Marshall Books

This is the best value for money I've ever got on a guitar book, at only $15.61 from Amazon!
Great music, accurate transcription.
I just keep on playing the cd, and reading and working at the book.
If you are interested in improving your playing, this is a must!


NEW UPDATE 11-oct-2007
1 year later I'm still enjoying this book and cd!
Slowly progressing through Missile Blues and Sundown.
I can play the heads for both songs, now moving into the solos.
Trying to speed up my reading of notes.
Still using both tabs and notes, as I reckon tab is still essential because the guitar sounds so different depending on the frets used.

Wolf tears it up in this one. I now have three of his books: 101 jazz licks, Wes Montgomery, and Charlie Christian. This one is by far my favorite of the three.

All of Wolf's books are dead accurate. I have played his cds and origional recordings side by side and the match is identical. He and his band have got every note, every cymbol crash, every lick, everything down identically. The tabs are also right on. Wolf is the only one I've found who gets tabbing correct.

Buy ALL of his books. Not only is he an amazing guitarist, he is also a totally humble man. He even gave me some pointers that have helped me considerably when I first met him at a John Pissano/Henry Johnson gig at Spazios in Sherman Oaks.

First of all, Wolf Marshall is an awesome guitarist. To be able to mimic the syles of so many legendary guitar heroes is nothing short of unbelievable. This book gave me insight into Wes songs I already knew and helped me correct some of the mistakes I was making, after learning them by ear. Mi Cosa, for example, uses the original Riverside version, I learned the Verve version, which was done with strings. I suggest, whenever possible, listen to actual Wes recordings. Wolf is good, but he definitely ain't Wes. There is a difference in the exact nuances, phrasing and touch that Wes gets. I've been playing for 30+ years and am impressed with the knowledge I've been able to gain from Wolf's books. The transcriptions are first-rate and accurate. I also recommend his George Benson and Pat Martino books. This is more than worth the money, it's a real bargain. Buy and enjoy.

This is a really well done transcription of these Wes Mongomery tunes. The tablature is very accurate and easy to work with. The accompanying CD is also good help for working on these solos.

This is one of the best books I ever read, my wife and I both were very impressed with the story. It was fascinating to read about what really goes on in a metropolitan police department and after reading a few chapters we couldn't put the book down. We are both looking forward to reading another book by the same author.

As a retired Miami Dade Officer I couldn't put this book down. I never have bothered with fiction but because I knew Marshall when he was with Miami Dade I bought "Beyond The Call." It was great. There was suspense, excitement and enough reality to keep me going. I finished it off in two days and I believe I worked with all the officers of this great fictious Novel.Are you on the job? If you are, read, "Beyond The Call."

I found the book very easy to read. The type of book I kept at, always wanting to know what will come next. I am not an avid reader & am easily discouraged while reading a book that is slow. This book seems to be rooted in truth & the experience of the author. I found it hard to put down & have recommended it to my friends. A very exciting story.

The book is written by a retired Miami-Dade area detective turned author. His story is very entertaining and at the same time educational for someone interested in the law enforcement career. Analysis of the inside workings of the police force is very strong and knowledgable thanks to his own experiences. The book is excellent reading for all interested in crime stories.

Bone of His Bone focuses on the great spiritual battle that takes place when a Christian takes seriously the authority in Christ.

Among the important points Huegel cover includes:

1. Instead of imitating Christ, we are to let Christ live His life through us in His power.
2. God must have our consent before He will work in our lives.
3. Being alone with God is worth much more than constantly being around others.
4. The amount of the divine life we experience depends on how much we let Jesus have His way with us.
5. Victory in our life is only achieved by death to self.
6. The devil uses many strategies to discourage and mislead us.
7. How to overcome the devil's strategy.
8. We will also be involved in Christ's Second Coming.

Read and be encouraged to abide more deeply in Christ!

F.J. Huegel makes his case very clear, through his own life examples and through the Scriptures - we are "participants" in the Life of Christ, from his death, resurrection, and ascension into the heavenly places. We reckon ourselves to be dead unto sin and alive to God through Jesus Christ, he affirms through the Scriptures, and through faith, the application of these truths become as real as breathing. It's as if the Spirit of God has breathed His life through this author.

Highly recommended!!

This book has been around for 60+ years a classic! Know your idenity in Christ. It is on my top ten favorite book list. Check them out. all are winners. feel free to email me.

I had to read this book for my class "Spiritual Formation" at Luther Rice Seminary. Although I was a Christian for many years, this book really opened my eyes, and I think brought me up a few levels in my spiritual understanding.

It goes into the Nth degree about understanding our relationship in Christ. It really puts the "spirituality" into Christianity. Some churches are dead spiritually. Some have gone off the deep end in chasing, what they think, is the Holy Spirit. What's the correct spiritual understanding for Christians? I think this book shows it quite clearly... real spirituality without the wackiness.

I recommend this book to even "mature" Christians. For those who think they've seen it all, I'll bet they still learn from this one. It goes right to the heart, and it will make you love and live in our Lord much more deeply.

We recently got our first dog, a cute little black mix, named Blackie, for our young boys Welsey and Paul. They will probably have many pets in their lives but since they are only 3 and 5 now they will not remembers many of the special moments of their first pet Blackie. My husband and I are using The Book of My Pet to capture the life of Blackie so our boys can look back on the joys and responsibilities of caring for their first dog and share it with their kids when they grow up. Great book idea for pet lovers.

I wish I had copies of this book for every companion animal I ever had! Right now, I have three copies I'm keeping memories in -- one for each of my three dogs. I will be sure to purchase a new copy for each new furry friend that I adopt in the future. The "memory joggers" are very helpful while making entries from a pet's birth to crossing the Rainbow Bridge.

I know lots of pet owners who would get into this. The design is handsome, not overly cutesy like some. The memory-jogging prompts are v. good...some funny, some reflective, some factual. I like the way they are organized into chapters with subsections: 1. How to Write Your Pet's Story 2. Starting Out (Getting Ready, How We Met, Family Tree) 3. The First Year (Settling In, Getting to Know My Pet, Making & Breaking the Rules) 4. The Prime of Life (Personality, Pleasures, Habits & Health, Talents) 5. The Advanced Years (Winding Down, Maturing Ways) 6. Saying Good-bye (The Passing, Looking Back)

When I was a child and then a young mother, keeping a "baby book" of those born into the family was common. It was a way of documenting the events of the life of this important person and celebrating his/her uniqueness. The Book of My Pet offers that kind of possibility for the beloved animals who become significant parts of our families. This book evokes those memories you might forget by asking thoughtful questions in many categories. The whole family can participate in creating this remembrance at anytime in the life of your pet. It is also possible to mount pictures in the book to make it a visual as well as verbal story of your shared life with this mysterious, special being. I am using it to tell the story of Gray, our cat who has graciously taken us into her life.

If you are looking for a great novel about Pilots in the Vietnam War, this is the one for you. I can't believe that I paid so little for this book, because it will stay on my shelf as one of those rare books that I will reread. This is a fantastic novel about Thud Drivers in the Vietnam War. The flying scenes, the characters, the complexities of the times are all well thought out and presented in this great novel of aerial combat. Even though it is a novel, I would rate it up there with the offerings of 100 Missions North, Thud Ridge, and all the other great F105 novels. Do yourself a favor and get this book. You will not be disappointed.

Once you start this book, it will be hard to do anything else until you finish. Gripping, moving account of the Thud airstrikes over NVN. Newbies to the Vietnam war will feel admiration for the pilots, and anger toward the war leadership that put politics over lives.

Although Harrison develops his charactors carefully, the reader is pulled rapidly through the unfolding story with its tragedies and triumphs and - surprises.

If you can find the book, get it. But make sure you have a clear couple of days to get through it.

I have read this book several times and I can't get enough of it. The action is non-stop. And the air battles are as real as my flight-sim. This book is right up there with such authors as Dale Brown, Joe Weber, and Leonard B. Scott. I score it a 10. I just wish he would write more.

This is a superb novel based on the Republic F-105 Thunderchief (THUD) pilots in Vietnam. Astounding level of accuracy

The book arrived very promptly, and although it was used it was in almost perfect condition. Very pleased.

I received my books within days NOT weeks as thought, had a chance to review the book before my classes started.

This will be the first place I look for new & used books.

Thanks so much for the quick service

I'm using this textbook in my community college course on corrections -- and I can't image how any book could be better. The book is built around a theme of professionalism in corrections and makes me want to work as a corrections officer -- and makes me want to improve the field. If you are interested in a career in corrections this book is for you -- whether or not you are currently in school.

I'm using this textbook in my community college course on corrections -- and I can't image how any book could be better. The book is built around a theme of professionalism in corrections and makes me want to work as a corrections officer -- and makes me want to improve the field. If you are interested in a career in corrections this book is for you -- whether or not you are currently in school.

Without doubt the most important book on directing since Harold Clurman's seminal On Directing, I found Marshall Mason's Creating Life on Stage both moving and inspiring. When this book was released earlier this year, I was preparing to direct a production of Wilder's "The Matchmaker". I found Mason's insights into the most critical aspect of directing: how to coax the most inspired performance out of an actor truly illuminating.

How do we create the most fertile ground for truthful living on stage? In an almost simplistic, highly organized methodology, Marshall Mason lays out a set of tools for us to use. Mason manages to present this material so simply and lucidly, that almost anyone who picks up this book, interested amateur or Broadway veteran will profit from its contents. This is very difficult material to articulate, but he manages to relate concepts of character, behavior, even consciousness and spirituality in a way that is practical and executable on stage.

Highly useful for both actors and directors of all levels, it truly is "...utterly invaluable".

One might think that directing plays was an arcane art for certain geniuses, but as the great Alvina Krause would agree, directing plays is about LIFE and it IS life and therefore this advice about organizing work, interacting with others, managing one's own drive is good advice for anyone. I would particularly recommend it for writers. And especially people who write about the theatre. This is a clear book, not as simple as might seem on first reading, and a joy to read.

Mary Scriver

This book provides complete instructions on how to be an excellent director, from choosing the project to opening night and beyond. Theatergoers with an interest in how a play gets from a script to the performance they see should find the book fascinating. Mr. Mason writes in a gentle, intensely serious, sometimes wry style that is a pleasure to read. Young directors would surely benefit from Mr. Mason's 40-some years of experience in the theater. Actors should find it very interesting to know what a director does before first rehearsal (and it is a lot), and to read in print a description of the sort of direction they know in their hearts they deserve. Mr. Mason touches frequently and perceptively on Stanislavski and has an appendix on Sandy Meisner's teachings (and other illuminating appendices). If you know a young person considering a theater career, this book would be a very useful and supportive gift.

There is no doubt that Marshall Mason is one of the great directors of the past half century. With his new book Creating Life On Stage, he has shown himself to be one of the great teachers of directing as well.

Not all great directors make great teachers. And not all great teachers make great directors. I'm too young to have seen Harold Clurman's work, but there seems to be a consensus that his productions did not always meet the standards of his wonderful, seminal book On Directing.

Mason's book, written in a clear, often chatty voice, undertakes to describe a system for directors--akin to Stanislavski's for actors--that can reliably clear the way for inspiration and creativity. Mason draws on both his own vast experience and the groundwork set down by other major figures, ranging from Elia Kazan and Sanford Meisner to Anne Bogart.

The result is a rich blend of the traditional and the adventurous, drawing on the best of each. He describes how to make effective use of improvisation to stimulate the depths of actors' creativity (explore the history of the play, but don't demand a predetermined conclusion...); as well as innovative techniques such as the baby exercise for lovers (check it out--you'll love it).

Nor does he neglect the basics, and even they can have a fresh feel to them. Look for advice on how breaking down a script and constructing a rehearsal schedule can be conduits for inspiration. Even volume notes and tech can make a good story. After shouting several times from the back of the theater "I can't hear you!" during a dress rehearsal an actor shouted back in frustration "F*** you!" To which Mason immediately replied, "THAT I heard!"

Most of the book, however, is devoted to creating a rehearsal dynamic that invites the maximum creativity and enthusiasm from designers and actors alike. "We'll try to be something of a family here," he tells his cast, "but our family will be based on mutual respect." He goes on to add, "if we, the artists cannot communicate with each other, how can we hope to communicate with an audience?"

Creating Life On Stage is an important and welcome book to any director's library. None that I have seen offers the kind of advice for talking to designers that Mason gives, both practical and rich. It is telling that he calls this section not "working with designers" or "dealing with designers" but rather "stimulating designers." The same holds true for working with playwrights--and if there's one thing Marshall Mason knows, it's how to sustain a successful relationship with a playwright. His fifty-year collaboration with Lanford Wilson is proof enough of that.

There are a few times where he seems a bit caught up in the virtues of his approach--telling us in one instance that he thought his production of Private Lives was "much funnier (and more honest) than the acclaimed Broadway production the same year." But this is hardly a flaw--his goal is to help directors create work they can be justifiably proud of.

The approach to directing he describes, from choosing a play to "Enduring Opening Night" may just be one man's opinion. But any director would do well to consider his techniques. Perhaps the highest compliment I can pay it is this: I'll be using it.

This book is a very comrehensive look at the culture & people of Ecuador. It is written like a travel guide giving an inside look into different locations & the people living there. This book would an enjoyable read even for people who are not planning on traveling to Ecuador.

As all Culture Shock books, this too is a very good one in unerstanding the soul of a country.

My son is in Ecuador as an exchange student for a year, and I found the book interesting. It gives you a sense of the culture and what to expect if you go to live there.

If you're planning on going to Ecuador this is the book for you. The author writes in a very lively way to keep you interested all the way to the end. Having lived there for over 20 years he has authoritatve views and accurate histories to really get you prepared to interact with the people of Ecuador. The author also has a helpful list of do's and don'ts to help keep you out of trouble. Check it out.

This book is fascinating. I was in Finland for a year for Fulbright and this book helped me to begin understanding the culture of Finns. It is honest and at times hilarious!

I shared it with my Finnish friends while I was there and we roared with laughter because it is all dead on!

Perfect for the person who will be going to Finland, and live for any length of time there. I am not entirely sure it would be necessary reading for the tourist, but much better for a person who will actually live amongst the Finns. So, if you are in business and will be spending any significant time in Finland, this is very much essential reading. It would be good for Diplomats new to the country or their jobs to read the work as well.

However, for the children of Finnish Immigrants, ( I can really only speak for Canada, but think it would apply evenly to the United States, specifically Minnesota ) I think the work to be ESSENTIAL READING. Much of Finnish culture was imparted to me, and my cousins while growing up, but it was Swallow's attention to the details, and her "anglo-sizing" events that made many things much more clear to me.

Swallow has a wit and humour to her writing, and it was an enjoyable read. I have kept it secret, and away from my wife, as I am sure that she would poke fun at some of the Finnish idiosyncrasies.

Excellent book.

I, unfortunately, found the book after our recent trip. I had to laugh at so many of the customs and especially the traits, as I am of Finnish decent. It was light hearted, and I found it to be right on the mark, especially in helping me find out why I am the way I am. Have passed the book around and everyone agrees that it's a winner!

I'm leaving in August to be an exchange student to Finland and this book told me everything the Lonely planet guides were afraid too! This book was divided into nicely planned sections with a wonderful section dedicated to doing bussiness in the country. No book about Finland would be complete without the sauna chapter- and this book spares nothing. It has been by far the best preparation book I've read. The only downfall is that it is written by a Brittish woman- but she makes both Bristtish and American comparisons whenever possible.

Early book by the great western writer Robert Utley provides a brief description of the Indian situation that evolved before the LBH and then he provides an abbreviated but well described sequence of battle events. Utley then describes the press' role in developing the story that caught General Sherman and Sheridan off guard as Sherman provides Terry's second controversial report to a reporter by accident. Utley describes the fireworks that arises between Custer supporters such as his old classmate Confederate Rosser and Reno and other military men such as Colonel Hughes, Terry's adjutant and relative. The controversy is even made even more complex by the chapter spent on the Indian's version of events that has elements of truth combined with confusing facts or half truths perhaps aggravated by poor translations and the Indians unique individualistic versions of battle that lack time and spatial realities. Finally, Utley tackles a number of the mythical stories about Custer and the LBH including Frederick Whitacker's quick print and fanciful book on Custer that became a best seller. The best part of this chapter is the discussion about the last four crow scouts to see Custer particularly the debate over when Curley departed from Custer. An excellent book that frames the controversies about Custer's battle which also explains the fascination, nothing is totally certian but amongst all the testimony and physical evidence, somewhere lies the truth.

Anything by Robert Utley is indispensible, especially when it comes to Custer as he wrote CAVALIER IN BUCKSKIN, probably the best biography of the man. Also to his credit are the official NPS Little Bighorn Battlefield guide, a biography of Sitting Bull, and numerous other Custer/Indian Wars/Western history books.

This book is primarily focussed on an examination of the immediate aftermath of the Little Big Horn and how the various lines of controversy were established that still echo (unresolved) and are with us today. These include Did Custer Disobey Orders? Was Reno a coward when he fled from the valley fight? Were both Reno and Benteen negligent in not responding to Custer's written order for the packs, an order with an audible reminder of the gunfire four miles away that, two days later, the men on Reno Hill learned signalled the end of Custer and his command. All of the seeds of future books and endless debates were firmly planted by the end of the 1870s, topped off with the Reno Court of Inquiry. Excellent insight into that event and some of the second-hand talk and gossip sorroundingsthe officers who testified and why they may have said what they did. Utley is his usual dispassionate, detached self as he explores these issues in his highly engaging writing style.

Originally published in 1962, the book concludes with Utley's brief commentary on most of the major battle books published up to that time. One can only wish that this section were revised and updated. Lacking that, we can all look forward to the autor's CUSTER AND ME, due in October 2004.

Despite its age (it was first published in 1962) this book is probably the best of the scores of books available to start with for those interested in exploring the ever elusive and controversial life of George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Utley, while steering clear of making judgments of his own ("I do not aspire to offer the last word on the subject"), lays out the scene of the battle, shows how the press and early writers colored events and created heroes and villains, looks at the Indian side of the story, and discusses some of the myths that have gone into creating the Custer Legend. The Custer literature is prodigious in amount, and tends to be either Custerphilic (pro-Custer) or Custerphobic (anti-Custer). Again, Utley refuses to take sides, but points out that virtually every "fact" regarding the battle and its participants issues up opposing interpretations. This short book gives a powerful sense of what the student of Custer and especially the Little Big Horn is up against. A useful and straightforward introduction.

Good reading offers some good insight into the whole Custer and Little Bighorn 'fiasco'! I'm more prepared now to find out what possibly happened on that fateful day. The case has been well made that there may 'never' be a definitive conclusion?