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Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Jamey Aebersold, Richie Beirach, and more, this book presents all the information a student of jazz piano needs in an easy-to-understand, yet thorough, manner. For intermediate to advanced pianists, written by one of the acknowledged masters of jazz piano playing.
"For a popular television series, Undercover Boss has an unusual knack for raising deep and weighty questions." —Forbes On February 7, 2010 the CBS television series Undercover Boss USA premiered to a staggering 38.6 million viewers, the largest post-Super Bowl audience for a new series and the most-watched premiere episode of any reality series in the history of television. Now, for the first time, the bosses and employees featured on Undercover Boss share the lessons they learned as well as the formative experiences that resulted from being on the show. Show creators and executive producers Stephen Lambert and Eli Holzman reveal how they came up with the idea for the show, how they got a major network on board, and of course, how they found a dynamic, charismatic group of bosses willing to go undercover—on camera—in this thoroughly new experiment. Featuring all-new interviews and insights with the bosses and employees of the nine businesses featured on Season 1 of the show, as well producers' notes on what you didn't see behind the scenes, this book is a must-have for fans of the show everywhere.
“We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.”—Reda Zine, a founder of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene. “Music is the weapon of the future.”—Fela Kuti. An eighteen-year-old Moroccan devoted to Black Sabbath, a twenty-two-year-old Gaza rapper, and a young Lebanese singer inspired by Bob Marley represent a vibrant, diverse world of Islam, contrasting sharply with the conservative and extremist narratives often portrayed in the media. Genres like heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, and reggae serve as powerful forms of protest, often deemed immoral in the Muslim world, yet they may also provide the soundtrack for a revolution. Despite governmental censorship, these musicians and fans persist, driven by the joy of self-expression and the deeply political nature of their environment. Mark LeVine delves into the impact of Western music on the Middle East through interviews with these artists, highlighting young Muslims who navigate their faith alongside a passion for music and a yearning for change. This exploration reveals contemporary Islamic culture through the dynamic music scene in the Middle East and North Africa, showcasing how music could emerge as a genuine force for democratization in a historically authoritarian region.
Throughout Sound Fury , poems by metaphysician Robert Herrick are refashioned into phantasmagorical oddities of likeness and difference. Figures from the fringes of popular imagination—Zane Grey, Robinson Crusoe, Porfirio Díaz—surface as cobbled-together avatars on the theme of identity. Brilliantly asserting the necessity of humane and resistant modes of speech against the vapid sounds and enforced silences of orthodoxy, Sound Fury finds the poet “Now, in our former state/ In our current one/ In stately procession,” venturing forth in a world “where things of questionable being go.”
Activists, ambassadors, and award-winning journalists offer their incisive analysis of the American occupation of Iraq in this timely collection of essays, featuring the arresting photography of Lynsey Addario. Topics include American economic interests in the war, the mainstream media coverage that made it politically feasible, escalating abuse of Muslim women by both American troops and an increasingly fundamentalist Middle East citizenry, the profiteering of multinationals like Halliburton and Bechtel, and more. A bevy of contributors includes Medea Benjamin, Kristina Borjesson, Amy Goodman, Amir Hussain, Naomi Klein, Mark LeVine, Yanar Mohammed, Viggo Mortensen, and Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
From America's most trusted financial advisor comes a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice. In Die Broke, you'll learn that life is a game where the loser gives his money to Uncle Sam at the end. There are four steps to the process:Quit TodayNo, don't tell your boss to shove it...at least not out loud. But in your head accept that from this day on you're a free agent whose number one workplace priority is your personal bottom line.Pay CashYou should be as conscious of spending as you are of saving. Credit should be a rarely used tool for those few times (buying homes and cars) when paying cash is impossible.Don't RetireYour work life should be a journey up and down hills, rather than a climb up a sheer cliff that ends with a jump into the abyss.Die BrokeIt sounds terrifying, the one intolerable outcome to your financial life. And yet, in truth, dying broke might be your best option for a life without fear: fear of failure and privation now, fear of impoverishment in the long run.
Author's note : revolutionary auras and phantasms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : from uprisings to plagues -- Morocco : finding harmonies in a land of dissidence -- Yalla, let's play! : Egypt from the pharaoh to the general -- Palestine/Israel : hard music in an orphaned land -- Lebanon : remixed but never remastered -- Iran : living in the upside down and inside out -- Pakistan : shredding the funk from the valleys to the sea -- By way of an epilogue : the joys of resistance.
In his recent national bestseller, <em>Die Broke,</em> Stephen Pollan introduced a radical new strategy for spending and saving money in today's unpredictable financial environment. The natural result of <em>Die Broke</em>--indeed the reason to die broke in the first place--is the subject of this new volume. If <em>Die Broke</em> is about how we spend, save, and invest our money, <em>Live Rich</em> is the other side of the equation, the earning side of things. In it, Stephen Pollan shares the compelling observation that living rich has less to do with new worth or income stream and everything to do with <em>freedom.</em> The most powerful form of financial freedom comes from working for yourself (whoever your boss may be). <em>Live Rich</em> says all that's standing in your way of earning enough to live the life of your dreams is your relationship to money. Act rationally rather than emotionally when it comes to your income, and you'll find money <em>can</em> buy you happiness. The four tenets of the <em>Live Rich</em> philosophy, simply stated, are: <strong>Make Money.</strong> Too many of us have been fed the line that "work isn't necessarily about making money." Tell that to Visa next time they send you a bill. <strong> Don't grow, change.</strong> Be ready to change your work paradigm on a moment's notice, to morph from career to career several times as conditions--and you--change. <strong>Take Charge.</strong> In the twenty-first century, you must become proactive and start taking measured risks. <strong>Become a mercenary.</strong> Think for yourself as a free agent, responsible for your own security and always on the lookout for the next great job. <em>Live Rich</em> provides an explanation of Stephen Pollan's radical workplace philosophy as well as a detailed A to Z action plan--from "accountants" and "advertisement" to "Web sites" and "working capital"--that allows readers to apply the philosophy to every facet of their working loves and truly <em>Live Rich.</em>
