This 4-book series contains progressively more difficult or challenging technique exercises and songs. The material is designed to help students develop... their finger strength and dexterity while advancing in their piano-playing ability.

Bringing up issues in organizational design, communication practices, working relationships, and leadership styles, Marvin T. Brown explores the five... key challenges facing modern businesses as they try to respond ethically to cultural, interpersonal, organizational, civic and environmental challenges. He demonstrates that if corporations are to meet the needs of civil society, they must facilitate inclusive communication patterns based on mutual recognition and civic cooperation. Corporate Integrity's essential reading for professionals in organizational ethics and business leaders.

Fingerprint Interpretation and Classification Simplified is directed at the beginning student of the science of fingerprints, giving detailed... instructions on how to interpret fingerprint patterns and classify a set of fingerprints using the standard Henry Classification System.   Developed over a century ago, the Henry system allows law enforcement to categorize and file fingerprints for easy retrieval and comparison with thousands of others, using a formula derived from the print patterns. Modern technology has expedited the process of searching for prints using various Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS), but the human eye is still needed to make the final decision regarding positive identification.   This is why a thorough knowledge of the interpretation and comparison of fingerprints is needed, and why nationwide entry-level positions for a career in the field of fingerprints require completion of an accredited course, and demonstrated skills in analyzing and classifying fingerprints using the Henry system. Fingerprint Interpretation and Classification Simplified explains this process in a way that is easy for both student and instructor to understand.   Historically, the standard text used by instructors of fingerprint classification has been the FBI’s Science of Fingerprints, which is currently out of print. Also, it is very technical, and many have had difficulty understanding it. Fingerprint Interpretation and Classification Simplified was written to give beginning students quick access to the information they need, with an emphasis on preparing students to pass law enforcement employment examinations.

For many designers, creating things by hand is a reaction to too much computer-based design. Since the first Fingerprint was published, ideas that were... once on the fringe have begun to thrive in the mainstream. From typography and illustration to book-making and film titles, elements of handcraft have soaked into everyday life.Fingerprint No. 2 reflects the evolution of those ideas. In this second volume, you?ll still find plenty of projects created entirely without the aid of computer technology. But you?ll also discover how designers are beginning to incorporate the two aesthetics—handmade and digital—in order to best communicate their message. A third, hybrid aesthetic is emerging, one that marries the technologies of the past and future into a vibrant, exciting present.Look inside to discover 133 projects and exclusive visual essays from leading designers, including Robynne Raye, Stefan Bucher and Christian Helms. These pieces of work prove that handmade elements are not only vital to excellent design, but often result in exceptional design.Listen for the pulse, which cannot be faked, forged, or falsified. Look for the finger print. It is the key to design?s success.

The unique composition of the skin on the inner hands and bottom of the feet affords not only a utilitarian benefit in providing friction but also... provides a forensic marker for identifying individuals. Fingerprints: Analysis and Understanding is the most fundamental, up-to-date resource available on the techniques of obtaining and analyzing latent fingerprint evidence. Using an outline format for rapid comprehension, this concise text is as easy to understand by those collecting evidence as it is by those in the branches of criminal justice who need to understand the principles. Divided into two parts, the book begins with the basics of analysis, providing a brief history, systematic methods of identification, fingerprint pattern types and their associated terminologies, and current classifications. The second section covers the identification and presentation of evidence in the courtroom, demonstrating both the traditional, manual method of lifting prints and the newer techniques for automated and live scans. The book provides instruction on searching and developing latent prints, storage, and comparison of prints. Author Mark R. Hawthorne is the lead instructor in physical evidence and crime scenes at the San Francisco Police Regional Training Academy. He brings his twenty-nine years experience in police work processing over 3000 crime scenes to present a practical, concise guide to a complex science, helping readers to understand the principles, applications, and uses of fingerprints, whether at the scene, or in the courtroom.    

From the award-winning NPR religion correspondent comes a fascinating investigation of how science is seeking to answer the question that has puzzled... humanity for generations: Can science explain God? Is spiritual experience real or a delusion? Are there realities that we can experience but not easily measure? Does your consciousness depend entirely on your brain, or does it extend beyond? In Fingerprints of God, award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty delves into the discoveries science is making about how faith and spirituality affect us physically and emotionally as it attempts to understand whether the ineffable place beyond this world can be rationally -even scientifically-explained. Hagerty interviews some of the world's top scientists to describe what their groundbreaking research reveals about our human spiritual experience. From analyses of the brain functions of Buddhist monks and Carmelite nuns, to the possibilities of healing the sick through directed prayer, to what near-death experiences illuminate about the afterlife, Hagerty reaches beyond what we think we know to understand what happens to us when we believe in a higher power. Paralleling the discoveries of science is Hagerty's own account of her spiritual evolution. Raised a Christian Scientist, she was a scrupulous adherent until a small moment as an adult triggered a revaluation of her beliefs, which in turn led her to a new way of thinking about God and faith. An insightful examination of what science is learning about how and why we believe, Fingerprints of God is also a moving story of one person's search for a communion with a higher power and what she discovered on that journey.

The New York Times bestseller that explores the startling discoveries that science is making about faith. Is spiritual experience real? Or is it a... delusion? When we pray, what happens? Can science explain God? In Fingerprints of God, National Public Radio religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty attempts to answer these and other vexing questions about the science of spiritual experience. Along the way she tells the story of her own intriguing spiritual evolution, delves into the discoveries science is making about how faith affects our brains and explores what near-death experiences reveal about the afterlife. The result is a rich and insightful examination of what science is learning about how and why we believe.

A teen embarks on the road trip of a lifetime in this authentic, beautifully written debut novel.Lemon grew up with Stella, a single mom who wasn’t... exactly maternal. Stella always had a drink in her hand and a new boyfriend every few months, and when things got out of hand, she would whisk Lemon off to a new town for a fresh beginning. Now, just as they are moving yet again, Lemon discovers that she is pregnant from a reckless encounter—with a guy Stella had been flirting with.     On the verge of revisiting her mother’s mistakes, Lemon struggles to cope with the idea of herself as a young unmarried mother, as well as the fact that she’s never met her own father. Determined to have at least one big adventure before she has the baby, Lemon sets off on a cross-country road trip, intending not only to meet her father, but to figure out who she wants to be.     Lyrical and moving prose from an original voice whose writing Judy Blume calls “luminous” deftly depicts the nuanced conflicts of early motherhood and the search for identity.

Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her... own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves&#151fingersmiths&#151for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives&#151Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of&#151passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "startling power" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career.

Carol J. Patrie and Robert E. Johnson have spent years researching and creating a one-of-a-kind program. RSVP leads you through the theory behind... fingerspelling, provides you with abundant practice, and rewards you with improved recognition of fingerspelled words. RSVP can be used in the classroom or for self-study. TEXTBOOK - explains the form and function for the types of fingerspelling:
Careful
Rapid
Lexicalized
CD ROM - provides the method (tools) to "train your brain" for processing serial information DVD - using ASL monologues, allows you to take everything you have learned and put it together for successful fingerspelled word recognition! Learning and practicing this extensively researched approach is the key to unlocking the mystery of understanding fingerspelling.

Who should purchase Fingerspelling 1: Student DVD? A student or interpreter who wants to improve their receptive and expressive fingerspelling skills in... context. Excellent for student or interpreter self study or as part of a formal class, this DVD is the companion to the 16 week Teacher's Guide. Benefits You learn by watching a native signer tell a short story or anecdote. You prepare your own short stories for classroom participation. You spend all of your time either watching a native signer or practicing your own signs. No time is wasted on reading text or looking at black and white drawings with arrows. Based on practical observation: Fingerspelling 1: Student DVD is based upon Missy's 18 years of teaching off and on at community colleges and workshops around the country. When asked to teach fingerspelling a few years ago at the last minute she said, "Sure." She was underwhelmed with the materials available to teach the course. That was the moment when she decided to produce a better curriculum.