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Specifically designed for the 250,000 students enrolled in Introduction to Music courses each year, this helpful outline gives background information on topics such as: sound and tone, the notation of pitch, harmony and tonality, and more. ... Read more

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This is a super book for purpose for which it was written
I have not read the latest version of the book; however, I read the original authored by Miller. I found the recorded examples used to illustrate the ideas in the book especially useful. The original book contained a list of twenty-five basic compositions which illustrated the ideas. ... Read more

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As a central concept in moral and political philosophy, "autonomy" is generally understood as some form of self-governance or self-direction. Certain Stoics, modern philosophers such as Spinoza, and, most importantly, Immanuel Kant, are among the great philosophers who have offered important insights on the concept. Some theorists analyze autonomy as it relates to the self being moved by its higher-order desires. Others argue that it must be understood as it relates to acting from reason or from a sense of moral duty independent of passion. The essays in this volume analyze the concept and role of autonomy in philosophy as well as their implications in public policy. ... Read more

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A travelogue full of adventure, A Place to Belong is the story of a young teenage boy's search for self worth and faith in a cruel world. Paul Miller was eight years old when his parents took him on a mystifying, zigzagging journey, from Detroit to Florida, to California and back again. His father's tenuous grip on reality becomes as changeable as the landscapes they travel through. Paul's simple questions are ignored or answered by the back of his Father's hand. Paul jumps the roof-tops of Detroit slums, butts heads with the gangs of Los Angeles and gets caught up in a world of petty theft. Life hangs by bus fare, the surprising kindness of a loving family, a filthy motorist with a penchant for young boys, the kiss of a young girl.Along the way, Noah, a wise fisherman, shows Paul that God isn't some imperious judge sitting on top of a throne, but can become your best friend, a buddy you can talk to. " But can such a simple view account for all the misery Paul experiences?"In this captivating and at turns humorous story, a young man travels into the depths of despair and back again to find a place he can call home. "I got hooked and couldn't stop. This is a splendidly written story and quite a story to tell. So candid, unpretentious, and courageous."David Morris, Senior Editor Guideposts Books."Miller tells a remarkable story, one that is in a sense an American Angela's Ashes but with the added element of faith as a factor in surviving an incredibly rough childhood."Michael Wilt, Editor, Nimble Spirit. ... Read more

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A PLACE TO BELONG
Brilliant piece of work by Paul Miller.A must read by everyone.Will truly recommend this book to everyone.This is a five star rating.

What a surprise this book turned out to be. From awesome to wonderous and everything in between.
I believe I have only picked up a handful of books in my life time to read that had all the ingredients for that "can't put it down," feeling.

A Place to Belong falls into that category. The authors descriptions in times of action and/or suspense puts the reader right there! Right with the character. You feel, you taste, you shake, you sweat, you smell the situation. You are there. I love books like this. You don't have to conjure up sights and/or comparisons, the author does all that for you. A terrific read and I highly recommended to all. I know Oprah would cry,hug me and might even jump on the couch, if she was to read the book.

Poignant
Most of us would not begin to be able to remember our early childhood as Paul did.I guess when the memories are so hurtful and so deep, they are permanently engrained.I am proud to say that he is a wonderful friend and has certainly risen beyond anyone's expectations as a person and in his life!Touching!

I loved it!!
I am not a reader, but I know the author and heard about the book. So I thought I would start reading it and probably never finish it. Boy was I wrong! Once I started I was addicted, I could not put it down. I think it was very well written, I felt as though I was there with Paul. I saw the the scenery, I imagined the smells and I even felt heartache. I could not believe all the trials that such a young person was going through. I am so proud for Paul to be the wonderful person that he is today. I hope this book reaches many people and touches many lives. It touched not only my heart but my family too!!
I would reccomend this book to all!!

A Page turner!
This book was a page turner for me.I could not wait to find out what happened to the lead character next!I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to everyone. ... Read more

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The overall goal of this text is to pull back the veil of mystique that prevents many people from understanding an organization that is very important to the accounting profession and to the U.S. economy.The FASB describes why financial reporting exists, why GAAP are needed, and why the FASB was created. This is a great supplement for the Intermediate Accounting course as well as an Accounting Theory course. ... Read more

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Stephen Paul Miller's Fort Dad is consummate creative nonfiction. Poetry tends to be real and creative, and thus creative nonfiction. Miller emphasizes this poetic license. Fort Dad makes criticism entertaining by looking closely at Radiohead s music and seeing: Abraham Lincoln s principles of American organization, a world where JFK is and is not assassinated, Okay, Computer s relation to Alan Turing, the poet Bob Holman as visionary world leader, Gary Snyder and the San Francisco Renaissance and America as an Asian-looking nation, a secret David Blaine-G. W. Bush connection, a new sense of cultural Judaism, a sun thinking for a person, Mr. Ed throwing a football game, how the right co-opted populism, Franklin Roosevelt and Freud s Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, Fuzzy Logic and the Industrial Revolution, fatherhood and deadly humor. ... Read more

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The twelve essays in this collection address questions about justice and social institutions designed to secure it. Some explore the relationship between justice and equality, asking whether societies should strive to eliminate inequalities in their citizens' levels of opportunity or welfare. Some consider whether societies are obligated to provide their less fortunate citizens with some minimum level of subsistence, or whether the provision of such relief is best left to private charitable organisations. Some essays look at the relationship between justice and other values, such as mutual consent, the protection of property rights, or the elimination of exploitation. Others deal with the rules governing specific practices, such as the distribution of health care, the pursuit of academic inquiry and research, or the assignment of punishments. Still others propose and defend principles for designing and evaluating social institutions. ... Read more

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For this edition, experiments have been written in a down-to-earth style so that students can grasp the most fundamental concepts. State-of-the-art materials are used in the exercises, and use of modern equipment is encouraged. The experimental procedures have been written in a manner requiring the student to think and make decisions. ... Read more

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Not a text book
This is the laboratory manual for the laboratory part of a course.It doesn't have chapters.It has "Experiments".Theory is sketchy, imprecise.Not the book to learn a new subject from.Maybe a good instruction book to build stuff. ... Read more

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The essays in this volume address questions about responsibility that arise in moral philosophy and legal theory.Some analyze different theories of causality and human agency, scouting for satisfactory resolutions to the controversies of free will and determinism, while some look at the problem of responsibility in the legal realm.Others explore libertarian views about political freedom and accountability, while still others examine the notion of partial or divided responsibility, or the relationship between responsibility and the emotions. ... Read more

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Fiction and Visual Art:Journey through the clouds of Jupiter, across the frozen wastes of a planetesimal in a distant star's Kuiper Belt, beneath a far off planet's galaxy-filled sky, over the rocky bluffs of Mars.Planets, stars, nebulae.Desolate landscapes, robots, a giant artificial menace.Fascinating depictions from space, imagined by great artists of today and yesterday.Tales set in those universes as told by some of SF's greatest authors.It's a tribute to those who practice and those who imagine.Full color plates of space art accompany tales of fantastic fiction. ... Read more

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An Intriguing Concept Superbly Done
When I first ran across "Visual Journeys: A Tribute to Space Artists," I just had to buy it. As a part-time digital space artist and lifelong admirer of the works of such luminaries as Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman and Ludek Pesek, how could I resist? I figured that the artwork alone would be worth the price of the book even if the stories were disappointing--which I fully expected them to be, considering what I believe is the sad state of most modern science fiction.

I was right, but for reasons that were actually the other way around. The artwork in "Visual Journeys" is largely unremarkable, while the stories, almost without exception, are true gems. As a matter of personal preference, I tend to favor accurate, feasible, photo-realistic space artwork. Some of the pieces in "Visual Journeys," while they all are crisp, sharp and nicely printed on glossy paper, are a little too nonliteral for my tastes. I was exceptionally pleased to discover, however, that the stories accompanying the artwork are uniformly excellent. They are so good, in fact, that they could well be anthologized in a volume without any artwork at all and still be an excellent selection of enjoyable tales well worth reading. The intriguing juxtaposition of a piece of space artwork and a story that it inspired is an interesting bonus, as are the artist and author profiles at the end of the book.

An interest in space artwork is one reason for reading "Visual Journeys." An even better reason is to savor a collection of short stories that, in my opinion, is as good as any published in recent years. The mind-melding of two distinct artistic genres in "Visual Journeys" is an experiment that works great, and I hope to see more in the future. Highly recommended.

superb!
this is a rarity, a delicate tribute to the humorous, idealistic, and gorgeous science fiction tradition before it was transformed into hedonistic, materialistic, dystopian nonsense... more like this!

A Home Run!
I attended a science fiction convention in early June.At the convention Nebula-winner Richard Chwedyk read his short story "Where We Go," which is in the new anthology Visual Journeys, edited by Eric Reynolds of Hadley Rille Books.

Based on the impressive reading, I ordered the book.My first reaction to the book was "Wow!"The book's concept is unusual - authors write stories based on pieces of space art they've seen.The art - full color - is printed next to the story that inspired it.It's a very impressive package, and chock full of great stuff.There's not a bad story in the bunch, but some of the real highlights are:

* Cruising on Io (visual art by Bob Eggleton) and Io, Robot (short story by Tobias S. Buckell).It's the leadoff story, about robotic explorers of Io waiting for humans to return.The question becomes, what is a human?

* Ron Miller, a Hugo award-winning artist, takes a Chesney Bonestell painting, "Funeral on Mars" (American astronauts burying one of their own) and turns in a crackerjack story called "The Funeral."It's somewhat of a mystery story, but to help you solve it, here is a hint - Ron is very big on 19th Century SF writers.

* Frank Wu, another visual artist, gives us his first published short story, "Worlds in Collusion" based on the painting "Impact" by Joe Tucciarone.It's an unusual dual romance.You'll have to read it to see who is doing the romancing.

* G. David Nordley takes Wolf Read's painting "Hell Orbit" and gives us an interesting short story of the same name.It's a mix of romance and coming-of-age, set in a star system 30 light years from Earth.

* Bob Eggleton (artist) and Jay Lake (writer) team up (in a virtual way) in a quirky but interesting short story called "After Bonestell."Bob also teams up with James Van Pelt, who uses Bob's "Of Late I Dreamt of Venus" to create an interesting story of obsession, also titled "Of Late I Dreamt of Venus."

*Richard Chewdyk's story "Where We Go" isn't so much science fiction as about science fiction, notably the history of it in Chicago of the 1940s.It is, however, quite touching.The artwork for this story, "Kronos Jazz Quartet" by Delphyne, was actually created for the story, the only case like that in this book.Richard dedicates his story to his father, Joseph, who was a painter and artist.

* Ron Miller contributes a painting, "Jupiter Cloudscapes," to the book.It's used by Christopher McKitterick to write the wonderful story "Jupiter Whispers," which is about the exploitation of Jupiter.

Hadley Rille is a new publishing house, and this is only their second book.It's a real home run, and I look forward to their next effort, a two volume set called "Ruins."
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Written by two internationally renowned experts in the field, this book explores the determinants of dominant language proficiency among immigrants and other linguistic minorities and the consequences of this proficiency for the labour market.

Using empirical material from a range of countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia and Bolivia, the authors develop a range of models of the determinants of dominant language proficiency and use econometric techniques to test them and estimate the magnitude of the effects.

This volume is an excellent resource for researchers and a fine reader for specialists in labour economics, linguistics as well as a number of other disciplines.

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This book covers the most important aspects of these essential issues, such as:

• how and when to budget
• how to audit your school's facilities
• how to manage, maintain and improve your premises
• ways to gain extra funding for your premises
• what are the main Health and Safety issues, what are the common pitfalls, and what are the policies you really need.

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Economic rights - rights to use, possess, exchange, and otherwise dispose of property - are at the centre of some of the most important and fundamental disputes in Western moral and political theory. This book provides a fresh look at assumptions that are sometimes overlooked in debates about capitalism, socialism and the welfare state. Essays in this book by internationally renowned academic lawyers, economists, and philosophers, explore what sort of economic rights people ought to have, how they ought to be conceived of and grounded, and the consequences that would ensue were one system or another set up to ensure them; the related question of the nature of various economic systems and how well they do at guaranteeing such rights are also discussed. ... Read more

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Since the 1950s, the pines native to the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California have shown symptoms of decline that have proven to result from exposure to ozone, a major plant-damaging gas in photochemical oxidant air pollution. Because of their proximity to major urban areas, the San Bernardino Mountains have served as a natural laboratory for studying effects of oxidant and acidic air pollution on a mixed-conifer forest. This volume presents a body of research conducted over more than thirty years, including an intensive interdisciplinary five-year study begun in 1991. Chapters include studies of the relationships of biogeography and climate to the region's air pollution, the chemical and physiological mechanisms of ozone injury, as well as the impacts of nitrogen-containing pollutants and natural stresses on polluted forests. The synthesis of such long-term studies provides insights into the combined influences of pollutants on ecosystem function in forested regions with Mediterranean-type climates. ... Read more

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