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Dick Hyman's Century Of Jazz Piano - Transcribed! Instructional Book/DVD "This book presents a concise history of jazz piano In 13 hands on lessons and four bonus performances, Dick Hyman explores the styles, vocabulary, and performers who have drined and shaped this elusive American art form over the last century Starting with the pre-ragtime music of Louis Moreau Gottchalk and ragtime of Scott Joplin, and ending with the advanced scale types of Nicholas Slonimsky and muysic of McCoy Tyner, Mr Hyman discusses and demonstrates the astonishing variety of jazz piano improvisation and the people and techniques that have shaped its evolution The included DVD, showing all 13 lessons and four bonus performances is filled with closeups of Mr

- Waterproof - Tear-Resistant - Topographic Map The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) covered in the Klamath Mountains Topographic Map Guide in this part of northern California travels through the Klamath Mountains and parallels the southern end of the Cascade Range. The distinctive regions of the Cascade Range, Coast Ranges, and Central Valley converge at the Klamath Mountains, creating an environment with unparalleled diversity. The PCT reaches the Siskiyou Mountains near Ashland, Oregon, then travels through the Marble Mountains and Russian wilderness areas. As the PCT travels further south it passes through the Scott Mountains before arriving at the picturesque spires and domes of Castle Crags, a granite intrusion exposed by millions of years of erosion. The PCT spans 2,650 miles from the Canadian border, through Washington, Oregon, and California to the southern terminus at the Mexican border. The famous trail crosses some of the most wild and scenic landscapes of the western U.S., including six national parks, 25 national forests, 48 wilderness areas, the volcanic Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, the snowcapped Sierra Nevada, and the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. Each PCT Topographic Map Guide includes detailed topographic maps at a scale of almost 1 inch = 1 mile. Each page is centered on the PCT and overlaps with the adjacent pages so there is little chance of getting lost. Along the bottom of each page is a trail profile that shows the distance between camping areas, trailheads, and other points of interest. The map and trail profile provide a step by step visual guide to hiking the trail, mile by rugged mile. The Topographic Map Guide is built for all levels of hiking enthusiasts, from the day tripper to the multi month 'thru-hiker'. The front pages of the printed Topographic Map Guide include resupply locations, health and safety information, and much more. More convenient and easier to use than folded maps, but just as compact and lightweight, National Geographic's Topographic Map Guide booklets are printed on "Backcountry Tough" waterproof, tear-resistant paper with stainless steel staples. A full UTM grid is printed on the map to aid with GPS navigation. Other features found on this map include: Boulder Peak, Callahan, Castella, Castle Crags, China Mountain, Dunsmuir, Hilt, Marble Mountains, Rogue River National Forest, Russian Peak, Scott Mountains, Shasta National Forest, Siskiyou, Trinity Mountains. Map Scale = 1:75,000 Folded Size = 4.25" x 9.38"

- Waterproof - Tear-Resistant - Travel Map National Geographic's Vancouver Island Adventure Map provides global travelers with the perfect combination of detail and perspective in a highly functional travel tool. Cities and towns are clearly indicated and easy to find in the user-friendly index. A road network complete with distances and designations for roads, motorways, and expressways will help you find the route that's right for you. Secondary routes are also marked for those seeking to explore off the beaten path. Hundreds of points of interest and diverse and unique destinations are highlighted including national parks, nature reserves, World Heritage sites, archeological sites, ski areas, hot springs, beaches, museums, and more. The south side of the print map shows Victoria the capital of British Columbia, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, and the costal town of Nanaimo. The northern half of the printed map covers the much more remote part of the island. There are many large protected areas in the north of the island including Strathcona, Cape Scott, Tahsish-Kwois Provincial Parks. Every Adventure map is printed on "Travel-Tough" waterproof, tear-resistant paper. Map Scale = 1:275,000 Sheet Size = 37.75" x 25.5" Folded Size = 4.25" x 9.25"

Thirteen tales from the universe of the bestselling Sun Eater series, compiled for the first time. Plus, a never-before-seen novelette following Hadrian Marlowe after the series' conclusion! Ambitious universe-building combines with intimate character portraits for storytelling on a truly epic scale - for fans of Orson Scott Card, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Patrick Rothfuss, and Jack Campbell. A green soldier faces an inhuman enemy. A machine attempts to kill her makers for daring to bring her into this world. On Delos, Crispin Marlowe must face his brother's growing legend - and the small part he played in shaping it. In the far future, an ordinary soldier comes face-to-face with a god older than time. An enemy long thought dead attacks the future from the past, and on the Planet of Fire, an old hero must kill to save his unborn daughter and prevent a war that could shatter several worlds. Here are songs of the noon of mankind, set in an age when humanity's dominion stretches far across the stars: an age of struggle, of great evil, and of still greater good. Here, too, are songs of a man who changed the face and future of the galaxy entire: Songs of the Sun Eater, of Hadrian Marlowe himself. Includes an introduction from the author!

The sixth and penultimate novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire Ambitious universe-building combines with intimate character portraits for storytelling on a truly epic scale--for fans of Orson Scott Card, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Patrick Rothfuss and Jack Campbell The end is nigh. It has been nearly two hundred years since Hadrian Marlowe assaulted the person of the Emperor and walked away from war. From his Empire. His duty. From the will and service of the eldritch being known only as the Quiet. The galaxy lies in the grip of a terrible plague, and worse, the Cielcin have overrun the realms of men. A messenger has come to Jadd, bearing a summons from the Sollan Emperor for the one-time hero. A summons, a pardon, and a plea. HAPSIS, the Emperor's secret first-contact intelligence organization, has located one of the dreadful Watchers, the immense, powerful beings worshipped by the Pale Cielcin. Called out of retirement and exile, the old hero--accompanied by his daughter, Cassandra--must race across the galaxy and against time to accomplish one last, impossible task: To kill a god.

**Special deluxe edition with sprayed edges, premium cover effects, map, new foreword, bonus content, and the short story "The Pits of Emesh"** Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. Ambitious universe-building combines with intimate character portraits for storytelling on a truly epic scale—for fans of Orson Scott Card, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Patrick Rothfuss and Jack Campbell It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

In this shattering conclusion to The Aspect-Emperor books, praised for their “sweeping epic scale and detailed historical world-building”* R. Scott Bakker delivers the harrowing and long-awaited finish to a story cycle that has stretched across seven books in two series. In The Unholy Consult, the Men of the Great Ordeal have been abandoned by Anasûrimbor Kellhus, and the grand crusade has devolved into cannibalism and chaos. When Exalt-General Proyas, with Prince-Imperial Kayutas at his side, attempts to gain control of the lost Men and continue their march to Golgotterath, it rapidly becomes clear that the lost Lord-and-Prophet is not so easily shaken from the mission. When Sorweel, the Believer-King of Sakarpus, and Serwa, daughter of the Aspect-Emperor, join the Great Ordeal, they discover that the shortest path is not always the most obvious, or the safest. Souls, morality, and relationships are called into question when no one can be trusted, and the price for their sins is greater than they imagined. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Bakker’s groundbreaking series is epic fantasy not to be missed. An uncompromising portrayal of a catastrophic world of myth, war, and sorcery, the scope and creativity of the Aspect-Emperor books stand alongside George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. The Aspect-Emperor Series: The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult * Grimdark Magazine

'Rare and riveting' LYSE DOUCET 'Blistering . . . a genuinely remarkable achievement' THE TIMES 'Compulsively readable . . . unputdownable' JON LEE ANDERSON 'Dramatic, personal and often heartbreaking' GUARDIAN 'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' LINDSEY HILSUM 'One of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years' NEW YORK TIMES The moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: from the promise of the 1979 revolution to its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people's undying spirit of resistance. Fuelled by Iranians' dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah's ailing, repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolution's leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. In this landmark new book, award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran's recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope: - Mehdi Karroubi : a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being cast out of its inner circle. - Hila Sedighi : a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers' hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams. - Amir Moghadam : an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth. - Said Rahmani : a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself. - Rozhin Yousefzadeh and Kosar Eftekhari : both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price. Through vivid and original reporting, Stolen Revolution offers a compulsively readable new story of Iran, centring ordinary Iranians' lives, whilst providing a visceral understanding of how life is actually lived under a modern authoritarian state. This is a harrowing story of power, corruption and greed - and those brave individuals who fought back. 'The definitive inside story of how the ideals behind Iran's revolution were subverted and crushed - and of the brave Iranians who still keep those dreams alive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLE 'Profoundly affecting . . . One of the most incisive works on Iranian society in a generation' SCOTT ANDERSON, author of KING OF KINGS 'Excellent . . . tells the tragic but often inspiring story of Iran over the last fifty years . . . Essential' JASON BURKE, author of THE REVOLUTIONISTS 'Extraordinarily powerful' JACK STRAW

'Rare and riveting' LYSE DOUCET 'Blistering . . . a genuinely remarkable achievement' THE TIMES 'Compulsively readable . . . unputdownable' JON LEE ANDERSON 'Dramatic, personal and often heartbreaking' GUARDIAN 'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' LINDSEY HILSUM 'One of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years' NEW YORK TIMES The moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: from the promise of the 1979 revolution to its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people's undying spirit of resistance. Fuelled by Iranians' dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah's ailing, repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolution's leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. In this landmark new book, award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran's recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope: ¿ Mehdi Karroubi : a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being cast out of its inner circle. ¿ Hila Sedighi : a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers' hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams. ¿ Amir Moghadam : an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth. ¿ Said Rahmani : a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself. ¿ Rozhin Yousefzadeh and Kosar Eftekhari : both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price. Through vivid and original reporting, Stolen Revolution offers a compulsively readable new story of Iran, centring ordinary Iranians' lives, whilst providing a visceral understanding of how life is actually lived under a modern authoritarian state. This is a harrowing story of power, corruption and greed - and those brave individuals who fought back. 'The definitive inside story of how the ideals behind Iran's revolution were subverted and crushed - and of the brave Iranians who still keep those dreams alive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLE 'Profoundly affecting . . . One of the most incisive works on Iranian society in a generation' SCOTT ANDERSON, author of KING OF KINGS 'Excellent . . . tells the tragic but often inspiring story of Iran over the last fifty years . . . Essential' JASON BURKE, author of THE REVOLUTIONISTS 'Extraordinarily powerful' JACK STRAW

Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning. "Rigorous, curious, quietly funny, and extraordinarily generous with hard-won insight." —Scott Hanselman, Microsoft This book invites you to step off the beaten path and explore interesting, unfamiliar, and even exotic algorithms that will challenge your perspective and elevate your code. Legendary language designer Eric Lippert guides you with a refreshing, conversational approach, providing beautifully practical examples that highlight the recurring patterns behind stubborn coding problems. You’ll begin with a fresh look at foundational, thread-safe, and persistent immutable data structures. Lippert demystifies stacks, queues, and finger-tree deques, illustrating how to manage memory efficiently through persistence. For developers working in highly concurrent, cloud native environments, these patterns will help you eliminate hard-to-spot race conditions and state-mutation bugs. Your fabulous adventure then turns to structural search, compiler design, and the integration of functional programming within mainstream object-oriented languages. You’ll dive into Directed Acyclic Word Graphs (DAWGs), greedy pretty printers, and the complexities of tree unification. This section bridges theory and real-world tools, teaching you how to design highly modular compilers or robust static analysis engines and to write declarative, composable, and expressive APIs. In the final leg of your journey, you’ll model randomness, statistical reasoning, and continuous probability—core concepts for AI and predictive analytics. Lippert introduces advanced Bayesian and monadic techniques, teaching you how to construct joint distributions and sample them using the powerful Metropolis algorithm. This statistical toolkit aligns perfectly with modern data-driven systems that need to make consistent, sound decisions under real-world uncertainty. In the age of AI coding, implementation is becoming cheaper. AI can write code, but it cannot relieve developers of responsibility for understanding what the code means, why a given solution was chosen, how it will scale, and whether the problem has been framed correctly. This book develops exactly that judgment. It teaches the part that is becoming more valuable: recognizing, selecting, questioning, and evaluating the ideas behind implementations. It is an apprenticeship in computational taste, taught through unusual and memorable examples. What's inside Build highly efficient, thread-safe concurrent systems using immutable parts Compress massive data representation sizes using memoized quadtrees and DAWGs Solve complex compiler optimizations using unification and backtracking search Automate precise, mathematically sound decisions under real-world uncertainty About the reader For working programmers familiar with C#, Java, or Python. About the author Eric Lippert has designed programming languages, compilers, and developer tools for Microsoft, Coverity, and Facebook. Table of Contents 1 Starting a fabulous adventure Part 1 2 Immutable stacks and queues 3 An immutable deque 4 Memoizing immutable quadtrees to make a better Life 5 What’s up with you, Directed Acyclic Word Graph? 6 Combinatorial algorithms 7 First abstract nonsense interlude: Category theory Part 2 8 Coloring graphs with backtracking search 9 Greedy iterative pretty printing 10 Unification and anti-unification 11 Second abstract nonsense interlude: Monads Part 3 12 A better abstraction for randomness 13 Conditional probability with Bayes’ theorem 14 Third abstract nonsense interlude: The probability monad 15 Sampling continuous distributions 16 Markov processes and the Metropolis algorithm A Notes on C# B Further reading