Michael Campbell

The headmaster of an English public school makes life difficult for his students when he embarks on a crusade to improve their morality

Lord Dismiss Us

Shirakawa

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Glossika Mass Sentences

Japanese Fluency 1

Build up a solid foundation in your Italian pronunciation and learn the structure of Italian grammar - recognize verb conjugation and various tenses. Download this Ebook for a quick reference or reminder on Italian pronunciation and grammar! Pronunciation rules are broken down into bite size sections with easy to understand English examples, so you can build up a solid foundation for that native accent you like. Learn about Italian vowels (with accents), consonants, etymology, and more... Parts of speech, not meant for you to memorize, will provide you with a comprehensive overview on how the Italian grammar is structured -- being able to recognize the variations in verb conjugation and various tenses is completely within your grasp! >> Sign up (https://bit.ly/2NatOLY) now and start 7-day free trial! >> Learn Italian with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2DZmuyD >> Download all Glossika guides here: https://ai.glossika.com/free-download

Glossika Guide to ITALIAN Pronunciation & Grammar

The Book of Revelations describes the events, leading up to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The Apostle John describes the 21st Century, while giving us essential information. Was 9/11 the beginning of World War III? Are both Bush administrations playing key roles in the incredible drama of the last days? Is President George W. Bush a hero or a villain? Will the next terrorist attack include nuclear radiation? Will the Iraq War be the catalyst precipitating a series of events that will result in the death of one third of the human race? What should we be doing now, to become fully prepared for these cataclysmic events? Despite the terrible turmoil and the gathering clouds of doom, we need not fear. The Plan of God will prevail! Satan will be defeated, because the Atonement of Jesus Christ has made it impossible for evil to survive. In the end, good will conquer evil! The purpose of life is to make choices. People, who choose to love others and to be kind, will fulfill the purpose of their mortal existence. They are the people, who are embracing the eternal opportunities that have been provided by God. They will be happy forever!

World War III!

Roland Smith

Individual leaders can have a significant amount of influence over the development of organizational talent. One of the simplest yet most effective ways to develop others is the talent conversation - a way of building on relationships that are based on rapport, collaboration, and mutual commitment in order to help the individuals you lead improve performance, focus development, and reach positive outcomes. Learn how to prepare for and facilitate effective talent conversations by using the Center for Creative Leadership's development framework of assessment, challenge, and support.

What They Are, Why They're Crucial, and How To Do Them Right

Talent Conversations

Maxime Paquin

Glossika Mass Sentences * Fluency training for serious language learners. * Recommended for High Beginners (A1 A2) as Supplementary Training to your current studies; some working knowledge required; good for brushing up or breaking through a plateau. * Vocabulary Index included (includes varying pronunciations of each conjugation/declension with a frequency count). * 1000 bilingual sentences with pronunciation guide in phonetic International Phonetic Alphabet with liaisons. * Accompanies the audio sold separately at Glossika.com, which includes hands-free spaced repetition. * Authentic and informal language use by native speakers, gradually building up sentence structures. FEATURES: * Serves as reference material to the audio training. * Lots of repetition of key syntactic components and vocabulary. * Introduces how to render foreign names and placenames in natural dialogue (with appropriate declensions and conjugations). * All sentences are bilingual in format and includes International Phonetic Alphabet to help you master the correct pronunciation (in phonetic form, which means we write out all the liaisons between words). * Informal, friendly language. Formal language used where appropriate. * Covers the following syntactic structures: predicates, adjectives, nouns, present and past verbs, habitual, continuous and completed actions INCLUDES: * If you're serious about getting fluent in 3 months, follow our intensive schedule to finish Fluency 1-3 in 3 months. * Each book trains 1000 sentences, with Fluency 1 surpassing more than 1000 vocabulary words used in context and collocations. SAMPLE (some letters may not display correctly on your screen, so you can get the embedded font editions from www.glossika.com directly): 278: We often sleep late on weekends. Nous faisons souvent la grasse matinee les week-ends. nu fᵊzɔ̃ suvɑ̃ la ɡʁas matine le wikɛnd ] 383: What do you usually do on weekends? Que fais-tu d'habitude les week-ends? ko fɛ ty d‿abityd le wikɛnd ] 434: What do you usually do on weekends? Que fais-tu generalement les week-ends? ko fɛ ty ʒeneʁalᵊmɑ̃ le wikɛnd ] 563: Why were you late this morning? - The traffic was bad. Pourquoi etais-tu en retard ce matin? - La circulation etait mauvaise. puʁkwa etɛ ty ɑ̃ ʁᵊtaʁ so matɛ̃ - la siʁkylasjɔ̃ etɛ movɛz ] 624: I enjoyed the party. How about you? Did you enjoy the party? J'ai aime la fete. Et toi? As-tu aime la fete? ʒ‿ɛ eme la fɛt e twa a ty eme la fɛt ] 731: How fast were you driving when the police stopped you? A quelle vitesse conduisais-tu quand la police t'a arrete (♀arretee)? a kɛl vitɛs kɔ̃dɥizɛ ty kɑ̃ la polis t‿a aʁete (♀aʁete) ] 807: I've seen that woman before, but I can't remember her name. J'ai deja vu cette femme, mais je ne me souviens pas de son nom. ʒ‿ɛ deʒa vy sɛt fam mɛ ʒo no mo suvjɛ̃ pa do sɔ̃ nɔ̃ ] 821: Are you married? How long have you been married? Es-tu marie (♀mariee)? Depuis quand es-tu marie (♀mariee)? ɛ ty maʁje (♀maʁje) dᵊpɥi kɑ̃ ɛ ty maʁje (♀maʁje) ] 879: When was the last time you went to the movies? - Just last week. Quand es-tu alle (♀allee) au cinema pour la derniere fois? - La semaine derniere. kɑ̃ ɛ ty ale (♀ale) o sinema puʁ la dɛʁnjɛʁ fwa - la sᵊmɛn dɛʁnjɛʁ ] 974: We've lived in Paris for six (6) years. We lived in Paris for six (6) years, but now we live in Rome. Nous avons vecu a Paris pendant six ans. Nous avons vecu a Paris pendant six ans, mais maintenant nous vivons a Rome. nu z‿avɔ̃ veky a (...) pɑ̃dɑ̃ si z&#

French Fluency 1

In-depth reference for all levels! Learn the alphabet, advanced pronunciation tips, and alternative methods to mastering one of the world's hardest grammars. This handy companion will guide you through some of the major features of Russian － the most spoken language in the East Slavic language family. Get a comprehensive introduction on pronunciation and grammar, so you can easily take up Russian without hesitation. You’ll find these linguistic references useful at any stage of your personal language training. Find out how you can read Russian in 3 simple steps! >> Sign up (https://bit.ly/2Nesd7F) now and start 7-day free trial! >> Learn Russian with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2xW6VCl >> Download all Glossika guides here: https://ai.glossika.com/free-download

Glossika Guide to RUSSIAN Pronunciation & Grammar

Get the pronunciation of any Chinese character in any East Asian language with an introduction covering tones and historical sound changes. Classical Middle Chinese and Modern Mandarin | Cantonese | Taiwanese | Hakka | Shanghainese | Wenzhounese | Fuzhounese | Japanese | Korean | Vietnamese What's Inside 1. Over 5000 Characters 2. Radical and Stroke Lookup 3. Middle Chinese readings with Rime and Grade Index 4. Readings in IPA, Universal Pinyin, and native scripts 5. Both literary and colloquial readings included 6. Cross-reference tables of tones & consonant endings in each language 7. Separate index available for each language 8. Both Japanese Onyomi and Kunyomi readings with an index for both 9. Explanation of Middle Chinese evolution to the modern languages 10. Fast lookup: click on any character >> Sign up (https://bit.ly/2Qu21nK) now and get 1000 reps of audio training and 7-day access to premium features for free! >> Learn Chinese (Beijing) with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2zNCvn9 >> Learn Chinese (Taiwan) with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2P6KRv2 >> Download all Glossika guides here: https://ai.glossika.com/free-download

Glossika 10-Language Dictionary of Chinese Characters

Book 2: Tom is serving and pleasing in the heat of summer. Ginger still baffles, he bulks up, a stranger calls, and Stella just sucks. The family is betrayed. Two concussions later, it turns out that the gun was indeed loaded.All summer long, Tom's biggest worry was keeping the women who own him happy. It wasn't a bad way to work off a $200,000 debt as long as he didn't mind wearing an apron by day and a collar by night. But then, a .22-caliber bullet and a dark truth change everything. Can this non-traditional family survive when beset on all sides by those who want to take what's theirs?At times rough and raw, this is a dark story of love and trust, deception and revenge, and its own definition of family, told with a good share of tongue in cheek humor. For mature audiences only.

The Family Trust Book 2

ROCK AND ROLL: AN INTRODUCTION, 3rd Edition has been completely reconceived and rewritten, to take advantage of online delivery of recorded music. The discussion in this edition is even more focused on rock as music and stresses perceptive listening. This in turn permits more extensive discussion of stylistic connections and contrasts and ways in which the music reflects and shapes society and culture. An extensive and representative play list of 115 rock-era songs is discussed. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Rock and Roll: An Introduction

"...Reviews the evolution of popular music from the mid-19th century, highlighting connections, contrasts, and patterns of infludence among artists and styles. Students gain new listening skills and the ability to place the music in context...features additional coverage of country, Latin, world, and late 20th-century music in a modular organization..."--back cover.

The Beat Goes on

Popular Music in America

Michael Campbell’s bestselling POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA remains the industry standard in breadth of coverage, readability and musical focus. Students follow the evolution of popular music from the mid-19th century to the present with discussions of connections, contrasts and patterns of influence among artists, styles and eras. The new fifth edition offers an in-depth section on 21st century music, helping instructors to connect to their students through a modern lens. Units are clearly defined by style and timeframe, and chapters feature narrowly focused objectives. This edition features a vibrant, richly illustrated, magazine-like design that appeals to visually oriented readers. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On

Lynette Reid

This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. Winch faded into relative obscurity compared to his contemporaries due to a mistaken belief that there are no systematic connections between the different aspects of his work. This volume corrects that presupposition and reintroduces Winch's work to a new generation of scholars. By showing how ethical, political and social issues are interrelated in Winch's work, and by making clear the connections between these issues and themes in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, the volume demonstrates both the breadth and the unity of Winch's approach. It discusses topics such as ethics, political philosophy, social science, the philosophy of action, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Despite this apparent variety of topics, the contributors to the volume share Winch's conviction that the different areas of philosophy are interdependent. As a result, the volume as a whole shows unity in diversity and provides an example of a manner of philosophising in which different approaches and sub-disciplines are placed in dialogue with each other. Peter Guy Winch is most famous for his early work on the philosophy of the social sciences. His On the Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (ISS) generated controversy within both philosophical and social scientific circles. In that work and subsequent publications Winch argued against the presupposition that social relations could be understood using the conceptual tools of the natural sciences. Winch would later describe ISS as a 'young man's book' and would come to regret the reputation it garnered him - a mixture of roughly equal degrees fame and infamy. Alongside his work on the philosophy of social sciences, Winch was an interpreter and exegete of Wittgenstein. He also published a ground-breaking study of the philosophy of Simone Weil, entitled Simone Weil: The Just Balance. Winch also published numerous essays on issues in ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of religion, and at his death was working on a book manuscript on the problem of political authority.

Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch

Christian Schmidt

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German Fluency 1

Michael Campbell's best-selling POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA, now in its fourth edition, remains the industry standard in breadth of coverage, readability, and musical focus. The text provides a rich account of the evolution of popular music from the mid-19th century to the present. Discussions highlight connections, contrasts, and patterns of influence among artists, styles, and eras. Coverage of listening skills allows students to place music of their choice in context. The Fourth Edition expands the coverage of country, Latin, world, and late 20th century music to give instructors more options to teach the course as they choose to. A major reorganization replaces long chapters with units broken into small chapters to make the material easier for students to read and master. Units are clearly defined by style and timeframe, and chapters feature narrowly focused objectives. This edition features a vibrant, richly illustrated, magazine-like design, plus numerous online resources. Almost all listening examples are available on iTunes via dedicated playlists; instructors who adopt the text will also receives copies of the heritage 3-CD set from the 3rd edition for personal, library, and class use. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Popular Music in America:The Beat Goes On

Search or browse this dictionary of high-frequency Hanja. Browse 6000 hanja-based words by Mandarin pronunciation (pinyin ABC order). This is the perfect guide to boost your vocabulary in Korean for Chinese speakers. You may have noticed a lot of Korean words appear or sound similar to Chinese. This guide shows you how to acquire more vocabulary much faster by using your Chinese knowledge to learn Korean more quickly. You can either search the whole book by Hangul or by Chinese traditional character. The Korean and Chinese is color-coded so you can find what you’re looking for fast. Chinese is spelled out in pinyin and Korean is spelled out in phonetic symbols showing pronunciation sound changes. What's Inside 1. Introduction to historical sound changes from Chinese to Korean 2. Single character lookup by Korean pronunciation 3. Korean word lookup by Chinese pronunciation 4. Chinese-derived words only found in Korean — even if mixed with English 5. Doesn’t include Chinese words that Korean doesn’t have6. A third index showing common foreign words from European languages >> Sign up (https://bit.ly/2xfsYTh) now and get 1000 reps of audio training and 7-day access to premium features for free! >> Learn Korean with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2QpoelW >> Download all Glossika guides here: https://ai.glossika.com/free-download

Korean for Chinese Speakers: How to Pronounce Hanja

Save me, oh, save me, I'm all out of dreams, Walking through Heaven's zone on 25th Street. Cars are the fashion parading under neon lights; Faces through tinted glass tell their stories of life. You stare, you frown and swear, and I smile back at you. Billions of stars will fall before the night is through. South of Main and Hollywood is 25th Street. Liquid gold in glasses is always in our reach; You can soar for days and days because the magic is good. Feel the fire in our veins, we're the joke of the neighborhood. I search to find a place to bury my head Deep within my thoughts on the night edge. Lovers sending messages through crystal eyes, Passing the sights unknown we want to ask. Give me another shot of that whiskey, man, Fill up my dreamer's glass with my only friend. South of Main and Hollywood is 25th Street. Liquid gold in glasses is always in our reach. You can soar for days because the magic is good. Feel the fire in our veins; we're the joke of the neighborhood.

The Lady and the Poet

Michael O'Sullivan

Throughout his career, Wittgenstein was preoccupied with issues in the philosophy of perception. Despite this, little attention has been paid to this aspect of Wittgenstein's work. This volume redresses this lack, by bringing together an international group of leading philosophers to focus on the impact of Wittgenstein's work on the philosophy of perception. The ten specially commissioned chapters draw on the complete range of Wittgenstein's writings, from his earliest to latest extant works, and combine both exegetical approaches with engagements with contemporary philosophy of mind. Topics covered include: perception and judgement in the Tractatus aspect-perception the putative intentionality of perception representationalism. The book also includes an overview which summarises the evolution of Wittgenstein's views on perception throughout his life. With an outstanding array of contributors, Wittgenstein and Perception is essential reading for students and scholars of Wittgenstein’s work, as well as those working in philosophy of mind and philosophy of perception. Contributors: Yasuhiro Arahata, Michael Campbell, William Child, Daniel Hutto, Michael O’Sullivan, Marie McGinn, Michel terHark, Charles Travis, and José Zalabardo.

Wittgenstein and Perception

Debbie Campbell

If you've ever dreamed of casting off your worldly possessions and traveling to your heart's content, this story about two intrepid seniors will inspire you no matter your age. Michael and Debbie Campbell felt they had one more adventure in them before considering retirement in the traditional sense, so they filled two rolling duffel bags with life's essentials (including their own pillows) and hit the road. Three years later, having sold their home in Seattle, their "Senior Nomad" lifestyle has no end in sight. Ride along as they share tales of living full-time in Airbnbs in over 50 countries and pay tribute to the many hosts who not only helped them live daily life, but also offered unique opportunities to experience their cities. From the barber's chair in Dublin and the dentist's chair in Split, to a wild motorcycle ride in Athens, a peek behind the Soviet Curtain in Transnistria, and the demise of a chicken for dinner in Marrakech, hosts made the Campbell's dream of adventure come true. Discover how Debbie and Michael find their next Airbnb, how they get there, and the many ways they enjoy their new city just as the locals do. Learn their tips and tricks for using Airbnb and how they get the most out of each stay, all while spending little more than they would have spent settled into their rocking chairs in Seattle.

Michael Campbell

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