books: string theory

books: string theory

books:

String theory

Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy

Dave Hickey

Art Issues Press, 1997

Another Guest for the Ideal Dinner Party
"Air Guitar" is Hickey's characterization of critical writing, it's direct relationship to its subject(s) being of approximately equal import as a person playing air guitar in his living room is to a rock concert. In the words of Vladimir Horowitz, the concert ...

How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course

Rikky Rooksby

Miller Freeman Books, 2000

Excellent Book
I checked this book out of the library so many times that I finally decided to buy it. The chord progressions and examples are what make this book great, and they apply to all types of musical instruments. I use this book to compose on the computer, then sequence the ...

Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar (Book and Audio CD) (Guitar Books)

Arnie Berle, Mark Galbo

Amsco Publications, 1993

This beginner loves it
I may be in the running for the world's lowest quotient of native guitar playing talent. I took lessons for a couple of years and practiced regularly and was always frustrated. I pretty much gave up for the last 5 years. Then about 6 months ago I bought Beginning ...

Building Walking Bass Lines

Ed Friedland

Hal Leonard Corporation, 1995

great beginner book for those wanting to learn how to walk
Depending on your knowledge of theory, for me this is by far the best beginner book I have come across. It really communicates to you the different ways to start walking in which many books fail to do. My lesson teacher told me to get it. Of all the walking bass ...

The Mandolin Chord Book

James Major

Amsco Publications, 1983

key based chordbook for mandolin
As you've most likely read in other reviews on this product, chords in this book are organized by key and not alphabetically. I really hated the organization of the chords at first. However, after some amount of initial frustration the more I used the book, the more ...

The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

Lee Smolin

Mariner Books, 2007

Brilliant account of the present state of physics
Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin notes, "One question that has bedeviled the [quantum] theory from the beginning is the question of the relationship between reality and the formalism", that is, between the real material world and our ideas about it. Smolin backs ...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory

George Musser

Alpha, 2008

wide ranging
A chunk of the book covers relativity. Quantum mechanics is presented with its incompatibilities. With these formalities over with, string theory is discussed. There are some difficulties here. Profound conclusions are presented without much background. The ...

The Songwriting Sourcebook: How to Turn Chords Into Great Songs

Rikky Rooksby

Backbeat Books, 2003

A Must for Songwriters
This book taught me so much about songwriting, it's scary. I'm not a novice, either! It teaches you about chord theory better than any other book I've read.

String Theory Demystified

David McMahon

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008

A playful yet serious textbook on string theory
I actually love the book, its format, and its focus. Imagine that your task is to take Polchinski's textbook on String Theory and compress both volumes to 320 light pages or so. You have to include some basics of GR, QFT, abstract classical mechanics but also the ...

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

Vintage, 2000

The Elegant Universe - Highly recommended, highly readable
In this age of rapidly changing theories of cosmology and physics The Elegant Universe explores the shortcomings of quantum physics and classical theory and the emergence of Super String Theory as the possible Great Unified Theory. This is a very well written book; ...

1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist, Chords and Chord Progressions

Bruce E. Arnold

Muse Eek Publishing Company, 2001

How serious are you about learning to play guitar?
First, I would like to point out that this book is but a small part of a VERY thorough collection of educational material for guitar from Mr. Arnold. Each of his books targets particular aspects of guitar and often music in general. The books are part of a complete ...

The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

Leonard Susskind

Back Bay Books, 2006

Is it science?
I chose this book as the third part in my reading of string theory. The other books are: Not Even Wrong (Peter Woit) - negative assessment The Trouble With Physics (Lee Smolin) - somewhat neutral assessment Also, a notable article can be found in Physics ...

Modes for Guitar (Private Lessons)

Musicians Institute Press, 2001

Helpful for learning the major modes
I bought this book about 2 years ago. I really liked it. It was extremely useful when I was first learning about each of the major modes. That said, it focuses mostly on the application of the modes, although there is a rather brief introductory chapter on "The Theory ...

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law for Unity in Physical ...

Peter Woit

Basic Books, 2007

The emperor has no clothes
I am writing this blurb in reply to Lubos Motl's (you guess it, another String practitioner whose livelihood is being threatened by this book) comment. The fact that Peter Woit runs a blog critical of String only shows that he is consistent with his opinions. It ...

Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar ...

NELSON TROY

HAL LEONARD CORPORATION, 2007

A Seriously Great Guitar Technique Book For Growing Chops
I've only had this book for a short time, but I really like this book and I'm a beginner. Then again I love a good challenge-when I really push myself is when I learn the most- and this is definitely packed full of lessons to keep you busy for more than a year. It's ...