Search Results - The Stage

The theater will rock a history of the rock musical : from Hair to Hedwig / by Wollman, Elizabeth L., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The birth of the rock musical in New York City -- Interlude 1: rock "authenticity" and the reception of the staged rock musical -- Hair and its imitators -- Interlude 2 : audiences -- Rock concept albums and the fragmented musical of the 1970s -- Interlude 3 : megamusicals -- Spectacles of the 1980s -- Interlude 4 : economics and marketing -- Rock musicians in the musical theater : the 1990s -- Interlude 5 : merging aesthetics, making performances -- Rock-influenced musicals at the millennium : the dawning of the age of-- the revival.…”
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The indomitable Don Plusquellic : how a controversial mayor quarterbacked Akron's comeback / by Love, Steve, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…: it's not that simple -- Staying power -- Chinks in the armor -- The larger stage -- The schooling of an education mayor -- The recall -- To run or not to run -- Afterword.…”
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Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater artistic developments in the Muslim world /

Table of Contents: “…Ritual as strategic action: the social logic of musical silence in Canadian Islam / Michael Frishkopf -- Pious entertainment: Hizbullah's Islamic cultural sphere /Joseph Alagha -- Of morals, missions, and the market: new religiosity and "art with a mission" in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Part 3. Staging the body and the world stage. Islamic modernity and the re-enchanting power of symbols in Islamic fantasy serials in Turkey / Ahu Yiğit -- From "evil-inciting" dance to chaste "rhythmic movements": a genealogy of modern Islamic dance-theatre in Iran / Zeinab stellar -- Suficized musics of Syria at the intersection of heritage and the War on Terror; or "a Rumi with a view" / Jonathan H. …”
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Computer incident response and forensics team management : conducting a successful incident response / by Johnson, Leighton

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Definitions -- The stages of incident response -- The security incident response team members -- Incident evidence -- Incident response tools -- Incident response policies and procedures -- Legal requirements and considerations -- Governmental laws, policies and procedures -- Forensics process -- Forensics team member requirements -- Forensics team policies and procedures -- Management of forensics evidence handling -- Forensics tools -- Legalities of forensics -- Forensics team oversight -- General team management -- Corporate it management -- Relationship management -- Conclusion.…”
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Joyce : The Return of the Repressed / by Friedman, Susan Stanford

Table of Contents: “…(Self)censorship and the making of Joyce's modernism / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Pharmaconomy / Alberto Moreiras -- Uncanny returns in "The dead" / Robert Spoo -- A portrait of the romantic poet as a young modernist / Jay Clayton -- Simon's Irish rose / Richard Pearce -- Races and chains / Laura Doyle -- Staging sexuality / Joseph A. Boone -- The preservation of tenderness / Marilyn L. …”
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Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644 : Local Comparisons and Global Connections / by Tremml, Birgit

Table of Contents: “…The foundations of a global stage -- 3. The trilogy of triangular trade -- III. …”
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History Of Utah's American Indians /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Forrest S. Cuch -- Setting the stage: Native America revisited / Robert S. McPherson -- The northwestern Shoshone / Mae Parry -- The Goshute Indians of Utah / Dennis R. …”
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The rise of China and Chinese international relations scholarship / by Wang, Hung-jen, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Being uniquely universal : creating Chinese international relations theory -- From "Chinese characteristics" to a Chinese IR school : four stages of identity making -- Representing China's rise in analyses of Sino-American relations -- Representing China's rise in analyses of Sino-Japanese relations -- Representing China's rise in analyses of Sino-Southeast Asian relations -- Making sense of China's rise in the context of cross-Taiwan Strait relations -- Conclusion : Chinese IR scholarship, knowledge production, interpretations and choices.…”
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Fashionable queens : body, power, gender /

Table of Contents: “…Cunningham -- "Hiding in plain sight" : fashion and mimicry in Cindy Sherman's (non-self-) portraits / Hanne Loreck -- Fashion queen barbie / Gertrud Lehnert -- Helms krystle and Alexis : the princess and the queen bitch in dynasty / Laura Mclaws -- Like a queen : Madonna & the stage as court / Adam Louis Troldahl -- Notes on contributors.…”
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Stigma Stories : Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness / by Kessler, Molly Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Studying stigma: a rhetorical approach to stories and lived experience ; Rhetoric of stories, stigma, lived experiences ; Studying stigma stories ; Preview of chapters -- Listening for stigma: praxiographic solutions and stigma in practice ; Critiques of stigma research ; Praxiographic solutions ; Stigma in practice ; An ethical case for engaging stigma praxiographically -- Staging stigma: ostomies as worst-case scenarios ; Leaks, stigma, and visceral publics ; Worst-case scenarios: ostomies in public health campaigns ; Ostomies on TV: fear and disgust in popular media ; Staging stigma through fear ; Credibility enhanced through stigma ; Conclusion -- Protesting stigma: disruptive stories, temporality, and ostomies as lifesavers ; Temporality, disability, and progressions of experience ; Rejecting compulsory nostalgia: disruptive ostomy stories as protest ; Disruptive stories, disruptive timelines ; Complicating a two-sided story ; Conclusion -- Managing stigma: visual acts of resistance ; Normalcy, norms, and the impossibility of normalization ; Displaying ostomies and soliciting stares ; Visual rewards and risks: sexualizing disability ; Showing off ostomies and arriving at the destination of normal ; Conclusion -- Thinking with stories: toward stigma interventions ; The value of a praxiographic approach to stories ; Interventional insights ; Conducting entangled research.…”
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Passing Performances : Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History /

Table of Contents: “…Schanke and Kim Marra -- "My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand -- "Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. …”
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Showdown in the Show-Me State the fight over conceal-and-carry gun laws in Missouri / by Horner, William T., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Changing the rules of regulating guns -- The gun lobby and round one, preemption -- 1992 : the conceal-and-carry fight begins -- 1993 to 1994 : conceal-and-carry returns -- Conceal-and-carry, 1995 -- Conceal-and-carry, 1996 : back for another try -- Conceal-and-carry, 1997 to 1998 : setting the stage for Prop B -- The Campaign of 1999 : an introduction -- The Campaign of 1999 : the activists -- The Campaign of 1999 : interpreting statistics and the law -- The Campaign of 1999 : funding and advertising -- The Campaign of 1999 : a brawl -- The Campaign of 1999 : public opinion and the news media -- The Campaign of 1999 : election day -- More in 1999 : Missouri takes on liability lawsuits -- 2000 : the fight continues with elections of a different sort : Ashcroft vs. …”
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Conflict management for libraries strategies for a positive, productive workplace / by Montgomery, Jack G.

Table of Contents: “…When you go to work, you bring more than your lunch from home -- How to identify the actors in the play : all the world's a stage -- The role of unions -- The specter and reality of workplace violence -- The internal candidate -- But she's had such a hard life -- It is obvious we do not matter -- I don't have to listen to this! …”
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Oxford readings in the Attic orators

Table of Contents: “…Porter -- Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thür -- Law and equity in the Attic trial / Harald Meyer-Laurin -- Social relations on stage : witnesses in classical Athens / S.C. Humphreys -- The nature of proofs in antiphon / Michael Gagarin -- 'Artless proofs' in Aristotle and the orators / Christopher Carey -- Torture and rhetoric in Athens / David Mirhady -- Ability and education : the power of persuasion / Josiah Ober -- Lady Chatterley's lover and the Attic orators : the social composition of the Athenian jury / Stephen Todd -- Arguments from precedent in the Attic oratory / Lene Rubinstein -- Politics as literature : Demosthenes and the burden of the Athenian past / Harvey Yunis.…”
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Chasing Lolita how popular culture corrupted Nabokov's little girl all over again / by Vickers, Graham

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Margaret Fuller transatlantic crossings in a revolutionary age /

Table of Contents: “…Reynolds -- A humbug, a bounder, and a dabbler : Margaret Fuller and/as Cristina di Belgioioso / Cristina Giorcelli -- Margaret Fuller on stage / Maria Anita Stefanelli -- Documents in the State Archive of Rome / Donato Tamblé -- Biographies / Cristina Giorcelli -- Chronology / Cristina Giorcelli.…”
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Buying into the world of goods early consumers in backcountry Virginia / by Martin, Ann Smart, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…In backcountry time -- The business of revolutions: John Hook and the Atlantic world : William Meade's Scottish clock -- Getting the goods: local acquisition in a tobacco economy : the iron plate -- Accounting for life: objects, names, and numbers : the ledger -- Living the backcountry: styles and standards : the Wade cabin in backcountry time -- Setting the stage, playing the part: stores as consumption spaces : ribbons of desire -- Suckey's looking glass: African Americans as consumers : mirrors and meanings -- Country gentleman in a new country: John Hook's beef.…”
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Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. …”
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The first-time manager by Belker, Loren B.

Table of Contents: “…-- Understanding risk inclination -- Encouraging initiative and innovation -- Improving outcomes -- The generation gap -- Writing job descriptions -- Doing performance appraisals -- Salary administration -- Having emotional intelligence -- Developing a positive self-image -- Managing your own time -- The written word -- The grapevine -- Your best friend : delegation -- A sense of humor -- Managing, participating in, and leading meetings -- Taking center stage : the role of public speaking in your career -- Coping with stress -- Having balance in your life -- A touch of class.…”
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Blackness in opera

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: representing blackness on the operatic stage -- From Otello to Porgy: blackness, masculinity, and morality in opera / Naomi André -- Hearing the other in The masque of blackness / Sarah Schmalenberger -- Nationalism, racial difference, and "Egyptian" meaning in Verdi's Aida / Christopher R. …”
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