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Author(s): Perry Goldstein
Rudiments of Music covers the basics of Western classical tonal music theory, though it is applicable to a broad range of other music as well. Written for the beginner, experienced musicians who want to learn the fundamentals of tonal theory will also find it useful. The book covers basic notation of pitch and rhythm, major and minor keys, intervals, chords, harmony, and other concepts essential to a fundamental understanding of tonal music. Students are guided in the composition of melodies and melodies with chordal accompaniment.
By: Elisa Setmire
Author(s): Elisa Setmire
Psyched combines a textbook and workbook for students taking an introduction to psychology course at the college level. In the textbook portion, each chapter begins with a short summary of the main topics that will be covered and ends with definitions of all the key terms from the chapter.
Author(s): Cohick Mikel , James Richards, GIAN ARYANI
A Citizen’s Guide to Economics helps readers understand the economics that affects them as they go about their daily lives – training and learning, working and earning, providing for their family, planning for the future, starting up and running a business, and being good citizens.
Author(s): M. Nia Madison
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We are constantly surrounded by ubiquitous, living organisms too small to be observed by the naked eye. Some of them are beneficial to us. They may serve us as part of our normal microflora competing with and inhibiting the growth of pathogenic microorganisms. Pathogenic and opportunistic microorganisms can cause sickness and diseases in humans, animals and plants. Microbiological techniques enable us to view and study these fascinating creatures.
Author(s): Carolyn Hulme Turner
Introduction to Business Analytics is designed with two goals in mind, readability and affordability. All professors know how difficult it is to get students taking required courses to read the textbook. I assign a few topics at a time within each chapter for them to read. It helps to place those “Topics of the Day” on the board so students become accustomed to the vocabulary. It was written in such a fashion that even students with an aversion to mathematics can understand it. It doesn't require students to be completely proficient in JMP, but it doe
Author(s): Rani Vajravelu
Ethnobotany: A Modern Perspective focuses on the indigenous plants and their impact on modern society. It discusses more than 260 plants that originated in different parts of the world and how they relate to human lives every day. This comprehensive text is built on the indigenous plants used around the world as food, beverage, medicine, narcotics, shelter, and clothing, along with their applications elsewhere. It refers to each plant by its common name, scientific name, and the family to which it belongs.
Author(s): Jeffrey Kean, Mark Creter, Eleni Fragopoulos, Prudence van Aalten
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Suit the Action to the Word uses project based learning (PBL), a method of instruction that emphasizes learning and applying skills and knowledge in real life situations. By presenting students with project challenges that require creativity, collaboration, adherence to deadlines, and presentation skills, PBL more closely resembles adult life challenges that will be found in the workplace, home projects, hobbies, and civic engagement.
Author(s): Teresa Cotner, Masami Toku
Art, Teaching and Learning provides future teachers of art and other art professionals a breadth and depth of history, context, theory, and practical applications for teaching art in the 21st century. This guide offers a global to regional perspectives on key concepts, terminology and practices with attention to cultural, cognitive, and theoretical diversity and pluralism.
Author(s): Greg G. Armfield, Eric Lee Morgan
Human Communication in Action provides students with a valuable resource that can be used beyond the classroom by bringing together leading innovative scholars of Communication as contributors for this human communication textbook. Each unit presents overarching concepts of communication in an easy-to-read and practical manner. The first unit begins with a discussion of human communication fundamentals, ethics, verbal communication, nonverbal communication, and culture and communication. The second unit is dedicated to the art of public speaking and listening.
