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  • Performance Making

    a pedagogy for precarious times

    by Anna Furse ...
    Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious times provides insight into the impact the artform has had across the creative sector and argues for its defence in higher education today.Drawing on over 40+ years’ worth of experience as artist and academic, Anna Furse interrogates the ways in which ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Performing Nerves

    Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria

    by Anna Furse ...
    Academic interest in hysteria has burgeoned in recent decades. The topic has been probed by feminist theorists, cultural studies specialists, literary scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, medical and art historians, as well as novelists. The hysteric is construed as a powerless, voiceless subject, marginalised by the forces of the patriarchy that have been the root cause of ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Augustine (Big Hysteria)

    by Anna Furse ...
    First Published in 1997. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. It consists of monographs on influential figures, studies of movements and ideas in theatre, as well as primary material consisting of theatre-related documents, performing editions of plays in English, and English translations of plays from various vital theatre traditions ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Affective Performance and Cognitive Science

    Body, Brain and Being

    by Bruce McConachie, Professor Rhonda Blair, Amy Cook, Anna Furse, Erin Hood, Professor John Lutterbie, Jo Machon, Frank E. Pollick, Melissa Trimingham ...
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    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 are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

    An Anthology of Play Texts 1966 - 2010

    Edited by Anna Furse ...
    Series series Performance Books
    Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing theatre. A substantial introduction by Anna Furse provides an overview of the works and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Cheeky Revision Shortcuts

    by Scool Revision ...
    Series series Cheeky Revision Shortcuts
    Turn your hard work into the top A-Level results with the Cheeky Shortcut Guide to the most common topics for Biology A-Level revision.This A-level biology workbook features key exam topics for biology with precise and clear points to help you achieve top marks.Covers:Biological Molecules and EnzymesCells and OrganellesClassificationGas ExchangePhotosynthesisNutrition and DigestionTransportNutrition ... Read more

    $4.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Actor Prepares

    by Constantin Stanislavski ...
    Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • Men Explain Things to Me

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect "antidote to mansplaining" ( The Stranger).In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Can Your Beliefs Impact Your Health and Well-Being?

    by The Chicago Social Brain Netwo ...
    Series series FT Press Delivers Elements
    This is the eBook version of the printed book.This Element is an excerpt from Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds (9780137075454) by the Chicago Social Brain Network. Available in print and digital formats.The new science of belief: what science is learning about the close interrelationships between belief, behavior, and human health.People have many sources of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Transformative Power of Performance

    A New Aesthetics

    by Erika Fischer-Lichte ...
    Translated by Saskya Jain ...
    In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Building A Character

    by Constantin Stanislavski ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood ...
    Building a Character is one of the three volumes that make up Stanislavski’s The Acting Trilogy.An Actor Prepares explores the inner preparation an actor must undergo in order to explore a role to the full. In this volume, Sir John Gielgud said, this great director “found time to explain a thousand things that have always troubled actors and fascinated students.”Building a Character discusses the ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know

    by Jessica Valenti ...
    Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively enticing at the same time? Isn't it unfair that working ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD