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)

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)

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

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)

2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. "Between Man and Man" is the classic work ...(展开全部)

John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Si...(展开全部)

Small, mild-mannered Dr. Uzuki encounters a delirious gang-member with a gun-shot wound on his way home from his job at the University. The gentle doctor rises to the occasion and saves the man's life with command and vigor. The problem is that yakuza gang-member Nonami has sworn to make his savior his bride! Uzuki is terrified! What if Nonami were to discover that the 'saving ...(展开全部)

戴维·鲍尔达奇：美国《纽约时报》《出版人周刊》等权威媒体公认的畅销书作家，也是世界上最受欢迎的畅销书作家之一。 1996年以小说《绝对权力》在文学界名声大振。随后，作品被改编为电影，由伊斯特·伍德担任导演和主演。主要作品包括《黑日堡垒》《遗忘角》《记忆怪才》《职业杀手》《越狱者》等。戴维总共出版了30余部小说，均以不俗的口碑和优异的销量跻身国内外各大畅销书排行榜。他的小说被译为超过45种语言之多，在全球80多个国家和地区发行，全球销量1.1亿册销量。

A milestone in American literature--a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers o...(展开全部)