This excellent beginner's book guides guitarists through the basics in a clear, easy-to-understand manner. Unlike other beginning methods, this book teaches all of the notes on the guitar through the fifth position, all of the most common open string chords, both flat and sharp keys, and the basics of technique and music theory. Includes lots of helpful photos and diagrams.
This reference can help underachieving students learn that they can be in charge of their own achievement by giving them the awareness and tools to do so.
Del Valle argues against the popular notion that ritual is merely the invention of a small and manipulative group, and aims to make a significant contribution to current literature concerning the creation of traditions. This study is intended for students and professors of anthropology, Basque studies, political science, contemporary history, and the history of social movements.
Presents Father Columba's chapter-by-chapter commentary designed to help others share St Benedict's words and approach to living the Christian life. The book draws on the author's lifetime of living and teaching the Rule, of his mission experience and on his work with the growing Oblate movement.
View recipes from Food and Friends.The coauthor of Mastering the Art of French Cooking shares an irresistible feast of reminiscence and recipes. Simone "Simca" Beck first met Julia Child in 1949 in the women's cooking club Cercle des Gourmettes in Paris. Soon afterwards, the two began collaborating on what would become Mastering the Art of French Cooking. During her extraordinary career, Simca was mentor and friend to a generation of cooks and...
Arising from the Sixth Grover Conference on the Pulmonary Circulation, a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Sedalia, Colorado in October 1992, this volume describes the present state of knowledge of the movement and storage of ions in vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells. The contribut
The NYT A River Runs Through It. In 1949, a crew of U.S. Forest Service Smokejumpers parachuted into a Montana forest fire. In less than an hour, all but three were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for 40 years, Maclean reconstructs the pieces print.
At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination.
Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to...
At the age of four, Philip Zazove was speaking to his father, who turned away to replace some books on a shelf. "Daddy", Philip cried, "look at me when I talk!" His father replied, and Philip said, "What did you say, Daddy?" His father turned around and repeated what he'd just said, "Philip, I don't have to look at you to hear you". "Yes, you do. How else could you hear me?" The question led to extensive tests that confirmed that, except for m...
This book gives a clearly written, authoritative introduction to social-scientific criticism of the New Testament, including the rise of this method, its practitioners and the focal points of their work, how the method is applied to the interpretation of the biblical text, and the presuppositions and procedures of the method. Four appendices, glossary, two bibliographies.
Provides an intimate portrait of Tibet and its people as they make their pilgrimage through the wheel of life. In Tibetan belief, existence is an endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth. This book traces that journey from birth and childhood to adolescence, marriage, midlife, old age and death.
The Third Edition of this classic textbook provides the most up-to-date summary of current theory and research in human communication today. Written in an accessible style, the book examines the fundamentals of communication and the functions that communication serves in society. The text provides students with a working vocabulary of the discipline, a detailed outline of some of the crucial questions to be asked, summaries of current theories...
This second, expanded edition of Arthur Peacocke's seminal work now includes the author's Gifford Lectures, as well as a new part three, in which he deals roundly with the central corpus of Christian belief for a scientific age. "Distinctively theological commitments are being rethought in light of scientific apprehensions of nature".--Ted Peters, Zygon.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays.
With 400 recipes and ample wit, the Jamisons celebrate the bounty of Texas cooking, covering Tex-Mex, championship chili, real barbecue, seafood dishes, farm-fresh salads and vegetables, Spoonbread and Buttermilk Pie, and Picante Pot Roast and Fajitas Borrachas. A treasury of down-home American cooking.
This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses from Tibetan masters on the enlightened mind, and songs in praise of meditation by Zen teachers. The book also includes traditional instruction on ...
