Recently Found
Cities for a Small Country
By Richard Rogers & Anne Power
Pub Faber & Faber 2000 ISBN 0571206522 £14.99
[£19.54 inc p&p]
The authors of this punchy book use their combined knowledge
of architecture, social exclusion and community development
to demonstrate ways in which we can all contribute to
making our cities healthier and happier places. The
general tone is forward thinking and optimistic.
It is about safety, aesthetics and regeneration; of
harnessing human resources to ensure our cities can
cope with the demands of 21st century living.
Available here at SAMs Books
Copyright In A Week
By Graham Cornish
Pub Hodder & Stoughton 2002 ISBN 0340849444
A well-structured and accessible little book that is
very successful in its aim to provide an introduction
to copyright and to alert the reader to the problems
rather than offer too many solutions. It covers
What is Copyright?; How the law works; Authors and owners;
using copyright material; websites, intranets, emails;
licences and liability; a corporate policy. It
is aimed at a business setting rather than the arts
so don’t expect to find anything on the specifics
of commission, collaborations, further use, etc., as
they apply to different art forms.
Creative Connections: Business
and the arts working together to create a more inclusive
society
By Phyllida Shaw
Pub Art & Business 2001 ISBN 09540568809 £15.
This report is for anyone interested in partnerships.
Itself, a result of effective partnership between Marks
and Spencer, DCMS and A and B it explains why businesses
become involved in social enterprises and the arts.
Phyllida Shaw uses her own extensive knowledge of successful
collaborations to demonstrate the potential benefit
for all parties in pooling skills and resources.
Using a range of case studies which provide examples
from all perspectives this will provide ideas and first
hand examples of joined-up projects.
Click here to buy from the publisher
Culture Incorporated: museums,
artists, and corporate sponsorships
By Mark W Rectanus
Pub University of Minnesota 2002 ISBN 0816638527
Commercial branding explored through current sponsorship
packages with museums in the USA and Germany.
How sponsorship is a function of corporate cultural
politics, and cannot be isolated from social and political
agendas, and the degree to which corporate cultural
politics can influence, define and shape culture.
Did It Make A Difference?
By Francois Matarasso
Pub Arts and Business 2000 ISBN 0951240994 £10
The second in a series of guides that aims to alert
the business and arts communities and other partners
to the value of measuring the impact of their joint
projects. It outlines best practice for community
arts projects, makes the case for evaluation, shows
the stages of a well-run project, and gives further
details on how to undertake evaluation, with an evaluation
checklist. It shows choices that need to be made
and tackles some tricky issues.
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Engineers of the Imagination:
The Welfare State Handbook
Ed by Tony Coult & Baz Kershaw
Pub Methuen Revised & Updated Edition 1990 ISBN
0413528006
A wonderful book that is both inspirational and very
practical. The book records the work of the enduringly
successful company Welfare State International and is
fascinating as a historical account of street and participatory
arts. It is also crammed full of practical information.
In the core techniques section, it covers lanterns,
puppets, bonfires, big towers, scaffolding, flags, puppets
on cars, costumes and ceremonial food.
Experience Economy, The: Work
is Theatre & Every Business a Stage
By B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore
Pub Harvard Business School Press 1999 ISBN 0875848192
£17.99 [£22.14 inc p&p]
Available from SAMs Books
Hare Brain Tortoise Mind: why intelligence
increases when you think less
By G Claxton
Pub Fourth Estate 1997 ISBN 1857027094
The human brain will do a number of unusual, interesting
and important things - if given time. As described in
this book, there is evidence from cognitive science
and elsewhere that the brain will learn patterns of
a degree of subtlety which normal, purposeful, busy
consciousness cannot even see, let alone master; it
will make sense out of hazy, ill-defined situations
which leave everyday rationality flummoxed; and it will
sometimes come up with solutions to complicated predicaments
that are wise rather than merely clever. The book explores
these slower ways of knowing and explains how we could,
or should, use them more often and more effectively.
How Brands Become Icons: The
Principles of Cultural Branding
By Douglas B. Holt
Pub Harvard Business School Press 2004 ISBN 1578517745
Irish Theatre Handbook: A
comprehensive guide to professional drama, dance and
opera in Ireland, North and South
Ed Paula Shields
Pub The Theatre Shop 2004 3rd Edition ISBN 0953421325
£15 [£16.50 inc p&p] Available from SAMs Books
Legendary Brands: Unleashing
the Power of Storytelling to Create a Winning Market
Strategy
By Laurence Vincent
Pub Dearborn Trade Publishing 2002 ISBN 0793155606
Management and the Arts
By William J. Byrnes
Pub Focal Press 3rd Edition 2003 ISBN 0240805372
A4 sized, with 350 pages and an impressive index this
book means business! It covers a broad range of
issues of interest to both experienced managers and
students of arts management. It is American, covers
arts and entertainment, and is performing arts based.
The author has enormous experience, and blends practical
know how with a belief that arts managers can apply
skills from disciplines such as business, finance, economics
and psychology alongside sensitivity and common sense.
There’s a historical perspective of arts organisations,
arts management and business management, then it covers
planning and decision-making, organisational design,
staffing, leadership, organisational controls and budgets,
financial management, marketing, fundraising, management
styles and theories and career options. There
are case studies and questions. Lots of useful
material here.
One-To-One Future
By Don Peppers & Martha Rogers
Pub Piatkus 2001 ISBN 0749914920
Public Interest: New Models
for Delivering Public Services
By Jane Steele, Mary Tetlow and Alison Graham
Pub: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2003 ISBN 0903319993
Recruiting Volunteers: attracting
the people you need
By Fraser and Ursula Jost
Pub DSC 2002 ISBN 190399120X £10.95
Another very useful book from DSC. Finding the
right people who are prepared to commit themselves can
be a real challenge. You have to seek them out,
encourage them and offer roles that are satisfying.
This guide prompts you to think of volunteer recruitment
in the context of a wider volunteer strategy.
Full of practical advice and imaginative ideas.
Click here to buy from the publisher
The Story Factor
By Annette Simmons
Pub: Perseus Books 2001 ISBN 0738206717
The power of storytelling transposed to
work or business settings with chapters headed What
is a story?, What Story Can do That Facts Can’t,
How to Tell a Good Story, The Psychology of Story’s
Influence, Influencing the Unwilling, Unconcerned or
Unmotivated. The author is a business communication
consultant and specializes in helping public and sector
organisations build more collaborative behaviours.
A highly readable book that provides a comprehensive
guide to story telling as an effective means of communication.
Strange and Charmed
Ed: Sian Ede
Pub: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2000 ISBN 090331987X
£10.99 [£14.99 inc p&p]
Why should visual artists turn their attention to science?
Because of its new materials and techniques, its strange
metaphors, its controversies. An examination of
science forces us to view our lives from new perspectives.
The book begins with an analysis of the great divided
between the two cultures of art and science and goes
on to consider the peculiar and uncertain condition
of contemporary art. Specialist areas covered
include exploring the development of the visual image
in science and its potential for influencing new art
and looking at neuropsychological explanations for the
ways in which artists and viewers see, order and make
associations. The book concludes with an investigation
into the ways in which artists are addressing the impact
of science on society.
Available here at SAMs Books
The Touring Scheme Toolkit: A Step by Step
Guide to Creating and Developing Rural Touring Schemes
By Richard King
Pub National Rural Touring Forum 2003 ISBN 09544155914
A nicely produced guide with case studies as illustrations
of the good practice it promotes. Designed for
those setting up or expanding a Rural Touring Scheme,
it has both plenty of useful factual information and
much wisdom gleaned from those with experience in this
field. There are sample contracts, feedback forms,
and sources of further information.
Click here to buy from the publisher
Writing at Work: How to create
successful business documents
By Alan Barker
Pub Spiro Press 2003 ISBN 1844390039
Covering everything from formal letters, reports and
minutes to brief emails and memos this considerate book
will encourage us all to abandon jargon and write clearly
and effectively. It is effectively laid out and
accessible with quick ‘At a Glance’
reference boxes and checklists in every section.
So, now there is no excuse for dull prose or to use
anything but Plain English. A great book to share
amongst colleagues! |
