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  The Drama School Handbook -...

  John Abbott

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  Is your ambition to be an actor in films, TV shows and plays?
  Do you want to train at a drama school to start making that ambition a reality?
  Are you looking for honest, expert advice to boost your chances of success and beat the competition?
  If your answer to these questions is YES, then this essential guide to drama schools is for you!
  Written by an acting teacher with decades of experience in top UK drama schools, it breaks down everything you need to know about the whole journey, including:
  
  - Getting In: How to research which schools to apply to, select and prepare your audition speeches, and impress the audition panel on the day.
  - Getting On: How to make the most of your time as a student, including settling in, working successfully with the teachers and your classmates, and preparing to enter the professional industry.
  - Getting Out There: How to grab the attention of agents, directors and casting directors – with detailed advice on meetings and different types of auditions – find work, stay motivated and create your own opportunities.
  Whether you're thinking of applying to drama school – or you're already there and looking ahead to what comes next – this book will equip you with the inside information you need to let your commitment and talent shine, and take the first steps towards your career as a professional actor.
  'Without John Abbott's exceptional advice and guidance, I would never have made it into the career I so wanted. His words come back to me time and time again – trust me, you need him too!' Leo Woodall (One Day, The White Lotus), from his Foreword

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  Poet Willie Perdomo On The Value...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Texting and emailing have revolutionized the way we communicate, enabling us to be more efficient and stay in touch more easily. But they have also altered the dynamics of some of our most important relationships. Within this new digital communication landscape, what have we lost? Poet Willie Perdomo, author of The Crazy Bunch, shares his humble opinion on how a handwritten letter expresses more than just words.

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  Making Movies

  Sidney Lumet

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  One of the greatest directors of all time, Sidney Lumet has made movies that have been nominated for more than 50 Academy Awards. Making Movies is an honest and unflinching look at the business and craft of movie making. Lumet's book reveals the ingredients for the potion that brings movie magic to life and assures one thing: you will never look at movies the same way again.

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  The Architecture of Disability -...

  David Gissen

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  Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative proposal for "the construction of disability," this book fundamentally reconsiders how we conceive of and experience disability in our world. 
   
   
   
  Stressing the connection between architectural form and the capacities of the human body, David Gissen demonstrates how disability haunts the history and practice of architecture. Examining various historic sites, landscape designs, and urban spaces, he deconstructs the prevailing functionalist approach to accommodating disabled people in architecture and instead asserts that physical capacity is essential to the conception of all designed space. 
   
   
   
  By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, Gissen presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advocates for looking beyond traditional notions of accessibility and shows how certain incapacities can offer us the means to positively reimagine the roots of architecture.

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  Hanukkah Is Here

  Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo...

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  Kids will love this sweet story/song combination as they listen to “Hanukkah is Here”  and follow along word-for-word in the adorably illustrated eBook. Rhyme and repetition will teach children about this Jewish holiday. This adorably illustrated eBook encourages learning through music and introduces children to important early literacy skills.

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  I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound...

  Mike Doughty

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  A precise yet disorienting look at the exhilaration of music, the process of memory, and the moments when the world becomes new, by the acclaimed songwriter and author of The Book of Drugs "[Mike Doughty's writing is] astonishingly vital, energized, and natural. . . . acerbic and sometimes lacerating."--RICK MOODY, author of The Long Accomplishment and The Ice Storm In this highly original gathering of autobiographical stories, the musician and writer Mike Doughty, in his inimitable voice, sends dispatches from a touring musician's peripatetic life, vividly recalling moments when profound musical experiences made him see the world anew.I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound consists of sometimes-surreal tales, drawing from conflations of memory, especially formative moments in New York City in the 1990s. It looks at how the avid nostalgia of fans is both a boon and a burden for an artist working to stay vital, and what it is to age while touring, and prolifically releasing new music. He examines the struggle to keep relationships alive while living on the road, and the strangeness of the disconnect between performer and audience. A unique narrative, unstuck in time, and an unforgettable examination of what it is to be an artist in this cultural moment, I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound is funny, vulnerable, and unsparing.

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