What if you could double your productivity without additional capital investment? What if you could outperform your competition by changing the way you think? What if you could be fast, flexible, and low cost?In The Process Mind, Philip Kirby not only opens your mind to these possibilities but shows you how it is done. The book emphatically makes t
Tides & Trysts" is a contemporary coming-of-age story about a fourteen year old boy and his buddies as they adventure through the rites of passage of high school, college, and beyond. Deeply relatable and wonderfully written, this novel is a light-hearted romp taking him through his school years in San Clemente, California, his summer visits to his grandfather's home in Daytona Beach, Florida, and his college years at Fresno State. Throughout this novel, the protagonist and his friends realize that growing up means growing pains are inevitable. The learning curve that enlightens boys from puberty through manhood with its rites of passage, its dreams, fantasies, and rude awakenings impacts Aquinas Flynn in a realistic and sometimes humorous tale taking him from coast to coast, youth through college, and life beyond. Timeless and personal, this endearing novel is a must-read for readers of all ages and backgrounds.
In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his age.” Yet, in spite of his intelligence, Percy had great difficulty learning to read. Percy was one of the first children to be described as having word-blindness, better known today as dyslexia. In this first comprehensive history of dyslexia Philip Kirby and Margaret Snowling chart a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues to dyslexia’s current status as the most globally recognized specific learning difficulty. In an engaging narrative style, Kirby and Snowling tell the story of dyslexia, examining its origins and revealing the many scientists, teachers, and campaigners who put it on the map. Through this history they explain current debates over the diagnosis of dyslexia and its impact on learning. For those who have lived experience of dyslexia, professionals who have supported them, and scholars of social history, education, psychology, and childhood studies, Dyslexia reflects on the place of literacy in society – whom it has benefited, and whom it has left behind.
From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin is a coffee table art book and critical biography of one of the twentieth century’s most influential comic book artists. Meskin’s career spanned both the Golden and Silver ages of comics, from the 1940s to the 1960s. His drawing, chiaroscuro technique, and storytelling are considered by connoisseurs of the form to be among the most sophisticated of his time. His passion for his artwork was equaled by his skill, and the quality of his overall oeuvre blurs the artificial distinction between high and low art. Yet he is known mostly among hard-core aficionados today, eclipsed by many of his peers, some of whom he profoundly influenced. Among Meskin’s fans and admirers are Jim Steranko, Joe Kubert, Alex Toth, Carmine Infantino, Steve Ditko, Jerry Robinson, and Jack Kirby. From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin will finally give this neglected artist the recognition he’s due.
It is 2048, and Jennifer Stein is currently in the middle of her second term as President of the United States. With the world watching, President Stein has just promoted a product she hopes will change humanity forever. Intended to help provide propulsion to pending populations worldwide, the newly invented gyro magnetic propulsion vehicle seems to be destined for success. As she departs in Air Force One for her first appointment of the day, President Stein has no idea that in just a few moments, everything is about to change. While in the air, President Stein unsuccessfully attempts to communicate with her staff on the ground. It soon becomes apparent that something has gone very wrong. After ordering the plane to turn around, President Stein arrives at the White House only to discover that the structure is heavily damaged and that several rooms and their contents, including the Oval Office, have vanished. Complicating the horror, her husband has disappeared along with two other dignitaries and several children. Forced to embark on an intense pursuit of the perpetrators, President Stein must find out who launched the mysterious attack before anyone else dies. In this riveting science fiction tale, a sinister attack leads the president, family and special forces on a dangerous journey to the truth as she bravely makes a last ditch effort to prevent Armageddon.
In Liveness Philip Auslander addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today: What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? By looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media culture. This provocative book tackles some of the enduring 'sacred truths' surrounding the high cultural status of the live event.
Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on the relationship between the original event and its recorded versions. By contrast, Reactivations focuses on how the audience experiences the performance, as opposed to its documentation. How does a spectator access and experience a performance from its documentation? What is the value of performance documentation? The book treats performance documentation as a specific discursive use of media that arose in the middle of the 20th century alongside such forms of performance as the Happening and that is different, both discursively and as a practice, from traditional theater and dance photography. Philip Auslander explores the phenomenal relationship between the spectator who experiences the performance from the document and the document itself. The document is not merely a secondary iteration of the original event but a vehicle that gives us meaningful access to the performance itself as an artistic work.
This first collection of essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.
During the Great Depression, economic, political, and social crises converge with a rapidly expanding movie industry to create a product that offers a unique history of the period. This text studies 1930s films as a unique and sometimes camouflaged record of the great crisis.
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