Sunday, May 31, 2009

Fundamentals of Organizational Communication



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With a blend of theory, analysis and practice, Fundamentals of Organizational Communication presents a unique competency-based approach incorporating personal knowledge, interpersonal sensitivity and ethical values.   This Eighth Edition provides an extensive introduction into the major organizational communication issues, theories and skills; enabling the reader to immediately graps and apply the concepts presented.... More >>

Fundamentals of Organizational Communication

Friday, May 29, 2009

Mind Magic: Extraordinary Tricks to Mystify, Baffle and Entertain


  • ISBN13: 9781843304760
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Everyone knows that most magic tricks are simply sleight-of-hand. Mental magic, on the other hand, can give the illusion of real paranormal powers. This dazzling collection offers a rich selection of mind-reading, spirit-raising, future-telling illusions, complete with tips on how to present them most effectively. Read palms with amazing accuracy, predict the future with tarot cards, conjure up table-tipping spirits, find psychic connections between people and their... More >>

Mind Magic: Extraordinary Tricks to Mystify, Baffle and Entertain

The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor


  • ISBN13: 9780553381207
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“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”
–Larry Moss, from the Introduction

When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a two-year waiting list for his advanced acting classes. But now everyone–professionals and amateurs alike–can discover... More >>

The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves


  • ISBN13: 9781557885166
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Easy to make...easy to love! Sock and Glove presents thirteen delightful softy projects that are quick to make-and certain to amuse and delight. Full of individuality and mischief, these stuffed creations are all pieced together from ordinary socks, gloves, and mittens. Step-by-step illustrations and instructions make it easy to craft and dress a whole menagerie, including monkeys, elephants, piglets, bunnies, and even an insouciant fish. Endearing to adults and c... More >>

Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters



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Intended to be the core text for the introductory interpersonal communication course at two- and four-year colleges and universities in departments of speech, communication, and human relations.... More >>

Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition


  • ISBN13: 9780060928193
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Culled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera. This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera skills; additional chapters on imagination and movement; and fresh material on character development, monologues, visual focus, playing comedy and working with directo... More >>

Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition

Friday, May 22, 2009

Building A Character


  • ISBN13: 9780878309825
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This is the second volume of Stanislaviski's enduring trilogy on the art of acting. The "System" which he describes is a means both of mastering the craft of acting and of stimulating the actor's individual creativeness and imagination. It has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen, and still remains today the only comprehensive theory of acting we possess. In Building a Character Stanislavski discusses with master... More >>

Building A Character

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices



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In a time when society is holding individuals and organizations to high standards of conduct, Public Relations: A Values-Driven Approach addresses how to build ethical, productive relationships with strategic constituencies. This book provides an introduction to the dynamic, growing, and honorable profession of public relations as it relates to a broader social context. Grounded in public relations theory and traditions, Public Relations: A Values-Driven Appr... More >>

Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication



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COMMUNICATION MOSAICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD OF COMMUNICATION, Sixth Edition, combines the author's signature first-person narrative style and popular student commentaries with thoroughly up-to-date research, theories, and technological information to provide both an overview of the field and a practical guide you can immediately use to improve your personal, professional, and public communication skills. By beginning with introductions to the basic processes... More >>

Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic



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Three hundred magic tricks are divided into the sections "Effect," "Secret & Preparation," "Method," and "Comments & Suggestions"; and more than two thousand photographs demonstrate how to master sleight-of-hand.... More >>

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Antigone


  • ISBN13: 9781580813334
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The body of Polynices, brother of Antigone, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigones faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilhs Antigone was seen by the French as theatre of the resistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of authority. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Jo... More >>

Antigone

Death and the Maiden



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Generally, it's the tortured who turn into torturers."" -Carl Gustav Jung. Suspense mounts when Paulina and her husband offer hospitality to a stranger. Paulina thinks she recognizes, in their guest, the man who tortured her in prison, and she subsequently takes him hostage to find out the truth. A stunningly blunt and compelling play, Death and the Maiden explores brilliantly the issues of torture, power, vulnerability, ethics, and trust. An award-winning play by C... More >>

Death and the Maiden

Friday, May 15, 2009

The Art of Voice Acting, Fourth Edition: The Craft and Business of Performing Voiceover


  • ISBN13: 9780240812113
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Are you just starting in Voiceover? Do you have some experience, but aren't getting booked? Are you a working pro who wants to expand to new areas of VO work?

The Art of Voice Acting is a must read if you are serious about a profession in voice over and looking to maximize your efforts for success in the business.
Packed with basic acting techniques in The Art of Voice Acting, you will discover
* All new scripts
* 20 more pages of new and updated ... More >>

The Art of Voice Acting, Fourth Edition: The Craft and Business of Performing Voiceover

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Man For All Seasons



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A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endurance, his purity, saintliness and tenacity in the face of ever-growing threats to his beliefs and family, earn him status as one of modern drama's greatest tragic heroes.

The play was first staged i... More >>

Man For All Seasons

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Wire, The



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Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire, hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." Time declares that The Wire, "like its underfunded, workaday cops, just plugged away until it outshone everything else on TV." The Wire stands not only as riveting drama but also as a sociopolitical treatise with ambitions beyond an... More >>

Wire, The

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Reduced Shakespeare Co. presentsThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr


  • ISBN13: 9781557831576
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
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The complete script to the critically acclaimed play. "Shakespeare as written by Reader's Digest, acted by Monty Python, and performed at the speed of the minute waltz." - L.A. Herald... More >>

The Reduced Shakespeare Co. presentsThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach



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In his decades as a psychotherapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled “writer’s block,” “procrastination,” or “stage fright.” It’s the particular anxiety that, paradoxically, keeps creators from doing, completing, or sharing the work they are driven toward. This “creative anxiety” can take the form of avoiding the work, declaring it not good enough, or failing to market it — and it can cripple... More >>

Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

Finding Lost - Season Six: The Unoffical Guide


  • ISBN13: 9781550229516
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In this comprehensive handbook,the sixth and final season of the wildly popular television series Lost is discussed. Background information on the historical, philosophical, religious, and literary references offer a deeper understanding of the show, and never-before-seen photographs—including exclusive behind-the-scene shots of this season’s filming—give fans more to be devoted to. Including an analysis of each episode, an episode guide, an in-depth look at al... More >>

Finding Lost - Season Six: The Unoffical Guide

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Cloud Nine



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Comedy / Casting: 4m, 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exteriors The time-shifting comedy by the author of Top Girls created a sensation Off-Broadway directed by Tommy Tune. Here we are in 1880 darkest but British Africa as portrayed in old movies, plays and novels. Only with a difference. Both parody and spoof of the Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes especially towards sex. There is Clive, a British functionary, his wife Betty (played by a man), their daughter Vi... More >>

Cloud Nine

Friday, May 8, 2009

Harpo Speaks!


  • ISBN13: 9780879100360
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"This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended." -Library Journal "A funny, affectionate and unpretentious autobiography done with a sharply professional assist from Rowland Barber." -New York Times Book ReviewAmazon.com Review
To Marx Brothers fans who have yet to read ... More >>

Harpo Speaks!

Hugh Martin: The Boy Next Door


  • ISBN13: 9780615365077
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Hugh Martin: The Boy Next Door is an enchanting jaunt through the Golden Era of Broadway and the MGM musicals. This firsthand account captures the energy and excitement of those special times, with eyewitness tales of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and dozens more. Hugh recounts the origins of some of America's most beloved songs, including the perennial favorite, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." Martin also reveals some secrets that only he co... More >>

Hugh Martin: The Boy Next Door

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera


  • ISBN13: 9780786880256
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Just as the title says, this is a basic primer on what opera is, what to look for and what to listen to. There is nothing stuffy in Plotkin's style, which is clear and idiomatic. The book also boasts a foreword by supertenor Placido Domingo.... More >>

Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

A Challenge For The Actor


  • ISBN13: 9780684190402
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Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself -- and to do so takes an insatiable curiosity about the human condition.from the PrologueUta Hagen, one of the world's most renowned sta... More >>

A Challenge For The Actor

Monday, May 4, 2009

Candida



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Candida centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. It abounds with classical allusions, the fervor of a religious revival, and poetic inspiration and aspirations.... More >>

Candida

Sunday, May 3, 2009

A Practical Handbook for the Actor


  • ISBN13: 9780394744124
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6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.... More >>

A Practical Handbook for the Actor

Much Ado About Nothing



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Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series.  This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Sh... More >>

Much Ado About Nothing

Spring Awakening


  • ISBN13: 9781559363150
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“This brave new musical, haunting and electrifying by turns, restores the mystery, the thrill to that shattering transformation that stirs in all our souls.”—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times “The staggering purity of this show will touch all open hearts…In its refined, imaginative simplicity, it daringly reverses all the conventional rules by returning the American musical to an original state of innocence.”—John Heilpern, The New York Observer

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Death in the Afternoon



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In "Death in the Afternoon", Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.... More >>

Death in the Afternoon