ONCE MORE WITH FEELING. Rehearsal stories from legends and everyday heroes to inspire any performance“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately under rehearsed” Sean O’Casey.Churchill knew it. Demosthenes believed in it. Taylor Swift lives by it. The importance of rehearsal. Virtuoso violinist to Olympic gold medallist, business leaders to teachers, their fascinating stories capture the physical, and the mental rehearsal essential to being your best when it matters.

Shadow Over Paris — A synopsisCharlotte de la Cour is French and has studied languages at Oxford. She chose to study in England because her widowed, English mother wanted to be with her while she was studying for her degree.With the collapse of France looming, Charlotte decides to remain in England but looks for employment as a translator at the Inter Service Bureau in Baker Street. She spends a couple of hours with a Mr. Jefson who persuades her to conside...

Kenneth E. Bailey was both a missionary and a New Testament scholar. As a missionary, first in Egypt and later in Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, and Cyprus, he experienced firsthand the life of traditional Middle Eastern villagers, which led him to the conclusion that the village culture he witnessed in the twentieth century had hardly changed since the first century. Consequently, he was able to reinterpret Jesus's parables and life experiences through this traditional culture. In a remarkabl...

“A GUT PUNCH OF A NOVEL—lyrical, mordantly funny, and wrenching.” —Kelly Link, author of Get in TroubleThe searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes the course of a young man’s life.In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl—a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words—meets and is quickly infatuated with Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother ...

Digital Signal Processing 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started provides a basic tutorial on digital signal processing (DSP). Beginning with discussions of numerical representation and complex numbers and exponentials, it goes on to explain difficult concepts such as sampling, aliasing, imaginary numbers, and frequency response. It does so using easy-to-understand examples with minimum mathematics. In addition, there is an overview of the DSP functions and implementation used in ...

Master the essentials for winning soccer from one of the game's most successful coaches. In Premier Soccer, Michael Parker, the wins leader among active NCAA Division I men's soccer coaches, teaches every key technique and tactic, with accompanying drills and special tips for executing them when the match is on the line.Premier Soccer tackles the skills and traits necessary for each position on the field, both offensively and defensively, as well as systems, set p...

The Unseen Heroes of the Global Missionary MovementThe Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was a Protestant missionary recruiting organization.Launched in the late nineteenth century, it played an indispensable role in the creation of the modern missionary movement.While it was influenced by the optimism and expansiveness that characterized Americans at the turn of the century, it also mirrored the period's provincialism and ethnocentrism.Th...

No matter what the speaking challenge is, this inspirational, cleverly illustrated book will help readers perform with passion, power and persuasion—at the top of their game.Whether chasing a job, planning a pitch, giving a speech at a wedding, presenting to one or one thousand people, readers ofIt's Not What You Say will discover how to:• Use the rule of three to win any audience over• Prepare so you can be...

Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure.This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accident—a broken back, a morphine addiction, and a town of enabling eccentrics. Redempt...

Get over yourself. A catch phrase that couldn’t be more apt for an Olympic hurdler (with issues).These have been addressed and, to some extent, resolved in writing this memoir- Michael Parker’s life’s difficulties from childhood and ultimate success as an adult. From being sent to boarding school on his fifth birthday, to a career at Saatchi, to helping send the first Briton into space, this is the story of the hurdles experienced, from World War 2 till world pandemic now. The witty, poign...

Are you ready for nuclear armageddon?Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lightsHe becomes an unwitting pawn in a dirty and extremely dangerous game, sucked into the terror of kidnap, nuclear weapons and the secret world of the CIA: a world where the US Navy Seals must fight to stop the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Khan, who is preparing to attack the soft underbelly of America, turning the Gulf of Mexico and the...

A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issuesMany families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show tht scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success. Developing non-cognitive skills, ...