Step-by-step instructions on topics such as Using Presets, Performance Controls, Editing Presets, Editing in Performance---over 100 musical examples, diagrams and exercises in programming that will assist the novice or experienced musician in achieving a more musical performance.[...]

Offering a comprehensive review of business computing, this book features chapters on the fundamentals of computing and their enabling power as well as the basics of contemporary ERP/supply chain business solutions. It highlights integrative software tools that allow for fresh levels of collaboratio[...]

For survey courses in Italian Renaissance art. A broad survey of art and architecture in Italy between c. 1250 and 1600, this book approaches the works from the point of view of the artist as individual creator and as an expression of the city within which the artist was working. History of Italia[...]

In certain neighborhoods of New York City, an immigrant may live out his or her entire life without even becoming fluent in English. From the Russians of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach to the Dominicans of Manhattan's Washington Heights, New York is arguably the most ethnically diverse city in the world.[...]

Presents a chronological and ethnographic narrative that surveys American Indian history, from the arrival of humans on the American continent. This text describes how the European invasion influenced American Indian communities, but also how Native actions have affected the American environment.[...]

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the chemistry and physics of materials, their biocompatibility, and the consequences of implantation of such devices into the human body, this text introduces readers to the principles of polymer science and the study of metals, ceramics and composites, and [...]