Arch Street Press is pleased to present the following works for print, e-book and audiobook publication. We will announce additional titles over the coming months from our vibrant roster of projects.
Genership 1.0: Beyond Leadership Toward
Liberating the Creative Soul
by David Castro
This groundbreaking book by the President and CEO of the Institute for Leadership Education promises to transform thinking within organizations and communities about the fundamental skills required for human progress. David explores the evolution of leadership skills within effective organizations, recognizing that leadership processes have been evolving into different and more promising practices. To capture this trend, David introduces a new concept and a new word, genership, which describes the skill set required for the practice of creativity in groups.
Distinguishing genership from its ancestor practices, David unmasks a series of highly dysfunctional fallacies underlying the more traditional concept of leadership. These include the Messiah Fallacy, the Hero Fallacy and the Fallacy of Leadership Nostalgia, a false triumvirate severely suppressing human creativity. David posits that human progress will ultimately require organizations to transcend leadership in favor of genership as a core practice within creative communities. With vivid and relevant examples, he surveys the fundamental capacities underlying genership, contrasting them with traditional leadership processes. Genership provides a practical guide to transcend outdated ways associated with traditional leadership cultures, while embracing emergent and demonstrably more effective practices.
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a picture is worth... the voice of today's high school students
a picture is worth... combines the skills of literacy, critical thinking, communication, photography, technology and essay writing with crucial values of integrity, self-awareness, empathy and leadership to provide a standards-based high school curriculum. a picture is worth... was born from a need to address Reading, PA’s “unwelcome distinction” in 2011 from The New York Times as America’s city with the highest poverty rate, staggeringly low college degree attainment rates and elevated high school dropout rates. This creative and dynamic program—a collaboration between Threshold Collaborative, photographer Janice Levy and I-LEAD Charter School in Reading—provides youth with the opportunity to find their voice by crafting indelible stories about their lives and sharing them through audio, photographs and written essays. Introduction by David Castro and Alisa del Tufo; edited by Robert Rimm.
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves." —Gabriel García Márquez
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Lera is a Russian-American poet, composer, musician and visual artist. She has published more than 100 works for opera, ballet, orchestral and chamber music, and performs as a concert pianist throughout the world. Her work is championed by leading artists, conductors, stage directors and choreographers, with recent works staged by the San Francisco Ballet, Stanislavsky Theater, Hamburg Opera, Theatre an der Wein, National Ballet of China, Finnish National Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Semperoper and Staatskapelle Dresden, and New York’s Lincoln Center. The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, selected Lera in 2007 as a Young Global Leader and in 2014 as a Cultural Leader, where she lectured on borderless creativity. In Excess of Being, she revitalizes the form of aphorisms. Her writing is provocative, dark, ironic and humorous, perceptively dealing with life’s kaleidoscopic questions. Excess of Being is her first book published in English.
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Better to Speak of It: Fostering Relationships & Results through Creativity
by Robert Rimm in collaboration with Clive Gillinson
Better to Speak of It: Fostering Relationships & Results through Creativity is a book of core management and personal values written by Robert Rimm, managing editor of Arch Street Press, in collaboration with Clive Gillinson, executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall. Better to Speak of It questions standard management practices that can easily lead to stagnation and isolation. By offering specific, first-hand experiences from leaders within key cultural, educational, nonprofit and corporate fields, the book explores the vital benefits of innovation and organizational management, serving others and effective partnerships, access and mentoring, budgeting and well-considered risk, media and effective communications, education and lifelong learning.
Release date: 23 June 2016
Empathy: Social Visionaries Putting Creativity into Action
Edited by Robert Rimm
This revealing and inspiring book—available in paperback, e-book and audio formats with a new volume published biennially—comprises 22 chapters, each highlighting one of today’s most imaginative and resourceful social innovators. Among the featured leaders are Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi—Global March Against Child Labor, Dan Weiss—Metropolitan Museum of Art, Andreas Merkl—Ocean Conservancy, John Marks—Search for Common Ground, David Castro—I-LEAD, Mary Gordon—Roots of Empathy, James Thornton—ClientEarth, Rupert Scofield—Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), Clive Gillinson—Carnegie Hall, Ángel Cabrera—George Mason University, Carolyn Miles—Save the Children and Timothy Rub—Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Interviews, biweekly podcasts and other supporting resources will directly aid other organizations as they seek to make their own impact within neighborhoods, regions and throughout the world.
Royalties from Empathy go directly to each organization featured within the book.
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Release date: 8 September 2016
Pianism as Art (Пианизм как искусство)
Translated by Robert Rimm and Anzhela Reno
Composer-pianist Samuil Evgenyevich Feinberg (1890-1962) became one of the founders of the modern Russian school at the Moscow Conservatory, where he enjoyed universal esteem. The language of his seminal book—Pianism as Art—is exquisite, its ideas invaluable, its conclusions compelling. Feinberg assays the piano’s kaleidoscopic possibilities more completely than has ever been expressed in a single volume, perceptively analyzing style, sound, technique, rhythm, pedaling, and the vital connection between poetry and music, among a host of fascinating musical material. Feinberg became strongly attuned to social justice, equality and access, and one reads within his book's pages a lifetime of wisdom and humanity experienced through the piano’s unique voice. This is its first complete translation into English.
Release date: 18 October 2016
Eye to Ear: Music Inspired by Art
by Stephanie Knopp and Robert Rimm
The social impact of art and music continues to spread. Well beyond providing museum and concert-hall pieces, these expressions of human creativity offer key insights into social awareness, inspiration and emotion. Eye to Ear explores the symbiotic relationship between music and the visual arts during the past 200 years; unforgettable paintings, prints and sculptures have directly inspired many iconic musical works.
Eye to Ear begins with Sergei Rachmaninov’s celebrated orchestral piece, Isle of the Dead, which he composed after seeing Arnold Böcklin’s haunting painting of the same title. The authors include over 30 examples of art-inspired music within this fully illustrated hardcover and e-book, including works by 28 composers as disparate as Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Mahler, Stravinsky, Sondheim and Turnage, and 36 artists from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Calder and Bacon.
Each of these visionary composers and artists passionately believed that music and art serve a lasting social purpose, which this book explores through their letters and society’s response, set within a rich historical context that remains as vibrant today as ever. An accompanying CD features excerpts of the music.
Release date: 8 November 2016