Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Every Second Counts

by Sally Jenkins, Lance Armstrong

In 1999, Lance Armstrong made world headlines with the most stunning comeback in the history of sport, winning the Tour de France in the fastest ever time after battling against life-threatening testicular cancer just eighteen months previously. His first book, It's Not About the Bike, charted his journey back to life and went on to become an international bestseller, and won the William Hill Sports Book of the... (more)

Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing

Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing

by Jerome Hines

Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, Rose Ponselle, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland and many others. "Probably the best book on the... (more)

The Inner Game of Music

by Barry Green

By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis, here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obstacles, help improve concentration, and reduce nervousness, allowing them to reach new levels of performing excellence and musical artistry.

Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)

Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series)

by Paul Berliner

A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of... (more)

A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre

A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre

by Anne Bogart

A Director Prepares is a fascinating and thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with immense wisdom of the courage required to create "art with great presence." No other book on the art of theatre comes even close to offering this much understanding, experience and inspiration.

Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

by Kenny Werner

Paperback book and CD set. Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within is a book for any musician who finds themselves having reached a plateau in their development. Werner, a masterful jazz pianist in his own right, uses his own life story and experiences to explore the barriers to creativity and mastery of music, and in the process reveals that "Mastery is available to everyone," providing... (more)

The Innovator's Dilemma

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

by Clayton M. Christensen

In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate. Focusing on "disruptive technology" of the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and the hydraulic excavator, Christensen shows why... (more)

Jack: Straight from the Gut

by Jack Welch, John A. Byrne

In his #1 New York Times bestseller, Jack Welch surveys his brilliant career at General Electric, reveals his personal business philosophy, and discusses his life post-retirement in a new afterword.They called him Neutron Jack. They called him the world's toughest boss. And then Fortune(r) called him "The Manager of the Century." In his 20-year career at the helm of General Electric, Jack Welch defied conventional... (more)

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

by Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event.

Silence: Lectures and Writings

by John. Cage

Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called writing through).

High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More

High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More

by Arjen Lentz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy Zawodny, Derek Balling, Baron Schwartz, Schwartz Baron, Zaitsev Peter, Tkachenko Vadim, Zawodny Jeremy, Lentz Arjen, Balling Derek

High Performance MySQL is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL's full power. Learn... (more)

Theatre of the Oppressed

by Augusto Boal

This unique resource for students, teachers and practitioners offers a series of games to illustrate techniques, acts as a mutlimedia encyclopaedia tracing the context and historical development of Theatre of the Oppressed.

Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications

Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications

by Cal Henderson

Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, "Building Scalable Web Sites" offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a... (more)

Step Right Up (Performance Studies)

by Brooks McNamara

The immensely entertaining history of the rise and fall of an American institution, the medicine show

The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Imporvisation, and Communities in Dialogue (Music Culture)

The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Imporvisation, and Communities in Dialogue (Music Culture)

A breakthrough book in the emergent fields of improvisation and cultural theory, The Other Side of Nowhere conveys the spirit and energy of an experimental celebration. The volume is divided into four sections: writings of musicians about improvising; examinations of inter- and cross-cultural dialogue; discussions of social practice and identity; and essays about collaborative dissonance. The 17 essays present... (more)

Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem (CESifo Seminar Series)

Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem (CESifo Seminar Series)

Much educational research today is focused on assessing reforms that are intended to create equal opportunity for all students. Many current policies aim at concentrating extra resources on the disadvantaged. The state-of-the-art research in Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem suggests, however, that even sizeable differential spending on the disadvantaged will not yield an equality of results. In this... (more)

Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance (Energy Medicine in Therapeutics & Human Performance)

Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance (Energy Medicine in Therapeutics & Human Performance)

by James L. Oschman

Focusing on the wealth of information emerging in the area of energy medicine, this unique resource explores mechanisms by which mind and body processes influence the body's healing and performance potential. Content draws on an extraordinary range of sources to explore theories of human energy - from physiology and biophysics, to examples drawn from the realms of "spontaneous healing," cutting-edge athletic and... (more)

Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)

Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)

by RoseLee Goldberg

RoseLee Goldberg's study, first published in 1979, has been brought completely up to date in a new volume that provides a critical analysis of the technological, political, and aesthetic shifts that marked the end of the twentieth century and are propelling us into the twenty-first. Her lucid text and original documentation trace developments in performance history that reflect the collapse of the art market of... (more)

Body Art and Performance: The Body As Language

Body Art and Performance: The Body As Language

by Lea Vergine

When The Body as Language ("Body-art" and Performance) appeared in 1974, it was immediately a huge publishing hit, reviewed by some of the most influential art historians and writers (Giulio C. Argan, Edoardo Sanguineti, Max Kozloff, Lucy Lippard, François Pluchart, Peter Gorsen, Evelyn Weiss and many others). A direct testimony of the birth and development of one of the most controversial art trends, Lea... (more)

Taking Charge of Change: 10 Principles for Managing People and Performance

Taking Charge of Change: 10 Principles for Managing People and Performance

by Douglas K. Smith

Cooking up great ideas of how things ought to be is easy. Getting things to actually change is a different matter, especially in large, complex organizations. This book provides the diagnostic tools managers need to assess their particular needs for change and the tool kit required to implement the changes one wants to see.

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