Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man is a remarkable series of recollections from a man whose experiences cover an extraordinary range of places, people, and interests. Eschewing the formulaic conventions of autobiography, Vignettes moves back and forth across time and space to describe in vivid detail events and observations from a fascinating life. Its subject matter reflects the acute perceptions of a man for whom every day is a new adventure and a fresh opportunity to learn.

Renita Schmidt and P. L. Thomas The guiding mission of the teacher education program in the university where we teach is to create teachers who are scholars and leaders. While the intent of that mission is basically sound in theory-we instill the idea that teachers at all levels are professionals, always learning and growing in knowledge-that theory, that philosophical underpinning does not insure that the students who complete our program are confident about the act or performance of teaching. In our unique program, students work closely with one teacher and classroom for the entire senior year and then are supervised and mentored during their first semester of teaching; the program is heavily field-based, and it depends on the effectiveness of mentoring throughout the methods coursework and the first semester of full-time teaching. Students tell us this guidance and support is invaluable, and yet we feel the disjuncture between university and school just as many of you in more traditional student teaching settings. Students hear "best practice" information from us in methods classes and they receive ample exposure to the research supporting our field, but have a hard time implementing research-based practices in their cla- room settings and an even harder time finding it in the classrooms around them.

This book tells you how, why, and when you should perform certain audio postproduction tasks within Soundtrack Pro while editing your video in the Final Cut Studio suite. Intertwining video editing workflows with audio editing workflows for video editors using Final Cut Studio, it also describes in-depth the audio postproduction process as well as the specific tools used for editing and mixing audio within Soundtrack Pro. The final section is designed as an audio postproduction "cook-book", describing typical audio post scenarios with detailed workflows for dealing with them. The book provides real-world workflows and step-by-step instruction on the basics of audio editing in STP, implementing sound effects, spectral tools and much more. Also included are downloadable resources containing both video and audio files, demonstrating surround sound, mixing procedures, and other audio editing processes. Included as well are project files with which you can refine techniques learned in the book.

This book tells you how, why, and when you should perform certain audio postproduction tasks within Soundtrack Pro while editing your video in the Final Cut Studio suite.
Intertwining video editing workflows with audio editing workflows for video editors using Final Cut Studio, it also describes in-depth the audio postproduction process as well as the specific tools used for editing and mixing audio within Soundtrack Pro. The final section is designed as an audio postproduction "cook-book," describing typical audio post scenarios with detailed workflows for dealing with them.
The book provides real-world workflows and step-by-step instruction on the basics of audio editing in STP, implementing sound effects, spectral tools and much more. Also included is a DVD containing both video and audio files, demonstrating surround sound, mixing procedures, and other audio editing processes. Included as well are project files with which you can refine techniques learned in the book.

The DVD is not included with the E-book. Please contact the publisher for access to the DVD content by emailing [email protected]

Renita Schmidt and P. L. Thomas The guiding mission of the teacher education program in the university where we teach is to create teachers who are scholars and leaders. While the intent of that mission is basically sound in theory-we instill the idea that teachers at all levels are professionals, always learning and growing in knowledge-that theory, that philosophical underpinning does not insure that the students who complete our program are confident about the act or performance of teaching. In our unique program, students work closely with one teacher and classroom for the entire senior year and then are supervised and mentored during their first semester of teaching; the program is heavily field-based, and it depends on the effectiveness of mentoring throughout the methods coursework and the first semester of full-time teaching. Students tell us this guidance and support is invaluable, and yet we feel the disjuncture between university and school just as many of you in more traditional student teaching settings. Students hear "best practice" information from us in methods classes and they receive ample exposure to the research supporting our field, but have a hard time implementing research-based practices in their cla- room settings and an even harder time finding it in the classrooms around them.

The Belt and Road initiative is marketed by the Chinese government as the "twenty-first century maritime Silk Road" and the "Silk Road economic belt". The initiative encourages policy coordination, trade facilitation, financial integration, and transport connectivity. The Belt and Road initiative covers at least 65 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, involving 70% of the global population, 75% of world energy reserves and 55% of world GNP. Such an initiative is expected to bring significant impacts to the transport and logistics industry in the regions involved. The transport and logistics sector not only directly contributes to the production of transport and logistics services, but also provides essential inputs to other sectors such as tourism, trade, infrastructure investment and management. Therefore, it is important to jointly analyse the implications of the Belt and Road initiative to the transport and logistics sectors, the best strategies and operation practices that the industry can pursue, and the right government policies that should be implemented in relation to the initiative. This volume will be the first in Elsevier's China Transportation Series, from series editor Paul Tae-Woo Lee. If you are interested in writing or editing for the series, please contact Dr. Lee: [email protected].

"Lasky shows not only the facts of Wheatley's life but also the pain of being an accomplished black woman in a segregated world." -- BOOKLIST
"We'll call her Phillis."
In 1761, a young African girl was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, who named her Phillis after the slave schooner that had carried her. Kidnapped from her home in Africa and shipped to America, she'd had everything taken from her - her family, her name, and her language.
But Phillis Wheatley was no ordinary young girl. She had a passion to learn, and the Wheatleys encouraged her, breaking with unwritten rule in New England to keep slaves illiterate. Amid the tumult of the Revolutionary War, Phillis Wheatley became a poet and ultimately had a book of verse published, establishing herself as the first African American woman poet this country had ever known. She also found what had been taken away from her and from slaves everywhere: a voice of her own.

Megan Rollins is lost in the Appalachian Mountains. After witnessing a brutal bear attack on her fianc and spending the night hiding in a tree trunk, two men discover her and carry her to their cabin, where a strange family lives. Something even stranger lurks behind the forbidden iron door...the entry to a dreary dungeon. Megan opens it, unveiling an ancient evil that will change humanity and Planet Earth forever. Megan struggles to survive, the terror intensifying as her journey progresses. She must escape the forest...but how? Sinister Mountains is a darkly crafted, adrenaline-rushing novella unique to the horror genre.

Docent Details is a one-of-a-kind book that describes docent life in art museums. If you ever wondered what museum life for an art docent consists of, this is the book for you. Ivy Hendy, an experienced docent, has created a non-technical, easy to read book for the would-be art docent or the tour guide wanting fresh tips. Being an art docent is an exceptional, lifelong pursuit, suitable for young and old. This user-friendly book will clarify and charm. Humorous illustrations and elucidating photos reinforce the absorbing stories and narrative. The book motivates, helps and encourages and along the way there are entertaining, fun-filled disclosures that you will discover about the odd, funny, rousing, bizarre and aggravating details that occur in day-to-day docent touring. There are eight chapters in the book. Each chapter speaks to a central theme that is encountered in both art docent training and in the actual pursuit of giving tours. For example, Docent Details answers the questions: do you need to be an artist and do you need to know anything about art to become a docent in an art museum? Also in the book are explanations and descriptions about the beginnings of art and art institutions, launching a tour, speaking to the public, what is necessary to know, making the case for contemporary art, and building relationships. From the beginning of docent training to becoming a full-fledged tour guide in an art museum, this amusing and practical book will answer questions you never thought to ask.

Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man is a remarkable series of recollections from a man whose experiences cover an extraordinary range of places, people, and interests. Eschewing the formulaic conventions of autobiography, Vignettes moves back and forth across time and space to describe in vivid detail events and observations from a fascinating life. Its subject matter reflects the acute perceptions of a man for whom every day is a new adventure and a fresh opportunity to learn.

Sherlock Holmes joins forces with his faithful companion Dr Watson in a new adventure story, set in 1911 in a fog-bound London. The story offers an alternative explanation about the fate of the RMS Titanic and is based partly on fiction and on fact and will delight lovers of the Titanic mystery and fans of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Written in the style of Conan Doyle, The Iron Mausoleum - a case of Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic is - with permission obtained from the Conan Doyle Estate - based on the characters and places created by Conan Doyle and therefore are familiar - if interpreted slightly differently. The story begins when Sir James Walter, the Head of the Marine Department at the Admiralty, visits Holmes in Baker Street. He tells of the suspicious death of a clerk who worked in the Admiralty offices in Whitehall and tries to persuade a reluctant Holmes to investigate. Eventually Holmes agrees and with Watson are drawn into a world of criminal conspiracy and murder. We are taken on a journey with Holmes and Watson and witness Holmes' forensic application to solving the mystery of the sinking of the Titanic. Beginning in the atmospheric fog bound streets of London and then Brookwood Necropolis to the Titanic at the Herculaneum Dock in Liverpool and back to London. From scoundrels encountered in the infamous Colony Room Club to wealthy financiers and an American heiress the clues unfold. Told with conviction and humour, the author totally immerses us in this Holmesian world of the early 1900s. The book includes a map of Holmes' London allowing the reader to re-trace the footsteps of Holmes and Watson on their various journeys through the fog-bound Metropolis. Drawings by the author of some of the buildings, which feature in the novel, giving the reader vital clues in solving the mystery.

The Boom Brothers (Rico, Willy and Dave) welcome you to high caliber weapons and adventure on this, their first novel. If you don't like to see terrorist pukes, gangstas, and traitors get their just deserts, well, I guess about right now you hear your momma callin'. For the rest of you hardcore, get cocked and locked. You're going to have some fun whether you like it or not. In We're Gonna Need Bigger Guns, the three brothers' father, Sarge, a decorated Marine war hero and police officer, is brutally murdered by a gang of drug-dealing cult-member scum. Raised learning how to use their Daddy's war trophy weapons and always do the right thing, the boys begin their first exploit by avenging their father's death. If you like guns, violence, and stories about bad guys who pay for their sins with their own blood, you'll love this book. And that's only the first chapter. More opportunities for vigilante justice ensue as the brothers find out they have a talent for killing. As their gift for dealing death to those who deserve it become recognized at the top of the government food chain, the Boom Brothers turn their hobby into a Judge, Jury and Executioner steamroller that smashes it's way through the best of the worst for the benefit of God, Country, and their Ma's apple pie. The mission of the Boom Brothers is to take out the world's trash - one bag at a time.

In the summer of 1912, one man on the Earth was despised as a thousand-fold murderer. He was Stanley Lord, the Captain of the freighter Californian. Two courts of inquiries found that his ship had sat and watched the 'unsinkable' Titanic fire distress rockets and finally watched her slip under waves, while the Californian's Captain and sole wireless operator slept, and an impotent bridge crew pondered that 'a ship is not going to fire rockets at sea for nothing...it looked like a case of distress.'Failing to impress their suspicions on Lord, the crew stood and watched the strange rocket-firer disappear into the night...In accordance with the basic dictates of maritime law, Lord and his crew should have responded to the rockets. They didn't. And 1500 people died in the frigid waters that night. Although Captain Lord was treated as a pariah and forced to resign from his shipping company, he soon found employment elsewhere and he prospered. After nearly 100 years, debate still ensues as to whether his ship and the Titanic were in sight of each other, but attempts to re-open the case to exonerate the crew of the sleepy tramp Californian in 1965, 1968 and 1990 simply resulted in the original findings of the courts being largely upheld. Basic questions about the case remain. Why did the Californian crew not give more impetus to the rockets? Were they afraid of their Captain? Why did they not wake up the wireless operator? Why was the crew not prosecuted for negligence? Why do so many people believe that the Captain was a scapegoat in 1912? Why is this one issue the most divisive aspect of the whole Titanic story?And more importantly, could the Californian have saved any of the victims, or would they have arrived in time simply to pluck a few half-dead bodies from the water