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The flute / by Cappelli, Frank.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Getting started -- Assembling the flute -- Cleaning the flute -- Getting ready to play -- Reading music: the basics -- Holding the flute -- Practicing making a tone -- Playing with the whole flute -- The keys -- Your first notes -- Reading music -- The lines only -- The spaces -- Reading them all together -- Clef symbols -- Your first test -- Additional musical notation -- The sharp and flat signs -- Let's play! -- The note A -- The note B♭ -- The note B -- The note C -- The note D -- The note E♭ -- The note E -- The note high F.
Subjects: Flute;

Driving while black : African American travel and the road to civil rights / by Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan,author.(CARDINAL)813714;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index.The journey -- "Humiliation stalks them" -- African Americans and the automobile -- "Through the windshield" -- Driving while black -- Travel guides for everyone -- Victor and Alma Green's The Negro motorist green book -- "Where will you stay tonight?" -- "Vacation without aggravation.""How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Gretchen Sorin recovers a forgotten history of black motorists, and recounts their creation of a parallel, unseen world of travel guides, black only hotels, and informal communications networks that kept black drivers safe. At the heart of this story is Victor and Alma Green's famous Green Book, begun in 1936, which made possible that most basic American right, the family vacation, and encouraged a new method of resisting oppression. Enlivened by Sorin's personal history, Driving While Black opens an entirely new view onto the African American experience, and shows why travel was so central to the Civil Rights movement."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: African Americans; African American automobile drivers; Automobile travel; Segregation in transportation; African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights;

Shortcut : how analogies reveal connections, spark innovation, and sell our greatest ideas / by Pollack, John,author.(CARDINAL)395976;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.Introduction: Boarding the ship of state -- chapter 1: Apples to oranges: how our analogical instinct fuels thought -- chapter 2: Three strikes and you're out: how analogies shape outcomes -- chapter 3: The Model T-bone: how analogies spark innovation -- chapter 4 : Morning in America: how analogies persuade -- chapter 5: Seeing the big picture: how we can choose better analogies."A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomes From the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford's first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic role in shaping the world around us-and still do today. Analogies are far more complex than their SAT stereotype and lie at the very core of human cognition and creativity. Once we become aware of this, we start seeing them everywhere-in ads, apps, political debates, legal arguments, logos, and euphemisms, to name just a few. At their very best, analogies inspire new ways of thinking, enable invention, and motivate people to action. Unfortunately, not every analogy that rings true is true. That's why, at their worst, analogies can deceive, manipulate, or mislead us into disaster. The challenge? Spotting the difference before it's too late. Rich with engaging stories, surprising examples, and a practical method to evaluate the truth or effectiveness of any analogy, Shortcut will improve critical thinking, enhance creativity, and offer readers a fresh approach to resolving some of today's most intractable challenges."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: English language; Creative thinking.; Business communication.; Analogy.; Sociolinguistics.;

Home sewn quilts : 31 hand & machine stitched projects for all levels / by Bakke, Trine,author.(CARDINAL)600822; Hartge, Margaret Berge,translator.(CARDINAL)606490;
"Home Sewn Quilts presents indispensable, straightforward advice for both beginners and experienced quilt makers. Throughout the book you'll find countless ideas and inspiration as well as suggestions for tools and supplies, fabric selection, working with repurposed materials, and specific information on cutting. Each project includes the finished size, a materials list, cutting methods, and step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color photography and instructional line drawings. The book begins with an extensive section on Patchworks and includes 18 scrap-friendly projects for pillows, table runners, shopping bags, and more. The second part moves into Quilt Making and presents six designs for simple bed-size quilts using Four Square and Brick Wall blocks. The following chapter is for the experienced quilter and presents seven designs using Clamshell blocks as well as Grandmother's Flower Garden, Ohio Star, Jack in the Pulpit, Four Square, and Log Cabin. Author Trine Bakke has included, at the back of the book, an enormously helpful 14 page encyclopedia of quilt-making tips and tricks with entries on hand and machine stitching, working with and without special equipment, how to make templates, applying appliqué, embroidery, assembling the quilt, and types of finishing. Everything is included to get you started whether you're on your first project or looking for some fresh ideas"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Patterns.; Quilting; Machine quilting; Patchwork quilts.;

Cleaning / by Time-Life Books.(CARDINAL)137698;
A GLOSSARY OF COMMON PESTSA METHODICAL APPROACH TO REMOVING SPOTSA MULTIPRONGED APPROACH TO CONTROLLING PESTSASSEMBLING A BATTERY OF CLEANING SUPPLIESCARING FOR WICKERWORK AND CANINGCLEANING AND REPOLISHING WOOD FLOORSCLEANING FILTERS THAT PURIFY AIRCLEANING PORCELAIN PLUMBING FIXTURESDEALING WITH ATMOSPHERIC ASSAULTS ON METALDEALING WITH THE AFTERMATH OF A DISASTEREXTERMINATION: TAKING PUNITIVE ACTIONFIRST AID FOR DINGY WALLS AND CEILINGSHOOKING UP AN EXHAUST LINEKEEPING A SWIMMING POOL CLEAR AND CLEANKEEPING UP THE APPEARANCE OF PLASTICSMAKING CLOUDY GLASS PERFECTLY CLEARMATCHING CARE TO FIBER CONTENTPROCEDURES FOR STAIN REMOVALREJUVENATING SOILED RUGS AND CARPETSREMOVING DIRT FROM LABOR-SAVING APPLIANCESREMOVING GRIME FROM BRICK, CONCRETE AND STONERETROFITTING A VACUUM SYSTEM INTO THE WALLSREVIVING PROTECTIVE FINISHES ON WOODSHAMPOOING FABRIC-COVERED FURNITURE
Subjects: Cleaning.;

Making cabinets & built-ins / by Allen, Sam.(CARDINAL)736522;
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Cabinetwork; Built-in furniture;

How to start a home-based web design business / by Smith, Jim(Jim G.),1952-(CARDINAL)701814;
Subjects: Web site development industry; New business enterprises; Home-based businesses;

The Ordnance Department : on beachhead and battlefront / by Mayo, Lida.(CARDINAL)122514; Center of Military History.(CARDINAL)162684;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: United States. Army. Ordnance Department.; United States. Army. Ordnance Department; World War, 1939-1945;

Reining in the state : civil society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate eras / by Scott, Katherine A.(Katherine Anne);
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.Introduction -- "Recruiting an army" : Russ Wiggins demands transparency -- "What's going on in the Black community?" : Ramsey Clark investigates civil disorder -- "A communist behind every bush" : the Army spies on civilians -- Senator Sam, or, How liberals learned to stop worrying and love a southern segregationist -- It's "poppycock" : Congress challenges executive privilege -- An "effective servant of the public's right to know" : Representative Moorhead revises FOIA -- "Tempers change, times change, public attitudes change" : passing FISA -- Epilogue.Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon dramatically expanded the federal government's domestic security apparatus to cope with social unrest that rocked their administrations. By the mid-1970s, the Justice Department and Army maintained some 400 databanks containing nearly 200 million files on supposedly subversive individuals and organizations. Katherine Scott chronicles the subsequent public response to that government action: a determined citizens' movement to rein in the state. She details the efforts of a group of unheralded heroes who battled to reinvigorate judicial, legislative, and civic oversight of the executive branch in order to curtail and prevent future abuses by government agencies. Working closely with allies in Congress, they challenged state power, instituted open government policies, and protected individual privacy rights. Scott has assembled a cast of characters with compelling stories: Russ Wiggins of the Washington Post, who organized a citizens' campaign for government transparency; Representative John Moss, who called attention to government censorship; ACLU Director Aryeh Neier, who created a legal strategy for judicial oversight of executive branch security measures; Senator Sam Ervin, a civil libertarian who demanded greater oversight of the executive branch; and Morton Halperin, a former NSC staff member, who called attention to the gross constitutional violations of the nation's top security agencies. Rejecting the agendas and methods of both the radical left and the antigovernment right, these progressive reformers sought to bring the American state in line with democratic practice. When Army Captain Christopher Pyle blew the whistle on the U.S. Army's domestic surveillance program, reformers had evidence of illegal domestic spying that they had long suspected but could not confirm. Scott explores how his action united liberals and conservatives to end such abuses. She also assesses how Watergate prompted broad debate in the public sphere about the problems of executive power, the need for greater transparency in domestic security policy, and greater oversight of the activities of the FBI and CIA. These reformers' efforts bore fruit with the passage of a series of major legislative reforms, including the 1974 Freedom of Information Act revisions, the 1974 Privacy Act, the 1976 Government in Sunshine Act, and the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Now that government surveillance of citizens has returned to public consciousness in the wake of 9/11, Scott's stirring account reminds us that power still resides with the people. -- Publisher description.
Subjects: Executive power; Transparency (Ethics) in government; Separation of powers; Civil society;

The total inventor's manual / by Ragan, Sean Michael,author.(CARDINAL)430677;
MAKING ONE: ON THE CARE AND FEEDING OF IDEAS. Give yourself permission ; Clear space in your head ; Write it down right away ; Protect your ideas with a notebook ; Peruse the patents ; Honor mother necessity ; Start close to home ; Work with what you've got ; Go on a "junket" ; Find your tribe ; Take a cue from the CueCat ; Determine if you idea is a good one ; Discover brainstorming ; Brainstorm with a group ; Hone your drawing skills to develop your ideas ; Pick the best view for your sketch ; Draw a concept sketch of your invention ; Try your hand at classic drawing exercises ; Meet Dr. Nakamats ; Hear inventor's thoughts on ideation ; Dive into computer-aided design (CAD) ; Get the full benefit of CAD ; Learn how computers think about solids ; Make your first 3D CAD model -- THE PROTOTYPING CYCLE. Ride the prototyping spiral ; Work toward major milestones ; Check out famous prototypes ; Make it quick and dirty ; Save time with off-the-shelf building systems ; Tap the power of your paper printer ; Set your prototype aside ; Come back to it ; Try and try again ; Ask the big questions ; Start learning how to make stuff ; Match material, method, and scale ; Crank up some mechanisms ; Know what you're getting into ; Assemble an inventor's tool kit ; Meet the laser cutter ; Find one in the wild ; Make your first laser-cut parts ; Don't shoot your eye out ; Meet Steve Sasson ; Get the big-picture view of electronics ; Imagine water flowing ; Learn electrical terms ; Get comfortable with components ; Build your first circuit ; Rev up the actuators ; Meet Limor Fried ; Make your invention move ; Bone up on basic mechanical design ; Build a lazier Susan ; Improvise a power source ; Get prototyping tips from the masters -- THE TESTING PROCESS. Test in the real world ; Pay for hard science ; Conduct qualitative testing ; Host a focus group ; Find some good testees ; Master the questionnaire ; Craft your user stories ; Dissect a competing product ; Don't get caught in the iridium trap ; Meet the 3D printer ; Pick the best printing method ; Buy or borrow a 3D printer ; Print you first 3D model ; Hunt for 3D models online ; Meet Meg Crane ; Start out in software ; Get to know embedded systems ; Try out a development board ; Speak your computer's language ; Decode different programming languages ; Program your first board ; Don't reinvent the wheelSELLING ONE: FINDING FUNDING. Join the crowdfunding craze ; Take it to the bank ; Check out the top kickstarters ; Get an angel on your shoulder ; Play the venture capital game ; Call Uncle Sam ; Decipher financial statements ; Start your business plan ; Avoid crashing and burning like the Zano ; Pick a crowdfunding platform ; Run a winning crowdfunding campaign ; Make a killer kickstarter video ; Just add cats ; Meet Helen Greiner ; Get industry advice on getting funded ; Meet Peter Homer -- SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS. Listen to the grapevine ; Protect your brand ; Protect your hardware ; Protect your software ; Protect your posterior ; Discover the first patent laws ; Start a company (in Delaware) ; Pick the best type of business for you ; Protect your people ; Drill for profits better than the Drake Oil Well ; Meet Julio Palmaz ; Understand what's patentable ; Know your patent types ; Stall with a provisional patent application ; Enforce your patent ; Apply for a utility patent ; Nail your patent specifications ; Meet Bre Pettis -- MAKING IT PRETTY. Show some ID ; Understand the importance of styling ; Get inspired by classic designs ; Remember usability ; Opt for functionalism ; Get to the Holy Grail: The works-like-looks-like prototype ; Practice human-centered design ; Enhance your ergonomics ; Consider CMF ; Discover the Pantone System ; Go old school with foam modeling ; Explore different modeling materials ; Sculpt a mockup in foam ; Craft details like a scale modeler ; Meet Ayah Bdeir ; Get inspired by leaders in design -- MAKING MANY: DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE. Treat industrial and manufacturing design as one step ; Learn from the locals ; Watch how it's made ; Consider kitting ; Find a factory ; Make things easy to make ; Take a trip down the assembly line ; Master manufacturing processes ; Stamp parts with a four-slide machine ; Geek out on specialized machines ; Go local or overseas ; Assess life cycle ; Practice design for disassembly ; Embrace the tenets of ecodesign ; Get to know PCB fabrication ; Learn what lives inside a PCB ; Find facts on datasheets ; Design your own printed circuit board ; Wield a soldering iron like a pro ; Meet Samantha Rose ; Say hello to the CNC Mill ; Meet papa, mama, and baby bear ; Play it safe when CNC milling ; Mill you printed circuit board ; Buy or borrow a PCB mill ; Get manufacturing tips form pros who knowWORKING WITH A MANUFACTURER. Insist on a pilot build ; Be smart about quality control ; Drop a BOM (bill of materials) ; Run a final design review ; Pay a visit to the plant ; Get the backstory on injection molding ; Avoid Nike's ethical manufacturing woes ; Seek certifications ; Prevent highway robbery ; Meet the injection-molding machine ; Mold it right ; Check out the world of plastic parts ; Cast a themoset facsimile part ; Meed Ashok Gadgil -- SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT. Choose parts with an eye to supply ; Outsource outsource outsource ; Put a bar code on it ; Count parts with a counting scale ; Run a tight ship ; Manage your inventory with software ; Take a lesson form LEGO ; Pack a pallet ; Avoid Apple's Power Mac problems ; Manage your warehouse space ; Pick a warehouse floor plan ; Pack a kit -- SELLING MANY: MAKE IT TO MARKET. Sell the right product ; Set the right price ; Grok basic marketing dos and don'ts ; Be seen in the right places ; Sell your product as seen on TV ; Promote online ; See the flaws in the jewel case ; Pitch you product to influencers ; Understand package design basics ; Discover different packaging types ; Ace your product's packaging ; Get marketing tips form the pros ; Meet Massimo Banzi -- CUSTOMER SUPPORT. Don't be that guy ; Help those who help themselves ; Help those who ask for help ; Humanize and empower support staff ; Set up a call center ; Heed the ten commandments of customer support ; Exceed expectations on social media ; Let software help manage customers ; Don't confuse service with sales like Comcast ; Plan a killer instruction manual ; Show don't tell ; Write simply and clearly ; Make an instruction manual ; Balance online and in-the-box help ; Meet Eric Stackpole -- SELL OUT...OR SELL ON. Pick your moment ; Look for a hired gun ; Prep before selling ; Perform a SWOT analysis ; Set the best value ; Find the right buyers ; Negotiate like a pro ; Study up on massive IPOs ; Decide if you should stay or go ; Cash out with an IPO ; Give licensing a go ; Be savvy about selling ; Study up on mergers and acquisitions ; Sell you company ; Ask for an NDA upfront ; Meet Lonnie Johnson.Contrary to popular wisdom, you don't have to be an ace electrician, a coding prodigy, or a mechanical master to come up with a game-changing invention! You just need curiosity, a strong desire to fix a problem that you see in the world, and the determination to see your ideas become reality - and this book, which will teach you everything you need to go from zero to inventor. Everyone wants to be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but there's never been a clear road map to becoming a wildly successful innovator - until now. In The Total Inventor's Manual, you'll learn to MAKE ONE: Get that great idea out of your brain and into the real world with a crash course in ideation, prototyping, and testing. Includes clever, can-do lessons in CAD, 3D-printing, laser-cutting, electronics, robotics, coding, and more; SELL ONE: Whether you're riding the Kickstarter wave or hitting the venture capital beat, get your idea funded--and protect it with a proper patent. Then learn to refine your prototype's look and feel to give it a boost in the market; MAKE MANY: Bring your invention to the masses with tips on manufacturing processes and best practices, plus solid advice for beginners on running a supply chain; SELL MANY: You've built it - time to make them come. Discover how to effectively position your product in the marketplace, deal with consumer feedback, and run--or sell--your newly successful company.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Inventions; Inventions;

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