Author: Brooks Hanes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 131200486X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Get more practice, more of the time, from your children (or yourself)! Unlock the secret keys that most music instructors overlook. Listen in on the conversations between a violin coach and his student, in the basement of an old home in the midwest. Lessons are deep and the learning is deeper, when often-ignored secrets are revealed.
Get Your Child to Magically Pick Up and Practice the Violin or Any Other Instrument Multiple Times Each Day Without Begging or Bribing (and Other Lessons from Mr. B.’s Basement)
Author: Brooks Hanes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 131200486X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Get more practice, more of the time, from your children (or yourself)! Unlock the secret keys that most music instructors overlook. Listen in on the conversations between a violin coach and his student, in the basement of an old home in the midwest. Lessons are deep and the learning is deeper, when often-ignored secrets are revealed.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 131200486X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Get more practice, more of the time, from your children (or yourself)! Unlock the secret keys that most music instructors overlook. Listen in on the conversations between a violin coach and his student, in the basement of an old home in the midwest. Lessons are deep and the learning is deeper, when often-ignored secrets are revealed.
Making Music and Having a Blast!
Author: Bonnie Blanchard
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253003350
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie Blanchard offers students a set of tools for their musical lives that will help them stay engaged, even during the challenging times in their musical development. Blanchard discusses issues such as finding an instructor, selecting the right instrument, and choosing a college or conservatory. The book includes lessons on music theory and history as well as a guide to finding additional materials in print and online. Blanchard's strategies for making practice productive and preparing for auditions are useful tips students can return to again and again.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253003350
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie Blanchard offers students a set of tools for their musical lives that will help them stay engaged, even during the challenging times in their musical development. Blanchard discusses issues such as finding an instructor, selecting the right instrument, and choosing a college or conservatory. The book includes lessons on music theory and history as well as a guide to finding additional materials in print and online. Blanchard's strategies for making practice productive and preparing for auditions are useful tips students can return to again and again.
Instead of Education
Author: John Holt
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591810094
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Holt's most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion call to parents to save their children from schools of all kinds.
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591810094
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Holt's most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion call to parents to save their children from schools of all kinds.
My Hundred Million Dollar Secret
Author: David Weinberger
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847288006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A boy can get awfully confused when he wins $100,000,000 in a state lottery...and can't tell anyone about it.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847288006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A boy can get awfully confused when he wins $100,000,000 in a state lottery...and can't tell anyone about it.
Barbarous Mexico
Author: John Kenneth Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Author: E.L. Konigsburg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442431261
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Now available in a deluxe keepsake edition! A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too. The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her—well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442431261
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Now available in a deluxe keepsake edition! A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too. The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her—well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
Hiligaynon Dictionary
Author: Cecile L. Motus
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881990
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881990
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Author: John Irving
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560774143
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen does not believe in accidents and believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560774143
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen does not believe in accidents and believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
How I Became a Quant
Author: Richard R. Lindsey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118044754
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Praise for How I Became a Quant "Led by two top-notch quants, Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter, How I Became a Quant details the quirky world of quantitative analysis through stories told by some of today's most successful quants. For anyone who might have thought otherwise, there are engaging personalities behind all that number crunching!" --Ira Kawaller, Kawaller & Co. and the Kawaller Fund "A fun and fascinating read. This book tells the story of how academics, physicists, mathematicians, and other scientists became professional investors managing billions." --David A. Krell, President and CEO, International Securities Exchange "How I Became a Quant should be must reading for all students with a quantitative aptitude. It provides fascinating examples of the dynamic career opportunities potentially open to anyone with the skills and passion for quantitative analysis." --Roy D. Henriksson, Chief Investment Officer, Advanced Portfolio Management "Quants"--those who design and implement mathematical models for the pricing of derivatives, assessment of risk, or prediction of market movements--are the backbone of today's investment industry. As the greater volatility of current financial markets has driven investors to seek shelter from increasing uncertainty, the quant revolution has given people the opportunity to avoid unwanted financial risk by literally trading it away, or more specifically, paying someone else to take on the unwanted risk. How I Became a Quant reveals the faces behind the quant revolution, offering you?the?chance to learn firsthand what it's like to be a?quant today. In this fascinating collection of Wall Street war stories, more than two dozen quants detail their roots, roles, and contributions, explaining what they do and how they do it, as well as outlining the sometimes unexpected paths they have followed from the halls of academia to the front lines of an investment revolution.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118044754
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Praise for How I Became a Quant "Led by two top-notch quants, Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter, How I Became a Quant details the quirky world of quantitative analysis through stories told by some of today's most successful quants. For anyone who might have thought otherwise, there are engaging personalities behind all that number crunching!" --Ira Kawaller, Kawaller & Co. and the Kawaller Fund "A fun and fascinating read. This book tells the story of how academics, physicists, mathematicians, and other scientists became professional investors managing billions." --David A. Krell, President and CEO, International Securities Exchange "How I Became a Quant should be must reading for all students with a quantitative aptitude. It provides fascinating examples of the dynamic career opportunities potentially open to anyone with the skills and passion for quantitative analysis." --Roy D. Henriksson, Chief Investment Officer, Advanced Portfolio Management "Quants"--those who design and implement mathematical models for the pricing of derivatives, assessment of risk, or prediction of market movements--are the backbone of today's investment industry. As the greater volatility of current financial markets has driven investors to seek shelter from increasing uncertainty, the quant revolution has given people the opportunity to avoid unwanted financial risk by literally trading it away, or more specifically, paying someone else to take on the unwanted risk. How I Became a Quant reveals the faces behind the quant revolution, offering you?the?chance to learn firsthand what it's like to be a?quant today. In this fascinating collection of Wall Street war stories, more than two dozen quants detail their roots, roles, and contributions, explaining what they do and how they do it, as well as outlining the sometimes unexpected paths they have followed from the halls of academia to the front lines of an investment revolution.
Arrowsmith
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Midwestern physician is forced to give up his profession due to the ignorance, corruption, and greed of society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Midwestern physician is forced to give up his profession due to the ignorance, corruption, and greed of society.