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Combine traditional tarot symbolism and modern eclectic witchcraft for truly magickal results. Artist Scott Murphy renders the familiar elements of the Rider-Waite in a fresh style featuring ancient Pagan mythos, diverse ethnicities, and contemporary practical spellwork. Designed with both divination and tarot magick in mind, this versatile deck is appropriate for beginning and experienced witches and tarot readers alike.

Start a new Christmas tradition this year with this warm, funny new childrens book from author Scott Murphy. Keeping Christmas takes you and your family on a wonderful journey with a little boy who tries to figure out how to capture the feelings of Christmas. From snowball fights to setting traps for Santa, Keeping Christmas helps your children use their imagination to express what they love about the holiday. So grab a jar and this book to create some fun, new traditions that will be sure to have your family smiling all season long.

Combines fresh approaches to the life and music of the beloved nineteenth-century composer with the latest and most significant ways of thinking about rhythm, meter, and musical time.WINNER: 2019 Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award from the Society for Music TheoryBrahms and the Shaping of Time brings together essays by leading music scholars, each of which analyzes the music of Brahms with a particular focus on the music's temporality. The volume reveals numerous ways in which Brahms manipulates such basic elements as rhythm and phrase structure in pieces ranging from the Third Piano Sonata and the Double Concerto to a number of his most important and beloved songs.The first two essays examine aspects of rhythm and meter in Brahms's lieder, recognizing his meaningful deviations from temporal norms. The second two pick up the mantle from William Rothstein's landmark text Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music. Rothstein's study focused on the music of other composers, but suggested how a future study might explore the music of Brahms; these essays contribute to such a study while also pivoting the book's focus from vocal to instrumental music. Each of the chapters of the third pair cross-examines and expands our understanding of the hemiola. The concluding trio of essays promotes, through further analysis of individual works, ways of hearing that encourage the reader to breach the confines of the score's metric notation.Together, the essays in this volume offer fresh approaches to the life and music of the beloved nineteenth-century composer and incorporate significant new ways of thinking about rhythm, meter, and musical time.CONTRIBUTORS: Eytan Agmon, Richard Cohn, Harald Krebs, Ryan McClelland, Jan Miyake, Scott Murphy, Samuel Ng, Heather Platt, Frank SamarottoScott Murphy is professorof music theory at the University of Kansas.

When ten-year-old Josh sets out on Christmas Eve for a simple sailing adventure, he never expects to become lost at sea. A powerful storm carries him far from home, where he meets Captain Nick, a mysterious pirate dressed as Santa. Captain Nick takes Josh to a hidden island with Christmas magic, friendly villagers, secret caves, reindeer, ancient treasures, mysterious forests, and unforgettable adventures.