Written for both beginners and more experienced players, Essential Skills for the Guitarist presents a set of core techniques every guitarist needs to know to play in almost any musical situation.Instead of focusing on a particular style of music, the focus is on learning a set of fundamental skills for playing the guitar and for music in general. While it's not a blues or rock guitar book, the skills gleaned from this book will greatly help you to play music in these styles, or an...

The true story of a 16 year trying survive rejection, violence and abuse."And just like that it happened. This one act of defiance, combined with my disrespect, was more than the monster could take. I had barely gotten the words out when I found myself lying on the bed staring at the ceiling. He jumped on top of me, choking me with his right hand and punching me with his fully closed left fist."

"That night, I broke. I broke emotionally like no ten-year-old should and a horrific thought occurred to me... Once again I pulled the Buck knife out of its case. I opened it properly, just like the monster had shown me, and I slowly walked to the master bedroom. I could end all of it there and then—all the pain, the abuse and the fear. I could end it not just for me, but for my mother and my sister...

Toby Dorr's memoir exemplifies a story of redemption through her recounting the events that led to aiding a convicted murderer's escape from prison. Her story is a testament to the power of transformation and personal growth in a most unexpected way.The headline-grabbing escape excites readers, but Dorr's prison experiences offer a unique perspective on the criminal justice system. Her story delves deeply into the psychological and emotional challenges of incarceration, as well as ...

We are overly busy helicopter parents, control freaks, perfectionists, intolerants, over-consumers and social media junkies--who worry, fear, laugh less and always want more. In the midst of it, we wonder what it would feel like to open our hands and turn loose of all of it.In HOLDING ON LOOSELY: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Living Unbound, author Dana Knox Wright tells stories of one who is hardwired to cling. To her children when they asked ...

While many educators acknowledge the challenges of a curriculum shaped by test preparation, implementing meaningful new teaching strategies can be difficult. Active Learning presents an examination of innovative, interactive teaching strategies that were successful in engaging urban students who struggled with classroom learning. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, the book proposes participatory action research as a viable approach to teaching and learning that supports the develo...

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days later Alison’s naked body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men, employees at the resort, are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. It’s national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved, but for Claire’s family ther...

In November 2001, James E. Loder Jr., Professor of the Philosophy of Christian Education for forty years at Princeton Theological Seminary, suddenly died. He was a creative and profound thinker who had just completed a promising book. In it he developed a compelling interdisciplinary model to disclose how the divine Spirit affirms, reconstitutes, and transforms the human spirit to bring new energy and creativity into human experience. He called it redemptive transformation. You now hold th...

Originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, this volume explores how researchers, educators, artists, and scholars can collaborate with, and engage young people in art, creative practice, and research to work towards social justice and political engagement.By critically interrogating the dominant discourses, cultural, and structural obstacles that we all face today, this volume explores the potential of critical...

This Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novel features one big magical storm of a story in which Phoebe and Marigold experience a bizarre and fascinating mystery.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR!“The Phoebe and Her Unicorn books strike a nice balance of being fun for kids, with sparkliness and silliness, but intelligent enoug...

An instant New York Times bestseller, Booki Vivat's Frazzled is the first installment of a funny middle grade series about a girl who is always in a tizzy.“Hilarious.” (NPR’s All Things Considered)""Honest, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny. Fans of Smile and Diary of a Wimpy Kid will appreciate this debut."" (Brightly.com)Meet Abbie Wu. Abbie is in crisis—and not just because she’s starting middle school or because...

‘GRIPS LIKE A VICE’ – Val McDermid'Absorbing, tense and beautifully paced' - Daily MailTwenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were killed in what has become the most infamous double murder of the modern age.Their ten year-old daughter – nicknamed the Angel of Death – spent eight years in a children’s secure unit and is living quietly under an assumed name with a family of her own.Now, on the ann...