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Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 3 Advanced

Timba: Modern Cuban Conga Rhythms

By: Tomas Cruz,Kevin Moore,Mike Gerald,Orlando Fiol

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Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 3 Advanced

Timba: Modern Cuban Conga Rhythms

By: Tomas Cruz,Kevin Moore,Mike Gerald,Orlando Fiol

Volume III is the first educational product to tackle the complex subject of Timba, the new musical genre which has been played in Cuba since 1989. Timba represents a quantum leap for all the instruments of the rhythm section andespecially the congas. The recordings of Tomas Cruz are considered the mostadvanced examples of Timba conga-playing and so fascinated the three coauthors that they sought out Tomas Cruz and spent a year and a half studying his style and meticulously documenting it before even considering the idea of publishing it. After many hundreds of hours of passionate research, thislabor of love eventually reached fruition as Volume III. Volumes II & I were then written to trace the roots of the style and to understand the path Tomas took toarrive at his phenomenal level of technical mastery and rhythmic creativity. Much more than a collection of patterns or exercises, Volume III analyzes Timba arrangements from beginning to end, explaining the role of the congas in each section, the relationship to the clave, and Tomasito's creative process, including an exercise which teaches the reader to invent his own Timba conga parts. It was the intricacies of the material of Volume III which inspired the creation of the Step by Step online video Method, which enables the reader to learn these exciting new rhythms in a fraction of the time it would take workingwith only written music and audio recordings

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Mel Bay Publications

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1619115557

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9781619115552

Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 2 - Intermediate

Essential Cuban Conga Rhythms

By: Tomas Cruz,Kevin Moore,Mike Gerald,Orlando Fiol

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Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 2 - Intermediate

Essential Cuban Conga Rhythms

By: Tomas Cruz,Kevin Moore,Mike Gerald,Orlando Fiol

Volume II is aimed at two distinct categories of readers: 1) Intermediate players who are ready for a wider range of rhythms to study and use in live playing situations; and 2) Experienced congueros who have digested Volume I and now seek to understand the roots of the modern Cuban conga style. Having assimilated the material in Volume I, the student should be able to play basic Son Montuno, Salsa, Chachacha, and Bolero. Volume II moves on to Guaguanco, Iyesa, 6/8, Changui, Afro, Mozambique, Pilon, Songo, Merengue, Bomba, Cumbia and other rhythms that a professional conguero will be expected to know. Each rhythm is accompanied by an article reflecting on its history and role in the "big picture" of Latin music and offering listening recommendations. Like Volume I, it uses the Step by Step online video Method. A special 8-page appendix explains the often infuriatingly complex subject of "clave" with an unprecedented level of clarity and insight. Includes access to online video.

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Mel Bay Publications

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1619117428

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Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 1 - Beginning

Conga Technique as Taught in Cuba

By: Tomas Cruz,Kevin Moore,Mike Gerald,Orlando Fiol

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Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 1 - Beginning

Conga Technique as Taught in Cuba

By: Tomas Cruz,Kevin Moore,Mike Gerald,Orlando Fiol

In Volume I, Tomasito reveals the time tested conga method which he himselfstudied with Changuito and other master congueros at the ENA conservatory in Havana. Volume I starts at the absolute beginning and is designed for the personwho has never touched the congas, but is also of great value to the advanced player who wishes to understand the foundation and rudiments of the approach that has allowed the ENA and the other Havana conservatories to consistently turn out so many world class congueros each year. Volume I begins with simple exercises to develop technique and systematically works its way through rudiments and 'recursos' for use in solos and fills and basic rhythm patterns such as Salsa, Cha-Cha and Bolero. These are presented using the unique Step by Step online video Method, which enables the student to learn the patterns by watching the video and imitating Tomasito as he builds the patterns stroke by stroke. This, combined with a special type of notation designed to be simple for those who don't read music, results in a conga course that really works, rather than just another reference book to add to the bookshelf!

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Mel Bay Publications

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1619114976

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Exile and Revolution

José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence

By: Gerald E. Poyo

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Exile and Revolution

José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence

By: Gerald E. Poyo

José Dolores Poyo (1836-1911) was an activist, publisher, social critic, fundraiser, and foundational figure in the campaign for Cuban independence from Spain. His leadership and his mantra-"adelante la revolución" (forward the revolution)-mobilized an insurrectionist movement in Key West. His multidimensional grassroots work and his newspaper El Yara, the longest-lived Cuban exile newspaper of the nineteenth century, gave hope to a people who aspired to be liberated from the bonds of colonialism. In Exile and Revolution, Gerald Poyo provides a comprehensive account of how his great-great-grandfather spurred the working-class community of Key West to transform their roles as supporting cast to become critical actors in the struggle for Cuban independence. The book reveals the depth of Cuba’s longtime ties to Florida, the cigar industry, and its workers; the experience of Cubans in the American South; and the diplomatic intrigues involving Spain, Cuba, and the United States.

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289

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University Press of Florida

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081306502X

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9780813065021

The Blasket Islandman

The Life and Legacy of Tomás Ó Criomhthain

By: Gerald Hayes

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The Blasket Islandman

The Life and Legacy of Tomás Ó Criomhthain

By: Gerald Hayes

Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937) is one of the giants of Irish-language literature. His best-known books, Allagar na hInise and An tOileánach, are acknowledged classics. But he was a highly unlikely author. He lived his entire life on the isolated and now-abandoned Great Blasket, in a house he built with his own hands using stones he found on the island. Likewise, he crafted a valuable literary heritage out of island life. With indefatigable persistence, he steadily built on his modest formal education, learning to read and write in Irish during middle age while simultaneously expanding his knowledge of literature and history. Scholarly visitors were impressed with Tomás's observations of his tiny community. They encouraged him to commit his stories and memories to paper. He wrote three first-person accounts of his experiences, bequeathing to us a captivating saga of a folk culture doomed by difficult circumstances. His works are among the first examples of Ireland's transition from oral to written folk storytelling. The Blasket Islandman tells, for the first time, the full story of Tomás's life, with its many triumphs and travails. This absorbing account also describes the forces that influenced his work and details his impressive legacy. Tomás was determined that his community be remembered. In the process, he achieved a level of immortality for himself. More than eighty years after his passing, he remains the famed 'Blasket Islandman' and, to paraphrase the man himself, the like of him will never be again.

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387

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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1788410394

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9781788410397

Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World

A Work of Reclamation and Restitution in Twelve Books

By: Gerald Massey

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Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World

A Work of Reclamation and Restitution in Twelve Books

By: Gerald Massey

Gerald Massay was one of the first Egyptologists in modern times to realize that with the final eclipse of the incredibly old Land of Kam (a.k.a ancient Egypt), a light had been extinguished in world civilization. He was a man of protean interests and concerns - at once a poet, socialist, Shakespearean scholar, mythographer and Egyptologist. Part of his genius was the ability to look truth in the face and not flinch. Massey did in the cultural domain what modern paleontologists have done in the anthropological: pinpoint Africa as the crucible of humanity's story. In the first volume of Ancient Egypt, Massey was primarily concerned with elaborating how the first humans emergine in Africa created thought. What had been evident to him from the outset was that the myths, rituals and religions of ancient Egypt - or Old Kam - had preserved virtually intact a record of the psychomythic evolution of humanity. In the second volume, Massey examines the celestial phenomenon known as the Precession of the Equinoxes. He believed only by understanding this phenomenon was it possible to fathom Nile Valley history. He provides the reader with extensive detail on the interconnection of the two. The last half of the second volume is devoted to the Kamite sources of Christianity. Massey demonstrated the manner in which New Testament Christianity evolved directly out of the Osirian mysteries. Massey pioneered the effort the connect Old Kamite thought to its origin in Africa's antiquity. His conclusions, which are constantly being verified, showed that Kamite thought was the direct progenitor to the philosophy, metaphysics, religion and science that eventually shaped Western cvilization. -- from back cover.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121318

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9780933121317

The Last Stand of the Raven Clan

A Story of Imperial Ambition, Native Resistance and How the Tlingit-Russian War Shaped a Continent

By: Gerald Easter,Mara Vorhees

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The Last Stand of the Raven Clan

A Story of Imperial Ambition, Native Resistance and How the Tlingit-Russian War Shaped a Continent

By: Gerald Easter,Mara Vorhees

A dynamic history of the Battle of Sitka that recognizes the vital importance of the Tlingit people, their fight against Imperial Russia, and how it changed the fate of the North America. “If the long-term plans of Peter the Great had been realized, then California never would have become a Spanish colony,” asserted the head of the Russian-American Company. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Russia was a rising power in North America. The Tsar’s empire extended across the Bering Sea, through the Aleutians and Kodiak Island, and down the Alaskan panhandle. The objective of this imperialist project was to corner the lucrative North Pacific fur trade and colonize the American coastline all the way to San Francisco Bay. The audacious scheme was moving apace until the Russians were finally confronted and stalled on the battlefield. When Russia went to war in America, the fate of a continent was at stake. Yet it was neither the Old-World rivals Spain and Britain nor the upstart United States who stopped Russian expansion, but a coalition of defiant Tlingit tribes. The Last Stand of the Raven Clan is the true story of how the indigenous Tlingit people of southeast Alaska thwarted Imperial Russia’s grand plan of conquest in North America. Leading the charge was the young war chief K'alyáan, a hero as fierce and courageous as Crazy Horse or Geronimo. The Tlingit stance against Russian colonization—during the Battle of Sitka and beyond—was arguably the most successful indigenous resistance against European imperialism in North America. Tlingit oral histories and Russian eyewitness accounts bring this history to life, shedding light on events both inspiring and infamous: the Massacre at Refuge Rock, one of Native America’s worst atrocities; the Survival March, the perilous Tlingit retreat to avoid Russian capture and enslavement; and the cutthroat competition between the U.S. and Russia to control the northern Pacific. Ultimately, The Last Stand of the Raven Clan chronicles the determined struggle for survival of the Tlingit people in their ancestral homeland and places the Battle of Sitka in its rightful spot as a key turning point in North American history.

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250

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Simon and Schuster

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1639367373

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9781639367375

Handbook of Pediatrics

By: Gerald B. Merenstein,David W. Kaplan,Adam A. Rosenberg

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Handbook of Pediatrics

By: Gerald B. Merenstein,David W. Kaplan,Adam A. Rosenberg

This popular Lange handbook provides comprehensive and easily accessible information on pediatrics.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071383638

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9780071383639

Income Tax Fundamentals

By: Gerald E. Whittenburg,Martha Altus-Buller

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Income Tax Fundamentals

By: Gerald E. Whittenburg,Martha Altus-Buller

INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS has led the market for more than twenty years with concise, practical, and current coverage of individual income tax preparation. Whittenburg and Altus-Buller's text/workbook format presents material in easy-to-digest sections with self-checks, online quizzes and activities, multiple examples, and review problems. Income Tax Fundamentals is the perfect text for a hands-on approach to tax in many class settings, including four-year colleges, community colleges, or career schools. This text is revised annually to reflect the current tax law. The purpose of the Whittenburg text is to teach the most important and practical areas of the tax law to students, using a building block approach, with feedback at the end of each section. By the end of the text, the student should be able to prepare a fairly difficult return containing many of the elements seen frequently by taxpayers and tax preparers.

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Thomson South-Western

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032439926X

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9780324399264

Book's by Gerald Tomas

Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 3 Advanced

Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 3 Advanced

Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 2 - Intermediate

Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 2 - Intermediate

Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 1 - Beginning

Tomas Cruz Conga Method Volume 1 - Beginning

Exile and Revolution

Exile and Revolution

The Blasket Islandman

The Blasket Islandman

Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World

Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World

The Last Stand of the Raven Clan

The Last Stand of the Raven Clan

Handbook of Pediatrics

Handbook of Pediatrics

Income Tax Fundamentals

Income Tax Fundamentals

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