Two stories from early in the best-selling author's career bring the best of love and romance to readers. Reprint.

The Fifth Edition of Umiker’s Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor addresses continually changing circumstances in which Supervisors are faced with including smaller budgets, fewer workers, greater responsibilities and time pressure. This title provides valuable information needed for successful managers and staff. Written primarily for those who have little to no management training, this title offers practical suggestions for improving effectiveness both as a Supervisor and organization as a whole.

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Product Description: The Allied Health Professions - Essential Guides series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP). This highly practical volume offers a wide range of assessment tools and techniques in such critical areas as management quality, organisational and management structure, benchmarking, capacity and demand management, care pathway design, activity analysis, report writing and presentation skills...read more

With an emphasis on learning and understanding by doing, this book takes the reader from music fundamentals through harmony in common practice to some of the more important harmonic procedures of the 20th century. The book, easily accessible to all readers, is an excellent reference for the experienced musician. An abundance of musical examples can be found in every chapter. Analytical examples are drawn from three popular anthologies. Exercises are found in every chapter, often with “Suggestions and Strategies” to help the reader approach the exercises intelligently and systematically. Foundations, designed to ensure that the reader has a solid grasp of fundamentals, Harmony in Common Practice designed to develop a complete understanding of the principles of tertian harmony as they pertain to common practice by means of the Diatonic Vocabulary and Chromatic Vocabulary and Post-Common Practice Harmony designed to introduce the student to some of the more important harmonic procedures that have either evolved from or developed as a reaction to common practice. In all, the book is divided into 30 chapters. Beginning musicians wishing to learn the key elements of harmony or experienced musicians wishing to review the basics of harmony.

With an emphasis on learning and understanding by doing, this book takes the reader from music fundamentals through harmony in common practice to some of the more important harmonic procedures of the 20th century. The book, easily accessible to all readers, is an excellent reference for the experienced musician. An abundance of musical examples can be found in every chapter. Analytical examples are drawn from three popular anthologies. Exercises are found in every chapter, often with “Suggestions and Strategies” to help the reader approach the exercises intelligently and systematically. Foundations, designed to ensure that the reader has a solid grasp of fundamentals, Harmony in Common Practice designed to develop a complete understanding of the principles of tertian harmony as they pertain to common practice by means of the Diatonic Vocabulary and Chromatic Vocabulary and Post-Common Practice Harmony designed to introduce the student to some of the more important harmonic procedures that have either evolved from or developed as a reaction to common practice. In all, the book is divided into 30 chapters. Beginning musicians wishing to learn the key elements of harmony or experienced musicians wishing to review the basics of harmony.

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Two stories from early in the best-selling author's career bring the best of love and romance to readers. Reprint.