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All about the most popular monsters of D&D--the dragons!

Draconomicon I: Chromatic Dragons describes several varieties of dragons, including red, blue, green, black, and white dragons, as well as three completely new chromatic dragons.

This sourcebook gives details of each dragon's powers, tactics, myths, lairs, servitors, and more. In addition, this book provides new information about draconic nations (such as Arkhosia) and organizations, and how chromatic dragons fit into the D&D game. Wide-ranging story and campaign elements in the book give DMs ready-to-play material that is easily incorporated into a gane, including adventure hooks, quests, and pregenerated treasure hoards..
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A comprehensive chromatic harmonica method by noted writer and clinician Phil Duncan. Contains excellent harmonica arrangements of 60 tunes ranging in style from light classics to folk and country. Includes a CD and DVD..
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The bestselling series of the greatest comic strip of all goes full-color!

Starting with this sixth volume in Fantagraphics' acclaimed Krazy Kat reprint series, finally it's time for… color! After a brief hiatus in the mid-1930s, the heretofore black-and-white Sunday Krazy Kat returned in full spectacular color in June 1935. And so this volume includes all the Sunday strips from the latter half of 1935 and all of 1936, including one supremely rare instance of a page shot from an original syndicate proof sheet, all reproduced in sparkling, digitally cleaned-up color.

The new color format also opens the floodgates for a massive amount of spectacular rare color art from series editor Bill Blackbeard's files, including a surprising color self-portrait by Herriman, several Kat watercolors executed for friends, peers, and relatives, some watercolored non-Krazy Kat material, a reproduction of a vintage archy and mehitabel dust jacket by Herriman-plus a period spoof of Krazy Kat by Minute Movies' Ed Wheelan, and several instances of other cartoonists imitating Herriman's unique "Family Upstairs / Krazy Kat" format.

This volume also includes "The Kolor of Krazy Kat," a revelatory essay by journalist and critic Jeet Heer that addresses in-depth the mystery of Herriman's racial origins, and the varying ways in which Herriman dealt with them artistically throughout his career-a major addition to Herriman-related scholarship and commentary..
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Chromatic Harmonica? It s fun, it s easy, and it sounds great right away! It s way easier to play blues and jazz on the chromatic than on the regular ten hole harmonica! The holes are bigger (so they re easier to single out ). Better tone and lots of blues notes are built right into the chromatic, so you don t need to learn difficult tone effects before you sound good, like ten hole players do. You won t have to learn standard music notation! Most traditional chromatic harmonica methods require you to read useful but complex standard musical notation, filled with lines and spaces and strange little symbols. But this one sure doesn t! If you can count to 12, breathe in and out, and tap your foot, you ll understand my super simple notation system right away. It has just three parts: Dots, Numbers, and Arrows. Here's how it works: Nothing to it! Just aim your lips at the hole number, from 1 to 12. Breathe OUT if the number is written in OUTLINED type. Little ARROWS tell you when to press the slide button That's all there is to it try it now! Oh When the Saints 1 2 3 3 (filled in) (filled in) (outlined) (filled in) (little Arrow) You ll play your first blues in just 3 Minutes! With my amazing new Three Minutes toTM Chromatic lesson," you ll skim a few pages of this book, listen to two tracks on the CD, and be ready to play your first simple but satisfying blues solo...after just Three Minutes of my instruction! Then you ll go on to learn: Blues and Jazz Scales From the Easiest Ones to the Hardest Hot Licks and Solos In the Styles of the Chromatic Masters, from Little Walter to Toots to Stevie Plus Soulful Songs, Swingin Basslines, Just Enough Music Theory, Improvisation Strategy, and much more!.
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A wonderful collection of favorite folk and classic themes are artistically arranged for chromatic harmonica solo in this book/CD package All songs on the CD are split-track for play-along. Selected songs are recorded. Each songs is labeled with what harmonica was used. Some tunes are with piano and some are full orchestrations. Either the 12 or 16 hole chromatic harmonica may be used. CD contains only 28 of the 57 songs that are in the book..
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Is there any sexier topic in software development than software testing? That is, besides game programming, 3D graphics, audio, high-performance clustering, cool websites, et cetera? Okay, so software testing is low on the list. And that's unfortunate, because good software testing can increase your productivity, improve your designs, raise your quality, ease your maintenance burdens, and help to satisfy your customers, coworkers, and managers.

Perl has a strong history of automated tests. A very early release of Perl 1.0 included a comprehensive test suite, and it's only improved from there. Learning how Perl's test tools work and how to put them together to solve all sorts of previously intractable problems can make you a better programmer in general. Besides, it's easy to use the Perl tools described to handle all sorts of testing problems that you may encounter, even in other languages.

Like all titles in O'Reilly's Developer's Notebook series, this "all lab, no lecture" book skips the boring prose and focuses instead on a series of exercises that speak to you instead of at you.

Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook will help you dive right in and:

• Write basic Perl tests with ease and interpret the results
• Apply special techniques and modules to improve your tests
• Bundle test suites along with projects
• Test databases and their data
• Test websites and web projects
• Use the "Test Anything Protocol" which tests projects written in languages other than Perl

With today's increased workloads and short development cycles, unit tests are more vital to building robust, high-quality software than ever before. Once mastered, these lessons will help you ensure low-level code correctness, reduce software development cycle time, and ease maintenance burdens.

You don't have to be a die-hard free and open source software developer who lives, breathes, and dreams Perl to use this book. You just have to want to do your job a little bit better.

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Extreme Programming (XP) is a radical new approach to software development that has been accepted quickly because its core practices---the need for constant testing, programming in pairs, inviting customer input, and the communal ownership of code---resonate with developers everywhere. Although many developers feel that XP is rooted in commonsense, its vastly different approach can bring challenges, frustrations, and constant demands on your patience. Unless you've got unlimited time (and who does these days?), you can't always stop to thumb through hundreds of pages to find the piece of information you need. The Extreme Programming Pocket Guide is the answer. Concise and easy to use, this handy pocket guide to XP is a must-have quick reference for anyone implementing a test-driven development environment. The Extreme Programming Pocket Guide covers XP assumptions, principles, events, artifacts, roles, and resources, and more. It concisely explains the relationships between the XP practices. If you want to adopt XP in stages, the Extreme Programming Pocket Guide will help you choose what to apply and when..
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Designed for undergraduate music majors, Harmony in Context successfully teaches a wide range of tonal mechanics, all richly contextualized by discussions of large-scale formal functions, by illustrations representing a great diversity of genres and repertoires, and by close attention to historical style periods..
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