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Written for guitar players at all levels, this book teaches basic blues accompaniments, easy lead patterns, moveable chords, characteristic blues introductions and turnarounds and lead solos. Also a collection of classic blues songs including: C.C. Rider * Kansas City * The Thrill Is Gone * I'm Sitting On Top Of The World. ... Read more

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A Dozen SF Greats Present Their Favorite Stories. ... Read more

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Chapters: Simmons College Alumni, Simmons College Faculty, Hal Clement, Gwen Ifill, Nnenna Freelon, Suzyn Waldman, Allyson Schwartz, Loren Coleman, Nathalie Handal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Denise Di Novi, Gregory Maguire, Barbara Margolis, Joyce Kulhawik, Margaret Curtis, Barbara Ras, Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee, Mike Crispino, Konstantina Lukes, Kit Pearson, Liz Kniss, Alison Littell Mchose, Kate Larson, Deborah Blumer, Sara Stern-Katan, Francess Lantz, Louise Giblin, Sarah Thomas, Raquel Evita Saraswati, Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, Winston Tabb, Elinor Lipman, Alice Wolf, Leticia Navarro, Wylie Sypher. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gwendolyn L. "Gwen" Ifill (pronounced , dict: ; born September 29, 1955) is an American journalist, television newscaster and author. She is the managing editor and moderator for Washington Week (PBS) and a senior correspondent for The NewsHour (PBS). She is a political analyst, and moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential debates. She is the author of the book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Ifill was born in New York City, the fifth child of African Methodist Episcopal minister, (Oliver) Urcille Ifill, Sr., a Panamanian of Barbadian descent who emigrated from Panama, and Eleanor Ifill, who was also from Barbados. Her father's ministry required the family to live in several cities throughout New England and the Eastern Seaboard during her youth. In her childhood Ifill lived in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts church parsonages and in federally subsidized housing in Buffalo and New York City. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1977. While at Simmons Col...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1043223 ... Read more

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Chapters: George H. W. Bush, Buckminster Fuller, Hal Clement, Prescott Bush, John Murray Forbes, Beverly Sills, Stephen Flemmi, Timothy A. Connolly 3rd, Everett P. Pope, Barry Wood, Alan Feinstein, Thomas Hutchinson, Jeffrey Steefel, William Ordway Partridge, Richard Milton Martin, Johnny Martorano, Peter Sanderson, Howard Deering Johnson, Kate O'neill, Laban Wheaton, John Peter Lesley, John Wieners, William Flynn, Nancy Walker Bush Ellis, Chris Cleary, James Martorano, Rusty Warren, Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton, Jonathan Russell, Brian Camelio, Keith Yandle, Roger Turner, Abigail Johnson, James A. Burke, William Ralph Emerson, Edward Burnett, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Charles Sedgwick Minot, William Rimmer, Andrew Goldstein, John Forbes, Daniel Scott, Ken Casey, James H. Perkins, Chris Mahoney, William Rand, Arthur Rotch, George Thomas Tilden, Charlie Devens, Elbie Fletcher, John Chase, Roger Vose, Andrew Belcher, Kevin Ahearn, Anne Neely, Natalie Ramsey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 261. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: (oil) George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (19891993). He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (19811989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. Bush was born in Massachusetts to Senator and New York Banker Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush postponed going to college and became the youngest aviator in the US Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40. He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11955 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hal Clement, Gwen Ifill, Nnenna Freelon, Suzyn Waldman, Allyson Schwartz, Loren Coleman, Nathalie Handal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Denise Di Novi, Barbara Margolis, Joyce Kulhawik, Margaret Curtis, Barbara Ras, Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee, Mike Crispino, Konstantina Lukes, Kit Pearson, Liz Kniss, Alison Littell Mchose, Kate Larson, Deborah Blumer, Sara Stern-Katan, Francess Lantz, Louise Giblin, Sarah Thomas, Raquel Evita Saraswati, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, Winston Tabb, Elinor Lipman, Alice Wolf, Leticia Navarro. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gwendolyn L. "Gwen" Ifill (pronounced , dict: ; born September 29, 1955) is an American journalist, television newscaster and author. She is the managing editor and moderator for Washington Week (PBS) and a senior correspondent for The NewsHour (PBS). She is a political analyst, and moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential debates. She is the author of the book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Ifill was born in New York City, the fifth child of African Methodist Episcopal minister, (Oliver) Urcille Ifill, Sr., a Panamanian of Barbadian descent who emigrated from Panama, and Eleanor Ifill, who was also from Barbados. Her father's ministry required the family to live in several cities throughout New England and the Eastern Seaboard during her youth. In her childhood Ifill lived in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts church parsonages and in federally subsidized housing in Buffalo and New York City. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1977. While at Simmons College, Ifill interned for the Boston Herald-American and was hired after graduation by editors deeply embarrassed by an incident during her inte...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1043223 ... Read more

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This volume contains three of the most important hard science fictionnovels of Hal Clement--Needle, Iceworld, and Close to Critical. ... Read more

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A Great Series
"The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 1: Trio for Slide Rule & Typewriter" is the first of a three volume set which allows a whole new generation of readers to experience his unique style.Hal Clement is the pseudonym of Harry C. Stubbs a scientist who first used this pseudonym because he didn't want his professors to think he was a nut.His stories are hard science fiction, using the science of the day to create futuristic stories involving mystery or problem solving.This style helps keep the reader involved in the story, as they look for a solution along with the characters.This volume includes three novels which had long been out-of-print prior to the publishing of this volume in February of 1999.

"Needle" was first published in "Astounding Science Fiction" from May to June of 1949.This is the story of the pursuit of a fugitive, but in this case both the pursued and the pursuer are alien life forms similar to viruses.The pursuit brings them to Earth, where Hunter (the pursuer) enters a human boy (Bob Kinnaird) and tries to enlist his aid in finding the criminal.This is very much like a crime story, in that the reader gets involved in trying to figure out inside of which person the criminal is currently residing.There is also an interesting scientific premise of the biological production of oil.This novel was also published under the title "From Outer Space".

"Iceworld" was first published in "Astounding Science Fiction" from October through December of 1951.In this story, an alien science teacher has been enlisted to find out about the smuggling of a highly addictive drug.This brings him to the "Iceworld" we know as Earth and the drug we know as tobacco, a nice piece of foresight by Hal Clement.This story explores the idea of life existing on worlds of much higher temperature.One of the premises of this story is the idea that Mercury always keeps the same face to the Sun.This was believed at the time of the story, but has since been proven to be false.While this premise does play a role in the story, it can easily be overlooked by the reader.

"Close To Critical" was first published in "Astounding Science Fiction from May through July of 1958.The premise here is a planet (Tenebra) with environmental conditions near the triple point of water (i.e. the point where it can easily move between solid, liquid, and vapor with very little change in temperature or pressure.During a scientific research operation where humans are learning about the natives of Tenebra, two children (one Human and one Drommian) become marooned on the planet after an accident.This story involves the reader in the problems with the environment, as well as those involved in the rescue of the children.

Advances in science have caused these stories to become a bit out of date.However, because Hal Clement writes in a way which engages the reader into the story, these still are very enjoyable to read.

Three of Clement's best, still great today
The recently deceased Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs) wrote many hard science fiction stories, often set in alien environment or with amazingly inventive aliens.Three of his best, Needle, Iceworld, and Close to Critical, are collected here.Needle is the story of a virus-like alien intelligence who with the help of his human host, must track down another of his species.Iceworld tells the tale of a science teacher from another world recruited to stop the flow of drugs from a mysterious source (as it turns out quite quickly in the tale, Earth).Close to Critical is the story of two stranded children, one human, one alien, and the effort to retrieve them from a newly-contacted world with the help of the natives.

Clement brings human and alien to life marvelously.Combine that with his ability to make science understandable (an art often seen in, say, Heinlein juveniles, but seemingly lost today) and you come up with enchanting tales.

Needle is probably the best of the three (and sparked an equally-good sequel, over twenty years later).It is a true mystery, with all the clues to the solution available to the reader to solve before the characters do.While the characterization is very Fifties (the human host, a teenage boy, is amazingly blase about having an alien in his body observing his every action), it is still a great tale.

Highly recommended, as are the two remaining books in the series.Kudos to NESFA for collecting the works of yet another great author into convenient hardcovers!

Long Out-of-Print Stories Resurected
Hal Clement was one of the first "hard science" writers to enter the science fiction field, and has reamined productive over many decades. This volume contains three of his long-out-of-print stories that fans havehad trouble finding for many years. If you're not a fan but you likehard-science science fiction, coupled with good writing and a "solvethe puzzle" style that keeps you thinking throughout the book, givethis a try. The stories may seem amazingly old (the book title tells how hewrote them after all), but they are hardly out of date. Based on humannature (perhaps a bit idealized) and fundamental physics & chemistry,they are just as gripping a read today as they were in the 1950's when theywere written. ... Read more

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An intergalactic "manhunt" climaxes as the human body becomes a last refuge...and the ultimate weapon. ... Read more

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Also published as "From Outer Space". ... Read more