Berklee GuideLearn the essential tools and skills for playing jazz guitar. This practical guidebook will help you master the theory, technique, and conceptual framework for how to play jazz: comping chords, soloing, and playing with expression, facility, and good hand health. The accompanying record[...]

Whether it takes place in the corridors of power, the business board-room or via your email inbox, fraud influences our daily lives. It costs governments worldwide billions per year and is often thought to have a far greater reach across society than any other criminal offence. This book examines an[...]

Made in China and imported by the East India Company for the kings, queens and rising middle classes of Europe, porcelain has become the most valuable commodity in the West. They call it white gold. The secret method of its manufacture would make a millionarie of the man who discovered it or a great[...]

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing ran[...]

Presents the military history of First World War that gave birth to fascism. This book shows how some of the greatest modernist writers in Italian and German - Ungaretti, Gadda, Musil, Hemingway fought in these trenches.[...]

In "The Way to Win," two of the country's most accomplished political reporters explain what separates the victors from the victims in the unforgiving environment of modern presidential campaigns.
Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News, and John F. Harris, the national politics editor of[...]

Business model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In "Seizing the White Space", Mark Johnson gives them the playbook. Leaving the rhetoric to others, Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies[...]

The Ruger 10/22 is one of the most popular .22-caliber rifles of all time. It is relatively inexpensive, exceptionally reliable and accurate, and easy to work on, and parts are widely available. But as good as these versatile little rifles are, they can be made even better with a little work on thei[...]

Tactical marksmen are employing low-signature firearms-fitted with one or more devices to reduce both the sound and flash of the gunshot- with ever-increasing frequency around the globe. When used with subsonic ammunition, a suppressed low-signature rifle presents the ultimate in covert stealth for [...]

This clearly written, non-technical book is essential reading for all those who own, or care for pigs. It covers all the principal diseases and abnormalities that occur in pigs. Written by an experienced veterinary surgeon and acknowledged specialist in pig medicine Covers all the principal disea[...]

Getting accurate data on less developed countries has created great problems for studying these areas. Yet until recently students of development economics have relied on standard econometrics texts, which assume a Western context. This text intends to address this problem.[...]

The Green Lantern Corps is an intergalactic police force comprised of members from different species on different worlds who work together to ensure peace and order in the universe. Hal Jordan and his character will star in the forthcoming movie (played by Ryan Reynolds).[...]

Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" movie and Superman's 75th anniversaryHe has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends national, cultural, and generational borders, but is there more to the Man of Steel [...]