Nick: 3195 books
The Book of Dude
Dudes And Dudettes From Around The World Doing What They Dude!
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
“DUDE” It’s an everyday part of America’s vocabulary. The Book of Dude will help young and old alike better appreciate their fellow dudes and dudettes from all over the world...where they live and what they “dude!” For example: Where does a dude go to college? Perdude! What do you call a...
The Community Planning Event Manual
How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their...
by Nick Sambrook
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Some Penguins are born great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.
But none of these applied to Dave.
No, for him, greatness was an experience package, that had been
delivered from the collective penguin mind, to him by mistake.
It was big, heavy,...
by Nick Cave
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From the inimitable Nick Cave comes a mesmerizing exploration of love, inspiration, and memory that chronicles his 2014 twenty-two-city American tour with the Bad Seeds.
The Sick Bag Song began life scribbled on paper airlinesick bags during Cave’s 2014 tour. It soon grew into a restless...
The Tree That Bleeds
A Uighur Town on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In 1997 a small town in a remote part of China was shaken by violent protests that led to the imposition of martial law. Some said it was a peaceful demonstration that was brutally suppressed by the government; others that it was an act of terrorism. When Nick Holdstock arrived in 2001, the town was still bitterly divided.
by Nick Weisenberger
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Have you ever wondered what it takes to design and build a roller coaster? At last, there’s a book that shows you. A mix of engineering and art, roller coasters are complex three-dimensional puzzles consisting of thousands of individual parts. Designers spend countless hours creating and tweaking...
Stanislavski in Practice
Exercises for Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski’s system. Author Nick O’Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike through the use of practical exercises that allow students to develop their skills. This second edition offers...
Art Into Theatre
Performance Interviews and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under discussion.
Ranging from the austerity of Cage's 4'33"...
by Nick White
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Compliance is Futile is an anthology of poetry about life, faith, love and struggle. Each poem is designed to tell a story or portray a character. This is poetry which is rich in imagery, metaphor and simile.It contains poems which are designed to encourage, comfort and entertain the reader....
The Bodies in Person
An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, uncounted thousands of civilians have died in the fighting, and as a result of the destruction. These are deaths for which no one assumes responsibility, and which have been presented, historically, as fallout. No one knows their true number.
In...
by Nick Ringma
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Still and Still Moving are travelling poems by Nick Ringma, addiction therapist and lover of language. The poems set in place by hotel stationary carry vistas and reflection. The title from TS Eliot to whom I was introduced in 1964. Last year, I reread my early notes on the Four Quartets. The stillness...
Emily Brontë
A Life in 20 Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Whilst Emily Brontë wrote only one novel, the mysterious and universally adored Wuthering Heights, she is widely acknowledged as the best poet of the Brontë sisters, and indeed as one of the greatest female poets of all time. Taking 20 of her most revealing poems, Nick Holland creates a unifying...
Film
American Influences on Philippine Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a sequel to Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines, and part of Nick Deocampo’s extensive research on Philippine cinema. Tracing the beginnings of motion pictures from its Spanish roots, this book advances Deocampo’s scholarly study of cinema’s evolution in the hands of Americans.
Cine
Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This book fathoms the depths of Philippine cinema as the author ventures into the largely unknown terrain of the country’s history of early cinema. With meticulous scholarship and engaging insights, prize-winning filmmaker and author Nick Deocampo investigates the origin and formation of cinema as it became the Filipinos’ preeminent entertainment and cultural form.