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  • Critical Rhythm

    The Poetics of a Literary Life Form

    by Ben Glaser, Assistant Professor of English, Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Derek Attridge, Simon Jarvis, David Nowell Smith, Haun Saussy, Tom Cable, Natalie Gerber, Virginia Jackson0, Ewan Jones1, Meredith Martin2, Yopie Prins3, Erin Kappeler4 ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it’s often assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us ... Read more

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    Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls

    An Audio Melodrama in Three Despicable Acts

    by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John Baker, Steven Ovitsky, Tony Barrand, John Roberts ...
    Narrated by a full cast, Robertson Dean, Martin Jarvis, Moira Quirk0, Simon Templeman1, Phil Proctor2, Rosalind Ayres3, W. Morgan Sheppard4 ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 20 min

    The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Companies Fail

    Exposing Human Performance In The Boardroom

    by Simon Lafin, Stephen Jarvis ...
    Every major corporate scandal follows a familiar script.A company fails; lives are damaged, fortunes are lost, and the hunt for culprits begins. The media demands accountability. Politicians promise reform. Regulators write new rules. Yet, despite decades of inquiries, reports and governance reforms, the same patterns of failure keep recurring.What if these explanations are missing the real story? ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Active Romanticism

    The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice

    by Judith Goldman, Simon Jarvis, Andrew Joron, Nigel Leask, Heriberto Yépez, Dr. Julie Carr, Ph.D., Jeffrey C. Robinson, Ph.D., Dr. Dan Beachy-Quick, Ph.D., Dr. Jacques Darras0, Dr. Rachel Blau DuPlessis1, Jennifer Moxley2, Bob Perelman3, Jerome Rothenberg, Ph.D.4, Elizabeth Willis, Ph.D.5 ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry.Literary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated “late-Romantic” poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation

    8th International Workshop, PMBS 2017, Denver, CO, USA, November 13, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Stephen Jarvis, Steven Wright, Simon Hammond ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings papers from the 8th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computing Systems, PMBS 2017, held in Denver, Colorado, USA, in November 2017.The 10 full papers and 3 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They were organized in topical sections ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation

    5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 16, 2014. Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Stephen A. Jarvis, Simon D. Hammond, Steven A. Wright ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014 in New Orleans, LA, USA in November 2014.The 12 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers cover topics on performance benchmarking and optimization; performance analysis and prediction; and power, energy and checkpointing ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Human-Centric Leader

    People + Profit = Performance

    by Simone Fenton-Jarvis, Louisa Clarke ...
    Since the publication of The Human-Centric Workplace in 2021, one thing remains clear: performance doesn’t come from chasing profit at the expense of people, or from prioritizing people without a sustainable business model. True performance happens when leaders put people and profit side by side, not head to head.The Human-Centric Leader is a playbook for modern leadership in a world evolving at ... Read more

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    Racing Demon

    by David Hare ...
    Narrated by Rosie Fellner, Paul Fox, Alan Shearman, Christopher Neame, Jane Wall, Jared Harris, Jason Hughes, Lesley Nicol, Martin Jarvis, Matthew Wolf, Simon Templeman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 2 min

    Four clergymen seek to make sense of their mission while being torn in all directions by the Church of England. After a critically lauded debut in 1990 at London’s National Theatre, Racing Demon went on to earn universal acclaim. More than 20 years later, David Hare’s bold and moving revelations on gay ordination and the doctrine of the priesthood ring more resoundingly than ever.An L.A. Theatre ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Human-Centric Workplace

    Enabling people, communities and our planet to thrive

    by Simone Fenton-Jarvis ...
    What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be a human at work? The answer to these questions should not be dissimilar - to have a purpose, to connect and to feel, and yet organizational cultures still do not embrace people bringing their whole selves to work. If we are not showing up, not bringing our whole awesome selves, we are not thriving; we are hiding. The workplace and leadership ... Read more

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    The Crisis in our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director

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    As a Chinese proverb says 'The fish rots from the head' and so it is with businesses and other organisations - the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt's bestselling book that highlights the importance of effective corporate governance has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco - and the abysmal ... Read more

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  • Making Questions Work

    A Guide to How and What to Ask for Facilitators, Consultants, Managers, Coaches, and Educators

    by Dorothy Strachan ...
    This book is an invaluable desk reference for facilitators, leaders, coaches and anyone who wants to engage in more effective learning and decision-making conversations. It offers over 1700 rich questions that you can borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills, and provides clear frameworks that point to when, where, and why particular questions are most useful. ... Read more

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  • Crisis Communication

    Practical PR Strategies for Reputation Management & Company Survival

    by Peter Anthonissen ...
    Senior management and leaders within companies embroiled in crisis, have learned the hard way what happens when the unthinkable becomes a reality - an accident results in death or injury; a failed company takeover causes share prices to plummet; or toxic food, medicines and drinks leads to mass hysteria. All attention focuses on the guilty parties - and the media can be expected to make this ... Read more

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