Whether you are a hacker or a scratch golfer, this book will be difficult to put down once you begin reading it. Created by a former award-winning sports editor with over 37 years of experience as a golfer, it addresses etiquette, cheating, golf gadgets and many other facets of what is supposed to be a gentleman's game. If you are a smoker or ride in a cart when you play golf, this book might offend you. It might also change your life, however, when you read the author's rationale for his attempts to revolutionize the game of golf.

Product Description: This book teaches you how to create melodies and chord solos on the ukulele. It is intended to help those players who love this instrument, and would like to increase their skills and enjoyment. The basic approach taken does not include music theory and rhythms, only the chords and notes necessary to create and play the songs...read more

Product Description: This book teaches you how to create melodies and chord solos on the ukulele. It is intended to help those players who love this instrument, and would like to increase their skills and enjoyment. The basic approach taken does not include music theory and rhythms, only the chords and notes necessary to create and play the songs...read more

Product Description: Visions of Culture: An Annotated Reader is an anthology of articles coordinated for use with Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. Each selection is prefaced with a brief introduction about the anthropologist and the text...read more

Each volume profiles about six to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative and nonfiction writers who are currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted critical essays and reviews. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (included in subscription).

Product Description: No one wants to be fat or unhealthy. Everyone wants to be physically attractive to at least one other person in this world. It is not necessary to become an Adonis or Miss America candidate. But, there is nothing wrong with striving to be the best that you can be, both physically and sexually...read more

Product Description: Anyone can learn to play the ukulele, and play it well. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. Strum and pick both harmonies and melodies. First Lessons Ukulele provides a simple approach for learning how to play the ukulele without reading music...read more

Product Description: Play the ukulele in just minutes using four simple chords; 34 songs, including old favorites, children's tunes, country western, Spanish, and patriotic classics. Transpose to any major key using an easy-to-read key chart. You can go from Alexander's Ragtime Band to Brahm's Lullaby to the Red River Valley, then a stop at El Rancho Grande and finish with Taps...read more

Product Description: "The Hills that Beckon" lure the reader into a time when life was slow paced. Life was simple and pleasures were enjoyed in story telling. This is the story of a family that lived from the 1790's to the 1940's in an area of northwest Madison County, Kentucky...read more

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Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

A collection of excerpted criticism on major works by 125 prominent black writers includes detailed profiles of each author and a history of critical response to his or her works.