Search results for “[subject: performance]”

• Author(s): David P. Gerard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Gross Productivity Average, or GPA, is a new baseball statistic that measures performance. Accounting for t...

• Author(s): Susan Jackson • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Human Kinetics Publishers • BISAC: Sports Psychology The experience of flow is still one of the least understood phenomena in sport. And yet it is one of the r...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni...

• Author(s): Lesley Wheeler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryThe most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice....

• Author(s): William N. Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Substance Abuse & Addictions - General The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's ...

• Author(s): Patricia Marks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism On October 15, 1880, with great excitement and fanfare, two Sarah Bernhardts set sail for New...

• Author(s): Michelle Heffner Hayes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth ce...

• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Each entry includes brief biographical and career data for the performer, with birthplace and year of...

• Author(s): Pete Postlethwaite • Publisher: Phoenix • Publisher Imprint: Phoenix • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralVibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite.After training as a ...

• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General During the "golden age" of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their pro...

• Author(s): Derek Sculthorpe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Brian Donlevy (1901-1972) was an underrated film actor with surprising range an...

• Author(s): Amber L. Davisson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. Thi...

• Author(s): Linda D. McCracken | Lynne Zeiher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Public stunts and all-for-fun, utterly nonpoliticized publicity ...

• Author(s): Hondon B. Hargrove • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The 92nd Infantry ("Buffalo") Division was the last segregated (all-black) U....

• Author(s): Richard Bogovich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This is the first full-length biography of Kid Nichols (1869-1953), who won 30 or more games a record seven times and ...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Mahnken • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIntelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This...

• Author(s): Lou Schuler • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga • BISAC: Exercise - GeneralToday's exercising adults are caught in a bind: Those who take it seriously and work out aggressively c...

• Author(s): Gordon F. Bloom • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThis timely resources appears during a period when rising food prices are a subject of public concern and the entire food distribution...

• Author(s): Martin Iddon | Melanie L. Marshall | Emily J. Lordi • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Individual Composer & MusicianWho runs the world? The Beyhive knows. Fro...

• Author(s): Elliott D. Sclar | Richard C. Leone • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Government & BusinessToday, nearly all public services--schools, hospitals, prisons, fire department...

• Author(s): Georges Didi-Huberman | Alisa Hartz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralThe first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development o...

• Author(s): Paige Lush • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History & Criticism - General The chautauqua movement was a truly American phenomenon, providing education and entertainment fo...

• Author(s): Ric Allsopp • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DramaPerformance Research: On Ritual will examine a range of ritual practices bordering on or intended to be seen as theatre. It will explore both historical ...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Len D. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Allied Artists Pictures Corporation was formed in November 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corporation ...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - TheoryReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlighten...

• Author(s): Thomas Metzinger • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsAccording to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenom...

• Author(s): Rolf Giesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Hitler and the Nazis saturated their country with many types of propaganda to convince the German c...

• Author(s): Dario Fo • Publisher: A&C Black • Publisher Imprint: A&C Black • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsThroughout the 1980s, Dario Fo, Italy's best known and most provocative satirical playwright, and his wife Franca Rame...