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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Understand the business side of your showbiz careerWe all know acting can be a glittering whirl of glamour--plush red carpets, simply divine outfits, huge sums of money, and oh, the parties! But what a lot of wannabe actors forget is that it takes a lot of practical work to get to the flashbulbs of your first premiere, and that the savviest actors put as much stress on the business side of the profession as they do on the show. Breaking Into Acting For Dummies demystifies the behind-the-curtain side of showbiz to help you understand how it really works, who the decision-makers are, what they're looking for when they're picking talent, and how to get them on your side. If you truly want to be the next Emma Stone or Leonardo DiCaprio, you'll want to have a well-thumbed copy of this book alongside your pile of scripts.Written by two friendly insiders, this guide takes you behind the scenes to help you map out your plan of attack, showing you how to open doors--and keep them open--and use your time wisely, so you're not breaking a leg rushing from one random audition to another. You'll understand how to flesh out your professional persona as thoroughly as a movie part, craft your resume as minutely as a script, and judge the angle of your headshots and webcam appearances as intimately as any director. Once you've mastered these skills, it's time to go to market as your own publicity department, building your media and online presence until everyone who's anyone knows exactly who you are.\* Understand different acting markets--from theater to commercials\* Network in-person and online\* Build your image via resumes, head shots, and webcam\* Keep a firm grip on the financial sideWhether you're studying, a hopeful amateur, or have been treading the boards for a while, this is your breakthrough script for succeeding in the business of acting, and for learning how to play your ultimate role: yourself.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Take the trip of a lifetime into the past and present of BollywoodFascinated by the high energy, high emotion, high color, endless dance routines, and sheer scale of Bollywood--but afraid you'll never really know your Ghazals from your Qawwalis, or your Khans from your Kapoors Well, in the immortal line from the Hindi-language blockbuster Sultan, 'No one can defeat you unless you accept defeat yourself,' and there's no need to be defeated at all when you can sit back with Bollywood For Dummies and immerse yourself in the glamorous whirl of one of the most exciting movie industries on Earth. Starting with the time-travel adventure of the book's main feature--the history of the Hindi-speaking industry from people and events of early to mid 20th century Mumbai--you'll also journey in space, taking fascinating documentary side trips to get to know Tollywood's Telegu-language cinema in southern India, as well as the growing influence of Lollywood across the border in Pakistan.Written by the cohosts of Desi Standard Time, a podcast that explores Bollywood and South Asian movies and media, you'll see how the unique cinema culture of Bollywood in particular has become a global phenomenon, reflecting the rise of India as an independent nation and presenting its long history--and it's exciting and multifaceted present--in new, influential, and enduring forms. Whatever you paid the price of entry for: the popular Bollywood 'Masala' movie style that emphasizes music, comedy, romance, and action; sensitive critiques of a fast-changing society by the Indian Social Realism movement; new forms of music from Indian disco to Sufi boogie; or a look at the lives and talents of the great acting dynasties--it's all here. And there'll still be plenty more plot twists beyond these to surprise and delight you.\* Get to know the people who built Bollywood\* Discover the main music and dance styles\* Explore and recognize Bollywood's influence on Western cinema\* Go social and join up with the liveliest Bollywood fan communitiesYou're right to be excited: for newbies a whole new world awaits, and for aficionados, there's always so much more to know. So, sit back with this book, grab some popcorn or a plate of samosas--or why not both--and prepare to begin an electric feast to sizzle all your senses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Research-based insights and practical advice about effective learning strategiesIn this new edition of the highly regarded Why Don't Students Like School cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques. This book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn. It reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.With a treasure trove of updated material, this edition draws its themes from the most frequently asked questions in Willingham's 'Ask the Cognitive Scientist' column in the American Educator. How can you teach students the skills they need when standardized testing just requires facts Why do students remember everything on TV, but forget everything you say How can you adjust your teaching for different learning styles Read this book for the answers to these questions and for practical advice on helping your learners learn better.Discover easy-to-understand, evidence-based principles with clear applications for the classroom\* Update yourself on the latest cognitive science research and new, teacher-tested pedagogical tools\* Learn about Willingham's surprising findings, such as that you cannot develop 'thinking skills' without facts\* Understand the brain's workings to help you hone your teaching skillsWhy Students Don't Like School is a valuable resource for both veteran and novice teachers, teachers-in-training, and for the principals, administrators, and staff development professionals who work with them.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Wilson, Lin (illustrator). Neuware - A personal growth roadmap guiding you into the future of relationships in work, life, play, and givingCurve Benders is a personal growth roadmap. It will guide you through the complicated intersection of work, life, play, and giving. Countless new forces will shape the future, so the strategic relationships we form in these areas of life are, of necessity, changing. This book will show you how to move into the future and dramatically alter your growth trajectory in both its direction and ultimate destination. David Nour, the author of Relationship Economics and a top thought leader on business relationships, has identified 15 forces that will heavily influence what we do and how and where we engage our current and prospective relationships to create value and make a difference in the lives of others.This book aims to provide you with a step-by-step guide for personal, professional, and organizational growth. The author highlights how certain relationships enable a non-linear growth trajectory. These relationships, in addition to augmenting what we can accomplish, often shape who we become. These relationships are 'curve benders,' and this book will show you who and where they are, how to find and engage them, and, equally valuable, how you can become a curve bender to impact the lives and livelihoods of others profoundly.\* Gain insight into the value of your current strategic relationships and how they help you achieve your work, life, and giving goals\* Reconceptualize relationships to identify the people with the power, not only to help you achieve but to change who you become\* Learn how to become a 'curve bender' who makes an outsized impact in the lives of others\* Become better at finding and engaging people, navigating the 15 forces that are reshaping our worldThis book is about strategic relationship planning, personal growth, and, ultimately, about you. Read Curve Benders to launch yourself into your best future.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A guide to successfully designing effective instruction - in an EMEA edition This eighth edition of Designing Effective Instruction offers the practical skills needed to design engaging instruction. The EMEA edition presents a flexible model of design based on multidisciplinary research. Behavioral and cognitive approaches are also integrated into the model. The book provides the fundamentals and helps students establish a foundation in the design process. This process can be utilized in a range of environments, including the classroom, business, health care and higher education.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fundamentals of Machine Component Design presents a thorough introduction to the concepts and methods essential to mechanical engineering design, analysis, and application. In-depth coverage of major topics, including free body diagrams, force flow concepts, failure theories, and fatigue design, are coupled with specific applications to bearings, springs, brakes, clutches, fasteners, and more for a real-world functional body of knowledge. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are strengthened through a graphical procedural framework, enabling the effective identification of problems and clear presentation of solutions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The field's essential standard for more than three decades, Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer offers a systematic introduction to transport phenomena and rate processes. Thorough coverage of central principles helps students build a foundational knowledge base while developing vital analysis and problem solving skills. Momentum, heat, and mass transfer are introduced sequentially for clarity of concept and logical organization of processes, while examples of modern applications illustrate real-world practices and strengthen student comprehension. Designed to keep the focus on concept over content, this text uses accessible language and efficient pedagogy to streamline student mastery and facilitate further exploration.Abundant examples, practice problems, and illustrations reinforce basic principles, while extensive tables simplify comparisons of the various states of matter. Detailed coverage of topics including dimensional analysis, viscous flow, conduction, convection, and molecular diffusion provide broadly-relevant guidance for undergraduates at the sophomore or junior level, with special significance to students of chemical, mechanical, environmental, and biochemical engineering.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Munson, Young, and Okiishi's Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics is intended for undergraduate engineering students for use in a first course on fluid mechanics. Building on the well-established principles of fluid mechanics, the book offers improved and evolved academic treatment of the subject. Each important concept or notion is considered in terms of simple and easy-to-understand circumstances before more complicated features are introduced. The presentation of material allows for the gradual development of student confidence in fluid mechanics problem solving. This International Adaptation of the book comes with some new topics and updates on concepts that clarify, enhance, and expand certain ideas and concepts. The new examples and problems build upon the understanding of engineering applications of fluid mechanics and the edition has been completely updated to use SI units.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Environment, Tenth Edition helps students understand the connection between the core concepts of the Environmental Science and their daily lives. The 10th edition enhanced e-text features a rich, interactive collection of current case studies and in-text examples, which provides students with the tools to understand, apply, and think critically about environmental science. It also provides instructors with powerful tools to assess individual students progresses well as the class as a whole.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Karp's Cell and Molecular Biology delivers a concise and illustrative narrative that helps students connect key concepts and experimentation, so they better understand how we know what we know in the world of cell biology.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Take your ethical reasoning and practice to the next level with timely discussions of new and reoccuring issues in psychology and counseling.In the newly revised Sixth Edition of Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide, a distinguished team of psychologists deliver a compilation of practical and creative approaches to the responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities encountered by therapists and counselors in their work. The book covers the many changes and difficulties created by new technologies like electronic health records, videoconferencing, texting, and practicing across state and provincial boundaries.Using a new, easy-to-navigate structure and including brand new chapters on cultural ethics, social justice and human rights ethics, and the application of strategies for self-care, the authors discuss complex issues in a straightforward and accessible way. Conversations about moral distress and moral courage and actionable steps to strengthen ethics in organizational settings round out the useful material contained within.Once referred to as the 'conscience of psychology,' this must-read book also includes:\* A thorough introduction to the foundations of psychotherapeutic ethics, including ethics in real life, ethics in theories and codes, cultural context, ethical decision making, and moral courage.\* An exploration of common sources of ethical problems and pitfalls, including: pseudoscience, ethical fallacies, ethical judgement errors, language and rationalizations\* Practical discussions of special topics in ethics, including informed consent and informed refusal, using strategies for self-care, responding to ethics, licensing, and malpractice complaints, and confidentiality.\* In-depth examination of timely issues, including sexual attraction to patients, digital therapy, and responding to suicidal risk.Perfect for individual practitioners and teachers of graduate courses, seminars, and continuing education classes, Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide will also earn a place in the libraries of forensic psychologists and other expert witnesses preparing to testify on the standard of care in malpractice cases.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A real-world introduction to advertising design and art direction, updated and revised for today's industryThe newly revised Fourth Edition of Advertising by Design: Generating and Designing Creative Ideas Across Media delivers an invigorating and cutting-edge take on concept generation, art direction, design, and media channels for advertising. The book offers principles, theories, step-by-step instructions, and advice from esteemed experts to guide you through the fundamentals of advertising design and the creative process.With a fresh focus on building a coherent brand campaign through storytelling across all media channels, Advertising by Design shows you how to conceive ideas based on strategy, build brands with compelling advertising, and encourage social media participation. You'll also get insights from guest essays and interviews with world-leading creatives in the advertising industry.The book is filled with practical case studies that show real-world applications. You'll also benefit from coverage of\* A quick start guide to advertising\* A thorough introduction to what advertising is, including its purpose, categories, forms, media channels, social media listening, and its creators\* Creative thinking strategies and how to generate ideas based on creative briefs\* Utilizing brand archetypes and creating unique branded content\* Composition by design, including the parts of an ad, the relationship between images and copy, basic design principles, and points of view\* How to build a brand narrative in the digital age\* Copywriting how-to's for art directors and designers\* Experiential advertising\* An examination of digital design, including subsections on the basics of mobile and desktop website design, motion, digital branding, and social media designPerfect for students and instructors of advertising design, art direction, graphic design, communication design, and copywriting, Advertising by Design also will earn a place in the libraries of business owners, executives, managers, and employees whose work requires them to understand and execute on branding initiatives, advertising campaigns, and other customer-facing content. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fundamentals of Microelectronics, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the design and analysis of electrical circuits, enabling students to develop the practical skills and engineering intuition necessary to succeed in their future careers. Through an innovative 'analysis by inspection' framework, students learn to deconstruct complex problems into familiar components and reach solutions using basic principles. A step-by-step synthesis approach to microelectronics demonstrates the role of each device in a circuit while helping students build 'design-oriented' mindsets.