Scott A. Smith teaches you all the essential blues phrasing techniques and tricks. Learn simple concepts like solo construction, phrasing over a 12-bar blues, the blues scale, pentatonic box patterns, and playing multiple scales over a single chord. Also, learn practical, effective techniques like t[...]
The "Miscellaneous Fictions of Clark Ashton Smith" gathers together the adventure, juvenilia and other non-fantastic fiction of Smith. While he is known best for his fantastic work, these adventure and mainstream stories shed light on the development of Smith's writing and his constantly evolving st[...]
Interdoc was established in 1963 by Western intelligence services as a multinational effort to coordinate an anti-communist offensive. Drawing on exclusive sources and the memories of its participants, this book charts Interdoc's campaign, the people and ideas that lay behind it and the rise and fal[...]
During the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal carried out a program of dramatic reform to counter the unprecedented failures of the market economy exposed by the Great Depression. Contrary to the views of today's conservative critics, this book argues that New Dealers were not 'anticapitalist' [...]
Craving an adventure to wake them from their lethargic Mexican holiday before they return home, four friends set off in search of one of their own who has travelled to the interior to investigate an archaeological dig in the Mayan ruins. And at that moment their world changes for ever.[...]
The idea of the Cold War as a propaganda contest as opposed to a military conflict is being increasingly accepted. This has led to a re-evaluation of the relationship between economic policies, political agendas and cultural activities in Western Europe post 1945. This book provides an important cr[...]
Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in[...]
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the modern age of exploration. In this brilliant dual biography every detail of the great race to the South Pole during 1911-1912, between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen, is examined and re-as[...]
Tre veckors festande och slappande i Cancún. Det är vad fyra amerikanska backpackers planerar att göra i Mexico. Men inget blir som de tänkt sig. Ruinerna är en klibbig, krypande djungelrysare som Stephen King kallat för "Århundradets bästa skräckroman".
När en nyfunnen väns br[...]
Tre veckors festande och slappande i Cancún. Det är vad fyra amerikanska backpackers planerar att ägna sig åt i Mexico. Men inget blir som de tänkt sig. Ruinerna är en klibbig, krypande djungelrysare som Stephen King kallat för Århundradets bästa skräckroman. När en nyfunnen väns bror pl[...]
Bonnets evoke the mystique of a bygone day. If you cherished paper dolls as a child, these charming quilt block designs will bring back delightful memories. Choose from 15 Bonnet Girls, their children, menfolk, and pets and create a family. Depict movement and different scenes by simply changing the[...]
This second edition of the best-selling piano pedagogy book provides future piano and keyboard teachers with the essential tools to meet the challenges the next century. Fundamental to every keyboard teacher, the text examines current learning theories, offers a historical overview of keyboard pedag[...]
In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought 'moral values' was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to victory for George W. Bush, who professes a deep and abiding f[...]
Covers the design, building and operation of plants for water treatment and supply, sewerage, wastewater treatment and disposal, and solid waste treatment and disposal. This work includes entries on the topics of stormwater management and flood management, as well as the EU Directives that cover thi[...]
The all-new Ghost Rider has become a local hero Can Robbie Reyes resist the call of street racing, or is he speeding toward eternal damnation? A blazing hot trail comes to an end as the Blue Hyde Brigade is born...but who is the mysterious figure taking an interest in the new Ghost Rider? And when [...]