| Daisy Miller (Oberon Modern Plays)
| Adapted from the novel by Henry James
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| Respect for Acting
| Respect for Acting"This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end." --Publishers Weekly "Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and professional worth. Her principal asset in this trea...More
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| Mildred Pierce (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)
| Albert J. LaValley's through and insightful guide to Mildred Pierce at once tells us much about the making of this complex film, the problems and process of transferring the story to the screen, the specific and important roles of the producer, director, and set designer, and how the film relates to broad trends within the industry. It is without a doubt the most thorough treatment of this important American motion picture.
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| The Lost Girl (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
| The Cambridge edition of The Lost Girl uses the manuscript which D. H. Lawrence wrote in Sicily in 1920 to recapture his direct relationship with the text, and in particular to recover the characteristically fluent punctuation which the novel's original printers obscured or ignored. The edition prints all four of the passages which the publisher censored without Lawrence's full knowledge and the hero's name is correctly spelled for the first time in an English edition. The novel is set mainly in...More
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| Hedda Gabler (Modern Plays)
| The play was intended as a tragedy on the purposeless of life imposed on the women of his time, both by their upbringing and by the social conventions which limited their activities. When it was first produced it met with misunderstanding and abuse. It has nevertheless become one of the most popular of Ibsen's plays.
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| Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices (7th Edition)
| Now in its seventh edition, this book provides readers with a careful balance of theory, applications, and skills. This new edition includes expanded coverage of teams and teamwork, ethical collaboration, using technology in groups and teams, as well practical tools, techniques and principles to enhance problem-solving and decision-making. Expanded coverage of critical thinking methods that include the latest research findings. The authors have provided enhanced coverage and examples of bus...More
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| The Natural Speaker (4th Edition)
| The Natural Speaker is a concise, practical, student-friendly guide to public speaking that explores the basic skills necessary to present a natural, effective, and rewarding speech to any audience. By providing a basic knowledge of speech construction, practice, and delivery, this text is designed to enhance and improve students' natural speaking strengths. The book features a warm, simple, and humorous writing style, while presenting the fundamental concepts and skills required for effective s...More
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| Macbeth (Shakespeare in Production)
| The shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies, Macbeth is compressed, complex and ambiguous and has been interpreted in various ways. This Introduction describes major productions and performers that include David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and Laurence Olivier. A detailed commentary accompanying the play's text describes how specific episodes and passages have been interpreted in the theater.
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| The Cash Cage
| The Cash Cage introduces the reader to Radio's army of wanderers who spin tunes, give the time and temp, take requests, and when the pressure is on are easily discarded by a cutthroat business cleverly disguised as your favorite song.
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| An Actor Prepares
| Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.
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| Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication (with CD-ROM and Speech Builder Express™/InfoTrac®)
| Julia Wood, a leading scholar in the field of communication, brings us a new edition of the extremely popular COMMUNICATION MOSAICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATION. The new edition continues with the holistic approach to the field of communication by first explaining the basic processes central to all communication contexts (e.g. listening, perceiving, using verbal and nonverbal communication, establishing climate), and then applying these processes to various contexts (interperso...More
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| Doctor Who Encyclopedia (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover))
| The definitive A-Z packed with never seen before photos, concept drawings and special effects artwork this is a must for every fan of the new series Doctor Who. Covering both Christopher Eccelston and David Tennant's Doctors this encyclopedia is the perfect companion for anyone wishing to know more about the Doctor, the Tardis, his friends and enemies and the worlds through which he travels. This is the Doctor Who book all the fans have been waiting for. It is written by Gary Russell the au...More
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| King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
| This new edition of King Lear takes into account the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English, developments at GCSE and A-level, and the probable development of English and Drama throughout the 1990s. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers King Lear as theatre and the text as script, enabling students to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in an accessible, meaningful and creative way. It approaches the play in a new way, encouraging students to part...More
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| The Poor Little Rich Girl: A Play Of Fact And Fancy In Three Acts
| This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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| The Monkey Wrench Gang
| Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has decided that enough is enough, A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor and a polygamist join forces in a noble c...More
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| Persuasion: Social Influence and Compliance Gaining (3rd Edition)
| Persuasion, Social Influence, and Compliance Gaining looks at persuasion from a broad-based perspective, encompassing the full scope of persuasion found in everyday life. Linked to empirical research, this book takes the reader from persuasion theory to qualified conclusions about the operation of persuasion in real-world settings and examines persuasion from a social science perspective. Written in a highly accessible style, this book involves the reader by providing information and real...More
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| The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide
| Do you think you're funny? Do you want to turn your sense of humor into a career? If the answer is yes, then Judy Carter's The Comedy Bible is for you. The guru to aspiring stand-up comics provides the complete scoop on being -- and writing -- funny for money. If you've got a sense of humor, you can learn to make a career out of comedy, says Judy Carter. Whether it's creating a killer stand-up act, writing a spec sitcom, or providing jokes for radio or one-liners for greeting ca...More
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| The Essential Theatre (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Theatre)
| The Eighth Edition of THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE will help you get your students excited about theatre. The combined authorship of an authoritative theatre historian and his former student, an active theatre historian himself, make this the book perfect for your introductory theatre course. In the 35 years since it was first published, THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE has established a reputation as one of the most comprehensive, authoritative surveys of the theatre in academia. Now in a new full color format w...More
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| Screenwriting For Dummies
| Write a great script and get it into the hands of the Hollywood players!So you want to be a screenwriter? Whether you want to write a feature film or a TV script or adapt your favorite book, this friendly guide gives you expert advice in everything from creating your story and developing memorable characters to formatting your script and selling it to the studios. You get savvy industry tips and strategies for getting your screenplay noticed!The screenwriting process from A to Z -- from d...More
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| Organizational Communication: Approaches and Processes (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Communication Studies)
| Miller's text presents organizational communication from both a communication and managerial perspective. Her writing style and consistent use of examples and case studies results in a text that undergraduates students will find easy to understand.
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