Audiobooks by Centre of Excellence

Music Theory

Music exists, first and foremost, in the soul, mind and body. It is something we feel before we understand it. Your introduction to the wonderful world of music theory, this audiobook will help you to decipher the language used to describe the intoxicating combination of art and science that is music. You’ll be guided through the fundamental underpinnings of modern western music theory and the building blocks used to create melodies and chords, leaving you well-prepared to tackle any piece that you might encounter in your development as a musician. You’ll learn the 12 notes of the musical alphabet, be able to differentiate between the two systems that exist for writing music in treble and bass clefs, understand the rhythmic values of notes and discover many rhythmic concepts. You’ll explore the major and natural minor scales, learn about both generic and specific intervals on the stave, and become familiar with the diatonic triads of major and minor keys. This audiobook provides a detailed analysis of the role played by seventh chords in western music theory, how to construct major seventh, minor seventh and dominant seventh chords, and the role of seventh chords in major and minor scales. An introduction to the concept of modes in western music theory is also included. If you’ve never studied music theory before or need a refresh of the fundamentals, this is the audiobook you need. It provides an overview of the elementary concepts that a beginner needs to master before delving deeper into music theory. By the end of the audiobook, you will be well-equipped with the fundamental knowledge necessary to continue learning about music theory, having covered a wide range of essential musical concepts from staves, scales and time signatures to triads, seventh chords and modes.

Centre Of Excellence, Centre of Excellence (Author), Brian Greyson (Narrator)

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Beginners' French for Kids

Introducing French to children aged 6 and up, this audiobook will help little learners to develop a broad range of vocabulary across a range of topics, understand essential grammar and instil confidence to try out their newfound French language skills. The Beginner’s French for Kids audiobook also has an inter-cultural element within each track, allowing children to learn things about France and the French-speaking world. The audiobook begins by explaining how to introduce yourself, address people, and count up to ten in French. You’ll learn the words to describe relationships within your family, the names of animals, how to describe what people and animals look like, express your opinions (including your likes and dislikes), talk about school subjects, and name colours. The audiobook explains how to talk about your home and the area in which you live, along with what you want to do in the future, including what job you may like to have. You’ll discover useful language when out and about in a French-speaking country. You’ll learn the names for mealtimes, how to talk about food and eating out in cafes and restaurants), the names for shops (e.g. bakery, butchers) and the items sold within them, names of different modes of transport and locations (e.g. train station, museum), and how to ask for directions. We’ll look at the language used to describe what you like to do in your free-time, where you might go and what you might see whilst on holiday, and the weather. Along with providing a solid foundation in the language, you’ll also explore the fascinating similarities and differences in the cultures of various French-speaking countries.

Centre Of Excellence, Centre of Excellence (Author), Katia Filipovic (Narrator)

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Intermediate Spanish

Take the next step in your Spanish language learning journey. The Intermediate Spanish audiobook teaches vocabulary, grammatical structures and useful expressions that will enable you to hold a conversation in Spanish about a variety of topics in past, present, future, and hypothetical contexts. You will expand your vocabulary and knowledge of verbs to be able to describe your environment and compare objects and people in terms of superiority, inferiority and equality. You’ll also learn how to talk about illnesses, symptoms, and the parts of the body using specific verbs, expressions, and vocabulary. You’ll discover how to talk about activities and hobbies and express whether you enjoy them or not. We’ll explore vocabulary that relates to the seasons, weather, days of the week and months of the year, and learn how to talk about daily routines and their frequency. You’ll also learn how to talk about future predictions, plans and intentions, and past experiences that have ended or are ongoing. The audiobook explains the language used to express your agreement or disagreement with ideas and opinions, and how to ask for others’ opinions. We’ll also look at how to make a polite request, express a wish, give advice, and make present or future hypotheses based on real conditions. Ideal for those who have gained a beginner level of proficiency, this audiobook will help you to progress your Spanish language development upto an intermediate level and prepare you to move onto advanced study, should you wish to. You’ll learn the structures and tenses required for an intermediate level of proficiency in Spanish. You’ll be able to speak in Spanish with native speakers using present, past and future tenses. You’ll also be able to offer advice to others, express your opinion and refer to hypothetical situations.

Centre Of Excellence, Centre of Excellence (Author), Ariana Carolina Seine (Narrator)

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First Aid

First aid training will equip you with the awareness and practical capabilities of how to react if the worst happens. It’s the knowledge of how to help someone that collapses, cuts themselves, gets hurt in an emergency situation or finds themselves in a medical emergency. Everyone in the world would benefit from studying First Aid. The information provided in this audiobook could literally become a matter of life and death and though we may not always need to use the knowledge, and hopefully we won’t, it’s a great education to have. The First Aid audiobook is suitable for just about everyone. We all hope that we would never have need for first aid knowledge but at some point in life we generally do, whether it is tending to a small graze or cut and knowing how to properly clean and bandage the wound, to recognising the symptoms of a heart attack, how to aid the sufferer, and potentially saving a life. These are skills everyone should have. More specifically the audiobook would benefit those who are around other people as part of their profession, for example, care and social workers.

Centre Of Excellence, Centre of Excellence (Author), Brian Greyson (Narrator)

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French for Beginners

Who hasn’t dreamt of speaking French? It’s a romantic language that opens the door to fantastic trips to France – Paris, Nice, Bordeaux, Marseille, and more – while being able to converse and express oneself in the native tongue. The French for Beginners audiobook will help you to learn the key words, phrases and idioms used in daily French in order to engage in basic, day-to-day conversations. You’ll start the audiobook by learning how various sounds in French are pronounced and you’ll become familiar with the specificities of the French alphabet. We’ll introduce you to basic formal and informal greetings and introductions and the use of singular and plural pronouns and verbs, before moving on to numbers. You’ll learn how to correctly pronounce numbers, and ask for and tell the time and the prices of items, along with how to make an appointment and requests, book a reservation and set an appointment. The audiobook will guide you through expressing your likes and dislikes and the descriptive adjectives and verbs commonly used in daily life. We’ll explore how to talk about and describe the daily activities you engage in within the home, work, travel, sports, and transportation. We’ll explore the use of past and future tenses, such as when talking about past events, days of the week, months, seasons, plans and holiday seasons. The audiobook concludes with a look at common expressions used by the French media, be it in the written press, on the radio or TV. There are many reasons for learning French. For some, it is the appeal of the sound and musicality of the language, for others, it is the need to grasp idiomatic sentences to travel to France for business, tourism or family reasons. Whatever your reason, the French for Beginners audiobook will provide you with the tools you need to gain a basic, conversational level of French and a solid foundation from which to build, should you wish to take your studies further.

Centre Of Excellence, Centre of Excellence (Author), Katia Filipovic (Narrator)

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Jungian Archetypes Audio Course

Carl Jung, the renowned 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist, believed our minds have a predetermined structure that shapes how and what we’ll experience in life. According to him, identical psychic structures, which are typical to all humans, exist in parts of our psyche, and these heritable structures influence the way we experience everything in our lives. Jung called these structures ‘archetypes’, which can be described as cognitive categories or natural inclinations that we all are born with, and their job is to make us think, feel, perceive and act in a specific way. This course explores this concept and its place within psychology, psychoanalysis, and fictional writing. The Jungian Archetypes Audio Course jumps straight into the subject - explaining what the Jungian archetypes are, Carl Jung’s concept of the psyche and its three main components, and what the 12 main archetypes are and what they are used for. We’ll take a look into Carl Jung’s life - his childhood, education, personal life and association with Sigmund Freud. We will also consider his important ideas and concepts, as well as his legacy and influence. The course examines the book ‘Instinct and the Unconscious’, which exhibits Jung’s understanding of instincts as unconscious processes, distinguishing instincts from phobias and reflex actions, the origin of instincts and how they differ from intuition, personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, and archetypes and archetypes as metaphysical ideas. We’ll discuss psychophysical patterns and the electromagnetic spectrum idea, archetypal events, archetypal motifs and the shadow, anima/animus, and the self. We take a deeper look at the 12 main archetypes introduced at the start of the course and examine each in greater detail - giving a comprehensive understanding of each. These archetypes are Hero, Magician, Outlaw, Innocent, Sage, Explorer, Artist, Ruler, Caregiver, Lover, Jester and Everyman. We then look at how archetypes were used by not

Centre of Excellence (Author), Brian Greyson (Narrator)

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Zoology Audio Course

Zoology is a vast subject, encompassing all aspects of scientific knowledge about animals, such as embryonic development, evolution, behaviour, ecological distribution, and classification. The course provides an introduction to the natural world and its animal inhabitants. The study of animals and their habitats is so vast that it is broken down into five main branches. The course begins by looking at what zoology is, defining its five branches, and introducing you to animals from a zoology perspective. We’ll review the history of zoology - learning about some of its famous practitioners, understanding the history of the animal kingdom and how evolution and adaptation work. We’ll dive into animal characteristics and how they are used in classification, and explore behavioural types, instincts and social behaviours. We’ll also look into genetics and the breeding of animals; learning how and why it is done, and its advantages and disadvantages. We’ll take a deep dive into the various aspects of animal environments. This includes an exploration of organisms, ecosystems and their elements; food chains; nature cycles like the water, nitrogen and carbon cycles; and biodiversity. We also look into the various diseases that affect animals, how these diseases are diagnosed, and how they are treated. We’ll look at the practical side of animal care - learning how animals are handled, trained, and reared. We’ll discuss animal shelters, how animal health care facilities function, how health issues are detected in animals, the common health issues that occur in animals and the process of animal rehabilitation. The course concludes with a selection of case studies that showcase various aspects of zoology. This course will be of interest to animal lovers who want greater insight into the animal kingdom, whether you own animals or are just interested in how they live and are cared for, and if you own or are setting up an animal care business.

Centre of Excellence (Author), Brian Greyson (Narrator)

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Feline Behaviour and Psychology

The Feline Behaviour and Psychology Audiobook provides a greater understanding of what is going on in the mind of your cat(s), why they do certain things, and how to improve your, and your other pet's, relationship with them. For cat lovers part of the attraction to their feline friends is the very thing that sets them apart from other pets; their intelligence and behaviours, though this can also be an avenue of confusion, leaving you with unanswered questions: ‘Why is my cat constantly spraying my curtains, even though he’s been neutered?’ ‘Why does my cat chew my plants?’ ‘Why does my cat sometimes bite me when I stroke her?’ Written by our Feline Psychology expert who has over 12 years experience in this fascinating field, this audiobook aims to give you the latest comprehensive up to date knowledge that can help you to answer many of you cat-related questions, aiding you to build stronger relationships with your feline companion.

Centre Of Excellence, Centre of Excellence (Author), Brian Greyson (Narrator)

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Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellness

Over half of all cases of mental ill health start before the age of 14. This audiobook examines mental health in this age group, the policies and services on offer in the UK, how and why certain people are affected, and what can be done by schools and individuals to provide intervention, prevention and support.

Centre Of Excellence, Centre of Excellence (Author), Jane Branch (Narrator)

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