Today 90 percent of America’s children attend public schools. It’s safe to say that 100 percent of their parent’s wish for the best possible education for their child. But how do we achieve this? With the New Public School Parent, Bob Chase, a veteran teacher, leading advocate for public education, and two-term president of the National Education Association, provides parents with a roadmap for navigating today’s increasingly complex public school system. Backed by solid data, including vivid, real-life examples – The New Public School Parent covers such topics as: · Facing the standardized test · Getting the “best” teacher for your child · Coping with learning disabilities in the classroom · Making sure your gifted child is challenged · What to do when your child falls behind · Becoming an advocate for your child and your child’s school “An essential guide for all parents.” –James P. Comer, M.d., Yale University Child Study Center

The New Public School Parent: How to Get the Best Education for Your Elementary School Child

Parenting & Relationships

Katz, Bob

Chase, Bob

Parenting

Penguin??Books

Mastering Audio explains leading-edge audio concepts in an easy-to-grasp, holistic manner, including an ear-opening investigation of the mysteries of jitter, dither and wordlengths, high sample rates, distortion, headroom, monitor calibration, metering, depth perception, compression and expansion, equipment interconnection and much more. Mastering Audio is for everyone who wants to increase their mastery of digital and analog audio: musicians, producers, A&amp;R, mastering, recording and mixing engineers, and students.

Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science

Arts & Photography

Music

Focal Press

Written by an award-winning, highly respected professional, Mastering Audio gives you a thorough introduction to the unique procedures and technical issues involved in mastering. Suitable for all levels of students and professionals, it is ideal for anyone who wants to increase their mastery of digital and analog audio: musicians, producers, A&amp;R, mastering, recording, and mixing engineers. Fully updated to cover the latest technologies, Mastering Audio discusses audio philosophy and art: sequencing, levelling, processing; how to make a record album radio-ready; and mixing as it relates to mastering. Divided into five parts, the book begins with the basics--monitoring, mastering techniques, useful tutorials, and the fundamentals of dithering and decibels--then moves on to more advanced concepts, such as jitter and clocking, monitor calibration, and multi channel audio, miking, and acoustics. Leading-edge audio concepts are explained in an easy-to-grasp style. Including practical tips and real-world experiences, Bob Katz explains the technical detail of the subject in his informative and humorous style.

Science & Math

Become a master of audio.This bestselling book has shown thousands of mixing and mastering engineers, musicians, A&amp;R producers how to create great sound. It fully integrates technical with artistic and is idea for students and working professional/ Mastering Audio is you complete reference: don't leave the studio without it! 
 What is mastering? Mastering it the last creative step when producing a record album or single for disc, home music server, iPod, broadcast or internet delivery. Mastering Audio unravels the technical mysteries that challenge audio engineers daily-in an easy to grasp, holistic manner. Learn new and powerful artictic techniques for sterio and surround sound. To master audio you must become the master of audio
* Written by a well respected engineer who has engineered albums which have won the Grammy * Provides you with information on the latest techniques and processes used in mastering * Covers equipment, training and the business of mastering and answers all the frequently asked questions

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Routledge

Apple’s exciting new Mastered for iTunes (MFiT) initiative, introduced in early 2012, introduces new possibilities for delivering high-quality audio. For the first time, record labels and program producers are encouraged to deliver audio materials to iTunes in a high resolution format, which can produce better-sounding masters. In iTunes Music, author and world-class mastering engineer Bob Katz starts out with the basics, surveys the recent past, and brings you quickly up to the present―where the current state of digital audio is bleak. Katz explains the evolution of standards for dynamic range through the present and with implications for the future. He details the new methods that Apple is developing to accept high resolution audio and shows step by step how audio engineers and producers can take advantage of them. This book is designed for all those dealing with sound, from sound engineers to music industry executives and musicians―and those aspiring to all these roles. This book will help you understand the issues around delivering high-quality environment and get all your facts straight for when you encounter resistance to good sound. Topics covered include: • Contrasting the production of CD albums with iTunes albums • High Resolution audio • Dithering • Distortion (and how to avoid it) • Lossy Coding • Loudness Metering • Sound Check and how it affects our production techniques • Apple’s tools for Mastered for iTunes Foreword by renowned mastering engineer Bob Ludwig. Join the forums at www.digido.com/iTunes, for the latest information and discussions!

iTunes Music: Mastering High Resolution Audio Delivery: Produce Great Sounding Music with Mastered for iTunes

The Whistleblower: Rooting for the Ref in the High-Stakes World of College Basketball

Biographies & Memoirs

University of New Mexico Press

A dying midwest factory town is uplifted when a former Notre Dame football star is hired as the local plant manager. Soon he is offered not just the job of saving Made Right Clothing but the far more daunting task of saving the town. As it turns out, this may be the one challenge for which his checkered career has prepared him. Laced with keen insights into contemporary issues - the power of community, pitfalls of the global economy, the skewed importance of sports in the lives of people who desperately need a victory. Third and Long is a moving portrait of a vanishing America hanging by a thread, with perhaps just enough time remaining for one last miraculous play. ** Winner of the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction from the Independent Book Publishers Association

Third and Long

Literature & Fiction

United States

Trolley Car Press

Danny Frank and his sidekick, Mona, resort to drastic measures to find a hot topic and personality to make their lecture agency a success

Hot Air: A Novel

Birch Lane Pr

Elaine Moore, a veteran teacher in Eagle River, Alaska, is a firm believer that the classroom is, first and foremost, a community—and that learning is best when shared in a circle of peers. When one of her students, ten-year-old Seamus Farrell, is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, Elaine, her students, and her innovative methods of teaching are put to their most severe test. Elaine's Circle is the true account of this small-town teacher who led her fourth-grade students through the biggest challenge of their young lives. This book provides a heart-wrenching, intimate look at the utterly remarkable achievements of this dedicated teacher, a supportive community, and a group of children who rallied to make Seamus Farrell's impending death an unforgettable lesson about life.

Elaine's Circle: A Teacher, a Student, a Classroom and One Unforgettable Year

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Marlowe & Co.

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Books by Katz, Bob

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The New Public School Parent: How to Get the Best Education for Your Elementary School Child

Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science

Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science

Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science

iTunes Music: Mastering High Resolution Audio Delivery: Produce Great Sounding Music with Mastered for iTunes

The Whistleblower: Rooting for the Ref in the High-Stakes World of College Basketball

Third and Long

iTunes Music: Mastering High Resolution Audio Delivery: Produce Great Sounding Music with Mastered for iTunes

Hot Air: A Novel

Elaine's Circle: A Teacher, a Student, a Classroom and One Unforgettable Year