Originally conceived as a companion to the groundbreaking 2011 3-disc DVD set of the same name this book combines astonishingly detailed musical transcriptions historical writing instructional text & a beautiful collection of photographs to create a book that every drummer & every fan of Neil & Rush will want to add to their collection. At the heart of the book are note-for-note musical transcriptions of 17 songs that are included on the Taking Center Stage DVD". These transcriptions are exclusive to this book since they are taken from the performances on the DVD documenting how Neil currently approaches the songs. Some of the tracks included are " Tom Sawyer" " Red Barchetta" " The Spirit of Radio" " Free Will" " Subdivisions" " Time Stand Still" " Marathon" " La Villa Strangiato" " The Trees" " Caravan" "BU2B" " Far Cry" & many others. But this is much more than a mere transcription book. The book is divided into chapters corresponding to each & every Rush tour from the time Neil joined the band in 1975 up to the present. Each of these chapters contains extensive text discussing the musical approach of the band at the time the construction of the drum parts & Neils set up. Accompanying this are exquisitely detailed diagrams of each of Neils drumsets produced after extensive research into the exact instruments that were used on every tour. Tying everything together is a beautiful collection of dozens of photographs taken over the past 30 years including exclusive shots from the archives of Fin Costello & Andrew Mc Nauhgtan which show Neil & his drums in vivid detail. The book also contains color reproductions of just about every drum company advertisement that featured Neil during his career. Written transcribed & researched by well-known drummer author & educator Joe Bergamini (who also co-produced & appeared in the DVD) & overseen & edited by Neil himself " Taking Center Stage: A Lifetime of Live Performance" is the most complete accurate & definitive work on Neil Pearts career as a drummer." ...

Neil Young is a rock icon with a career unrivaled in its breadth innovation & success. This celebration of the man & his music tells the story of Youngs nearly six-decade rock n roll journey. UK author Mike Evans traces the singer/songwriters memorable work with Crazy Horse" " Buffalo Springfield" & Crosby Stills Nash & Young; his solo albums & tours; his activism particularly for green causes & Farm Aid & his personal life. Classic & rare images record artwork & contemporary press & marketing materials make this a sumptuous must-have volume for every fan." ...

Bill Brysons first travel book The Lost Continent was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack keeps a tight hold on his wallet & journeys from Hamemrfest the northernmost town on the continent to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in oh at least one language he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris being robbed by gypsies in Florence attempting not to order tripe & eyeballs in a German restaurant window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen Bryson takes in the sights dissects the culture & illuminates each place & person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein. ...

Bill Brysons first travel book The Lost Continent was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack keeps a tight hold on his wallet & journeys from Hamemrfest the northernmost town on the continent to istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in oh at least one language he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris being robbed by gypsies in Florence attempting not to order tripe & eyeballs in a German restaurant window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen Bryson takes in the sights dissects the culture & illuminates each place & person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein. ...

On 7 August 1915 in an ill-fated attempt to break the stalemate at Gallipoli hundreds of Australian light horsemen repeatedly charged the massed rifles & machine-guns of the Turkish soldiers. The charge at The Nek has been immortalised in art literature & film & has come to epitomise both the futility & courage of the Gallipoli campaign. In this classic book Peter Burness provides the best account ever published of the formation & training of the Light Horse regiments (including profiles of the officers involved) the battle itself & a careful consideration of how the suicidal charges were allowed to continue when any hope of success was lost. For this new edition the author has updated the text to include new information that has come to light since the book was first published in 1996 & he has also provided new maps & photographs. ...

Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind & a persistent pen
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In September 1939 housewife & mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries in their regularity length & quality have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful fascinating & unique. When war broke out Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for the ' Mass Observation' project Nella a middle-aged housewife from the bombed town of Barrow shows what people really felt during this time. This was the period in which she turned 50 saw her children leave home & reviewed her life & her marriage
- which she eventually compares to slavery. Her growing confidence as a result of her war work makes this a moving (though often comic) testimony which covering sex death & fear of invasion provides a new unglamorised female perspective on the war years. ' Next to being a mother I'd have loved to write books'
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Nellys monster sitting adventures are always full of surprises. Things just seem to get stickier & stickier when she monster sits for the Ultravores but it doesnt compare to how lost for words she is at the Rimes. & with even more fighting with Asti to add to the mix her time with the Wattwatts is shocking to say the least! ...

Sugden brilliantly interweaves graphic accounts of Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the Nile Copenhagen & Trafalgar with his lesser-known yet equally gripping campaigns to liberate the Italian states from French domination & his role in the blockade of Malta often snatching remarkable triumphs from crippling reverses. But behind his military prowess was a man riven with paradoxes & schisms at the very heart of his personal life. Nelson emerges as a strong-minded but vulnerable human being in constant need of affection & reassurance whose relations with superiors colleagues & friends were intense & stormy. We meet the fighting admiral in search of ultimate military victory & the glory-hunter skillfully manipulating his public image; the national hero & patron of merit & the indigent commoner trying to secure his position in a society dominated by wealth property & land; the family man & the adulterer who scandalized society by his passion for the mercurial Lady Hamilton
- yet whose ambition for domestic tranquility was destroyed by his untimely death at Trafalgar. The triumphant & the tragic lend an epic yet human quality to the life of Nelson fully exploited here in a richly detailed narrative that teems with a glittering array of sailors & civilians heroes & villains husbands wives & lovers.
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Nelson explores the professional personal intellectual & practical origins of the mans genius to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict & enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war & international isolation. The most authoritative biography of Nelson from Britains foremost naval warfare historian Very well received in hardback A blockbuster paperback edition to reach all fans of historical adventure & military history 2005 is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar ...