Michael is currently the leader of the Think Big Revolution, an online social networking community fast approaching 50,000 members. This manifesto is the product of thousands of people who have come together and shared their big thinking as members of this community. It has become far too common that people never reach their full potential, their biggest limiting factor being the belief that they can only achieve small success. The Think Big Manifesto...

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...

Hablar del entrenamiento vocal del actor es hablar de la condición humana. De esto sabe Kristin Linklater, creadora del método conocido como freeing the natural voice. A pesar de desobedecer la sugerencia de su maestra en cuanto a nunca escribir sobre el tema, porque cada individuo que experimenta con su voz y cada clase, son experiencias únicas, Kristin comprendió que había de compartir su vasto conocimiento sobre la voz hablada del actor y...

There are countless books out there teaching the nuts and bolts of acting; the craft, the business and so on. However, as a young actor, just starting out on my path, I wanted something more. Life as an artist is unlike that of any other career path. There's no straight line to achieving your goals. And being an artist is not the type of job you can simply leave at the office come 5 o'clock. It's so much a part of who you are and seeps into every...

In The Body Artist, author Don DeLillo focuses on a single life, a single death. This bestselling novella is -obscure, poetic, lean, earthy, more than slightly warped. After her husband's suicide, performance artist Lauren Hartke meets up with a kind of autistic savant who resonates with her past. She explores him, emphasizing intimacy and sensuality. Could he be the ghost of her late husband?

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,...

"It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom has gone viral. Will Nancy's humiliation get the best of...

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.

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...

Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience and a background of more than 1,000 magazine articles on the subject, engine control expert Jeff Hartman explains everything from the basics of engine management to the building of complicated project cars. Hartman has substantially updated the material from his 1993 MBI book Fuel Injection to address the incredible developments in automotive fuel injection technology from the past decade, including...