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This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it's more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism 'tactics' plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background, and its roots in film, music and literature.
It also features more than 200 colour photographs, gathered by the author in the course of his counter-tourist...
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Do you feel overwhelmed by the many demands of coaching? Do you wish you knew exactly what to do in order to help your team succeed?Whether you want to (1) improve your coaching skills, (2) build a great team, or (3) have a positive impact on your players, this book will get you there.Does your coaching fall short of inspirational?I wrote this book to help coaches know exactly what they can do to help their players win on a more consistent basis....
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Poems from a long and lucky life.A little risqué, a little sad, a little epic, somewhat mad.
Most of these poems bubbled up unbidden. Some were scribbled on an envelope to be performed at a poet's breakfast, some for slam competitions, or inspired by a performer. The mood varies from embarrassment, parental joy, silliness, sadness, cynicism, a sailor's awe, and gratitude. One was in response to a joke. See if you can tell which one.
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"In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet, as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations-performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems-remain...
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Clues to Acting Shakespeare has become a popular guide for actors, directors, teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts, selling over 15,000 copies of previous editions. This third edition retains the second edition's unique solutions to challenges that face directors and actors at advanced levels and is expanded to include an entirely new section for amateur and community theatre groups. In this new edition, readers will be delighted to find:
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No other performing artist has captured the psychological complexity of this decade as Karen Finley has. In her inimitable style, she has embodied some of the most troubling figures to cast a long shadow on the public imagination, and has envisioned a kind of catharsis within each drama: Liza Minnelli responds to the September 11 attacks; Terri Schiavo explains why Americans love a woman in a coma; Martha Stewart dumps George W. Bush during their...
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Joseph Keckler's signatures are his magnificent three-plus-octave operatic voice and the mesmerizing stories he tells. Combining original pieces with material from his acclaimed performances, Keckler confirms his storytelling mastery, revealing still more of himself on the page. In these tales, one can't easily draw a line between reality, embellishment, and fantasy. Odd jobs and odder employers: what is it like to work for a blind man who runs an...
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A "soucoyant" is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re-imagine his mother's stories for her before they slip...
91) How to Handle an Anthropologist: Russell Shuttleworth, PhD interviews shaman/performance artist F
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In 1997, shaman/performance artist Frank Moore was contacted by Russell Shuttleworth, a then University of California, Berkeley graduate student, working on his doctoral dissertation. The thesis was a research study to help understand how men with moderate to severe cerebral palsy experience and interpret their search for intimacy and sexual relationships in the face of significant social and cultural barriers, or as Frank called it, "The Sexual Practices...
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Richard Foreman has been at the leading edge of the theatrical avant-garde in the United States and throughout the world since 1968. His legendary productions, written and directed by him at his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre have influenced two generations of theater artists. This new anthology collects plays written and performed over six years, including Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty, Maria del Bosco, Panic (How to Be Happy! ), Bad...
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The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with his early days in Brooklyn and his college years in Texas, where he dreamed of becoming an actor, this book follows his career as one of the earliest members of the famed Actors Studio and as a Tony Award winner for his work on Broadway. Wallach has worked...
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Un livre poétique consacré à l'opéra et à son histoire.
Opéra ? Qu'entendez-vous par là ? - le théâtre réunissant à la fois : drame, chant (solistes et chœurs), symphonie, danses, costumes, décors,éclairages et machinerie, qui a pris dès sa fondation en Europe le nom d'opéra, c'est-à-dire " œuvre par excellence". Désir et ambition d'un spectacle total don’t l'évolution, de l'Orfeo (1607) de Monteverdi aux créations les plus...
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Do you want to be part of the growing audiobook industry? Are you an indie author looking to expand your readership? Learn how to narrate and produce your own professional quality audiobook within a budget.
I won't bore you with a list of my expert qualifications because I don't have any. I'm not a tech wiz. I'm not an actor. I'm an average person, just like you, and if I can do it, then so can you.
In this step-by-step beginner's guide, you'll...
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Most fans of the artist Edward Gorey know him as the author of lavishly drawn, sparely plotted little books in which hapless characters come to unpleasant ends. But if you happened to be in the right place at the right time, you might know him as a dramatist. From Boston's Poets' Theatre to New York's Broadway, and from Bourne to Provincetown on Cape Cod, Edward Gorey applied his distinctive wit to writing and directing plays for actors and puppets-occasionally...
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Partez à la découverte de l'art vidéo avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
On peut définir l' art vidéo comme une télévision faite par des artistes: il s'agit de productions privées, parfois rudimentaires, qui visent moins à la distraction qu'à des buts esthétiques communs à d'autres formes d'art contemporain.
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus sur l'art video.
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Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged thematically around such topics as direct action, alternative organizing, urban imaginaries, anti-bias work, and collective learning, among others, Art as Social Action is a comprehensive manual for teachers about how to teach art as...
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In Mapping Memory, Kaitlin M. Murphy investigates the use of memory as a means of contemporary sociopolitical intervention. Mapping Memory focuses specifically on visual case studies, including documentary film, photography, performance, new media, and physical places of memory, from sites ranging from the Southern Cone to Central America and the U.S.–Mexican borderlands. Murphy develops new frameworks for analyzing how visual culture performs as...
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