A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Engaging Motion Pictures
Filmmaking with Intention: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Engaging Motion Pictures helps readers better understand and further their passion for cinematic storytelling while discovering tried and true techniques for creating movies that intentionally impact an audience. Opening chapters discuss where cinematic stories come from, how filmmakers ......
Mechanical Vibrations: Theory and Applications presents the basic principles of engineering vibrations and introduces students to a strategic framework to advance their knowledge and skill in engineering problem-solving. The opening chapter reviews key topics, including mathematical modeling, dimensional analysis, dynamics, and more. Chapter 2 ......
Reading and studying great works of literature can help us expand our vision, worldview, and frame of reference and can make us feel more vital, exuberant, and alive. These activities can provide an intellectual experience to make life more comprehensible and meaningful. Furthermore, reading and studying literature can do an extraordinary job of ......
Thinking About Criminal Justice: A Reader helps students cultivate greater levels of critical thinking skills and question long-standing criminal justice policies and aspects of the criminal justice system. The anthology presents readers with a tool called a Critical Thinking Scan (CTS), which challenges them to analyze the readings in the text ......
Introduccion a la pronunciacion del espanol familiarizes students with the sounds of the Spanish language. The text underscores the importance of accurate Spanish pronunciation for second language acquisition and mastery. Students are provided with a detailed articulatory description of each vowel and consonant sound or segment within the Spanish ......
A Tour of Computer Science Concepts provides students with a solid foundational knowledge base within the discipline of computer science. The opening chapter offers readers a concise overview of computer history, including the development of computers and the birth of the internet. Additional chapters discuss the differences between analog and ......
Relying on governmental data, national polling organizations, and a combination of scholarly and media articles, Blue and Red: A Divided America identifies and examines the fundamental differences in values that Americans hold with regard to issues of democracy, racial injustice, and equal economic opportunity. The main argument of the book is ......
The new edition of Katherine R. Allen and Angela C. Henderson's Family Theories Today: A Critical Intersectional Approach expands on the dynamic, creative, and scientific approach that made the first edition a success. The authors include all types of family structures, processes, and contexts, and their approach is informed by families as ......
Introductory Readings in Philosophy: An Historical Approach is grounded in the belief that no idea can really be understood or exist separate from the historical context in which it is born. This anthology encourages students to consider not only seminal writings by historical philosophers, but also the philosophers' values, who they were as ......
