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BEETHOVEN
SUCHET, JOHN
Ludwig van Beethoven remains one of the world’s best loved and most influential composers, the creator
of such magisterial works as the 'Eroica,' the famous Fifth Symphony, and the 'Emperor' Piano Concerto,
yet also smaller, more intimate pieces like the 'Moonlight' Sonata, and 'Für Elise.' But few know much of
Beethoven’s tumultuous personal life, beyond the fact that he is the composer who became deaf.
Beethoven scholar John Suchet has had a lifelong passion for the man and his music. In this book, he
illuminates Beethoven’s difficult childhood, his struggle to find a wife, his ungovernable temper, his
emotional volatility, his tendency to push away those trying to help him, and in middle age his obsessive
compulsion to control his nephew’s life. In this detailed and absorbing biography, Suchet argues that it is
perhaps more true of Beethoven than of any other composer, that if you know what was going on in his
life, you listen to his music through different ears.
BIOGRAPHY
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
9780802122063
$32.99 HC
DECEMBER 2013
400 PAGES
BEHIND THE GOD PARTICLE
LEDERMAN, LEON
Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the
mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled.
SCIENCE
PROMETHEUS
9781616148010
$26.50 HC
OCTOBER 2013
340 PAGES
BEING UNCLE CHARLIE
DEASY, BOB
Being Uncle Charlie is the intimate and graphic story of one Canadian undercover cop who spent two
decades infiltrating organized crime. From Russian and Italian mafias to notorious biker gangs, Bob
Deasy gained access to and the acceptance of criminals who most cops in any country would never
encounter or arrest, let alone befriend. Bob Deasy had an illustrious 25-year career undercover with the
Ontario Provincial Police. Using little more than his quick wits, natural confidence and a deft mental
equilibrium that allowed him to stay three chess moves ahead of his quarry, Deasy was the secret
weapon behind some of the signature crime busts in Canadian history. Infiltrating the Outlaws Motorcycle
Club and the Russian and Italian mobs, he also single-handedly set up international import-export
businesses, faked contract hit jobs and executed one of the largest drug buys in OPP history. He also
perfected the now controversial "Mr. Big" technique of posing as a crime kingpin to solicit unwitting
confessions from suspects in long-dormant cold murder cases--a tactic he defends as practised, and with
which he enjoyed a 100% success rate.
TRUE CRIME
RANDOM HOUSE CANADA
9780345812827
$29.95 HC
OCTOBER 2013
1ST PRINTING 12,000 IN CANADA
304 PAGES