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The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers

10 best books like The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers (Patrick Kavanaugh): The Proper Role of Government, The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution, Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee, Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought), Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens, A Testament To Freedom, Laddie: A True Blue Story, Story of the Orchestra: Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!, The Great Little Madison

The Proper Role of Government
AuthorEzra Taft Benson
Benson expresses a classical American conservative viewpoint of government. The government has the duty to protect individuals rights, liberty and property but no right to redistribute wealth or establish welfare programs. This relies on the premise that individuals rights are god-given and...
The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution
AuthorW. Cleon Skousen
ISBN0880800178
Ronald Reagan -- President of the United States: The National Center for Constitutional Studies...is doing a fine public service in educating Americans about the principles of the Constitution. For many years in the United States, there has been a gradual drifting away from the Founding Fathers'...
Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee
AuthorJ. Steven Wilkins
ISBN1581823347
First half was an excellent biography filled with insights into what shaped and nurtured one of our greatest leaders in American History. The second half elaborates how Lee exhibited Christian values in his life. He was revered during his lifetime and even respected by his enemies. Unfortunately...
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)
AuthorKathleen Krull
ISBN0152164367
An entertaining survey of living,breathing anecdotes about 20 of the greatest musicians that ever lived. From Antonio Vivaldi to Woody Guthrie,it's an irresistible package,leaving you hungry to know more about this amazing artists. Kathleen Krull has done an amazing job collecting all the fact,and...
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
AuthorRichard J. Maybury
ISBN0942617525
In "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?" Richard Maybury uses historical events from Ancient Rome to explain economic principles. This clearly written book about economics is a remarkably easy and fun explanation of investment cycles, velocity, business cycles, recessions, inflation, the demand...
Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens
AuthorOliver DeMille
This latest addition to the TJEd library is written to youth and adults wanting to accomplish a successful Scholar Phase—not only academically, but in personal development and mission preparation. It includes: How to find the Real You, the Teen-100 List, how to study the classics, how to make the...
A Testament To Freedom
AuthorDietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN0060642149
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was only thirty-nine years old when he was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, yet his courage, vision, and brilliance have greatly influenced the twentieth-century Church and theology. Particularly through his bestselling classic, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer...
Laddie: A True Blue Story
AuthorGene Stratton-Porter
ISBN0253204585
My favorite quote in the book:

"Had I life to live over, I see now where I could do more; but neighbor, believe me, my highest aspiration is to be a clean, thrifty housekeeper, a bountiful cook, a faithful wife, a sympathetic mother. That is life work for any woman, and to be a good woman is the greatest...
Story of the Orchestra: Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!
AuthorRobert Levine
ISBN1579121489
Eye-catching illustrations, engaging text and delightful musical selections on the accompanying 70-minute CD lead children ages 8 to 12 (and parents, too!) on an exciting and educational tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. Illustrated in exquisite and colorful detail with...
The Great Little Madison
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698116216
In the days before microphones and TV interviews, getting people to listen to you was not an easy task. But James Madison used his quiet eloquence, intelligence and passion for unified colonies to help shape the Constitution, steer America through the turmoil of two wars, and ensure that our government,...
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 1
AuthorLuetta Reimer
ISBN0866515097
Ah but we're missing the subtitle! The full title is: Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians.

My parents are in that group of retired folk that go into public schools and read stories to children - of course, it helps that mom was a teacher for something...
From Sea to Shining Sea: 1787-1837 (God's Plan for America)
AuthorPeter Marshall
ISBN0800753089
In From Sea to Shining Sea history buffs are transported back to the post-revolutionary era to discover how God intervened on behalf of a struggling nation. This fast-paced, absorbing narrative and sequel to the bestselling The Light and the Glory covers that fragile time in America's history from...
On Wings of Faith
AuthorFrederick W. Babbel
ISBN1555173543
"On the Wings of Faith" is one of the most insightful and thoughtful accounts of how President Ezra Taft Benson and other LDS church leaders were able to breach the seemingly impossible challenges of government red-tape, lack of transportation, language barriers, distrust among nations and peoples,...
The Lives of the Great Composers
AuthorHarold C. Schonberg
ISBN0393038572
In this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are, were influenced by their predecessors. Schonberg discusses the lives and works of the foremost...
Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
AuthorBenson John Lossing
ISBN0925279455
While most children grasp the importance of America's Declaration of Independence, few experience the lives of its multifarious signatories. Few read of the trials & tribulations of those who risked their "lives, fortunes & sacred honor" for the liberty we dearly cherish. LIVES OF THE SIGNERS...
Understanding the Times: The Collision of Today's Competing Worldviews
AuthorDavid A. Noebel
ISBN0936163003
Newly revised and updated with two more worldviews surveyed: Islam and Postmodernism! This book is a landmark guide to understanding the ideas and forces that are shaping our times. From Christianity to Islam to Humanism to Marxism to the New Age to Postmodernism, Understanding the Times provides...
The Real Thomas Jefferson: The True Story of America's Philosopher of Freedom
AuthorAndrew M. Allison
ISBN0880800062
The Real Thomas Jefferson: The True Story of America s Philosopher of Freedom

Jefferson is the central figure in American history, and... he may yet prove to be the central figure in modern history. So stated noted historian Henry Steele Commager. And as the English novelist Samuel Butler...
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine
AuthorJeanne Bendick
ISBN1883937752
We know about Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. But we owe nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen's acute diagnoses of patients, his botanical wisdom and studies of physiology were recorded in numerous books, handed down through the Middle Ages...
The Real George Washington
AuthorJay A. Parry
ISBN0880800143
This is the best-selling classic regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers! The Real George Washington: The True Story of America s Most Indispensable Man. There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If that is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly...
A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter
AuthorMiriam Huffman Rockness
ISBN1572931086
Art critic John Ruskin enthusiastically proclaimed her potential as one of the best artists of the nineteenth century, but Lilias Trotter's devotion to Christ compelled her to surrender her life of art, privilege, and leisure. Leaving the home of her wealthy parents for a humble dwelling in Algeria,...
Shaking the Nickel Bush
AuthorRalph Moody
ISBN0803282184
Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the Family, also Bison Books. Now nineteen years old, he...
Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
AuthorShinichi Suzuki
ISBN0874875846
I have to admit that I've had an unwarrented bias against the Suzuki method growing up because a lot of my music teachers have been unimpressed when they get transfer students from this method who can't read music. The method, especially at first, relies a lot on the ear. As I have been studying different...
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