Everyone is creative. Creativity is a process which anyone can learn to use more effectively. This comprehensive creativity course will aid you in entertaining family audiences.It provides:A thorough discussion of the steps in the creative process.Guidance in going through the entire process from finding inspiration, to generating ideas, to selecting the best ideas, to completing your project.Examples and case studies about how the...

This comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in your variety act.It provides:The fundamentals of comedyHistory of comedySpecific techniques that have been identified as tending to generate laughterExamples of how those techniques have been usedThought-provoking questions to help you decide how you might use those techniquesMethods enabling you t...

Bruce Johnson's debut novel Firmament offers a fictional meditation on the real life community of Caplin Cove Newfoundland. Resisting the sentimental or documentary approaches common to many Newfoundland novels Johnson braids songs folk-tales scripture dreams diaries and poems together into an expressionist work one where the grit of the mundane intersects with the mystery of human memory and dreams. At its heart is a preoccupation with the strange relationship among humans the pla...

In-depth coverage of the major Visual Studio 2015 revampProfessional Visual Studio 2015 is the leading pro's guide to new and upgraded features of Microsoft Visual Studio. With a unique IDE-centric approach and deep dive into the software's many nooks and crannies, this book will bring you up to speed quickly on everything Visual Studio 2015 has to offer. Whether you're new to Visual Studio or just upgrading, you'll appreciate in-depth, professional explan...

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories, and cultural criticism. It rests on the argument that diasporic jazz is not a passive, second-hand reflection of music originating in the US, but possesses its own integrity, vitality, and distinctive range of identities. This companion reveals the co...

Comprehensive guide to Visual Studio 2013Visual Studio is your essential tool for Windows programming. Visual Studio 2013 features important updates to the user interface and to productivity. In Professional Visual Studio 2013, author, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and Microsoft Visual C# MVP Bruce Johnson brings three decades of industry experience to guide you through the update, and he doesn't just gloss over the basics. With his unique IDE-centric approach, he s...

Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first jazz recordings in 1917. This book studies the processes of the global jazz diaspora and its implications for jazz historiography in general, arguing for its relevance to the fields of sonic studies and cognitive theory. Until the late twentieth century, the historiography and analysis of jazz were centred on the US to the almost complete exclusion ...

From the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a trip to Chile hides in his parents’ bedroom to avoid being caught fooling around with a local boy. An elderly couple attempts to scale a volcano, wrestling with their own physical limitations and an unbearable loss in their past. A father becomes convinced that a daycare has swapped his ...

A study of John Sangster's jazz suite The Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s.In three volumes and more than six LP recordings, The Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based on the Tolkien books, is the most ambitious, stylistically and emotionally wide-ranging compositional oeuvre ever undertaken in Australian jazz. Its composer (and one of its perf...

Have you ever felt distant from God? Have you ever questioned His purpose for your life? Are you fearful of taking that first step? To be honest, we all have, but this is the greatest lie of the enemy. While reading this devotional, you will realize that you have everything you need to pursue the purpose and calling God has for you. All you have to do is restart and take a risk on God!Known for his revelatory yet practical teaching style, Bruce Johnson, Jr's love...

Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture.Although beginning with reference to antiquity, the primary focus is the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the medieval period to the contemporary world. Since mythic times, sound has been an essential element in the formation of belief systems, personal and community id...

There was no reason to bet on Bruce Johnson, given where he started out. Poor, Black, and raised by a single mother who had a secret. He was the child she hid in plain view from the rest of her family.Bruce would spend his youth at Chickasaw Park in Louisville—Kentucky’s segregated west end. He would grab the low hanging tree branches, then swing out over the Ohio River before dropping into the dangerous water below. He didn’t know how to swim, but was fearless and knew to paddle q...