(Drum Instruction). Master teacher Joe Porcaro leads you through odd time signatures with simple-to-understand breakdowns of complex meters in many styles including jazz, funk, rock, Afro-Cuban, and m
The fog in Foggytown was so thick that people bumped into parking meters . . . and streetlamps . . . and each other! So Joey and Chloe's parents decide it's time to move. But Joey and Chloe love their
"Aristophanes was a funny, often obscene social commentator, and he was also a brilliantly fluent, wide-ranging poet, whose lyric rhythms were recited and sung to music, with dancing. It's very rare for modern translators to convey his poetic virtuosity or make any attempt to bring his meters to life. But Aaron Poochigan has achieved this feat, crafting polymetric translations that convey the whole range of Aristophanes' larger-than-life characters and provocative, alternative reality scenarios. This new translation is zany, sharp, inventive, vivacious, and surprisingly relevant for our times." (Emily Wilson, translator of Homer's Odyssey)
Upon the release of 100 of the World's Tallest Buildings, the first 100 of the world's tallest buildings will be more than 985 feet (300 meters) for the first time. This book will showcase many o
In daily life, we are accustomed to working with length scales of feet or meters, but the building blocks from which our bodies are constructed are many orders of magnitude smaller. The technologies
What is it really like to be a racer? What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? How does it feel to be reeled in from a solo breakaway meters from the line? What happens to
“I may be a supersoldier but I sure as hell ain’t no Superwoman. Yes, it’s true my hand is steady, I have the eye of a marksman, and I can hit a moving target dead center at four hundred meters, but w
A San Francisco Chronicle and Daily Candy Best Book of the YearWinner of the Dylan Thomas Prize The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage
In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inve
"Which volcano were women not allowed to climb until 1860? What is the difference between a shield volcano and a stratovolcano? Which volcano blew over 1,000 meters off its top in 1815? The world has
Watch kids grow faster than a climbing monkey with this interactive growth chart! Measuring approximately 5 feet (or 2 meters) this two-sided growth chart includes stickers to mark memorable— and curi
With great detail this book outlines all of the techniques needed to repair and restore Leica cameras, lenses, and accessories?including light meters, winders/motors, viewfinders, and flash units. Eac
Choice collection reflects the poet's mastery of a rich variety of poetic forms and meters. Included is one of his best narrative poems, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," along with such famous works
Why have all the sprinters who have run the 100 meters in under ten seconds been black? What's one thing Mozart, Venus Williams, and Michelangelo have in common? Is it good to praise a child's
The algae are a diverse group of organisms with forms that range in size from less than a micron in diameter to over ten meters in length. Small ? 1 JLm diam) unicellular forms dominate the open water
The Complete “Tool Kit? for the Hottest Area in RF/Wireless Design!Short-range wireless—communications over distances of less than 100 meters—is the most rapidly growing segment of RF/wireless enginee
Over the last two decades the development, evaluation and use of MFM systems has been a major focus for the Oil & Gas industry worldwide. Since the early 1990's, when the first commercial meters star
In 2007, the Department of Defense asked for a lot of money to convert some of its submarine missile fleet to launch non-nuclear missiles that could hit within meters of their targets, anywhere in the
A handbook for the advanced student of poetry covers everything from the basic meters and traditional European forms of the ballad and the sonnet to poetic forms brought to English from worldwide cult
