Performance Books

I highly recommend this book to everyone, even for those who do not train athletically....Dr. Hatfield and Daniel Gastelu provide a tremendous amount of detailed nutritional information (they even break down into descriptions of Proteins and Essential and Non Essential Amino Acids)...

If you are interested in obtaining/regaining your health---learn how to eat so that food is energy...this book will set you on the right path (I'm a vegetarian and it's been extremely helpful)to optimal conditioning regardless of your personal health goals....

A fantastic read for students of conducting as well as for performing musicians. Contains study questions and chapter summaries, but does not read like a textbook.

This guy, Harry Haskell, sure knows his music history. I suppose this book is too esoteric for some, but if you like history and music as I do, then you'll love this book. I highly recommend it.

For what it does, this is an excellent study. Who else would take the time to document in utmost metronomic detail the subtle shifts of tempo in a wide variety of compositions, performed by an extremely varied group of performers so that we can now have a 'performance practice' of early 20th century performers instead of just that of the 16th-18th centuries and earlier?
This book will give back-up to those present day performers who recognize the need for extricating concepts of tempo from the limitations of the late 20th century which Philip discusses in this book and for re-creating in modern interpretations the tempo rubato taken for granted in the late 19th century, to say nothing of earlier centuries.
The reader certainly does not have to agree with all his conclusions to recognize that Philip has done his chosen task very, very well indeed.

I have been researching performance poetry as a historical predecessor to Slam poetry. I think I found something better than slam, and it is performance poetry. I have to recommend this CD of the someone who is called the original performance poet, Hedwig Gorski, because she made up the term to publicize what she started doing in the late 1970s. There is a great book out linked in this review that shows how she started with what she called in a recent interview as "neo-verse drama" coupled with "conceptual art." You don't hear about literary artists doing anything this new and daring anymore. Here is a link to the book if you want to read about something so bizarre and unexpected, that it will spin your ideas about poetry around 360 degrees.
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The band work like that in the "Clown" CD comes after the performance poetry theater events archived in the book. If anything, it sounds much more radio friendly and even entertaining. She comes "as close to singing as anyone can without really singing," a playwright wrote of Gorski vocals. It is really something that should be part of every slam poet's collection. Has anyone been thinking that all the slam poets are beginnig to sound the same? How about Def Poets? Are they all beginnning to deliver the same style of poems and voice inflections? I think so. That is why performance poetry is so much better than slam. Especially the one and only original performance poet, so-called, on the CD. Gotta hear it and own it before the CDs disappear. Really a treat.

This is a good primer for those interested in supplements and nutrients for living long, good physical, and mental health. The book doesn't go terribly deep into any one nutrient but does give clear, easy to understand information on the major nutrients, supplements, and "smart" drugs (also gives info on where to get them).

I find the recipe portion of the book a complete waste, but can see how some might find it useful.

If you know someone who is interested in taking supplements to live longer or healthier - then you need to get them this book - they will love it!

This is a great book for anyone that deals with athletes. Great source for answers to any questions !

Using eigenvector analysis of the input/output matrix of an economy the author is able to show, among other things, what sectors of the economy are exploiting other sectors by over pricing. A detailed review is contained in my book PQOLVOL1, available at the website era2000.net

Seton's method has been used to analyze issues in decontrol in Russia and Eastern Europe (Michael Kaser, The Economic Journal v. 100 (June 1990), 596-615), and to evaluate aspects of the South African economy (D. E. N. van Seventer and F. D. van Niekerk, The South African Journal of Economics, v. 59, No. 1, March 1991.

I have read the 1985 edition, but not the 1992 edition.

This is an author who is as much ahead of his time as William Vickrey was in his 1961 landmark paper.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION:COACHING BASKETBALL SUCCESSFULLY by Dr.Gil Smith is a compact manual designed for both coaches and athletes. Its initial appearance is enticing and readers do not wonder if they will have time to read it and put it aside for future reading. Compiled in seventy-seven pages, Dr. Smith's book may be read during one sitting, and re-read either in its entirety or with focus on selected information without time-stress. Devoid of wordiness and verbiage, this manual is entirely reader directed.

All information is reinforced at the end of each chapter by Communication Tryouts consisting of five questions that test readers' digestion of main points. These Tryouts may be checked with the author's Answer Keys. Dr. Smith has conveyed information on five major topics: "Coaches Know This," "Basics in Communication," "Clearly Stated (Almost) Everything You Need to Know About Messages," "The Learning Process," and "The Coach as Change Agent." To further reinforce content and fix main points, he has included brief descriptions of each chapter.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION:COACHING BASKETBALL SUCCESSFULLY by Gil Smith, Ph.D, and contributors Elinor A. Smith,Ph.D, and Michael Sachs,Ph.D, offer a "Must Own" Manual modeled for persons involved in or interested in basketball as coaches or participants.

Sandra E. Bowen
Retired College Professor
Author

All of the books written by Blaine and Lisa Ray are great. I have them used them with students from middle school to adults and they're an excellent tool. The price that they are sold at [..]. I would buy them there.