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Introduction To Organic Geochemistry
by Stephen Killops Vanessa Killops

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An Introduction to Organic Geochemistry explores the fate of organic matter of all types, biogenic and man-made, in the Earth System.

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Big Brother: Reality Tv In The Twenty-First Century
by Jonathan Bignell

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Jonathan Bignell presents a wide-ranging analysis of the television phenomenon of the early twenty-first century: reality TV. He explores its cultural and political meanings, explains the genesis of the form and its relationship to contemporary television read more
Cymbeline (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare

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One of Shakespeare's most perplexing and unclassifiable late plays, Cymbeline is often labelled a "Romance", due to its themes of pastoralism, exile and familial reconciliation which critics notice recur throughout Shakespeare's last plays, from Pericles read more
Theatre Of The Absurd
by Martin Esslin

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A study of the playwrights who have dramatised the absurdity of the human condition. Esslin seeks to show how Beckett; Ionesco; Genet; Pinter and others have confronted a world in which there is no communication and where man flounders in a void; cut off read more
Beckett In Performance
by Jonathan Kalb

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This book takes a critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights from the viewpoint of those whose job it is to give the work life on stage. From personal experience of over seven read more
Big Book Of Magic Tricks
by Fulves Karl Fukves Karl Fulves

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Learn to do astounding feats with few or no props and a minimum of sleight of hand. Tricks with cards, coins and rope, comedy magic, mental dexterity and much more, including expert advice on psychological misdirection and dramatic presentation. "The best read more
The Actor's Scenebook: Scenes and Monologues From Contemporary Plays
by Eva Mekler Michael Schulman

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Here is wonderful, up-to-date material for scene study, selected from the best plays from recent theater seasons. More than 20 monologues for both men and women, carefully chosen to display the widest range of dramatic ability, are essential for audi read more
Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare

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Folger Shakespeare Library
The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies
Each edition includes:
• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
• Full explanatory notes conveniently place read more
Magic: The Complete Course [With DVD]
by Joshua Jay

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Written by a charismatic young magician, "Magic" combines photographs, step-by-step directions on how to perform 100 magic tricks, and a DVD that demonstrates 75 of them, with lessons on what to say and how to direct the audience's attention.

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Francis Ford Coppola: Close Up(Tr)
by Ronald Bergan

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Francis Ford Coppola's 40-year career has been an exciting roller-coaster ride, veering between mammoth hits and mammoth disasters. This book shows how the director of THE GODFATHER and APOCALYPSE NOW has always read more
Animation Now
by Julius Wiedemann

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Just how do they do it? The artists behind the cartoons are the focus of this sweeping study that brings you everything you ever wanted to know about today's best animation specialists. We've rounded up about 80 of the world's most prominent artists/studi read more
The Secret Life Of Houdini: The Making Of America's First Superhero
by William Kalush

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In this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to expose Harry Houdini's secret life as a spy and the stunning plot to murder the magician and destroy his legacy.

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Card Tricks for Beginners
by Harry Baron

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Do you want to learn how to do those wonderful things expert conjurers do with ordinary playing cards? If you wish to, this book will help you pursue this fascinating hobby. It is a book for those magical enthusiasts who enjoy the sensation arising from t read more
Absence And Memory In Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli's Plaster (Palgrave Studies In Theatre And Performance History)
by Odai Johnson

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In the case of colonial theater in America, much of what we know about performance has come from the detractors of theater and not its producers: anti-theatrical legislation, sermons, petitions, and prohibitions against the theater, all of which have resu read more
The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation
by Dana Heller

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The Great American Makeover explores two basic questions: How do myths of self-reinvention shape America???s past, and how do contemporary television makeover programs continue and question this long-standing tendency to celebrate the fundamental powers o read more
Confessions Of A Video Vixen
by Karrine Steffans

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In this expos that's part tell-all, part cautionary tale, Steffans, once "the" music video girl, reveals how she came to be the confidante of so many stars and how she found herself in Hollywood after a life characterized by physical abuse, rape, and drug read more
Men In Blackface: True Stories Of The Minstrel Show
by Seymour Stark

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ContentsThe Minstrel Show Will Never DieJim Crow and Tom ThumbIrishness of it AllIrving Berlin TitillatesGershwin´s Racial ProfilingJews in BlackfaceJolson the ShlemielStrutting to RedemptionEndnotes--------------------------------How New York City read more
Return To Good And Evil: Flannery O'connor's Response To Nihilism
by Henry T. Edmondson Iii

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"Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism is a superb guide to the works of Flannery O'Connor; and like O'Connor's stories themselves, it is captivating, provocative, and unsettling. Edmondson organizes O'Connor's thought around h read more
Miss Julie And The Stronger
by August Strindberg Frank Mcguinness

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Frank McGuinness presents scintillating new versions of two of August Strindberg's plays -- one a major work, the other less well known. "Miss Julie" is Strindberg's examination of power, sex, and class, set on a midsummer's eve in a nobleman's house and read more
Meyerhold On Theatre (Methuen Drama)
by Vsevolod Meyerhold

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This is a major reissue of a book used by students of Vsevolod Meyerhold across the world. It was the first collection of Meyerhold's writings to appear in English and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939.
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