Everything beginners need to know to start playing guitarDo you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then pick up a guitar and start strumming! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Guitar shows you the basics—step by step and note by note. You begin with basic chords and techniques and progress through suspensions, bass runs, hammer-ons, and barre chords. As you learn to read tablature and lead sheets, you can play any number of...

This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea’s transition from the Korean War to the start of the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War years are commonly remembered as a time of crisis and disarray, Charles Kim contends that they also created a formative and productive juncture in which South Koreans reworked pre-1945 constructions of national identity to meet the political and cultural...

Master Oracle Data Guard 11gProvide superior data protection, availability, and disaster recovery using the tested techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Cowritten by a team of Oracle experts, Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook provides a sound architectural foundation along with best practices for configuration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting. You will get full details on implementing deployment architectures to address requirements tha...

A new understanding of autism spectrum disorder.The experience of autistic people, real-life stories from parents, and suggested therapeutic approaches are brought together in New Ways of Understanding Autism to provide a realistic sense of autism and to build a sense of hope. Co-authors Brigitte Harrisson and Lise St-Charles, along with Governor General–award winning novelist Kim Thúy, present a new understanding of autism spectrum disorder — one that foc...

Illustrated Edition: Includes 20 classic illustrations to bring scenes and characters to lifeBonus Features: Concise summary, comprehensive characters list, and a brief author biography of Charles DickensStep into the most personal of Dickens’s novels—the story he called his “favourite child.” David Copperfield sweeps you from a childhood of tenderness and terror to the hard-won triumphs of adulthood, all told in a voice that...

This is an illustrated edition featuring beautiful illustrations, a detailed summary, an author biography, and a complete list of characters.Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is one of the most beloved classics in English literature — a powerful tale of hope, hardship, and the triumph of innocence over cruelty. The story follows Oliver, an orphan born into the grim world of London’s workhouses, as he str...

Illustrated edition — includes newly curated illustrations, a concise book summary, a brief author biography, and a handy characters list.**Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a sweeping historical drama set against the fury of the French Revolution—contrasting the glitter of London society with the tumult of Parisian streets. Through the intertwined fates of Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who renounces his title, and Sydney Carton, a disill...

• Illustrated edition — includes original-style illustrations, a concise summary, a brief author biography, and a handy characters list.Great Expectations follows Pip, an orphan raised on the bleak Kent marshes, whose chance encounter with a fugitive and an invitation to the decaying splendor of Miss Havisham’s house set his life on a startling course. When a mysterious benefactor grants him the means to become a g...

Illustrated Edition – Includes detailed illustrations, a complete story summary, an author biography, and a characters list.The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is a timeless comic masterpiece and the novel that first made Dickens a literary sensation.First published in serial form, this beloved classic follows the good-natured and endlessly curious Samuel Pickwick and the eccentric members of the Pickwick Clu...

Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful death and how the surviving community should remember such events.Among the topics covered are ...

Beautiful music and fun sound-effects help tell the classic tale of “Sleeping Beauty.” Find out what happens when a king and queen hold a special feast to celebrate the birth of their baby girl named Briar Rose. As each fairy presents special gifts to Briar Rose, the king and queen are delighted. But when the thirteenth fairy storms into the castle, because she was not invited to the celebration, she casts a wicked spell on Briar Rose. Will the spell be broken by a handsome prince? A happy...

Using side-by-side pairings of first drafts and final versions, including full-page reproductions from the poets' personal notebooks, as well as an insightful essay on each poem's journey from start to finish, The Art of Revising Poetry tracks the creative process of twenty-one of the United States' most influential poets as they struggle over a single word, line break, or thought. This behind-the-scenes look into the creative minds of working poets, including African American, La...