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241) 20 music tales
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
From forming a schoolyard marching band to helping Ludwig van Beethoven write a symphony, your friends at PBS Kids really know how to put on a fantastic performance!
243) Why you crying?
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
George Lopez in a live stand-up comedy performance.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With the proliferation of social media, the intense pressure to succeed, and our overreliance on external rewards, metrics, and validation, FOPO is running rampant. Our concern with what other people think about us has become an irrational, unproductive, and unhealthy obsession in the modern world. And its negative effects reach into all aspects of our lives. In The First Rule of Mastery, Michael Gervais shows us the key to leading a high-performance...
245) My piano
Author
Publisher
Gnome Road Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Explore the workings of a grand piano through the eyes of a young musician preparing for recital. The cumulative structure should satisfy curious readers interested in how pianos function, from the pedal pressed to the ground to the keys that hoist the hammers. It's sure to be a musical treat for students, teachers, and music enthusiasts alike.
Author
Series
Waylon volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Waylon gives up a chance to meet a famous astrophysicist to help his sister, his father, and a friend when they need him most, but gains a much greater reward.
Author
Publisher
Herder
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Ya desde su nacimiento, los niños son personas competentes, perfectamente capaces de expresar sus sentimientos y necesidades, y muy dispuestas a cooperar. Éste es el reconocimiento revelador que el terapeuta danés Jesper Jull presenta en esta relevante obra. Son por ende los padres los que deben trabajar para escuchar los mensajes explícitos e implícitos que les trasmiten sus hijos, tomarlos en serio y aprender de ellos. En base a este supuseto,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, break ground in mathematical theory or craft an artistic masterpiece, many of the practices that lead to great success are the same. In Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, a former McKinsey and Company consultant and writer who covers health and the science of human performance, and Steve Magness, a performance...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Language
English
Description
Whether you're an athlete, an employee, a parent or a spouse, the author's approach helps you to gain mental control by replacing hardwired negativity with what he calls "neutral thinking," a nonjudgmental, nonreactive way of coolly assessing problems and analyzing crises, leading to clarity and calm in the critical moments before taking decisive action.
253) How to have a good day: harnessing the power of behavioral science to transform our working lives
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In How to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb, business consultant and former partner at powerhouse McKinsey and Co., brings together the findings on behavioral economics and neuroscience--subjects that have led to dozens of bestselling books over the last decade--to show us how we can use these revolutionary new findings to improve how we work. Organized around seven factors that determine whether we have a good day at work, Webb offers us specific tools...
254) Fame
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Passions will be tested and young hearts will be broken. Ultimately, talent, dedication and hard work will triumph. Centers around a group of dancers, singers, musicians and actors at the New York City High School of Performing Arts, and their spirited drive to live out their dreams of stardom. In an incredibly competitive atmosphere, each student must shine amidst the tumult of school work, deep friendships, budding romance and self-discovery.
Series
Publisher
ARTPIX
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
These discs present an exhaustive archive of artist William Wegman's innovative, influential, and often hilarious performances, both with and without his Weimaraner friend, Man Ray. Inspired by the oblique humor of the 1950s comedians Bob and Ray and the atmosphere of experimentation in the art of the 1960s, reacting to the endless reductions of multiple -ism's sweeping through the art world, these pieces are a cross-over form of visual art that...
256) Lost soulz
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When aspiring rapper Sol is discovered by a group of gen-Z musicians at a party, he joins their tour through the heart of Texas and embarks on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Leaving behind his best friend Wesley and the surrogate family who embraced him, Sol contemplates the meaning of home. As Sol and the musicians travel across Texas, they bond over their shared pains and longings. Vibrant and bold, yet sensitive and vulnerable, these musicians...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Why is constant change bad for business? Because it's bad for human performance." For decades, "disruption" and "change" have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues that what has become a sacred dogma is both wrong and harmful. Whether it's a merger or re-org or a new office layout, change has become the ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with...
259) Poet X
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Xiomara Batista se siente ignorada e incapaz de ocultarse en Harlem. Desde que su cuerpo se volvió curvilíneo, aprendió a dejar que sus puños y su fiereza hablaran por ella. Pero X tiene mucho para decir, por eso descarga su frustración en las páginas de un cuaderno y recita las palabras para sí misma como si fueran plegarias, especialmente después de verse invadida por fuertes sentimientos hacia un chico de la clase de biología. Ante la...
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