Download or read book Beyond Failure written by Tony Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action is inextricable from its potential not to succeed. This inherent potential has become a key critical trope in contemporary theatre, performance studies, and scholarship around visual cultures. Beyond Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more broadly. The essays in this volume tackle contemporary debates around the theory and poetics of failure, suggesting that in the absence of success can be found a defiance and hopefulness that points to new ways of knowing and being in the world. Beyond Failure offers a unique and engaging approach for students and practitioners interested not only in the impact of failure on the stage, but what it means for wider social and cultural debates.
Download or read book Beyond Failure written by Norbert J. Delatte and published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norbert Delatte presents the circumstances of important failures that have had far-reaching impacts on civil engineering practice, organized around topics in the engineering curriculum.
Download or read book Beyond Failure Training written by Dennis B. Weis and published by Critical Bench. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Failure Training (BFT) was crafted, tagged (in the year 2000) and popularized by the late Trevor L. Smith, bodybuilding writer and founder of nuclear nutrition. Done correctly, Beyond Failure Training (BFT) stimulates a lot of muscle hypertrophy gains with very little time in the gym ... the series of involved work sets will seem like eternity but they are actually accomplished rather quickly and you get out of the gym in as little as 30 minutes ... even with the loading and unloading of the exercise machines.
Download or read book Beyond Blame written by Dave Zwieback and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IT veteran Dave Zweiback describes an incident that threatens the very existence of a large financial institution, and the counterintuitive steps its leadership took to stop the downward spiral. Their novel approach is grounded in proven concepts from complexity science, resilience engineering, human factors, cognitive science, and organizational psychology. It allows us to identify the underlying conditions for failure, and make our systems (and organizations) safer and more resilient."--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Failure Is Not an Option written by Gene Kranz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now."--Jacket.
Download or read book Beyond Politics written by Randy T. Simmons and published by Independent Institute. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing students of economics, politics, and policy with a concise explanation of public choice, markets, property, and political and economic processes, this record identifies what kinds of actions are beyond the ability of government. Combining public choice with studies of the value of property rights, markets, and institutions, this account produces a much different picture of modern political economy than the one accepted by mainstream political scientists and welfare economists. It demonstrates that when citizens request that their governments do more than it is possible, net benefits are reduced, costs are increased, and wealth and freedom are diminished. Solutions are also suggested with the goal to improve the lot of those who should be the ultimate sovereigns in a democracy: the citizens.
Download or read book Beyond Failure written by Tony Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In setting foot on stage, every performer invokes their own capacity to fail. The very performance of this action and those that follow it are inextricable from their potential not to succeed. Beyond Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more broadly.
Download or read book Beyond Success Failure written by Willard Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1977-11-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Forgive Design written by Henry Petroski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston's prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late. Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded in cultural and socioeconomic constraints, complications, and contradictions. Failure to imagine the possibility of failure is the most profound mistake engineers can make. Software developers realized this early on and looked outside their young field, to structural engineering, as they sought a historical perspective to help them identify their own potential mistakes. By explaining the interconnectedness of technology and culture and the dangers that can emerge from complexity, Petroski demonstrates that we would all do well to follow their lead.
Download or read book Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain written by Paul Meier and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary approach to dealing with life's challenges that guides readers in how to face them and to recognize them as gifts from God. At one time or another everyone finds themselves questioning, "Does God still love me? Is there a purpose for all this pain?" Drs. Meier and Henderson teach readers how to face painful struggles head-on in a way that allows them to grow and mature emotionally and spiritually. In this timely book they explore the seven most common life challenges: Injustice Rejection Loneliness Loss Discipline Failure Death In addition they offer the three reasons we often miss the gifts these challenges can be. This unique approach to an age-old problem will encourage and challenge readers to grow through their struggles instead of wasting energy trying to avoid them altogether.
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Download or read book The Thinking Person s Guide to Fitness written by Jake Nash and published by Jake Nash. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Body Will Only Go Where Your Mind Leads it!!! - Are you sick of fad diets? - Frustrated by fitness gurus who don't seem to understand you and your life? - Annoyed that everyone wants your money yet no one provides the promised results? - Are you intelligent enough to know there are no quick fixes to difficult problems? - Would you like to UNDERSTAND how you body works? There is a solution. It doesn't require a degree in exercise science, but it does require a desire to go beyond the quick fixes and gimmicks. The Thinking Person's Guide to Fitness will give just enough knowledge to enable you to understand how you are unique. With this knowledge, you'll be able to setup a diet and fitness plan that works for you, and you'll know the difference between fitness fact and fitness fiction! "(This) book is one I truly enjoy as a trainer ...(Jake has) really done his homework." - Monica Adams - KMOX St. Louis. "Jake Nash has written a book that is easy to read and understand that can help anyone improve his or her fitness regime... Jake obviously has done his research, citing various studies to support his assertions...it is a terrific read for anyone looking to get the most out of their fitness program!" - Dr. Nathan White "Jake Nash speaks realistically.... (he) explains his well-considered concepts in open language that not only reads well as a book, but also makes his input digestible and, more important, workable." - Grady Harp - Amazon Top 10 Reviewer
Download or read book Beyond Politics written by William Mitchell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that market failures are common, requiring the intervention of government in order to serve and protect the public good. In Beyond Politics, William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons carefully scrutinize this traditional view through the modern theory of public choice. The authors enlighten the relationship of government and markets by emphasizing the actual rather than the ideal workings of governments and by reuniting the insights of economics with those of political science. Beyond Politics traces the anatomy of government failure and a pathology of contemporary political institutions as government has become a vehicle for private gain at public expense. In so doing, this brisk and vigorous book examines a host of public issues, including social welfare, consumer protection, and the environment. Offering a unified and powerful perspective on the market process, property rights, politics, contracts, and government bureaucracy, Beyond Politics is a lucid and comprehensive book on the foundations and institutions of a free and humane society.
Download or read book Expertise and Skill Acquisition written by James J. Staszewski and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research on human expertise and complex skill acquisition that Wlliam G. Chase performed in the decade between publication of the classic chess studies he conducted with Herb Simon in 1973 and his untimely and tragic death has proven profoundly influential and enduring. Its impact spans disciplines that include Psychology, Computer Science, Education, Cognitive Neuroscience, Medicine, and Human Factors. It has contributed significantly to the emergence of Cognitive Engineering and has led to significant applications in the areas of training and instruction and knowledge-based "intelligent" computational systems. Its influence can be seen in current discussions of intelligence, heritability, intellectual potential, and achievement found in the contemporary popular press. The chapters in this volume document the enduring scientific contributions of William G. Chase to current knowledge and understanding of human expertise and skill acquisition and applications his work has supported. It will be of interest to those researching, studying, and working in the multiple fields that were greatly influenced by Chase's work.
Download or read book An Analytical Guide to Television s One Step Beyond 1959 1961 written by John Kenneth Muir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling's classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of Hollywood's most famous leading men, including Warren Beatty, William Shatner, and Charles Bronson, got their starts in television. This complete reference work to the 96 half-hour episodes that ran for three seasons on ABC also offers a detailed history, extensive commentary and summaries of the critical reception of One Step Beyond as well as coverage of the sequel series produced in 1978 entitled The Next Step Beyond. Complete credits for both series are provided.
Download or read book Beyond Emasculation written by Adnan Hossain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies hijras in Bangladesh, challenging the dominant representation of hijra as either a third sex or a form of transgender.
Download or read book Beyond Unwanted Sound written by Marie Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise is so often a 'stench in the ear' – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound. Beyond Unwanted Sound is about noise and how we talk about it. Weaving together affect theory with cybernetics, media histories, acoustic ecology, geo-politics, sonic art practices and a range of noises, Marie Thompson critiques both the conservative politics of silence and transgressive poetics of noise music, each of which position noise as a negative phenomenon. Beyond Unwanted Sound instead aims to account for a broader spectrum of noise, ranging from the exceptional to the banal; the overwhelming to the inaudible; and the destructive to the generative. What connects these various and variable manifestations of noise is not negativity but affectivity. Building on the Spinozist assertion that to exist is to be affected, Beyond Unwanted Sound asserts that to exist is to be affected by noise.
