Want to dramatically improve your guitar playing? Paganini's Fifth Caprice offers the dedicated guitarist a number challenging passages. This book provides the player with exercises and performance notes that focus on the various techniques that it has to offer. The exercises aim to improve: Playing fast scale runs, arpeggios and shifting positions easily Economy picking and finding the best opportunities to use it Incorporating hybrid picking in your pl...

An in-depth history of the small arms made by the Sterling Company of Dagenham, Essex, England, from 1940 until the company closed in 1989.The Lanchester and the Patchett Machine Carbines were both developed at Sterling Engineering Co Ltd during World War II.With the appearance of the earliest Patchett prototypes the military began testing them in ever more rigorous trials, wherein the Patchett kept proving its merits. This led to limited UK adoption of the M...

The book analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in cases concerningsurveillance, both domestic and foreign intelligence, focusing onhow judicial activism or judicial restraint has legitimized the almostuncontrolled surveillance of American citizens by government agencies.The purpose of the research is to examine the judiciary’s impacton the scope of government surveillance and, more broadly, on thestate of American democracy and the rule of law....

The book provides a significant insight into the complex process of English loanword adaptation in Russian. It is based on an in-depth analysis and comparison of a rich body of experimental data on the adaptation of both established and online loans of those English sounds absent from Russian phonemic inventory. The analysis is couched within the Optimality-Theoretic framework. The uncovered patterns offer valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on loanword phonology.