The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960

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This practical text describes how to use a desk-top computer to monitor and control laboratory experiments. Stephen Derenzo clearly explains how to design electronic circuits and write computer programs to sense, analyze and display real-world quantities, including displacement, temperature, force, sound, light, and biomedical potentials. He includes numerous laboratory exercises and appendices that provide practical information on microcomputer architecture and interfacing, including complete circuit diagrams and component lists. A very basic knowledge of electronics is assumed, making the book ideal for college-level laboratory courses and for practicing engineers and scientists.

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Globalization, the return to a multi-party system of government, and the policies advocated by the IMF and the World Bank have led to near revolutionary labor relations in Ghana. As Panford shows, these new social and economic forces have unleashed new and even contradictory labor policies and practices which are having profound social, political, and economic consequences. Panford examines how the Ghana Constitution of 1992 led for the first time to new workers' rights, including the right to affiliate with any local, national, or international union. In response to globalization and policies advocated by the IMF and the World Bank, the Ghana government sought to resist worker demands for improved working and living conditions. The situation was worsened by the privatization of state-owned businesses and severe cuts in public employment. In this environment of tense labor relations, government hostility, and weak employment, Panford traces the ways workers are revitalizing unions and developing new sources of jobs and finances. These include relatively aggressive systematic organization of women, senior staff, and the informal/agricultural sector. One of the most important initiatives of the unions is the creation of a workers' trust to establish and finance worker-owned enterprises. The evidence presented by Panford indicates the failure of IMF and World Bank policies, and he calls for new and viable policy alternatives with emphasis on enhancing Ghana's global competitiveness and meeting genuine development needs. A thoughtful analysis that will be of interest to scholars and researchers involved with development and international economics, labor relations in the developing world and the increased involvement of international financial institutions.

IMF - World Bank and Labor's Burdens in Africa : Ghana's Experience

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Kwamina Panford
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The McManus Treasury I
Patrick F. McManus
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outdoor entertainment + bar none.......2001-11-20

Our family has read all of Pat McManus' books years ago. My sons and their friends have read them. They are the best, cleanest reading one would ever want to find in a world of so much not fit to read. We would all go to bed on school nights with one of his books. It wouldn't be long until you could hear individual howls of laughter coming from the boys rooms. Likewise, even the adults were giggling. We would find an unusually funny passage and read it aloud so we could have a group laugh. If you like outdoor sports and all the mishaps that are likely to happen; you will love the embellished descriptions of most anything that could happen to a hunter, camper, fisherman, bicyclist. Beware Murrphy's Law is alive and well in McManus world!!

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Music: An Appreciation

A Good Overview of Music in Context

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If you have trouble remembering the names of the music pieces for school...

Music: An Appreciation Brief Edition with Multimedia Companion
Roger Kamien
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Whether from a concert stage or at the front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to reach an audience--blending intelligence and passion to lift music from the page and bring it to life. His unique combination of artistic and teaching skills makes Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition an invaluable tool for students wanting to learn more about music.

This best-selling textbook introduces students to perceptive listening and provides an engaging introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. It is organized chronologically, but individual sections can be addressed in any order, for a variety of teaching approaches. Musical notation is included but is not required to understand the popular listening guides featured in the text, which focus students’ attention on musical events as they unfold.

Every new copy of the fifth edition is packaged free with the outstanding Multimedia Companion CD-ROM Version 5.0, which makes the study of music easier, more rewarding, and more fun. In addition, the fifth brief edition introduces "Performance Perspectives" boxes and includes revised sections on Jazz and Rock, a new section on music in film, and more!

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good.......2007-06-05

easy to understand and learn from, it is a textbook so that's what you are getting. Good pictures and diagrams so far. I bought here because it had the best price.

Music: An Appreciation.......2007-03-10

I ordered this book/ cd set because it was required text for a college class. It is well organized and clearly written. I especially like the way the listening guides in the book refer to specific portions of songs which are recorded so that the entire work can be played seemlessly in its entirity, or specific portions can be accessed individually.
The only thing this work lacks is impossible for any work that attempts to offer a complete appreciation of music to achieve, complete scope.
I recommend this set.

A Good Overview of Music in Context .......2006-10-22

This book does a good job of putting music in an overall historical context. For example, it notes how Baroque productions, whether sculpture or music, meant to "fill space." That accounts for elaborate melodies in music, and movement in painting and sculpture.

Music used to be written as much for the mind as the ear. In some vocal pieces, lyrics correspond to melody. For example, if the word "ascending" is used in the song, the notes of the melody also go up. Vice-versa for descending. If the song mentions one person, a single voice is used--three voices come in when three people are in the storyline.

The musical selections are varied and enjoyable to listen to.

great shape just as promised fast shipping.......2006-02-25

would buy from again everything just as promised and recieved book fast

If you have trouble remembering the names of the music pieces for school..........2005-10-07

I'm using this 5th Brief Edition with Brief Set Of Four CDs for my fall-2005 community college Music Appreciation class.

As a person with a few listening skills, I wish more joyful pieces were here. Some of the music seems overtly here for historic context; but, please don't exact the comment as negativity, but only for face-value. I feel Gustav Mahler had a tremendous impact on society particularly since the 1960s and '70s and is a strange omission. Also, I feel a section of one of Gilbert & Sullivan's operas belongs in this class. Students may relate the storytelling with orchestral music if they understood the language, and Gilbert and Sullivan composed in English. Gilbert and Sullivan operas are just as good as any other opera. English opera could be important because many of the people in my class have the attitude of, "What, you actually expect me to listen to this stuff?" Well, some people in the class are just idiotic, anyway. They don't know what they are saying; but, the quicker they relate, the more convinced we make them, that this music really is better. We must tell the students what makes better music; otherwise, they go back to Paula Abdul. Do you know what I mean?

One thing I noted, the CDs use multiple tracks for each single piece of music. E.g., Duke Ellington's C-Jam Blues, the second piece of music in the set, runs 2:38, but it is divided into 8 CD tracks so that teachers can goto a specific place within the song. I understand the point, but dividing the songs into different tracks confuses me, a student, because the class uses the CD set to test me on "music recognition". I have to hunt down the manual with every listen because the pieces aren't just more simply track-labeled according to piece. One piece may take up 16 tracks, and, initially, when I'm looking at the player, I can't always recognize when the song changes to a different composer. (Some composers sound very similar.) Granted, that's what the tests are for, but THE CD SET EVERYONE BUYS IS USED FOR STUDY. As far as the track divisions, the track method opts to appeal to the teachers before the students for a single reason: book sales depend on the teachers selecting their books for classes, so make the teachers happy. An author marketing his book is not negative, but affective.

Another alternative, which I recommend regardless, is track-naming the disc. I imagine the production cost may rise; or maybe not, I don't know. I play the CDs while I drive my car, and, if the track names were on the disc, I could just look at the CD player screen, instead of fumbling around with the booklet while I'm waiting at a stoplight. Tracknames would be useful, either way.

I like having booklets of information in CDs of classical music, or whatever music I buy. Usually, musical pieces with a foreign language means translation necessity. I believe, wholeheartedly, that foreign language classical music belongs in any class like mine, and excluding a translation seems unwise, since much of classical music history came from Europe. If anything, putting a translation in the set makes it certifiable as classical music. Instead, it has an eight-page booklet stating almost the exact information already on the backside of the CD case, which doesn't even include the first name of the composers: you have to get that from the textbook. Maybe the textbook is supposed to act as the CD booklet, but I still prefer the info in the CD case. Well, since it's in the book, then maybe this is okay, but I felt like putting that fact here because I want the CD information with the CD for reactive reference.

Many famous movies used the pieces referenced in the book, some more famously than others. Multiple viewings of certain films helped me know these pieces before I heard the CD set or began attending this class; particularly, Unfaithfully Yours (1948), and Disney's Fantasia and Fantasia 2000. Buying the movies help benefit your "music recognition" skills because the films paint imagery to the works of great composers, many of which are used in the CDs, making those pieces even more distinguishable for recognition when getting tested.

On an individual opinion, some may think Pavarotti is a great singer, I understand, but he only has one sound when he sings. He is generally incapable of the proper feeling outside of shtick. For the section of La Boheme, he fits into his part quite well, even if he doesn't rise above his normal self. It's a great piece for his singing, but I usually don't think he deserves his reputation.

CD1,1-2, Igor Stravinsky's Firebird was used as the finale of "Fantasia 2000".
CD1,37-41, Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 Farandole was used in Preston Sturges' "Unfaithfully Yours" (1948), recently released by Criterion DVD.
CD1,42-44, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite was used in Disney's original "Fantasia". If I have to listen to the Nutcracker ONE MORE TIME,... I may flip out.
CD2,45-69, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the initial segment used in "Fantasia 2000".
CD4,16-23, Stravinsky's Rites Of Spring [Le Sacre du Printemps] is used in "Fantasia", showing Earth's evolutions of early forms of life, finally including the violence of dinosaurs.

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Music:An Appreciation, 4th Brief Edition with v4.5 Multimedia Companion CD-ROM
Roger Kamien
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When it comes to writing a text for non-music majors, Kamien knows the score. With the care you would expect from the concert pianist he is, Kamien introduces the musical elements and repertoire thoroughly and clearly, without assumptions of prior knowledge but also without condescension. As a teacher at Queens (NY) College, Kamien developed the concept of the Listening Outline, which he incorporated into the first edition of Music: An Appreciation and which he has refined and enhanced in every subsequent edition. This is a text with which students of all levels and backgrounds can feel comfortable.

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Music: An appreciation, 4th brief edition with CD-Rom.......2005-08-29

I received this very quickly. Thank you so much

Music: An Appreciation, Brief Edition with Multimedia Companion

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Roger Kamien
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Latin American Research Review, No. 35/1, 2000, contains a review article entitled "The Brazilianists' Brazil: Interdisciplinary Portraits of Brazilian Society and Culture," by Piers Armstrong. It contains about a page and a half on "Brazilian Mosaic." I suggest you may want to include that excerpt as a review of my book.

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Incredible things for game players…

The Internet has added a whole new dimension to playing games. Now, you can play, chat and enjoy hours of entertainment while online with people throughout the world.

Play against the computer, or seek out a worthy opponent to crush. Test your reflexes by zapping aliens, or challenge your mind with word and logic puzzles. Can't wait for the next chapter of your favorite 3D shooter? The sites in this book will tell you what it's about, what it looks like, if it's worth your money and how you can win (or cheat). Nostalgic for some of the games from the past? We'll direct you to old-fashioned 80s arcade games.

Know a game lover? Here's the perfect gift. Make sure you purchase a copy for yourself, too, so you don't miss out on any of the fun. Don't waste time searching the Net. Use this book to find the best game sites, and spend time the way you really want to -- playing.

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Cinema 4D 9.5: Real-World 3D Animation Production teaches how to produce commercial-quality 3D animation using Maxon's, powerful and affordable, Cinema 4D. Written for 3D animation professionals, hobbyists, and students, this practical, hands-on book uses real-world projects to teach the entire production process. Beginning with a review of how to model photorealistic objects, the book progresses through creating custom materials, cloth simulation, and character animation, to video game and simulation techniques. The book takes a software-integrated approach to 3D animation production with a focus on Cinema 4D and how to use it in concert with several other applications. This Cinema 4D-centric approach shows how real-world 3D animation production challenges can be met, not only with a great tool, but with a great tool box. Throughout the book, you'll learn a highly efficient workflow for creating 3D character animation with C4D. You'll learn various ways of producing motion graphics by integrating Adobe® Photoshop, and After Effects®, with C4D. You'll explore projects that use BodyPaint to extend your ability to create fantasy and control the realism of how image maps relate to their objects. And you'll use Right Hemisphere Deep Creator 2 and Code Gardener's XPort 1.3 to explore methods for animating video games and simulations. Some experience with 3D animation is assumed, but all levels of users will be challenged to expand their skills.

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It depends on your definition of "real world".......2007-03-20

Don't get this hoping to learn high quality character animation, but if you want to learn quick animation where time & budget is first concern then this good book. Contrary to what some have said its not all about 3rd party apps. He does cover modeling, Expresso scripting & dynamics - I believe Expresso comes with the basic CD4 and dynamics comes with the complete CD4. Even though the book is far from complete he does cover subjects no one else has the nerve to touch.

interesting anecdotes.......2006-11-03

The book really should be called "how to cheat with animating C4d by buying lots of expensive addons". The tutorials are interesting, but what is missing is basic animating in C4D with the tools already available. For example, there is no section on animating facial expressions. That is so much used in games and movies that it's omission is curious. Many of the human animations are done with using the BodyStudio plugin to import animations done in Poser. Poser's animation tools are moderately good for things like walking, but lack the sophistication of tools available in C4D. If you like premade animations, his technique is good. There is no mention of the InterPoser plugin which is a stronger way of importing Poser objects in C4D.

Also missing is any section of web based animation: rotating 3D objects in response to user input. But there is a section on modeling with IModeller 3D that really doesn't have anything to do with animation.

This book would be useful to someone who already knows how to animate in C4D but wishes to understand various addins that are useful in importing Poser animations, making games, adding keyed video (like the section on Ultra), etc. So it really a book on how to cheat in C4D and save time by buying other programs.

Excellent learning source.......2006-05-27

This was book was extremely helpful and easy to follow. It was used in class to help my students and they found the animation and dynamics information invaluable. I'm always impressed when someone can successfully communicate difficult technical information.

unleash the legend of creative animation.......2006-04-25

After working with Maya for about 3yrs now I would say this book has opened up another way for me to look at animation. It should be about the creative side to get fantastic results not about computer programming (MEL). C4D helps you get great results in no time and my man Larry has demonstrated that very nicely. Maya is so completed and confusing that you really have to be way experience to get a good enough results. I would highly recommend this book to any beginner who is wants to Learn 3D animation (so those people like me out there get, grab this book and make your first big step into the animation world). Larry Mitchell awesome book, no doubt about it, experience users of Cinema 4D you just have to wait for next book perhaps!!

Cinema 4D 9.5 Excellent! well written, easy to follow........2006-04-25

This book has provided me with a hands on guid that I have search for many years. I am new to animation, and I think Mr. Mitchell did a fantastic job of explaining and making his real world application easy to follow. This book has taught me more about professional animation than any other books in my library. To me the CD is an added bonus. I would highly recommend this book to any beginner who is trying Learn 3D animation production. The only negative thing I have to say is, why it took you so long to publish a book that gave someone like me the confidence in learning 3D animation. I was able to create my first animated characters by using this book, by adding this book to your library, you will be gaining a wealth of knowledge. By the way, when is your next book coming out? Simply, this book is GREAT.

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