New Releases by Phil Gates

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Designed to give aspiring guitarists answers to common questions about recording your music in a brief, affordable, yet informative fashion, this FAQ book provides concepts, techniques and many answers to frequently asked questions about digital recording. It will give you the necessary tools and information that will allow you to record digital music on your own. Use this book as a foundation, then build your own recording process, and enter the world of recording that''s fun, satisfying, and ready for the world to hear!

"Inventions inspired by Nature"--Jacket.

What possible serendipity could bring together the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, a talking frog and a mountain man? You may believe that much is known about America''s finest philosopher. But the sage of Concord has an imaginative side unrevealed until now. You are invited into his mysterious world, and into his contemplative walks to Walden Pond where he encountered Henry Thorough, the frog he mentored toward self-realization and, ultimately, ascension. Author Phil Gates sets his novel in the middle of the Civil War while the explosive energy of westward expansion moves at a frenzied pace. The story of their perilous cross-country journey to California''s gold fields in 1863 is a rambunctious and delightful saga. Its tapestry includes the movers and shakers of the 19th century - the politicians, preachers, soldiers, trappers, charlatans and poets. It leads us to inquire and perhaps to answer life''s fundamental question: Who am I? It would be a shame to miss this adventure. "Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old." - R.W. Emerson

The story of humankind''s battle against disease, told in newspaper format.

A delightful Big Book full of intriguing animal facts. Suits ages 5-6.

Describes the conquistadores and their dangerous search for gold, jewels, and spices in the South American jungle.

This examination of the technology of nature is illustrated throughout with close up photographs. The text aims to stimulate the reader to take a fresh look at plants and animals.

Presents in newspaper format the stories of breakthroughs in medicine in many different cultures and lands from the year 8000 B.C. to the 1990s.

A major reading scheme for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years. Cambridge Reading Big Books provide texts in a size that is big enough for the teacher to give large groups of children a shared experience of the same text and to demonstrate early reading skills and strategies. They are ideal for implementation of the Literacy Hour. This is a Big Book version of the popular Beginning to Read phase title Bubbles.