Drum Groove Creation: For Creative Drummers and Producers gives a comprehensive guide into creating new drum grooves by using unique methods and tools.The book covers popular genres, from Jazz and Blues to modern Hip-Hop subgenres as well as different cultural rhythms from around the world. This book is designed to equip the modern drummer, producer and beatmaker with the tools to be able to create their own drum grooves. Drum Groove Creation will take you from th...

This collection reveals Guy de Maupassant as a master of exact observation, psychological force, and haunting economy. Introduced as one of the great French writers of the nineteenth century, he emerges here as a man of secrecy and contradiction: outwardly reserved, inwardly intense, at once sensual and deeply pessimistic. Shaped by Flaubert's discipline, he turned to ordinary people and commonplace events—peasants, clerks, journalists, provincial women, sailors, and farmers—to uncover the...

Every television on Earth turns on simultaneously, the entire world is forced to watch a single, desperate message: a woman pleading for humanity to hide. But she isn't from the future she's from a simulation that ended hours before ours is set to.Ceara and Damon, two brilliant minds working with a quantum computer at the edge of reality, discover the shocking truth: their world may be just another layer of a grand simulation. As they delve deeper into the sentient lattice of Ourob...

Guy de Maupassant's Notre Cœur, also known as A Woman's Pastime, is a novel of love pursued under the shadow of self-deception, gossip, and emotional imbalance. Mariolle waits in anxious hope for Mme. de Burne, only to be cut by her charming distraction and by the Paris scandal she brings with her; when she leaves, he is left painfully aware that his attachment has grown into a desire she cannot fully return. Mme. de Burne, riding through a harsh spring storm, privately measures the limits...

At Mont Oriol, a fashionable spa in Auvergne, cure and pleasure become a single glittering business. Wealthy banker Andermatt transforms the resort into a stage for commerce, spectacle, and therapeutic promise, while rival doctors, ambitious owners, and curious visitors circle the springs with equal parts faith and calculation. Into this world come the Ravenel family, including Christiane de Ravenel, a young wife whose delicate health, emotional unease, and longing for a child give the nov...

The rise of a scoundrel. The anatomy of a world. In Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant delivers a razor-sharp portrait of a man who climbs the social ladder not by virtue, talent, or labor—but by charm, seduction, and sheer opportunism. Georges Duroy begins with nothing: a handsome face, a military past, and the hunger to rise. What follows is a calculated ascent through the bedrooms and salons of Paris, each conquest a rung in his climb toward wealth and power.First published in 1885, Bel...

The first complete, in-depth examination of every work published by the “King of Horror,” Stephen King.Stephen King is perhaps the most well-known author across horror, thriller, science fiction, and mystery genres, with more than 350 million books sold. Stephen King All the Stories examines in extensive detail how each novel, novella, and short story was created, developed, published, and adapted into successful films television and other media. At 648 pages, Step...

A Horus Heresy Character Series NovelThe First Captain of the Blood Angels Legion is tested as never before, commanding a contingent of fresh inductii in a desperate battle. Will he be able to lead them in mastering their new thirsts, or will they return to the loathsome customs from before Sanguinius transformed the IX Legion into something noble and true?READ IT BECAUSEIt's a fascinating look at what the Red Thirst means to the Blo...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, and Oscar Wilde are indisputable masters of the short story. They continue to entertain, thrill, and delight readers across generations because they are so deeply human, so relatable, and so exquisitely recounted.This definitive edition features:New translations: Nuanced translations from the original source material, bringing vibrant new life to timeless classics.Contextual Introductions: Brief cri...

Ulysses. The hero of Homer’s great poem was known to the Greeks under the name of Odysseus. He was king of the pastoral islands of Ithaca and Dulichium. Most of the petty Greek chieftains became suitors for the hand of the beautiful Helen, and Ulysses was among the number, but withdrew when he realised the smallness of his chances. He then married Penelope, the daughter of Icarius, and at the same time joined with the other unsuccessful lovers of Helen in a sworn league for her future prot...