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Water for Elephants: A Novel
Sara Gruen
Algonquin Books, 2007
I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is one of my favorite books of all time! It's about 90 (or 93)-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembering his life when he was young. The story starts with his parents dying in a car crash, and him having no money. He stumbles upon a circus in town, and gets hired as ...
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Meridon
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 2003
The Best Segment of the Wideacre Trilogy
Meridon continues the saga of the Lacey family and follows the life of Sarah, Miss Julia and Richard's daughter, following her surrender to the gypsy family.
"Meridon" lacks incestuous situations, explicit sexual scenes, and altogether dispicable characters. There ...
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IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
Peter Weill, Jeanne Ross
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
An easy to read and insightful overview of IT Governance
An excellent summary and insightful overview on IT Governance. This is an easy read emphasizing its principles with many real world examples and case studies. Well suited for senior leadership as well as IT operational management. The provided frameworks can be ...
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Sound in Motion: A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression
David McGill
Indiana University Press, 2007
If you are a classical musician, you must own this book!!!!
Having studied with David McGill, I can honestly say with first-hand experience that he is a truly remarkable musician and teacher. As I read this book, I felt as I did in every one of my lessons. I know I left his studio each week better than I went in and I feel ...
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Geek Love: A Novel
Katherine Dunn
Vintage, 2002
It IS Different, Thank God
Okay, first you've GOT to be okay with ugliness. I guess since I love art, I qualify. (Check out Kathe Kollwitz and Egon Schiele, for example.) Second, for better or worse you maybe have to crave sensation. This book is all newness and surprise. There's nothing ...
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)
Sidney Poitier
HarperSanFrancisco, 2007
Sir Sidney Poitier
His roles in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and To Sir, with Love (1967) were for their time landmarks in the breaking down of social barriers between blacks and whites, and Poitier's talent, conscience, integrity, and inherent likability placed him on equal ...
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Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Geoff Colvin
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune , a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance . One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called ?What It Takes to Be Great.? Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field--from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren ...
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Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers
Erika Andersen
Portfolio Hardcover, 2006
An inspiring resource!
Tending the garden is metaphor and departure point for this brilliantly clear, wise and pragmatic book. If you aspire to be an effective leader, if you strive to achieve the potentiality of those who work with you or for you - whether you are a human resources ...
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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
Keith R. Mcfarland
Crown Business, 2008
The Good to Great book for small businesses
Breakthrough Companies is a great book that is the "Good to Great" book for small businesses.
It talks about how small businesses became breakthrough companies by taking actions.
I highly recommend this book
Here are the major things Keith talks about in his ...
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All You Have to Do is Listen: Music from the Inside Out
Rob Kapilow
Wiley, 2008
Praise for Rob Kapilow "Kapilow gets audiences in tune with classical music at a deeper and more immediate level than many of them thought possible." --Los Angeles Times "Rob Kapilow is awfully good at what he does. We need him." --The Boston Globe "A wonderful guy who brings music alive!" --Katie Couric ...
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Solutions for Singers: Tools for Performers and Teachers
Richard Miller
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
Very Helpful, For Advanced Singers and Teachers
As a professional singer and teacher of singing, I truly enjoyed this book. Miller brings up a great deal of food for thought. He has created a book that not only answers many questions, but prompts you to do some thinking on your own.
I understand Miller has ...
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Secrets of Voice-Over Success: Top Voice-Over Actors Reveal How They Did It
Joan Baker
Sentient Publications, 2005
Inspiration is sometimes all that's needed
I'm just flummoxed by a previous review of Joan Baker's "Secrets of Voice-Over Success". Ms. Baker is deemed by the reviewer to be irrelevant, obvious and out of date because she neglects to deconstruct the semiotics of the latest manifestations of an ever-changing ...
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Mastering Piano Technique: A Guide for Students, Teachers and Performers
Seymour Fink
Amadeus Press, 2003
A MUST for the Pianist
This work of Mr. Fink is absolutely magnificant. For the aspiring concert pianist, for the serious student, or for piano lovers who would simply like to improve their fluidity and definition at the keyboard. Having owned the volume for about a week now, I'm at the ...
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Theatre Games for Young Performers: Improvisations and Exercises for Developing Acting Skills (Contemporary ...
Maria C. Novelly
Meriwether Pub, 1985
Excellent Classroom Resource!
After nearly fifteen years of being away from the classroom, I was a bit nervous about teaching drama again. In searching for a resource that would get me back in the swing of things, I debated between this book and the classic Viola Spolin books. I finally decided ...
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Discipline Without Punishment: The Proven Strategy That Turns Problem Employees into Superior Performers
Dick Grote
AMACOM, 2006
How to have discipline and accountability without punishment
This is the second edition of a book which was initially published in 1995 and I have the same question now that I did then: How can any one strategy turn all "problem employees into superior performers"? That said, years ago Grote recognized sooner than many others ...
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