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From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage How Did They Do It?

From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage How Did They Do It?

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of the plays as evidence – and demonstrates the significance of the implications of that new information. This book is also an assessment of the competing narratives about the processes involved in early modern performance: about the status of manuscript playbooks about the parts that players memorized about the functions of the bookkeeper about casting about prompting and about rehearsal practices. Leslie Thomson investigates the bases for the interdependent beliefs that an early modern player relied only on his part to prepare for a performance that rehearsal was minimal and that a bookkeeper compensated for these circumstances by prompting any player who was out of his part. By focusing on often ignored (or downplayed) requirements and challenges of early modern play texts Thomson provides evidence for answers that will foster a more nuanced and thorough understanding of original performance practices. That will in turn influence how we read study and edit the plays. This exploration will be of great interest to theatre and performance researchers graduate students teachers of early modern drama at the undergraduate and graduate levels performers directors editors. | From Playtext to Performance on the Early Modern Stage How Did They Do It?

GBP 130.00
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Leadership Styles and Job Performance The Impact of Fake Leadership on Organizational Reliability

Leadership Styles and Job Performance The Impact of Fake Leadership on Organizational Reliability

Various styles of leadership have the potential for positive and negative influence on employees and organization. The monograph offers a new approach and proposes the systematic analysis of negative leadership traits and behaviors through the broadening of existing approaches (based on employees’ orientation and organizational orientation) by analyzing them together with a third dimension: leader’s traits which will allow us to analyze the intent of the leader. Based on this approach the monograph introduces the term: fake leadership characterized by an emphasis on individual goals of the leader (regardless of their importance for the organization) coupled with intentional anti-employees and anti-organizational behaviours. Such leaders operate with intent to engage in negative behaviors towards employees and organization simultaneously aiming at hiding such intent. The monograph introduces and empirically verifies various models explaining the mechanisms through which fake leadership negatively influences job performance of employees and organizational reliability based on intraorganizational trust and positive job-related attitudes (work motivation job satisfaction work engagement organizational commitment) as well as negative job-related attitudes (work disengagement job dissatisfaction work demotivation) tend to hide errors which is coupled with the number of management and employees’ errors. These models reference the concept of authentic leadership which is chosen as a positive alternative to the described fake leadership. | Leadership Styles and Job Performance The Impact of Fake Leadership on Organizational Reliability

GBP 130.00
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Performance The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care Volume I

Performance The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care Volume I

This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seenthrough the lens of conservation which has long been overlooked in the largertheoretical debates about whether and how performance remains. Unraveling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care (vol. 1)brings this new understanding to bear in examining performance as an object ofstudy experience acquisition and care. In so doing it presents both theoreticalframeworks and functional paradigms for thinking about—and enacting—theconservation of performance. Further while the conservation of performance isundertheorized performance is nevertheless increasingly entering the artmarket and the museum meaning that there is an urgent need for discourse onhow to care for these works long-term. In recent years a few pioneering conservators curators and scholars have begun to create frameworks for the longtermcare of performance. This volume presents explicates and contextualizestheir work so that a larger discourse can commence. It will thus serve the needsof conservation students and professors for whom literature on this subject issorely needed. This interdisciplinary book thus implements a novel rethinking of performancethat will challenge and revitalize its conception in many fields such as art history theater performance studies heritage studies and anthropology. | Performance The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care Volume I

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Performance at the Urban Periphery Insights from South India

Performance at the Urban Periphery Insights from South India

This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation the effects of such changes on their cultural economy and the environmental impacts of performance itself. This project also considers how performance responds to its context and the potential for performance to be critical of the city’s development and of its own compromises. Bringing together perspectives from the humanities natural and social sciences the book takes a multi-faceted analytical view of live performance connecting contemporary with heritage forms and human with more-than-human actors. The three sections themed around heritage everyday life and future ecologies will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance heritage studies ecology and art history. | Performance at the Urban Periphery Insights from South India

GBP 130.00
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Contemporary Storytelling Performance Female Artists on Practices Platforms Presences

Contemporary Storytelling Performance Female Artists on Practices Platforms Presences

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake Xanthe Gresham-Knight Mara Menzies Clare Murphy Debs Newbold Rachel Rose Reid Sarah Liisa Wilkinson and Vanessa Woolf while Sally Pomme Clayton’s reflections on her extraordinary four-decade career provide long-term context for these cutting-edge conversations. Blending ethnographic research and performance analysis this book documents the working lives of professional storytelling artists. It also sheds light on the practices values aspirations and achievements of a generation actively redefining storytelling as a contemporary performance practice taking on topics from ecology and maternity to griefwork and neuroscience while working collaboratively with diverse creative partners to generate new inclusive presences for a traditionally-inspired artform. This book will be of great interest to students scholars and practitioners in drama theatre performance creative writing education and media. | Contemporary Storytelling Performance Female Artists on Practices Platforms Presences

GBP 130.00
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Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom

Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom

First published in 1980 Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom assesses the performance of primary schoolchildren in a range of study skills as well as on the more conventional tests of mathematics language use and reading. The findings indicate that the more successful styles are used by the more experienced teachers who manage to increase the amount of contact with the pupils by a variety of organizational strategies. While pupils who receive the greatest amount of class teaching do best on mathematics there is no evidence to suggest that the characteristics of teaching valued by critics of modern primary practice exert any significant influence on pupil progress. The relationship between pupil progress and behaviour shows some remarkable patterns. For example it was found that children who work on average one day per week less than other children still make the same progress in basic skills as the others. Such findings suggest that there is a need to examine how far teaching in the junior school is sufficiently stimulating and challenging while at the same time acknowledging the difficulties of improving the situation while class sizes remain relatively high. This book will be of interest to students of education and pedagogy as well as to teachers.

GBP 90.00
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 10: Maximum Performance Unleash the hidden performance of Elements

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10: Maximum Performance Unleash the hidden performance of Elements

Master the most powerful photo editing tools and techniques that Elements has to offer! Using step-by-step projects Mark Galer will have you creating stunning images in no time at all. Whether you want to create impressive seamless montages optimize your photos for perfect print quality or simply enhance your images for maximum impact Maximum Performance will give you the skills and know-how you need to create professional quality results. Featured projects teach you how to work with multilayered 16 bit/channel files as well as convert to black and white using Adobe Camera Raw create High Key images work with image borders and textures and create tilt-shift and cross-process effects. Three movie tutorials featuring specific techniques from the book are available for free online and a supplemental package of images and movies can be purchased with an easy one-time download from the authors' website www. elements-maxperformance. com. Find everything you need to unleash the power of Elements with Max Performance or for a more interactive learning experience download the supplemental images and movies for comprehensive hands-on learning. | Adobe Photoshop Elements 10: Maximum Performance Unleash the hidden performance of Elements

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Autism The Way Forward A Self-Help Guide to Teaching Children on the Autistic Spectrum

Autism The Way Forward A Self-Help Guide to Teaching Children on the Autistic Spectrum

Specifically written for all those families who are unable to receive funding for their child's programme and is an invaluable tool for new tutors coming into the field. The book is a step-by-step guide to setting up and running a home programme which applies full communication in order to meet the needs of the child more fully. It guides the reader through the various stages showing them what to include in their programme when why and how. Included in the book is a section on what to do when things go wrong on your programme. It also shows how the methodologies of behaviourism and psychotherapy are combined to give a synergetic effect with all other methods supporting these by applying calming and performance-enhancing strategies. | Autism The Way Forward A Self-Help Guide to Teaching Children on the Autistic Spectrum

GBP 130.00
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The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

As with many people-oriented initiatives employee engagement remains an emerging science with as many advocates as detractors. In The Culture Builders Jane Sparrow shares the insight of her research and experience into how companies are creating an engaged workforce. Along the way she looks at the evidence the case for engagement and how organizations are measuring and defining it. Having an engagement strategy is merely a first step and so the book explores how to enable the manager-as-engager. Alongside the practical models and the guidance there are stories and examples from leaders and organizations allowing you to learn amongst other things about the strong sense of purpose felt in John Lewis Partnership; the importance Innocence places on values; how Sony has used visual metaphors to give context and strategic direction and how MGM Resorts targets engagement strategies to the needs of specific employee groups. The need for sustained employee performance has been put into sharp focus in recent years. The Culture Builders is a book that provides the theory and practice to connect employee engagement to long-term performance. Simply reading it won‘t guarantee that performance. Reading it learning and applying the lessons it offers will dramatically improve your chances. | The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

GBP 175.00
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How Organisations Measure Success The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

How Organisations Measure Success The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

Throughout the 1980s the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy developing indicators to measure the performance of government. Never before had so much stress been placed on accountability and performance; a trend which will be reinforced as government continues to devolve activities to agencies and looks for methods to assess their performance. How Organisations Measure Success analyses existing methods from their origins in the 1960s to their revival in the 1980s as part of the Financial Management Initiative and its apotheosis in the 1990s Next Steps Initiative. How Organisations Measure Success reports on two years of field research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and will be of great interest to students of social policy and public administration as well as professionals working in government and public sector management. | How Organisations Measure Success The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

GBP 175.00
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The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

Musicians suffer greatly from industry-related injury and illness and many of these problems are established during student days or even before. This affects all forms of music-making from classical through jazz and rock to traditional folk. Hearing damage is of serious concern in most forms of music-making but the most stressful situations and the most physical damage is recorded in the practice of classical music. The long hours of practice at the beginning of a musician's career are the main source of problems that sometimes only reveal themselves in later life. This book is aimed equally at student musicians practising musicians and instrumental and vocal teachers and it aims to help them to begin to understand how and why their bodies function as they do when they perform and also how they may avoid professionally related illness or injury and achieve the highest standards of performance. The principal author Dr Jaume Rosset i Llobet is a medical expert and an internationally acclaimed researcher on the subject. He is the Director of a Centre for the Physiology of The Arts in Terrassa Catalonia one of the few clinics in the world to which musicians dancers and performing artists can go for assessment and treatment. The book provides examples and references to the health of musicians covering a wide range of musical genres based on current research practice and treatment. As well as physiological exposition copiously illustrated with medical and humorous diagrams the book covers ergonomics risk factors posture breathing matters of diet and accommodation of professional needs in daily life. | The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

GBP 175.00
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Meaning in the Midst of Performance Contradictions of Participation

Meaning in the Midst of Performance Contradictions of Participation

Being an audience participant can be a confusing and contradictory experience. When a performance requires us to do things we are put in the situation of being both actor and spectator of being part of the work of art while also being the audience who receives it and of being both perceiving subject and aesthetic object. This book examines these contradictions – and many others – as they appear by accident and by design in increasingly popular forms of interactive immersive and participatory performance in theatre and live art. Borrowing concepts from cognitive philosophy and bringing them into a conversation with critical theory Gareth White sharply examines meaning as a process that happens to us as we are engaged in the problems and negotiations of a participatory performance. This study will be of great interest to scholars and students of theatre and performance intermedial arts and games studies and to practising artists. | Meaning in the Midst of Performance Contradictions of Participation

GBP 130.00
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Reflections on the Centenary of the Republic of Turkey

Reflections on the Centenary of the Republic of Turkey

This book provides both a retrospective and prospective look at Turkey on the occasion of the country’s centenary. It covers numerous important issues including political economic and cultural development the role and performance of political institutions and foreign policy and Turkey’s place in its region and the wider world. The Republic of Turkey’s centenary in 2023 is an opportune time to assess the country’s achievements and shortcomings as well as look ahead as to how Turkey may cope with current challenges. This volume comprised of empirically rich and theory-informed analytical essays written by a global collection of leading scholars on contemporary Turkey addresses many central issues that bear both on the Republic’s history as well as on major political social economic cultural and foreign policy issues that confront Turkey today. Much focus is given to particular “turning points” in the past as well as how 2023 during which Turkey had a highly-contested and polarized election may also serve as a critical juncture for the country. Reflections on the Centenary of the Republic of Turkey will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of Middle Eastern studies and Turkish history politics and foreign policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Turkish Studies.

GBP 130.00
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Performing Religion on the Secular Stage

Performing Religion on the Secular Stage

This book examines the relations between Western religion secularism and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts icons and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled by secularism and avant-garde experimentalism on the other has led theatre artists throughout the twentieth century to create a uniquely modern theatrical hybrid–theater performances that simultaneously re-inscribe and grapple with religion and religious performativity. The book compares this phenomenon with medieval forms of religious theater and offers deep and original analyses of significant contemporary works ranging from plays and performances by August Strindberg Hugo Ball (Dada) Jerzy Grotowski and Hanoch Levin to those created by Adrienne Kennedy Rina Yerushalmi Deb Margolin Milo Rau and Sarah Ruhl. The book analyzes a new and original historiography of a uniquely modern theatrical phenomenon a study that is of high importance considering the reemergence of religion in contemporary culture and politics. | Performing Religion on the Secular Stage

GBP 130.00
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Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

Want to get the best out of your digital camera? Not quite sure how to capture up-close shots? Want easy to follow expert advice on the best ways to creatively capture macro shots you can be proud of? This is your ticket to go beyond a snapshot to create a fine art print that you'll be so proud of. Macro and close-up photography involves a unique skill set in terms of exposure lighting and of course composition in particular. You can take a quick photo of a sunflower in your back yard that will look mundane and typical OR you could learn how to take a picture of just a part of it-up close-and create a work of art. Let this book be your guide! | Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

GBP 130.00
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Music Performance Encounters Collaborations and Confrontations

Music Performance Encounters Collaborations and Confrontations

Why do most musical performers and musical researchers continue to inhabit divergent epistemic spaces? To what extent is the act of musical performance coextensive with the act of doing musical research and vice versa? At what point in the research process can a performative act transform into a scholarly one and a scholarly act into a performative one? These and other related questions form the central focus of this book with each chapter offering a fresh perspective on a particular topic in music performance studies: improvisational traditions historical performance practices analysis and performance sports psychology cross-cultural musical interactions and institutional challenges. This book is aimed at music researchers teachers students and practising musicians interested in the intersection of academic and performance research; as such it seeks to bridge the divide between the research of university-trained musicologists scholars from other fields who focus on music and the growing community of musical artist-researchers. Material in this book is supported by performance outcomes offered by the contributors on a separate YouTube channel and on the Routledge online portal. | Music Performance Encounters Collaborations and Confrontations

GBP 130.00
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The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance Agile Waterfall and Beyond

The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance Agile Waterfall and Beyond

Practitioners operate in a necessary reality. We work in a space where project performance is above theory or methodology. In the best environments delivery and an affirmative culture are what matter most. In the worst it is politics and survival. In any environment we are challenged to adopt best practices and adapt our style to the environment in which the project is occurring. This is a book about those best practices and practitioner experiences. It is a must-have reference and guidebook for project managers general managers business leaders and project management researchers. This book is the result of the hard work and dedication of more than 35 authors from more than 15 countries across four continents. It brings a diversity of experience professional and personal. It includes practitioners leading academics renowned theorists and many who straddle those roles. The chapters cover experiences in software large-scale infrastructure projects finance and health care to name a few. The chapters themselves take many forms. Check out the Table of Contents to get a deeper sense of the topics included. All provide real-world guidance on delivering high-performing projects and show you how to build lead and manage high-performing teams. The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance is complete in itself. It can also be an enticing start to an ongoing dialogue with the authors and a pleasurable path to get deeper into the subject of project performance. Find your favorite place to begin learning from these chapters to begin taking notes and taking away nuggets to use in your everyday. But don’t stop there. Contact information and further resources for this diverse team of experts are found throughout. The Practitioner's Handbook is a modern guide to the leading edge of project performance management and a path to the future of project delivery. | The Practitioner's Handbook of Project Performance Agile Waterfall and Beyond

GBP 130.00
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The War on Terrorism 21st-century Perspectives

The War on Terrorism 21st-century Perspectives

On September 11 2001 a small number of desperate men hoping to earn paradise attacked New York and Washington D. C. Their spectacular acts of destruction concluded America's nearly decade-long vacation from insecurity known as the post-Cold War era. As eras go this one was short and it certainly ended with a bang not a whimper. The United States still sole superpower was now challenged by a bleak new world. Americans do not care for the bleak and do not tolerate it for long. Predictably national shock soon became righteous anger coupled to international campaigns against groups and states held responsible for the scourge of terrorism. These were short-term measures that hurt our enemies but did not fix the problem. Not long after these events the Foreign Policy Research Institute organized a new Center on Terrorism Counterterrorism and Homeland Security. Its purpose was to take a longer term view of the terrorism problem and what might be done about it-not only academic research but also policy suggestions. This book contains a broad selection of the Center's output including essays on American strategy homeland security knowing the enemy and the military dimension. A notable feature is the discussion of the educational issue: what and how to teach our children about terrorism. | The War on Terrorism 21st-century Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Women's Intercultural Performance

Women's Intercultural Performance

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices theories and debates. Holledge and Tompkins provide ways of thinking about and analysing contemporary performance and representations of the performing female culturally-marked body. The book includes discussions of: * ritual performance by women from Central Australia and Korea * the cultural exchange of A Doll's House and Antigone * plays from Algeria South Africa and Ghana * the work of the Takarazuka revue company * the market forces that govern the distribution of women and women's performance. This is an essential read for anyone studying or interested in women's performance. | Women's Intercultural Performance

GBP 130.00
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Immigrants on the Threshold

Immigrants on the Threshold

This first large-scale empirical work on the adjustment problems of immigrants in Israel is now updated with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Alex Weingrod. The extraordinary phenomenon of worldwide immigration to Israel has made this searching study of people in transit possible. Immigrants on the Threshold reports on the attitudes and behaviors of almost 2 000 people from twenty countries during their first year in Israel during the early years of mass migration. It is of particular interest as the phenomenon of integration becomes an issue for concern in many other parts of the world. Immigrants on the Threshold by Judith Shuval presents a theoretical framework closely intermeshed with rich empirical findings. No other work in this field approaches this study in either depth of theoretical analysis or in design and execution of data collection performed by conducting in-depth interviews and then using statistical analysis to quantify results in exacting and objective detail. It attempts to answer a number of critical questions: What factors in the immigrants' past and present condition their responses to the strain of transit? What is the role of commitment to the goal of the new society into which they must incorporate? What is the role of different social and economic backgrounds in determining patterns of acculturation? What factors affect the aspirations and mobility patterns of immigrants? The answers to these questions - the hypotheses formulated and the conclusions reached in Immigrants on the Threshold - contribute substantially to the fields of both sociology and social psychology. These answers and the methods used to reach them should be of interest to anyone in these fields and the field of applied social research as well as those interested in Israel and questions of immigrant integration.

GBP 130.00
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Ireland on the World Stage

Ireland on the World Stage

For 2nd and 3rd year courses in Irish Politics European Politics or Comparative Politics International Relations or Economic Development. This book provides an up-to-date analysis of Ireland's place on the world stage exploring its international relations evolving economic power changing relationship with the EU its political role in the world and its changing relationship with England and Northern Ireland. The book traces Ireland's development from a rural and isolated country to one that has emerged as an influential player on the international stage. It looks at the continuing difficulties with the North Ireland's role of prominence in Europe and the way in which it has benefited from economic globalisation. | Ireland on the World Stage

GBP 175.00
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Engineering Psychology and Human Performance

Engineering Psychology and Human Performance

Forming connections between human performance and design this new edition of Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human–machine interaction. The book is organized directly from a psychological perspective of human information processing and chapters correspond to the flow of information as it is processed by a human being—from the senses through the brain to action—rather than from the perspective of system components or engineering design concepts. Upon completing this book readers will be able to identify how human ability contributes to the design of technology; understand the connections within human information processing and human performance; challenge the way they think about technology’s influence on human performance; and show how theoretical advances have been or might be applied to improving human–machine interactions. This new edition includes the following key features: A new chapter on research methods Sections on interruption management and distracted driving as cogent examples of applications of engineering psychology theory to societal problems A greatly increased number of references to pandemics technostress and misinformation New applications Amplified emphasis on readability and commonsense examples Updated and new references throughout the text This book is ideal for psychology and engineering students as well as practitioners in engineering psychology human performance and human factors. The text is also supplemented by online resources for students and instructors.

GBP 170.00
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