  











  



  
Aging and Caregiving: Theory, Research, and Policy (SAGE Focus Editions)
David E. Biegel, Arthur Blum

Sage Publications, Inc, 1990

This book provides human service practitioners, policy makers, researchers and students with a comprehensive analysis of the role and function of family caregiving in societies with dependent elderly populations. It begins with an overview of theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues in caregiving. A number of empirical studies which ...
  
  











  



  
Tick... Tick... Tick...: The Long Life and Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes
David Blum

Harper Paperbacks, 2005

An insider's view of the most successful show in the history of TV, 60 Minutes. The most popular TV show in America isn't American Idol, and it's not Survivor. Month in, month out, the most?watched program in America is 60 Minutes, drawing a staggering 25 million viewers in an average week. For its entire 34?year history, 60 Minutes was the ...
  
  











  



  
Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery across the Lifespan (Innovations in Practice and Service ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

outstanding resource
This excellent volume is one I am constantly referring to in my articles on various topics because it provides solutions and innovations in a national context. It shows us what the possibilities are. I'm thinking of using this as a text in my policy analysis class.
  
  











  



  
Persuasion and Rhetoric (Italian Literature and Thought)
Carlo Michelstaedter

Yale University Press, 2004

Fear of death.....
This is the kind of philosophical work that gently grows on you. I've read and re-read it several times and each time I come away feeling that life is definitely worth the ride. Through his thoughts on Persuasion and Rhetoric, Michelstaedter reveals for us the hidden ...
  
  











  



  
The struggle at 60: what 60 Minutes does matters. But this season it has fallen short of the standard set by ...
David Blum

Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, 2005

This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 5319 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker ...
  
  











  



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