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  Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV

  Erik Davis

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  In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic—black or otherwise—that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots—and leaves the reader to decide whether [FOUR SYMBOLS] is some form of occult induction or just an inspired, brilliantly played rock album.Excerpt:Stripping Led Zeppelin's famous name off the fourth record was an almost petulant attempt to let their Great Work symbolically stand on its own two feet. But the wordless jacket also lent the album charisma. Fans hunted for hidden meanings, or, in failing to find them, sensed a strange reflection of their own mute refusal to communicate with the outside world. This helped to create one of the supreme paradoxes of rock history: an esoteric megahit, a blockbuster arcanum. Stripped of words and numbers, the album no longer referred to anything but itself: a concrete talisman that drew you into its world, into the frame. All the stopgap titles we throw at the thing are lame: Led Zeppelin IV, [Untitled], Runes, Zoso, Four Symbols.  In an almost Lovecraftian sense, the album was nameless, a thing from beyond, charged with manna. And yet this uncanny fetish was about as easy to buy as a jockstrap.

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  Modal Guitar Licks - 80 Original...

  Gareth Evans

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  80 original & creative guitar licks in tablature and notation, featuring the major scale & all of its modes.
  
  - All guitar tablatures include picking directions & fretboard finger guide numbers
  - 432 bars of music (average lick length 5.4 bars)
  - Video demonstrations for all licks at full speed
  - Audio demonstrations for all licks at full & half speed
  - Backing tracks at full and slower practice speeds
  - Introduction to the theory of modes
  - 5 CAGED scale diagrams for every scale type (45 scale diagrams)
  - Theory and technique tips for every lick
  - Licks from the Major, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian & Locrian modes
  - Styles include Brit Pop, Smooth Hip Hop Jazz, Half-time Thrash, Progressive Metal, Funk Rock, Funky Blues & Pop Rock
  - Dynamics and techniques include slides, hybrid picking, sweep picking, hammer-ons, pull-offs, palm muting, trills, displaced rhythms, pedal notes, double stops, finger rolls, string bends, double-handed tapping, pinched harmonics, tapped harmonics, tremolo bar and partial chords
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  37: Evoking the Chanakya within...

  Storytel India

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  Dr. Radhakrishnan Pillai is the bestselling author of Inside Chanakya's Mind, and Chatur Chanakya And The Himalayan Problem. He has researched Kautilya's Arthashastra extensively and has a Master's degree in Sanskrit. He has written 'Everyday Chanakya' exclusively for storytel speaking to all the people who lead a stressed life and are seeking success and happiness in their journey!

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  Post-Modern Buildings in Britain

  Elain Harwood, Geraint Franklin

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  An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style – and its finest examples
  Post-modernism was the 1980s' counter to Brutalism but fell out of fashion until its best buildings began to disappear. Now is the time to reassess its values. Historians Geraint Franklin and Elain Harwood discuss its background and key architects before celebrating Britain's finest examples. Individual entries are beautifully illustrated, many with new photography, including the SIS Building made famous by James Bond, John Outram's awe-inspiring pumping station in London's Docklands and Judge Institute in Cambridge, and the late works of James Stirling and Michael Wilford, including No.1 Poultry – an extraordinary corner of the City that in 2016 became England's youngest listed building.

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  Turn It Up! - My Time Making Hit...

  Tom Werman

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  As an A&R man at Epic Records, Tom Werman helped introduce the world to REO Speedwagon, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Cheap Trick; he also discovered KISS, Rush, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, but his record label passed on all of them. Then, as an independent producer, he oversaw landmark albums by Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Lita Ford, Jeff Beck, Poison, and many more. All in all, his record-making résumé includes twenty-three gold- or platinum-selling albums and cumulative sales of more than fifty-two million copies. 
   
   
   
  After bearing witness to several sea changes in the music industry, Werman retired from producing in 2001 and reinvented himself as an award-winning innkeeper in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. And that might have been that—until an off-the-cuff rebuttal to a disparaging critique of his role in making the Mötley Crüe album Girls, Girls, Girls on a music website led to a fortnightly column and now this book—an honest and engaging insider account on how some of the best-loved albums of the 1970s and '80s came to be. A must for anyone interested in the glory days of rock and metal, Turn It Up! offers valuable insights into the recording process, the recording studio, the role of the producer, and the production values that are essential to the creation of a hit record.

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  Hazel Soan's Painting People and...

  Hazel Soan

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  Master painting lively figures and private portraits, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.
  Bestselling artist and author Hazel Soan explains how to create beautiful and engaging paintings of strangers and loved ones, with handy hints and work-in-progress paintings throughout. Learn how to overcome shyness or anxiety about painting people in private and in public. Capture their energy and see beyond their likeness through angles, movement, tone and detail. Understand how to make them comfortable with poses, a timeframe and support. Learn about clothing, proportion, measuring and scene-setting.
  This is the only book you need for painting people and portraits. This extensive guide is ideal for all painters, new or experienced.

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