This book offers the first comprehensive overview of jazz in the 21st Century, with nearly 60 conversational profiles of major jazz artists, from living masters such as Wayne Shorter to rising stars such as Esperanza Spalding. The artists discuss their lives, their music, and the state of the art form. In his 6000 word introduction, author Rick Mitchell concludes that despite economic struggles, jazz is continuing to thrive creatively 100 years after its birth. In addition to black and whi...

Managing innovation is like competing in an Olympic Pentathlon-excellent performance in one sport will not win you the medal. This textbook explores how top performance in 5 key areas-ideation, prioritization, implementation, strategy, and people and organization-is essential to success in today's ever-changing business landscape.Structured around the authors' original Innovation Pentathlon framework, the book explains what innovation is, why it is important and ho...

Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university theatre departments, literature departments, and theatre-artist training programs throughout the world. Additionally, productions of Brecht's dramas continue to be popular. The play Brecht in L.A. focuses on Brecht's life in America, where he resided from 1941 through 1947.Additiona...

This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place. The play admits the truth of Walter Benjamin's view of history as 'time filled by the presence of the now'. Parallels between past and present (e.g., racism, domestic abuse, and the plight of the visionary American artist) are clearly implied, but the play also utilizes new technologies, in particular video, in order to represent ...

Rick Mitchell is an award-winning dramatist of over twenty plays, Rick Mitchell teaches playwriting, performance studies and literature at California State University, Northridge, where he is professor of English.

From the First Collection of Poetry, Forever and a Day Awakening Gives a more Vibrant feel. Each poem gives reflection, harmony and upbeat look at the world today. As you read each page, put yourself in another place embrace inner strength and confidence. I Hope that by reading AWAKENING, it lets you escape the daily chores or reality and chaos. Putting you in a place of soothing comfort.

Forever and a Day... a collection of Poems that brings a Heartfelt tone of Hope, Peace, and Enlightenment... A first of many poems that will sure to delight you, and savor the soul. Born in Brooklyn, New York Mitchell Ricks has written these Poems giving it a rich, vivid expression of heart, mind, passion, and the human element... LOVE.

Learn how to write and give a flawlessly funny speech for any occasion with Emmy-winning comedy writers Carol Leifer and Rick Mitchell. With a foreword by Carol Burnett.Giving a speech about someone is hard. Giving a funny speech that people are actually going to pay attention to is even harder. In How to Write a Funny Speech for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every Other Event You Didn't Want to Go to in the First Place, Leifer and Mitchell will tea...

Words Of My Soul is my second collection of forty nine of my personal poems. Some of which were written about my own personal experiences, thoughts, feelings and desires. However some were written to simply be entertaining, such as a personal favorite of mine, a humerus poem titled In Bed.

Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resourceIncremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty and volatility of today's world. In Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times, authors John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. You'll...

One morning the world ended. It wasn't with a boom or even a whimper. Ice covered everything. What happened and why is Sharalyn the only one who is still moving? The first story in a new collection, Ice.

The Adventures of Hope is a story about a dog and her love for her family. Hope is a very fierce and loyal dog who has taken it upon herself to be the protector of the children as they venture into the world full of unforeseen dangers; Hope is there to protect them and keep them safe, at all costs.