Arpeggio Mastery by Ryan Belisle
English | January 1, 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00HQYDM1W | 45 pages | EPUB | 1.53 Mb
Arpeggios by the Root is the perfect reference that covers this often overlooked aspect of soloing and improvisation. Author Ryan Belisle has taken the guess work out of learning to play these sophisticated concepts on the guitar.
William Mannen, "Arms, Revenue, and Entitlements: U.S. Deficits in the Cold War, 1945-1991"
English | ISBN: 1793607095 | 2020 | 198 pages | PDF | 948 KB
In the second half of the twentieth century, strategic and economic conditions compelled the U.S. government to start running budget deficits on a permanent basis. A new role of global leadership in containing communism required a robust military establishment. The federal government overwhelmingly relied for general revenue on an income tax code that also could not impede economic growth. And general revenue increasingly funded transfer payments in an expanding entitlement state. Fiscal overstretch resulted in unending deficits that continue to this day.
Benjamin J. Harbert, "American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology "
English | ISBN: 0819578002 | 2018 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 7 MB
A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century
Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature By Charles Hatfield
2005 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 1578067189 | PDF | 7 MB
In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Françoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love & Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books. In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the graphic novel. He argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. Combining sharp-eyed readings and illustrations from particular texts with a larger understanding of the comics as an art form, this book discusses the development of specific genres, such as autobiography and history. Alternative Comics analyzes such seminal works as Spiegelman's Maus, Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, and Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary. Hatfield explores how issues outside of cartooning-the marketplace, production demands, work schedules-can affect the final work. Using Hernandez's Palomar as an example, he shows how serialization may determine the way a cartoonist structures a narrative. In a close look at Maus, Binky Brown, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, Hatfield teases out the complications of creating biography and autobiography in a substantially visual medium, and shows how creators approach these issues in radically different ways. Charles Hatfield, Canyon Country, California, is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Northridge. His work has been published in ImageTexT, Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, the Comics Journal, and other periodicals. See the author's Web site at www.csun.edu/~ch76854/.
Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest By Janet Lungstrum (ed.), Elizabeth Sauer (ed.)
1997 | 374 Pages | ISBN: 0791434125 | PDF | 5 MB
This book examines the ambiguities inherent in the concept of the agon as a motivating, conflictual force behind creative and social expression. The notion of agonistics extends far beyond the literary fame lent it by Harold Bloom to embrace all aspects of culture. The editors blend theoretical sophistication with an interdisciplinary approach and reposit the agon in a new, broad context for postmodern inquiry. Taking their inspiration from Friedrich Nietzsche's essay "Homer's Contest", Lungstrum and Sauer trace the evolution of the agon: from its vital function in ancient Greece, through modernity, and onward.
Suzanne P. Hudson, "Agnes Martin: Night Sea "
English | ISBN: 1846381711 | 2017 | 96 pages | PDF | 12 MB
A close examination of Agnes Martin's grid painting in luminous blue and gold.
David Weissman, "Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will"
English | ISBN: 1783748761 | 2020 | 212 pages | PDF | 8 MB
There is agency in all we do: thinking, doing, or making. We invent a tune, play, or use it to celebrate an occasion. Or we make a conceptual leap and ask more abstract questions about the conditions for agency. They include autonomy and self-appraisal, each contested by arguments immersing us in circumstances we don't control. But can it be true we that have no personal responsibility for all we think and do?
, "After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR"
English | ISBN: 1789208521 | 2021 | 324 pages | PDF | 3 MB
From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of National Socialism. Nonetheless, the precipitous rise of xenophobic, far-right parties across the present-day German East is only the latest evidence that the GDR's legacy cannot be understood in isolation from the Nazi era nor the political upheavals of today. This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society―including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism―to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.
Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda (New African Histories) by Marissa Mika
English | ISBN: 0821424653 | 248 pages | EPUB | December 21, 2021 | 6.57 Mb
An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African cancer institute has shaped lives and identities in postcolonial Uganda.
Advanced Manufacturing and Automation XI
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811905711 | 796 Pages | PDF | 91 MB
The proceedings collect selected papers from the 11th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2021), held in Zhengzhou Polytechnic, China on 11 - 12 October, 2021. Topics focusing on novel techniques for manufacturing and automation in Industry 4.0 are now vital factors for the maintenance and improvement of the economy of a nation and the quality of life. It will help academic researchers and engineering to implement the concept, theory and methods in Industry 4.0 which has been a hot topic. These proceedings will make valuable contributions to academic researchers, engineers in the industry for the challenges in the 4th industry revolution and smart factories.