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Society for Human Resource Management
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"The Performance Conversations method is a performance improvement system. It has the singular goal of empowering individuals to reach their full potential at work. It is built upon a coaching model wherein a manager-the coach-provides the necessary guidance, support, direction, and encouragement so that the employee-the performer-is enabled to take ownership of their work and execute it flawlessly. It uses quality questions to involve the employee...
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English
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In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
Set against a contemporary South African society that is chronologically 'post' apartheid, but one that continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism, Acts of Transgression finds a representation of the complexity of this moment...
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Español
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Enfrentados a la noción de progreso y al umbral evolutivo de la inteligencia artificial que alimentan los imaginarios sobre nuestro futuro, las reflexiones y los ensayos que reúne este libro buscan fundar un nuevo paisaje crítico, en la zona donde se encuentran el arte, la teoría crítica y la tecnología. Un paisaje lleno de innovación, profundamente latinoamericano, ensamblado con los artefactos de vanguardia del presente, donde la obra de...
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English
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Digesting Recipes: The Art of Culinary Notation scrutinizes the form of the recipe, using it as a means to explore a multitude of subjects in post-war Western art and culture, including industrial mass-production, consumerism, hidden labour, and art engaged with the everyday. Each chapter is presented as a dish in a nine-course meal, drawing on examples from published cookbooks and the work of artists such as Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Annette Messager,...
25) Bezna
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English
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Bezna 5 makes an ouroboric move of plunging into itself ('Bezna' in Romanian means consistent darkness + diffuse fear). Bezna 5 is darkly glowing dead thinking, cosmic pessimism, hairy autonomy, limbo sighs, horrendous pink volumes, underground nematodes, happy dismemberment, haunting prehumanism, glowing horror, sinister moods, eternal stillness, future plague, idiot nonknowing and news from Cioran:The Book of Delusions (fragments) Emil CioranFollowing...
26) The Awakening
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Series
Alliance vampires volume 05
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English
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Megan O'Casey and her husband Finn still make good music together. Which is why they head to Salem, Massachusetts, Megan's hometown; booked to perform a weeklong series of concerts culminating on Halloween? But as soon as they arrive, Finn seems different; sensual beyond belief one moment; cold and ruthless the next. As the full moon approaches, Megan senses that she, too, is in mortal danger.
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English
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Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak distills three decades of myth-shattering research into a powerful learning strategy that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring new abilities. Whether you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals, Ericsson's revolutionary...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious theater troupe. When the workshops ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives." --
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Publisher
Hidden Point Solutions, LLC
Pub. Date
©2023
Language
English
Description
Learn How to Lead to Win will help you crush barriers to your success. Be as bold as a Top Gun fighter pilot, as decisive as the commander of a carrier in a typhoon. Have the courage to push to the edge of the leadership envelope and be an even better leader than you are today.
Mike wrote this book for leaders like you who want to succeed in life. Leaders want to win. Winning in life is to be successful—successful in your marriage, your family,...
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An epic comedy about a mine worker named Power whose love of drums and lack of musical skill have turned him into the ridiculed 'air drummer' of his small town. But when Power's union leader father calls a strike at the mine, Power discovers an underground subculture of air drummers who just might hold the key to changing the world.
Series
Chappelle's show volume season 2
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dave Chappelle is back and he has even more to say. He contains the right mix of edginess, profanity, grotesque features, and sexual situations to have a hit. His guests include Rick James, Lil' Jon, and Wayne Brady.
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English
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When he was five years old, Chad V. Holtkamp declared he wanted to be a songwriter like John Denver.
Like many things a child says, it was quickly replaced by some other occupation, like being a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.
At seventeen, Chad wrote his first song. Over the course of the next dozen years, he went on to write many more sets of lyrics, along with a litany of poems and other ideas.
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Español
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En un ejercicio de recuperación de prácticas performáticas chilenas, Sebastián Valenzuela-Valdivia nos invita a reconsiderar los criterios curatoriales y archivísticos para definir nuevas categorías de análisis atingentes a la experimentación del cuerpo y el uso de medios como la fotografía, el video y el libro-perfomance. Así, Del cuerpo al archive contribuye a cómo pensar esta experimentación en el marco de la historicidad y la potencia...
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English
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Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton's diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed solo sound performances and his contributions to the iconic sound poetry group The Four Horsemen, Dutton is a surprising, witty, sensitive, and innovative explorer of language and of the human. This volume gathers a representative...
38) The Gift
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English
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In the midst of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a writer and academic from New York named Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.
40) Organize tomorrow today: 8 ways to retrain your mind to optimize performance at work and in life
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Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"How do both elite athletes and business leaders climb to the top? Contrary to what you might think, it's effective habits rather than innate talent that are their keys to success. Dr. Jason Selk-director of mental training for the 2011 World Series Champions, the St. Louis Cardinals-and star business coach Tom Bartow combine the most effective elements of both their disciplines to offer an organizational improvement plan that anyone can learn and...
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