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1,001 Affixes and Their Meanings: A Dictionary of Prefixes, Suffixes and Inflectionsby Raymond E. LauritaISBN 0914051180 (0-914051-18-0)
Softcover, Leonardo Pr
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The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performerby Patsy Rodenburg, Judi DenchISBN 0312295146 (0-312-29514-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Articulate Voice: An Introduction to Voice and Dictionby Lynn K. WellsISBN 0205291775 (0-205-29177-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Articulate Voice: An Introduction to Voice and Diction'Book summary:The Articulate Voice cuts across all fields in providing basic information on voice production and techniques for improvement. As opposed to books which are geared more specifically toward the stage or to speech or ESL students, this text serves as a guide for all students studying or needing additional guidance in voice and diction. The Articulate Voice taps into research to help students understand why voice improvement is vital to a positive image. A basic text for voice and articulation, The Articulate Voice introduces principles of voice production and techniques for improving pitch, rate, volume, and quality. The text clearly and concisely describes voice production and explains its companion component - hearing. [via]
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A Brief Handbook of English with Research Paperby Hulon WillisISBN 0155055615 (0-15-505561-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Building a Characterby Constantin StanislavskiISBN 0878300120 (0-87830-012-0)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Building a Character'Book summary:Creating a Roleis the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Actor Prepares focused on the inner training of an actor's imagination. Building a Characterdetailed how the actor's body and voice could be tuned for the great roles he might fill.
This third volume examines the development of a character from the viewpoint of three widely contrasting plays: Griboyedov's Woe from Wit, Shakespeare's Othello, and Gogol's The Inspector General. Building on the first two books, Stanislavski demonstrates how a fully realized character is born in three stages: "studying it; establishing the life of the role; putting it into physical form."
Tracing the actor's process from the first reading to production, he explores how to approach roles from inside and outside simultaneously. He shows how to recount the story in actor's terms, how to create an inner life that will give substance to the author's words, and how to search into one's own experiences to connect with the character's situation. Finally, he speaks of the physical expression of the character in gestures, sounds, intonation, and speech. Throughout, a picture of a real artist at work emerges, sometimes failing, but always seeking truthful answers. [via]More editions of Building a Character:
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Building a Characterby Stanislavski, Elizabeth Reynolds HapgoodISBN 0878309829 (0-87830-982-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Building a Character'Book summary:Stanislavski's groundbreaking acting system, developed from his work in the Moscow Art Theater and acknowledged the world over, found its greatest success in America where its methods have been used for over fifty years by the Actor's Studio in New York.
Building a Character, the second volume in Stanislavski's acclaimed trilogy, continues the total immersion in technique and class scenarios begun in An Actor Prepares. The work unfolds in a drama school with a group of young actors: the argumentative Grisha; the pretty, vain Sonia; her admirer, the clowning Vanya; and Kostya, the diarist who records the daily lessons. The teacher and director Tortsov is modeled on Stanislavski.
The emphasis in the second book is to continue to challenge the imagination of the actors, encouraging them to act out the deepest expressions of human nature and find their highest potential. Here, a new range of physical exercises is practiced with the goals of plasticity of motion, restraint and control, and making the body expressive. Stanislavski also delves into stage charm and character-building by focusing on diction and singing, intonation and pauses, and tempo-rhythm.
Stanislavski's aim is to help actors fill out their roles to the proportion of whole human beings, "characters who will have the power to move the public to laughter, to tears, to unforgettable emotions." [via]More editions of Building a Character:
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The Complete Plain Wordsby Ernest GowersISBN 1567922031 (1-56792-203-1)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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The Complete Plain Wordsby Janet Whitcut, Ernest Gowers, Sidney GreenbaumISBN 0117011215 (0-11-701121-5)
Hardcover, H.M.S.O.
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 1417904232 (1-4179-0423-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Comes for the Archbishop'Book summary:[via]In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knowsgently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever.More editions of Death Comes for the Archbishop:
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Softcover, Virago Pr - Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 0679728899 (0-679-72889-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 0679413197 (0-679-41319-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 0803214294 (0-8032-1429-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr - Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 0553064169 (0-553-06416-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 0394605039 (0-394-60503-9)
Hardcover, Modern Library - Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 0679600507 (0-679-60050-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 0896215067 (0-89621-506-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 1417904232 (1-4179-0423-2)
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- Death Comes for the Archbishop: ISBN 1844083721 (1-84408-372-1)
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Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Languageby Don WatsonISBN 1740512065 (1-74051-206-5)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words And Management-speak Are Strangling Public Languageby Don WatsonISBN 1592402054 (1-59240-205-4)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words And Management-speak Are Strangling Public Language'Book summary:A brilliant and scathing polemic about the sorry state of the English Language and what we canand mustdo about it.
When was the last time you heard a politician use words that rang with truth and meaning? Do your eyes glaze over when you read a letter from your bank or insurance company addressing you as a valued customer? Does your mind shut down when your employer starts talking about making a commitment going forward or enhancing your key competencies? Are you enervated by in terms of, irritated by impactful, infuriated by downsizing, rightsizing, decruiting, and dejobbing? Does business process re-engineering and attriting fail to give you ramp-upin terms of your personal lifestyle?
Todays corporations, news media, education departmentsand, perhaps most troubling, politiciansspeak to us and to each other in clichéd, impenetrable, lifeless babble. Toni Morrison has called it the "disabled and disabling" language of the powerful, "evacuated language," and "dead language." Orwell called it "anesthetic" language. In Death Sentences, Don Watson takes up the fight against it: the pestilence of bullet points, the dearth of verbs, the buzzwords, the weasel words and cant, the Newspeak of a kind Orwell could not have imagined.
Published in Australia in November 2003, Death Sentences gained a massive following among the legions of bright, sensitive people who Could Not Take It Anymore. More than a year later, it remains a national bestseller. [via]
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Hardcover, Gotham Books - Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words And Management-speak Are Strangling Public Language: ISBN 1592402054 (1-59240-205-4)
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- Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words, And Management-speak Are Strangling Public Language: ISBN 1592401406 (1-59240-140-6)
Diction for Singers: A Concise Reference for English, Italian, Latin, German, French and Spanish Pronunciationby Joan Wall, Robert CaldwellISBN 1877761516 (1-877761-51-6)
Softcover, P S T Inc
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Diction Italian, Latin, French, German...the Sounds and 81 Exercises for Singing Themby J. MoriartyISBN 0911318097 (0-911318-09-7)
Softcover, Dantalian
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usageby Henry Watson FowlerISBN 0192813897 (0-19-281389-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usageby Simon Winchester, Henry FowlerISBN 0198605064 (0-19-860506-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:
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Flip Dictionaryby Barbara KipferISBN 1582971404 (1-58297-140-4)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flip Dictionary'Book summary:You know what you want to say but can't think of the word. You can describe what you're thinking but you don't know the name for it. Flip Dictionary solves this common problem! Best-selling author Barbara Ann Kipfer has created a huge reference that offers cues and clue words to lead writers to the exact phrase or specific term they need. It goes beyond the standard reverse dictionary format to offer dozens of charts and tables, listing groups by subject (such as automobiles, clothing types, plants, tools, etc.) Flip Dictionary is an excellent resource for everyone. Writers of fiction and non-fiction will use it to find that elusive word they need, and word lovers will find it an entertaining book to simply sit and browse through. Crossword puzzlers will also find it invaluable. An indispensable desk reference, as necessary as a dictionary or thesaurus, but a whole lot more fun. [via]
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Fowler's Modern English Usageby R. W. Burchfield, H. W. FowlerISBN 0198610211 (0-19-861021-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fowler's Modern English Usage'Book summary:For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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Gateway to German Diction: The Singer's Guide to Pronunciationby John G. PatonISBN 0739001035 (0-7390-0103-5)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gateway to German Diction: The Singer's Guide to Pronunciation'Book summary:Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational, reference, pop, and performance materials for teachers, students, professionals, and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level. Initiating a new series of coordinated diction manuals and anthologies, this book helps students to move beyond diction to clear understanding and authentic style. Thomas Hampson says, "This guide not only achieves an excellent study of the tools for proper translation and diction, it goes much deeper and more importantly to the teaching of musical and poetic expression from the inner side of the language." Every German example word or phrase is translated into English and is also spoken perfectly on the included CD by trained actress Dr. Nora Henry, from Hanover, Germany. [via]
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Guide to Rapid Revisionby Daniel D. Pearlman, Paula R. PearlmanISBN 0023933208 (0-02-393320-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guide to Rapid Revision'Book summary:This new edition retains the hallmarks of its predecessors: brevity, accessibility, and practicality at an economical price. The Guide to Rapid Revision gives students immediate answers to specific problems, offers sufficient information to solve them, and does so with extreme brevity and clarity. With a table of correction symbols that doubles as a table of contents, and extensive cross-referencing, students can easily find answers to specific problems or grammatical queries. Instructors can use the added, topically organized table of contents as an aid to focusing on certain topics such as punctuation during the semester. The book is alphabetized according to common correction symbols, setting it apart from all other handbooks that are designed to help students in revising. [via]
The Handbook of Basic English Skillsby James M. Reid, Richard M. BossoneISBN 0471021962 (0-471-02196-2)
Hardcover, Wiley
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International Phonetic Alphabet for Singers: A Manual for English and Foreign Language Dictionby Joan WallISBN 1877761508 (1-877761-50-8)
Softcover, Caldwell Pub Co
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Modern English Usageby FowlerISBN 1853263184 (1-85326-318-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of Modern English Usage:
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The New Fowler's Modern English Usageby H. W. Fowler, R. W. BurchfieldISBN 0198602634 (0-19-860263-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Fowler's Modern English Usage'Book summary:For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaningby Owen BarfieldISBN 081956026X (0-8195-6026-X)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw, James HynesISBN 1416500405 (1-4165-0040-5)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:[via]A rousing success on the London and New York stages, a popular film, and a great musical hit ("My Fair Lady"), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language. Includes Shaw's Preface and "Sequel."More editions of Pygmalion:
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Hardcover, Modern Pub - Pygmalion: ISBN 088411452X (0-88411-452-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - Pygmalion: ISBN 0140437894 (0-14-043789-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Pygmalion: ISBN 014045022X (0-14-045022-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Pygmalion: ISBN 003053299X (0-03-053299-X)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston - Pygmalion: ISBN 0613638646 (0-613-63864-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Pygmalion: ISBN 0671643525 (0-671-64352-5)
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Actsby George Bernard Shaw, Harry ShefterISBN 0671704966 (0-671-70496-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts'Book summary:When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award³-winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found relevance in Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. The extraordinary wit of this master dramatist of the twentieth century cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions to reveal that human clay can be molded into wondrous shapes.
Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs helps bring the play to life. [via]
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Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Futureby Elliott CurrieISBN 0809015714 (0-8090-1571-4)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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The Right to Speak: Working With the Voiceby Ian McKellen, Patsy RodenburgISBN 0878300554 (0-87830-055-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Singer's Manual of German and French Dictionby Richard G. CoxISBN 0028706501 (0-02-870650-1)
Softcover, Schirmer Books
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Singers' Italian: A Manual of Diction and Phoneticsby Evelina ColorniISBN 002870620X (0-02-870620-X)
Softcover, Schirmer Books
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The Singers' Manual of English Dictionby Madeleine MarshallISBN 0028711009 (0-02-871100-9)
Softcover, Schirmer Books
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Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissanceby Timothy J. McGee, A. G. Rigg, David N. KlausnerISBN 0253210267 (0-253-21026-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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- Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance: ISBN 0253329612 (0-253-32961-2)
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Singing in French: A Manual of French Diction & French Vocal Repertoireby Thomas GrubbISBN 0028707907 (0-02-870790-7)
Softcover, Schirmer Books
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Something to Sing About, Level 1ISBN 0911320024 (0-911320-02-4)
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The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guideby Robert PinskyISBN 0374526176 (0-374-52617-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide'Book summary:While it's hardly the most traveled of literary destinations, poetry has suffered from no shortage of guidebooks. Still, these poetic baedekers tend to get bogged down in terminology and historical hairsplitting, while the actual music gets lost in the shuffle. We should be thankful, then, for Robert Pinsky's brief, wonderfully readable volume, in which he zooms in on verse as acoustic artifact: "When I say to myself a poem by Emily Dickinson or George Herbert, the artist's medium is my breath. The reader's breath and hearing embody the poet's words. This makes the art physical, intimate, vocal, and individual."
Not that Poet Laureate Pinsky gets vague or touchy-feely on us. Poetry, like God, is in the details, and the author starts with the building blocks, the amino acids, of verse: accent and duration. Even the most jaded of readers will benefit from his syllable-by-syllable examination of Thomas Campion's "Now Winter Nights Enlarge" and Wallace Stevens's "Sunday Morning." Moving on through discussions of syntax and line, meter and rhyme (or lack thereof), Pinsky enlists both the usual suspects (Shakespeare, Frost, Hardy, Eliot, Bishop) and some less customary ones (Gilbert & Sullivan, Louise Gluck, and the splendid James McMichael) to make his points. These poems are, in some sense, teaching tools for the author. Yet even his on-the-fly commentary causes us to see them in a new light. Here he is, for example, on the near-monotonous minimalism of W.C. Williams's "To a Poor Old Woman": "The poem dramatizes the taking in of a supposedly ordinary experience, and the playful, almost hectoring repetitions are like an effective sermon in praise of simplicity." The Sounds of Poetry is no less effective a sermon. It leaves your ear (and your heart) attuned to the pleasurable play of poetic language and persuades you that hearing is, indeed, believing. --James Marcus [via]
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They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrasesby Howard RheingoldISBN 1889330469 (1-889330-46-9)
Softcover, Sarabande Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases'Book summary:Which came first: The worldview, or the words to describe it? Very possibly the latter, argues the author of They Have a Word for It. "Finding a name for something," says Howard Rheingold, "is a way of conjuring its existence." While collecting words for this book, Rheingold says he "became sympathetic to the idea that we think and behave the way we do in large part because we have words that make these thoughts and behaviors possible, acceptable, and useful." Rheingold's refusal to pull together words for entertainment value alone--though many of these words, and Rheingold's commentary on them, are highly entertaining--is what has given this book (previously out of print) a kind of cult following.
Hawaiian contributes a word (ho'oponopono) here that means "solving a problem by talking it out"; Japanese, a term (kyoikumama) for a "mother who pushes her children into academic achievement"; Indonesian, a word (kekaku) meaning "to awaken from a nightmare"; and Mayan (some things, it seems, are universal), a concise way to say "stupid in-laws" (bol). While it is the Asian and obscure linguistic groups that seem to come up with the most "powerful" ideas, German wins for packing a whole sentence's worth of meaning into one (albeit long) word. How much happier Strunk and White would rest if we could just say Torschlüsspanik when discussing "the frantic anxiety experienced by unmarried women as they race against the 'biological clock'"; Treppenwitz when referring to the "clever remark that comes to mind when it is too late to utter it"; and Schlimmbesserung when lamenting "a so-called improvement that makes things worse." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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To Sing in English, a Guide to Improved Dictionby Dorothy UrisISBN 0913932000 (0-913932-00-0)
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The Writer's Digest Flip Dictionaryby Barbara Ann KipferISBN 0898799767 (0-89879-976-7)
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