Daniel J. Levitin
Paperback - $23.95
Neuroscientist and professional musician Levitin presents a fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind--and the role of melodies in shaping our lives. Photos throughout.
Reader's Digest
Hardcover - $44.95
A perennial bestseller--now with a new companion 23-track CD--this songbook contains a collection of more than 100 Yuletide favorites plus a 32-page lyric book.
Alex Ross
Hardcover - $44.95
Ross, music critic for "The New Yorker," takes readers from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and seventies. The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music.
Slash
Hardcover - $42.95
The memoir from the legendary Guns N Roses guitarist reveals, with raw-edged candor, his life and times. As raucous and edgy as his music, this book sets the record straight and tells the real story as only Slash can. Photos throughout.