An alternative look and method at how to play the modes on guitar.How to bluff your way through playing the seven "church modes" - in a down and dirty way!How to look like you know what you're doing!

An alternative look and method at how to play the modes on guitar. How to bluff your way through playing the seven "church modes" - in a down and dirty way! How to look like you know what you're doing!

DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-**Rolling Stone)**tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic.Jack Riley, grandson of a Chicago cop known for using his fists, was born to be a drug warrior. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, who farmed marijuana and opi...

Cocaine has had a long and prominent position in the history of American substance abuse. As far back as the late 1800s cocaine was commonly found hi patent medicines, elixirs, and, astonishingly, in the earliest versions of Coca-Cola. Eventually, the potency of cocaine was recognized and its purveyors came under gradual regulation. Events hi the early 1900s kept cocaine use down until World War II, but the extensive drug use of the 1960s once again sparked a national temperance movement. ...

A single finger, on a single string. A single note. But what else can it tell you? The New Guitar Fretboard Code will teach you a hidden method - known to session boys for years - of how that single note can reveal scales and chords in any key instantly, and aid learning the fretboard! Easy to learn and, more importantly, remember! A unique method, invaluable for beginners and more experienced guitarists alike.

DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-**Rolling Stone)**tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic.Jack Riley, grandson of a Chicago cop known for using his fists, was born to be a drug warrior. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, who farmed marijuana and opi...

When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain “neutral” countries were all too willing to assist them.By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take their wealth with them.Their escape routes were diverse: Sweden and...

The model for Meyer Wolfsheim from The Great Gatsby and Guys and Dolls'Nathan Detroit, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, political fixer, and criminal mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."David Piertrusza unearths the canny way Rothstein fixed the 1919 World Series and unravels the mystery of Arnold Ro...

A revelatory account of how the loving marriage of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives—from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen and Prince Charles“An intimate and gripping portrait of a royal marriage that survived betrayal, tragedy, and war.”—Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of...

MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious 'ndrangheta, which has now risen to become the most powerful mob group active today.Since they emerged, the mafias have all corrupted Italy's institutions, drastically curtailed the life-chances of its citizens, ...

The DEA agent who caught El Chapo recounts the high-stakes, seven-year manhunt in this "cinematic . . . captivating first-person account" ( USA Today).Once a smalltown Kansas deputy sheriff, Andrew Hogan landed a job with the Drug Enforcement Administration, never imagining that he would eventually be put on the trail of Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera a.k.a. El Chapo: the leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and Public Enemy Number One in the United States.

Winner of 2019 IndieReader Discovery Award.Young Americans get involved in a dangerous international heroin smuggling conspiracy.When twenty-something post-grad Nick Fillmore discovers the zine he publishes is a front for drug profits, he begins a dangerous flirtation with an international heroin smuggling operation and in a matter of months finds himself on a fast ride that he doesn’t know how to get off of.After a bag goes missing in an airport tr...