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What do you play when you have one chord for 8 or 16 bars? The Modal Jazz era presented new challenges for improvisers, spawning a fruitful period rich in new ideas, concepts, and harmonic exploration. This play-along includes several standard" forms and important practice...

In fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Tibet there was great ferment about what makes enlightenment possible since systems of self-liberation must show what factors pre-exist in the mind that allow for transformation into a state of freedom from suffering. This controversy about the nature of mind...

A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice** One of Flavorwire's "50 Books That Define the Past...

Ria is rich, slim, pretty, popular. If you only knew her at school, you'd think she led a charmed life--and until recently you'd have been right. But her situation has taken a sudden, unfortunate change. Her parents' seemingly perfect marriage has broken up, and...

Canadian insurance law is a complex mixture of federal and provincial legislation, common law, and custom. This book offers a concise introduction to this patchwork of regulation. The book is divided into three parts. Part One provides an introduction to the creation and enforcement...

Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom is, like New York's CBGB's and Los Angeles's Whiskey a Go-Go, one of the most venerated rock clubs in the world; originally built in 1930, it's hosted a who's-who of music greats before they made it big: The Police, The Clash,...

Dime is fifteen and angry all the time. Her parents don't like the way she dresses, her boyfriend, her attitude. Her older brother Darren was paralyzed in an accident she walked away from, and Dime is sure her parents wish she were the one...

The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke, and Brecht. Cook's versions not only transform these foreign texts into English poems in their own right, but enrich and expand his...

Author Charles Bohi has spent countless summers combing Canada's west for information and photographing thousands of stations and structures The result is this concise, authoritative account accompanied by over 130 photos and sketches But not simply snapshots of boarded-up stations almost all the photos...

Did Goldilocks wilfully trespass and destroy the property of the three bears? What crime did the wolf commit against the three little pigs, and is the wolf obligated to repair the pigs' homes? Was Peter Pan guilty of kidnapping? In Once Upon a Crime,...

Many questions swirl around the heads of worried Canadians at tax time every year. As they snap their pencils, slam down their calculators, and let out an anguished sigh, they wonder, "How on earth did this convoluted system of taxation ever evolve?" That question...

Author: Ned LevittPublisher: ECW PressPublished: 10/01/2004Pages: 188Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.48h x 6.68w x 0.49dISBN: 9781550226720About the AuthorNed Levitt is a lawyer and a frequent speaker on television and radio. His climb up Mt. Ixta was the subject of a TV documentary, "I Am...

The decline and fall of the Montreal Expos. In 1969, the Montreal Expos played their first game. Thirty-two years later, the team that once boasted baseball's best farm system is nearly dead. In this book, former Expos president Claude Brochu gets to the bottom...

"Joyce Wieland is one of Canada's greatest artists of the last half of the twentieth century." -- Pierre Theberge, director of the National Gallery of Canada. Joyce Wieland triumphed over what she called "obscene poverty" to achieve international celebrity as a painter, collagist, quiltmaker,...

Vancouver's downtown East-side neighborhood, the poorest postal code in Canada, is a ten-block compound of poverty, pain, and despair in a sparkling, healthy, rich city. In the parlance of the street, this area is known as Low Track, where drug-addicted prostitutes barely sustain themselves...

"You're going to do what?" His wife's startled question says it all. But when Dr. Ken Walker (W. Gifford-Jones) sat down to write a book, neither he nor his wife foresaw the problems that lay ahead. Ken Walker has been hotel doctor, ship's surgeon,...

What would have happened if when leia was captured by the empire vader felt a connection and knew that she was his daughter? This fan fiction star wars tale from Sol Samuels will offer a potential alternative timeline story offering an answer to this...

Also sprach Zarathustra (Untertitel Ein Buch f r Alle und Keinen, 1883-1885) ist ein dichterisch-philosophisches Werk des deutschen Philosophen Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche selbst bezeichnete Also sprach Zarathustra als "das tiefste Buch, das die Menschheit besitzt". In ihm finden sich wichtige Motive der Philosophie Nietzsches:...

HAWAII UNDER ATTACK By the United States Of America MUST READ EVENT THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM An Independent Neutral Nation to the World under International Law. Did you know that the longest lasting war in the World is the Hawaiian Kingdom vs. the United States...

Goods and Services introduces readers to the concept of using and producing goods and services. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR...