Great American Music: Broadway Musicals The Teaching company (16 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Bill Messenger The Peabody Institute of Music
You'll also hear rare recordings of groundbreaking artists such as Nora Bayes, the singer selected by Cohan to record his unofficial World War I anthem, “Over There,” and Fanny Brice, the great star immortalized in Funny Girl. And you'll hear contemporary recreations that reconstruct the sound of early musical theater, as well. You'll listen in on recorded interviews that take you behind the scenes of some of Broadway's biggest hits and most memorable moments...
The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications
The Last Recreations collects the final works of Martin Gardner, the renowned "Mathematical Games" columnist for Scientific American. No prior knowledge of mathematics are necessary here; all will enjoy learning about topics ranging from Bulgarian solitaire to taxicab geometry, with experienced expositor Gardner as guide. Letters and updates concerning his column are also included in this book.
This classic work, first published in 1892, offers scores of stimulating, mind-expanding games and puzzles: arithmetical and geometrical problems, chessboard recreations, magic squares, map-coloring problems, cryptography and cryptanalysis, much more. "A must to add to your mathematics library" — The Mathematics Teacher.
Word Recreations: Games and Diversions from 'Word Ways'
What is the shortest American place name? The last word in a dictionary? People have been playing with words since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, wordplay has not been percieved to be a separate field of study - logology (recreational linguistics) - until recently. The Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics, reports new discoveries in lology. This publication presents a collection of word games and diversions from the magazine.
Mathematical essays and recreations
For nearly a century, this sparkling classic has provided stimulating
hours of entertainment to the mathematically inclined. The problems
posed here often involve fundamental mathematical methods and notions,
but their chief appeal is their capacity to tease and delight. In these
pages you will find scores of 11 recreations" to amuse you and to
challenge your problem-solving facilities-often to the limit.
Great American Music: Broadway Musicals
