Author: Vanessa Cornett
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190864605
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance, author Vanessa Cornett offers guidelines to help musicians cultivate artistic vision, objectivity, freedom, quiet awareness, and self-compassion, both on- and offstage in order to become more resilient performers. Contrary to modern culture's embrace of busyness and divided attention, Cornett's contemplative techniques provide greater space for artistic self-expression and satisfaction. With the aid of a companion website that includes audio files and downloadable templates, The Mindful Musician provides a method to promote attentional focus, self-assessment, emotional awareness, and creativity. The first of its kind to combine mindfulness practices with research in cognitive and sport psychology, this book helps musicians explore the roots of anxiety and other challenges related to performance, all through the deliberate focus of awareness.
The Mindful Musician
Author: Vanessa Cornett
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190864605
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance, author Vanessa Cornett offers guidelines to help musicians cultivate artistic vision, objectivity, freedom, quiet awareness, and self-compassion, both on- and offstage in order to become more resilient performers. Contrary to modern culture's embrace of busyness and divided attention, Cornett's contemplative techniques provide greater space for artistic self-expression and satisfaction. With the aid of a companion website that includes audio files and downloadable templates, The Mindful Musician provides a method to promote attentional focus, self-assessment, emotional awareness, and creativity. The first of its kind to combine mindfulness practices with research in cognitive and sport psychology, this book helps musicians explore the roots of anxiety and other challenges related to performance, all through the deliberate focus of awareness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190864605
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance, author Vanessa Cornett offers guidelines to help musicians cultivate artistic vision, objectivity, freedom, quiet awareness, and self-compassion, both on- and offstage in order to become more resilient performers. Contrary to modern culture's embrace of busyness and divided attention, Cornett's contemplative techniques provide greater space for artistic self-expression and satisfaction. With the aid of a companion website that includes audio files and downloadable templates, The Mindful Musician provides a method to promote attentional focus, self-assessment, emotional awareness, and creativity. The first of its kind to combine mindfulness practices with research in cognitive and sport psychology, this book helps musicians explore the roots of anxiety and other challenges related to performance, all through the deliberate focus of awareness.
Boomer At Your Service
Author: Vanessa Keel
Publisher: Spork
ISBN: 9781950169207
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When disaster strikes at Boomer's Service Dog Graduation Day, he sets off to find a family on his own. Catastrophe after calamity leave him feeling hopeless until a furry feline changes his fate forever. Boomer discovers friendship, his happily-ever-after home, and his special purpose in life.
Publisher: Spork
ISBN: 9781950169207
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When disaster strikes at Boomer's Service Dog Graduation Day, he sets off to find a family on his own. Catastrophe after calamity leave him feeling hopeless until a furry feline changes his fate forever. Boomer discovers friendship, his happily-ever-after home, and his special purpose in life.
Evan and the Skygoats
Author: Vanessa Vassar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945652042
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
After his sister passes away, Evan struggles to understand his own feelings and the sadness that envelops his family. Beautifully imagined and illustrated, Evan's journey to overcome his loneliness and uncertainty offers a compelling message about the power of the natural world to heal, to reassure, and to affirm our lasting connections to the ones we love. A wonderful, insightful and heart-warming story to comfort children of all ages. Based on her own personal experience healing from the loss of her daughter, the author also shares a list of Love Thoughts, useful advice for those grieving and for the family and friends helping them.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945652042
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
After his sister passes away, Evan struggles to understand his own feelings and the sadness that envelops his family. Beautifully imagined and illustrated, Evan's journey to overcome his loneliness and uncertainty offers a compelling message about the power of the natural world to heal, to reassure, and to affirm our lasting connections to the ones we love. A wonderful, insightful and heart-warming story to comfort children of all ages. Based on her own personal experience healing from the loss of her daughter, the author also shares a list of Love Thoughts, useful advice for those grieving and for the family and friends helping them.
The Promise of Planning
Author: Philip Harrison
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040045006
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Promise of Planning explores the experience of planning internationally since the global financial crisis, focusing on South Africa. The book is a response to a decade-plus in which state-led planning has re-emerged as a putative means for achieving developmental goals (as indicated in global initiatives such as the New Urban Agenda) and where planning in South Africa has consolidated in terms of its legal and policy basis. However, the return of planning is happening in an inauspicious context, with economic fragilities, technological shifts, political populism, institutional complexities, and more, threatening to upturn the "new promise of planning." The book provides a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa and how and why its promises have been difficult to achieve. Building on the authors’ previous book, Planning and Transformation, the book sheds light on planning as an increasingly complex and diverse governmental practice within a perpetually changing world. It can be used as a resource for planners who must make good on the new promise of planning while navigating the risks and threats of the contemporary world, as well as students and faculty interested in international planning debates and the South African case.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040045006
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Promise of Planning explores the experience of planning internationally since the global financial crisis, focusing on South Africa. The book is a response to a decade-plus in which state-led planning has re-emerged as a putative means for achieving developmental goals (as indicated in global initiatives such as the New Urban Agenda) and where planning in South Africa has consolidated in terms of its legal and policy basis. However, the return of planning is happening in an inauspicious context, with economic fragilities, technological shifts, political populism, institutional complexities, and more, threatening to upturn the "new promise of planning." The book provides a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa and how and why its promises have been difficult to achieve. Building on the authors’ previous book, Planning and Transformation, the book sheds light on planning as an increasingly complex and diverse governmental practice within a perpetually changing world. It can be used as a resource for planners who must make good on the new promise of planning while navigating the risks and threats of the contemporary world, as well as students and faculty interested in international planning debates and the South African case.
The Hula-Hoopin' Queen
Author: Thelma Lynne Godin
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781620145791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A spunky African American girl has a hula-hooping competition with her friends in Harlem, and soon everyone in the neighborhood--young and old alike--joins in on the fun.
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9781620145791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A spunky African American girl has a hula-hooping competition with her friends in Harlem, and soon everyone in the neighborhood--young and old alike--joins in on the fun.
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two
Author: Jack Townsend
Publisher: Jack Townsend
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet. With the newest crew of coworkers along for the ride and the resident psychopath out for his blood, our hero(?) must navigate the drama of small-town murder conspiracies, vigilante justice, and demonic summoning rituals...whether he wants to or not.
Publisher: Jack Townsend
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet. With the newest crew of coworkers along for the ride and the resident psychopath out for his blood, our hero(?) must navigate the drama of small-town murder conspiracies, vigilante justice, and demonic summoning rituals...whether he wants to or not.
Seeing Serena
Author: Gerald Marzorati
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982127902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer “a deep, satisfying meditation” (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women’s tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, and—by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others—changed, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams’s influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams’s return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter—from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women’s tennis greats, sports and cultural commentators—and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically—reflecting on her many, many facets. The result is an “enlightening…keen analysis” (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena’s singular status as the greatest women’s tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982127902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer “a deep, satisfying meditation” (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women’s tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, and—by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others—changed, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams’s influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams’s return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter—from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women’s tennis greats, sports and cultural commentators—and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically—reflecting on her many, many facets. The result is an “enlightening…keen analysis” (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena’s singular status as the greatest women’s tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.
Boy in Jeopardy
Author: Ryan Douglass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
With unflinching honesty and emotional clarity, BOY IN JEOPARDY catalogs a queer Black millennial's journey through self-destruction, sex addiction, love, and self-acceptance.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
With unflinching honesty and emotional clarity, BOY IN JEOPARDY catalogs a queer Black millennial's journey through self-destruction, sex addiction, love, and self-acceptance.
Harlequin Intrigue May 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2
Author: Lena Diaz
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 148805052X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. SMOKIES SPECIAL AGENT The Might McKenzies by Lena Diaz Ten years ago, FBI agent Remi Jordan’s twin sister disappeared in the mountans. When Remi offers herself as bait to catch the killer, she finds herself at odds with Duncan McKenzie, the criminal investigator who is trying to keep her safe. WYOMING COWBOY SNIPER Carson & Delaneys: Battle Tested by Nicole Helm Bad girl Vanessa Carson and uptight Dylan Delaney’s drunken one-night stand has permanent consequences. It can’t get worse…until they’re kidnapped and Vanessa loses her memory. K-9 DEFENSE by Elizabeth Heiter After former marine Colter Hayes and his combat tracker dog find Kensie Morgan in the Alaskan wilderness, Kensie is determined to enlist the pair’s help in tracking down her little sister, who went missing fourteen years ago. Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s May 2019 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 148805052X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. SMOKIES SPECIAL AGENT The Might McKenzies by Lena Diaz Ten years ago, FBI agent Remi Jordan’s twin sister disappeared in the mountans. When Remi offers herself as bait to catch the killer, she finds herself at odds with Duncan McKenzie, the criminal investigator who is trying to keep her safe. WYOMING COWBOY SNIPER Carson & Delaneys: Battle Tested by Nicole Helm Bad girl Vanessa Carson and uptight Dylan Delaney’s drunken one-night stand has permanent consequences. It can’t get worse…until they’re kidnapped and Vanessa loses her memory. K-9 DEFENSE by Elizabeth Heiter After former marine Colter Hayes and his combat tracker dog find Kensie Morgan in the Alaskan wilderness, Kensie is determined to enlist the pair’s help in tracking down her little sister, who went missing fourteen years ago. Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s May 2019 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.
Redeeming Waters
Author: Vanessa Davis Griggs
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 0758259638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
When her husband gets a job with David, a gospel megastar, Brianna, a lonely young wife seeking solace in religious studies, finds a connection with David that causes her to question her faith, fidelity, and the sovereignty of God.
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 0758259638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
When her husband gets a job with David, a gospel megastar, Brianna, a lonely young wife seeking solace in religious studies, finds a connection with David that causes her to question her faith, fidelity, and the sovereignty of God.