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This book is ideal for one- or two-semester or two- orthree-quarter
courses covering topics in college algebra, finite mathematics,and
calculus for students in business, economics, and the life and
socialsciences. Introductory Mathematical Analysis for Business,
Economics, and the Life andSocial Sciences provides a mathematical
foundation for students in avariety of fields and majors. The
authors establish an emphasis on algebraiccalculations that sets
this text apart from other introductory, appliedmathematics books.
Because the process of calculating variables builds skillsin
mathematical modeling, this emphasis paves the way for students to
solvereal-world problems that use calculus. The book's
comprehensivestructure-covering college algebra in Chapters 0
through 4, finite mathematicsin Chapters 5 through 9, and calculus
in Chapters 10 through 17-offersinstructors flexibility in how they
use the material based on the coursethey're teaching, the semester
they're at, or what the students' backgroundallows and their needs
dictate.
For Student Success and Career Development, or Critical Thinking
courses. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this
book's approach to critical thinking is as a process for taking
charge of and responsibility for one's thinking. Based in theory
developed over the last 30 years, it focuses on an integrated,
comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive
and practical; it fosters the development of basic intellectual
skills students need to think through content in any class,
subject, or discipline, as well as through any problem or issue
they face. Simply stated, this text offers students the
intellectual tools they need for lifelong learning, and rational,
conscientious living. In this edition, several advanced chapters
were eliminated, many diagrams have been added or enhanced, and the
glossary of critical thinking terms has been more strongly
developed. TECHNOLOGY OFFERING: MyStudentSuccessLab is available
with this book upon request. It is an online solution designed to
help students 'Start strong, Finish stronger' by building skills
for ongoing personal and professional development. Go to http:
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Time Management module
No pianist can experience the full flowering of her art without
eventually grappling with those great musical minds who composed
specifically for piano. In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson
collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 19 articles on the
teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest
composers in the standard piano repertoire. This collection ranges
in subject matter from Inge Rosar's meditation on playing Bach on
the modern keyboard to Gary Amato's assessment of Haydn's sonatas,
from Christie Skousen's review of tone production in Chopin to
GwenolynMok's foray into recreating Ravel's works on an Erard
piano, the same used by Ravel himself. Readers will find essays as
well on Mozart's piano compositions, Beethoven's sonatas, the
influence of Schubert's lieder on his piano works, and works by
Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin,
Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartok, Gershwin, and Crumb. The
contributors all recognized nationally and internationally for
their contributions as performing artists, teachers, recording
artists, and clinicians write thoughtfully about the composers
whose work they have studied and played for years. Each author
addresses issues unique to the individual composer they have chosen
to explore, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation,
dynamics, rhythm, color, gesture, lyricism, instrumentation, and
genre. Valuable insight is provided into teaching, performing, and
preparing these great works. In The Pianist's Craft these great
artists and teachers answer questions for readers that are
otherwise only addressed in conferences, master classes, and
private lessons. In this collection of essays, key points of
information and instruction are offered with over 200 musical
examples included as illustration. The Pianist's Craft is intended
for teachers and students of the intermediate and advanced levels
of piano, instructors and performers at the university level, and
those who love piano and piano music generally.
This book is ideal for one- or two-semester or two- orthree-quarter
courses covering topics in college algebra, finite mathematics,and
calculus for students in business, economics, and the life and
socialsciences. Introductory Mathematical Analysis for Business,
Economics, and the Life andSocial Sciences provides a mathematical
foundation for students in avariety of fields and majors. The
authors establish an emphasis on algebraiccalculations that sets
this text apart from other introductory, appliedmathematics books.
Because the process of calculating variables builds skillsin
mathematical modeling, this emphasis paves the way for students to
solvereal-world problems that use calculus. The book's
comprehensivestructure-covering college algebra in Chapters 0
through 4, finite mathematicsin Chapters 5 through 9, and calculus
in Chapters 10 through 17-offersinstructors flexibility in how they
use the material based on the coursethey're teaching, the semester
they're at, or what the students' backgroundallows and their needs
dictate.
On a snowy Christmas Eve, a young man named Thomas on his way home
for a family celebration realizes that the candle in his lantern is
about to expire. He stops in a chandler's shop filled with
fantastic wax creations, but instead of admiring them Thomas scorns
the chandler for wasting his time on sculptures that will only
melt. The mysterious old chandler sells him a special Christmas
candle. Back on the bitterly cold street, the young man is accosted
by an old beggar woman. When he lifts his lantern to get a better
look, the candlelight reveals that she is his mother. He gives her
his cloak and only then sees the truth: She is not his mother after
all, but a stranger. The candle tricks him again before he reaches
home, cold and penniless, but richer for his newfound realization
that we are all part of one family.
This intriguing original fable about charity is accompanied by
lavish, mood-filled oil paintings by artist Jacob Collins.
Together, author and artist have created an exquisite holiday gift
book that will be treasured by the entire family.
Writing is essential to learning. One cannot be educated and yet
unable to communicate one's ideas in written form. But, learning to
write can occur only through a process of cultivation requiring
intellectual discipline. As with any set of complex skills, there
are fundamentals of writing that must be internalized and then
applied using one's thinking. This guide focuses on the most
important of those fundamentals.
The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our
thinking. The quality of our thinking, in turn, is determined by
the quality of our questions, for questions are the engine, the
driving force behind thinking. Without questions, we have nothing
to think about. Without essential questions, we often fail to focus
our thinking on the significant and substantive. When we ask
essential questions, we deal with what is necessary, relevant, and
indispensable to a matter at hand. We recognize what is at the
heart of the matter. Our thinking is grounded and disciplined. We
are ready to learn. We are intellectually able to find our way
about. To be successful in life, one needs to ask essential
questions: essential questions when reading, writing, and speaking;
when shopping, working, and parenting; when forming friendships,
choosing life-partners, and interacting with the mass media and the
Internet. Yet few people are masters of the art of asking essential
questions. Most have never thought about why some questions are
crucial and others peripheral. Essential questions are rarely
studied in school. They are rarely modeled at home. Most people
question according to their psychological associations. Their
questions are haphazard and scattered. The ideas we provide are
useful only to the extent that they are employed daily to ask
essential questions. Practice in asking essential questions
eventually leads to the habit of asking essential questions. But we
can never practice asking essential questions if we have no
conception of them. This mini-guide is a starting place for
understanding concepts that, when applied, lead to essential
questions. We introduce essential questions as indispensable
intellectual tools. We focus on principles essential to
formulating, analyzing, assessing, and settling primary questions.
You will notice that our categories of question types are not
exclusive. There is a great deal of overlap
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