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Self-determination theory (SDT) provides a framework for
understanding the factors that promote motivation and healthy
psychological and behavioral functioning. In this authoritative
work, the codevelopers of the theory comprehensively examine SDT's
conceptual underpinnings (including its six mini-theories),
empirical evidence base, and practical applications across the
lifespan. The volume synthesizes a vast body of research on how
supporting--or thwarting--people's basic needs for competence,
relatedness, and autonomy affects their development and well-being.
Chapters cover implications for practice and policy in education,
health care, psychotherapy, sport, and the workplace.
What happens when one of America's best-known haiku poets joins
forces with her psychologist husband to write a book? The answer:
Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace-a unique
collection of guided meditations, drawn from and experienced
through the appreciation of haiku. In today's fast-paced,
high-pressure world, Take a Deep Breath can help anyone learn to
slow down and take stock, relax and focus on the present moment,
and find poetry and depth in their own lives.
One of the most significant developments in 19th-century Italian
opera was the genesis of the Verdi baritone. The authors argue that
the composer's baritone characters embody "a quintessential
humanity, expressing needs and temptations, confusions and
understandings, griefs and joys that transcend the particulars of
time and place." The Verdi Baritone explores seven of the most
fascinating roles in the repertory, revealing how they were
conceived and executed. This eloquent book opens with a discussion
of Verdi's early triumph, Nabucco; proceeds with Ernani, Macbeth,
Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Simon Boccanegra; and concludes with
his final great tragedy, Otello. Voice students, professional
performers, their teachers and coaches, and opera lovers, will gain
insight into Verdi's masterful use of text, music, and staging to
portray each character's inner self.
This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text
of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by
the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the
Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the
Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage-the
published text-of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf
Gardens when the (then illegal) Communist Party of Canada
celebrated the release of its leader, Tim Buck, from prison. Eight
Men Speak had been written and staged on behalf of the campaign to
free Buck by the Canadian Labour Defence League, the public
advocacy group of the CPC. In its theatrical techniques,
incorporating avant-garde expressionist staging, mass chant,
agitprop and modernist dramaturgy, Eight Men Speak exemplified the
vanguardist aesthetics of the Communist left in the years before
the Popular Front. It is the first instance of the collective
theatrical techniques that would become widespread in subsequent
decades and formative in the development of modern Canadian drama.
These include a decentred narrative, collaborative authorship and a
refusal of dramaturgical linearity in favour of theatricalist
demonstration. As such it is one of the most significant Canadian
plays of the first half of the century, and, on the evidence of the
surviving photograph of the mise-en-scene, one of the earliest
examples of modernist staging in Canada.
Self-determination theory (SDT) provides a framework for
understanding the factors that promote motivation and healthy
psychological and behavioral functioning. In this authoritative
work, the codevelopers of the theory comprehensively examine SDT's
conceptual underpinnings (including its six mini-theories),
empirical evidence base, and practical applications across the
lifespan. The volume synthesizes a vast body of research on how
supporting--or thwarting--people's basic needs for competence,
relatedness, and autonomy affects their development and well-being.
Chapters cover implications for practice and policy in education,
health care, psychotherapy, sport, and the workplace.
New in paperback! This book comes at a time when opera-lovers,
singers, directors, and critics alike are taking a new look at the
dramatic soprano heroines created by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo
Puccini, endeavoring to delve beyond inherited scholarly
interpretation and gain a richer understanding of these compelling
female characters. Artistically limited by the bel canto musical
tradition popular at the time, Verdi launched a new style dramma
per musica which also demanded a new soprano archetype. This book
illustrates the musical evolution of the Verdi and Puccini soprano
while illuminating the dramatic scope and power of these great
heroines. Avoiding critical reductionism, Verdi and Puccini
Heroines provides an unprecedented and probing discussion of how
these great soprano roles were conceived and executed. Accordingly,
the authors take a three-dimensional look at these heroines,
examining seven operas: Il Trovatore, La Forza del Destino, Aida,
La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. The chapters,
which are fully self-contained analyses, contain translations,
illustrative musical examples, supplementary notes, and references
to each opera's literary sources. The musical analysis, while
thorough, is descriptive and accessible to all levels of readers.
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