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Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique: A Practitioner's Guide

Sinéad Rushe - Methuen Drama
Format: Paperback

Intended for actors, directors, teachers and researchers, this book offers an exceptionally clear and thorough introduction to the renowned acting technique developed by Michael Chekhov. Sinad Rushe's book provides a complete overview of the whole method, and includes illuminating explanations...
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Merry Jane's The CBD Solution: Living: CBD and Cannabis for Sleep, Skin, Sex, and Other Daily Rituals

Merry Jane - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Upgrade your life with CBD! Take a journey through your home to discover the many ways CBD can improve your day-to-day routines. You'll learn how to:* Incorporate CBD into your bathroom skin care and beauty rituals* Invite CBD into your bedroom, to help you relax or rev up your sex life*...
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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices

Kristin Hass - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States - and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the futureCultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn't...
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History of Illustration

Susan Doyle - Fairchild Books
Format: Hardcover

"The authoritative book on the origins, history, and influence of illustration. Bravo!" David Brinley, University of Delaware, USAHistory of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images...
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The Beat Stops Here: Lessons on and off the Podium for Today's Conductor

Mark Gibson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

In The Beat Stops Here: Lessons on and off the Podium for Today's Conductor, master conductor Mark Gibson addresses the technique of conducting as an extension of intimate knowledge of the score to the hands and arms. He employs a variety of everyday activities and motions (brushing...
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Cumberland Township and Carmichaels

Shelley McMinn Anderson - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback

Cumberland Township, located in the northeastern portion of Greene County, was one of Pennsylvania's original townships. The history of this area shows that settlers were here prior to 1760. The settlement known as Old Town was founded in 1767. In 1796, Carmichaels was named in honor...
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Zaha Hadid

Philip |eauthor Jodidio - TASCHEN
Format: Hardcover

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable.During the latter years of her life, Hadids daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural...
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The Beatles: for Beginning Piano Solo

Beatles - Hal Leonard
Format: Paperback

(Beginning Piano Solo) . This collection features 16 classics arranged for beginners with a simple presentation of melody, harmony, rhythm, and lyrics. Songs include: All My Loving * All You Need Is Love * Eleanor Rigby * Hey Jude * In My Life * Let It Be * Penny Lane * Something * With...
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Avedon's France: Old World, New Look

Robert M. Rubin - ABRAMS
Format: Print book

Exploring Richard Avedon's fascination with France, Avedon's France brings together a collection of spectacular photographs; selected interviews, letters, publications, and writings (including new material from the Avedon Foundation archives) ; and substantive essays by the authors....
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The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond

TOM SALINSKY - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Format: Paperback

The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate...
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