New books on the way!

I recently reviewed a book for Oxford University Press and was pleased to discover that I could request payment in the form of either a small stipend or a bunch of free books. I chose the books (natch), and spent a very pleasurable hour the other day browsing the Oxford University Press website.

Here's what I picked out:

Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians

The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography

Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn

The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance

The Positive Pianist: How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance

Transformational Piano Teaching: Mentoring Students from All Walks of Life

Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas: A Handbook for Performers

After Debussy: Music, Language and the Margins of Philosophy

Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers

After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance

Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists

And these last three, at the request of a certain theologian in the family:

Christmas as Religion

The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology

The Soul of Doubt: The Religious Roots of Unbelief from Luther to Marx