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From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned] Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The interactive audio includes all 365 workout licks, plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings. A helpful interactive glossary is also included for related terms. |
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This book examines what might be described as the “pure” Réti Opening. White starts with 1 Nf3 and intends to meet 1...d5 with the “Réti” response 2 c4. One of the major advantages of playing these systems is that they rely far more on general strategic understanding than rote memorisation. However, this does not mean that Black is not set difficult problems to solve. In the modern era these lines have mainly been championed by Vladimir Kramnik and Lev Aronian. Both these players have frequently set very difficult problems for their elite opponents with these complex systems. This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the  Move by Move  format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge. Essential guidance and training in the Réti Opening Analyses all key variations Utilizes an ideal Q+A approach to chess study Sam Collins  is an International Master with two grandmaster norms, and a former Irish and Japanese Champion. He has represented Ireland at seven Olympiads, winning an individual gold medal at Bled 2002. He has a wealth of teaching and writing experience, and has produced many books, DVDs and magazine articles on chess. |
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A book of beautiful landscape photographs made entirely on an iPhone, by British landscape and advertising photographer, Julian Calverley. Although known for his large-scale atmospheric landscape work, Julian also has a global reputation for his iPhoneography, earning him over 120,000 followers on Instagram.  His #iPhoneonly work has featured in magazines and blogs worldwide, and now tours as an exhibition. |
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From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight centuries and a vast range of subjects. Here are the sacred and the scandalous, the minimalist and the opulent, the groundbreaking and the conventional. There are paintings that captured the feeling of an era and those that signaled the beginning of a new one. Works of art that were immediately recognised for their genius, and others that were at first met with resistance. All have stood the test of time and in their own ways contribute to the dialectic on what makes a painting great, how notions of art have changed, to what degree art reflects reality, and to what degree it alters it. Brought together, these great works illuminate the changing preoccupations and insights of our ancestors, and give us pause to consider which paintings from our own era will ultimately join the canon. |
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Si le portrait devait, avant tout, être la représentation fidèle de son modèle, selon des canons strictement définis, cette galerie de 1000 portraits montre au contraire, combien ce genre fut bousculé au fil de l’histoire et s’avère être beaucoup plus complexe qu’une simple imitation de la réalité. Par-delà la dextérité de l’artiste, l’art du portrait se doit de dépasser l’imitation, aussi juste et précise soit-elle, pour traduire, sans trahir, tant l’intention de son commanditaire que celle de l’artiste. Ainsi, ces témoins silencieux, soigneusement sélectionnés dans ces pages, révèlent, au-delà des visages officiels ou anonymes, une psychologie plus qu’une identité, une allégorie, une propagande politique ou religieuse, ou incarnent, avec justesse, les moeurs de leurs époques. Par son nombre impressionnant de chefs-d’oeuvre, de biographies, de commentaires d’oeuvres, cet ouvrage confronte les différents portraits, exposant dès lors au lecteur, et à tout amateur d’art, le reflet de l’évolution de notre société, mais surtout les bouleversements d’un genre qui, pendant près de trente siècles de peintures, façonna l’histoire de l’art. |
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According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model. However, this gallery of 1000 portraits illustrates how the genre has been transformed throughout history, and has proven itself to be much more complex than a simple imitation of reality. Beyond exhibiting the skill of the artist, the portrait must surpass the task of imitation, as just and precise as it may be, to translate both the intention of the artist as well as that of its patron, without betraying eitherÊs wishes. Therefore, these silent witnesses, carefully selected in these pages, reveal more than faces of historic figures or anonymous subjects: they reveal a psychology more than an identity, illustrate an allegory, serve as political and religious propaganda, and embody the customs of their epochs. With its impressive number of masterpieces, biographies, and commentaries on works, this book presents and analyses different portraits, consequently exposing to the reader, and to any art lover, a reflection of the evolution of society, and above all the upheavals of a genre that, over 300 centuries of painting, has shaped the history of art. |
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One of Canada’s most successful and enduring musical plays, Billy Bishop Goes to War was first published in 1982 and went on to win the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award and the Governor General’s Award for Drama. In 2010, the celebrated story of the World War I flying ace – credited with seventy-two victories and billed as the top pilot in the British Empire – was revised to frame the original play as a retrospective. It is the same play it always was – the difference is in the telling. Billy Bishop now appears in his later years, reflecting on his wartime exploits, and on the business of war and hero making. Bishop’s reminiscence is not so much about the horror and death of war as it is about being young and intensely alive. “The prime of life / The best of men,” Bishop sings, “It will never be / Like this again.” A memory play about war, Billy Bishop has been going into battle onstage for more than thirty years. The Canadian classic is revisited in this second edition, where war is still a terrible thing, but some men say it was the greatest time of their lives. It’s about the ironies and the price of survival. The play format is deceptively simple with a solo narrator who assumes multiple roles while his piano-playing sidekick offers sardonic musical comments. Cast of 2 men. |
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Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers look at and understand art. |
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This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part as well as in the vocal line. |
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Almighty Voice and His Wife shakes up a familiar story from the Saskatchewan frontier, reimagining it from the postmodern late twentieth century. The "renegade Indian story" transforms into both an eloquent tale of tragic love and an often hilarious, fully theatrical exorcism of the hurts of history. A modern classic about the place of First Nations people in Canada. |
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Ukulele for Kids is a fun, easy course that teaches children to play ukulele faster than ever before. Popular songs such as Yellow Submarine, The Hokey Pokey, This Land Is Your Land, Rock Around the Clock, You Are My Sunshine and Barbara Ann keep kids motivated, and the clean, simple page layouts ensure their attention remains focused on one concept at a time. The method can be used in combination with a teacher or parent. The accompanying audio contains tracks for demonstration and play-along. Lessons include: selecting your uke; parts of the uke; holding the uke; hand position; reading music notation and counting; notes on the strings; C, F, C7, Am, G, B-flat, and Gm chords; strumming and picking; and more] |
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Music Theory for the Bass Player is a comprehensive and immediately applicable guide to making you a well-grounded groover, informed bandmate and all-around more creative musician.  Included with this book are 89 videos that are incorporated in this ebook. This is a workbook, so have your bass and a pen ready to fill out the engaging Test Your Understanding questions!  Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task? Perhaps all the books seem to be geared toward pianists or classical players?  Do you know lots of songs, but don't know how the chords are put together or how they work with the melody? If so, this is the book for you!  • Starting with intervals as music's basic building blocks, you will explore scales and their modes, chords and the basics of harmony.  • Packed with fretboard diagrams, musical examples and exercises, more than 180 pages of vital information are peppered with mind-bending quizzes, effective mnemonics, and compelling learning approaches.  • Extensive and detailed photo demonstrations show why relaxed posture and optimized fingering are vital for good tone, timing and chops.  • You can even work your way through the book without being able to read music (reading music is of course a vital skill, yet, the author believes it should not be tackled at the same time as the study of music theory, as they are different skills with a different practicing requirement. Reading becomes much easier once theory is mastered and learning theory on the fretboard using diagrams and patterns as illustrations, music theory is very accessible, immediately usable and fun.  This is the definitive resource for the enthusiastic bassist!  This book and the 89 free videos stand on their own and form a thorough source for studying music theory for the bass player. If you'd like to take it a step further, the author also offers a corresponding 20 week course; this online course works with the materials in this book and practices music theory application in grooves, fills and solos. Information is on the author's blog. |
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Eric Franklin’s first edition of Conditioning for Dance was a bestseller—and it is back and better than ever, offering state-of-the-art conditioning exercises for dancers. An internationally renowned master teacher, Franklin has developed a science-based method of conditioning that is taught and practiced in companies and schools around the world. In this new edition of Conditioning for Dance , he integrates the latest scientific research on strength, flexibility, and conditioning into his dance exercises. New to This Edition Since the first edition, the topic of dancers’ health, wellness, and conditioning has taken on even greater importance in the dance community. Franklin has responded to this increased emphasis by adding these new exercises and resources: • Over 100 new conditioning exercises—for all parts of the body—to support dancers in a wide range of genres, forms, and styles • Over 100 new illustrations and photos to explain and show the exercises • Two new chapters with exercises for a complete conditioning plan • A new web resource that offers 17 video clips featuring Franklin showing correct execution of the conditioning exercises from the book, two 20-minute portable whole-body workouts that use elastic bands to increase strength and aerobic conditioning for dance, and a personal conditioning program you can use to set goals chapter by chapter and monitor your conditioning development to support your performance. The web resource is included with all new print books and some ebooks. For ebook formats that don’t provide access, the web resource is available separately. In addition, the book is now printed in full color to enhance image quality in showing technique. Conditioning for Dance now has separate chapters for shoulders and feet, with additional information on calves and ankles. Franklin also offers practical tips to help you develop your personal conditioning plan, which you can set up through the web resource. Applying Principles Through the Franklin Method Conditioning for Dance is available in print and electronic formats. It uses the principles of resistance training, physics, anatomy, biomechanics, and neuroplasticity (using imagery for positive mental and physical changes) as applied to dance conditioning. Conditioning for Danc e blends imagery, focus, and conditioning exercises for dancers to enhance their technique and performance while practicing injury-prevention strategies. Franklin uses experiential anatomy to show and explain how the conditioning principles work to condition your body. As you undertake the exercises, you gain awareness of the body’s function and design and take in the knowledge of the principles through movement. This method, known as the Franklin Method, leads to greater understanding of your body, enhanced performance, and fewer injuries. Franklin developed the training systems within the book as well as a line of equipment, including the Franklin Band and Franklin Balls. Franklin has designed the exercises to transfer directly into dance steps; as such, they are appropriate for incorporating into the preparation time for dance classes. You can use the two 20-minute elastic-band workouts from the web resource to prepare you for class or rehearsal and build your strength and aerobic capacities. Immediate Benefits Conditioning for Dance offers you the culmination of decades of wisdom and experience in dance conditioning from a master teacher. By using its practical exercises, mind–body relationships, and conditioning routines, and in transferring the book knowledge to body experience, you will notice immediate benefits to your conditioning, strength, and flexibility. You will become kinesthetically aware, create great dance technique from within your own body, and begin to craft injury-free and artistically successful routines. |
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Traditionnellement, les gens aiment chanter. Que ce soit autour d'un feu de camp, à l'occasion de fêtes, dans les réunions de famille, pour célébrer des noces ou des promotions d'affaires, au bureau ou dans des rassemblements sportifs, entre amis et même dans la voiture durant de longs trajets, un bon nombre de personnes aiment « en pousser une » avec enthousiasme, pour s'amuser et amuser les autres. Plusieurs de ces fêtards, qui se disent ordinaires, ont quelque chose dans l'âme, une joie de vivre, même avec une voix plus ou moins juste. En chantant, ils expriment une certaine émotion qui leur fait du bien et nous touchent par leur sincérité. C'est pour eux et pour elles que Philippe Parent a écrit un livre multimédia rempli d'exercices pour la voix (plus de 100) et fait des vocalises (jeux vocaux) avec des accompagnements de musique pop, rock, blues, rhythm'n blues, valse, swing, etc., en plus des gammes et arpèges traditionnels bien connus de tout le monde. Ce livre multimédia s'adresse à tous ceux et celles qui s'intéressent à la voix, parlée ou chantée.  On y retrouve plus de 100 exercices pour tonifier votre voix et vous permettre de vous exprimer en chantant. Voici un aperçu de quelques chapitres : • les possibilités de la voix • l'acoustique • l'oreille et la voix • le fonctionnement de la voix • les techniques vocales • la respiration (23 exercices) • les échauffements vocaux (13 exercices) • la parole : articulation, diction, lecture de texte, rythme, accent tonique • pourquoi vocaliser • la voix ouverte (le fameux belting) • comment vocaliser • l'interprétation • l'hygiène vocale • les problèmes vocaux • les vocalises ou jeux vocaux (39 exercices sur des rythmes variés, de la précision classique à la ballade pop, en passant par le jazz, le blues, le swing, le rock, le rigodon, la samba, le tango, la valse…).  Amusez-vous bien! |
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream   Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." — Time |
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The official playscript of the original West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places. The playscript for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was originally released as a 'special rehearsal edition' alongside the opening of Jack Thorne's play in London's West End in summer 2016. Based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, the play opened to rapturous reviews from theatregoers and critics alike, while the official playscript became an immediate global bestseller. This definitive and final playscript updates the 'special rehearsal edition' with the conclusive and final dialogue from the play, which has subtly changed since its rehearsals, as well as a conversation piece between director John Tiffany and writer Jack Thorne, who share stories and insights about reading playscripts. This edition also includes useful background information including the Potter family tree and a timeline of events from the Wizarding World prior to the beginning of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. |
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In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated editor Walter Murch’s vivid, multifaceted, thought-provoking essay of film editing.  Starting with what might seem to be the most basic editing question—Why do cuts work?—he treats the reader to a marvelous ‘ride’ through the esthetics and practical concerns of cutting film.  Along the way, he offers his insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and real life; the criteria of a good cut; and the blink of an eye as both an analog to and an emotional cue for the cut.  New to this second edition is Murch’s lengthy meditation on the current state of digital editing. |
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Travis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’s art and his life, including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery—a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention grounded in musical salvation and fatherhood. After breaking out as the acclaimed drummer of the multiplatinum punk band Blink-182, everything changed for Travis Barker. But the dark side of rock stardom took its toll: his marriage, chronicled for an MTV reality show, fell apart. Constant touring concealed a serious drug addiction. A reckoning did not truly come until he was forced to face mortality: His life nearly ended in a horrifying plane crash, and then his close friend, collaborator, and fellow crash survivor DJ AM died of an overdose. In this blunt, driving memoir, Barker ruminates on rock stardom, fatherhood, death, loss, and redemption, sharing stories shaped by decades’ worth of hard-earned insights. His pulsating memoir is as energetic as his acclaimed beats. It brings to a close the first chapters of a well-lived life, inspiring readers to follow the rhythms of their own hearts and find meaning in their lives. |
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Rhinocéros est la pièce la plus riche de Ionesco. Elle ne perd rien de l'esprit d'innovation, de provocation, des premières pièces. Comme elles, celle-ci mélange les genres et les tons, le comique et le tragique. Mais l'innovation principale qui s'introduit ici est la réflexion sur l'Histoire, à travers le mythe. La pièce est une condamnation de toute dictature (en 1958, on pense au stalinisme). Ionesco condamne autant le fascisme que le communisme. C'est donc une pièce engagée : 'Je ne capitule pas', s'écrie le héros. Le rhinocéros incarne le fanatisme qui 'défigure les gens, les déshumanise'. On sent l'influence de La Métamorphose de Kafka. Dans une petite ville, un rhinocéros fait irruption. Par rapport à lui, les personnages prennent diverses attitudes. Certains se transforment en rhinocéros ; un troupeau défile. Seul Bérenger résiste à la marée des bêtes féroces, symboles du totalitarisme. |
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A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community   The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witch-hunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can. "A drama of emotional power and impact" — New York Post |
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A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community   The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witch-hunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can. "A drama of emotional power and impact" — New York Post |
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Serious about jamming, understanding, and creating guitar-driven music? Easy. With an approachable and engaging style, Guitar Theory For Dummies goes beyond guitar basics, presenting the guidance intermediate to advanced players need to improve their improvisational and compositional skills. Plus, with access to audio tracks and video instruction online you can master the concepts and techniques covered in the book. Key content coverage includes: pentatonic and major scale patterns; the CAGED chord system, chord progressions, and playing by numbers; roots, keys, and applying scales, plus modes and modal scales; intervals and chord extensions; popular song references and theory applications that help you understand how to play popular music and contemporary guitar styles, and create music of your own. This title also features companion audio tracks and video content hosted online at Dummies.com The expert instruction and easy-to-digest information provides comprehensive guidance on how to apply music theory concepts to fretted instruments If you already have a handle on the basics and want to know more about the building blocks and theory behind guitar music, Guitar Theory For Dummies has you covered. |
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The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc. |
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DANS CE PREMIER VOLUME d'une série de quatre qui ira des débuts à 1960, Jacques Lacoursière raconte, avec force détails, l'arrivée des Français, leur cohabitation avec les autochtones, leur épopée à travers un continent, leur adaptation, le passage de Français à Canadiens, les affrontements, la défaite ultime, les débuts d'une étonnante survivance, l'octroi d'un cadeau piégé : le pouvoir parlementaire. Cet ouvrage s'arrête en effet avec la séparation du Haut-Canada (l'Ontario) et la mise en place audacieuse, en 1791, d'une nouvelle constitution. L'entreprise [de Jacques Lacoursière] est gigantesque, à la mesure de l'homme en fait. Bernard LEPAGE, L'hebdo du Saint-Maurice. Cette uvre accessible, précise et détaillée se lit comme un roman. Continuité. Cet écrivain, historien par sa pratique, bouscule les adeptes d'historiographie en présentant une histoire du Québec au quotidien, impartiale, dénuée d'artifices, où chaque détail trouve sa raison d'être et amène les lecteurs au diapason des époques en restituant l'homme, l'humain, devant le geste et l'action. Renonçant aux savantes considérations propres à l'essai, il ose citer des sources souvent boudées par les historiens, laissant ainsi la parole aux témoins de ces siècles dans un style à la fois clair et vivant. [...] L'histoire populaire du Québec : plus qu'un livre d'histoire, un récit qui se lit comme un roman. Hélène RATTÉ-MCCLISH, Impact-Campus . On est ici à mille lieues des préoccupations des herméneutes contemporains, de ceux qui croient que l'histoire n'est pas que le récit neutre d'événements déjà attestés mais aussi le procès de ces événements. Robert SALETTI, Le Devoir. L'auteur colle aux faits, sans se perdre dans de savantes considérations, le lecteur se retrouve, à chaque page, devant un flot de renseignements présentés dans un style vivant et clair. [...] Voilà une histoire du Québec accessible, précise et détaillée qui devrait se retrouver en toutes les mains de quiconque s'intéresse à l'histoire du Québec. Manon PERRON, L'Action nationale. Accessible, précise et détaillée, L'histoire populaire du Québec comblera les attentes de ses lecteurs. Jean BILODEAU, Au fil des événements. La lecture de son Histoire populaire tient souvent beaucoup plus du chaleureux roman que du froid traité historique. LEVASSEUR, Études francophones. |
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Want to play chess like a champ? Dummies can help. From Netflix's “The Queen’s Gambit” to podcasts, virtual and mobile gaming, and beyond, chess is back in a big way. But, with all those kings, queens, and knights, chess can be a royal pain to grasp. Chess For Dummies is here to help beginners wrap their minds around the rules of the game, make sense of those puzzling pieces, and sharpen their chess strategy such that even Paul Morphy would be impressed. You’ll learn the laws of chess, its lingo, and engage in the art of the attack with the easy-to-follow, step-by-step explanations found in the latest edition of Chess For Dummies . Whether you’re playing chess online, in a tournament, or across the dining room table with a family member or friend, this hands-on guide is sure to capture your interest (and your opponent's queen), getting you up to speed on the game and its components and giving you the know-how you need to put the principles of play into action from the opening to the endgame. Grasp the rules of play and the nuances of each phase of the game Familiarize yourself with the pieces and the board Pick the perfect chess set and chessboard for you Get to know each of the pieces and their powers If you feel like you’re in a stalemate before you even begin a game, Chess For Dummies is your guide to forcing moves, raking bishops, and skewering your opponents like a true champion. |
