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Create arrangements with texture and style with this complete guide to arranging for large horn sections! Now, for the first time, learn the same jazz ensemble arranging techniques taught by renowned Berklee College of Music faculty, and studied by the best and brightest arrangers working today. While the book focuses on classic big band and jazz styles, the core information about horn harmony and arranging can be used for any style, from hip-hop to ska. Arranging for Large Jazz Ensemble includes all the information you need when creating horn charts, fueling and inspiring you with the charts of esteemed Berklee professors Jeff Friedman, Ted Pease, Scott Free, Greg Hopkins and Bill Scism. The play-along CD includes more than 60 demo tracks and arrangements written in the style of masters such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Gil Evans, and performed by Berklee faculty. Covers: writing and voicing techniques; soli, background and shout choruses; special effects; creating your own style; and more.
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The really way to learn jazz arranging.......2006-03-13
This is the first time I found how to learn about jazz arranging and how to improve my last music knowledge.
It is a wonderful book.
Great book with great recording examples.......2005-05-13
Arranging Jazz for Large Ensemble gives the readers the necessary skills to write for big bands. Although it is an advance subject in the Arranging area, the book starts with writing for unison and octaves. There are also great chapters about background writing with riff and guide tone lines. The Shout Chorus chapter provides beginners writers to fully understand the arrangement "big picture". All levels of arrangers can benefit from these chapters and their musical examples. They will help you memorize sound texture and effects as well as the writing techniques. As you go over the other chapters, you can easily assimilate their content and apply them successfully. It's unique and well written book, one of the best of its kind.
Great book with great recording examples.......2005-05-13
Arranging Jazz for Large Ensemble gives the readers the necessary skills to write for big bands. Although it is an advance subject in the Arranging area, the book starts with writing for unison and octaves. There are also great chapters about background writing with riff and guide tone lines. The Shout Chorus chapter provides beginners writers to fully understand the arrangement "big picture". All levels of arrangers can benefit from these chapters and their musical examples. They will help you memorize sound texture and effects as well as the writing techniques. As you go over the other chapters, you can easily assimilate their content and apply them successfully. It's unique and well written book, one of the best of its kind.
Highly Recommended.......2005-02-02
This book provides a wealth of priceless knowledge. The techniques revealed by the Berklee faculty have greatly improved my ability as an arranger. Although the focus is on jazz, I have found many of the techniques to be useful when arranging in other musical genres. I found the accompanying CD extremely helpful, as it provided demos of a number of famous arrangers and composers. I find myself referring back to the book time and time again and finding new techniques to use each time. I highly recommed it to anyone interested in becoming an arranger or composer.
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A lavishly illustrated volume that presents a wide range of Chinese dishes from the major culinary regions and examines the influences that have shaped the cuisine. Expertly photographed.
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Food and Chinese Culture: Essays on Popular Cuisines
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This unique book is a collection of essays on Chinese food and culture by some of China¡¦s most well-known writers and cultural critics. Included are essays by Lin Yutang, Wang Meng, and others, which run the gamut from some of the greatest delicacies in history to everyday roadside snacks cherished since childhood; the meaning of food to the Chinese, its preparation, enjoyment, and its role as the essence of life. The myriad variety of Chinese food and all its cultural components are represented, resulting in a revealing and enlightening appraisal of what truly lies at the heart of Chinese food and its culture.
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History: Fiction or Science? is the most explosive tractate on history ever written - however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by solid scientific data. The book is well-illustrated, contains over 446 graphs and illustrations, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays, which never cease to amaze the reader. Eminent mathematician proves that: Jesus Christ was born in 1153 and crucified in 1186 The Old Testament refers to mediaeval events. Apocalypse was written after 1486. Does this sound uncanny? This version of events is substantiated by hard facts and logic - validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources - to a greater extent than everything you may have read and heard about history before. The dominating historical discourse in its current state was essentially crafted in the XVI century from a rather contradictory jumble of sources such as innumerable copies of ancient Latin and Greek manuscripts whose originals had vanished in the Dark Ages and the allegedly irrefutable proof offered by late mediaeval astronomers, resting upon the power of ecclesial authorities. Nearly all of its components are blatantly untrue! For some of us, it shall possibly be quite disturbing to see the magnificent edifice of classical history to turn into an ominous simulacrum brooding over the snake pit of mediaeval politics. Twice so, in fact: the first seeing the legendary millenarian dust on the ancient marble turn into a mere layer of dirt - one that meticulous unprejudiced research can eventually remove. The second, and greater, attack of unease comes with the awareness of just how many areas of human knowledge still trust the three elephants of the consensual chronology to support them. Nothing can remedy that except for an individual chronological revolution happening in the minds of a large enough number of people.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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Food and Festivals of China
Yan Liao
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China (Food & Festivals)
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The cuisine of China is widely considered to be one of the best because it meets the requirements of geographic variety, inclusion of all types of foods, and a long-established and well-developed culinary tradition. The Chinese culture can be labeled a food culture for the interest and honor given to food and its rituals. Food Culture in China is loaded with information on the cuisine's prominent role in Chinese culture. Students and other readers will learn about Chinese food history through the dynasties and Silk Road migrations up until today, ingredients, cooking implements and techniques, regional differences, table etiquette, cultural emphasis on food, specialty dishes for celebrations, and the role of diet and traditional Chinese medicine, among other topics. Each chapter contains a number of recipes for a meal based on the specific topic. Americans typically are familiar with a narrow range of Americanized Chinese restaurants. This one-stop resource helps readers to see this ever-popular ethnic cuisine in a broader context. It is the most in-depth reference of its kind on the market. A timeline, glossary, tables, and illustrations complement the narrative.
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If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times reporter and Chinese-American (or American-born Chinese). In her search, Jennifer 8 Lee traces the history of Chinese-American experience through the lens of the food. In a compelling blend of sociology and history, Jenny Lee exposes the indentured servitude Chinese restaurants expect from illegal immigrant chefs, investigates the relationship between Jews and Chinese food, and weaves a personal narrative about her own relationship with Chinese food. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles speaks to the immigrant experience as a whole, and the way it has shaped our country.
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Guide To China: Delicious Foods. Learn about China and the Chinese. This book deals with Chinese well known foods, special flour food, taste and style foods and famous feasts. The book is filled with colorful pictures and descriptions. This is a great book for travel or general learning.
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Taste of China (Food Around the World)
Roz Denny
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Science fiction and fantasy authors analyze every aspect of the innovative, action-packed, and always surprising science fiction television series Farscape in this innovative and irreverent essay collection. Contributors include Martha Wells on characters Crichton and D'Argo's buddy relationship, P. N. Elrod on the villains she loves to hate, and Justina Robson on sex, pleasure, and feminism. Topics range from a look at how Moya was designed and an examination of vulgarity and bodily functions to a tourist's budget guide to the Farscape universe and an expert's advice to the peacekeepers who, despite their viciousness, never quite seem to pull it off. Fun, accessible, entertaining, and insightful, these musings will appeal to every admirer of this intriguing television series.
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Awesome book!.......2007-05-09
This book is a complation of essays, written by professional writers who also happen to be fans of Farscape. Different authors writing about different aspects of such a great series, from different points of view makes for a terrific read for anyone who was (and still is) a fan of this remarkable TV series. After you read this book, it gives watching the syndicated re-runs a whole new perspective! A "must read" for all Farscape fans!
Highly disappointed..........2006-07-30
Frankly, most of these "essays" didn't grab my attention. I was bored throughout this book. I thought it was going to be a nice walk through the past of one of my favorite shows - some stellar insight into what made Farscape great. But all I got was a lot of prentention, a lot of "let me show you how smart I am" prose. A waste of money.
Our galaxy needs better proofreaders..........2006-07-25
An interesting read, a facinating concept. Various sf writers delve into aspects of "Farscape," from a "NASA memo" that reprimands Crichton for tarnishing Earth's good name in distant parts of the galaxy, to essays that compare Zhaan to several different ancient Earth goddesses/myths.
However, the book's publisher needs to hire a real proofreader, instead of relying on (probably Windoze's) spell checker. One writer calls D'Argo a "Luxan," another, a "Luxon." On page 49 there's a quoted line of dialogue I'm sure must be a typo. A British writer gives a "new meaning" to the TV jibe of "jumping the shark" -- no, it doesn't mean the consummation of two characters longstanding attraction; the phrase comes from an episode in "Happy Days'" waning years, in which Fonzie (at least, his stunt double), on waterskis, indeed "jumped a shark" in a desperate attempt to lure viewers back to the show. Most "Farscape" fans would agree that the show never "jumped the shark."
Good post-script for a great show..........2005-12-01
While long time 'Scapers may become annoyed at the constant reminders of how great the show WAS--and how its demise came far too soon--this book may be of help for those who start watching it in syndication and quickly become lost, since the network doesn't show it in sequence.
Many of these essays give an interesting slant on the episodes. I especially enjoyed "Superior Villainy: 6 Secrets of the Pros", which must have been required reading by today's corporations...
Since Season 5 is out of the question (though one can always hope), this book gives a glimpse of what television sci-fi can achieve and is a great addition to any Farscape (or sci-fi) fan's collection.
Half self-congratulatory drivel, half reasonably intelligent insight........2005-11-13
Farscape is my favorite television show, with Firefly at a close second, so when this book appeared on Amazon I snatched it right up, especially after reading the impressive and thought-provoking Smart Pop book on Firefly, Finding Serenity. This book, unfortunately, is not like Finding Serenity at all. The first five or so essays are devoted to why Farscape is great, why Farscape is better than everything else, why Farscape is a brilliant work of incredible genius, why Farscape is the key to eternal salvation. You get the point.
I should interject at this point that this book is worth reading if - and probably only if - you're a hardcore Farscape fan. There is some decent insight here, as well as a couple attempts at humorous essays which fall flat. Several of the essays ("Theater of Faces," for example, which still manages to come back around to "Farscape rocks") are truly worth reading and contain some valuable gems to think about as you watch your DVDs (and I know you have them).
I hope it says something that I, who enjoys Farscape over any other show, feel that some of the praise in this book goes a tiny bit too far. I don't want to be reminded that Farscape is a great show - I can get that without putting down fifteen dollars. If you were as delighted with Finding Serenity as I was, you'll be disappointed with this tome, as much as it pains me to say so.
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This book provides a seamless approach to numerical algorithms, modern programming techniques and parallel computing. These concepts and tools are usually taught serially across different courses and different textbooks, thus observing the connection between them. The necessity of integrating these subjects usually comes after such courses are concluded (e.g., during a first job or a thesis project), thus forcing the student to synthesize what is perceived to be three independent subfields into one in order to produce a solution. The book includes both basic and advanced topics and places equal emphasis on the discretization of partial differential equations and on solvers. Advanced topics include wavelets, high-order methods, non-symmetric systems and parallelization of sparse systems. A CD-ROM accompanies the text.
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101 things to do with your pet supercomputer.......2006-09-11
Scientific parallel computing is what this book is all about, and it does a very good job kneading MPI into the mathematical dough. The book assumes knowledge of mathematics (through Calculus, in some sections, and quite a bit of linear algebra) and little programming experience. This is not a book on C++ programming (not even close, and it does not pretend to be), nor is it a book on MPI programming, parallel computer design, or even the setting up of a suitable software development environment. In fact, it assumes all of the above, which leaves the way uncluttered for the exploration of the application of parallel algorithms upon familiar mathematical concepts.
An introductory C++ section is provided to get things rolling, though the level of C++ in the book amounts to simple classes and cin / cout in lieu of C's `printf' nonsense. This is good news, because it maintains the book's focus on the parallelization of mathematical procedures rather than on the irrelevant details of how cute it would all look wrapped up in a needlessly complex object hierarchy. Basic applied C++ and MPI, as and when needed to get the job done.
I personally use this text at home on my home-grown parallel Linux computer to investigate the partitioning of algorithms, such as going from a complex function to a Taylor series that may then be distributed to compute nodes.
Further MPI, C/C++, and extremely high-level parallel concepts are introduced through the book in a natural progression, as the problems at hand require their introduction. This keeps the book from being bogged down and off-topic. Kudos to the authors for remaining on course through a sea of such tempting distractions.
The book is the `how'. BYOW:)
ps: my CD was damaged so couldn't evaluate it.
4-stars
Should be improved........2006-02-20
The authors attempted to combine introductory material in C++, numerical methods and parallel computing. That is quite a brave endevaour. They certainly break the new ground writing an introductory material for a "simulation scientist", but I believe they have achieved mixed success.
On the one hand, the material they present on all subjects is really top quality, packed with 100% usefull information. Bibliography is also very good and usefull. But the organisation of the book is quite confusing. They introduce all the topics toogether - throughtout the book. Hence each chapter introduces some numerical algorithms, few new concepts in C++ and eventually MPI. I beleive a novice would experience serious difficulties following it. For example, authors introduce objects before introducing curly braces "{}" as scope delimiters and before semicolon ";" as statement delimiters.
Further, very soon after introducung the very basic concepts in C++, the authors move on to BLAS. BLAS is usefull, of course, but a novice in C++ may wonder why does he needs libraries written in Fortran, if C++ is a language of the choice for numerical computations. (At least it is claimed so by the authors).
Another confusing example is the one of memory memory access. In section 2.2.6 Memory Management, (pg. 41) the authors introduce basic concepts of memory management and how can loop constructs influence the efficiency of the code. Very usefull indeed, no question about it. But very soon bellow, in section 2.2.8 Exploiting the Structure of the Sparse Matrices, they come up with the claim (pg. 58): "... optimization-savy individuals, as the old saying goes, often miss the forest for the threes" :-( Hence, a novice reader might think: "Well, why do I need to worry about the memory management explained just 17 pages above?".
My most serious critic of this book by far (and I hope the authors will read this) are the contents pages. The contents list only chapters and first level sub-chapters. Secind level chapters are not present!!! That makes the book very hard to use as a reference material. That is really a pitty, since there is some good material in it which is hard to find and might stay hidden. (For example, the chapter I mentioned above: 2.2.6 Memory management is NOT in the contents, so I had to browse slowly throught the book to find it and refer it here). I suggest the authors introduce: "Contents at a glance" (the present one) and a "Detailed Contents", where one could find references to all the chapters in the book. The contents is THE reason why I gave this book 3 stars instead of 4. One it lost on the confusing organisation of the book.
I think the authors should have organised the book in four parts: 1 - Numerical algorithms, 2 - C++ and 3 - Parallel computing with MPI, 4 - Advanced topics. Part 1 could introduce numerical algorithms and have pointers to their implementations in Part 2 and corresponding parallel implementations in Part 3. Part 2 and 3 could have started with introductions, which a reader already familiar with those subjects, could skip. Part 4, could bring advanced topics, such as optimisation, BLAS, etc.
Bottom line, it is:
- brave and usefull endevaour,
- full of excellent material,
- organized confusingly,
- and has a very poor contents.
Buy it if you are simulation scientist or teacher, but prepare to struggle with its organisation and contents.
Combining mathematics with modern computing.......2005-09-30
The book contains advanced numerical mathematics algorithms and
fundamental elements of parallel computation.
It will be useful for those academic instructors who believe that students should be shown the entire solution process
from mathematical problem definition to computer implementation. It has been used as a textbook at several leading American and European universities.
The authors professors Karniadakis and Kilby are innovators who demonstrate that combining education of applied mathematics with computer science is possible and extremely useful for students and their future employers.
Great book to get acquainted with numerical analysis.......2005-06-02
This book is great in describing some of the most important concepts and algorithms needed for the beginning numerical analyst. The book claims that it can be picked up by a complete novice and teach C++, MPI, and scientfic computing. I would say that the math goes very quickly and not quite as rigorous as necessary for the typical novice. The C++ is pretty basic but still the book leaves the reader a sense of confusion. This is largely because the book treats a large amount of the library functions as black boxes. The MPI starts very basic and gradually introduces the major concepts.
My recommendation for anyone reading the book is to supplement it with a good linear algebra book (such as Demmel) and book on C++ (The C++ programming language). For further study on MPI, Using MPI would be a good supplement. That way whenever you have a concept that isn't fully described, you have a source to get it from.
The book gets a high rating for going over the right content and doing so in a applied manner that gives the reader the skills to become a numerical analyst.
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