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Wife in the North
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 14.95Based on the popular blog: One wife, mother, and writer extraordinaire?s uproariously funny and heartwarming account of the joys and terrors of leaving the city for the country with a young family in tow. more...
Think, Speak, Win
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2011; US$ 10.20Your mind produces up to 70,000 thoughts a daymost of which are responsible for the decisions that you make. These decisions also determine your success both professionally and personally. However, we are taught what to think and not how to think. Information overload, short time frames and past failures can make even simple decisions and problems... more...
Elizabeth I in Film and Television
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience's perception of Elizabeth based upon these portrayals, examines key representations of the Tudor monarch in various motion pictures from the Silent era on and in television miniseries. Actresses who have portrayed Elizabeth include Bette... more...
The Art of Faking It
Running Press 2008; US$ 12.95In today’s fast-paced society, who has time to keep up with both the current trends and the classics of what is good” and popular”? The Art of Faking It guides youwith tongue planted firmly in cheekthrough any awkward, intellectual, and/or über-sophisticated social situation, using both panache and... more...
Toward a General Theory of Acting
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Using the cognitive sciences, Lutterbie employs dynamic systems theory as a foundation and integrates recent discoveries in neuroscience and cognitive psychology in his examination of acting theory. more...
Ethics and Politics of Translating
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 135.00What if meaning were the last thing that mattered in language? In this essay, Henri Meschonnic explains what it means to translate the sense of language and how to do it. In a radical stand against a hermeneutical approach based on the dualistic view of the linguistic sign and against its separation into a meaningful signified and a meaningless signifier,... more...
Regional Best 2012
Level 4 Press, Inc. 2011; US$ 9.95Second in the annual series of the best plays that have had a premier in a regional theater, but no NYC premier. more...
Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 110.00The documentation of practice is one of the principle concerns of performance studies. Focusing on contemporary performance practice and with emphasis on the transformative impact of video, photography and writing, this book explores the ideological, practical, and representational implications of knowing performance through its documentations. more...
Avant Garde Theatre
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 49.95Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine is an idealisation of the elemental and a... more...
Textual Practice
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 33.95Since its launch in 1987 TP has been Britain's principal international journal of radical literary studies, continually pressing theory into new engagments. more...









