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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an investigator of the Nether's online offerings, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on unexpectedly slippery ground. Sims argues for the freedom to explore even the most deviant corners of our imagination. Morris holds that we cannot flesh out our malign fantasies without consequence. Their clash of wills leads to a consequence neither could have imagined. Suspenseful, ingeniously constructed, and fiercely intelligent, Haley's play forces us to confront deeply disturbing questions about the boundaries of reality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This handbook presents theatre games and side coaching for the solo player. It contains over 40 exercises which allow actors to side coach themselves, at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. The author asks the actor to develop the ability to enter present time, ''a moment of full consciousness and awareness with all the responses awake and alert, ready to guide you.allowing you, the real you, your natural self to emerge''. Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the nature and practice of modern theatre. Her work has inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theatre, television, and film. Her techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This play is based on Ovid's 15-volume work of transformation myths. Positioned in and around a large pool on the stage, the characters enact Zimmerman's adaptations of Ovid's tales, juxtaposing the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image. The tone of the drama likewise echoes the themes of change and contrast, from the humour of Phaeton's therapy session to the tragedy of Midas and his daughter. The volume contains a production history, the play script, and, because the visual aspect of the play is important, photographs from some of its past productions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this remarkable debut book of poems, winner of the Native Writers First Book Award, Suzanne S. Rancourt, presents her experience as a mixed-raced person seeking understanding through relationship with the natural world and dominant culture. Her family portraits are reminiscent of E. A. Robinson; her sensuous nature poems are imbued with love of earth as a 'blessing.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part of award-winning playwright Ike Holter's seven-play Rightlynd Saga, The Wolf at the End of the Block is a taut thriller that explores the aftermath of a police beating.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Death in Harlem is the first mystery novel by famed scholar Karla Holloway (Passed On). In it, she introduces Harlem's first black policeman, Weldon Haynie Thomas, who investigates a murder. Readers will recognize the setting and some characters from Nella Larsen's best-selling 1929 novel Passing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - James Magruder's collection of linked stories follows two gay cousins, Tom and Elliott, from adolescence in the 1970s to adulthood in the early '90s. With a rueful blend of comedy and tenderness, Magruder depicts their attempts to navigate the closet and the office and the lessons they learn about libidinous co-workers, résumé boosting, Italian suffixes, and frozen condoms. As Tom and Elliot search for trusting relationships while the AIDS crisis deepens, their paths diverge, leading Tom to a new sense of what matters most. Magruder is especially adept at rendering the moments that reveal unwritten codes of behaviour to his characters who have no way of learning them except through painful experience. Loss is sudden, the fallout portrayed with a powerful economy. In Tom and Elliott, readers come to recognise themselves, driven by the same absurd desires and unconscious impulses, subjected to the same fates.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Philip Roth and Roberto Bolaño. Schulz's prose is renowned for its originality. Set largely in a fictional counterpart of his hometown of Drohobycz, his stories merge the real and the surreal.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A kidnapping tests the mettle, resourcefulness, and intuition of Harlem's first 'colored' policeman in this mystery, set during New York's Harlem Renaissance. The story references the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, an early Sufi mystic. Despite his execution in Baghdad in 922 and the subsequent suppression of his work, Hallaj left an enduring literary and spiritual legacy that continues to inspire readers around the world. Carl W. Ernst offers a definitive collection of 117 of Hallaj's poems for contemporary readers.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This handbook presents theatre games and side coaching for the solo player. It contains over 40 exercises which allow actors to side coach themselves, at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. The author asks the actor to develop the ability to enter present time, ''a moment of full consciousness and awareness with all the responses awake and alert, ready to guide you.allowing you, the real you, your natural self to emerge''. Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the nature and practice of modern theatre. Her work has inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theatre, television, and film. Her techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term "masochism" was coined); the novel is the story of an obsessive adulterous relationship between a man and the mistress to whom he becomes enslaved. At the end of a long day in which the actresses Thomas auditions fail to impress him, in walks Vanda, very late and seemingly clueless, but she convinces him to give her a chance. As they perform scenes from Thomas's play, and Vanda the actor and Vanda the character gradually take control of the audition, the lines between writer, actor, director, and character begin to blur. Vanda is acting . . . or perhaps she sees in Thomas a masochist, one who desires fantasy in "real life" while writing fantasies for a living. An exploration of gender roles and sexuality, in which desire twists and turns in on itself, Venus in Fur is also a witty, unsettling look at the art of actingonstage and off.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Hidden Tapestry, best-selling author Debra Dean reveals the astonishing untold story of artist Jan Yoors: traveling with a Roma family, fighting with the French Resistance, and living as a polyamorous bohemian in midcentury New York City.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has inspired the work of countless actors, directors, and writers in theatre, television and film. Spolin's improvisational techniques have changed the very nature and practice of modern theatre. This third edition updates the more than 200 now-classic exercises and adds 30 new ones. It adds 30 traditional theatre games that are frequently used as warm-ups. It includes Spolin's explanations of key concepts crucial to her programme, and collects 'The Sayings of Viola Spolin' and adds a glossary of phrases for teachers and directors, with Spolin's definitions of their meaning and value. Most significantly, though, this edition makes available 'The Lone Actor'. In this section, Spolin offers games for individuals to play when they are alone. It is an important piece that should expand Spolin's teachings and influence to an entirely new audience.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The extraordinarily productive life of curator, artist, and activist Margaret Burroughs was largely rooted in her work to establish and sustain the South Side Community Art Center and the DuSable Museum of African American History. As Mary Ann Cain reveals, the primary motivations for these efforts were love and hope.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Foundations of Arithmetic is undoubtedly the best introduction to Frege's thought; it is here that Frege expounds the central notions of his philosophy, subjecting the views of his predecessors and contemporaries to devastating analysis. The book represents the first philosophically sound discussion of the concept of number in Western civilization. It profoundly influenced developments in the philosophy of mathematics and in general ontology.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Limited Inc is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, 'Limited Inc' and 'Signature Event Context,' constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They are the clearest exposition to be found of Derrida's most controversial idea, that linguistic meaning is fundamentally indeterminate because the contexts that fix meaning are never stable. Limited Inc includes an important new afterword by the author.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chilean poet Raúl Zurita has long been recognized as one of themost celebrated and important voices from Latin America. Hiscompelling rhythms combine epic and lyric tones, public andmost intimate themes, grief and joy. This bilingual volume ofselected works is the first of its kind in any language, representingthe remarkable range of an extraordinary poet. Zurita's workconfronts the cataclysm of the Pinochet coup with a powerfulurgency matched by remarkable craftsmanship and imaginativevision. In Zurita's attempt to address the atrocities that indeliblymark Chile, he makes manifest the common history of theAmericas.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has is the first study in English of the career and work of legendary Polish filmmaker Wojciech Has, the director of such classics as The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952) and the first woman to win an Obie for Best Play (for Trouble in Mind, in 1956), Alice Childress occupies an important but surprisingly under-recognized place in American drama. She herself rejected an emphasis on the pioneering aspects of her career, saying that "it's almost like it's an honor rather than a disgrace" and that she should "be the fiftieth and the thousandth by this point"a remark that suggests the complexity and singularity of vision to be found in her plays. Childress worked as an actress before turning to playwriting in 1949, and she was a political activist all of her life. Spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, the plays collected here are the ones Childress herself believed were her best, and offer a realistic portrait of the racial inequalities and social injustices that characterized these decades. Her plays often feature strong-willed female protagonists whose problems bring into harsh relief the restrictions faced by African American women. This is the first volume devoted exclusively to the work of a major playwright whose impact on the American theater was profound and lasting.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Craig Wright is one of the most widely produced, consistently entertaining playwrights of his generation. The three plays gathered in this volume - Melissa Arctic, Orange Flower Water and The Pavilion - are all set in the fictional town of Pine City, Minnesota. The plays share a focus on love and relationships and feature a consistent undercurrent of observation and speculation about the nature of time.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Appearing in English for the first time, Intuition of the InstantBachelard's first metaphysical meditation on time and its moral implicationswas written in 1932 in the wake of Husserl's lectures on streaming time-consciousness, Heidegger's Being and Time, and Henri Bergson's philosophy of the élan vital. A culmination of Bachelard's earlier studies in scientific epistemology, this work builds the epistemic framework that would lead theorists of all stripes to advance knowledge by breaking with accepted modes of thought. Intuition of the Instant sows the seeds of Bachelard's future poetics, most notably in the essay "Poetic Instant and Metaphysical Instant" (1939)included in this volume, along with an excerpt from Jean Lescure's lecture "Introduction to Bachelard's Poetics" (1966). Eileen Rizo-Patron's translation offers a key to Bachelard's subsequent works on science, time, and imagination, which remain epistemological touchstones.