"The American Negro," Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, "must remake his past in order to make his future." Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that re-framing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Al[...]

Meet the Owls Crime Squad. The firm that became notorious for pulling off the most audacious invasions and legendary battles no matter how the odds were stacked. What they lacked in organisation they made up for in sheer ferocity. Always up for it and never prepared to give any ground, they caused m[...]

Accompanied by a CD-ROM containing more than 250 simulated practice questions, a authoritative tutorial provides coverage of the new SCEA exam and encompasses the three components of the enterprise-level design certification from Sun Microsystems--a multiple-choice exam, a programming assignment, an[...]

Artist Management for the Music Business provides clear in depth information on what to do as an artist manager and how to do it. The book looks at the application of classic management theory to artist management, includes profiles of successful artist managers as well as offering skill development[...]

With the evolution of the music business and the shifting influence of large record labels, the artist manager is now - more than ever - at the center of an artist's career. Artist managers are tasked with keeping abreast of the music industry and supporting the artists under their management while [...]

An introduction to service orientation, showing how it works and highlighting the benefits it can deliver. After covering the basics of service orientation, this book discusses key issues such as business agility, designing quality-of-service infrastructure, implementing service-level agreements, an[...]

Scientists, philosophers and theologians have wrestled repeatedly with the question of whether knowledge is similar or different in their various understandings of the world and God. Although agreement is still elusive, the epistemology of critical realism, associated with Ian Barbour, John Polkingh[...]