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Noir Blues presents prose and poems drawn from blues lyrics and the wider world of bad news. The prose describes old blues songs and a barrelhouse tragedy, and the poems are a variety of minimalist forms.Classic Noir SongsThirty-five blues songs from the 20s, 30s, and 40s inspired poems. The songs are briefly described and accompanied by a QR code to an early if not the first recording.Racism and CrimeLyrics of racism and crime are common amon...

Ten Animals Kung Fu presents descriptions and analyses of 88 routines and short forms of Xīn Yì Liù Hé Quán. The Third Edition provides additional descriptions (primarily of turns and finishes) and revisions within the descriptive structure and analyses of the Second Edition. The Second Edition presents descriptions of the 82 short forms within the new standardized format of Begin, Continue, Turn and Continue, and Turn and Finish. The standard...

Blues With My Crime presents a great variety of facts and fiction about blues and crime. The facts are derived from 2, 826 blues songs recorded during the 1920s and 1930s. Within this base sample, 607 formed a crime sample of songs containing lyrics of one or more desired, intended, threatened, attempted, or committed crimes. The "crimes" have been grouped into 17 categories, and an Appendix identifies the criteria used for the base sampling, ...

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Tales Of The Blues presents 75 tales inspired by blues classics. The tales appear in a variety of formats, including poems, songs, free verse, mind maps, lists, mini-essays, and short stories. The majority are one page pieces of minimalist fiction. A longer poem and short story appear at the end.Most of the songs are from the 1920s and 1930s and contain lyrics of desired, intended, threatened, attempted, or committed crimes. They were selected...

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The Easiest Way to Learn Mandarin applies more than a dozen established memory techniques to the study of Mandarin, most for the first time. The mnemonic methods include a mnemonic dictionary of over 1, 400 Mandarin words, 660 clipart illustrations, a dozen large image maps, the 100 most common Mandarin words, illustrated body parts, spelling, sound, and meaning of Chinese names, and more. The book's greater value lies in its potential for hel...

How Does One Become Tough? The answer proposed in Becoming Tough is, "Whatever kind of toughness you seek, it is achieved in the same way as any skill, through practice and study, that is, through training." To that end, Becoming Tough presents exercises whose outstanding feature is their use of simple repetitive movements to facilitate concentration. Because a long-lasting physical activity is easier to sustain than a long-lasting mental task...