(Fast Track Music Instruction). FastTrack is (you guessed it!) a fast way to learn to play violin! Skeptical of method books? (Yeah, we think they're kind of boring, too.) That's why we've tried to make FastTrack different from the rest: user-friendly, plenty of cool songs, and a lot more fun. In addition to teaching you what you need to know about the violin, we've included lots of stuff you want to know the parts of the violin, bowings, fingerings, articulation, and much more. So, open t...

"It's actually very easy to time travel; you just have to go fast enough."What good is a time machine if human beings can't survive time travel? Evidently, there is one answer; it becomes the most effective way in history to dispose of a dead body. I mean, what could be better for a criminal than dumping their latest victim two dozen years or so into the future?PORTERS follows forty-nine-year-old Detective Steven Wilson in the dystopian future of 2069, forty years after the...

Far from being a tourist guide, this book is primarily for lovers of Paris. In fact, « a love story » is the exact term Patrick Clark uses to describe his relationship with Paris.Passionate about drawing since ever and particularly sketching in black pencil and Chinese ink, it's through black and white photography that he has found his way to express his sensitivity to the world around us. Of all his artworks, it’s particularly the shots with reflections t...

A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come.In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives ...

Trade Fetishism argues that “trade” not only meets material goals, but also simultaneously works as a fantasy that seeks to satisfy and soothe our unconscious desires and anxieties. Countering the idea that trade is driven ultimately by rational economic, political, and strategic logics, it argues that non-rational beliefs and unconscious desires are equally motivating in our obsession with trade and its promises of enjoyment.Reassessing trade and trade politics, Fridell a...

A cover up of one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of the United States took place at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina from 1957 to 1987. An estimated one million Marines and families were exposed to multiple sources of unregulated chemicals discovered in base drinking water systems. One specific chemical was benzene, a gasoline additive, which is a carcinogen known to cause cancer. One point one million gallons of gasoline leaked into the drinking water. This has been the s...

In the quaint town of Leonia, a chilling discovery sends shockwaves through the community. The lifeless body of a young woman, known only as "K," is found in a secluded spot. As the investigation unfolds, a web of secrets and lies entangles the lives of the town's elite. Enter Inspector Kane, a seasoned detective with a keen eye for detail. Determined to uncover the truth, he delves into the lives of the suspects, each with their own motives and hidden agendas. As Kane digs deeper, he unco...

This book examines political leadership utilizing a worldview centered on the Bible. There are eleven substantive case study chapters that cover a wide swath of famous political leaders across multiple centuries and in several different national contexts within systems that diverge widely. In Pursuit of Moral Political Leadership sets the objective of investigating moral leadership knowing that every human being has their flaws and shortcomings yet pursues strong leadership for the betterm...

College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher’s daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng.

‘Boris Kagarlitsky is a man of enormous intellect and bravery ... I’ve always been stimulated by discussions with Boris and his relationship with thoughtful figures all around the world’ – Jeremy Corbyn MP‘Perhaps the most prominent Marxist thinker in the post-Soviet space’ – Open Democracy‘This brilliant and profound book is likely to become a classic’ – Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachu...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAn alluring young woman is the center of attention at a French café in this deeply moving love story about identity, memory, time, and yearning, set in 1950s Paris.In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the cir...

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET developer, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or a developer seeking a simple and clear migration path from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook delivers a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual Basic programming tasks.The concise solutions and exa...