There are up-close illustrations of each tool Bruno uses, as well as an accurate set of toolbox plans at the satisfying end of this book. Full color.

    From her humble roots in rural Sweden to her artistic triumphs in Stockholm, Bayreuth, Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera House, this candid and utterly charming memoir reveals the personality behind one of the great voices of the past century. Gracefully weaving together the private and professional, Nilsson chronicles her idyllic childhood in Vastra Karup, the early recognition of her unique natural abilities, and her first tentative steps into a wider artistic world. After achieving national acclaim in Verdi s Lady Macbeth, she went on to establish herself as the dominant Wagnerian soprano of her generation, appearing at the Bayreuth and Munich Festivals, and the Vienna and Bavarian State Opera Houses, creating, along the way, definitive performances of Sieglinde, Brunnhilde, and Isolde. The book details her rise to international stardom with behind-the-scenes recollections of her phenomenal triumph as Turandot at La Scala in 1958 and her headline-making Met premier in Tristan und Isolde the following year. Nilsson s long and illustrious career (she performed until 1984), her celebrated professional and personal relationships, her friendships and rivalries, are all recounted with a down-to-earth wit and an engagingly odd admixture of ego and selfeffacement. She tells it all: the legendary quips, the often prickly relationships with Met impresario Rudolph Bing and conductor von Karajan, the infamous story of the stalker Miss N, and the touchingly rendered relationship with her beloved husband, Bertil Niklasson. What emerges from these pages is a diva in the old mold: a giant voice matched by an oversize personality, a professional who expected the same level of perfection from others that she demanded of herself, and a woman who loved and lived life with joy and good humor . . . and oh, that voice. Includes 56 photographs and a discography."

    ; This is an excellent genealogical guide for those unfamiliar with the Swedish language or the Swedish record system who desire to dig in and do it for themselves. In simple language, the author makes you aware of differences between American spellings and their counterparts in Swedish for both persons and places which is so important in searching original records. Since the records are handwritten, the author includes several pages of examples of how the letters might appear and which could serve as an aid in the name identification process. In several appropriate locations throughout the book there are lists of definitions of terms which would help facilitate understanding the language of the records. ; 1 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches; 380 pagesPublisher/Manufacturer: EvertonYear Published or Produced: 2002

    Students, travelers, scholars, and native speakers have depended on Prisma for over 25 years, making these the best-selling of all Swedish-English dictionaries.The unabridged volumes have now been updated and revised in a new third edition. These companion volumes each have over 50,000 entries, phonetic transcriptions, and codes for inflections on nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

    Follows the misadventures of Boo and Baa as they try to get home with their groceries during a snowstorm.