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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Classical music was never meant to be an art for snobs! In the
1700s and 1800s, classical music was popular music. People went to
concerts with their friends, they brought snacks and drinks, and
cheered right in the middle of the concert. Well, guess what? Three
hundred years later, that music is just as catchy, thrilling, and
emotional. From Bach to Mozart and Chopin, history's greatest
composers have stood the test of time and continue to delight
listeners from all walks of life. And in Classical Music For
Dummies, you'll dive deeply into some of the greatest pieces of
music ever written. You'll also get: A second-by-second listening
guide to some of history's greatest pieces, annotated with time
codes A classical music timeline, a field guide to the orchestra,
and listening suggestions for your next foray into the classical
genre Expanded references so you can continue your studies with
recommended resources Bonus online material, like videos and audio
tracks, to help you better understand concepts from the book
Classical Music For Dummies is perfect for anyone who loves music.
It's also a funny, authoritative guide to expanding your musical
horizons--and to learning how the world's greatest composers laid
the groundwork for every piece of music written since.
Taking seriously the commonplace that a man is known by the company
he keeps—and particularly by the company he keeps over his
lifetime—one can learn more about just about anyone by learning
more about his friends. By applying this notion to Shakespeare,
this book offers insight into the life of the most famous
playwright in history, and one of the most elusive figures in
literature. The book consists of sketches of Shakespeare's contact
and relationships with the people known to have been close friends
or acquaintances, revealing aspects of the poet's life by
emphasizing ways in which his life was intertwined with theirs.
Though it is difficult to get to know this most famous of
playwrights, through this work readers can gain insight into
aspects of his life and personality that may otherwise have been
hidden. Shakespeare, more than any other writer in the western
world, based much of his work on the consequences of friendship.
Given the value placed on friends in his writing, many readers have
wondered about the role friendship played in his own life. This
work gives readers the chance to learn more about Shakespeare's
friends, who they were and what they can tell us about Shakespeare
and his times. For instance, Richard Field was a boyhood friend
with whom Shakespeare went to school in Stratford. Field became a
well-known London printer. The details of Field's life illuminate
both the details of Shakespeare's boyhood education and the poet's
relationship with the printing, publishing, and book-selling world
in London. Francis Collins, a lawyer who represented Shakespeare in
a number of legal dealings, drafted both versions of Shakespeare's
will. This life-long friend was one of the last men eve to see
Shakespeare pick up a pen to write. Through these vivid and
animated sketches, readers will come to know about Shakespeare's
life and times. While the book has a lively, accessible narrative
tone within chapters, its organization and features make it highly
useful to the school library market as well as the academic world.
It contains cross references, a detailed Table of Contents and a
highly organized structure with uniformity across sections and
chapters. The writing is accessible and could be easily used by
upper-level high school students looking to augment school
assignments.
Make the most of your Mac with this witty, authoritative guide to
macOS Big Sur. Apple updates its Mac operating system every year,
adding new features with every revision. But after twenty years of
this updating cycle without a printed user guide to help customers,
feature bloat and complexity have begun to weigh down the works.
For thirty years, the Mac faithful have turned to David Pogue's Mac
books to guide them. With Mac Unlocked, New York Times bestselling
author Pogue introduces readers to the most radical Mac software
redesign in Apple history, macOS Big Sur. Beginning Mac users and
Windows refugees will gain an understanding of the Mac philosophy;
Mac veterans will find a concise guide to what's new in Big Sur,
including its stunning visual and sonic redesign, the new Control
Center for quick settings changes, and the built-in security
auditing features. With a 300 annotated illustrations, sparkling
humor, and crystal-clear prose, Mac Unlocked is the new
gold-standard guide to the Mac.
This volume is the first book-length treatment of state-level
business tax issues. It addresses three broad questions: (1) How
should businesses be taxed? (2) How does present practice compare
with and depart from this prescription? and (3) How can present
practice be improved? The contributors to the volume analyze these
issues from a variety of perspectives, presenting a cross section
of current thinking about states' business tax policies.
The work provides a conceptual framework for defining business
taxes, measuring their levels and consequences, comparing
interstate differences in business tax practices, and evaluating
alternative business tax policies. It presents data showing current
levels, trends, and interstate differences in business taxation.
And it examines the political and economic rationales for taxing
business and the implications of those rationales for tax policy.
This analysis will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in
taxation, public economics, and business finance.
Every question a young person wants to ask about what it might be like in outer space. With informative, authoritative answers from who someone who really knows: Astronaut Bill Pogue.
What does it feel like to be weightless? Would a sneeze propel you backwards? How do you scratch your nose in a space suit? What will the International Space Station look like? What is the greatest fear in space? How come gravity is such a drag? Who holds the record for the longest time spent living in space?
Have you ever wondered what it's really like for an astronaut in outer space? From the exciting moments to the day-to-day details, from the serious to the humorous, here you'll find the most up-to-date answers to every question you've ever had about living in space!
While many things about Shakespeare's life are unknown, certainly,
like everyone else, he had a family. This book gathers into a
single source as much information as possible concerning
Shakespeare's immediate family, from his grandfathers on the
maternal and paternal sides to his granddaughter, the last member
of his direct family line. But readers may ask, to what extent did
the relationships in the plays reflect the actual familial
structures of Shakespeare's day? To what extent did Shakespeare
experience personally the familial dynamics about which he wrote so
eloquently? And to what extent were Shakespeare's own family
experiences typical or atypical of other Elizabethan or Jacobean
families? These questions can be addressed because more is known of
Shakespeare's family than of the families of any of his fellow
writers and actors. For several generations members of
Shakespeare's family were important local figures in and around
Stratford-upon-Avon, and, fortunately, from the Middle Ages until
the present day, Stratford-upon-Avon has been one of the
best-documented towns in England. While many things about
Shakespeare's life are unknown, certainly, like everyone else, he
had a family. This book gathers into a single source as much
information as possible concerning Shakespeare's immediate family,
from his grandfathers on the maternal and paternal sides to his
granddaughter, the last member of his direct family line. But
readers may ask, to what extent did the relationships in the plays
reflect the actual familial structures of Shakespeare's day? To
what extent did Shakespeare experience personally the familial
dynamics about which he wrote so eloquently? And to what extent
were Shakespeare's own family experiences typical or atypical of
other Elizabethan or Jacobean families? These questions can be
addressed because more is known of Shakespeare's family than of the
families of any of his fellow writers and actors. For several
generations, members of Shakespeare's family were important local
figures in and around Stratford-upon-Avon, and, fortunately, from
the Middle Ages until the present day Stratford-upon-Avon has been
one of the best-documented towns in England. In vivid detail, Pogue
provides an overview of the various members of Shakespeare's family
and, where possible, draws conclusions concerning Shakespeare's
relationships with his various family members. Further, the author
notes to what extent Shakespeare's family experiences were typical
or atypical of the time, and includes at the end of each chapter a
discussion of scenes from Shakespeare's plays presenting the
relevant familial relationship, juxtaposing the relational scenes
he wrote with what we know of his own experience. Such a comparison
impresses us once again not just with his skill at holding the
mirror up to the nature of his time, but with the imaginative
insight into humanity that lay at the heart of his dramatic genius.
A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest
disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help
author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology
correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're
already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona,
laborers now start their day at 3 a.m. because it's too hot to work
past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada.
Millennials have evacuation plans. Moguls are building bunkers.
Retirees in Miami are moving inland. In How to Prepare for Climate
Change, bestselling self-help author David Pogue offers sensible,
deeply researched advice for how the rest of us should start to
ready ourselves for the years ahead. Pogue walks readers through
what to grow, what to eat, how to build, how to insure, where to
invest, how to prepare your children and pets, and even where to
consider relocating when the time comes. (Two areas of the country,
in particular, have the requisite cool temperatures, good
hospitals, reliable access to water, and resilient infrastructure
to serve as climate havens in the years ahead.) He also provides
wise tips for managing your anxiety, as well as action plans for
riding out every climate catastrophe, from superstorms and
wildfires to ticks and epidemics. Timely and enlightening, How to
Prepare for Climate Change is an indispensable guide for anyone who
read The Uninhabitable Earth or The Sixth Extinction and wants to
know how to make smart choices for the upheaval ahead.
Modeled after a little known historical model and based on the
research of Vanessa Siddle Walker, Living the Legacy of African
American Education: A Model for University and School, describes a
sustainable and authentic partnership between a university and its
K-12 partners. Designed for school, district leaders, and college
instructors this practical guide provides a narrative of how a
group of graduate students, a professor and seven school partners
planned, executed, and engaged K-12 partners in three major
professional development opportunities. This book chronicles a
partnership that engaged K-12 leaders in an authentic and mutually
beneficial partnership. Designed to be instructive, this book can
be used to plan partnerships as well as a serve as a check list to
design, maintain, and refine similar partnerships. This book also
provides valuable lessons learned at the end of each chapter that
can be used as others form K-12 partnerships.
Modeled after a little known historical model and based on the
research of Vanessa Siddle Walker, Living the Legacy of African
American Education: A Model for University and School, describes a
sustainable and authentic partnership between a university and its
K-12 partners. Designed for school, district leaders, and college
instructors this practical guide provides a narrative of how a
group of graduate students, a professor and seven school partners
planned, executed, and engaged K-12 partners in three major
professional development opportunities. This book chronicles a
partnership that engaged K-12 leaders in an authentic and mutually
beneficial partnership. Designed to be instructive, this book can
be used to plan partnerships as well as a serve as a check list to
design, maintain, and refine similar partnerships. This book also
provides valuable lessons learned at the end of each chapter that
can be used as others form K-12 partnerships.
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David Pogue; Contributions by Derrick Story
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Apple has taken iPhoto 08 to a whole new level. Now, in addition to
handling upwards of 250,000 images, the program lets you easily
categorize and navigate through those photos with a feature called
"Events." Plus, new editing tools let you copy and paste
adjustments between photos. Books and calendars have been improved,
too, as has the program's ability to publish pictures on the Web.
Apple makes it all sound easy: drag this, click that, and you're
done. But you can still get lost, especially if you're a newcomer.
iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual explains how to take advantage of
all these powerful tools and new features without confusion or
frustration. Bestselling authors David Pogue and Derrick Story give
you a witty, objective, and clear-cut explanation of how things
work, with plenty of undocumented tips and tricks for mastering the
new iPhoto. Four sections help you import, organize, edit, share,
and even take your photos: Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
offers a course in picture-taking and digital cameras -- how to buy
and use your digital camera, how to compose brilliant photos in
various situations (sports, portraits, nighttime shots, even kid
photography), and how to get the most out of batteries and memory
cards. iPhoto Basics covers the fundamentals of getting your photos
into iPhoto, organizing and filing them, searching and editing
them. Meet Your Public teaches you all about slideshows, making or
ordering prints, creating books, calendars and greeting cards, and
sharing photos on web sites or by email. iPhoto Stunts explains how
to turn photos into screen savers or desktop pictures, using
plug-ins, managing Photo Libraries, and even getting photos to and
fromcamera phones and Palm organizers. You also learn how to build
a personal web site built with iWeb, and much more in this
comprehensive guide. It's the top-selling iPhoto book for good
reason.
Our Missing Manual is hands-down the bestselling book on iPhoto.
And now, updated to cover Apple's newest release, "iPhoto 5: The
Missing Manual" comes fully loaded--and in full color--so you can
exercise all the power, flexibility, and creativity of the stunning
new iPhoto 5.
Some of iPhoto 5's fifty new features are tiny nips and tucks,
such as menu rewordings, quiet refinements, and secret keystrokes
that take most people days to stumble through. Others are
big-ticket overhauls aimed at both power users (RAW-file import and
editing, color correction sliders, real-time histogram) and
everyday shutterbugs (nested file folders, individual-photo control
in slideshows, and a completely rewritten book-layout kit).
Additional improvements include a robust search feature (similar to
that of iTunes) and the addition of "objects" for slideshow and
book projects (using objects, you can manipulate images without
affecting pictures in your master library).
"iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual" covers them all with the
scrupulous objectivity, clever wit, and technical wisdom you count
on from David Pogue along with the Mac and digital photography
expertise of Derrick Story.
Their authoritative guide starts out with a crash course on
digital photography, complete with tutorials on buying a digital
camera, composing brilliant photos in various situations (including
sports photography, portraits, nighttime photography--even kid
photography!) and making digital movies. "iPhoto 5: The Missing
Manual" then launches into every detail of iPhoto, from
camera-meets-Mac basics to storing, searching, and editing; from
sharing your digital photography with the world (via customized
slideshows--completewith iTunes soundtrack, if you like--prints,
photo books, email, the Web, and even your network) to exporting to
QuickTime and iDVD. And don't forget iPhoto "stunts," such as
building custom screen savers and desktop backdrops; exporting
pictures; making the most of plug-ins, add-ons, and beef-ups; using
AppleScript; and managing files with backups, CDs, and photo
libraries.
"iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual" gives you everything you need to
become the digital photographer extraordinaire you want to be.
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