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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages
Description
"During his twenty years as a Navy officer and SEAL, Rich Diviney was intimately involved in a specialized SEAL selection process, which whittled a group of hundreds of extraordinary candidates down to a handful of the most elite performers. Diviney was often surprised by which candidates washed out and which succeeded. Someone could have all the right skills and still fail, while others he might have initially dismissed would prove to be top performers....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Draws on the examples of chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens to outline a powerful approach to learning that enables proficiency through strategic goal setting, self-motivation, and feedback exercises.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Description
An all-encompassing insider's look at the history, artists, instruments, and culture of drumming examines the achievements and personalities of forefront performers while analyzing some of rock and roll's most notable recordings.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
A prominent doctor and bioethicist sets out to find the world's best country for healthcare, including Taiwan, Germany, Australia and Switzerland, and how the most effective health providers handle the challenges of providing good care.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 214 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Reveals how managers can increase their effectiveness through strategic communication, team-building, and goal-setting practices as exemplified by top executives from some of the world's most successful companies.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC., a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
320 pages cm
Description
"In Rest, Silicon Valley consultant Alex Pang argues that we can be more successful in all areas of our lives by recognizing the importance of rest: working better does not mean working more, it means working less and resting better. Treating rest as a passive activity secondary to work undermines our chances for a rewarding and meaningful life. Whether by making space for daily naps, as Winston Churchill did during World War II; going on hours-long...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, ; 22 cm
Description
In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to...
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
A celebrated performance artist details her life, from her dark childhood in postwar Yugoslavia and her formative relationships to her rise to worldwide fame and her creative efforts to test and overcome the limits of pain and fear to achieve authentic, distinctive expressions.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"With over two decades' experience both observing and interpreting how people channel disaster into opportunity in the most extreme circumstances and environments on Earth, Ben Ramalingam has a unique vantage point from which to identify the key principles that can enable anyone to use stress as an opportunity for change. In Upshift, Ramalingam distils this expertise into an insightful, powerful, and engaging book that will show you how to reframe...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret. By accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state...
15) School of rock
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.
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Formats
Description
"In The Real Work-the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick-Gopnik becomes a dedicated student of several masters of their craft: a classical painter, a boxer, a dancing instructor, a driving instructor, and others. Rejecting self-help bromides and bullet points, he nevertheless shows that the top people in any field share a set of common qualities and methods. For one, their mastery is always a process of breaking...
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Description
A celebration in words and pictures, 20@OMI offers a vivid portrait of a renowned international, nonprofit arts center in upstate New York. This handsome, lavishly illustrated volume recounts how Art Omi grew from its modest beginnings as an artists' residency program in a converted barn into a thriving arts center boasting four artists residency programs, a sculpture park, a spectacular new visitors' center and year-round arts education for local...
Author
Description
Strings Attached is a lavishly illustrated book containing four (4) essays by noted experts that trace the tradition of Czech puppetry and discuss its relationship to America puppetry. Included are essays discussing the National Museum, Prague, and puppet theaters, museums, collections, organizations, and publications in the Czech Republic. The book accompanied an exhibition of the same name, held at the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art from March 8...
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