Everything beginners need to know to start playing guitar Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then pick up a guitar and start strumming! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Guitar shows you the basics-step by step and note by note. You begin with basic chords and techniques and progress through suspensions, bass runs, hammer-ons, and barre chords. As you learn to read tablature and lead sheets, you can play any number of songs and styles of music, from rock to folk to country. The chord chart and scale appendices are ready references for use long after you master the basics.
Plus, this new edition includes an audio CD so you can hear what each note, chord, and technique should sound like, along with a new chapter on reading music.
This new edition includes substantial improvements to get readers playing the guitar faster
A photo-intensive, step-by-step approach to playing acoustic and electric guitar
The bonus CD includes more than 100 audio tracks
Whether you’ve never picked up a guitar or want to brush up on the basics, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Guitar will get you strumming in no time.
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Author: Charles Kim Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781118206270 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2011 272 pages
Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach’s Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its depths and understand its uniqueness. He considers the work’s historical origins, especially in relation to all Bach’s Clavierübung volumes and late keyboard works, its musical agenda and its formal shape, and discusses significant performance issues. In the course of the book he poses a number of key questions. Why should such a work be written? Does the work have both a conceptual and a perceptual shape? What other music is likely to have influenced the Goldberg and to what extent is it trying to be encyclopedic? What is the canonic vocabulary? How have contemporaries or musicians from Beethoven to the present day seen this work and, above all, how has its mysterious beauty been created?
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Author: Peter Williams Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780511029165 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2001 120 pages
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of litigation at the international and domestic levels concerning consular access for foreign nationals charged with a criminal offence. The issue has complicated relations between countries, with the majority of litigation involving the United States, which has adopted a restrictive view of the consular access obligation.
This book brings together for the first time relevant documentary sources on the law of consular access. The book includes significant excerpts alongside commentary on the documents, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. While presenting information on the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the book presents other sources, including bilateral consular agreements, multilateral treaties, and key court cases from various jurisdictions. Many of these sources are not readily accessible.
The Law of Consular Access will be of interest to scholars of international law, human rights, and international relations. It will also be of interest to private and government lawyers, as well as diplomats and consuls.
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Author: John Quigley; William J. Aceves; Adele Shank Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781135238711 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2009 306 pages
101 Unforgettable Stories about Our Nutty but Lovable Families
Readers will be amused, comforted, and encouraged by stories about “nutty” families just like their own, and realize we all have the same family matters and what really matters is families. A quirky and fun holiday book and a great bridal shower or wedding gift!
Nearly everyone thinks their own family is “nutty” or at least has one or two nuts. With 101 stories of wacky yet lovable relatives, funny foibles, and holiday meltdowns, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters is often hilarious and occasionally poignant.
Author: Jack Canfield; Mark Victor Hansen; Amy Newmark; Susan M. Heim Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul ISBN: 9781611591361 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2011 432 pages
Das vorliegende Buch ist eine Einführung in die praktische Arbeit mit makroökonometrischen Modellen. Die Autoren sind auf dem Feld international ausgewiesene Wissenschaftler. Die Beiträge thematisieren alle Aspekte des Verständnisses der statistisch/ökonometrisch und ökonomisch-theoretischen Grundlagen makroökonometrischer Modelle, ihrer Wirkungsbeziehungen sowie ihrer Prognose- und Simulationsleistungen. Die Beiträge sind für sich verständlich und wenden sich an Interessierte, ohne spezifische statistische oder ökonometrische Vorkenntnisse vorauszusetzen. Der Leser kann die wichtigsten Methoden und Verfahren anhand der allgemein verfügbaren Verfahren und Daten sowie des verwendeten makroökonometrischen Modells leicht nachvollziehen. Das verwendete Modell ist das RWI-Konjunkturmodell, ein mittelgroßes makroökonometrisches Modell für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, das seit mehr als 25 Jahren regelmäßig für Prognosen und Simulationen Anwendung findet.
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Author: Werner Gaab; Ullrich Heilemann; Jürgen Wolters Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD ISBN: 9783790826524 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2013 277 pages
In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana’s revelations about life in Saudi Arabia’s royal family. Royal women live as virtual prisoners, surrounded by unimaginable wealth and luxury, privileged beyond belief, and yet subject to every whim of their husbands, fathers, and even their sons. Daughters of Arabia featured Sultana’s teenage daughters, determined to rebel but in very different ways.
And now, in Desert Royal, Sultana’s fight for women’s rights in a repressive, fundamentalist Islamic society, has an extra sense of urgency. The threat of world terrorism, the gathering strength of religious leaders and the discontent of impoverished Saudis are threatening to topple the comfortable world Sultana has known. But an extended family ‘camping’ trip in the desert brings Sultana and her relatives face to face with their nomadic roots, and nourishes her will to carry on the fight for women’s rights in all Muslim countries.
This updated edition contains an all-new chapter as well as a letter from Sultana herself, encouraging all women to take up the struggle for freedom for their abused sisters throughout the world.
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Author: Jean Sasson Publisher: Transworld ISBN: 9781446497920 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2011 240 pages
Embodying the fears, fantasies, and forebodings of the people who lived in northern Europe when the world was a darker and more frightening place, these 42 authentic folktales were culled from the rich legacy of Norse and German mythology by noted folklorist George Webbe Dasent. They include stories of princes and princesses who have been transformed into animals, trolls, and maneating giants who possess magical powers, and good-hearted, clever young men and women, often poor and ridiculed, who eventually come away with wealth and love beyond measure.
In addition to such well-known favorites as “Dapplegrim,” “Katie Woodencloak,” “Tatterhood,” and “Legend of Tannhäuser,” this collection also brings to light many gems difficult to find elsewhere. In “The Werewolf,” a cruel stepmother thwarts a beautiful princess’s marriage plans by transforming her fiancé into a hunted denizen of the forest. The hilarious “Such Women Are” proves the world is never without a sufficiency of fools, while “The Three Dogs” tells of a youth whose four-legged friends defeat a serpent with the nasty habit of devouring a town’s young women. Among many other hard-to-find stories are “King Gram,” “The Magician’s Pupil,” “The Outlaw,” “Temptations,” “The Widow’s Son,” “The Three Sisters Trapped in a Mountain,” and “The Goatherd” (the inspiration for Washington Irving’s story of Rip van Winkle).
These stories preserve the ancient myths of Western Europe that have been passed down from generation to generation, but aside from their importance as seminal folktales, they are simply good reading — full of passion and excitement, magic, mystery, and sheer storytelling power. Popular Tales from Norse Mythology will delight any student or admirer of myths and mythology.
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Author: George Webbe Dasent Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486119748 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2012 352 pages
The Hamlin Massacre — every Starfleet officer knows the tale. The tiny Federation outpost of hamlin was destroyed, its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shield could be raised. Even worse, the colony’s children disappeared without a trace, abducted by the aliens who attacked with a ferocity and speed that outmatched their Starfleet pursuers.
Now, fifty years later, the Choraii ships have appeared again. But this time the Federation is ready; this time the Choraii must pay for what they need. The precious metals can only be bought with the Hamlin children still living with their captors.
This time, the Choraii must face Captain Jean-Luc Picard — and the crew of the starship Enterprise…
Author: Carter Carmen Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek ISBN: 9780743412155 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The Newest Oprah’s Bookclub 2016 Selection
The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.
Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out—three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list—her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life.
Love Warrior is the story of one marriage, but it is also the story of the healing that is possible for any of us when we refuse to settle for good enough and begin to face pain and love head-on. This astonishing memoir reveals how our ideals of masculinity and femininity can make it impossible for a man and a woman to truly know one another—and it captures the beauty that unfolds when one couple commits to unlearning everything they’ve been taught so that they can finally, after thirteen years of marriage, commit to living true—true to themselves and to each other.
Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.
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An Observer’s Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System
Volume III of a comprehensive three-part guide to celestial objects outside our solar system concludes with listings from Pavo to Vulpecula. While there are many books on stars, there is only one Celestial Handbook. Now completely revised through 1977, this unique and necessary reference is available once again to guide amateur and advanced astronomers in their knowledge and enjoyment of the stars.
After an extensive introduction in Volume I, which gives the beginner enough information to follow about 80 percent of the body of the material, the author gives comprehensive coverage to the thousands of celestial objects outside our solar system that are within the range of telescopes in the two- to twelve-inch range.
The objects are grouped according to the constellations in which they appear. Each constellation is divided into four subject sections: list of double and multiple stars; list of variable stars; list of star clusters, nebulae and galaxies; and descriptive notes. For each object the author gives names, celestial coordinates, classification, and full physical description. These, together with a star atlas, will help you find and identify almost every object of interest.
But the joy of the book is the descriptive notes that follow. They cover history, unusual movements or appearance, and currently accepted explanations of such visible phenomena as white dwarfs, novae and super novae, cepheids, mira-type variables, dark nebulae, gaseous nebulae, eclipsing binary stars, the large Magellanic cloud, the evolution of a star cluster, and hundreds of other topics, many of which are difficult to find in one place. Hundreds of charts and other visual aids are included to help in identification. Over 300 photographs capture the objects and are works of beauty that reflect the enthusiasm that star gazers have for their subject.
Robert Burnham, Jr., who was on the staff of the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, conceived the idea of The Celestial Handbook decades ago, when he began assembling a notebook of all the major facts published about each celestial object. In its former, privately printed edition, this handbook was acclaimed as one of the most helpful books for astronomers on any level.
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Author: Robert Burnham Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486318035 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2013 800 pages
