The American Heretic's Dictionary

Literature & Fiction

Bufe, Chaz

Humor & Satire

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This guide explains the most useful aspects of theory in clear, nontechnical language. Areas covered include scales (major, minor, modal, synthetic), chord formation, chord progression, melody, song forms, useful devices, (ostinato, mirrors, hocket, etc.), and instrumentation. It contains over 100 musical examples.

An Understandable Guide to Music Theory: The Most Useful Aspects of Theory for Rock, Jazz, and Blues Musicians

Arts & Photography

Music

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A modern updating of "The Devil's Dictionary." This book contains slightly over 650 definitions: 200 by Bierce, 300 from Chaz Bufe's "American Heretic's Dictionary," and 150 new definitions Bufe wrote for this volume. The book also contains 48 illustrations by J.R. Swanson.

The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

Humor & Entertainment

BIERCE, AMBROSE

Humor

This compilation of hundreds of biting, witty, cruel, and hilarious definitions combines the best 200 definitions from Ambrose Bierce's classic The Devil's Dictionary, with more than 500 definitions from the most humorous and stinging entries in Chaz Bufe's The American Heretic's Dictionary. This new edition includes 50 new definitions from Bufe and new biting illustrations by San Francisco artist and filmmaker J. R. Swanson. The Bierce definitions focus on his favorite targets, including religion, jingoism masquerading as patriotism, the "lickspittle" press, the thievery inherent in the American economic system, and the multitude of idiocies and hypocrisies pervading American social and political life. Bufe's definitions share many of the same targets, but also skewer such contemporary plagues as the "right to life" movement, religious fundamentalism, the IRS, and the puritanically "politically correct." Bufe also turns a jaundiced eye on both male and female sexual attitudes, something which Bierce, writing in much more conservative times, was not free to do.

The incredible diversity of the bass guitar is revealed in this newly revised, all-inclusive style guide. Each chapter covers particular styles or families of styles, gradually introducing players to techniques that will allow them to get the most out of their instrument and easily increase their bass repertoire. More than 400 bass grooves are presented, spanning an excess of 100 styles that musicians can follow along with on each of the two accompanying CDs. In addition to techniques for mastering the various styles, historical information about how they developed is included, giving players a one-of-a-kind opportunity to be true masters of the bass guitar. All musical samples in this updated edition are in both standard notation and tablature and the style histories, bibliography, and discography are up-to-date. Also included are 50 new grooves and a DVD with videos of the proper way to play more than 100 examples.

The Bassist's Bible: How to Play Every Bass Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco

Berry, Mick

Boomer, Tim

Provocations is a collection of Chaz Bufe’s writings on anarchism, atheism, religion, Alcoholics Anonymous, political and religious cults, new age nuttiness, political and social repression in the United States, the phoniness of contemporary “libertarianism,” and roads to change. The tone ranges from the serious and analytical to the sarcastic and darkly humorous in this wide-ranging exercise in critical thinking.

Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements

Religion & Spirituality

Atheism

The Anarchist Cookbook

From the cofounder of Food Not Bombs, an action-oriented guide to anarchism, social change, and vegan cooking Unlike the original Anarchist Cookbook, which contained instructions for the manufacture of explosives, this version is both a cookbook in the literal sense and also a “cookbook” of recipes for social and political change. The coffee-table–sized book is divided into three sections: a theoretical section explaining what anarchism is and what it isn’t; information on organizational principles and tactics for social and political change; and finally, numerous tasty vegan recipes from one of the cofounders of the international Food Not Bombs movement.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

McHenry, Keith

Vegetarian & Vegan

This new edition includes over 650 mordant definitions by Bufe—twice as many as in the original edition—and 40 illustrations by San Francisco artist and filmmaker J. R. Swanson. The definitions skewer such targets as religion, the "right to life" movement, capitalism, marxism, the IRS, politicians of all stripes, and common euphemisms, as well as male-female relations and sexual attitudes, something which Bierce, writing in more conservative times, was not free to do. The book concludes with a lengthy appendix of the best 200 definitions from Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.

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The American Heretic's Dictionary

An Understandable Guide to Music Theory: The Most Useful Aspects of Theory for Rock, Jazz, and Blues Musicians

The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

The Bassist's Bible: How to Play Every Bass Style from Afro-Cuban to Zydeco

Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements

The Anarchist Cookbook

The American Heretic's Dictionary