Amy Cook: 11 books
Building Character
The Art and Science of Casting
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
What can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film—the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character examines how the process of “casting” an actor in a part creates a character and how this can be...
Jung and Kierkegaard
Researching a Kindred Spirit in the Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Jung and Kierkegaard identifies authenticity, suffering and self-deception as the three key themes that connect the work of Carl Jung and Søren Kierkegaard. There is, in the thinking of these pioneering psychologists of the human condition, a fundamental belief in the healing potential of a religious...
Affective Performance and Cognitive Science
Body, Brain and Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice.The cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists...
A Sea of Misadventures
Shipwreck and Survival in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters,...
by Sean Michael, J Tullos Hennig, Rhys Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Humankind possesses a dual nature, the ability to rise to the brightest heights—or sink to the darkest and most perverse depths.
What inspires some to reach the pinnacles of virtue while others cannot resist the temptations of vice? Is it something innate, or a result of destiny and circumstance?
Delve...
by Anderson, Ted; Ball, Georgia; Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Four individual tales highlighting some of the Pony's favorite friendsthe Cutie Mark Crusaders, Princess Celestia, Spike, and Princess Luna! Collects the My Little Pony Micro-Series issues #710.
by Zahler, Thom; Lindsay, Ryan; Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Collecting the six hit spotlight issues on everyones favorite ponies! Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie…everybody gets a story!
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life
101 Stories about Finding a New Path to Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
We all fall into ruts at times, with our jobs, our relationships, our lives. But these 101 inspiring personal stories of change will motivate and encourage you to find your own new path to happiness.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life will inspire, invigorate, and empower you to break...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Out of Many, One People
The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
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As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has...