Imagine stepping onto your balcony, fire escape, or tiny patio… and snipping fresh, fragrant herbs for tonight’s dinner. No yard. No farming experience. No complicated setup. Just clean, organic flavor—grown by you. Balcony Herb Gardening for Beginners is the no-nonsense, real-world guide for people who want to grow herbs without pretending they live on a Tuscan hillside. If you’ve got a few pots, a bit of light, and the desire to stop overpaying for limp grocery-store herbs… this book was...

In the untamed wilderness of the American West, a group of weary travelers embark on a perilous journey to Trail's End, a remote outpost where secrets and danger lurk. Led by the enigmatic scout, Jim Bridger, they face treacherous terrain, hostile Native American tribes, and the unforgiving elements. As they approach their destination, they encounter a cast of enigmatic characters, each with their own hidden motives and desires. Amidst the rugged beauty and unforgiving challenges, the trav...

This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with national school resource experts to write a comprehensive book on supervision and improvement of learning. Everything you need to know about supervision and student learning, professional development, coaching and evaluation, standards, and creating an environment for professional growth are covered. The book starts with a history of supervision and then addresses models and standards for effective teaching, state and federal frameworks, ...

Visual Branding pulls together analyses of logos, typeface, color, and spokes-characters to give a comprehensive account of the visual devices used in branding and advertising. The book places each avenue for visual branding within a rhetorical framework that explains what that device can accomplish for the brand. It lays out the available possibilities for constructing logos and distinguishes basic types along with examples of their use and evolution over time.Authors Edw...

Rhetorical scholarship has found rich source material in the disciplines of advertising, communications research, and consumer behavior. Advertising, considered as a kind of communication, is distinguished by its focus on causing action. Its goal is not simply to communicate ideas, educate, or persuade, but to move a prospect closer to a purchase. The editors of "Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric" have been involved in developing the scholarship of advertising rhetoric for ...

The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. However, as we learn more about the semantics of various languages, we are faced with an interesting problem. Different languages seem to be telling us different stories about the mind. For example, important distinctions made in one language are not necessarily made in others. What are we to make of these cross-lingu...

(Educational Piano Library). In Book 5 , students are introduced to sixteenth notes in various rhythm patterns. The wide variety of student selections include 3 folk, 4 jazz, 13 classical, and 8 contemporary original pieces. Scales (in both 8th and 16th-note patterns) with their cadences are presented in five major and five minor keys. Root, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion, and open position chords for each key center are also introduced.

Take a simple approach to understanding the fundamentals with Wheater's Functional Histology. Offering concise text accompanied by hundreds of captions and images of histology slides, this best-selling textbook will equip you with all the must-know histology information you need to complete your courses and ace your exams.All (print) purchasers receive the complete, downloadable eBook (via Student Consult) - which now includes an all new bank of multiple choice questions to test your under...

The pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of western thought. Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind's 'greatest delight' - and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers have echoed him. But today many people seem to find these pleasures literally incredible. Instead of embracing the benefits of altruism, as a species we seem to be becoming deeply and fundamentally antagonistic to each other, with motives that are generally self-seeking. This book explains how an...

(Educational Piano Library). Unit 1 of Book 3 begins by introducing eighth notes in 4/4 and 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary selections provide students with an interesting variety of repertoire. The second half of Book 3 , teaches relative and parallel major/minor five-finger patterns, and students learn to improvise their own songs using these basic patterns.

(Educational Piano Library). Provides elementary-level students with a valuable resource for basic keyboard skills, including five-finger patterns, I-V7-I chords and arpeggios in all major and minor keys. Students learn to apply these basic skills through improv exercises and reading pieces. Includes a helpful keyboard chart of the I and V7 chords in all keys. A perfect choice for students preparing for auditions!

(Educational Piano Library). New from the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Basic Skills Series. Scales, Patterns and Improvs provides students with a valuable resource for building technique through one octave scales, I-IV-V7 chords and arpeggios in all major and minor keys. Students apply these basic skills through improv exercises and reading pieces in every key, and by learning to transpose, create an accompaniment and play from a lead line. The accompanying audio features MIDI orchest...