Create the next big pop hit, bang out a catchy jingle, or write an iconic film score, with music composition skillsToday's composers create music for television, film, commercials, and even video games. Music Composition For Dummies brings you up to speed with the theory and technicality of composing music. With easy-to-understand content that tracks to a typical music composition intro course, this book will teach you how to use music theory to write musi...

**This Classic Edition has been updated for 2022 and beyond**THE ALL-TIME #1 AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLERThis is the only money guide you’ll ever need.That’s a bold claim, given there are thousands of finance books on the shelves.Yet there’s a reason this book is in one in every 20 Australian homes.You’ll find out how to create an entire financial plan that is so simple you can sketch it on the back of a serviette … and you...

Want to design your own video games? Let expert Scott Rogers show you how!If you want to design and build cutting-edge video games but aren't sure where to start, then the THIRD EDITION of the acclaimed Level Up! is for you! Written by leading video game expert Scott Rogers, who has designed for the hits Pac-Man World, God of War, Maximo and SpongeBob SquarePants, this updated edition provides clear and well-thought-out examples that forg...

The definitive playbook for driving impact as a middle managerLeading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization delivers an insightful and practical guide for the backbone of an organization: those who have a boss and are a boss and must lead from the messy middle. Accomplished author and former P&G executive Scott Mautz walks readers through the unique challenges facing these managers, and the mindset and ...

A comprehensive, up-to-date discussion of maximizing the value of M&A transactionsIn the newly updated second edition of the Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Handbook: Helping Companies Realize the Full Value of Acquisitions, Revised and Updated, 30-year M&A professional Scott Whitaker delivers a pragmatic and actionable discussion of how to plan and execute integrations across a wide variety of tiers, markets, and business sectors. The author provides b...

A professor of psychiatry and human behavior offers up a positive, humorous marriage guide for husbands that plays to their strengths.Dr. Scott Haltzman, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, has devised a proven method for improving relationships, based on a man's special and unique skills, strengths, powers—as a responsible and motivated worker, manager, leader, problem-solver, partner, husband, and father. Men are dif...

Understand the role and potential of fixed income as an asset classSystematic Fixed Income: An Investor’s Guide offers readers a powerful, practical, and robust framework for investors and asset managers to preserve the diversifying properties of a fixed income allocation, and add to that unique sources of excess returns via systematic security selection. In other words, this framework allows for efficient capture of fixed income beta and fixed income alph...

Unlike any book youve ever read, Mentored by a Millionaire is made up of fifteen mentoring sessions in which you will be mentored in the strategies, skills, and techniques used by super achievers who have become the worlds most successful men and women. You will be mentored in these sessions by Steve Scott, a man who has not only made millions himself, but has helped dozens of others make millions as well.

The updated ninth edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, jam-packed with new AI techniques and fresh stories of successAs the ways we communicate continue to evolve, keeping pace with the latest technology—including generative artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT—can seem an almost impossible task. How can you keep your product or service from getting lost in the digital clutter? The ninth edition of The New Rule...

Rethinking leadership through a scientific approach to human connection and performanceBuilt on a dual foundation of rigorous research and real-world application, Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Your Impact explores how leaders can apply biohacking principles to understanding and leverage the biological and behavioral drivers of decision-making, influence, and impact. The first in a three-part series, this book discuss...

An indispensable guide showing IT leaders the way to balance the needs of innovation and exploration with exploitation and operational reliabilityMany books on modern IT leadership focus solely on supporting innovation and disruption. In practice these must be balanced with the need to support waste reduction in existing processes and capabilities while keeping the foundation operational, secure, compliant with regulations, and cost effective.In The Acc...

An eye-opening collection of hands-on strategies for contemporary business leadershipIn Leading for Tomorrow, a group of accomplished executives, academics, and experts deliver a collection of persuasive, insightful solutions to common and difficult workplace problems. This compilation of essays charts a pathway to an understanding of what it takes to lead people effectively in the modern era.You’ll explore the latest leadership styles and strategi...