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Introduction to Music Composition Organicism in Music The Elements of Music Composition gives composers the missing puzzle piece to create musical works that endure and become richer and more meaningful with each performance. Composers learn how a musical work can grow out of a single seed and connect the different disciplines within music composition. Applying the concepts in this book will help composers create highly effective works that resonate with audiences. The education of a composer typically includes instruction in subject areas that are designed to teach composers about the methods that composers of the past used to create original works: ◆ Counterpoint teaches composers to com...
"What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important new research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains how variations in the way our brains develop before birth strongly influence our psychology and behavior throughout our lives, shaping our personality, intelligence, sexuality, and even the way we perceive the world. We all share a genetic program for making a human brain, and the program for making a brain like yours is specifi...
A modern and unified treatment of the mechanics, planning, and control of robots, suitable for a first course in robotics.
2nd EDITION: NOVEMBER 2019 For Composers Who Want to Compose Effective Music The Elements of Music Composition gives composers the missing puzzle piece that makes it possible to create musical works that endure and become richer and more meaningful with each performance. Composers learn to create a composition that grows out of a single seed and connects the different disciplines within music composition. Applying the concepts in this book will help composers create highly effective works that resonate with audiences. The education of a composer typically includes instruction in subject areas that are designed to teach composers about the methods that composers of the past used to create ori...
This important new text demonstrates how art therapy can make a major contribution to the treatment of children who are seriously ill, in foster care, physically and emotionally traumatized, as well as deviant and addicted adolescents, young adults, and with the aftermath of a spouse's suicide. The first three chapters of this book set the framework providing established developmental structure, holistic interactions of mind/body and attachment essentials for human beings. In the following chapters authors that are experts in facilitating art as healing with people of different ages and in different settings share their insights, images, and stories about treating developmental issues of ang...
In the Mayan Mountains of Belize a flash of mysterious blue light brings death to a U.N. official searching for a secret entrance to the inside of a mountain. Two U.N. scientists, a roguish ex-Marine turned geology professor, and his sidekick, a fiery, independent lady PhD in microbiology and computer science, are sent to investigate. The quest for the hidden mountain entrance yields possession of strange metallic scrolls, a scepter wielding miraculous powers, and control mechanisms for blue-light destruction. Inside strange sculpted caverns, bizarre mental prodding guides the U.N. Representatives to shocking experiences. Cooperation from Belize, the United Nations, NATO, and the United States will be necessary to protect the mountain¿s ancient hi-tech secrets from exploitation. But one nation determines the mountain poses a threat to world order and is prepared to take great risks to neutralize the danger.
Alissa is a winsome island beauty raised by her fundamentalist aunt. Simeon is the renegade son of a popular preacher running from the yolk of organized religion. The two become live in lovers, trading their religious roots for a relationship based on their own rules. Eight years later, a curios yearning takes root in Alissa heart, and she is no longer content to feast on "crumbs" when she could be seated at the table. But Simeon has had a full diet of "religious tripe" to last a lifetime. He is not about to submit to the leash of marriage until he is good and ready. As the divine pursuit begins, she must choose between her first love, who will have nothing to do with the hypocrisy of church folks, and the Good Father who wants her for himself. Winsome Richards is a Caribbean native who was raised in a Pentecostal Church. She has great admiration for the ministry of spiritual fathers and mothers, who shepherd the young and vulnerable in the faith. She is an English teacher who enjoys writing, reading and traveling. She and her husband Terence live with their two children Nathan and Zachary in Maryland.
Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. At the age of twenty, Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters. He inserted special operations teams into Laos and participated in Lam Son 719, a misbegotten attempt to assault and cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, during which his helicopter was shot down and he was stranded in the field.
'I'm a HUGE fan of Alison Green's "Ask a Manager" column. This book is even better' Robert Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide 'Ask A Manager is the book I wish I'd had in my desk drawer when I was starting out (or even, let's be honest, fifteen years in)' - Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck A witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations Ten years as a workplace advice columnist has taught Alison Green that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they don't know what to say. Thankfully, Alison does. In this incredibly helpful book, she takes on the ...