John Thompson

The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series.

Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson's command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the ghazal, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson's...

We all have dreams and ambitions. We want to be successful in our careers and personal lives. But what does success really mean? And how do we achieve it? These are the questions John Thompson III sets out to answer in his book Stack Your Deck. Through a mix of personal stories, expert interviews, practical exercises, and straight-forward advice, Thompson takes readers on an engaging journey, challenges us to define success on our terms, and shows...

The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America's unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship makes the private...

Every fall, Dad and his buddies drove 200 miles to Jack Hochlander's tiny, unheated Adirondack cabin, centrally located in the middle of nowhere, to hunt deer. In 1957 Dad became part-owner, making him the happiest man on earth. Now, outside hunting season, he brought my brothers and me along, teaching us the ways of the woods - and how not to cook. We had an absolute blast. As Dad said, "We don't have a lot of money, but we have a lot of fun." The...

Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and World War I, Love and Lament chronicles the Hartsoe family's ex­traordinary hardships and misfortunes. Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year the first railroad arrived in their county. As she comes of age during the South's reconstruction and industrialization, she must learn to overcome her family's curse: the deaths of her mother and siblings, a deaf and damaged older...

The Dakotas west of the Missouri comprise a vast, rugged, starkly inviting land dotted with ranches, ghost towns, Indian reservations, and nature preserves. This stunning new book captures the shifting moods and scenes of the western Dakotas - along the storied Missouri River, out on the grassy plains, within the otherworldy and forbidding badlands, and atop the pine-clad peaks of the Black Hills. Indian powwows, cattle roundups, and small-town saloon...