This is a monograph on Western classical music written by a Chinese American. It contains the results of the author's years of work, i.e., more than two hundred thousand words of Beethoven-themed essays in the form of poems, essays, prose, and reviews. The book covers all aspects of the great composer Beethoven's life and career from his birth experience to his emotional life, from the background of the times to his ideology, from the review of his works to the analysis of music appreciation. The book is rich in historical information, rigorous in argumentation, incisive in commentary, and fluent in sentiment and reason. As a nonacademic scholar of Beethoven, this book is characterized by a distinctive personality, free from the constraints of traditional rules and regulations. Based on a comprehensive and profound understanding of the historical figure and his works, the author presents his original arguments and opinions on some important professional topics and fields.

Destiny’s Doorway is the account of a fatal car accident where the author was revived by CPR. Polly describes what it feels like to die. She invites you to join her experience of meeting Jesus face-to-face.

This fantastic illustrated biography traces the story of Destiny's Child, from the orginal quartet started by Beyonce Knowles, to the Grammy-award winning, septuple-platinum, superstar trio who bestride the modern pop world like a spandex colossus. In the last two years of a ten-year career plagued by controversy, Destiny's Child, under the watchful eye of Beyonce's manager father Mathew Knowles, have weathered dizzying ups and downs, including a lawsuit filed against them by two ex-members. But the group have come through it all, and their third album, Survivor, is another global smash. With colour photos throughout, inside info about Beyonce and fellow group members Kelly and Michelle, a guide to their albums and a look at what the future holds for them, this is the amazing story of Destiny's Child, behind the scenes and in full.

History tells the story in print and film of the greatest sea disaster of a dynamic luxury liner, the RMS Titanic, but history has omitted this story of the other greatest loss of the RMS Titanic's ancestor of the White Star Line. the SS Atlantic. Although the passenger compliment was less the percentage of loss was greater than the Titanic and equally horrific. You will take a journey about the first of the White Star Line's luxury, steel hull steamships which still carried her sails. Why did the Atlantic divert her voyage to New York to sail to Halifax, leading her to crash on Nova Scotia's granite shore. This story tells of the Destiny of not only the ship herself but of her passengers who made fatal decisions to be on board. Like the RMS Titanic the SS Atlantic carried eleven multi-millionaires, leaders of industry, Learn why Mrs. Rowden insisted on leaving the ship in Queenstown, Ireland where 160 Irish citizens boarded for the new America dream, and the carpet baggers revolt. The loss of all women and children except young John Hindley. The heroism of the Anglican Priest, Reverend Ancient. This journey will make you reflect upon your own path to Destiny. It is not just about a shipwreck but the web creating the destiny of a mighty ocean liner and over one thousand souls in her care. The SS Atlantic the ancestor of the RMS Titanic

Many people's lives will collide on the planet Quinntessa. With an unforgettable dread, a deadly plague from an unimaginable source that drags the mix-species inhabitants of Quinntessa into a hell worse than their own most horrible nightmares...and yours. In this riveting, nightmarish Sci-Fi story, death is closer than you think. And the next time you look up at the stars, you may want to stay right here on Earth. It just might be a whole lot safer.

With three of the goddess Durgas quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tigers curse. But the trios greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durgas final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Adaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Its a race against time--and the evil sorcerer Lokesh--in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume of the bestselling Tigers Curse series, which pits good against evil, tests the bonds of love and loyalty, and finally reveals the tigers true destiny once and for all.