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  Transported - The Everyday Magic...

  Elizabeth Margulis

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  A revelatory work—grounded in the author's own pathbreaking research—that explores the capacity for meaning-making and connection through "musical daydreams." 
   
  We've all had the experience: a song comes on, and suddenly we're not where we were. We're back in the past, or living out a future that never happened, or imagining a scene that never existed. In Transported, Elizabeth Margulis explores the phenomenon of musical daydreams—the vivid, spontaneous, emotionally redolent scenes, stories, and memories we lapse into while listening to music—and argues that these everyday reveries offer a powerful and underappreciated window into how we think and feel. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, ethnography, and revelations from her own teaching and research, Margulis debunks oversimplified myths and illuminates music's true potential to alleviate anxiety, reignite creativity, and foster connection. 
   
  At a time when distraction dominates, Transported makes a powerful case for music as one of the last realms where the mind is still free to wander.

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  Out On Stage - How to Make Queer...

  Martin Lewton

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  This is a book of queer ideas, queer questions and queer inspiration.
  It provides hands-on advice and guidance on all aspects of creating and staging your own piece of queer theatre, including:
  
  - Identifying the queer story you want to tell, generating your material, and developing your own voice as a queer theatre maker
  - Choosing the best form to express your ideas, from a scripted drama or solo show to musical theatre, cabaret or live art
  - Deciding on your creative approach, whether it's writing an original play, devising, adapting the lived experiences of yourself or others, or queering existing material
  - Considering key aspects of queer performance, including drag, alter egos, solo performance, and using the body to tell queer stories and express queer identity
  - Putting your show on, from securing a venue and applying for funding, to working with a producer, building partnerships, and attracting an audience
  - Overcoming the challenges you'll face, being brave, and tapping into queer theatre's power as a catalyst for change 
  It's packed with inspiring examples drawn from the vast span of queer theatre – from coming-out stories, lesbian dramas and plays about trans identity, to autobiographical pieces and hidden queer histories – as well as creative activities to help you put your ideas into practice.
  Also included are insightful contributions from leading queer theatre makers including Travis Alabanza, Neil Bartlett, Jo Clifford, Nathaniel J Hall, Jonathan Harvey, Ursula Martinez, Martin O'Brien and Iman Qureshi.
  Whatever stage you're at in your theatre-making journey, this book will guide and empower you to find your own distinctive way of working – and make the work that only you can make.
  Martin Lewton is an actor, director and writer with more than forty plays professionally staged. He is Artistic Director of Theatre North and teaches acting and writing at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona.

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  Haberdashery

  Sally Cook

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  Haberdashery looks at elements of the Rag Trade from Medieval times with the earliest haberdashers of the 1300s to tailoring in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries along with secret pattern making, famous drapers such as famous writer  H.G. Wells and the earliest tailoring guidebook of the 1530s, It also looks at early pattern making for home seamstresses from the 1860s, the history of the safety pin and aspects of the contemporary fashion industry.

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  The Boys from the Bridge - The...

  Sebastian Abineri

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  In 1976, twenty-one-year-old Sebastian Abineri was cast in Richard Attenborough's epic war film, A Bridge Too Far. He joined "Attenborough's Private Army" (APA), a group of fifty young British actors, who were brought together to train under the eagle eye of a former director of The SAS to represent the heroic band of Paratroopers who held Arnhem Bridge against insurmountable odds in 1944.
  The APA worked for six months alongside major stars such as Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Sir Laurence Oliver. It was one of the hottest summers on record; so hot that the APA drank the local bars dry! The Boys from the Bridge recounts their extraordinary story.
  
  Sebastian Abineri, the author and narrator of The Boys from The Bridge was a member of Attenborough's Private Army (APA a company of young actors put through military training for the film) and this is his account of the making of A Bridge Too Far and the adventures of this group of young actors.

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  The Gazelle at the Gym

  Schrizbe

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  A shower. An overturned can of leather polish. The smell of coffee in the air. A glance that changes everything  the beginning of an unexpected romance at the gym. Experience how a budding student has her first sensual experiences with an experienced man  first in the steamy shower, then in the gym's hidden massage room.An adventure full of lust, curiosity and thrilling moments awaits you. Get ready for a story that will make your heart beat faster and bring a smile to your lips. And that twice over... told once from the girl's perspective and once from the man's. This offers you double the pleasure and the chance to let your imagination run wild twice. Enjoy!

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  Ennui Go - A Memoir of a Hippie...

  Karen Miller

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  From the Bronx to Greenwich Village, Haight Ashbury to the hills of Vermont, Karen Miller’s life has been anything but ordinary -  a whirlwind of love, loss, and reinvention.  In this unflinching and often funny memoir, she navigates through adventures and misadventures, all set against the backdrop of a time defined by drugs, sex, and rock and roll, accompanied by a variety of lovers and the baby she adored.  Her story is a testament to the resilience of a woman finding her way through the era’s upheaval.

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