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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, ...

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...

The Little Chinese Dreammaster is set in the Qing Dynasty about 1800. In the first part (Morning Star), a young lucid dreamer falls into an ancient sorceress's dream. It's a sentence of insanity or death. Morning Star escapes but her efforts to stop recurring nightmares lead to new attacks in the dream and wakened worlds. In the second part (Blue Cloud), Morning Star's father fights kidnappers, corrupt officials, bandits, and mercenaries in ef...

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Plotting Murder: A Creative Guide to Countless, Detailed Plotlines presents 22 mind maps, 100 original story premises, 50 types of plot twists, 50 types of story endings, and 3 short stories created from the 19 facets of murder. For each of the facets, a map shows up to 5 tiers of features and options. The purpose of the maps is to provide writers with a great number of detailed plotlines from which to create inimitable murder stories. Along w...

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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...

Professor of Microbiology, Carrie Bock, is recruited by the President in a clandestine project that stretches far beyond her university teaching and research experience. The Chinese Ministry of State Security has informed the American government that an elite group of Islamic terrorists possesses a new generation of biological weaponry. The weapon, a highly contagious virus, is designed to infect and kill specific races. Beijing enlists the he...