Anyone managing an artists career needs to be well versed and have a savvy understanding of the moving parts of the music business. Learn how and why those moving parts "move," as well as how to manage and navigate a music-based career. Artist Management for the Music Business gives a comprehensive view of how to generate income through music and how to strategically plan for future growth.

The book is full of valuable practical insights. It includes interviews and case studies with examples ...

The market leading text for beginning teachers on all undergraduate, postgraduate and school-based routes to QTS, this is an essential introduction to the key skills and knowledge needed to become a successful teacher. Offering advice on all aspects of teaching and learning, this ninth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the field and covers key new topics, including the science of learning, online pedagogies and working with your mentor. There are also expanded units on...

This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective. It covers the basics of Earth surface forms and processes, while reflecting on the latest developments in the field. Fundamentals of Geomorphology begins with a consideration of the nature of geomorphology, including its relation to society, process and form, history, and geomorphic systems, and moves on to discuss:* Structure: st...

The second volume of Tobira: Beginning Japanese, a textbook for beginner-level students with no previous knowledge of Japanese who have already finished volume 1 of this method. Tobira offers integral preparation and all units include sections of grammar, reading, conversation, listening vocabulary, and kanji.

This volume includes 10 units whose structure is:

- Introduction: in this part, students will see the goals and the abilities that they will acquire once they have finished each chapt...

In de beroepspraktijk werk je veel samen. Kennis van andere vakgebieden is daarom belangrijk. Het maakt de communicatie eenvoudiger en je begrijpt beter welke informatie geleverd en/ of gevraagd wordt. In De economische beroepspraktijk maak je kennis met de vakgebieden management & organisatie, sales, marketing, productie & logistiek, office en management support, financieel en juridisch.

Alle hoofdstukken zijn voorzien van praktijkgerichte opdrachten. Opdrachten waar de vaardigheden optreden...

"Biggs and Tang, now with Kennedy, have ensured this new edition remains an international leader for university teaching for the next decade."

Denise Chalmers AM, Emeritus Professor, University of Western Australia, Australia

"This book, a fifth edition, can truly be called a "classic" on the topic of teaching, learning and curriculum design in higher education."

Michael Prosser, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, ...

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. What does humour do and how does it manifest when lived political circumstances experience ruptures or instability? Can humour that emerges in such circumstances be viewed as a specific narrative on the nature of democracy in the region? Drawing upon essays from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, this volume discusses many crucial historical and contemporary themes, including dance-drama pe...

How interventions based on objects including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods offer a path to rethink European integration.

Interventions based on objects, Brice Laurent claims, have become a dominant path for European policy-making. In European Objects, Laurent analyzes the political consequences of these interventions and their democratization. He uses the term European objects to describe technical entities that are regulated and thereby transformed by European policies. T...

On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock to Japanese colonial authorities, whose response was swift and brutal. Heavy artillery and battalions of troops assaulted the region, spraying a wide area with banned poison gas.

The Seediq from Mhebu, who led the uprising, were brought to the brink of genocide. Over the ensuing decades, the Musha I...

Now in its fourth edition, Vascular Ultrasound offers a compact yet comprehensive practical guide for anyone working in the field of vascular sonography.

The book is written by expert practitioners as an easily accessible reference, providing key information suited to sonographers in their day-to-day practice. It covers essential vascular investigations undertaken by ultrasound departments and vascular laboratories in more detail than general ultrasound textbooks, but without overwhelming son...