Use this book to start playi ng straight away：no previous m Js I knc ledge req redPrevious usicaI knowIedge required。 Teaches you the basics of acoustic and electric guitar technique。 Includes valuable advice on buying an instrument and amplifieri。 Diagrams and photographs make it easy for you to fi nd notes and chords。 Explai ns the worki ngs of song and shows you how to play simple solos and accompaniments。 Find out how to liven up practice sessions by usi ng tape recorders and other electronics。

The proof is in the package No other book on the market explores global contemporary packaging to the extent and detail that Package Design Now! does. Practically everything you buy comes in some sort of package?some are just functional, while others strive to be as innovative, elegant, and eye-catching as possible. This encyclopedic resource, divided into chapters by type (such as cosmetics, household products, food, beverage, electronics, industrial, and clothing) explores the work of top design and branding offices from all around the world. Also included are chapters on material and processes, giving readers a peek at the way packaging is made and designed. This unique tome is indispensable for design and marketing professionals, as well as anyone who wants to know more about what makes a great package. The editor: Julius Wiedemann was born and raised in Brazil. After studying graphic design and marketing, he moved to Japan, where he worked in Tokyo as art editor for digital and design magazines. Si

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) first wrote Ariadne auf Naxos as an interlude to be performed with Moli~re's play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, and it was presented in Stuttgart in that form in 1912. Several years later, with his collaborator Hugo von Hoffmansthal, Strauss expanded the work into the full-length opera we know today. This glorious new Ariadne auf Naxos was first presented at the Vienna State Opera in October 1916. The story artfully intermingles backstage comedy, the lofty emotions of Greek mythology and the merry pranks of a troupe of commedia dell'arte players. Strauss endowed these antic proceedings with a luminous score that combines music of great satiric wit with breathtaking flights of lyricism. Today Ariadne auf Naxos is one of Richard Strauss's most highly regarded operas, and is frequently performed on the world's stages. It is reprinted here from the definitive full-score edition published in Berlin by Adolph Fiirstner following the opera's 1916 premiere.

An intimate look at one of the most creative artists at work today. When it comes to making music, Bj rk needs no introduction. She has always been at the vanguard, exploding convention and leading her listeners down the uncharted paths of a haunting and harmonic trip through sound. Last year, she starred in Lars von Trier's acclaimed Dancer in the Dark, and took home the coveted Best Actress award at Cannes. A true artist whose work has consistently transcended creative and geographic borders, Bj rk turns every medium she touches to gold. Her next project is a gorgeously produced, stunningly beautiful collection of photographs and text that is being published simultaneously around the world. Designed by Bj rk and m/m, the celebrated Paris design firm that has already collaborated Balenciaga, Visionaire, and Yohji Yamamoto, the book boasts contributions from the world's top photographers, fashion designers and video makers as well as original writing and artwork by Bj rk herself. A breathtaking

Guy Bourdin's fashion photography placed him at the vanguardof fashion photography in the second half of the twentieth century;today he is hailed as one of the finest fashion photographers ofthe twentieth century. From his first provocative editorial featurein 1955, which pictured haute couture alongside butchered cowheads, Bourdin pushed fashion photography into then-unchartedterritory with his volatile mixture of violence, sex andsurrealism. In Between delves into Bourdin's career,charting the course of his artistic development from the 1950s tothe 1980s via over 200 superbly printed black-and-white and colorimages. It also reassembles many original editorial layouts as theywere first published, in magazines such as French Vogue , British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar , offering a newcritical contexts for approaching his work-for Bourdin tailored hiscompositions to the constraints of the printed page, bothconceptually and graphically, and the mirror motif famously centralto his work finds its formal

Although he composed in many musical genres, Vivaldi truly redefined the concerto and made it distinctly his own. And although adept at writing for a variety of instruments, the violin remained his primary instrument. The composer's 12 concertos known as "L'estro armonico" [Harmonic Innovation] are distinguished from all other ensemble music of their time by their empha-sis on virtuosity, their rhythmic exuberance, flexible instrumentation, indepen-dent approaches to thematic development, and their genuine innovations in concerto form. This magnificent work, dedicated to the Florentine Grand Prince Ferdinand Ⅲ de' Medici, incorporates twelve works organized as four sets. Each set contains a concerto for four solo violins, one for two solo violins, and one for a single solo violin. A distinguished addition to the music literature, this volume has been newly edited and engraved under the guidance of Dr. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, a recog-nized authority on music of the Italian Baroque, with associat

“These masterful photos blend the spontaneity of a greatsnapshot with the highly organized composition of a classicalpainting.”— Publishers Weekly HenriCartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was perhaps the finest and mostinfluential image maker of the twentieth century, and his portraitsare among his best-known work. Over a fifty-year period, hephotographed some of the most eminent personalities of the era, aswell as ordinary people, chosen as subjects because of theirstriking and unusual features. Originally published to coincide with anexhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, thisbook features both well-known images and previously unpublishedportraits: Ezra Pound, Andre? Breton, Martin Luther King, SamuelBeckett, Truman Capote, Susan Sontag, Carl Jung, William Faulkner,Marilyn Monroe, Henri Matisse, and many more. Each photograph was chosen because itperfectly embodies Cartier-Bresson’s de*ion of what he wasattempting to communicate in his work: “Above all I look for aninne

随着移动通信技术的不断发展和普及，人们对移动对象管理的需求越来越迫切。移动对象管理成为数据库研究领域的一个热门方向，它在许多领域都展现了广阔的应用前景。《移动对象管理:模型、技术与应用》比较系统地介绍了移动对象管理的相关内容，即移动对象管理模型（包括移动对象建模、移动对象更新、移动对象索引等），移动对象管理技术（包括移动对象查询、移动对象预测、移动数据不确定性研究等），移动对象管理应用（包括动态交通导航、动态交通网络、移动对象聚类分析、位置隐私保护等）。 《移动对象管理:模型、技术与应用》总结了国内外有关移动数据管理的研究工作和具有代表性的关键技术，并较详细地介绍了作者近年来的一些研究成果，具有较大的参考价值。 《移动对象管理:模型、技术与应用》的读者对象为高等院校计算机专业

You'll be amazed by what's happened since "10x10_2". Green architecture has gone from novelty to necessity, walls have gone from necessary to optional, hula hoops have become a building material. Local is the new international. Architecture is the new art. The 100 architects featured in this volume, the latest in our successful "10x10" series, are pushing the boundaries of design and redefining the very meaning of architecture: a building sliced in half in order to design the space in between; a one-ton floating object of seeming weightlessness; a high-end shop in downtown Seoul covered entirely in vegetation; and, a skyscraper that seems to disappear on sunny days. This is architecture as you've never seen it before. "10x10_3" is a comprehensive and global view of new architecture, presenting the work of 100 up-and-coming architects from around the world, selected by 10 of the best-informed critics, curators, and architects. They include Joseph Grima (USA); Kengo Kuma (Japan); Peter Schmal (Germany); and Ai

Fumihiko Maki's many buildings are characterized by a commitment to the ongoing project of Modernism as well as a humanist concern for the experience of the people who inhabit them. Both a thoughtful writer and a prolific builder, Maki was a founding member of the Metabolists, a highly influential group of Japanese architects in the 1960s who redefined how designers thought about large-scale urban planning. His own work, while sometimes vast in scale, is consistently responsive to the individual user. His 50-year exploration and expansion of the Modernist vocabulary has resulted in buildings that are technologically inventive, deceptively simple, and which carefully balance lightness and dignity. This book contains over 40 projects, extensively illustrated with drawings, photos, models, sketches, diagrams and computer renderings. These include the Spiral Building in Tokyo, the Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium, the Kaze-No-Oka Crematorium in Nakatsu, and a tower currently under construction for the World Trade Cen

Addition to Basic Arts series covering the most prominentpieces of de Kooning's body of work

This solo piano edition of Tchaikovsky's masterful Christmas ballet offers pianists a chance to enjoy favorites such as "The Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" and "The Waltz of the Flowers." Entirely faithful to Tchaikovsky's brilliant orchestral score, this delightful arrangement by Sergey Taneyev and the com- poser himself renders the complete ballet in a style both idiomatic to the piano and specially designed to be relatively easy to play. Here are all the movements of the beloved Suite, along with the rest of this hol-iday favorite, in which a brave and loyal little girl's toy is transformed into aprince who accompanies her into a magical world. Suitable for performers,rehearsal pianists, and all admirers of Tchaikovsky's art, this inexpensive edi-tion of a perennial favorite will enchant players and listeners alike. Dover (2005) unabridged republication of the edition published byP. Jurgenson, Moscow, 1892. viii+168pp. 9×12. Paperbound.

Hugh Brogan's The Penguin History of the USA has established itself as the definitive and most readable work available on America. It brilliantly captures the dynamic events and personalities that shaped the nation's triumphant progress to global superpower: in Brogan's words, "for good and evil, a power and civilization that surpasses . . . all empires of the past." In this new edition, Brogan makes numerous revisions to earlier chapters, taking into account the most up-to-date research into American history. 作者简介： Hugh Brogan worked at the Economist and was a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He taught at the University of Essex until his retirement in 1998.

Of the man considered his artistic and spiritual successor, Schumann wrote: "'It seemed to me ……that……a musician would inevitably appear to whom it was vouchsafed to give the highest and most ideal expression to the tendencies of our time And he has come, a young man over whose cradle Graces and Heroes stood watch. His name is Johannes Brahms." By 1853 Brahms had emerged as a force in music, and would afterwards be aeknowledged as the greatest master of the symphonic form of the last half of the century. In that generation of composers, only Dvorak （for whom he had a special regard and to whom he gave invaluable aid） produced as much chamber music as the prolific Brahms. This prodigious outpouring, perhaps more than any other aspect of Brahms's oeuvre, provides a clear and uninterrupted view of his artistic development. Here reproduced in this handsome, inexpensive volume is a superb seleetion of chamber works masterful compositions by Brahms, written for violin, viola, cello and piano.

Vincent van Gogh's paintings and his tempestuous life story continue to command enormous popular interest, inspiring numerous blockbuster exhibitions and biographies. This compact collection returns to what started it all--the paintings themselves. With a hand-held size, this volume manages to be affordable and comprehensive--a veritable dictionary of the artist's work. Included are all genres and periods of his work-from his gorgeous irises to his striking night skies and portraiture. Introducing the paintings is an intriguing essay by celebrated art critic Robert Hughes. This book provides an essential resource for students as well as for all art lovers. And it represents an extraordinary value. No other book on the artist offers as many images at this price.

Paired together in a single, affordable volume, these disparate works reflect two different sides of Wagner's compositional mastery. Aside from his operatic works, Wagner wrote relatively little music--a single symphony, some overtures, and a few choral and piano works. Of these, the Siegfried Idyll is the most frequently performed. Although not part of the Ring cycle, the Idyll draws upon several of the Ring's motifs. Written for the birth- day of Wagner's wife, Cosima, it was never intended for public performance but financial difficulties forced the composer into publication. "The secret treasure is to become public property," Cosima noted in her diary, and audi-ences have been the happier for it. With Wagner's Faust Overture, the nineteenth century's preeminent German opera composer took on the most discussed and written-about work by Germany's most revered poet. Inspired by Wagner's attendance at a performance of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet, the original composition dates from 1844 and depicts

Founded as a backlash against abstract expressionism, Minimalism was characterized by simplified, stripped-down forms and materials used to express ideas in a direct and impersonal manner. By presenting objects as simple objects, minimal artists sought to communicate without referring to expressive or historical themes. This critical movement, which began in the 1960s and branched out into land art, performance art, and conceptual art, is still a major influence today. Featured artists: Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Ronald Bladen, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Robert Grosvenor, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Gary Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Frank Stella, Robert Smithson, Anne Truitt

During her brief career Marilyn appeared in several classic movies，winning acclaim from the public and critics alike，but despite all her outward success she did not find settled happiness in Hollywood，She frequently played the role of the attractive“dumb blonde”，but as an intenlligent，talented，and complex woman，it was a stereotype from which she would spend much of her life attempting to escape。she was also haunted by the specter of her unsettled childhood，which appeared to translate into restlessness throughout her life，and a series of failed marriages and pregnancies did nothing to shake off her insecurities。images of Marilyn Monroe is a superb collection of photographs that tells the story of Marilyn’s private and professional life，from her first steps in Hollywood，through her relationships with some of America’s most celebrated men，to her success as one of the movie industry’s most bankable stars，covering the highs and lows along the way。

A fascinating look at ESPN and its success as a brand ESPN The Company reveals the inside scoop on the biggestbusiness story in sports, detailing the creative and innovativespirit and practices that drove the programming, products, andservices of the most powerful and prominent name in sports media.The authors provide a behind-the-scenes perspective on how ESPNdealt with their many partners and how they handled mistakes andmissteps along the way-from the humble beginnings of ESPN as anunderrated startup to the pinnacle of their success as a majorindustry player. ESPN and other great organizations invest in their people. Theytrain them. They believe that if you spend the time and resourcesturning talented performers into leaders, you're going to getbetter organizational performance and engender higher levels ofcommitment and sweat. ESPN The Company Explores the dedication to excellence that makes ESPN the"Worldwide Leader in Sports" Reveals how the steps ESPN has taken to excel can be applied

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universallyacclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flockto his retrospectives. His work shows art at its mostlight-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anythingugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictureswhich make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape,"he said, "or pass my hand over breast or back if it's a woman."Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women.Again and again he painted "these faunesses with their poutinglips" (Mallarme) and invented a new image of feminity.

Life is life, and art is art. ""It is my wish to come very close, strikinglyclose, to the times in which we live, without submitting toartistic dogma...I need the connection to the world of senses, thecourage to portray ugliness, life as it comes."" - Otto Dix In the 1920s, Otto Dix was the artist ofNeue Sachlichkeit, the New Objectivity, par excellence. Painting ina very realistic, almost photographic style, he chose as subjectsthe poverty, violence, death, and war that he experienced as asoldier in World War I. After this terrible experience, he paintedthe famous triptych "The War." Dix staged the world as a play, a grotesquefarce. But the form he chose to do so was based on the classicalcanon of beauty. Dix lived his life and served art, for he adheredto the age-old rule that the American painter Ad Reinhardt put in anutshell: "Life is life, and art is art."

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