Ten weeks until she leaves.One summer that changes everything.Emma Farley has her whole life planned: serve a mission, come home, get married in the temple. She's been preparing since she was eight years old. Now her mission call to Brazil is finally here.Claire Hansen just came home from her own mission—confident, experienced, different than Emma remembers. When she offers to help Emma prepare for Brazil, those ten weeks of mission ...

Meredith Wilson's 'Shift': Everyday actions leaders can take to shift culture' simplifies workplace culture with a focus on actionable steps. This practical guide enables leaders to shape, shift, and strengthen workplace cultures through everyday actions.'Shift' demystifies organisational culture, without being stuffy or fluffy. Using everyday language and removing unnecessary complexity, Shift makes culture doable for leaders at all levels.This valuable handbook provides l...

Meredith Wilson's 'Shift: Everyday actions for leaders to shift culture' simplifiesworkplace culture with a focus on actionable steps. This practical guide enables leaders to shape, shift, and strengthen workplace cultures through everyday actions.'Shift' demystifies organisational culture, without being stuffy or fluffy. Using everyday language and removing unnecessary complexity, Shift makes culture doable for leaders at all levels.This valuable handbook provides leaders ...

Logically illogical -- that's Gracie Allen! And you can imagine what that means for her long-suffering husband George Burns! Here are sixteen laugh-packed adventures with the People Who Live In The Burns House, co-starring announcer Bill Goodwin, musical director Meredith Willson, and Mel Blanc (as the Happy Postman)!Listen along as Gracie encourages George to get more romantic and discourages his singing. These digitally restored and remastered shows - many of which have not been heard si...

This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including the human costs and consequences_that underlie the much-celebrated economic boom. In evaluating the idea of 'Asia Pacific,' the book shifts our focus from abstract relations...

The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I.

Back in print: the playful and personal memoir of Meredith Willson’s creative tribulations and triumphs before The Music ManComposer, musical director, writer, lecturer, and piccoloist Meredith Willson laid many eggs throughout his career—but not all those eggs would hatch quite so gloriously as his Broadway hit The Music Man. In Eggs I Have Laid, Willson genially chronicles the failures that he faced as he made his place in show business...

Laughs come in twos with America's favorite comedy team! Here comes George Burns and Gracie Allen in sixteen illogically logical half hours featuring a parade of guest stars, including Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, and Cary Grant!Bill Goodwin, Tobe Reed, and Meredith Willson are on hand as George and Gracie find themselves tangling with madcap matters of crime, competition, money, and matrimony. This collection features rare episodes and rare talent!Episodes Include: Gracie Against Crime 09-...

And There I Stood with My Piccolo, originally published in 1948, is a zesty and colorful memoir of composer Meredith Willson’s early years—from growing up in Mason City, Iowa, to playing the flute with John Philip Sousa’s band and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, to a successful career in composing for radio and motion pictures in Hollywood. It was apparent to everyone, except maybe Willson himself, that he was on his way to something big.Lighthearted and inspiring, it...

From advice columnist Meredith Goldstein, a dazzling, romantic, and emotionally resonant YA debut about a teen science whiz in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who tries to crack the chemical equation for lasting love and instead wreaks havoc on herself and the boys in her life.For seventeen-year-old Maya, the equation for happiness is simple: a dream internship at MIT + two new science nerd friends + a perfect boyfriend = one amazing summer. Then Whit dumps her out of th...

Chronicles the creation of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man—reprinted now as the Broadway EditionComposer Meredith Willson described The Music Man as “an Iowan’s attempt to pay tribute to his home state.” Now featuring a new foreword by noted singer and educator Michael Feinstein, this book presents Willson’s reflections on the ups and downs, surprises and disappointments, and finally successes of making one of America’s most popular musicals. Wil...