Drop The Beat

It's time to face the music. Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball—and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her), she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else. She only goes to the warehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead, she falls in love with dance music, DJing... and Derek, a gorgeous promoter who thinks he can make her a star. Suddenly, trumpet practice and old friendships are taking a back seat to packed dance floors and sun-soaked music festivals, outsized personalities and endless beats. But when a devastating tragedy plunges her golden summer into darkness, Mira discovers just how little she knows about her new boyfriend, her old friends, and even her own sister. Music brought them together. Will it also tear them apart?

Make music with Biggie, Branch, Poppy, and all the Trolls.

Based on breakthrough new science in the field of hydration, Quench debunks many popular myths about "getting enough water" and offers a revolutionary five-day jump start plan that shows how better hydration can reduce or eliminate ailments like chronic headaches, weight gain, gut pain, and even autoimmune conditions. Chronic headaches, brain fog, fatigue, weight gain, insomnia, gut pain, autoimmune conditions. We may think these and other all-too-common modern maladies are due to gluten intake or too much sugar or too little exercise. But there is another missing piece to the health puzzle: Proper hydration. Yes, even in this era of Poland Spring many of us are dehydrated due to moisture-lacking diets, artificial environments, medications, and over-dependence on water as our only source of hydration. For this reason, that new diet or exercise plan may fail because our body doesn't have enough moisture to support it. Quench presents a wellness routine that can reverse all of that, based on breakthrough new science in the field of hydration. Readers will be surprised to learn that drinking too much water can flush out vital nutrients and electrolytes. Here is where "gel water" comes in: the water from plants (like cucumber, berries, aloe), which our bodies are designed to truly absorb right down to the cellular level. In fact, Ms. Bria's work as an anthropologist led her to the realization that desert people stay hydrated almost exclusively from what they eat, including gel plants like cactus. Based on groundbreaking science from the University of Washington's Pollack Water Lab and other research, Quench offers a five-day jump start plan: hydrating meal plans and the heart of the program, smoothies and elixirs using the most hydrating and nutrient-packed plants. Another unique feature of their approach is micro-movements -- small, simple movements you can make a few times a day that will move water through your fascia, the connective tissue responsible for hydrating our bodies. You will experience more energy, focus, and better digestion within five days . . . then move onto the lifetime plan for continued improvements, even elimination of symptoms.

This almanac of sound words important to artists and scholars highlights words that expand the way we speak (and write) about sonic experiences. Why write about sound, and how? If sonic philosophy is the attempt "to think about sound by philosophical means," then a metaphilosophical debate appears almost immediately on the horizon: What is called for is an understanding about sound and language, but also about the preconditions of musical understanding. What is at stake is the question of language and sound, as well as expanding how we speak about sonic experience. This almanac tackles these questions from artistic, experimental and personal perspectives. An assemblage of nearly 70 practitioners and theoreticians, artists and scholars offer their favorite 'sound word.' These sound words are onomatopoetical, mythological, practical; words of personal importance to the artists and their craft; words from their memory, related to sound. Many entries are not in English – some are untranslatable – and all are accompanied by a personal, explanatory, poetic entry. These are words that have the potential to change our perspective on listening-musicking-thinking.

Introducing an innovative new book packed with fun, weird, crazy and perplexing activities! The book is filled with interactive activities and challenges. Transform the page into a mini soccer pitch and score three goals, or lay the book on the floor and drop pens until you've scored a bull's-eye! Some challenges are a cinch while others require practice and skill - but all are guaranteed to make you want to beat the book! Kids will love using the awesome silicone cover and movable silicone pieces to complete challenges or get creative with their own ideas! Do you think you can Beat This Book?

Recently, Step II CK of the USMLE has undergone an overhaul. The passing score has been increased and the questions are more difficult. Additionally, a separate CS portion has been added to the exam. In the world of evolving medicine it is crucial to be up to speed with diagnostic and treatment modalities. The information in this book is new, up-to-date, and all one needs to know to ace Step II. This book is composed of accurate facts covering all the material that is tested without all the fluff. It includes acronyms, pictograms, and other memory tricks that are effective in augmenting the single most important aspect of studying--retention. Unique Here's the Deal features offer insider studying hints. Forget about spending tons of money on several books in hopes of covering all of the review material. Ignore the older review books that depict internal medicine as the bulk of the exam and skim the rest of the material. This book accurately depicts how each discipline is realistically weighted on the exam and focuses on the information you really need to know to achieve the score you desire.

All of her life, people have given Leezel strange stares. Her name is odd. Her family is odd. Her power is odd. But her life at the White GuildHall is worse, for Leezel has an enemy there-the GuildMaster herself. Everyone expected her to develop a Grader's Sight, but that wasn't the gift she was endowed with. She got Empathy-and it didn't improve her life. The Masters that should have been training her in Healing pushed at her to learn her Empathy instead. So Leezel, Master apprentice Healer and Empath, was hopeful, and even prepared for a new life, if only because it would mean leaving this one. But there are some things for which you can never fully prepare. Leezel is suddenly mated to the most powerful man ever known, living in a tree in a valley full of HornCats! Master apprentice Leezel-the young woman that would become 'The Lady Leezel-will need every gift she has.