This book is great for the musician who knows the basics of blues guitar and is ready to take the next step. After a quick review of the fundamentals, the topics include blues fills and phrasing techniques, non-scale tones, chord extensions and substit

On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a professor of no discernible musical talent learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone of any age might master a new skill. Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start pi...(展开全部)

Vous connaissez le joueur de flûte d'Hamelin, ce sinistre escamoteur d'enfants ? Il a une descendance, quelque part dans les vases du Mississipi et les campagnes perdues du Deep South. Toppi a transposé la partition en jazz funèbre, avec des basses assassines et trilles de saxo tragique. Ami lecteur qui a le blues, évite le Baron Samedi, ne réveille pas la musique qui dort, ell...(展开全部)

John Banville, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel—at once trenchant, witty, and shattering—about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme (“O O ...(展开全部)

张翎, 浙江温州人。1983年毕业于复旦大学外文系。1986年赴加拿大留学，分别在加拿大的卡尔加利大学及美国的辛辛那提大学获得英国文学硕士和听力康复学硕士。现定居于多伦多市, 在一家医院的听力诊所任主管听力康复师。 二十世纪九十年代中后期开始在海外写作发表。主要作品有长篇小说《邮购新娘》（台湾版名《温州女人》）,《交错的彼岸》, 《望月》（海外版名《上海小姐》）, 中短篇小说集《雁过藻溪》，《盲约》，《尘世》等。曾获第七届十月文学奖（2000），第二届世界华文文学优秀散文奖（2003），首届加拿大袁惠松文学奖（2005），第四届人民文学奖（2006），第八届十月文学奖（2007），《中篇小说选刊》双年度优秀小说奖（2008）。小说多次入选各式转载本和年度精选本。其中篇小说《羊》，《雁过藻溪》和《余震》分别进入中国小说学会2003年度，2005年度和2...(展开全部)

Amazon.com In this winner of the 1990 Edgar Award for best mystery novel， Dave Robicheaux， a former New Orleans policeman， is pursued by a psychopath and flees his home on the Bayou Teche， in the heart of Louisiana， to find a new life in Montana. After settling near the Blackfoot River Canyon， Robicheaux finds himself smack dab in the middle of an illegal Mafia takeover of Ind...(展开全部)

You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block's new novel is not for everyone. It's recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman. And rapes and murders her. But, um, not in that order. Right. But it's what he does with the rest of his life that's really interesting.....(展开全部)

You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block’s new novel is not for everyone. It’s recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman. And rapes and murders her. But, um, not in that order. Right. But it’s what he does with the rest of his life that’s really interesting… ...(展开全部)

This album-matching folio includes: Burnout * Having a Blast * Chump * Longview * Welcome to Paradise * Pulling Teeth * Basket Case * She * Sassafras Roots * In the End * F.O.D. and more.

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel--at once trenchant, witty, and shattering--about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown, ...(展开全部)