books about: performing
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Performing Architecture: Opera Houses, Theatres and Concert Halls for the Twenty-first Century
1 review
Michael Hammond
Merrell
, 2006
Great photo collection
All the new halls and cultural spaces intended for public performance. Text is informal but pictures talk for themselves. This is not a technical text but rather an artistical aproach to expose the beauty of a very specialized field .
College Guide for Performing Arts Majors 2009: Real-World Admission Guide for All Dance, Music, and Theater ...
Peterson's
Peterson's
, 2008
Coll Gd Perform Arts Majors 2007 4th ed (Performing Arts Major's College Guide)
1 review
Carole J. Everett
Peterson's
, 2006
The Best Creative Collge / Conservatory Resource
A must have for anyone who wants to go to a college or conservatory for creative majors. If your counseling department at your high school does not have this book, you need to buy it yourself. Provides enrollment facts, degrees offered, application procedures, website addresses, contacts, expenses, student profiles, and is especially useful in addressing whether freshman are admitted ...
Secrets of Top-Performing Salespeople
Edward R Delgaizo
,
Seleste Lunsford
, ...
McGraw-Hill
, 2003
How today's top sales pros consistently connect with--and close--their best, most lucrative customers Sales pros often focus too much on operational details and forget that the secret to selling is developing strong customer relationships. Secrets of Top-Performing Salespeople reiterates that the customer is key and provides customer-based lessons and techniques based on up-todate studies and examples from hundreds of exceptional ...
The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams
11 reviews
Ken Blanchard
,
Eunice Parisi-carew
, ...
William Morrow
, 1991
all books should be like this one
Short, straight-to-the point, wise book. This is exactly what I needed for increasing the productivity of the team I manage.
Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life
4 reviews
Lawrence S. Cunningham
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
, 2004
wonderful!
It is the rare biography of St. Francis that goes beyond "lawn garden statue" spirtuality. He presents Francis as a man of the incarnation and the cross.
Keeping Your Kids Out Front Without Kicking Them From Behind: How to Nurture High-Achieving Athletes, ...
1 review
Ian, M.D. Tofler
,
Theresa Foy DiGeronimo
Jossey-Bass
, 2000
Excellent
This is a powerful book which I found to be all too true to life. I recommend this book to parents and coaches alike. It gave me a better understanding on how to deal with the issues of raising children in our competitive society. I give the book five stars.
Guidelines for Performing Effective Pre-Startup Safety Reviews
1 review
Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
Wiley-AIChE
, 2007
Guidelines for Performing Effective Pre-Startup Safety Reviews
1- This a good book for whom that concern about Safety. 2- It give step by step on how to conduct a Safety review of a new facility install.
Your Performing Edge: The Total Mind-body Program for Excellence in Sports, Business and Life, 4th Edition
12 reviews
Jo Ann Dahlkoetter
Pulgas Ridge Press
, 2007
Practice What You're Learning in "Your Performing Edge" Book
This Audio CD is a Companion to the the "YOUR PERFORMING EDGE book. It contains four guided visualization exercises that helped me to practice what I was learning in the book. The exercises guided me with: Energizing my mind and body Building new confidence and motivation Focusing and performing my best Healing and recovering completely I found this program really works for improving performance ...
Delicious Dissembling: A Complete Guide to Performing Restoration Comedy
Suzanne Ramczyk
Heinemann Drama
, 2002
Restoration comedies of manners are at once bitingly true-to-life and deceptively artificial. Their style, elegance, grace, and wit provide the kind of challenge actors continue to love. Now Suzanne Ramczyk offers both directors and actors the tools they need to perform these popular plays.
Managing as a Performing Art: New Ideas for a World of Chaotic Change
Peter B. Vaill
Jossey-Bass
, 1991
A collection of thought-provoking essays on management and leadership that propose radical new ways of thinking about what managers do and what organizations are.
The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of William And Jean Eckart
3 reviews
Andrew B. Harris
University of North Texas Press
, 2006
Introducing the reader to the wonderful background worlds of Hollywood and New York's Broadway
The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs Of William And Jean Eckart by Andrew B. Harris (formerly Chair of the Theatre Departments of Columbia University, Texas Christian University, and Southern Methodist University) is an eclectic and intrinsically interesting interpretation and collection of the works and influence of two outstanding visionaries and the mutual understanding the two of them ...
Guide to Performing Arts Programs: Profiles of Over 700 Colleges, High Schools, and Summer Programs ...
3 reviews
Carole J. Everett
,
Muriel Topaz
Princeton Review
, 1998
Good Practical Guide
This is a good book for 2 reasons. It clearly profiles college music programs, and also recognizes that there is a lot to be learned at the high school and summer camp level. The irony is that some high scools and summer camps are actually better than some colleges.It is very easy to read.
High Performing Investment Teams: How to Achieve Best Practices of Top Firms
2 reviews
Jim Ware
,
Jim Dethmer
, ...
Wiley
, 2006
Highly recommended!!! An Insightful and Practical Guide to Investment Management Culture
This is an excellent book for anyone in a leadership position within the investment management industry. Although it is focused on people in investment management, its insights apply to any organization. Reading it will help you understand how emotions affect decision-making on investment teams and how to manage emotions so that they enhance rather than undermine your results. Although all ...
Visual & Performing Arts Framework: With CD, K-12
Ca Dept of Education
California Department of Education
, 2004
Text that aims to provide "a solid foundation in the arts." The Foreword adds, "This framewok is especially noteworthy for its inclusion of the multifaceted role of media and electronic technology in the arts. California is an international leader in the technology and entertainment industries; providing our students with and education in the arts supports our state's future and our economy." [from the Foreword.]
Body Art/Performing the Subject
8 reviews
Amelia Jones
University of Minnesota Press
, 1998
Thinking bodies
BODY ART/PERFORMING THE SUBJECT offers an excellent critique of a fascinating phenomenon in contemporary art: the artist's voluntary use of her/his body in art. In this superb and much-needed book, Amelia Jones defines body art "as a set of performative practices that, through such intersubjective engagement, instantiate the dislocation or decentering of the Cartesian subject of modernism." ...
Performing with Understanding: The Challenge of the National Standards for Music Education
Bennett Reimer
Rowman & Littlefield Education
, 2000
Presents key ideas and practical suggestions for implementing the music standards through performance. Based on a Northwestern University Music Education Leadership Seminar.
Broadcast Announcing Worktext, Second Edition: Performing for Radio, Television, and Cable
1 review
Alan Stephenson
,
David Reese
, ...
Focal Press
, 2004
An informative read...
Reading this book and working through the cd won't exactly make you a broadcasting star, but it definitely guides you at the required talents and qualifications for conforming to industry standards. The cd-rom consists of video and audio segments or snippets as they are quite short on the average; it includes voice commentaries, installation videos, teleprompters, and practice media for ...
Performing Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional Practices
Tobie S. Stein
,
Jessica Bathurst
Allworth Press
, 2008
Management strategies that really work--from more than 100 leading managers! * Financial management, building a funding base, labor relations, much more * Explores the realities of running a performing arts organization today Do you know what it takes to manage a performing arts organization today? In this comprehensive volume, more than 100 managers of top nonprofit and commercial venues share their winning strategies. From theater to ...
Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music
3 reviews
Simon Frith
Harvard University Press
, 1998
Popular music's value? As social practice.
I am writing this review in part to augment the poor rating that this book has received due to the incompetent reviewer at the bottom of the page, but I do have a few thoughts. Yes, Simon Frith has written exhausting amounts of work on many aspects of popular music, and much of it is written for an educated audience (and therefore may not be suitable for college dropouts or barely-grads who ...
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