Real Estate Finance & Investments prepares readers to understand the risks and rewards of financing and investing in residential and commercial real estate. Concepts and techniques included in the chapters and problem sets are used in many careers related to real estate. These include investing, development financing, appraising, consulting, managing real estate portfolios, leasing, managing property, analyzing site locations, corporate real estate, and managing real estate investment funds. This material is also relevant to individuals who want to understand real estate better when making their own personal investment and financing decisions. As this current edition is being revised, there is a lot of uncertainty about the impact that COVID-19 will have on different sectors of the commercial real estate market. It is more important than ever to evaluate the risk and return for both lenders and investors. This text is designed to help both students and other readers understand these many factors so that they can perform the necessary analysis and make informed real estate finance and investment decisions.

Rose Tremain's fiction often finds itself drawn into the 'wide skies and watery byways of East Anglia'. The short stories gathered in 'Wildtrack' convey the sense of isolation, darkness and secrecy the region fosters, a sense that has long fired Tremain's imagination.

The third book in CMP's new V.A.S.S.T. series produced in cooperation with the Sundance Media Group, Instant Sound Forge is a general guide to the operation of the application and a graphic "cookbook" of specific techniques for using Sound Forge to fix (hide mistakes) and sweeten (improve) audio. Sony's Sound Forge is a powerful mono and stereo digital audio recorder and editor that beginners and professionals use for audio production of radio, TV, music, video, animation, Web design, and multimedia. Novices can quickly achieve great results by gaining command of the basic recording and editing functions, while professionals will learn how to use the application's more sophisticated tools, advanced features, and shortcuts to streamline their workflow and achieve new audio heights.
This graphical 'cookbook' of specific techniques will help novices achieve great results quickly and professionals to streamline their workflow and achieve new audio heights.

The V.A.S.S.T. Instant Series features a visually oriented, step-by-step instructional style that effectively guides readers through complex processes. Surround sound is rapidly displacing stereophonic sound as the accepted standard. This low-price-point book is an easy buy to provide the reader a foundation in the technology that will serve them regardless of the software they chose. Instant Surround Sound demystifies the multichannel process for both musical and visual environments. This comprehensive resource teaches techniques for mixing and encoding for surround sound. It is packed with tips and tricks that help the reader to avoid the most common (and uncommon) pitfalls. This is the fifth title in the new V.A.S.S.T. Instant Series. Music and visual producers can enhance the listening experience and engage their audience more effectively with the improved perceptive involvement of surround sound.Record, process, and deliver effective and stunning surround sound to your listener with the aid of this guide. Packed with useful, accessible information for novice and experienced users alike, you get carefully detailed screenshots, step-by-step directions, and creative suggestions for producing better audio projects.

* The V.A.S.S.T. Instant Series features a visually oriented, step-by-step instructional style that effectively guides readers through complex processes. * Surround sound is rapidly displacing stereophonic sound as the accepted standard. * This low-price-point book is an easy buy to provide the reader a foundation in the technology that will serve them regardless of the software they chose. Instant Surround Sound demystifies the multichannel process for both musical and visual environments. This comprehensive resource teaches techniques for mixing and encoding for surround sound. It is packed with tips and tricks that help the reader to avoid the most common (and uncommon) pitfalls. This is the fifth title in the new V.A.S.S.T. Instant Series. Music and visual producers can enhance the listening experience and engage their audience more effectively with the improved perceptive involvement of surround sound. Record, process, and deliver effective and stunning surround sound to your listener with the aid of this guide. Packed with useful, accessible information for novice and experienced users alike, you get carefully detailed screenshots, step-by-step directions, and creative suggestions for producing better audio projects.

The author's startling discovery of the commonality of musical scales and DNA amino acids by way of the I-Ching has implications that expands through many areas of our lives and thoughts. It raises questions that reach to the core of who and what we are. Jeffrey Fisher-painter, Tai Chi adept and award-winning composer / recording artist-recounts his decades-long involvement with these puzzles in this first of three volumes. The journey began in the early 1990's, when the author's Tai chi teacher, the miraculous Dr. Marshall Ho'o, mentioned the I-Ching as one of the pillars of Tai Chi Chuan.

COMPLETION, volume III of WHITE CLOUD JOURNEY, examines the function and meaning of art. Engaging in any creative act that embraces and includes one's entire being COMPLETES the energy that created us. The circle that is completed is the circle of life itself.

In response to feedback from retailers who would like to see more new notecards from the Gift division, Chronicle proudly presents new Deluxe Notecards from some longtime favorites, including Deborah Schenck and Jeffrey Fisher. New Chronicle notecard artists like Sarah Battle and Laurie Frankel add variety to the list, while we continue our museum collaborations, working with LACMA once again.