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    Blue-Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min
    Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built the scenery, costumes, lights, and other components of theatrical productions for more than a hundred years. Timothy R. White begins his history of the theater industry with the dispersed pre-Broadway era, when components such as costumes, lights, and scenery were built and stored nationwide. Subsequently, the majority of backstage operations and storage were consolidated in New York City during what is now known as the golden age of musical theater. Toward the latter half of the 20th century, decentralization and deindustrialization brought the emergence of nationally distributed regional theaters and performing arts centers. Featuring case studies of iconic productions such as Oklahoma! (1943) and Evita (1979), and an exploration of the craftwork of radio, television, and film production around Times Square, Blue-Collar Broadway tells a rich story of the history of craft and industry in American theater nationwide.The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."The fascinating backstage story of the history and evolution of theater craft…" (Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City)"This is a remarkable achievement." (Marlis Schweitzer, York University)"Highly recommended." (Choice) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Doug McDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/234468/bk_acx0_234468_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 621min
    Athletic genius explained. A groundbreaking new perspective on the science of elite sporting performance.Why couldn't Michael Jordan, master athlete that he was, hit a baseball? Why can't modern robotics come close to replicating the dexterity of a five-year-old? Why do good quarterbacks always seem to know where their receivers are?In this deeply researched book, sports and business reporter Zach Schonbrun explores what actually drives human movement and its spectacular potential. The groundbreaking work of two neuroscientists in Major League Baseball is only the beginning. Schonbrun traces the fascinating history of motor research and details how new investigations in the brain are helping explain the extraordinary skills of talented performers like Stephen Curry, Tom Brady, Serena Williams, and Lionel Messi; as well as musical virtuosos, dancers, rock climbers, race-car drivers, and more.Whether it is timing a 95-mph fastball or reaching for a coffee mug, movement requires extraordinary computation that many take for granted - until now. The Performance Cortex ushers in a new way of thinking about the athletic gifts we strain to see in our cavernous arenas. It's not about the million-dollar arm anymore. It's about the million-dollar brain.Includes a bonus PDF with charts and graphs.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Vincent Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003967/bk_peng_003967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beverly Hills Manners: Golden Rules from the World's Most Glamorous Zip Code , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
    In Beverly Hills, fame and wealth can buy everything except class, grace, and sophistication. In Beverly Hills Manners, Lisa Gach offers a behind-the-scenes look at the unique social dilemmas of the residents of the hills of Beverly through the eyes of an etiquette expert tasked with transforming her awkward, boorish, and sometimes challenging clients into social virtuosos. From Saudi princesses to Oscar winners, talent agents to intelligence operatives, child actresses, butlers, and football players, Lisa has amassed an astounding roster. She’s taught Oscar nominees how to successfully navigate the red carpet, sorority girls to use forks and knives, and NFL coaches to shake hands. In this book, she reflects on those experiences to teach you how to present yourself as a respectable professional in real-world situations. Beverly Hills Manners covers more than just table manners. It includes advice on what Lisa calls Child Wrangling “laying down the law as parents when it comes to cliques, bullying, and cattiness and netiquette, a vital new discipline in tune with every type of social media. You’ll also learn how to gracefully conduct yourself during life’s most trying moments, such as comforting a friend on the loss of a loved one or agreeing to help a family member who may be down on his luck. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jorjeana Marie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021075/bk_adbl_021075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nothing Like Paris: Bend or Break, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min
    Humble pie wasn't supposed to taste this sweet. Jack Tarkington's life is in the toilet. He was supposed to be spending his junior year studying someplace cool, like Paris or Rome. Instead, after taking out his anger on the campus golden boy, whose dad ripped off his parents, Jack is facing possible expulsion. Sure, it's all his own fault, but coming back to the small Iowa town he thought he'd escaped, after crowing about his admission to a prestigious school, has been a humbling experience. When he runs into Miguel, Jack braces for backlash over the way he lorded it over his old friend and flame. Instead Miguel offers him friendship - and a job at his growing farm-to-table store and café. Against the odds both guys bond over broken dreams and find common ground in music. But when Jack's college gives him a second chance, he's torn between achieving a dream that will take him far from home and a love that strikes a chord he'll never find anywhere else. Warning: This book contains a humbled guy who's on the brink of losing it all, a determined entrepreneur who seems to have it all together, apologies issued through banjo-picking duets, and two lovers who can play each other's bodies like virtuosos. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cooper North. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/inbl/000151/bk_inbl_000151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 2: Summaries of All-Time Great Books, Hörbuch, Digital, 388min
    The second volume of the best-selling Great American Bathroom Book series delivers a comprehensive crash course in more than 170 iconic literary masterpieces. You'll be well on your way to becoming the most popular trivia partner not named Ken Jennings after you're done devouring The Great American Bathroom Book: Volume 2! Complete with a staggering amount of detailed summaries and engaging commentaries, The Great American Bathroom Book: Volume 2 condenses hundreds of years of history into one easy-to-digest book. Say goodbye to those furrowed brows of conversations past! Your date wants to discuss Richard Adams' Watership Down? Perfect. Your boss wants to analyze the use of allegories in George Orwell's Animal Farm? You're ready! The short stories of William Faulkner, Flowers for Algernon, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? After consuming The Great American Bathroom Book: Volume 2, you'll be ready for any conversational curveball you may encounter! With inspirational speeches, enthralling biographies, a bevy of thought-provoking facts, and classic comedy musings from comedic virtuosos like Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, and Woody Allen, The Great American Bathroom Book: Volume 2 is so much more than just a collection of literary summaries. Rome wasn't built in a single day, but you know what? It might have been if The Great American Bathroom Book: Volume 2 had been available!PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Compact Classics. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019028/bk_acx0_019028_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary of Peak by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pools: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 25min
    From the world's reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill. Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill. Ericsson's findings have been lauded and debated, but never properly explained. So the idea of expertise still intimidates us - we believe we need innate talent to excel, or think excelling seems prohibitively difficult. Peak belies both of these notions, proving that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us - it's just a question of nurturing them by reducing expertise to a discrete series of attainable practices. Peak offers invaluable, often counterintuitive, advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself. Whether you want to stand out at work, or help your kid achieve academic goals, Ericsson's revolutionary methods will show you how to master nearly anything. This summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all of it. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This summary is not intended to be used without reference to the original book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: brian ackley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072495/bk_acx0_072495_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mean , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
    True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming-of-age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. "We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would cut off our breasts. We act mean to defend our clubs and institutions. We act mean because we like to laugh. Being mean to boys is fun and a second-wave feminist duty. Being mean to men who deserve it is a holy mission. Sisterhood is powerful, but being mean is more exhilarating. Being mean isn't for everybody. Being mean is best practiced by those who understand it as an art form. These virtuosos live closer to the divine than the rest of humanity. They're queers." Myriam Gurba is a queer spoken-word performer, visual artist, and writer from Santa Maria, California. She's the author of Dahlia Season (2007, Manic D) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Wish You Were Me (2011, Future Tense Books), and Painting Their Portraits in Winter (2015, Manic D). She has toured with Sister Spit, and her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. She lives in Long Beach, where she teaches social studies to eighth-graders.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Myriam Gurba. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100419/bk_acx0_100419_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 724min
    From the author of the widely praised Raising America - a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of 15 exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking book for a time when parents anxiously aspire to raise "super children" and experts worry the nation is wasting the brilliant young minds it needs. Ann Hulbert examines the lives of children whose rare accomplishments have raised hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it. She probes the changing role of parents and teachers as well as of psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, who push back against adults more as the decades proceed. Among the children are the math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics, a Harvard graduate student at age 15; two girls, a poet and a novelist, whose published work stirred debate in the 1920s; the movie superstar Shirley Temple and the African American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler; the chess champion Bobby Fischer; computer pioneers and autistic "prodigious savants"; and musical prodigies, present and past. Off the Charts also tells the surprising inside stories of Lewis Terman's prewar study of high-IQ children and of the postwar talent search begun at Johns Hopkins and discovers what Tiger Mom Amy Chua really has to tell us. But in these moving stories, it is the children who deliver the most important messages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005426/bk_rand_005426_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 617min
    A book full of wonders. (Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk)"Witty, insightful.... The story of jellyfish...is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future." (New York Times Book Review)Jellyfish have been swimming in our oceans for well over half a billion years, longer than any other animal that lives on the planet. They make a venom so toxic that it can kill a human in three minutes. Their sting - microscopic spears that pierce with five million times the acceleration of gravity - is the fastest known motion in the animal kingdom. Made of roughly 95 percent water, some jellies are barely perceptible virtuosos of disguise, while others glow with a luminescence that has revolutionized biotechnology. Yet until recently, jellyfish were largely ignored by science, and they remain among the most poorly understood of ocean dwellers.More than a decade ago, Juli Berwald left a career in ocean science to raise a family in landlocked Austin, Texas, but jellyfish drew her back to the sea. Recent, massive blooms of billions of jellyfish have clogged power plants, decimated fisheries, and caused millions of dollars of damage. Driven by questions about how overfishing, coastal development, and climate change were contributing to a jellyfish population explosion, Juli embarked on a scientific odyssey. She traveled the globe to meet the biologist who devote their careers to jellies, hitched rides on Japanese fishing boats to see giant jellyfish in the wild, raised jellyfish in her dining room, and throughout it all marveled at the complexity of these alluring and ominous biological wonders. Gracefully blending personal memoir with crystal-clear distillations of science, Spineless is the story of how Juli learned to navigate and ultimately embrace her ambition, her curiosity, and her passion ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juli Berwald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003293/bk_peng_003293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bandido Raça Pura - E outros 35 perfis de ilustres mais ou menos virtuosos notáveis anônimos cães ratos urubus e coisas supostamente inanimadas: ab 3.49 €
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