Arts

Gingers Pose

by Jozef Schuijren

Design your own reality

In everything you do in life,

believe in thinking differently

I believe in the power to create your own reality

and be surprised by the possibilities that life offers you

They say that beauty...

Why Bowie Matters

by Will Brooker

A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s work and...

Candida

by George Bernard Shaw

Candida is a farce drafted in 1894 and first printed in 1898 and one of his Plays Pleasant. The main stars are minister James Morell, his wife Candida and a young poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who is madly in love...

Ghosts

by Henrik Ibsen

Powerful psychological drama (1881) exposes hypocrisy of social conventions and society's moral codes. Mrs. Helen Alving is haunted by her husband's infidelities and the disease he has passed to their son. Ultimately,...

The Relation of Music to Mental Progress

by Stephen A. Pearce

This book treats of the relation of music to the mental progress.The music of a people may be considered in direct relation to their supersensuous natures. From this point of view alone, strongly marked differences...

Essays on Paula Rego

by Maria Manuel Lisboa

In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s...

The Monkey’s Paw: Resources for the Intrepid Classroom

by WW Jacobs & Shane Emmett

What is the price of greed? What is the cost of desire? The White family have come to possess a relic of supernatural power, a monkey's paw that grants three wishes....but at what price? How far must they journey...

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by Peter Marosi

Second ebook of hungarian photographer Peter Marosi with Barbara Bocsia as model.

History of Primitive and Celebrated Clocks

by Frederic G. Mather

This book deals with the History of Primitive and Celebrated Clocks. "The old Romans used this water-clock; but, when their empire was destroyed, all Western Europe forgot the existence of such a thing. In the...

Aida

by Giuseppe Verdi & Antonio Ghislanzoni

Full scene booklet of the Aida by Giuseppe Verdi and Antonio Ghislanzoni. English edition.

Opera After the Zero Hour

by Emily Richmond Pollock

Opera After the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany presents opera as a site for the renegotiation of tradition in a politically fraught era of rebuilding....

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray is about the story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of Oscar Wilde most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling...

Stutterer Interrupted

by Nina G.

· 3 million Americans and 70 million people worldwide stutter. · 1 out of 4 stutterers are female. This accounts for 750,000 women who stutter in the United States alone. · With the #MeToo and Time’s Up...

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.

In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures,...

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House is a three-act play written by Norway's Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in...

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

This book is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. The story revolves around Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt. They rent...

The Language of Music

by Walter Spalding & John Guerrier De'Bey

Music is a universal language that unites us beyond words and through rhythm, we transcend racism, prejudice, and hate. it tells us stories of great men and women that existed far beyond our time and their...

Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps

by J. P. Telotte

What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as...

Percussion Pedagogy

by Michael Udow

In Percussion Pedagogy, author Michael Udow offers a practical guide for students interested in teaching percussion as well as improving their technique. Udow first introduces the bouncing ball system, a technical...

The Seagull

by Anton Checkov

The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and...