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Indefinite is an ethnographic study of life in a contemporary county jail system. Having been arrested and jailed, Michael Walker turned his experience into an examination of jails from the inside out, revealing the physical and emotional experience of doing time, the set of strategies prisoners use to endure it, and the deputies who use race to control prisoners and the kinds of experiences prisoners had.

Focusing on recurring motifs and themes, Michael Walker identifies around forty significant elements throughout Alfred Hitchcock's filmography. By examining objects, settings, characters, and events, the book provides a fresh perspective amidst the multitude of Hitchcock literature. It encompasses all 52 of Hitchcock's films, offering insights into how these motifs contribute to the director's unique storytelling style and cinematic legacy.

Featuring 40 lute fantasies from the Late Renaissance, this compilation by renowned German lutenist Elias Mertel showcases the intricate beauty of the era's music. The pieces are transcribed for various instruments, including baritone ukulele, Renaissance guitar, and low G ukulele, making them accessible to a wide range of musicians. Each fantasy can also be played on the guitar, providing versatility for performers. This is the second volume in the series, continuing the celebration of Mertel's significant contributions to lute music.

Featuring 40 lute fantasies from the Late Renaissance, this compilation by renowned German lutenist Elias Mertel offers a rich selection of music for various instruments. The pieces have been transcribed for baritone ukulele, Renaissance guitar, low G ukulele, and other four-course instruments, making them accessible to a wide range of musicians. All selections can also be played on the guitar, ensuring versatility for performers.

Michael Walker’s Laurel Canyon presents the inside story of the once hottest rock and roll neighborhood in LA.In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyon's golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin'" to " Judy Blue Eyes" to "It's Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture.In Laurel Canyon , veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boomer's leading musical lights―including Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a few―who turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed .

Francesco Canova da Milano (also known as "Il Divino", (1497 -1543) was an Italian lutenist and composer born in Monza, a small city some 15 km north-northeast of Milan. Da Milano worked for the papal court for almost all of his career. Da Milano was heralded throughout Europe as the foremost lute composer of his time And he was at the forefront of the musicians who established the lute as a vehicle for polyphonic composition in the early 16th century of the Italian Renaissance. His music represents the transition from the loose improvisational style of his predecessors to the more refined polyphonic textures of later lute music. Recommended for Intermediate and Advanced Performers About Michael P Walker I studied guitar at Birmingham-Southern College under David Walpert who was a student of Andre Segovia and I have been playing guitar, ukulele, Baroque guitar, and the lute for more than fifty years. I have transcribed these compositions with the hope of exposing this rich, beautiful music to a wider audience of guitar and ukulele players.

Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) was a prominent Baroque composer and lutenist known for his exceptional contributions to lute music. Born in Grottkau, Silesia (now part of Poland), and a contemporary of Johan Sebastian Bach, Weiss displayed exceptional talent from an early age and quickly rose to become one of the most esteemed lute virtuosos of his time. The London manuscript is a compilation of Weiss's works that made its way to England. It provides a unique perspective on Weiss's musical style, influenced by the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the British capital. In this manuscript, one can find a diverse range of musical forms and influences, reflecting Weiss's encounters with English, French, and Italian music. The London manuscript includes a delightful combination of galliards, allemandes, courantes, and other dances, as well as charming character pieces and graceful sonatas. Recommended for Intermediate and Advanced Performers

I think it was Maxim Gorky (lower depths) who once said that laughter not only opens the mouth to laugh but also opens the mind to thought. In this book, there are many poems that give that food for thought, for consideration and debate, but I have added a humorous bent on much of the material, for as in my case at least, humour is a good, strong tool in dealing in many cases of diversity. As for the rest of the book, well, it's a mixture really with funny poems, well, just for the sake of a laugh.

Who would have thought you could play classical music on a ukulele? But you can! Here is a suite from the Late 16th Century by Jacobus Gallus for lute and four choral pieces transcribed for solo Low G ukulele in tablature and modern notation. Recommended for Intermediate and Advanced performers. Have fun!

(condensed from the Foreword) The Title: Before a military headquarters sends a message to one of its units, it encrypts the message so that only friendly forces with the key to the code can decipher it. When someone else finds out how the code works, he or she is said to have broken the code. For many beginners the computer instruction books seem to be in code. The title of this book, Break'n Windows, tells the novice that the code has been broken and that this reference manual can be readily understood. The reason this manual was written: This manual was initially developed for the purpose of giving the author quick and easy directions for common computer operations. Unlike many children, he does not remember each simple routine as he first learns it. He owns a number of computer books, but he is too impatient to wade through six pages of text to locate a few simple directions. He wanted a book from which he could get the information quickly and easily. When friends learned about his simpler way, they insisted that he share his manual with them. The scope of this manual: This work is not meant to be definitive; it treats common operations and only those that can be presented in a reasonably short space. A few very useful operations with longer explanations are given in the appendices; the rest of them are listed with the advice: See a bigger book.