Learn to Play the Ukulele Super Fast: A Quick and Easy Beginners Guide for Children and Adults by Sam Lucas
English | November 24, 2021 | ISBN: 1739885503 | 50 pages | PDF | 17 Mb
New for 2022. 'Learn to Play the Ukulele Super Fast' teaches the absolute beginner how to play the ukulele step-by-step in an easy to understand format for the person who has never played a musical instrument before. This book is suitable for the Soprano, Concert, Tenor ukulele and the Banjo ukulele. The book begins with the parts of the ukulele, how to hold the ukulele, strumming techniques, tuning - using various methods in 'C' - (G C E A), How to restring the ukulele, capo placement and understanding chord boxes - all with full diagrams. Then the lessons begin with a brief introduction on how to read music and its relationship with the ukulele, How to use a metronome and understanding ukulele strum patterns. There are 40 songs to learn and play, all with musical notation, ukulele chord boxes, suggested strumming patterns, tempo guidance, key signatures and written instructions to help you along the way. The songs included range from very easy, to challenging, getting a little harder as you progress through the book. Finger picking and ukulele Tablature are briefly covered and a chord chart covering 144 chords with their finger placements is easily accessible from the centre pages. This book is the perfect introduction for the musical novice and will have you playing your first song on the ukulele within minutes. Songs include: 'The Uke Song', 'Hands of a Clock', 'London's Burning', 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star', 'The Drunken Sailor', 'When the saints Go Marching In', 'Moonlight Bay', ' You Can Play the Ukulele', 'Shine On, Harvest Moon', 'After You've Gone', 'I'll See You in My Dreams', 'It Had to Be You', 'Pack Up Your Troubles', 'Starlight and You' and many, many more... So, what are you waiting for, let's start strumming today!

Learn French: Accelerated Learning for Beginners. Includes: Grammar, Common Phrases, Vocabulary, Conversations & Short Stories to Learn French Fast in your Car or Anywhere. Level 1to 8 by Accelerated Language Learning Institute, Nicole Noble
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08L1K1V8F | 277 pages | EPUB | 0.83 Mb
Would you like to learn the most seductive and elegant language?

Leading and Managing Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World By Zane Ma Rhea
2014 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0415870488 | PDF | 3 MB
This book brings together the academic fields of educational leadership, educational administration, strategic change management, and Indigenous education in order to provide a critical, multi-perspective, systems level analysis of the provision of education services to Indigenous people. It draws on a range of theorists across these fields internationally, mobilising social exchange and intelligent complex adaptive systems theories to address the key problematic of intergenerational, educational failure. Ma Rhea establishes the basis for an Indigenous rights approach to the state provision of education to Indigenous peoples that includes recognition of their distinctive economic, linguistic and cultural rights within complex, globalized, postcolonial education systems. The book problematizes the central concept of a partnership between Indigenous people and non-Indigenous school leaders, staff and government policy makers, even as it holds this key concept at its centre. The infantilising of Indigenous communities and Indigenous people can take priority over the education of their children in the modern state; this book offers an argument for a profound rethinking of the leadership and management of Indigenous education.Leading and Managing Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World will be of value to researchers and postgraduate students focusing on Indigenous education, as well as teachers, education administrators and bureaucrats, sociologists of education, Indigenous education specialists, and those in international and comparative education.

Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities by Mark Gerzon
English | May 1, 2006 | ISBN: 159139919X | True PDF | 288 pages | 2.8 MB
As our world grows smaller, opportunities for conflict multiply. Ethnic, religious, political, and personal differences drive people apart-with potentially disastrous consequences-and it's the task of perceptive leaders to bring them together again World-renowned mediation expert Mark Gerzon argues that leaders have failed to rise to this challenge. Our organisations, schools, and governments remain filled with divisive dictators and everyday managers, instead of what he calls mediators-leaders who transform conflict so that everyone can move forward together.

Inc. BarCharts, "Latin Vocabulary "
English | ISBN: 1572226978 | 2002 | pages | PDF | 245 KB
Latin vocabulary guide is packed with useful information for beginners of all ages.

Large Plastic Deformations: Fundamental Aspects and Applications to Metal Forming
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9054103175 | 488 Pages | PDF (True) | 33 MB
This volume covers topics involving large plastic deformation of metallic materials. These proceedings offer an overview of the synergism achieved by combining microstructural characterization and understanding, mechanical modelling and experiments, numerical analysis and computation.

Christine Jourdan, "Language, Culture, and Society: Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology "
English | ISBN: 0521614740 | 2006 | 324 pages | PDF | 1276 KB
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.

Paul Kockelman, "Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds "
English | ISBN: 0521516390 | 2010 | 256 pages | PDF | 820 KB
Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expressed: inalienable possessions, such as body parts and kinship terms; interjections, such as 'ouch' and 'yuck'; complement-taking predicates, such as 'believe' and 'desire'; and grammatical categories such as mood, status and evidentiality. And, more generally, it develops a theoretical framework through which both community-specific and human-general features of mind may be contrasted and compared. It will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.

Ernest Gellner, "Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma"
English | ISBN: 0521639972 | | 230 pages | PDF | 895 KB
Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) has been described as "one of the last great central European polymath intellectuals." In this, his last book, he throws new light on two key figures of the twentieth century: the philosopher Wittgenstein, and Malinowski, founder of modern British social anthropology. Gellner shows how the thought of both men grew from a common background of assumptions about human nature, society, and language. He ties together themes that preoccupied him, epitomizing his belief that philosophy-far from "leaving everything as it is"-is about important historical, social and personal issues.

Bernard Spolsky, "Language Management"
English | ISBN: 0521516099 | 2009 | 322 pages | PDF | 1490 KB
Language policy is all about choices. If you are bilingual or plurilingual, you have to choose which language to use. Even if you speak only one language, you have choices of dialects and styles. Some of these choices are the result of management, reflecting conscious and explicit efforts by language managers to control the choices. This book presents a specific theory of language management. Bernard Spolsky reviews research on the family, religion, the workplace, the media, schools, legal and health institutions, the military and government. Also discussed are language activists, international organisations, and human rights relative to language, and the book concludes with a review of language managers and management agencies. A model is developed that recognises the complexity of language management, makes sense of the various forces involved, and clarifies why it is such a difficult enterprise.