Author: Grace MunnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Author: Morgan Lee MillerAudition Day!
Author: Blaise DejardinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578955698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Destined both for cello students and young musicians at the outset of their professional careers, this book gives you insight into the ways you can prepare for an orchestral cello audition. From how to plan your practicing to how to prepare mentally for the event, no stone is left unturned. You will also get detailed instructions, bowings and fingerings for 38 excerpts of the standard orchestral repertoire from the author, principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Strings Attached
Author: Ruth W. GrantPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691151601
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The legitimate and illegitimate use of incentives in society today Incentives can be found everywhere—in schools, businesses, factories, and government—influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing. So long as people have a choice, incentives seem innocuous. But Strings Attached demonstrates that when incentives are viewed as a kind of power rather than as a form of exchange, many ethical questions arise: How do incentives affect character and institutional culture? Can incentives be manipulative or exploitative, even if people are free to refuse them? What are the responsibilities of the powerful in using incentives? Ruth Grant shows that, like all other forms of power, incentives can be subject to abuse, and she identifies their legitimate and illegitimate uses. Grant offers a history of the growth of incentives in early twentieth-century America, identifies standards for judging incentives, and examines incentives in four areas—plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, International Monetary Fund loan conditions, and motivating students. In every case, the analysis of incentives in terms of power yields strikingly different and more complex judgments than an analysis that views incentives as trades, in which the desired behavior is freely exchanged for the incentives offered. Challenging the role and function of incentives in a democracy, Strings Attached questions whether the penchant for constant incentivizing undermines active, autonomous citizenship. Readers of this book are sure to view the ethics of incentives in a new light.
Sound Inventions
Author: Bart HopkinPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000360652
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Sound Inventions is a collection of 34 articles taken from Experimental Musical Instruments, the seminal journal published from 1984 through 1999. In addition to the selected articles, the editors have contributed introductory essays, placing the material in cultural and temporal context, providing an overview of the field both before and after the time of original publication. The Experimental Musical Instruments journal contributed extensively to a number of sub-fields, including sound sculpture and sound art, sound design, tuning theory, musical instrument acoustics, timbre and timbral perception, musical instrument construction and materials, pedagogy, and contemporary performance and composition. This book provides a picture of this important early period, presenting a wealth of material that is as valuable and relevant today as it was when first published, making it essential reading for anyone researching, working with or studying sound.
Why String Theory?
Author: Joseph ConlonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482242494
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Physics World's 'Book of the Year' for 2016 An Entertaining and Enlightening Guide to the Who, What, and Why of String Theory, now also available in an updated reflowable electronic format compatible with mobile devices and e-readers. During the last 50 years, numerous physicists have tried to unravel the secrets of string theory. Yet why do these scientists work on a theory lacking experimental confirmation? Why String Theory? provides the answer, offering a highly readable and accessible panorama of the who, what, and why of this large aspect of modern theoretical physics. The author, a theoretical physics professor at the University of Oxford and a leading string theorist, explains what string theory is and where it originated. He describes how string theory fits into physics and why so many physicists and mathematicians find it appealing when working on topics from M-theory to monsters and from cosmology to superconductors.
Author: Amit PeledStrings
Author: Jeremy ScottPublisher: Ables
ISBN: 9781684423408
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Strings is the second book in the fast-paced, captivating Ables series from Jeremy Scott, a bold new voice in fantasy and sci- fi, and already a widely popular storyteller as co-creator and narrator of CinemaSins, a YouTube channel that has amassed more than 8 million subscribers. In this exciting and action-packed continuation, our heros are confronted with a mysterious new villain wielding a previously unknown power. Phillip, Bentley, & Henry will be forced to stretch their abilities and their bonds further than ever before.
Not Even Wrong
Author: Peter WoitPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 046500363X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such ideas: He would describe them as "not even wrong," meaning that they were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions to compare with observations to see whether they were wrong or not. In Peter Woit's view, superstring theory is just such an idea. In Not Even Wrong , he shows that what many physicists call superstring "theory" is not a theory at all. It makes no predictions, even wrong ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the subject to survive and flourish. Not Even Wrong explains why the mathematical conditions for progress in physics are entirely absent from superstring theory today and shows that judgments about scientific statements, which should be based on the logical consistency of argument and experimental evidence, are instead based on the eminence of those claiming to know the truth. In the face of many books from enthusiasts for string theory, this book presents the other side of the story.
Paper Towns
Author: John GreenPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140884818X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Quentin Jacobson has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.
