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Book Up Front

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  • Author : James Casella
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-11-08
  • ISBN : 9780976434429
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Up Front written by James Casella and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the past twenty years or so, the "pit," or "front ensemble," has grown to be an integral part of the modern drum corps and marching band activities. This evolution has brought us into a new realm in the world of percussion education and performance, merging outdoor playing styles with indoor playing styles. "Up Front" explores the numerous details of a successful front ensemble. Topics included are: equipment, instrument ranges, transporting, instrument care, technique, exercises, teaching techniques, arranging, and much, much more. At a whopping 225 pages thick, this resource is sure to provide years of insight. It is meant to be an all-encompassing guide for pit members and educators of all experience levels. Jim Casella and Jim Ancona have instructed and arranged for some of drum corps' most musical and innovative percussion ensembles. Now they have combined their "pit knowledge" into one complete resource. "Up Front" explores every unique aspect of today's front ensemble, from technique and musicianship to arranging and instructing.

Book Up Front

Download or read book Up Front written by Bill Mauldin and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1968 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up Front by Bill Mauldin is one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War, a classic in every sense of the word. In his drawings of the infantry dog-faces Willie and Joe, done while he himself fought in campaigns in Sicily and Italy, Mauldin created the immortal archetypes of the American fighting man. He knew, as one who had been there himself on the front lines and in the slit trenches, drenched with mud and rain, that Willie and Joe - with their unshaven faces, their gallows humor, their fortitude, and their dislike of privilege and cant - exemplify something enduring and surely noble about Americans at war. He knew their gripes, their fears, their jokes, and their opinions, and he recorded their talk with the most pungent accuracy. As for the timelessness of this book, David Halberstam puts it best: "One senses that if a war reporter who had been with Hannibal or Napoleon saw Mauldin's work, he would know immediately that the work was right". This new edition of Up Front is being published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. It reproduces the exact design of the interior of the original 1946 edition as well as its front cover art. Up Front endures today as a piece of living history and a potent reminder of the sacrifices made by the men who fight our wars, whether that fighting takes place in Italy or France or Korea or Vietnam or the Persian Gulf.

Book To the Front

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  • Author : Claudia Friddell
  • Publisher : Astra Publishing House
  • Release : 2022-03-01
  • ISBN : 1635925584
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book To the Front written by Claudia Friddell and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful tribute to Civil War nurse Clara Barton and her heroic efforts during the Battle of Antietam reveals how she earned the name "The Angel of the Battlefield," and shows the beginnings of her journey as one of our country's greatest humanitarians and the founder of the American Red Cross. During the Civil War, Clara Barton—one of the first women to receive permission to serve on a battlefield—snuck her supply wagon to the head of a ten-mile wagon train to deliver provisions to the Antietam Battlefield. On the bloodiest day in American history, Clara and her team of helpers sprang into action as they nursed the wounded and dying, cooked meals for soldiers, and provided doctors with desperately needed medical supplies and lanterns so they could operate through the night. Author Claudia Friddell blends her words with Clara Barton’s firsthand account to capture the nurse’s brave actions, while Christopher Cyr’s dramatically accurate illustrations portray one of the most heroic women in history.

Book Bill Mauldin  A Life Up Front

Download or read book Bill Mauldin A Life Up Front written by Todd DePastino and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deeply felt, vivacious and wonderfully illustrated biography.” —Clancy Sigal, Los Angeles Times Book Review A self-described “desert rat” who rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-two, Bill Mauldin used flashing black brush lines and sardonic captions to capture the world of the American combat soldier in World War II. His cartoon dogfaces, Willie and Joe, appeared in Stars and Stripes and hundreds of newspapers back home, bearing grim witness to life in the foxhole. We’ve never viewed war in the same way since. This lushly illustrated biography draws on private papers, correspondence, and thousands of original drawings to render a full portrait of a complex and quintessentially American genius.

Book Risk Up Front

Download or read book Risk Up Front written by Adam Josephs and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Successful projects depend more on your team's behavior than on their project tools. This book focuses on the fundamentals: simple structures and practices, applied with rigor. These are the tools you need to avoid the late changes that kill project schedules. Underlying all of them are four principles: accountability, transparency, integrity and commitment. Risk Up Front is designed to turn these principles into practice"--Cover, page 4.

Book Metallica  Back to the Front

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  • Author : Matt Taylor
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-09-13
  • ISBN : 1608877469
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Metallica Back to the Front written by Matt Taylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the creation of the Master of puppets album and the subsequent tour.

Book Front Row at the Trump Show

Download or read book Front Row at the Trump Show written by Jonathan Karl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *The Instant New York Times Bestseller* “A book historians will relish.”—Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal "Must read. I've read every book about the Trump presidency. This is the best."—Bill Press An account like no other, from the White House reporter who has known President Donald Trump for more than 25 years. We have never seen a president like this...norm-breaking, rule-busting, dangerously reckless to some and an overdue force for change to others. One thing is clear: We are witnessing the reshaping of the presidency. Jonathan Karl brings us into the White House in a powerful book unlike any other on the Trump administration. He’s known and covered Donald Trump longer than any other White House reporter. With extraordinary access to Trump during the campaign and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Karl delivers essential new reporting and surprising insights. These are the behind-the-scenes moments that define Trump’s presidency--an extraordinary look at the president, the person, and those closest to him. This is the real story of Trump’s unlikely rise; of the struggles and battles of those who work in the administration and those who report on it; of the plots and schemes of a senior staff enduring stunning and unprecedented unpredictability. Karl takes us from a TV set turned campaign office to the strange quiet of Trump’s White House on Inauguration Day to a high-powered reelection campaign set to change the country’s course. He shows us an administration rewriting the role of the president on the fly and a press corps that has never been more vital. Above all, this book is only possible because of the surprisingly open relationship Donald Trump has had with Jonathan Karl, a reporter he has praised, fought, and branded an enemy of the people. This is Front Row at the Trump Show.

Book Up Front

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  • Author : Ray Robinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Up Front written by Ray Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the experience and knowledge of twelve outstanding professional choral musicians, each writing on just one critical topic. The result is an exceptional resource for all levels of choral directors."--Back cover

Book Women at the Front

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  • Author : Jane E. Schultz
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2005-12-15
  • ISBN : 0807864153
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Women at the Front written by Jane E. Schultz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.

Book Chicks Up Front

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  • Author : Sara Holbrook
  • Publisher : Cleveland St U Poetry Cntr
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781880834398
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Chicks Up Front written by Sara Holbrook and published by Cleveland St U Poetry Cntr. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pushing to the Front

Download or read book Pushing to the Front written by Orison Swett Marden and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wright Up Front

Download or read book Wright Up Front written by Frank Luksa and published by . This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREGAMEA sports autobiography unlike any other. If you're looking to read about sex and scandal, bitterness or bashing, this book isn't for you. In fact, the only white powdery substance mentioned in this story are the chalk lines on the playing field.THE FIRST HALFMeet Rayfield Wright. Discover how he went from poverty to the pros. From being raised fatherless in the South to playing in five Super Bowls. This is a deeply delivered story of how Rayfield, at the early age of 10, was determined to turn turmoil into triumph. He did that. And so much more.THE SECOND HALFAlthough the odds of achieving success were stacked taller than his 6'7" frame, Rayfield tackled some amazingly tough hardships and eventually captured a starting position with the Dallas Cowboys...where he remained for 13 years. Through the eyes of this All-Pro, football fans will relive the Ice Bowl, the Hail Mary pass, five Super Bowls and other moments of the '70s when football was football and team rivalry was unmatched.THE LOCKER ROOMRayfield shared friendships and the field with some amazing legends - Coach Tom Landry, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Drew Pearson, Randy White, Bob Lilly, "Too Tall" Jones. The list of greats encompasses the longest yard. And then some.ROGER STAUBACH: "Rayfield protected me in the same manner in which the Secret Service protects our nation's President...with vigilance. Readers will admire his come-from-behind story."TONY DORSETT: "His (Rayfield's) deeply instilled passion for life and his pursuit for excellence will inspire all who read this book."SPECIAL NOTE: On August 5, 2006, Rayfield Wright will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. Joining him in the Class of 2006 are: Troy Aikman, Harry Carson, John Madden, Warren Moon and the late Reggie White.

Book Front Desk

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  • Author : Kelly Yang
  • Publisher : Walker Books Australia
  • Release : 2018-08-01
  • ISBN : 1760650722
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Front Desk written by Kelly Yang and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering story of empathy, courage, and hope, based on the author's real-life experience immigrating to the US as a child and working at the front desk of the motel where her parents work. Ten year-old Mia Tang moved to the US for a better life, a freer life, but so far, it's a life where she runs the front desk of a motel while her parents clean rooms. And she's not even allowed to use the swimming pool. Based on author Kelly Yang’s real-life experience immigrating to America from China and running a motel with her parents, this novel explores how one little girl overcomes language barriers, discrimination, and her own lack of confidence to find her voice – and use it to make a difference. This is a sensitive story of tolerance and diversity that will resonate with readers of all cultures who have experienced the challenges of feeling like an outsider.

Book Girls to the Front

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  • Author : Sara Marcus
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-09-28
  • ISBN : 0062013904
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Girls to the Front written by Sara Marcus and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement. . . but also a rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man.” — Vanity Fair Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement—the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering America’s gender landscape forever. Author Sara Marcus, a music and politics writer for Time Out New York, Slate.com, Pos, and Heeb magazine, interweaves research, interviews, and her own memories as a Riot Grrrl front-liner. Her passionate, sophisticated narrative brilliantly conveys the story of punk bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy—as well as successors like Sleater-Kinney, Partyline, and Kathleen Hanna’s Le Tigre—and their effect on today’s culture.

Book Pushing to the Front

Download or read book Pushing to the Front written by World's Leading Experts and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TO PUSH OR NOT TO PUSH - is that the question?What is the importance of pushing ourselves?...Why do we push?Pushing implies effort, Effort implies desire, Desire implies emotion, And emotion implies passion.If this is accurate for most of us, Pushing To The Frontassumes a passionate mindset.The Celebrity Authors in this book have one thing incommon - passion for their goals. They have 'blood, sweatand tears' invested to make a success of their pursuits.Now, we all have passion, which is one part of the menufor success - but: Do we have a plan to utilize and direct that passion?The Celebrity Experts in their field in this book havedeveloped multiple methods to succeed in their fields.They started out looking to improve their health, wealthand success in their lives. See how they achieved theirsuccess. They will show you their secrets.With odds not much different to yours, and at timesmuch more difficult, read how these Celebrity Expertshave done it, then copy these methods of "Pushing ToThe Front" to achieve YOUR goals.One finds limits by pushing them. Herbert Simon

Book Second Front

    Book Details:
  • Author : John R. MacArthur
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2004-05-26
  • ISBN : 9780520242319
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Second Front written by John R. MacArthur and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John R. MacArthur -- who is the publisher of Harper's Magazine -- examines the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the U.S. media during the 1991 gulf war. With a new preface.

Book The Cultural Front

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Denning
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781859841709
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book The Cultural Front written by Michael Denning and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.