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Advantages: Brilliant if you're actually studying Kipling...
Disadvantages: ...less so if you're not.

...Rudyard Kipling, born in India in 1865, is still the youngest ever Nobel literature laureate. He was a prolific author and at the turn of the century up to the first World War an immensely popular one. Even now he remains the most frequently quoted of all ...

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Review of The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling - Howard J Booth

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The most useful tool in the studio!

Advantages: Fantastic explanations, not too detailed. A lot of information
Disadvantages: None

If you're a budding music producer or maybe a musician just wanting to get to grips with recording your own music, you have to start at practically the same place. Whether you're at the most basic level of learning, be it school, college or university or ...

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Review of Creative Recording Part One: Effects and Processors - Paul White

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Oh beading heck!

Advantages: Good price, lovely projects and nice pics
Disadvantages: Descriptions are confusing, obscure materials, and there are no step-by-step pics

A new book I recently had some amazon vouchers to spend and decided I would like to get a book on jewellery making to help inspire me and give me some new creative ideas. Needless to say there were hundreds of choices to trawl through, but I final ...

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Review of Chic and Unique Beaded Jewelry - Sarah Crosland

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Badooom Tishhhhh

Advantages: good learning curve, interesting background information and side notes, accompanying CD
Disadvantages: Not definitive, does not explain grips, some mistakes.

Kick, Snare, Hat, Ride It was only when I started drumming that I actually understood that lyric (Noisettes: Don't upset the rhythm) If you have read some of my other reviews, you may have noted that I began drumming by playing Rock Band, then ...

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Review of Crash Course Drums - Pete Riley

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