Dave Hunter: 11 books
Mason Bee Revolution
How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World - One Backyard at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
• Author Dave Hunter is at the leading edge of bee and pollinator issues
• Mason bees are part of the solution to honeybees’ decline
• No other bee book addresses the topic with such depth and interest
• Includes useful information about leafcutter bees too!
The national media regularly...
The Fender Stratocaster
The Life & Times of the World's Greatest Guitar & Its Players
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Fender’s Stratocaster is arguably the number-one instrument icon of the guitar world. When introduced in 1954, its offset space-age lines, contoured body, and three-pickup configuration set the music world on its ear—it was truly unlike any guitar that had come before. In the hands of the world’s...
The Gibson Les Paul
The Illustrated Story of the Guitar That Changed Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The Gibson Les Paul is possibly the electric guitar most associated with rock ’n’ roll. The result of a collaboration between Gibson’s Ted McCarty and jazz guitarist Les Paul in response to the success of Fender’s Telecaster, the Les Paul has gone on to become a prized instrument played by...
The Electric Guitar Sourcebook
How to Find the Sounds You Like
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Why does an electric archtop sound so different from a solidbody guitar when they have the same strings and pickups? Why does Eric Clapton use a vibrato Stratocaster with the vibrato arm removed and the mechanism blocked off with a piece of wood? Why does a strings-through-body guitar sound brighter...
The Home Recording Handbook
Use What You've Got to Make Great Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Gone are the days when home recording was limited to four tracks of tape hiss on a cassette porta-studio. Now, limitless digital multitrack recording and a vast array of outboard effects and processors are available to anyone with a computer. Add a few other essentials such as a microphone, some headphones...
Star Guitars
101 Guitars That Rocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King's Lucille, Eric Clapton's Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan's First Wife, Billy F Gibbons' Pearly Gates, Neil Young's Old Black, and many more. Here's the first-ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars...
365 Guitars, Amps & Effects You Must Play
The Most Sublime, Bizarre and Outrageous Gear Ever
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Guitarists love guitars. Few own just one, and most are dreaming of their next acquisition. To help them out, here is the ultimate bucket list of guitars—plus guitar amps and various guitar effects—that aficionados must play.
Included are the classics, such as the great Fender guitars,...
by Dave Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Learn the secrets to achieving your ultimate sound
Whether amateur or pro, guitarists live for the ultimate sound. Guitar Amps & Effects For Dummies provides the information and instruction you need to discover that sound and make it your own! Written in the characteristically easy-to-read...
Play Acoustic
The Complete Guide to Mastering Acoustic Guitar Styles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The acoustic guitar is the instrument of the people and Play Acoustic tells the people how to play it. This detailed and beautifully illustrated book explores the history of the acoustic guitar, from the jazz age to the folk revolutions of the early 1960s and late 1990s to the current rebirth of bluegrass...
by Dave Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Mason Meets a Mason Bee
An Educational Encounter with a Pollinator
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Mason, like many other kids, is afraid of bees. Find out how a simple encounter with a mason bee changes Mason's life; Mason conquers his fear of bees and is empowered to be like a superhero to help protect the bees. This story teaches timely and important lessons about the native bees, habitat, pesticide...