John Williamson

At the core of the music industries is the artist. There are thousands of aspiring performers yet only a handful can be truly successful. What propels one artist where others fail? Talent? Originality? Ambition? Or pro-active, well-informed career management? Professional management of the artist's career is critical to their eventual and sustained success, and managers are a pivotal and understudied part of the music industries, central to all the activities within them. In recent years, the role has changed dramatically. AI, online resources and platforms, streaming and social media have opened doors for the self-managing artist as well as the astute professional music manager. In many instances, managers have assumed roles vacated by record companies meaning that their responsibilities have multiplied as potential sources of income have shrunk. This book addresses these issues and others as it supports and guides those wishing to work in artist development or the management of their own career.

At the core of the music industries is the artist. There are thousands of aspiring performers yet only a handful can be truly successful. What propels one artist where others fail? Talent? Originality? Ambition? Or pro-active, well-informed career management? Professional management of the artist's career is critical to their eventual and sustained success, and managers are a pivotal and understudied part of the music industries, central to all the activities within them. In recent years, the role has changed dramatically. AI, online resources and platforms, streaming and social media have opened doors for the self-managing artist as well as the astute professional music manager. In many instances, managers have assumed roles vacated by record companies meaning that their responsibilities have multiplied as potential sources of income have shrunk. This book addresses these issues and others as it supports and guides those wishing to work in artist development or the management of their own career.

From Australia's beloved icon, singer-songwriter, JOHN WILLIAMSON, who brought us the bestselling Old Man Emu and Christmas in Australia, comes a new national anthem of the sea, now a powerful picture book. Where did it go? Where has it gone, your love for me? We love our sandy beaches, our jewel seas and reefs brimming with life. But our precious oceans are in trouble and we all need to become part of the voice to save them.

Golf has been around for over 600 years, its origins tracing back to the links in Scotland in the fifteenth century. Since then, the game has spread worldwide, with millions of fans and players from all walks of life. Born on the Links: A Concise History of Golf encompasses the entire history of this popular sport, from the fifteenth century up to the present. It covers the development of golf equipment, rules, and playing fields, and shows how the game changed from a pastime exclusively for the rich to a sport that is played by millions of people of all classes, ages, and backgrounds. In addition, this book details the lives and accomplishments of the many iconic players of the game—including Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Ben Hogan, Charlie Sifford, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sorenstam, and Tiger Woods—and their greatest moments on the golf course. Additional chapters focus exclusively on the history of African Americans and women in the sport, recognizing their distinct struggles for equality and recognition, as well as their ultimate triumphs. A comprehensive yet readable resource, Born on the Links also features a timeline of golf history, lists of the winners and runners-up of every major professional and amateur golf championship held since 1860, the winner of every major international team and cup competition held since 1922, and more. The most up-to-date history of golf, this book will entertain and inform all fans and historians of the game.

Advice To The Officers Of The British Army has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

A naval alliance between France and Spain turns the English channel into a tense and dangerous place. With a decisive sea battle looking increasingly inevitable, both sides search for an edge, an advantage that might just tip the scales in their favour. Still healing from his wounds, suffered on Gatekeeper rock, Jack is once more drawn into the sinister world of spies and spy-catchers. As the spymasters on all sides weave their plots he is reunited with old friends and bitter enemies, once more discovering the grey and murky lines of war are only a pistol shot away. From his earliest days, Jack was destined for a life of struggle and poverty; a desperate battle for the food in his belly and the very air in his lungs, but for a chance encounter, which plunged him into a world and a war that few even knew existed. He was to become one of Britain's greatest assets, yet also one that could not be admitted or celebrated, a young man with an unshakeable hunting instinct, existing in the void between the law and the war, untouched by petty matters of class or breeding, who simply refuses to die.

Ageism: Past, Present, and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions. McNamara and Williamson uniquely provide a number of complementary ways to understand ageism, including social and psychological theories of ageism, economic development, ageism as frame or lens, and ageism at the intersection of various social categories such as gender and race. They then put ageism in the context of mass media, h ealth care, employment, and public policy. This short text is an ideal addition to courses on sociology of aging, social policy, and social problems.

Ageism: Past, Present, and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions. McNamara and Williamson uniquely provide a number of complementary ways to understand ageism, including social and psychological theories of ageism, economic development, ageism as frame or lens, and ageism at the intersection of various social categories such as gender and race. They then put ageism in the context of mass media, h ealth care, employment, and public policy. This short text is an ideal addition to courses on sociology of aging, social policy, and social problems.

In a world where anonymity is all, Jack finds himself noticed for all the wrong reasons. With the provost on his tale, he has little choice but to accept a diplomatic mission, on foreign shores, but as the supposed mission of mercy becomes manipulated by players on all sides, Jack finds himself in the middle of an explosive stand-off. lurking in the shadows of the Napoleonic wars, a second war rages. Not a war of honour or glory, and not a war that will ever be written, as some of the deeds done in the name of Kings and Emperors are unrepeatable, most especially for those of noble birth, who perform them. In the midst of this deceitful broth, one young man stands apart. Of common birth, he becomes a tool in a war he doesn't fully understand; a disposable asset who refuses to be disposed of.