Arts

Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

by Judith Lynne Hanna

Dancing for Health explains the cognitive, emotional, and physical dimensions of dance in a spectrum of stress management approaches. Designed for anyone interested in health and healing, this book offers lessons...

Inside the Baseball Hall of Fame

by National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museu & Brooks Robinson

For any baseball fan, a trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, is the thrill of a lifetime—no matter how many times you visit. But whether you go only once in your...

The Stone Roses

by SIMON SPENCE

The Stone Roses captures the magic—and chaos—behind the UK band's rise, fall, and recent resurrection.

The iconic Brit pop band The Stone Roses became an overnight sensation when their 1989 eponymous album...

The Minimalist Photographer

by Steve Johnson

This book covers photography from a minimalist perspective, proving that it is possible to take very good photographs with relatively cheap equipment. The minimalist process emphasizes the importance of first...

Shakespeare on Theatre

by William Shakespeare & Nick de Somogyi

(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here...

Chekhov on Theatre

by Anton Chekhov, Stephen Mulrine & Jutta Hercher

(Book). Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles and in his own letters even before he began writing plays. Later, he wrote in detail about his own plays to his lifelong friend and mentor...

The Patient Ecstasy of Fraulein Braun

by Lavonne Mueller

(Book). Eva understands Hitler is married to Germany and must herself stand back unacknowledged as he enclasps the world in a passionate, python-like thrall. Until the last days in the final chapter of the Third...

The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

by Guthrie P., Jr. Ramsey

Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances,...

Hollywood Screenwriting Directory Spring 2013: A Specialized Resource for Discovering Where & How to Sell Your Screenplay

by Jesse Douma

Screenwriting market intel you won't find anywhere else!

Mailing out submissions based on some contact information you found on the Internet isn't going to get your script sold. What's truly valuable to an aspiring...

The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies

by Mike Mayo

From atomic bombs to zealous zombies, this cinefile’s guidebook reviews 1,000 of the wickedest, weirdest, and wackiest scary movies from every age of horror. With reviews on many overlooked, underappreciated...

Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters

by Jeff Burger

Offering fans an extensive look at the artist’s own words throughout the past four decades, Springsteen on Springsteen brings together Q&A–formatted articles, speeches, and features that incorporate significant...

A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York

by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick

Taking the reader through the New York that inspired, and was in turn inspired by, the formidable Mrs. Parker, the new edition of this guide includes never-before-seen archival photographs to illustrate Dorothy...

Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture

by David Kunzie

From corsets to codpieces, stockings to stilettos and piercing to push-up bras, fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This new edition of David Kunzie's rich and revealing history of...

Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack

by Judith Cook

In the late 1580s a new kind of entertainment flowered in London: professional theatre, with its custom built playhouses, professional companies, incredible staging and, last but not least, the new writers,...

The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

by David Whitley

Whitley's compelling study complicates our understanding of the classic Disney canon by focusing on the way images of the natural world are mediated within popular art for children. He examines a range of Disney's...

Visions of Venice in Shakespeare

by Laura Tosi & Shaul Bassi

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between...

Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594: Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy

by Mike Rodman Jones

Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594 argues that the ostensibly revolutionary character of early Protestant literary culture was deeply indebted to medieval satirical writing. Indeed, the author shows that Protestant...

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713

by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713 examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are...

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Volume 10: Special section, The Achievement of Robert Weimann

by Graham Bradshaw & Tom Bishop

This issue marks the 10th anniversary of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. On this occasion, the special section celebrates the achievement of senior Shakespearean scholar Robert Weimann, whose work...

The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring

by Kristen Lacefield

Analyzing the extraordinary trans-cultural popularity of the Ring phenomenon, inaugurated with the 1991 publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, The Scary Screen embraces a wide variety of interpretive approaches....