This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Transform everyday mishaps into DIY triumphs with Drywall Patching & Wall Repair: A Beginner’s Memoir.A chair leg smashes your wall. White dust swirls. Your heart sinks. Now imagine that moment flipping into proof that you’re more capable than you ever believed.Tom Garner, once a bookworm terrified of power tools, grabbed a putty knife after hanging up on a contractor—and uncovered a life-changi...

How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound across the world and to reveal practical ways in which a better understanding of listening can help us in our daily lives.This book asks how sound is perceived, expressed and interacted with in both remarkably similar and dramatically different ways across the world. Using findings from a new scientific study, conducted exclusivel...

How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound across the world and to reveal practical ways in which a better understanding of listening can help us in our daily lives.This book asks how sound is perceived, expressed, and interacted with in both remarkably similar and dramatically different ways across the world. Using findings from a new scientific study, conducted exclusive...

This book explores the nature and importance of sound in virtual reality (VR). Approaching the subject from a holistic perspective, the book delivers an emergent framework of VR sound. This framework brings together numerous elements that collectively determine the nature of sound in VR; from various aspects of VR technology, to the physiological and psychological complexities of the user, to the wider technological, historical and sociocultural issues.Garner asks, amongst other th...

In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic or standard definition of sound as a sound wave, the book builds a case for a sonic aggregate as the virtual cloud of potentials created by perceived sound. The authors build on their recent work investigating the nature and perception of sound as used in computer games and virtual envir...

If you're eager to get certified and fly to find out what it's like to see the world from thousands of feet in the air, you need to know the valuable information we have reserved for you.The Private Pilot's License is the first license every pilot must obtain. In my opinion, it is one of the most rewarding because of the excitement of learning things you've probably never done before!This manual is designed to prepare you to pass the FAA knowledge tests. Th...

Library of Science Book Club selectionDiscover magazine What to Read” selectionA really great book.” -IRA FLATOW, Science FridayOne of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” -Los Angeles TimesEllard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” -New York Times Book Review[Ellard] mak[es] ev...

Awarded with the US National Indie Excellence Award 2014 in Social Media. This book is about digital media. Even more, the book is about us. It explains how the ever-growing flood of digital media affects our perceptions of the world, change our behaviors and eventually transform our very existence. In the era of Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple, being online is the standard. We spend many hours a day gazing at our screens, traversing the virtual realm, and posting our tweets, tags, an...

The average young adult in the US reads for about 7 minutes a day and the figure isnt much higher in Britain. The last few decades have seen striking and nearly continuous falls in the amount of time individuals spend with books and other printed material. And perhaps as a result the average level of literacy in the British and US populations is declining: our ability to comprehend complex writing long words or sophisticated expressions is less than it was a few decades ago. Very surprisin...

“Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition between the conceptual and the aesthetic, Erin Manning and Brian Mass...

In schools where young English language learners speak a variety of home languages, welcoming them into the classroom can be very challenging for the teacher and her English-speaking pupils. This long awaited book, written by teachers well experienced in addressing the needs of this young and vulnerable group, will come as a boon to new teachers presented with a multilingual classroom for the first time.

Direct instruction and explicit teaching can offer you a shorter, straighter route to developing effective learning in your classroom.In this smart and accessible book, Greg Ashman explores how you can harness the potential of these often misunderstood and misapplied teaching methods to achieve positive learning outcomes for the students you teach.It investigates key foundational principles, combined with thoughtful commentary on what these mean in classroom practice and an...