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IT Architecture For Dummies

A solid introduction to the practices, plans, and skills required for developing a smart system architecture Information architecture combines IT skills with business skills in order to align the IT structure of an organization with the mission, goals, and objectives of its business. This friendly introduction to IT architecture walks you through the myriad issues …

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Software Project Management For Dummies

The increase in project outsourcing has forced traditional programmers to take on the role of project managers and quickly learn how to manage software projects The author discusses all of the essentials in widely accepted project management methodology, from managing programmers to assessing and eliminating risk The book covers the iterative development model, using Microsoft …

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Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success

T. Raphael Simons’s extraordinary manual Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success brings to Westerners previously inaccessible information that has been in circulation among the power elite of China for centuries. Everyone, from CEOs to secretaries, freelancers to entrepreneurs, can use these simple techniques to gain and keep the leading edge. In Taoist teaching, feng shui …

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I Hate Filing

Does your inbox over-flow’eth? Let’s face it—most of us don’t like filing, and we really don’t like rethinking our organizational methods (or lack there of). Most of us are stuck in a rut, be it a constantly messy desk, a workspace that always feels too cramped and cluttered or a persistent queasiness when faced with …

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Organize Your Home Office

The authors of the highly successful Organize series offer a complete guide to creating and organizing work spaces at home. In short, practical chapters, readers will find valuable advice on every aspect of setting up shop in a spare room, garage, or handy corner. Post Views: 175

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn’t felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are …

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Java For Dummies

Start building powerful programs with Java 6—fast! Get an overview of Java 6 and begin building your own programs Even if you’re new to Java programming—or to programming in general—you can get up and running on this wildly popular language in a hurry. This book makes it easy! From how to install and run Java …

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ACTIVATE YOUR Home and Office For Success in Relationships and Collaboration

The important thing to remember is that your environment is your physical visualization board, and this unconsciously creates your outcomes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With Feng Shui we can arrange our environment so that we receive maximum support by increasing the energy of the home or office so that there is …

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Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Label-Free Approach

The Second Edition of Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs offers updated accounts of music educators’ experiences, featured as vignettes throughout the book. An accompanying Practical Resource includes lesson plans, worksheets, and games for classroom use. As a practical guide and reference manual, Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs, Second Edition addresses special …

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Music for Sight Singing, Student Edition (10th Edition) (What’s New in Music)

For courses in sight singing and music theory.   The most celebrated, engaging, and musical sight-singing text on the market A freshly updated edition of the classic musical textbook,  Music for Sight Singing, 10th Edition, is structured around organized melodies, drawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world’s folk music. Real …

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Music Education and Social Emotional Learning, Student Workbook

This convenient workbook contains thirty practical and engaging activities for music educators implementing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum in their classrooms. Each worksheet corresponds to an exercise detailed in Scott N. Edgar s pioneering book Music Education and Social Emotional Learning: The Heart of Teaching Music. These activities offer students the opportunity to reflect musically, …

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GP16 – Music Notebook Student Assignment Book

With this book, students can track their learning, keeping detailed progress and practice records, plus permanent records for pieces memorized, performances given, scales & cadences learned, and music repertory studied. It’s a valuable communicator for teacher, student, and parents. Includes a handy reference section and 23 pages of manuscript paper. Post Views: 126

The Music Tree Student’s Book: Time to Begin — A Plan for Musical Growth at the Piano

The Music Tree Student’s Book Time to Begin. Time To Begin, the cornerstone of the Music Tree series, is a unique and highly effective approach to beginning piano instruction. Starting with off-staff notation, it leads the student to reading direction and intervals, and climaxes with the discovery of the Grand Staff. Also included is a …

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Essential Dictionary of Music

A useful collection of definitions, composers, and theory. This pocket-sized reference book of over 330 pages includes a broad range of important information, from basic principles of theory and concise biographies of composers to pronunciations of foreign terms and ranges of instruments and voices. This easy-to-use volume covers every major aspect of music. Post Views: …

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Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory, policy, and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms. The resource is a result of collaboration between K-12 teachers, outstanding undergraduate and graduate music education students, and professionals in the field. The lesson ideas, lesson plans, and unit plans are organized according to …

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USA TODAY Crossword

The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper offers puzzle-smiths the ultimate book featuring a new collection of challenging conundrums."You can be sitting in the train working a puzzle but it can take you far away from the everyday. Before you know it you're at your stop or about to pass it. It's not like you were even …

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Totally Awesome Puzzles

OVER 200 AWESOME CHALLENGES! Complete number puzzles, matching games, connect-the-dots, and mazes in this Totally Awesome Puzzles book.  It’s packed with over 200 amazing activities, including fun sudoku puzzles, underwater mazes, crazy connect-the-dots and so much more!  Perfect for grades 1-3.  OVER 200 AMAZING ACTIVITIES: Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy! VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES: …

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Ultimate Cryptograms

Tired of boring, hard to read Cryptogram puzzles? Look no further. This collection of 500 Cryptogram puzzles was specially hand crafted to provide the perfect level of difficulty, in an EXTEMELY large size so you have plenty of room to work! Features: 500 fresh and fun quotes, encrypted based on letter replacement Eight exciting themes: …

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Ultimate Puzzle Challenge!

Brain-twisting and ultra-challenging puzzles for the most experienced puzzlers come together in Ultimate Puzzle Challenge!, with more than 125 specially created puzzles–including Hidden Pictures® scenes, mazes, Sudoku, word searches, crisscrosses, logic puzzles, Check . . . and Double Check, and more. The puzzling experts at Highlights have assembled a brand-new, 256-page collection of our most …

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The Pocket Scavenger

From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, a scavenger hunt that leads you to explore your world and transform your findings through creativity and chance… Within the pages of The Pocket Scavenger, you’ll be instructed to go on an unusual scavenger hunt, collecting a spectrum of random items: something that is miniature, a stain that …

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The Escape Room: A Novel

“One of my favorite books of the year.” ?Lee Child“Cancel all your plans and call in sick; once you start reading, you’ll be caught in your own escape room?the only key to freedom is turning the last page!” ?Kirkus Reviews (starred)“A sleek, well-crafted ride.” ?The New York TimesIn Megan Goldin’s unforgettable debut, The Escape Room, …

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The Master Theorem

Dubbed “Mensa’s evil twin” by The New York Times, The Master Theorem originated in 2011 as an online “secret society of solvers” and quickly developed a cult following. Its larger-than-life figurehead was the cryptic polymath known only as M who posted mysterious puzzles, called Theorems, each week at midnight. After an eight-year sabbatical, M dramatically …

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