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David Carr Glover Method for Piano: Lessons, Primer"
David Carr Glover
$3.68

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A sound approach to learning the piano, with emphasis on: reading music through interval and note recognition; clapping, singing and counting aloud for proper rhythmical performance; sight reading and ear training. Includes full-color illustrations. Also available from the DAVID CARR GLOVER METHOD FOR PIANO: Lessons, Performance, Technic, Sight Reading and Ear Training, and Christmas at the Piano for each level: Primer, One, Two , Three, and Four. Pre-Reading (Lessons and Theory) and other additional material are available as well.

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The Clock Repair Primer: The Beginners Handbook
Philip E. Balcomb
$32.00

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Balcomb does an outstanding job of breaking things down into simple terms. Being a novice, my confidence has been significantly bolstered with his easy to read step by step approach. This is THE book to have when undertaking antique clock repairs!

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Research Primer For The Helping Professions: Methods, Statistics, and Writings
Jr., Andrew L. Cherry
$40.00

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This applied text presents an overview of the research process appropriate for a first course in research methods and as a refresher for more advanced students. It is an integrated text—balancing research methods, statistics, and writing—and shows students how all of these processes are integral to the research process. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, cutting across social work, counseling, and human services.

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A Primer for Policy Analysis
Richard Zeckhauser
$29.61

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I read this book as a primer for the more advanced class at Harvard. It's a good introduction but take the class if you can. This book is most useful for managers and as a reference to refer to high level approaches with hints for how to dig into more detail.

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Public Administration Theory Primer
H. George Frederickson
$19.77

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In the past thirty years public administration has developed more systematic patterns of inquiry about the substance of public organization behavior, public management, and public policy implementation. This work has contributed to an increasing reliability in understanding public administration. The work of public organizations has been examined with improved conceptual methodological and theoretical forms of analysis. The forms of analysis seek to create knowledge that is retraceable, cumulative, and at least at some level, replicable. These forms of analysis aspire to be scientific, using scientific here to mean a kind of formal rationality by which the insights of the next generation. Knowledge, then, becomes collective and cumulative. This is not to suggest that the social world, of which public administration is a part, is as amenable to formal scientific applications as is the physical world. It is not. But it is to suggest that the art and science of public administration should be just that - both art and science. The science and art of policy administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative.

A further purpose of this book is to describe in some detail several theories and analytical approaches that contribute to what we know about policy administration. If we can accept that each approach to the subject of policy administration is guided. At least in some rudimentary way, by a theory or set of theories, the questions are: Which theories or approaches are the most promising, the most influential? Which are the most important now and likely to be the most important in the future? The purpose of this effort is to set out a detailed description of the author's selection of key theories in contemporary public administration in the hope that this will improve the reliability of our knowledge and our understanding of public administration.

This primer is designed to fit into Public Administration Theory courses at the advanced undergraduate level, as well as for courses in the MPA curriculum.

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A Primer of Genome Science, Third Edition
Muse
$62.94

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A Primer of Ecology with R (Use R)
M. Henry H. Stevens
$53.17

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Ecology is more quantitative and theory-driven than ever before, and A Primer of Ecology with R combines an introduction to the major theoretical concepts in general ecology with a cutting edge open source tool, the R programming language. Starting with geometric growth and proceeding through stability of multispecies interactions and species-abundance distributions, this book demystifies and explains fundamental ideas in population and community ecology. Graduate students in ecology, along with upper division undergraduates and faculty, will find this to be a useful overview of important topics.

In addition to the most basic topics, this book includes construction and analysis of demographic matrix models, metapopulation and source-sink models, host-parasitoid and disease models, multiple basins of attraction, the storage effect, neutral theory, and diversity partitioning. Several sections include examples of confronting models with data. Chapter summaries and problem sets at the end of each chapter provide opportunities to evaluate and enrich one's understanding of the ecological ideas that each chapter introduces.

R is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of quantitative sciences, and this text provides a tractable introduction to using the R programming environment in ecology. An appendix provides a general introduction, and examples of code throughout each chapter give readers the option to hone their growing R skills.

"The distinctive strength of this book is that truths are mostly not revealed but discovered, in the way that R-savvy ecologists—empirical and theoretical—work and think now. For readers still chained to spreadsheets, working through this book could be a revolution in their approach to doing science." (Stephen P. Ellner, Cornell University)

"One of the greatest strengths…is the integration of ecological theory with examples ... pulled straight from the literature." (James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University)

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McGuffey's(r) Eclectic Primer, Revised Edition
McGuffey
$3.19

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Since 1836, children have been delighted by these volumes filled with exotic adventures, exciting stories, beautiful poems, and funny fables.

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OpenGL: A Primer (3rd Edition)
Edward Angel
$16.76

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OpenGL^®: A Primer is a concise presentation of fundamental OpenGL, providing readers with a succinct introduction to essential OpenGL commands as well as detailed listings of OpenGL functions and parameters. Angel uses a top-down philosophy to teach computer graphics based on the idea that readers learn modern computer graphics best if they can start programming significant applications as soon as possible.

Introduction, Two-Dimensional Programming in OpenGL, Interaction and Animation, Basic Three-Dimensional Programming, Transformations, Lights and Materials, Images, Texture Mapping, Curves and Surfaces, Putting It Together, Looking to the Future.

For all readers interested in OpenGL.