James Jordan Livres

Exploring the intersection of music and spirituality, this book delves into musicians' journeys of self-examination and ethical dilemmas. It highlights the complexities of musicianship within a network of peers, emphasizing themes of loneliness and compassion. The narrative unfolds in four sections, addressing the challenges and relationships musicians face, while underscoring the importance of self-improvement. Ultimately, it advocates for the creation of music that is genuine, caring, and deeply human, enriching both the artist and the audience.

Focusing on the philosophy of being "centered," this exploration emphasizes how the concept of Center enhances performance, teaching, and learning. It includes practical ideas, personal examples from the stage, and a clear definition of Center. Additionally, the book offers breathing exercises designed to help individuals cultivate focus in their daily lives. With its beautiful illustrations, this resource serves as a valuable guide for performers, actors, conductors, and educators seeking to integrate the principles of Centering into their practice.

This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resulting in a highly readable account based on sound historiography. Against a backdrop of the industrial revolution, an expanding economy, and a rising standard of living, Victorian Childhood explores life and death, child development, the family, work, education, social life, cities, crime, and advocacy and reform. Presenting data on the deteriorating health of children during the nineteenth century and on their increasing displacement of adults in the workplace, the author demonstrates that they did not share proportionately in the increased standard of living. Jordan’s book is a unique piece of scholarship in its range, focus, and presentation. Original sources such as diaries and memoirs not previously cited elsewhere, literature from the period, and anecdotes from the children themselves animate the statistical background and provide vivid pictures of their lives.

This elementary text introduces basic quantum mechanics to undergraduates with no background in mathematics beyond algebra. Containing more than 100 problems, it provides an easy way to learn part of the quantum language and apply it to problems.Emphasizing the matrices representing physical quantities, it describes states simply by mean values of physical quantities or by probabilities for possible values. This approach requires using the algebra of matrices and complex numbers together with probabilities and mean values, a technique introduced at the outset and used repeatedly. Students discover the essential simplicity of quantum mechanics by focusing on basics and working only with key elements of the mathematical structure--an original point of view that offers a refreshing alternative for students new to quantum mechanics.

A young college graduate navigates the challenges of adulthood in a world that feels overwhelming and unfamiliar. Through humorous and often outrageous experiences, such as witnessing bull castrations and contemplating illegal activities, the author shares a candid exploration of maturity and self-discovery. The witty and sarcastic anecdotes highlight the complexities of human emotions and relationships, making this a relatable read for anyone embarking on their own journey and realizing the importance of life's true values.

The story follows Danny Logan, a ruthless cop driven by vengeance after the brutal murder of his wife and unborn child. Known for his psychopathic tendencies, he embarks on a relentless quest to track down and eliminate the killer without remorse. As he navigates the dark underbelly of crime, the narrative delves into themes of justice, morality, and the psychological toll of his violent pursuit.

Designed for busy coaches, this practical guide offers ready-to-use session templates to optimize training time with players. It minimizes jargon to ensure clarity and efficiency, making it accessible for coaches at all levels. With a focus on maximizing limited contact time, it serves as an essential resource for enhancing soccer training sessions effectively.

"In this book, James Jordan examines why and how the breath is the "delivery system" for human and musical ideas in performance. "The breath," Dr. Jordan writes, " is the most magical and human thing we can engage as artists." The Musician's breath is divided into two sections: The first discusses the "why" of breathing, while the second provides the "how" with practical applications for singers, instrumentalists, and conductors"--Dust jacket.

This birefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The briefs examines the results to consider the impact of children’s deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and continuities across the centuries.

This important volume brings together the latest knowledge of voice science, voice pedagogy, conducting, and accompanying into a single volume. It is a valuable resource for choral conductors, no matter the age ore experience of their ensembles. The Anatomy of Tone explores essential aspects of anatomy, physiology, and acoustics, and describes their impact on choral teaching and rehearsal. In addition, this book reviews groundbreaking scientific information on spacing of singers and its effect upon intonation and vocal health. This volume contains pedagogical information pertaining to: Breathing - Resonance - Formants in the choral rehearsal - Structuring the choral warm-up - The use of breath as a foundation of expressive choral singing - The use of legato as a primary tool in the choral rehearsal - Choral spacing for balanced resonance - Teaching of specific vowels and their internal architectures - Use of harmonically based warm-ups - Piano accompanying to support good vocalism and building listening skills. - Publisher's description