The Organ Thieves
Title | The Organ Thieves PDF eBook |
Author | Chip Jones |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1982107545 |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).
An Organ of Murder
Title | An Organ of Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Courtney E. Thompson |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2021-02-12 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1978813082 |
Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology’s ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life.
Complete organ method
Title | Complete organ method PDF eBook |
Author | John Stainer |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780486430799 |
This classic method for beginners provides a brief history of the instrument, an explanation of organ construction, a discussion of the various stops and their management, a section devoted to practical study, and several pieces.
Pedal Mastery
Title | Pedal Mastery PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Jones |
Publisher | Alfred Music Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780769250441 |
Fans of Joyce Jones, other organists and students will thrill to know Warner Bros. Publications has re-released this long popular collection of organ pedal exercises and tips by the queen of pedaling. This book contains every conceivable type of pedaling found from the most basic to actual musical examples from standard repertoire. Helpful notes by Joyce Jones are included throughout, explaining patterns, techniques, etc. to improve pedaling by all organists. A must!
Little Organ Book
Title | Little Organ Book PDF eBook |
Author | Flor Peeters |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 130 |
Release | |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781457403583 |
The renowned Flor Peeters is known as an organist and composer from his native Belgium to all of Europe and both Americas. Little Organ Book, consisting of hymn tunes and original compositions, has won special favor among teachers and students because of the clear presentation of elementary rules for organ playing.
The Buxheim Organ Book
Title | The Buxheim Organ Book PDF eBook |
Author | Eileen Southern |
Publisher | Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute of Mediaeval Music |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Buxheimer Orgelbuch |
ISBN |
Big Green Book of Piano and Organ Duets
Title | Big Green Book of Piano and Organ Duets PDF eBook |
Author | Carlo Menotti Gian |
Publisher | Word Music |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780634035838 |
This collection was created especially for church pianists and organists. It provides 18 medium-difficult duets that work for preludes, offertories, postludes and "special music." Includes: Adeste Fidelis * America, the Beautiful * His Eye Is on the Sparrow * I Sing the Mighty Power of God * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Joy to the World! * Morning Has Broken * O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing * Sing We Now at Christmas * Were You There?/Amazing Grace * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * When I Survey the Wondrous Cross * and more.