Oltre che rinomato musicista, Lou Reed è stato anche un abile praticante delle arti marziali fin dagli anni Ottanta. Allievo del maestro Ren GuangYi, pioniere del Tai Chi Chen, Reed ha più volte dichiarato che la pratica del Tai Chi ha avuto un fortissimo impatto sul suo modo di pensare, di suonare, di vivere. Realizzato con la cura di Laurie Anderson, artista e compagna di Reed per più di due decenni, Il mio Tai Chi è una raccolta completa degli scritti di Reed sul Tai Chi, sulla tecnica, la pratica e lo scopo delle arti marziali, e contiene inoltre osservazioni e riflessioni sulla musica, sulla meditazione e sulla vita. Il volume è arricchito da conversazioni con musicisti, artisti, amici e praticanti di Tai Chi, tra cui Julian Schnabel, A.M. Homes, Hal Willner, Mingyur Rinpoche, Eddie Stern, Tony Visconti e Iggy Pop.

Il progetto concepito da Wes Anderson e Juman Malouf è una riflessione sulle motivazioni che guidano l'atto di collezionare e sulle modalità con le quali una raccolta è custodita, presentata e vissuta. Guardando al passato e ispirandosi al modello della Wunderkammer, 'Il sarcofago di Spitzmaus e altri tesori' sfida i canoni tradizionali che definiscono le istituzioni museali, proponendo nuove relazioni tra queste e le loro collezioni, tra le figure professionali e il pubblico dei musei. Il titolo rende omaggio a una delle opere esposte nella mostra omonima presso Fondazione Prada a Milano: il sarcofago di Spitzmaus, una scatola di legno egiziana che contiene la mummia di un toporagno del IV secolo a.C. Il libro d'artista edito da Fondazione Prada si presenta come un contenitore che include disegni, riproduzioni e materiali vari e, citando come modello la Boîte en-valise di Marcel Duchamp, riprende l'idea del museo portatile e della collezione personale.

Pasta is the ultimate comfort food, and making it by hand is a favorite project for weekend cooks. From rising culinary star and 2012Food & Wine Best New Chef Jenn Louis, this book includes more than 65 recipes for hand-shaped traditional pastas and dumplings, along with deeply satisfying sauces to mix and match. Louis shares her recipes and expertise in hand-forming beloved shapes such as gnocchi, orecchiette, gnudi, and spatzli as well as dozens of other regional pasta specialties appearing for the first time in an English-language cookbook. With photos of finished dishes and step-by-step shaping sequences, this beautiful book is perfect for DIY cooks and lovers of Italian food.

This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and frequently uses experiments in archaeology. It aims to establish new common ground for integrating different approaches and for viewing agriculture from the standpoint of the human actors involved. Each chapter provides an interdisciplinary overview of the skills used and the social context of the pursuit of agriculture, highlighting examples of tools, technologies and processes from land clearance to cereal processing and food preparation. This is the second of three volumes in the EARTH monograph series, The dynamics of non-industrial agriculture: 8,000 years of resilience and innovation , which shows the great variety of agricultural practices in human terms, in their social, political, cultural and legal contexts.

The Hobgoblin returns for Norman Osborn's journal and targets Mary Jane in the process, Spider-man battles the cosmic power of Firelord, and Beyonder turns a skyscraper to gold.

The best-selling team of chef Chris Schlesinger and Cook's Illustrated executive editor John Willoughby present a radically simple method of applying flavor boosters to ingredients hot off the grill, maximizing flavor and dramatically reducing grilling time over traditional marinades.

Schlesinger and Willoughby wield spices and condiments from around the world masterfully in these 130 minimal preparation, maximum flavor recipes inspired by Asian, Mediterranean, Latin, and Caribbean cuisine. In contrast to grilling books that require long-lead marinating and time-consuming steps, The Big Flavor Grill's no-fuss approach means lightning-quick prep and grill times. Their new take on using spice rubs to coat ingredients before they go over the coals trumps traditional marinating by providing stronger, better-defined flavors--and rubs can be used at the last minute instead of having to think ahead, as with marinades. Willoughby and Schlesinger then take flavor to the next level by tossing just-grilled items with marinade-like ingredients--citrus, hoisin, fish sauce, ginger, basil, fresh chiles--resulting in bolder, more complex dishes and lots of saved time and effort.

This book is a practical guide for the nurse who aspires to be in a senior executive role in a profit or nonprofit organization, an entrepreneur who aspires to creating a business, or the individual who wishes to serve in a governance role on a not-for-profit or corporate board. This book will greatly assist those individuals who work closely with leaders, entrepreneurs and governance experts.

Linking Leadership to Student Learning

Linking Leadership to Student Learning clearly shows how school leadership improves student achievement. The book is based on an ambitious five-year study on educational leadership that was sponsored by The Wallace Foundation. The authors studied 43 districts, across 9 states and 180 elementary, middle, and secondary schools. In this book, Kenneth Leithwood, Karen Seashore Louis, and their colleagues report on what they found. They examined leadership at each organizational level in the school system—classroom, school, district, community, and state. Their comprehensive approach to investigating school leadership offers a balanced understanding of how the structures within which leaders operate shape what they do. The results within will have significant implications for future policy and practice.

Praise for Linking Leadership to Student Learning

'Kenneth Leithwood and Karen Seashore Louis offer a seminal new contribution to the leadership field. They provide a rich and authoritative evidence base that demonstrates clearly just why school leadership is so important and how it promotes successful student learning.'—Pamela Sammons, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford

'This ambitious, groundbreaking, and thought provoking treatment of the link between school leadership and student learning is a testament to the outstanding work of these exemplary scholars. This is a 'must read' for academics and practitioners alike.'—Martha McCarthy, President's Professor, Loyola Marymount University, and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, Indiana University

'The question is no longer whether school and district leader's impact student learning, but rather how they do it. The authors provide a convincing answer, one that recognizes the crucial interaction between leader and locality.'—Daniel L. Duke, Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Virginia

Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Physical Education presents research-based best practices for teaching physical education in order to help pre-service and practicing teachers improve their skills through analysis and reflection. The text begins with an informal analysis of teaching and then quickly moves into systematic strategies for analyzing student and teacher behaviors and interactions.

Based on William Anderson's groundbreaking work, Analysis of Teaching Physical Education (1980), this text is designed to help physical education teachers meet National Association for Sport and Physical Education's Standards for Advanced Programs in Teacher Education. Specifically, it addresses the Standards on Sound Teaching Practices; Assessment; Methods of Inquiry; Collaboration, Reflection, Leadership, and Professionalism; and Mentoring.

More and more, health promotion is a crucial component of public health, to the extent that public health interventions are called on to prove their effectiveness and appraised for scientific validity, a practice many in the field consider self-defeating. Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas cogently demonstrates that scientific rigor and the goals of health promotion are less in conflict than commonly thought, synthesizing multiple traditions from countries throughout North, Central, and South America (and across the developed-to-developing-world continuum) for a volume that is both diverse in scope and unified in purpose.The book's examples—representing robust theoretical and practical literatures as well as initiatives from Rio de Janeiro to American Indian communities—explain why health promotion evaluation projects require different guidelines from mainstream evaluative work. The editors identify core humanitarian principles associated with health promotion (participation, empowerment, equity, sustainability, intersectoral action, multistrategy, and contextualism), while chapters highlight challenges that must be mastered to keep these principles and scientific objectives in sync, including: (1) Building health promotion values into evaluation research projects. (2) Expanding the use of evaluation in health promotion. (3) Developing meaningful evaluation questions. (4) Distinguishing between community-based participation research and evaluation-based participation. (5) Evaluating specifically for equity. (6) Designing initiatives to foster lasting social change.The applied knowledge in Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas: Values and Research can bring the goals of intervention into sharper focus for practitioners, evaluators, and decision-makers and facilitate communication on all sides—necessary steps to progress from study findings to real-world action.

Poems by a West Virginia populist poet written since the 1930s discuss life in her native state, her marriage, and other subjects

The celebrated comedian presents letters that he has written to his alcoholic father that reveal some of the hurt and guilt he experienced as a child and that provide a glimpse at a source of his best humor