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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Random House
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Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-14 - Publisher: New York Review of Books
A powerful look at the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness, including author Stephen Johnson's struggle with bipolar disorder.
Language: en
Pages: 307
Pages: 307
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Knopf
“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose
Language: en
Pages: 238
Pages: 238
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-01 - Publisher:
With the composer's consent, the manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet Russia - but Shostakovich, fearing reprisals, stipulated that the book should not appear
Language: en
Pages: 465
Pages: 465
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-07 - Publisher: Candlewick Press
Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.