"Acting Skills" explores practical acting techniques, enhancing voice, movement, and creativity. The lively author provides examples and exercises for skill improvement. This 3rd edition updates Shakespearean acting insights and includes sections on GCSE drama and small-scale touring companies, benefiting both teachers and students.
The biography offers a comprehensive examination of Louis Sullivan's contributions to architecture, featuring the original text and illustrations alongside an evaluation of Hugh Morrison's pioneering research. This edition includes an updated chronological list of Sullivan's buildings, reflecting over sixty years of additional findings and corrections, making it an essential resource for understanding Sullivan's legacy.
The book explores the philosophy of making informed decisions in uncertain environments, emphasizing the importance of flexibility and adaptability over rigid precision. Drawing on John Maynard Keynes' insights, it argues that embracing ambiguity can lead to more effective problem-solving and innovation. Through historical examples and practical applications, the text encourages readers to value the process of approximation and to recognize the potential pitfalls of overly precise thinking in economics and beyond.
Empire, religion and emotion
Exploring the complex lives of Protestant missionary children, this book delves into their experiences through the lenses of parents, churches, and the children themselves. It employs a comparative approach across various contexts, utilizing oral histories and emotional narratives. By extending the scholarship into the mid-twentieth century, it sheds light on the intricate interplay of childhood experiences within missionary contexts, revealing the multifaceted nature of their existences.
In an age when we'd rather Instagram our food than eat it, this cheeky, illustrated instruction manual humorously demonstrates how to remove our eyes from our phones and reconnect with the real world. In his wonderfully deadpan instruction manual for our increasingly device-focused lives, illustrator Son of Alan taps into the strange truth of our obsession with the tiny screen. Revealing how ludicrous we've all become, and what wonders lie in stall for us mere inches from our faces, this book will make you want to reclaim your life, your friends, and your family from the tyranny of the backlit screen. Without nagging or preaching, this book uses hilarious but simple illustrations to highlight our universal (and ridiculous) dependence on the cell phone. In Stop Looking at Your Phone, device-driven readers will receive a much needed reminder of the possibilities life offers beyond the digitally enhanced screen.
Revealing how ludicrous we've all become, and what wonders lie in stall for us a whole metre from our faces, this book will make you want to reclaim your life, your friends and your family from the tyranny of the backlit screen.
Supplement to Structural Engineering Art and Approximation. Exercises in structural design. A pocket book for CPD students. Refresher exercises for experienced professionals. Answers are available in the back of the book, online videos and video download sheets.
This book contains approximate structural calculation methods for engineers and architects. For easy reference and assimilation it is broken down into categories from simple beams to more complex examples. With numerous figures and photographs it closely relates theory to real structures.