Ben Watson

The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play

Frank Zappa

Analyzes the music of Frank Zappa, discusses his creative process, and examines his cultural influence

The Complete Guide to His Music

Take performance to the next level! This book does not just teach you how the CLR works---it teaches you exactly what you need to do now to obtain the best performance today. It will expertly guide you through the nuts and bolts of extreme performance optimization in .NET, complete with in-depth examinations of CLR functionality, free tool recommendations and tutorials, useful anecdotes, and step-by-step guides to measure and improve performance. This second edition incorporates the advances and improvements in .NET over the last few years, as well as greatly expanded coverage of tools, more topics, more tutorials, more tips, and improvements throughout the entire book. New in the 2nd Edition: <ul> <li> 50% increase in content! </li><li> New examples, code samples, and diagrams throughout entire book </li><li> More ways to analyze the heap and find memory problems </li><li> More tool coverage, including expanded usage of Visual Studio </li><li> More benchmarking </li><li> New GC configuration options </li><li> Code warmup techniques </li><li> New .NET features such as ref-returns, value tuples, SIMD, and more </li><li> More detailed analysis of LINQ </li><li> Tips for high-level feature areas such as ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and WPF </li></ul> Also find expanded coverage and discover new tips and tricks for: <ul> <li> Profiling with multiple tools to quickly find problem areas </li><li> Detailed description of the garbage collector, how to optimize your code for it, and how to diagnose difficult memory-related issues </li><li> How to analyze JIT and diagnose warmup problems </li><li> Effective use of the Task Parallel Library to maximize throughput </li><li> Which .NET features and APIs to use and which to avoid </li><li> Instrument your program with performance counters and ETW events </li><li> Use the latest and greatest .NET features </li><li> Build a performance-minded team </li><li>...and so much more </li></ul>

Writing High-Performance .NET Code, 2nd Edition

Do you want your .NET code to have the absolute best performance it can? This book demystifies the CLR, teaching you how and why to write code with optimum performance. Learn critical lessons from a person who helped design and build one of the largest high-performance .NET systems in the world. This book does not just teach you how the CLR works-it teaches you exactly what you need to do now to obtain the best performance today. It will expertly guide you through the nuts and bolts of extreme performance optimization in .NET, complete with in-depth examinations of CLR functionality, free tool recommendations and tutorials, useful anecdotes, and step-by-step guides to measure and improve performance. Among the topics you will learn are how to: Choose what to measure and why Use many amazing tools, freely available, to solve problems quickly Understand the .NET garbage collector and its effect on your application Use effective coding patterns that lead to optimal garbage collection performance Diagnose common GC-related issues Reduce costs of JITting Use multiple threads sanely and effectively, avoiding synchronization problems Know which .NET features and APIs to use and which to avoid Use code generation to avoid performance problems Measure everything and expose hidden performance issues Instrument your program with performance counters and ETW events Use the latest and greatest .NET features Ensure your code can run on mobile devices without problems Build a performance-minded team ...and much more.

Writing High-Performance .Net Code

This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player makes you forget everything you think you know about jazz improvisation, post punk and the avant-garde Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance-band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract music. As the Joseph Holbrooke Trio, with bassist Gavin Bryars and drummer Tony Oxley, Bailey forged a musical syntax which has since operated as an international counter to the banality of commercialism. Refusing to be labeled a "jazz" guitarist, Bailey has collaborated with performance artists, electronic experimentalists, classical musicians, Zen dancers, tap dancers, rock stars, jazzers, poets, weirdos and an endless stream of fiercely individual musicians. Today his anti-idiom of "Free Improvisation" has become the lingua franca of the "avant" scene, with Pat Metheny, John Zorn, David Sylvian and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore amongst his admirers. Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation lifts the lid on an artistic ferment which has defied every known law of the music business. Telling the story via taped interviews with Bailey and his cohorts, gig reports and album reviews (including an exhaustive discography of Bailey's vast and hard-to-track output), Ben Watson's spiky, partisan and often very funny biography argues that anyone who thought the avant-garde was dead simply forgot to listen.

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

Carlo Petrini

Slow Food Editore

Remember the days before the dot.com explosion, before Golden Arches rose from the Great Plains, before the Age of Information, when the only commodity that wasn't in short supply in America was time? Time to relax and reflect, time to cook well, eat well, and live the life of sustainable hedonism. Today we pound down our Big Mac and fries as we check our e-mail on our collective Palm Pilots, at the expense of true nourishment for our bodies and souls. "Enough!" says Carlo Petrini, the founder of Slow Food International, a movement that encourages us to turn down the volume, unplug the answering machine, and enjoy life to its fullest. Away with nutraceutical soft drinks and breakfast cereals made from refined sugar and shaped liked clowns. Bring back the pleasure of the palate, and return the humanity to food. More than 60,000 members worldwide now belong to the Slow Food movement, which believes that the slow shall inherit the earth. Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food is an anthology for cooks, gourmets, and anyone who is passionate about food and its impact on our culture. Drawn from five years of the quarterly journal Slow (only recently available in America), this book includes more than 100 articles covering eclectic topics from "Falafel" to "Fat City." From the market at Ulan Bator in Mongolia to Slow Food Down Under, this book offers an armchair tour of the exotic and bizarre. You'll pass through Vietnam's Snake Tavern, enjoy the Post-Industrial Pint of Beer, and learn why the lascivious villain in Indian cinema always eats Tandoori Chicken. The articles are contributed by some of the world's top food writers. Slow Food is moving fast in North America, with more than 5,000 members, loosely organized into 55 "Convivia," from Montreal to San Francisco, benefiting from enormous free publicity. Slow Food offers a clear alternative to the "fast food nation" (the title of Eric Schlosser's great book on the horrors of the fast food biz). This is a perfect follow-up to Joan Dye Gussow's This Organic Life, and is proof positive that he or she who lives slow, lives best.

Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition and the Honest Pleasures of Food

Slow Food

Take performance to the next level! This book does not just teach you how the CLR works---it teaches you exactly what you need to do now to obtain the best performance today. It will expertly guide you through the nuts and bolts of extreme performance optimization in .NET, complete with in-depth examinations of CLR functionality, free tool recommendations and tutorials, useful anecdotes, and step-by-step guides to measure and improve performance. This second edition incorporates the advances and improvements in .NET over the last few years, as well as greatly expanded coverage of tools, more topics, more tutorials, more tips, and improvements throughout the entire book. New in the 2nd Edition: 50% increase in content! New examples, code samples, and diagrams throughout entire book More ways to analyze the heap and find memory problems More tool coverage, including expanded usage of Visual Studio More benchmarking New GC configuration options Code warmup techniques New .NET features such as ref-returns, value tuples, SIMD, and more More detailed analysis of LINQ Tips for high-level feature areas such as ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and WPF Also find expanded coverage and discover new tips and tricks for: Profiling with multiple tools to quickly find problem areas Detailed description of the garbage collector, how to optimize your code for it, and how to diagnose difficult memory-related issues How to analyze JIT and diagnose warmup problems Effective use of the Task Parallel Library to maximize throughput Which .NET features and APIs to use and which to avoid Instrument your program with performance counters and ETW events Use the latest and greatest .NET features Build a performance-minded team ...and so much more

Get the most from your FI system! This handy guide will help you coax better mileage and top performance from most any Bosch system, including Asian imports, Motronic, and D, L, LH, K, K w-Lambda, and KE-Jetronic systems. Hundreds of helpful illustrations and tips will make the job easier. Working with the Bosch system just got easier!

How to Tune and Modify Bosch Fuel Injection

Andy Wilson

"Starting with the commodity form (rather than the 'spirit' lauded by everyone from Classic FM retards to NME journalists), Adorno outlined a revolutionary musicology, a passageway between subjective feeling and objective conditions. In Adorno for Revolutionaries, Ben Watson argues that this is what everyone's been looking for since the PCF blackened the name of Marxism by wrecking the hopes of May '68. Batting aside postmodern airheads and prattling pundits alike, this collection detonates the explosive core of Adorno's thought. The Association of Musical Marxists says: Those 'socialists' who are frightened of their feelings can go stew in their imaginary bookshop. For us, great music is a necessity. To talk about it is to criticize everything that exists"--P. [4] of cover.

Adorno for Revolutionaries

Chelsea Green, the Vermont-based independent publisher, has always had a nose for authors and subjects that are way ahead of the cultural curve, as is evident in this new anthology celebrating the company’s first thirty years in publishing. The more than one hundred books represented in this collection reflect the many distinct areas in which we have published–from literature and memoirs to progressive politics, to highly practical books on green building, organic gardening and farming, food and health, and related subjects–all of which reflect our underlying philosophy: "The politics and practice of sustainable living." The Chelsea Green Reader offers a glimpse into our wide-ranging list of books and authors and to the important ideas that they express. Interesting and worth reading in their own right, the individual passages when taken as a whole trace the evolution of a highly successful small publisher–something that is almost an oxymoron in these days of corporate buyouts and multinational book groups. From the beginning, Chelsea Green's books were nationally recognized, garnering positive reviews, accolades, and awards. We’ve published four New York Times bestsellers, and our books have set the standard for in-depth, how-to books that remain relevant years–often decades–beyond their original publication date. "Chelsea Green was born from a single seed: the beauty of craft. Craft in writing and editing, in a story well told, or a thesis superbly expressed," writes cofounder and publisher emeritus Ian Baldwin in the book's foreword. Today, craft continues to inform all aspects of our work–design, illustration, production, sales, promotion, and beyond. It has even informed our business model: In 2012, Chelsea Green became an employee-owned company. With the rise of the Internet, new media platforms, and a constantly shifting bookselling landscape, the future of publishing is anything but predictable. But if Chelsea Green's books prove anything, it is that, despite these challenges, there remains a hunger for new and important ideas and authors, and for the permanence and craftsmanship of the printed word. Today our ongoing mission is stronger than ever, as we launch into our next thirty years of publishing excellence.

Selections from 30 Years of Independent Publishing, 1984-2014

The Chelsea Green Reader

Lifts the lid on an artistic ferment which has defied every known law of the music business This outstanding biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract form of music. Today his anti-idiom of “Free Improvisation” has become the lingua franca of the “avant” scene, with Pat Metheny, John Zorn, David Sylvian and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore among his admirers.

And the Story of Free Improvisation

Derek Bailey

Patrick Martins

Slow Food is dedicated to: - stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production- revival of the kitchen and the table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community- invigoration and proliferation of regional, seasonal culinary traditions- living a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life

Restaurants, Markets, Bars

The Slow Food Guide to New York City

An updated and expanded guide for cider enthusiasts traces the drink's history through the stories of producers throughout the world, outlines cider-making basics for beginners and intermediates, shares additional recipes, and includes a new chapter on the recent popularity of perry cider.

Ben Watson

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