What does it take to control your performance nerves, to feel confident when facing audiences, and to acquire mastery of your talent? How can you feel secure in the knowledge that you are giving your best? This second edition of Secrets of Performing Confidence helps you to find solutions to these questions, and shows you skills and techniques for improving your motivation, confidence, creativity and peak performance. It also gives you a range of effective strategies for dealing with auditions, stress, burnout, fame and performance anxiety. The authors draw on a wealth of knowledge that comes from working closely with leading performers in the fields of music, acting and dance. Throughout, they emphasise practical steps that can be easily assimilated and used for all kinds of performance situations. Featuring a wealth of new material for a modern world of new media and technology, Secrets of Performing Confidence helps to sharpen all the skills you need to survive and flourish in an increasingly competitive performing environment.
A new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Iceland, recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award (the highest travel writing award available in the United States) providing more context for individual places than any other guidebook, plus honest, investigative hotel and restaurant reviews that hide nothing. Based on 20 years of personal and business travel, exploration and adventure all around the country, Bradt's Iceland is in-depth, well-researched and comprehensive, featuring a year-round approach to travelling in Iceland in line with the development of the local tourist industry to offer attractions beyond the normal summer season. This latest edition covers the growing tourist infrastructure: the new, fully-paved road system, better routes through the interior, a wave of new hotels and resorts, more tour companies with more tour options, new adventure activities, plus day tours from port city destinations and tips for those travellers arriving by cruise ship. Natural history and wildlife experiences are featured prominently along with a focus on the outdoors and help in accessing even the most difficult corners of Iceland. Also featured is the most in-depth political and economic analysis offered by any guidebook since the turmoil of 2008. And, even though Iceland is notoriously expensive, there are now a lot more options for travellers, including more hostels, campsites, and budget airlines. This new edition also includes a foreword by the newly elected President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson. Containing information on remote offshore islands, the uninhabited interior and Reykjavik's bustling music and art scene, this remains the definitive guide.
This work shows how anyone can learn to face audiences or performing situations and conquer their nerves. Chapters include mastering your thoughts and emotions, changing learned responses, and learning the right attitude and techniques for public appearances. There is also advice on long-term aspects of a performer's career - peak performance, burnout, motivation, career management, creativity and dealing with fame.
Occasionally in life, fate places something or someone on your path, and your life is blessed in a way that you never could have predicted. Chloe's Dogma is one of those stories; the meeting of two people with a dog named Chloe. In her adventures, Chloe survives a series of near misses - overcoming adversity and neglect along the way to finding her forever family. In the time since Brian Nichols and Andrew Evans decided to bring her home, Chloe has taught them many of life's most important lessons. They started talking about what life advice Chloe might give, and the result of those conversations is this book. Chloe's Dogma is a concise guide that includes five simple but profound teachings to help anyone seeking to lead a happy life. Each teaching includes a set of practices that, when applied regularly, can help create a life of enthusiasm, gratitude, and living-in-the-moment happiness! Chloe's Dogma offers both instruction and inspiration for happy living.
The book analyses the control of State Aid by the European Union. The issues raised are important not only within the Union and its member states but also for third states (including those of Central and Eastern Europe) which have concluded agreements with the Union, and for the World Trade Organization, which has adopted much of the Union practice in this area. The book examines the acceptability of aid to various industries, such as agriculture, shipbuilding, and textiles, among others. It also examines the acceptability of aid granted in pursuit of various policies, such as job creation, encouragement of small and medium-sized entreprises, and environmental protection. In addition, Evans looks at the procedure for state control, and at the role of the judiciary in supervising such control. This is the first major work on this subject to be written in English.
Risk Management in Port Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Security is the first book to address security, risk and reliability issues in maritime, port and supply chain settings. In particular this title tackles operational challenges that port, shipping, international logistics and supply chain operators face today in view of the new security regulations and the requirements of increased visibility across the supply chain.
Veg Out guides virtually eliminate the difficulty of finding vegetarian and vegan offerings in a world of shish-kabob street vendors and hot dog hawkers. Veg Out Vegetarian Guide books are city specific and provide everything that a vegetarian or vegan diner needs to know to enjoy a meal out, including: ratings for each restaurant, including price, atmosphere, and type of cuisine; must-know details about each venue's culinary offerings; and contact and location information, with a site-specific foldout map of the area.
It takes thousands of hours of sailing to get the kind of knowledge contained in this book." -- from the Foreword by Bruce Schwab The ONLY bible for how to sail your boat fast, safe, and alone Solo sailing is within any sailor's grasp with a little forethought--and this essential guide. Got a 35-foot sailboat? No problem. Is the wind blowing 20 knots? No problem. Are you racing offshore overnight? Even better. Singlehander Andrew Evans learned the hard way how to sail and race alone--with lots of mishaps, including broaches and a near tumbling over a waterfall--and in Singlehanded Sailing he shares the techniques, tips, and tactics he has developed to make his solo sailing adventures safe and enriching. Learn everything you need to know to meet any solo challenge, including: Managing the power consumption aboard a boat to feed the electric autopilot Setting and gybing a spinnaker Finding time to sleep Dealing with heavy weather
Regional policy is an essential means by which the European Union pursues its objective of social and economic cohesion. This text describes the operations of the various EU structural funds, providing an understanding of how central the concept of regionalism is to the practicalities of EU economic policy.
Renewal Journals 1-5 is a bound volume of: Renewal Journal 1: Revival, Renewal Journal 2: Church Growth, Renewal Journal 3: Community, Renewal Journal 4: Healing, Renewal Journal 5: Signs & Wonders. This is Volume 1 of 4 bound volumes of the Renewal Journals (Issues 1-20). Each Renewal Journal is also available individually, 2nd edition, 2011.
Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its development was profoundly altered by the conflict. As the war shaped the institutional, ideological, and physical environment for anthropological work, the discipline turned its back on its liberal roots and became a nationalist endeavor primarily concerned with scientific studies of race. Combining intellectual and cultural history with the history of science, Anthropology at War examines both the origins and consequences of this shift. Evans locates its roots in the decision to allow scientists access to prisoner-of-war camps, which prompted them to focus their research on racial studies of the captives. Caught up in wartime nationalism, a new generation of anthropologists began to portray the country’s political enemies as racially different. After the war ended, the importance placed on racial conceptions and categories persisted, paving the way for the politicization of scientific inquiry in the years of the ascendancy of National Socialism.
Instant Notes in Plant Biology covers all aspects of modern plant biology. The scope and depth of this text are suitable for a first and second year undergraduate student of plant biology, including molecular biologists and biotechnologists.
As the pace of change increases and new business structures evolve, finding and harnessing people’s talent is becoming ever more important. From Talent Management to Talent Liberation presents a thoughtful and practical approach to talent. It provides compelling evidence for the limitations of talent management practice and offers talent liberation as an alternative approach. Talent Liberation is positioned through five premises that draw on the agile movement to provide a fundamental reappraisal of the talent agenda. These premises are then applied through a range of strategic and tactical tools such as the Talent Compass. By combining academic research, thought leadership and practical experience, this book will stimulate fresh thinking. Readers will be inspired to take action, using the simple tools to liberate more of the talent in their organisation and their teams. Leaders, HR professionals and individuals will benefit from the relevant insights shared here.
A devout young boy in rural Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him: baptism, mission, Brigham Young University, temple marriage, and children of his own. But as an awkward gay kid, bullied and bored, he escaped into the glossy pages of National Geographic and the wide promise of the world atlas. Eventually ejected from church and shunned by his family, Evans embarked on an ambitious overland journey halfway across the world. Riding public transportation, he crossed swamps, deserts, mountains, and jungles, slowly approaching his lifelong dream and ultimate goal: Antarctica. With each new mile came laughter, pain, unexpected friendship, true weirdness, unsettling realities, and some hair-raising moments that eventually led to a singular discovery on a remote beach at the bottom of the world.
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