 | Play the Scene: The Ultimate Collection of Contemporary and Classic Scenes and Monologues
Release Date: November 11, 2004Alexander Dumas * Christopher Durang * Beth Henley * Kenneth Lonergan * Donald Margulies * Steve Martin * Nicky Silver * Bernard Shaw * Alfred Uhry * Paula Vogel A collection of the greatest scenes and monologues ever written-ranging from Elizabethan to Tony Award-winning plays-this comprehensive anthology spans over five hundred years of theatre. Play the Scene: The Ultimate Collection of Contemporary and Classic Scenes and Monologues includes scenes and monologues from classic plays by such notable authors as Edith Wharton as well as the best in contemporary ...
 |  | The Good Body - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 21, 2010| ISBN-10: 082222447X | ISBN-13: 978-0822224471Eve Ensler is back and has set her sight slightly higher with an intimate contemplation of her second greatest obsession: her tortured relationship with her post-forties stomach. Ensler toured the world asking women about their bodies and gives us their wild and wonderful and deeply moving stories. She frames these stories with her own personal journey, serving up riotous excerpts from her lifelong dialogue with her stomach - a sassy and conniving antagonist in its own right. We follow her through the serial...
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|  | The Very Bloody Marys
Publication Date: June 13, 2008Can San Francisco survive a marauding gang of Vespa-riding vampires? Before it's sucked dry, the city's only hope may be Valentino, who's only a trainee for the supernatural law enforcement agency, Le Counseil Carmin. Swept up in the whole blood-sucking business when his mentor goes missing, Valentino is called upon to deal with the menace of these "Bloody Marys." But Valentino soon realizes that, in order to dispose of the gang, he must go into areas he never dreamed of, deal with some very strange characters and learn the truth about ...
|  | The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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|  | WHITE INDIAN (Colonization of America : White Indian, Book I)
Release Date: April 1, 1984| Series: Colonization of America : White Indian, Book I Mass market paperback. ...
|  | Beyond All Weapons (Stories from the Golden Age)
Publication Date: June 25, 2012| Series: Stories from the Golden Age Boldly go to new worlds. Firstin Guide is not a man to be reckoned with. Bilged out of theSpace Academy at fourteen for one too many duels, raised in the lawlesscamps of Mars' southern ice cap and cast aside by his family, Firstin'sexperiences have made him resourceful, respected and feared. But it'sjust that brute strength of character which convinces a handful ofMartian colonists to followhimas he leads a risky venture into space,escaping the tyrannicalEarthgovernment that has all but slaughteredthem.The smallbandsecures ...
|  | 100 Favorite English and Irish Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: February 10, 2006| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English — from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and Shakespeare's lovely sonnets to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality. Includes 5 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
|  | Michael Field: The Poet
Publication Date: July 8, 2009| ISBN-10: 1551116758 | ISBN-13: 978-1551116754| Edition: 1 "Michael Field" was the literary pseudonym of two women, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913). The women were poets, playwrights, diarist, and lovers who lived and wrote together during the final decades of the nineteenth century up to World War I. Their arresting poetry has recently gained them a place in the canon, and their extensive engagement with other writers puts them at the centre of fin de siècle literary culture. This Broadview Edition offers selection...
|  | The Green Man
Publication Date: December 1996| ISBN-10: 0859910245 | ISBN-13: 978-0859910248The Green Man - the image of the foliate head or the head of a man sprouting leaves - is perhaps the commonest motif in medieval sculpture. This work, first published in 1978, explores the significance of the image and offers insights into medieval man's understanding of nature, into conceptions of death, rebirth and resurrection in the Middle Ages, and into concerns today with ecology and man's relationship with the green world. ...
|  | Old Oraibi: A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa
Publication Date: May 1, 1992According to their own mythology, the Hopis emerged into the present world through an opening in the earth, or sipapu. Archaeological evidence indicates that at the very least they are direct descendants of the earliest Southwest peoples.Long considered an ethnographic classic, Old Oraibi is as detailed a picture of Hopi religion as can be shown by an outsider. First published in 1944, it sensitively considers kinship, social organization, ceremonialism, and other lifeways of one of the most fascinating American Indian cultures, both before and after the 1906 sch...
|  | The House of Bernarda Alba: A Modern Adaptation (Methuen Drama Modern Plays)
Release Date: September 13, 2011| ISBN-10: 1408126966 | ISBN-13: 978-1408126967Following the gangland execution of her husband, the formidable matriarch Bernarda Alba will do anything to safeguard her family's dubious fortune and the future of her five daughters. A deal is struck —a marriage of convenience between her eldest girl and the son of a business rival. All Bernarda has to do is ensure that the wedding happens, and quickly. Five headstrong daughters cooped up in the family home in an emotionally charged atmosphere of bitter rivalry and repressed sexuality make that an epic...
|  | Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs
Release Date: November 10, 2009This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is a book to be read, absorbed and treasured.—Pearl Cleage, New York Times best selling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day This illustrated treasury of proverbs unites the timeless wisdom of Black communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, while spe...
|  | Homer's Iliad: The Shield of Memory (Literary Structures)
Publication Date: April 1, 1978| Series: Literary Structures “The central image of Homer’s great epic story of the wrath of Achilles,” Atchity writes in his Introduction to this brilliant new study of the poem’s structure, “is the invulnerable shield made for the poem’s hero at the Olympian forge of Hephaistos.” Atchity’s subsequent revelation of the imagery as the guiding aesthetic provides a complete interpretation of the Iliad from the viewpoint of image and theme. The major portion of Atchity’s new interpretation...
|  | Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love
Publication Date: April 13, 2006| ISBN-10: 0199272077 | ISBN-13: 978-0199272075Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death. Thus the troubadour Jaufre Rudel dies in the arms of the countess of Tripoli, having loved her from afar without ever having seen her. Or in Marie de France's Chevrefoil, Tristan and Iseult's fatal love is hauntingly symbolized by the fatally entwined honeysuckle and hazel. And who could forget the ethereal spectacle of the Damoisele of Escalot's body carried to Camelot on a supernatural funerary boat with a let...
|  | Conversation Analysis (SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 1412918480 | ISBN-13: 978-1412918480| Edition: Four-Volume Set It is now widely agreed that in latter part of the 20th century sociology has taken a ‘linguistic turn’. One of the approaches to emerge out of the linguistic turn is conversation analysis, which is now recognized as one of the most distinctive and genuinely original approaches to the study of language, communication and social interaction to have emerged during the last forty years. This comprehensive collection, brought together by two of the leading figures in conversa...
|  | Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from The Flowing Light of the Godhead (Library of Medieval Women)
Publication Date: March 15, 2012| Series: Library of Medieval Women Here is one of the great surprises of German medieval literature. Compiled between c.1250 and c.1282, it is an extraordinary piece of imaginative writing. It integrates visions, auditions, dialogues, prayers, hymns, lyrical love poems, letters, allegories and parables, and draws creatively on features from hagiography, the disputation, the treatise, and magic spells, as the author documents her relationship with God and with her contemporaries. Selections from the text are presented here in translation with introduction and ...
|  | The Second Lady Emily (Signet Regency Romance)
Release Date: March 1, 1998| Series: Signet Regency Romance While visiting an historic mansion, a beautiful woman is rendered unconscious, only to awaken as a famous lady of English aristocracy in 1812, who had died suddenly, never wedding her intended. Posing as the Regency lady, she is determined to give this couple a second chance at marital union, and end the curse that brought tragedy to them for generations. Allison Lane is a winner of Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best First RegencyAllison Lane is the beloved author of The Prodigal Daughter, The Earl's Revenge, The Impove...
|  | Now and Then (Spenser)
Release Date: October 7, 2008| Series: Spenser Investigating a case of infidelity sounds simple?until it plunges Spenser and his beloved Susan into a politically charged murder plot that?s already left three people dead. ...
|  | Dearly Depotted (Flower Shop Mysteries, No. 3)
Release Date: July 5, 2005Abby has her hands full at her cousin Jillian's wedding as florist, bridesmaid, and grandma-sitter-all while wearing a hideous dress. Then the groom's 90-year-old grandmother goes missing from the reception. On her search, Abby finds the corpse of guest Jack Snyder. Now she must find out who killed Jack in the pulpit....
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