Getting in the Groove is the easy, up-to-date, multicultural, non-threatening, timely, and fun way to teach creating and improvising through drumming. This exciting curriculum covers drumming across the globe, from West African to Taiko styles. You do not have to be a drummer to teach this book. All rhythms and examples are on the recording for easy teaching and use in the classroom. Getting in the Groove addresses all types of learning styles and aligns with current teaching methodologies, as well as the National Standards for Music Education. Reproducible worksheets, quizzes, and assessments are included. Intended for late elementary to middle school. Sipes reminds readers that music is for everyone, and Getting in the Groove supports this claim with a step-by-step drumming curriculum to teach students easily grasped rhythms in group settings." --Blogcritics.org"

"Phil Stanhope delivers what I consider to be a recipe-based approach to building tools and applications for the Groove decentralized communications platform. Phil isn't just a short-order cook; he's a master chef." -Jack Ozzie, Vice President of Development, Platform and Development Services, Groove Networks, Inc. Building Tools and Peer-to-Peer Solutions with the Groove(r) Platform The Groove platform makes peer-to-peer workgroup collaboration easier than ever. With this unique developer's guide, you'll discover how to customize Groove for specific business needs - taking Groove collaboration and ease of use to the next level. Using plenty of code examples in JavaScript, C++, and Visual Basic, veteran Groove developer Phil Stanhope shows you step by step how to create your own Groove tools and layouts and integrate contact management, Web-based customer management services, and data from enterprise systems. Take Groove(r) to the Next Level * Understand Groove basics - the transceiver, contacts, messaging, chatting, spaces, and accounts * Create, test, and refine custom HTML viewer tools to integrate existing Web content into Groove * Streamline development by extracting template code from existing tools * Create your own custom Groove layout * Integrate contact management with invitation files and online detection tools * Enhance a customer-service Web site by adding a Groove collaboration space with seeded customer data and tools * Understand the basics of next-generation edge-based CRM applications by synchronizing center-based enterprise data with custom edge-based tools * Import and export Groove-specific XML as well as third-party XML data from corporate databases and Web-enabled CRM and ERP systems * Exploit Groove's communications, security, and transport services to build asynchronous, guaranteed-delivery message and data-synchronization solutions CD-ROM includes: * Sample Groove tools * Complete source code and examples from the book * Groove Preview Edition and Groove Development Kit

Bust out of that mommy rut and get into the groove! When a mother finally emerges from the mommy mole tunnel of pregnancy, breastfeeding, potty-training and preschool, she comes to the inevitable realization: The road to maternity is a one-way street. No U-turns allowed. You’ve survived the battles of baby- and toddler-hood, playdates and temper tantrums to time-outs. And just when it seems your former life is within reach—taking up neglected jobs and hobbies, committing to a fitness program, rediscovering the boyfriend living in the body of your husband—you crash headfirst into the wall of reality. The kids may be able to fasten their own seatbelts and pour their own cereal, but the homework, tucking in, car pools, and birthday parties have just begun. Let Vicki Iovine, author of The Girlfriends’ Guides, show you how to navigate the twists and turns of family life—and find time for your kids, your spouse, your home, your work, and yourself. You’re not alone in this “mommy adolescence.” In The Girlfriends’ Guide to Getting Your Groove Back, Iovine provides her trademark sage, witty advice on: - How to focus at work when things at home are in chaos—and vice versa - Making time for yourself—and not the PTA - Getting over the romantic myth of “date nights” and weekends away from the kids - Homework help—your transformation into a human flashcard - The dinnertime crush and how to relieve frozen pizza fatigue Iovine puts the perils of perpetual parenthood into perspective. You’ll feel like you do after a long chat with a good friend—relaxed, refreshed, and ready to reclaim your life …

With a new introduction by Nick Rhodes The talent. The charisma. The videos. From their 1981 hit "Planet Earth" to their latest number-one album, All You Need Is Now, John Taylor and Duran Duran have enchanted audiences around the world. It's been a wild ride, and—for John in particular—dangerous. John recounts the story of the band's formation, their massive success, and his journey to the brink of self-destruction. Told with humor, honesty—and packed with exclusive pictures—In the Pleasure Groove is an irresistible rock-and-roll portrait of a band whose popularity has never been stronger.

(DVD). This value pack includes Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials The Play-Along book/CD pack (06620095/$24.95) AND the Groove Essentials DVD (00320446/$24.95) for the low price of $39.95! The book serves as a play-along companion for the DVD with 88 tracks and charts and 164 groove variations for over 6 hours of play-along music! The DVD covers 47 grooves every drummer needs to know, with each groove broken down and demonstrated with music. Includes free giant groove poster!

How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life—and what she must risk to do it. Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind it too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love—and all of love's nasty fallout—anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core—not just by the relaxing effects of the sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean—and is half her age. The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.

They’re savvy, sophisticated, and think they know everything about each other. But this too-hot summer is about to prove these four sexy New Yorkers way wrong… She’s got a terrific career and a luxury condo all her own. Her boyfriend is one of the city’s most successful black businessmen. And when he pops the question, Crystal’s life will be perfect. But secrets she’ll never see coming are about to turn her secure world upside down… Noah is out, proud, and in love. So why can’t he resist bedding the most gorgeous women in town? And exactly how is he going to keep that from wrecking the best thing he’s ever had?... Between her going-nowhere job and raising a teenage son, Geneva could use a little pampering. Her irresponsible, irresistible ex-husband gives up just the kind of sizzling attention she craves. But the problems she won’t face are about to come knocking in the worst way… Letting everyone else pay for her fabulous lifestyle is Chevy’s favorite game. After all, she’s worth every dollar she borrows from friends and seduces out of wealthy men. But going for the ultimate payday is about to expose her wildest secrets—and put this group’s forever friendship on the line… “Well‑written, clever, and bursting with amusing dialogue.” —Book-Remarks.com