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  • Star Wars 100 Objects

    Illuminating Items From a Galaxy Far, Far Away….

    by Kristin Baver ...
    100 objects that capture the excitement, mystery, and mythology of Star Wars.See how these artefacts, and many more, impacted key characters and events. From revered heirlooms such as Darth Vader's mask and the Skywalker lightsaber to a Tusken gaderffii stick and a clone trooper's helmet, each carefully chosen object has its own compelling story to tell.Presented chronologically, full-colour ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The Stanislavski System

    The Professional Training of an Actor; Second Revised Edition

    Practical tips, techniques, and exercises to help you become a better actorThis essential guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among acting students and teachers. This updated edition includes a revised section on the subtext of a role, along with detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for decades, including:• Emotional memory ... Read more

    7,20 €

  • How to Start Acting: A Quick Start Guide on How to Start an Acting Career

      UPDATED FOR 2014:   How to Start Acting: A Quick Start Guide on How to Start an Acting Career o Seven Steps to Starting an Acting Career o A Day in the Life of a Budding Actor o 3 Secrets on How to Develop an Acting Career o 10 Ways to Establish a Good Acting Career o Secrets to Jumpstarting Your Acting Career o Four Great Tips for Staying Motivated o How Much Can You Make As an Actor o How to ... Read more

    5,51 €

  • Leadership in the Performing Arts

    What does it mean to be a performing arts leader? Leadership in the Performing Arts addresses and analyzes this question by presenting the wisdom and expertise of eleven men and women with experience leading nonprofit performing arts institutions in the United States. These successful leaders provide many real-world examples of business practices that may be generally applied by practitioners in ... Read more

    17,18 €

  • Fugaci ritratti

    Questo libro raccoglie diversi articoli pubblicati su riviste e quotidiani; trattano di mitologia, letteratura, filosofia, storia, costume, attualità, tematiche curate con passione dall’autore, lettore assiduo di molteplici quotidiani e di tantissimi volumi. Sono stati apprezzati da un notevole pubblico, attraverso i social, che ha reclamato un vero e proprio libro. ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Though only a small island with a limited population, in its heyday, Taiwan was among the top-10 film producing countries/areas in the world, turning out hundreds of martial arts kung fu films and romantic melodramas ... Read more

    162,91 €

  • The Secret Black Book of BreakBeats

    The Original BreakBeats that Made Hip Hop Famous

    This book is a reference guide for Breakbeat DJs and Record Collectors. In this book you will find, song after song with the greatest of breakbeats in them. Some famous, some forgotten, some unheard. These are the songs that the most successful producers in the music industry rely on and DJs dream of. The original songs that made Hip Hop Culture before the first rap was ever put on record. I have ... Read more

    13,64 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia

    Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a truly American musical sound inspired many of the great songwriters of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and his songs include dozens of beloved standards still heard today, such as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “The Way You Look Tonight.”The ... Read more

    92,42 €

  • Le sexe des pierres

    by David Wahl ...
    " La vie, comme le petit poucet, sème des cailloux derrière elle. "Au XVIIe siècle, Pierre Borel, un médecin ordinaire, assure détenir dans son cabinet de curiosités la preuve irréfutable de la sexualité des pierres. Ce débat, virulent, oppose deux camps : ceux qui croient la Terre inerte et ceux qui la pensent comme un organisme vivant. La pierre et la chair seraient-elles plus proches qu'on ne ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

    This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love’s Labour ’s Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Two ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capucine

    Unsere vergessene Hollywood-Ikone

    Translated by Barbara Traber ...
    Wer erinnert sich noch an Capucine? In den Fünfzigerjahren stieg die junge Französin, eine klassische Schönheit, vom gefragten Pariser Mannequin rasch auf zum gefeierten Hollywood-Star. Sie drehte mit Regisseuren wie Blake Edwards und Federico Fellini an der Seite von John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Romy Schneider u.v.a. und genoss ihr glamouröses Leben.Ihre letzten drei Jahrzehnte verbrachte sie in ... Read more

    24,00 €

  • Role Playing

    by Gary Bryant ...
    In the struggle for human liberation, no question is more important than the question of identity. The conventional identity, so important in protecting our vulnerability during childhood, is the chief obstacle to our real Identity, much as the dragon of myth and legend guards a hoard of gold. The secret to undermining the hegemony of this false identity is to understand it as an activity, not an ... Read more

    4,23 €

  • More Modern Mythmakers

    More Modern Mythmakers features Horror, Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy's most influential writers and filmmakers interviewed about the art and craft of their genres.The 25 interviews include:Steve AltenReggie BannisterTerry BrooksCharles de LintDennis EtchisonJohn EversonAlan Dean FosterRay GartonSephera GironOwl GoingbackCharles GrantNancy HolderPaul KaneRonald KellyJoe Lansd... ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Património Fortificado

    Teoria, Prática e Memória

    Os capítulos desta coletânea percorrem um largo período cronológico que abarca diversas tipologias defensivas e várias geografi as, mas também distintos interesses temáticos: desde a longínqua fortifi cação românica templária, passando pela evolução gótica e, mais tarde, pelas tentativas de inovação das fortifi cações de transição entre a neurobalística e a pirobalística, até ao estabelecimento do ... Read more

    47,99 €

  • The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance

    Edited by Daphne Lei, Charlotte McIvor ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Handbooks
    The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key debates concerning interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of encounters in theatre and performance from the 1960s onwards. The handbook's global coverage challenges understandings of ... Read more

    36,67 €

  • Mon american dream

    Gamin, il découpait des photos dans les journaux de mode, et faisait des collages pour changer les vêtements des mannequins. Déjà, son truc, c'était la couleur, le strass, les paillettes. À 15 ans, ayant quitté les cours, il ouvre une boutique de vêtements vintage dans un garage d'Avignon et devient en quelques mois le prince de la Cité des papes. Un an plus tard, recruté par les dirigeants de la ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Initiation à Photoshop

    Découvrez les bases de Photoshop en 1 heure !

    INITIATION A PHOTOSHOP – Découvrez les bases de Photoshop en 1 heure !Daniel IchbiahLa photographie numérique est partout ! Le smartphone a rendu l’acte de capture de clichés à la portée de tous ! On n’a jamais pris autant de photographies et on n’en a jamais publié autant, que ce soit sur Facebook, sur Linkedin, sur Twitter ou Flickr.Pourtant, ce qui peut manquer, c’est la belle photo. Le visuel ... Read more

    4,00 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Back Shelf Beauties

    Movies You Should Rent When the New Stuff Is Gone

    by Willie Waffle ...
    Back Shelf Beauties is the perfect guide to all the movies you want to rent on video and DVD. When you've seen all the new releases, Back Shelf Beauties brings you forgotten films, lost movies from your favorite stars and classic films that you have never seen. It includes films from modern day stars like John Travolta and Gwyneth Paltrow, but also films from classic movie legends like Humphrey ... Read more

    4,23 €

  • Entrer dans la danse. L'envers du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

    Series series Art et technique
    La représentation du monde de la danse classique oscille entre fascination et condamnation. Fascination pour les danseurs et danseuses qui se consacrent " corps et âme " à la recherche de l'excellence artistique. Condamnation de la souffrance et des sacrifices d'une vie d'ascète dans un univers compétitif à l'extrême.La représentation du monde de la danse classique oscille entre fascination et ... Read more

    17,99 €

  • Étoile(s)

    " Le feu et la grâce "Lorsqu'elle assiste à son premier ballet, Dorothée a tout juste dix ans et danse au conservatoire de Toulouse depuis trois ans.À l'issue de la représentation, elle n'a plus qu'une idée en tête : devenir danseuse étoile. Après un premier échec qui, loin de la mettre à terre, lui donne encore plus de détermination et de force, Dorothée intègre l'école de l'Opéra de Paris l ... Read more

    18,99 €

  • L’arte della privacy

    Metafore sulla (non) conformità alle regole nell'era data-driven

    Che cosa c’entrano Tiziano e Leonardo Da Vinci con la privacy e la (non) conformità alle regole nell’era degli algoritmi? E le vedute di Canaletto e Guardi con una due diligence o le stanze di Pietro Longhi con lo smart working? Che relazione intercorre fra un artista di corte del ’500 e un Data Protection Officer del XXI secolo? Può un pittore non essere umano ma solo artificiale, e una natura ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • The Professional Actor's Handbook

    From Casting Call to Curtain Call

    by Julio Agustin ...
    While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few that show aspiring actors what it takes to succeed as a working professional.The Professional Actor’s Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call provides struggling artists—stage and screen actors, dancers, singers—with strategies that will help them successfully negotiate every stage of their careers. This second ... Read more

    23,52 €

  • The Christopher Lee Film Encyclopedia

    In a career that spanned eight decades, Christopher Lee (1922–2015) appeared in more than 200 roles for film and television. Though he is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in films of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s—as well as his appearances in the Lord of the Rings trilogy—Lee also appeared in many other films, including The Three Musketeers, The Man with the Golden Gun, and Star Wars.The ... Read more

    92,42 €