Böcker av Mark Shepard

The Winner of a Fall 2023 BookFest Personal Memoir Honorable Mention!Get Your Greater is a powerful memoir of personal transformation, self-healing, and faith. Mark Shepard shares his raw and real journey from trauma to triumph, recounting his experiences of losing his mother in a horrific act of violence before the age of 10, enduring mistreatment by family, suffering physical and sexual abuse in foster care, and struggling with poverty and homelessness while raising his young sons. Despite these overwhelming challenges, Mark's Christian faith and inner strength helped him rise from a bed of metal bars to a life filled with love, gratitude, and purpose. His autobiography sheds light on the resilience required to overcome trauma, abandonment, and cruelty, while offering a blueprint for personal growth and self-esteem. Mark's story of survival is a testament to the power of faith, psychological resilience, and unwavering ambition. As he reflects on the movement of God in his life-sometimes slow, but always steady-he encourages readers to embrace their own personal growth and transformation. Get Your Greater is an inspiring call to never give up, to be patient, steadfast, and resilient, and to trust that, no matter the trials of life, a greater purpose is always within reach.

"There Are No Facts examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. It unpacks how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, it shows how these spatial architectures of attention and datamining are in turn situated within broader histories of empiricism, objectivity, science, colonialism and perception. These entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power are considered across scales ranging from the trans-locality of the home to the planetary extent of the COVID-19 pandemic, with stops along the way at the corner bodega, a neighborhood for the proverbial 1%, a waterfront district in Toronto, and a national election. Through an introduction, nine chapters and a coda, the book addresses the erosion of a common ground on which truth claims were once negotiated and the epistemic fragmentation that results. It probes how these socio-technical systems bracket what we know about the world, how they construe our agency to act within it, and how they shape these spaces that, in turn, shape us"--

Simple flutes of bamboo, wood, metal, plastic, or clay can be a joy to play and make. This book gives you the basics of simple flute playing, then offers guidelines for making flutes of your own from a variety of materials. It even includes a handy chart for "where to put the holes." "Simple Flutes" is a must for simple flute players and makers! ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of "How to Love Your Flute," hailed by Paul Horn as "a model for our times," as well as the craft guide "Simple Flutes." For many years, he was a professional artisan, making and selling flutes of bamboo or plastic. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Contains the essense of a tremendous amount of experience." -- Sam Hinton, Sing Out "An excellent overview." -- Monty Levenson, Tai Hei Shakuhachi "A slim, elegantly presented, and highly practical guide. . . . First-rate, user friendly." -- Midwest Book Review, Aug. 2002 "This thin volume contains a wealth of information." -- Linda Dailey Paulson, Dirty Linen, Oct.-Nov. 2002 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTENTS 1 ~ PLAYING The Sound ~ The Hands ~ The Notes ~ Second Octave ~ Sharps and Flats ~ Breath and Tonguing ~ Making Music ~ Flute Care ~ 2~ MAKING Flute Qualities ~ The Flute Tube ~ The Mouthhole ~ The Fingerholes ~ Tuning ~ Stoppers ~ Finishes ~ Plastic ~ Bamboo ~ Wood ~ Clay ~ Metal ~ Other ~ ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE Here are the two most important rules for tuning: -- A hole will give a higher note if it is placed closer to the mouthhole. It will give a lower note if placed farther away. -- A hole will give a higher note if made larger. It will give a lower note if smaller. These rules mean you can "raise" a note by enlarging the hole or by placing the hole closer to the mouthhole. You can "lower" the note by using a smaller hole or by placing the hole farther from the mouthhole. It also means you can change the hole size and its placement without changing the note. A larger hole could be placed farther from the mouthhole, or a smaller hole placed closer to the mouthhole.

Proceedings from MediaCity 4: MediaCities, the International Conference, Workshops and Exhibition mounted at the University at Buffalo May 3-5, 2013.Edited by Jordan Geiger, Mark Shepard and Omar Khan.