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Drumlines are expert practicers: they isolate each part of their playing into the tiniest fragments and then perfect those fragments. Each phrase in a drumline's performance has been honed to a razor's edge and drilled to the point where the drums seem to play themselves. Drumline to Drumset takes the concepts of a drumline's most common exercises and applies them to the drumset to take the student's playing to the next level. Each exercise is first applied to the snare drum and then applied around the drums. Once the exercise has been mastered, the concepts are applied in practical grooves and fills.

Exploring works from the Middle Ages to Marlowe, this book argues that Christian drama and ritual performance had reveled in staging the collapse of Christianity into its historical opponents (paganism, heresy), a tradition Marlowe embraced.

The dramatic story of the Royal Navy's history and current capability

This compact book reproduces fifty-two memorials in Latin taken from churches situated largely in the West Country. Each memorial is accompanied by a translation and by notes on the grammar.The book is aimed at all who would like to be able to read Latin epitaphs in churches, and whose knowledge of the language may be sketchy.The introduction explains the conventions involved in lettering, abbreviations, Latinized personal names, and stock phrases. It is followed by a very brief Latin grammar and notes on Roman numerals and dates. At the back of the book there is a word list containing all those words found in the inscriptions with numbered references, plus a selection of words which are commonly found in inscriptions generally, though not in those printed here.By combining these resources in one book, the author equips the reader with the tools to tackle other epitaphs beyond the pages of this book and further afield.Every attempt is made to help the reader understand the context in which each inscription was composed. For instance it is stressed that the composers of such epitaphs were skilled Latin scholars, and that there are very few errors to be seen. Errors attributable to the stonemasons or sign-writers are noted and corrected.

John Parker has reconstructed the major events in the full sixty-year history of the Parachute Regiment, largely in the words of the men who were there. Their first-hand accounts of the major events in their history make entralling reading, bringing home the reality (and cruelty) of combat in a way no dry, official history could do.

Whilst Neil Armstrong is taking his giant leap for mankind, here on Earth the Harrison family prepares for a more modest step, from Birmingham to rural Wiltshire.

A gripping history of the elite brigade of the Royal Navy

A superb history of Britain's most decorated regiment

An in-depth investigation into the history and exploits of the Royal Navy Submarine Service based on first-hand accounts

Authoritative profile of the glamorous Desert Rats brigade

An updated in-depth investigation into the history and mystique of the Gurkha regiments