Finally—an intuitive, single-source standardization for naming guitar chords in the 21st century!A honing of guitar theory as a subcategory of music theory.Commonsense approach to all things guitar chord, including how to label alternate chord voicings.New concepts, including natural harmonics chords, unison chords, and octaval chords.A massive Instructional Glossary with clear and precise definitions, benefiting both guitarists and music theorists alike....

by Joseph Davis, with Magdalena Janosikova

Finally—an intuitive, single-source standardization for naming guitar chords in the 21st century!A honing of guitar theory as a subcategory of music theory.Commonsense approach to all things guitar chord, including how to label alternate chord voicings.New concepts, including natural harmonics chords, unison chords, and octaval chords.A massive Instructional Glossary with clear and precise definitions, benefiting both guitarists andmusic theorists alike.

Short stories from an author with "a roomy imagination, big appetite for the absurd, healthy sense of humor, [and] heightened sense for the telling detail" ( Telegraph-Journal).The elderly take to the streets at night for illegal and cathartic electric scooter racing. A copy editor suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry. Mayor McCheese visits a sexually repressed Brit...

When We Arrested James SpaderIt was the saddest thing I’d seen. How he kept thinking he was a cat and he wouldn’t get out of that filthy litter box.And then, in the back of the cruiser, meowing for his cat brothers to save him.Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and...

America lies in ruins during an age of decline despair and death. The year is 1975 and a radical far–left group has kidnapped a young woman from one of America’s richest families. She will later join their cause and will eventually be arrested and convicted of armed robbery. She will claim it was a “different personality” that robbed the bank. The jury didn’t buy it but author Brian Joseph Davis did. The important difference is: Davis thought her “different personality” was more interestin...

When the refugee boy Kasir appears in the little Swedish town of Klippsby, twelve-year-old Julia realizes at once that something about her new classmate is a bit strange. But she doesn’t realize just how different he is until one fateful night when they are attacked by terrifying living shadows.Along with her little brother Edvin and an old vagrant called the Troubadour, they are forced to flee through a magical portal to Kasir’s homeland. It is a world of boundless beauty, where a...

An expertly crafted evaluation of forces shaping the economy over the coming decade and portfolio management strategies designed to harness themIn Coming Into View: How AI and Other Megatrends Will Shape Your Investments, Vanguard’s Global Chief Economist and head of its Investment Strategy Group, Joe Davis, makes a simple and profound argument: that the “status quo” view of the United States economy – one of predictable and relatively constant measures of...

Everyday suffering—those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone’s lives—is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it. In the past, a person going through a time of difficulty might keep a journal or see a therapist, but now the psychological has been replaced by the biological: instead of treating the heart, soul, and mind, we take a pill to treat the brain....

Even before the historic and devastating atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese war effort and will to fight had been battered by the heavy B-29 bombing missions flown from the Mariana islands.The 73rd Wing shouldered one-third of this magnificent effort—flew one-third of the total number of missions—dropped one-third of the bombs and suffered one-third of the casualties. Its sacrifices in the early days before the acquisition of Iwo Jima as an intermediar...

The optimism and excitement author Joseph K. Davis and his wife, Darlene, shared in the birth of their firstborn son, Joseph Davis II, quickly turned into fear and uncertainty in January of 2000. They received the news that he had been born with life-threatening sickle-cell anemia, a genetic blood disorder characterized by red blood cells that assume an abnormal, rigid, sickle shape. The Davis family was prepared to do anything they could to help their little boy.In The Secret ...

The USS Northampton CC-1 was part of the U.S. Government's plan whereby the President of the United States could be evacuated in the event of a nuclear attack (1960–1970). The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Representatives could reach any ship, aircraft or station in the world to direct U.S. military forces.The sea stories are mostly truth filled with humor and reality during the Vietnam Era. The stories begin with 'President Lyndon B. Johnson's Dining Table', continue with the experi...