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First-time author Jeremy Aufderheide explores the making of The Wiz, the rock musical based on The Wizard of Oz. Jeremy has uncovered new information and conducted thorough interviews with cast members and other key players that put to rest myths about the show. The...

January 2014 Issue. This is the Economy edition. Also available in DELUXE full colors edition, printed on heavy glossy paper stock. On the cover, Jennifer Wallens voted best animal communicator in the world. Published by Times Square Press, New York. It includes: 1- The...

Writer, podcaster and bassist Aaron Joy presents his series of rock music crossword puzzle books. Each book looks at the bands, albums and general history, including famous and indie musicians. Great for the fan, musician or history buff. At least 14 puzzles in each...

Key Mysteries is a unique study into Keys in magick and mystery entertainment. Hardbound with 286 pages it features essays on the historical and symbolic concepts of keys in magic, plus feature contributions by over 30 highly respected performers on presentation approaches and many...

Total of 1,500 questions to test the reader's knowledge of the animals and plants that are to be found on Planet Earth. They are arranged in sets of ten, and are graded as Easy, Moderate or Hard. The questions and the answers are often...

A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging...

This unique text is both an accessible introduction and specialist review of contemporary dramatherapy practice today. The collected chapters introduce critical and cohesive perspectives on dramatherapy as it is being practiced, developed and advanced in diverse contexts, and also investigate the connections between the...

the fifth in a series of books devoted to the cinematic horrors of our generation.Author: John Skerchock, Forrest AckermanISBN-10: 109227071XISBN-13: 9781092270717Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2019Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.15d

Keith Raniere is a brilliant theorist in the field of mental self-improvement. He has developed a program called NXIVM that is presented in lectures and seminars and encourages attendees to become members of the organization and 17,000 people have joined and contributed millions of...

Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet somehow we're still dancing...

Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 063407251XISBN-13: 9780634072512Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 246Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.10w x 0.80d

A brilliant observer in the tradition of Adam Gopnik and Paul Theroux, Edward Lewine reveals a Spain few outsiders have seen. There's nothing more Spanish than bullfighting, and nothing less like its stereotype. For matadors and aficionados, it is not a blood sport but...

This book of piano sheet music by Laura Sullivan contains some of her best loved pieces and adaptations from her first 4 albums: Piano Solos, Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America, Mystical America and Feast of Joy and Love. Songs included are: Hope...

IF YOU OWN A STRAT, THEN YOU NEED THIS BOOK Learn step by step how to completely wire a Stratocaster and all of the potentiometers, capacitors, switches, ground wires, hot wires, pickups, output jack, and bridge ground. Even if you dont own a Fender,...

America's best poet, a boy named Jelly Roll has mystical visitations from the Virgin Mary; furthermore, he gives stylish ode concerning Middle East peace, vampires, and a Reagan-like concept for a space program. Too, he challenges Sean Hannity's conservatism with the sublimity of libertarianism.Author:...

The Steely Dan File- the first American biography of the great rock band. A detailed history of the acclaimed rock band Steely Dan. From their origins as a quirky rock band in the early 1970's on through their transformation into one of the most...

Perhaps the best exercise manual for every guitarist. Your fingers will actually go where you tell them to go, when you tell them to do it. If your reading this you want to take your playing to a new level. This book can help....

A workbook for in-depth persona building, both fact and fiction. Learn how to research factual characters and to build the persona so that he/she becomes a part of the inner you. Learn how to make-up a character, from the ground up.Author: Laura CrockettISBN-10: 061516921XISBN-13:...

In its 190 pages there are more than 85 different games, puzzles and activities to do while travelling on the highways, all based on license plates you see.Author: Richard KirchmeyerISBN-10: 0615142028ISBN-13: 9780615142029Publisher: Richard KirchmeyerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2007Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.41d

Herbert von Karajan emerged after World War II as the most important conductor of his generation. In 1955 he became conductor-for-life of the Berlin Philharmonic and the following year became director of the Vienna State Opera. He made frequent international tours and recordings with...

This beautiful hardcover book is a compilation of 1,400 top-quality, inspiring quotations for our times from leading figures of today and the past regarding life, love, attitude, happiness, success, character and more. Provides far more practical wisdom and wit than you would gain from...

Cliff Osmond, Hollywood actor, teacher, director and award-winning writer, with more than forty-five years of experience at the highest levels of his craft, offers his unique and perceptive thoughts on acting. "There is no such thing as 'acting, ' there is only life. What...

The Disney College Program is unlike any internship in the world. Journey into a world that is full of magic and see why Disney is one of the greatest organizations to work for. Filled with commentary from Disney College Program alumni and Disney cast...

Welcome to the world of magic A small journey, which will help you learn secrets to incredible magic tricks. My personal explanations will help you entertain and delight your friends and family. Are you a young person interested in learning some cool tricks to...

'Where can I 'explore' by the coast? Rock pools. I can't get onto Grindr and Tinder: there's no 4G in Norfolk. The whole world is a singles bar now but I can't get in. I am sick of feeling like a story that will...

Ill health is forcing Andrew to retire from teaching. His wife despises him for his failures and finds consolation with Frank, a younger teacher. She openly taunts Andrew while Frank watches with disgust and shame. The wife knows she has lost Frank - but...

Author: Alan BennettISBN-10: 057301891XISBN-13: 9780573018916Publisher: Samuel French LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1991Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.22d

Noel Coward's glorious wit and dramatic precision combine to form his 1930s masterpiece about modern romance. Private Lives continues to be one of his most performed and read works.Author: No�l CowardISBN-10: 0573013578ISBN-13: 9780573013577Publisher: Samuel FrenchLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/1998Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...

The Local Music Journey: Thoughts, advice and inspiration for your independent music career offers practical advice and tips for those beginning their indie music career and for those veteran indies who need to refresh their indie music drive. Beyond the useful advice that you'll...

Thanks to DVD, a great number of silent films and early talkies are now available for home viewing. In fact, so many of these wonderful movies can now be purchased, rented or borrowed by classic motion picture fans that an up-to-date reference work to...

Although Hollywood is no longer producing westerns at the rate of over 100 a year, the western movie enthusiast has over 1,000 classic films available on DVD. This guidebook, written in the same vein as the author's previous "goldmines of information" (to quote one...

101 Ways to get even with Steven...or whoever crapped on your life is a funny, witty and timeless book that will make your tears turn to laughter and your anger into satisfaction.Author: C. R. CarterISBN-10: 0557046122ISBN-13: 9780557046126Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2009Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h...

This Companion is designed to provide the enquiring music lover with helpful insights into a musical style that recognizes no contradictions between the accessible and the sophisticated, between the popular and the significant.Author: Jim SamsonISBN-10: 0521477522ISBN-13: 9780521477529Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/1994Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today.Dahlhaus organizes his book around "watershed" years--for example, 1830, the...

In this analytical study of eighteen important works by Brahms, Walter Frisch makes skillful use of Schoenberg's provocative concept of "developing variation." Frisch traces a genuine evolution through Brahms's compositions; he considers their relationship not only to each other, but also to significant works...

The foremost authorities in the field of music from around the world have contributed twenty original essays for this volume, edited by Elizabeth May. Only European musics have been omitted, except insofar as they affect other musics discussed here. North American music is represented...

Hamlet in the graveyard, musing over the skull of Yorick the jester; Juliet on her balcony and Romeo in the courtyard below, exchanging rapturous reflections on their new-found love; mad King Lear, railing at the elements in the midst of a howling storm upon...

The 100th birthdays of George and Ira Gershwin (in 1898 and 1896, respectively) are being celebrated around the world. The centennials are the perfect occasion to reflect on the brothers' rich legacy to American theater music. "The Man I Love," "Fascinating Rhythm," "Someone to...

Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism provides a number of useful approaches for analyzing works for the stage from a feminist perspective. Each chapter outlines key feminist theories in a specific field, covering literary criticisms, anthropology, psychology, and film, and then applies these theories in...

In this 'new media age' the screen has replaced the book as the dominant medium of communication. This dramatic change has made image, rather than writing, the centre of communication.In this groundbreaking book, Gunther Kress considers the effects of a revolution that has radically...

In the past stars have been studied as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new approaches have reopened debate, as film and cultural studies try to account for the active role of the star in producing...

Anthony Neilson's plays collected in one volume Includes the plays: Normal "a tight, powerful, three-hander...achieved with a sense of discipline and thematic energy" (Guardian), Penetrator "This is one of the blackest, funniest and most shocking comedy dramas you will ever see" (Sunday Times), Year...

"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian FrielAuthor: Tom MurphyISBN-10: 0413714500ISBN-13: 9780413714503Publisher: Methuen DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/1997Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.70d

"We are asked (to put it politely) for whom we are writing..." From his perspective as a composer, Roger Sessions discusses some basic questions raised by the experience of music: what do we mean by "knowing" a piece of music, or "understanding" it? In...

Alfred Einstein, one of the great musical scholars of this century, was the editor of the third edition of Khel's Mozart catalogue. His tremendous three-volume history The Italian Madrigal, summing up forty years of work, is a veritable monument of Renaissance music. He was...

Intriguing Theatre Critique by Christopher Soden: Performing Arts explored and reviewed, with an eye towards the astonishing.Author: Christopher SodenISBN-10: 0359745628ISBN-13: 9780359745623Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2019Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Back in print for the first time in some two decades, The Industrial Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition includes the full text of a book first published at the dawn of the Industrial Music boom of the mid-1990s. Featuringbiographies and discographies of every Industrial...

From Simple Minds to Stargaze, from Marilyn Manson to Morrissey, from Peter Gabriel to the Polecats, The Freakiest Show is a guide to ever known cover of a David Bowie composition recorded or performed since 1964, and updated to include the 2018 Howard Stern...

Incorporating essays, short stories, film and book analyses, Consorting with the Shadow examines the psychological bond between women and the archetypal creatures of imagination, the vampires, shape-shifters, and other monsters we fear, love, and wish to emulate.Author: Alison ArmstrongISBN-10: 0359561780ISBN-13: 9780359561780Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2019Pages:...

Bassist and writer Aaron Joy presents his series of music crossword puzzle books that look at the bands, albums and history, including famous and indie. Find his books at www.lulu.com/aronmatyas. This book includes 18 puzzles featuring: Carl Perkins, early Jerry Lee Lewis, Wanda Jackson,...