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  Facing the Fear - An Actor's...

  Bella Merlin

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  Stage fright has the power to drive actors away from the stage for months, years, and even a lifetime. It is a monster that can affect any actor at any time - but it is also a challenge that can be met.
  In Facing the Fear - the first book of its kind written specifically for actors - performer, author and teacher Bella Merlin draws on her own and other actors' personal experiences to examine:
  
  - The internal and external roots of stage fright, and how it manifests itself both psychologically and physiologically
  - The complex relationship between the actor and the audience, and how it contributes to stage fright
  - The cognitive processes of learning, storing and retrieving lines, and practical strategies to help
  - The essential principles for building a healthy, fear-free rehearsal environment
  - The techniques that actors can employ to develop their own practices, from tips on physical wellbeing to performance strategies
  Insightful, empowering and always reassuring, Facing the Fear is a book for any actor: for those who are experiencing or have previously suffered from stage fright, as well as for those who want to be fully prepared in case that day ever comes. It provides all the tools actors need to understand, confront and ultimately overcome stage fright and its effects, thereby regaining control over their lives and careers. (And it might just save a fortune in psychotherapist's fees!)
  It's also valuable reading for any teacher, director or stage manager working closely with actors, and a fascinating insight for anyone interested in what actors go through.
  'An utterly engrossing book about confronting one of the most fundamental aspects of being an actor - fear.' Antony Sher

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  The Art of Watercolor Lettering...

  Kelly Klapstein

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  Learn how to master the medium—and how to go with the watercolor flow—to create one-of-a-kind lettered art and calligraphy that reflect your personal style. 
   
  In this stunning follow-up to her highly praised and influential first book, The Art of Brush Lettering, lettering expert and workshop instructor Kelly Klapstein (popular on Instagram as @kellycreates) shares her secrets for mastering the essential techniques for creating lovely modern lettering and calligraphy with watercolor.Start with the basics, from choosing paints, brushes, and other supplies to preparing your paper for painting.Learn to handle watercolor paints with essential strokes and warm-ups.Explore painting letterforms in a variety of styles, from traditional to modern.Try a range of creative techniques, including blending ombrés and rainbows, creating pictorial letterforms, and combining watercolor with other mediums.Enhance your lettering with special touches by complementing it with handpainted backgrounds and simple illustrations. 
   
  “Plenty of beautiful examples are included and they are really easy to re-create just by following the instructions which are always clear and concise. The letters with the beautiful colour transitions look so good. This is a very hands-on and practical book that I can easily recommend to beginners.” —Parka Blogs

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  Car Talk: Born Not to Run - More...

  Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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  Born Not to Run is a collection of car tunes as irreverent as they are melodic. With titles like, "If She Wasn't On Blocks," Who Taught These Idiots To Drive," and "Built to Crash," we guarantee that you'll be simultaneously tapping your toes, laughing out loud and shaking your head. For these reasons, we ask that you not listen to Born Not to Run and drive at the same time. More fun from Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.

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  Psychedelic Popular Music - A...

  William Echard

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  Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural production, including music, visual art, graphic design, film, and literature. William Echard explores the historical development of psychedelic music and its various stylistic incarnations as a genre unique for its fusion of rock, soul, funk, folk, and electronic music. Through the theory of musical topics—highly conventional musical figures that signify broad cultural concepts—and musical meaning, Echard traces the stylistic evolution of psychedelia from its inception in the early 1960s, with the Beatles' Rubber Soul and Revolver and the Kinks and Pink Floyd, to the German experimental bands and psychedelic funk of the 1970s, with a special emphasis on Parliament/Funkadelic. He concludes with a look at the 1980s and early 1990s, touching on the free festival scene, rave culture, and neo–jam bands. Set against the cultural backdrop of these decades, Echard's study of psychedelia lays the groundwork and offers lessons for analyzing the topic of popular music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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  Anthony Van Dyck

  Natalia Gritsai

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  17th-century Flemish painter Van Dyck’s career was as short as it was dazzling. A student of Rubens, he very quickly became the favourite painter of princes and kings and was the portraitist of English and Italian families of the high nobility. With his rigorous compositions, Van Dyck endowed his models with dignity, grandeur, and spirituality. Proud ladies and lords gambolling on their horses −  Van Dyck knew how to render the nonchalant elegance and the ennui of a refined society.
  
  A Baroque painter with a shimmering style, he played with a light and nuanced palette, and reproduced, with the greatest virtuosity, garments of velour, satin, and silk. Van Dyck is considered the founder of the English school of portraiture. He was an influence on Lely, Dobson, Kneller, and most notably Reynolds and Gainsborough, as well as French painters of the 18th century.

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  She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's She Wore A Yellow Ribbon starring John Wayne & Mel Ferrer.

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