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The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management, 3rd Edition
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 19.95The Most Widely Used Manual For Aspiring And Veteran Stage Managers - Now Revised and Expanded The next best thing to shadowing a Broadway stage manager, this detailed, behind-the-scenes book as been brought completely up to date. First published in 1991, it is widely used and has been lauded as the most comprehensive, educational book on stage management... more...
Empire Rising
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006; US$ 19.99A Novel of High-Stakes Romance and Betrayal, Set During the Race to Finish the World's Tallest Building In Empire Rising , his extraordinary third book, Thomas Kelly tells a story of love and work, of intrigue and jealousy, with the narrative verve that led the Village Voice's reviewer to dub him "Dostoevsky with a hard hat and lead pipe."... more...
The Exultet in Southern Italy
Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 164.99The Exultet rolls of southern Italy are parchment scrolls containing text and music for the blessing of the great Easter candle; they contain magnificent illustrations, often turned upside down with respect to the text, The Exultet in Southern Italy provides a broad perspective on this phenomenon that has long attracted the interest of those interested... more...
Between System and Poetics
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 124.95This is the first book-length examination of the work of an important contemporary thinker in the continental tradition, William Desmond. Desmond's thought is a new, post-modern way of articulating what he calls the 'between' which is human existence. Rooted in Plato and Augustine, and advancing through a confrontation with Hegel and Nietzsche,... more...
Early Music
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 9.99From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the many attempts... more...
Moon Lander
Smithsonian 2012; US$ 19.99Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, ?an aerospace engineer?s dream job of the century.? Kelly?s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and... more...
Music Then and Now
W. W. Norton & Company 2012; US$ 45.60A ?you are there? guide to masterpieces of Western music. Music Then and Now offers a vivid introduction to Western music by focusing on 28 works in-depth. Its ?you are there? approach?demonstrated by each chapter?s rich historical and cultural context?engages students in the excitement of hearing the music as original audiences did when the music... more...
Robinson Crusoe
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 7.99This new edition of Defoe's masterpiece includes a lively introduction by Tom Keymer, full notes and useful appendices, including a chronology of the action of the story and Defoe's most sustained commentary on it. - ;'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master'.... more...
Mastering Import & Export Management
AMACOM 2012; US$ 85.00Gain competitive advantage in your global supply by mitigating risk and maximizing opportunity. more...
Best Practices
Touchstone 2001; US$ 16.95Comprehensive and on the cutting edge , Best Practices will serve as an invaluable information resource. What makes the world's top companies so adept at providing stellar customer service? How do they meet the needs of every customer and still turn healthy profits? And, most important, how can you adapt their practices to fit your business? Thanks... more...









