Allworth: 370 books
by Susan Carr
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Photographers now have the ideal resource to build a solid foundation for success. The Art and Business of Photography takes an honest approach to the photography profession and is a guide to the artistic and business skills that are the foundation of a career in photography. Professional photographer...
by Brian Tarquin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From renowned guitarist and multi-Emmy-award winning composer, Brian Tarquin, comes a display-quality, full-color reference guide to guitars. The Guitar Encyclopedia begins with the history of guitars spanning back to the birth of Epiphone by a Greek immigrant and the great inventions of Les Paul,...
by Drew Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Technical Theater for Nontechnical People helps actors, directors, stage managers, producers, and event planners understand every aspect of technical theater-from scenery, lighting, and sound to props, costumes, and stage management. In this thoroughly revised new edition, the popular guide firmly...
An Actor Rehearses
What to Do When and Why
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
With a commonsense approach, An Actor Rehearses takes performers through the rehearsal process and explains exactly what to do when. The actor’s process is explained simply, sequentially, and in detail, starting from the period before rehearsals begin and continuing through first read-through, blocking...
The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist
Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
First published in 1974, this groundbreaking volume relates field theory of altered states of consciousness and compares the surprisingly similar views of mediums, mystics, and physicists. When renowned psychologist Lawrence LeShan first explored clairvoyance and precognition it shook his belief in...
Propose Your Book
How to Craft Persuasive Proposals for Nonfiction, Fiction, and Children?s Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Authors are the CEOs of their books, and their book proposals are their business plans. Most agents and publishers require a proposal before ever setting eyes on a manuscript, and it is a crucial element in getting published. Writing a proposal can also help an author to write the right book for the...
How to Escape Lifetime Security and Pursue Your Impossible Dream
A Guide to Transforming Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
For the Type C, or creative, personalities who want their work to "fill" their deepest creative urges, this is the frontline guide to making the transition from a secure and soulless job to a life built around a creative dream. Individuals learn how to follow the mind's eye to construct a life that...
The Insider's Guide to Home Recording
Record Music and Get Paid
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The last decade has seen an explosion in the number of home-recording studios. With the mass availability of sophisticated technology, there has never been a better time to do it yourself and make a profit.
Take a studio journey with Brian Tarquin, the multiple-Emmy-award winning recording...
by Edmund Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This up-to-date, thorough, and authoritative guide clearly explains all of the complexities of planning and administering an estate. From wills, trusts, and powers of attorney to health-care directives and probate, everything you need to know is presented in an accessible, friendly style. This indispensable...
The Perfect Stage Crew
The Complete Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Here is a must-have book for anyone producing a stage show without a Broadway-sized budget. Written by a technical theater veteran, The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common-and the most complex-stage performance problems, even for theaters with...
Reality Television Contracts
How to Negotiate the Best Deal
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Reality television is the growth area of television today. Individuals around the country want to be involved, whether in front of the camera or behind, and those who want to produce reality television seek to attract talent-maybe from the local beauty salon or perhaps the rodeo, extermination company,...
by Michael Fleishman
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The ultimate source for beginning professionals, working professionals looking to make a change, and entrepreneurs wanting to go out on their own, this friendly guide details every business aspect of commercial graphic design, including how to:
Create a portfolio Make initial contacts...
by Alex W. White
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This very popular design book has been wholly revised and expanded to feature a new dimension of inspiring and counterintuitive ideas to thinking about graphic design relationships. The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition is now in full color in a larger, 8 x 10-inch trim size, and contains...
The Fiction Writer's Guide to Dialogue
A Fresh Look at an Essential Ingredient of the Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Dialogue is often overlooked as a necessary and potent instrument in the novelist’s repertoire. A novel can rise or fall on the strength of its dialogue. Superb dialogue can make a superb novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Action is character.” George V. Higgins said, Dialogue is character.”...