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Author : A. J. Liebling
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803280359
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago written by A. J. Liebling and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling?s tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City?s people and culture?itsøcolorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history and specialness, but Liebling offended that city?s image of itself when he discussed its entertainments, its built landscapes, and its mental isolation from the world?s affairs. Liebling, a writer and editor for the New Yorker, lived in Chicago for nearly a year. While he found a home among its colorful inhabitants, he couldn?t help comparing Chicago with some other cities he had seen and loved, notably Paris, London, and especially New York. His magazine columns brought down on him a storm of protests and denials from Chicago?s defenders, and he gently and humorously answers their charges and acknowledges his errors in a foreword written especially for the book edition. Liebling describes the restaurants, saloons, and striptease joints; the newspapers, cocktail parties, and political wards; the university; and the defining event in Chicago?s mythic past, the Saint Valentine?s Day Massacre. Illustrated by Steinberg, Chicago is a loving, if chiding, portrait of a great American metropolis.

Author : Kelly Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062248553
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yes, And written by Kelly Leonard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executives from The Second City—the world’s premier comedy theater and school of improvisation—reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses. For more than fifty years, The Second City comedy theater in Chicago has been a training ground for some of the best comic minds in the industry—including John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, and Tina Fey. But it also provides one-of-a-kind leadership training to cutting-edge companies, nonprofits, and public sector organizations—all aimed at increasing creativity, collaboration, and teamwork. The rules for leadership and teamwork have changed, and the skills that got professionals ahead a generation ago don’t work anymore. Now The Second City provides a new toolkit individuals and organizations can use to thrive in a world increasingly shaped by speed, social communication, and decentralization. Based on eight principles of improvisation, Yes, And helps to develop these skills and foster them in high-potential leaders and their teams, including: Mastering the ability to co-create in an ensemble Fostering a “yes, and” approach to work Embracing failure to accelerate high performance Leading by listening and by learning to follow Innovating by making something out of nothing Yes, And is a must-read for professionals and organizations, helping to develop the invaluable leadership skills needed to succeed today.

Author : Katherine S. McKnight
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787996505
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second City Guide to Improv in the Classroom written by Katherine S. McKnight and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people know The Second City as an innovative school for improvisation that has turned out leading talents such as Alan Arkin, Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert, and Tina Fey. This groundbreaking company has also trained thousands of educators and students through its Improvisation for Creative Pedagogy program, which uses improv exercises to teach a wide variety of content areas, and boost skills that are crucial for student learning: listening, teamwork, communication, idea-generation, vocabulary, and more.

Author : Jeffrey Sweet
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879100735
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Wonderful Right Away written by Jeffrey Sweet and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1987 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief description of the history and goals of two improvizational comedy groups, the Compass and Second City, accompanies interviews with past members from Mike Nichols to Gilda Radner

Author : Jason Finch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319627198
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Second Cities written by Jason Finch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small set of privileged ‘first’ cities. This volume problematizes the dominance of such alpha cities, offering a wide perspective on ‘second cities’ and their literature. The volume is divided into three themed sections. ‘In the Shadow of the Alpha City’ problematizes the image of cities defined by their function and size, bringing out the contradictions and contestations inherent in cultural productions of second cities, including Birmingham and Bristol in the UK, Las Vegas in the USA, and Tartu in Estonia. ‘Frontier Second Cities’ pays attention to the multiple and trans-national pasts of second cities which occupy border zones, with a focus on Narva, in Estonia, and Turkish/Kurdish Diyarbakir. The final section, ‘The Diffuse Second City’, examines networks the diffuse secondary city made up of interlinked small cities, suburban sprawl and urban overspill, with literary case studies from Italy, Sweden, and Finland.

Author : C. A. Oakley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second City written by C. A. Oakley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Thomas
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128446
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second City Unscripted written by Mike Thomas and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptions of Chicago's Second City comedy theater group as told to the author by troup members and historical information collected by the author.

Author : Pernilla Hagbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429832885
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Co-housing in Europe written by Pernilla Hagbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co-housing and related housing forms. With focus on Denmark, Sweden, Hamburg and Barcelona, the book presents general analyses of co-housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co-housing in relation to local government, urban activism, family life, spatial logics and socio-ecology. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a broad range of social-scientific fields concerned with housing, urban development and sustainability, as well as to planners, decision-makers and activists.

Author : Brian Doyle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466868074
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago written by Brian Doyle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and garrulous bus driver, a cricket player, a librettist, his first girlfriend, a shy apartment manager, and many other riveting souls, not to mention a wise and personable dog of indeterminate breed. A love letter to Chicago, the Great American City, and a wry account of a young man's coming-of-age during the one summer in White Sox history when they had the best outfield in baseball, Brian Doyle's Chicago is a novel that will plunge you into a city you will never forget, and may well wish to visit for the rest of your days.

Author : Leslie Bennetts
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316261297
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Girl Before Freeway written by Leslie Bennetts and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of "40 Gifts for the Book Lover on Your List," by Good Housekeeping: The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life. Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious ambition and her massive insecurities. But Rivers' career was also hugely significant in American cultural history, breaking down barriers for her gender and pushing the boundaries of truth-telling for women in public life. A juicy, intimate biography of one of the greatest comedians ever -- a performer whose sixty year career was borne, simply, out of a desire to make people laugh so she could feel loved -- Last Girl Before Freeway delves into the inner workings of a woman who both reflected and redefined the world around her.