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The Clarity Principle
Turf wars, low morale, bad politics, and misguided strategies: these are issues that claim much of a leader’s time. But this parade of dysfunctions and messy “people” problems actually points to an organization confused about its core business, torn between competing ideas about what it is and wants to be—an organization facing an identity crisis. Strategy and leadership expert Chatham Sullivan argues that when the purpose of a business becomes confused, it is the leaders’ responsibility to restore clarity, especially in the face of tough strategic choices that have political, personal, and cultural consequences for the organization. Sullivan shows leaders how to take the decisive stand that clarifies their organization’s core purpose. Featuring compelling stories of leaders who have succumbed to and successfully resolved their organizations’ identity crises, The Clarity Principle bridges the gap between leadership and strategy and demonstrates the tremendous gains to be achieved by leaders willing to make tough choices.
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John Zorn’s File Card Works
This book is the first study of John Zorn’s ‘file card’ works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985), Spillane (1986), Interzone (2010), and Liber Novus (2010). It explains the unique creative process behind these compositions, contextualizing them in relation to the history of file cards, the ‘open work’ concept, cinematic listening, and uncreative aesthetics. Semiotic, hermeneutic, and ekphrastic analyses draw hypertextual links between the four file card compositions and the worlds of their respective dedicatees: author Mickey Spillane, filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, novelist William S. Burroughs and painter Brion Gysin, and psychiatrist C. G. Jung. This book will appeal not only to those interested in Zorn’s music, but also to scholars of music semiotics and hermeneutics, intermedia studies, and avant-garde music.
The Final Solician
The Final Solician is book one in a ten part series called The Sol Chronicles. The first book chronicles man's escape from the harsh conditions of the planet called Mercury and their reestablishment on the planet that they named Venus. Led by Morta, Vika, and the Solician Zach, some of the humans escape from their harsh world to a newer and a better place. But a new world brings with it new problems that threaten the existence of man. Past lessons are long forgotten and the people must learn some basic survival skills all over again. The humans had forgotten what had brought them to this remote part of the universe in the first place and they had no idea why Mercury had been the perfect hiding place for so long. The idea of other intelligence never even occurred to them. This first chapter in the reeducation of human kind sets the tone for what is to come-again!
Savage Men, Savage Earth
The drama that unfolds will keep you reading to the startling conclusion of a tragic struggle for survival. The year is 1942. The setting a United States Army disciplinary barracks in the fierce and barren landscape of the Mojave Desert. Here, troublemakers, cowards and deserters from combat units are sent for retraining and eventual reassignment. During the punishing weeks in vicious sun and heat and bone-chilling nights the staff relentlessly drive the prisoners to the breaking point in an effort to “reshape” theminto a true image of a combat soldier. The arrival of four new prisoners suddenly and unavoidably provokes a deadly confrontation that could ultimately destroy this savage kingdom.
Audio Culture
Contributions : Brian Eno, John Cage, Jacques Attali, Umberto Eco, Christian Marclay, Simon Reynolds, Pierre Schaeffer, Marshall MCLuhan, Derek Bailey, Pauline Oliveros, Tony Conrad, David Toop... etc.
Mount Wonder
Memories of college have intruded on Bernard Kennisbaum's mind with increasing regularity. It is his junior year, and Bernard declares himself free of his father's financial claws, free to follow his Muse. A beguiling beauty, Apryl, has caught his eye, and her scent leads him into a lecture hall that will change his life. His unwitting arrival in a Great Books class--The Humanities Integration Program--devolves into a wild west showdown with a trigger-happy prof, ambitious administrators, jealous colleagues, vengeful state officials, hoodlums, and hangover hippies. Lured in by poetry, Plato, and female pheromones, Bernard discovers an unlikely collegiate underworld dedicated to rescuing Western civilization from soulless purveyors of the bottom line. The trouble is, Bernard doesn't know which side he is on, and he soon learns he may not know everything about his family or himself. In Mount Wonder, two cultures collide and roll into one rip-roaring adventure of love and learning. Based on true events at a major university, this novel will make you question your world and the world of higher education.
Searching for a Grand Master
Have you ever felt that life is simply too ordinary; wondering if this is the life that you were meant to live? That is exactly the situation that Amanda, an average American from Illinois, finds herself in as she prepares to graduate from high school and begin her new life. Unbeknownst to her, a great honor has been bestowed upon her that comes around only once every ten thousand years. Her world will be turned upside down within the next few days. Amanda will find herself in a world a long way from Earth where she will have to learn how to live. How can this ordinary girl learn to rule the galaxy and to handle the power that comes with this awesome responsibility? Will she be strong enough to rule and not be overcome by all that stands in her path? Zorn Young is the total opposite of Amanda, but, he has a burning desire to have her all to himself. He is smarter, faster, stronger, and already knows the galaxy better than all of who have come before him. But, time is running out and he does the unbelievable in a final attempt to bring her to him.
To Walk with the Devil
In the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders, and why did the occupiers permit this collaboration? Gregor Joseph Kranjc investigates these questions in To Walk with the Devil, the first English-language book-length account of Slovene-Axis collaboration during the Second World War. Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their émigré anti-Communist opponents. Kranjc situates this divide in the vicious civil war that engulfed Slovenia during its occupation – a conflict that witnessed at its bloody climax the execution of over 10,000 Slovene collaborators and opponents of the new Communist Yugoslav regime in the wake of liberation. To Walk with the Devil makes clear how these grisly events continue to ripple through Slovene society today.
(Hidden) Minorities
This book asks why several ethnic and linguistic groups in Central Europe and the Balkans have not yet been legally recognized as national minorities. Some of these hidden minorities have not developed an intellectual elite that can visibly present their identity and claims to the majority population. Other groups are deliberately concealing their existence and language for reasons of self-protection. The chapters in this volume address the everyday mechanisms of hiding and being hidden in the transition zone of these two European regions.
