Books by Paul Sullivan
Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't
Is clutch performance innate-or can it be learned?
Sooner or later everyone encounters a situation in which the stakes are high and the outcome is crucial. And even top performers can crumble when faced with such extreme pressure. Consider the CEO who panics in a desperate attempt to shore up his company's earnings, the veteran politician who grows overconfident and loses to the upstart candidate, the quarterback who carries his team to the Super Bowl but falls apart in the final quarter. All of them choked. But then there are the performers who thrive under such conditions: the ER doctor racing the clock to save someone's life, the lieutenant who leads his platoon to victory after an ambush, the young attorney who refuses to be intimidated in court and wins the crucial case.
These people are clutch, and their ability to overcome extreme pressure consistently and beat the toughest odds fascinates us. How do they do it? According to Paul Sullivan, clutch performance does not stem from an innate ability. It's a learned skill: the art of operating in high-stress situations as if they were everyday conditions. Even some of the most experienced and talented performers lack this skill-but Sullivan shows that anyone can develop it. Drawing on new research and interviews with stars across a range of fields, Sullivan uncovers the shared traits that define clutch performers and explains how anyone can apply their strategies. He builds his case through many inspiring true stories, including those of
* a skinny sergeant who saved his battalion in Iraq;
* a rookie baseball player who pitched his team into its first World Series;
* an eccentric psychiatrist who trained a group of financial traders to become the best in the world;
* a lawyer who struggled in school but became one of the top litigators in America.
Full of powerful advice and real-world examples, Clutch will show you how to overcome extreme pressure to achieve greatness.
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Sullivan's Music Trivia: The Greatest Music Trivia Book Ever
by Paul Sullivan, Sanctuary Publishing
Ever wanted to know how to play the didgeridoo? Or who makes the fastest raps in the world? Or why the Chinese sang into bamboo canes back in the ninth century? Paul Sullivan knows it all, and explains it all in this indispensable sampler of everything musical. Including an array of diagrams, tables, charts, and over 400 facts ranging from the obscure to the obvious, Sullivans Music Trivia is a Pandoras box of timeless musical tidbits.
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Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora (Reverb)
Dub is the avant-garde verso of reggae, created by manipulating and reshaping recordings using studio strategies and techniques. While dub was one of the first forms of popular music to turn the idea of song inside out, it is far from being fully explored. Tracing the evolution of dub, Remixology travels from Kingston, Jamaica, across the globe, following dub’s influence on the development of the MC, the birth of sound system culture, and the postwar Jamaican diaspora.
Starting in 1970s Kingston, Paul Sullivan examines the origins of dub as a genre, approach, and attitude. He stops off in London, Berlin, Toronto, Bristol, and New York, exploring those places where dub had the most impact and investigates its effect on postpunk, dub-techno, jungle, and the dubstep. Along the way, Sullivan speaks with a host of international musicians, DJs, and luminaries of the dub world, from DJ Spooky, Adrian Sherwood, Channel, and Roy to Shut Up and Dance and Roots Manuva. Wide-ranging and lucid, Remixology sheds new light on the dub-born notions of remix and reinterpretation that set the stage for the music of the twenty-first century.
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Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers (Literary Guides for Travellers)
by Paul Sullivan, Marcel Krueger
Located at the epicentre of modern Europe’s most significant and turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers. From nineteenth-century authors recording the city’s dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 and the modernist intellectuals of the Weimar period, to the resistance writers brave enough to write during the dark years of the Nazi era and those who captured life on both sides of the divided city, a body of literature has emerged that reveals Berlin’s ever-shifting identity. Since 1989, Berlin has yet again become a crucible of creativity, serving as both muse and sanctuary for a new generation of writers who regularly claim it as one of the most exciting cities in the world.
Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers illuminates some of the finest writing in and about Berlin. Spanning more than 200 years of local life and literature, it features German authors as diverse as Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Hermann Hesse and Joseph Roth and a kaleidoscope of famous international names such as Mark Twain, Philip Hensher, Walter Benjamin and Christopher Isherwood. It is also a singular guide to some of the best sights, most vibrant neighbourhoods and best-kept local secrets that this unique city has to offer.
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Pocket Rough Guide Berlin (Rough Guide Pocket Guides)
by Rough Guides, Paul Sullivan
Rough Guides welcomes four more world-class cities into the new Pocket series. Each small-format, full-color city guide is the ideal companion for independent travelers on any budget. Pocket Rough Guides serve up all the key sights and best restaurants, shopping, and bars with Rough Guides' trademark eloquence and honesty.
Whether you have an afternoon or a few days at your disposal, Pocket Rough Guides help the curious experience all they can. Divided by area for easy navigation, the Places section is the heart of the guides, with neighborhood-by-neighborhood descriptions complemented by listings of the must-see sights and our pick of the places to eat, drink, and dance.
Each Pocket Rough Guide also includes a "Best of" section that captures the highlights of the city and tips travelers off to the most exciting and unique experiences. Carefully curated Itineraries help plan — and personalize — any trip, making the most of every moment. And, with the full-color detachable map tucked in the back cover, you can even ditch the guide and go stealth for an afternoon.
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