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In ACTING: Make It Your Business, Second Edition, award-winning
casting director Paul Russell puts the power to land jobs and
thrive in any medium-stage, film, television, or the
Internet-directly into the hands of the actor. This blunt and
practical guide offers a wealth of advice on auditioning,
marketing, and networking, combining traditional techniques with
those best suited for the digital age. Well-known actors and
powerful agents and managers make cameos throughout, offering
newcomers and working professionals alike a clear-eyed, uncensored
perspective on survival and advancement within the entertainment
industry. This second edition has been updated and expanded to
include the following: More stars of screen and stage sharing
acting career strategies Digital audition techniques for screen and
stage, including how best to self-tape New tools to master modern
marketing, both digital and traditional with innovation Expanded
actor resource listings Additional bicoastal talent agents and
managers spilling secrets for obtaining representation, and tips
for successful actor-to-representation partnerships New insights on
audition techniques An excellent resource for career actors,
beginning and amateur actors, as well as students in Acting I and
II, Auditions, and Business of Acting courses, ACTING: Make It Your
Business provides readers with invaluable tools to build a
successful, long-lasting acting career.
Most children would say that the ocean is blue, but when Bowen
looks at it he sees white where the waves crash, deep black on the
ocean floor, and green when there's a storm. He wonders whether
fireflies are hot, and notices how the brushstrokes of a painting
tell a story too. Bowen sees the world differently to other
children and struggles to fit in. How will he find his place in the
world? The Incredibly Busy Mind of Bowen Bartholomew Crisp follows
the life of Bowen through school and beyond. At every stage, he
finds that he doesn't fit in with his peers, but this eventually
becomes his greatest strength. Through thinking differently, he is
able to solve problems that no one else could. After all, just
because something can't be mended the same as it was, why can't it
be mended differently? A very personal story, Bowen's tale is
sensitively written and full of colourful, lively illustrations. It
aims to offer hope to children who haven't yet found their place in
life by showing them that being 'normal' might just be overrated,
and that to find success in life we should be valuing our
differences. Children, carers, teachers and psychologists alike
will find inspiration in this tale of embracing diversity and
engaging our full potential. It is a vital reminder that the
strength and uniqueness of every child should be encouraged to help
them find their place in the world and flourish!
The philosophical debate about free will and responsibility has
been of great importance throughout the history of philosophy. In
modern times this debate has received an enormous resurgence of
interest and the contribution in 1962 by P.F. Strawson with the
publication of his essay "Freedom and Resentment" has generated a
wide range of discussion and criticism in the philosophical
community and beyond. The debate is of central importance to recent
developments in the free will literature and has shaped the way
contemporary philosophers now approach the problem. This volume
brings together a focused selection of the major contributions and
reactions to the free will and responsibility debate inspired by
Strawson's contribution. McKenna and Russell also provide a
comprehensive overview of the debate. This book will be of great
value to scholars of Strawson and those interested in the free will
debate more generally.
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Odin's Child (Paperback)
Siri Pettersen; Translated by Si¡n Mackie, Paul Russell Garrett
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In ACTING: Make It Your Business, Second Edition, award-winning
casting director Paul Russell puts the power to land jobs and
thrive in any medium-stage, film, television, or the
Internet-directly into the hands of the actor. This blunt and
practical guide offers a wealth of advice on auditioning,
marketing, and networking, combining traditional techniques with
those best suited for the digital age. Well-known actors and
powerful agents and managers make cameos throughout, offering
newcomers and working professionals alike a clear-eyed, uncensored
perspective on survival and advancement within the entertainment
industry. This second edition has been updated and expanded to
include the following: More stars of screen and stage sharing
acting career strategies Digital audition techniques for screen and
stage, including how best to self-tape New tools to master modern
marketing, both digital and traditional with innovation Expanded
actor resource listings Additional bicoastal talent agents and
managers spilling secrets for obtaining representation, and tips
for successful actor-to-representation partnerships New insights on
audition techniques An excellent resource for career actors,
beginning and amateur actors, as well as students in Acting I and
II, Auditions, and Business of Acting courses, ACTING: Make It Your
Business provides readers with invaluable tools to build a
successful, long-lasting acting career.
How did Brittany get its name and its British-Celtic language in
the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire?
Beginning in the ninth century, scholars have proposed a succession
of theories about Breton origins, influenced by the changing
relationships between Brittany, its Continental neighbours, and the
'Atlantic Archipelago' during and after the Viking age and the
Norman Conquest. However, due to limited records, the history of
medieval Brittany remains a relatively neglected area of research.
In this new volume, the authors draw on specialised research in the
history of language and literature, archaeology, and the cult of
saints, to tease apart the layers of myth and historical record.
Brittany retained a distinctive character within the typical
'medieval' forces of kingship, lordship, and ecclesiastical
hierarchy. The early history of Brittany is richly fascinating, and
this new investigation offers a fresh perspective on the region and
early medieval Europe in general.
This text provides a single-volume, single-author general
introduction to the Celtic languages. The first half of the book
considers the historical background of the language group as a
whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of
Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and
Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed
survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh. The
second half considers a range of linguistic features which are
often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems,
mutations, verbal nouns and word order.
This text provides a single-volume, single-author general
introduction to the Celtic languages. The first half of the book
considers the historical background of the language group as a
whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of
Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and
Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed
survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh. The
second half considers a range of linguistic features which are
often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems,
mutations, verbal nouns and word order.
A collection of 10 essays on Early Welsh. Contents: The etymology
of Welsh chwith and the semantics and morphology of PIE
*k(w)sweibh- ( Peter Schrijver ); Rowynniauc, Rhufoniog: the
orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh ( Paul Russell );
Old English literacy and the provenance of Welsh y ( Peter Kitson
); Two developments in medieval literary Welsh and their
implications for dating texts ( Simon Rodway ); The structure and
typology of prepositional relative clauses in Early Welsh ( Graham
Isaac ); The dry point glosses in Oxoniensis Posterior ( Alexander
Falileyev and Paul Russell ); The Old Welsh glosses on Weights and
Measures ( Pierre-Yves Lambert ); Marwnad Cunedda a diwedd y
Brydain Rufeinig ( John T Koch ); Are there elements of
non-standard language in the work of the Gogynfeirdd? ( Peter Busse
); The Progressive in Ystorya Bown de Hamtwn ( Erich Poppe ).
It was a brutal murder, and the trial of the decade. On 1 November
2007, 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was slaughtered
in cold blood in the apartment in Perugia, Italy, that she shared
with three other girls. Two bright young people, Amanda Knox and
her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, stood accused of the
killing in a trial that lasted through 2009. They were found guilty
and sentenced to twenty-six and twenty-five years respectively on 4
December. A second man, Ivory Coast-born Rudy Guede, 22, had
already been found guilty of the sexual assault and murder of
Meredith in a separate trial in 2008 and sentenced to thirty years,
but the prosecution always stated that he didn't act alone. Kercher
was a model student whilst American Knox acquired a reputation that
fuelled specualtion about her character. Her bizarre behaviour just
after Meredith's body was found, her false accusation of an
innocent man, her weak alibi and her DNA on the murder weapon - a
kitchen knife found to be scubbed with bleach - went against her.
TV producer Paul Russell and critically acclaimed crime writer
Graham Johnson have teamed up with leading Italian forensics expert
General Luciano Garofano to reveal the full truth behind this
sensational murder and its trial. They unravel all the details and
study all the personalities in this case that has stunned the
world. Complex, and some say controversial, DNA evidence is
explained in simple language and, bit by bit, a story emerges of
brutality and jealousy in a university town where all was not what
it seemed. Their findings make for gripping, sensational reading.
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Companions (Paperback)
Christina Hesselholdt; Translated by Paul Russell Garrett
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Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle
of friends hurtling through mid-life. Structured as a series of
monologues jumping from one friend to the next, Companions follows
their loves, ambitions, pains and anxieties as they age, fall sick,
have affairs, grieve, host dinner parties and move between the Lake
District, Berlin, Lisbon, Belgrade, Mozambique, New York and, of
course, Denmark. In her first book to be translated into English,
Christina Hesselholdt explores everyday life, the weight of the
past and the difficulty of intimacy in a uniquely playful and
experimental style. At once deeply comic and remarkably insightful,
Companions is an exhilarating portrait of life in the twenty-first
century.
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Vivian (Paperback)
Christina Hesselholdt; Translated by Paul Russell Garrett
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With Vivian, her second novel to be published in English, Christina
Hesselholdt delves into the world of the enigmatic American
photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009), whose unique body of work
only reached the public by chance. On the surface, Vivian Maier
lived a quiet life, working as a nanny for bourgeois families in
Chicago and New York. And yet, over the course of four decades, she
took more than 150,000 photos, most of them with Rolleiflex
cameras. The pictures were discovered in an auction shortly before
she died, impoverished and feasibly very lonely. Who was this
outsider artist, and why did she remain in the shadows her whole
life? In this playful, polyphonic novel, we watch Vivian grow up in
a severely dysfunctional family in New York and Champsaur in
France, and we follow her later life as a nanny and street
photographer in Chicago. A meditation on art, madness and identity,
Vivian is a brilliant novel by Denmark's most inventive and radical
novelist.
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Ukulele Jam (Paperback)
Paul Russell Garrett; Alen Meskovic
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When President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Captains Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark on their great exploratory expedition of
the lands west of the Mississippi, the journey was destined to
become the most famous and significant American land expedition in
history. Jefferson must have realized the timeless importance of
the mission, for he urged the captains to keep multiple records of
all they saw and experienced during the journey. Those records,
dutifully kept from the departure of the expedition in 1803 to its
conclusion in 1806, provided invaluable information about the
wonders of the American West.In the next 150 years the journals
were published in several versions scrupulously authentic,
dubiously revised, and complacently counterfeit. This book is the
first comprehensive account of the various versions and of the
persons responsible for them. It tells of the dedicated
scholarship, inspired judgment, and exciting discovery of new
materials, as well as the misguided enthusiasm and journalistic
skulduggery that marred the publishing history of the journals,
field notes, and letters of members of the expedition. The author
breaks new ground in his use of previously unpublished letters
written by the editors of the two major editions. An appendix
introduces a recently discovered manuscript version of the journal
kept by one of the expedition members. The book also includes an
appraisal of books and articles written about the expedition and a
resume of the illustrative materials, sketches, and maps that
enriched the accounts. A History of the Lewis and Clark Journals is
thus itself a significant expedition into a historic period in
America's past.
Significant contributions on Celtic history, law, archaeology and
literature. Thomas Charles-Edwards, the distinguished scholar of
medieval Britain and Ireland, has made important contributions to a
number of fields, but is particularly renowned for his studies in
Celtic history and law. In this volume, colleagues pay tribute to
his work with essays that range across the medieval Celtic world,
including medieval Wales, Ireland and Scotland. In the first part
of the volume, they cover historical aspects (and, as is fitting,
often reflect the honorand's interest in archaeology and
epigraphy); in the second, they focus on medieval Irish and Welsh
legal institutions and texts, which are used by some to inform new
readings of literary texts. Contributors: Susan Youngs, Clare
Stancliffe, Catherine Swift, David N. Dumville, Elizabeth O'Brien,
Edel Bhreathnach, Oliver Padel, Nancy Edwards, Thomas Owen Clancy,
Marie Therese Flanagan, Huw Pryce, Roy Flechner, Robin Chapman
Stacey,Wendy Davies, Sara Elin Roberts, Fergus Kelly, Bronagh Ni
Chonaill, Charlene Eska, Elva Johnston, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh,
Maredudd ap Huw.
A family story of epic scale, by the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD and
THE BELL IN THE LAKE. "An intricate story about war, family,
secrets and,yes, wood ... An engaging, satisfying read" The Times
"So cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic
momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion" Scotsman Edvard grows
up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn
grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was three
years old, has always been shrouded in mystery - he has never been
told how or where it took place and has only a distant memory of
his mother. But he knows that the fate of his grandfather's
brother, Einar, is somehow bound up with this mystery. One day a
coffin is delivered for his grandfather long before his death - a
meticulous, beautiful piece of craftsmanship. Perhaps Einar is not
dead after all. Edvard's desperate quest to unlock the family's
tragic secrets takes him on a long journey - from Norway to the
Shetlands, and to the battlefields of France - to the discovery of
a very unusual inheritance. The Sixteen Trees of the Somme is about
the love of wood and finding your own self, a beautifully intricate
and moving tale that spans an entire century. A TIMES BESTSELLER
Mytting's book is as much a romantic historical thriller as it is a
book of promise, a page-turner as it is a reflective journey into
selfhood, history, life's meaning and individual moral
responsibility - Mika Provata-Carlone, Bookanista Translated from
the Norwegian by Paul Russell Garrett
The philosophical debate about free will and responsibility has
been of great importance throughout the history of philosophy. In
modern times this debate has received an enormous resurgence of
interest and the contribution in 1962 by P.F. Strawson with the
publication of his essay "Freedom and Resentment" has generated a
wide range of discussion and criticism in the philosophical
community and beyond. The debate is of central importance to recent
developments in the free will literature and has shaped the way
contemporary philosophers now approach the problem. This volume
brings together a focused selection of the major contributions and
reactions to the free will and responsibility debate inspired by
Strawson's contribution. McKenna and Russell also provide a
comprehensive overview of the debate. This book will be of great
value to scholars of Strawson and those interested in the free will
debate more generally.
Herman Bang (1857-1912) was a sharp-witted observer of the society
and manners of his age; with an eye for telling details, he could
at one moment mercilessly puncture hypocrisy and arrogance, at the
next invoke indignant sympathy for the outcasts and failures of a
ruthlessly competitive world. In his novels and especially in his
short stories he often takes as his protagonist an unremarkable
character who might be dismissed by a casual observer as
uninteresting: a failed ballet dancer who scrapes a living as a
peripatetic dance teacher in outlying villages ('Irene Holm'), or a
lodging-house-keeper's daughter who toils from dawn to dusk to make
ends meet ('Froken Caja'). He can also make wicked fun of
pretensions and plots, as in 'The Ravens', where the family of the
aging Froken Sejer are scheming to have her declared incapable,
whilst she is selling off her valuables behind their backs to cheat
them of their inheritance. His wide-ranging journalism has many
targets, alerting readers to the wretched poverty hidden just a few
steps from the thriving city shops or the ineptitude of Europe's
ruling houses - as well as celebrating the innovations of the
modern age, such as the automobile or the department store. Bang
was well known throughout Europe in his lifetime, especially in
Germany, where his works were translated early. In the
English-speaking world he has had little impact, partly no doubt
because of his homosexuality. Even now, only a couple of his novels
have been translated. This volume is an attempt to remedy this lack
by introducing a broad selection of his short stories and
journalism to a new public.
First published in 1969, "Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists"
remains the most comprehensive account of the scientific studies
carried out by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their
overland expedition to the Pacific Northwest and back in 1804-6.
Summaries of the animals, plants, topographical features, and
Indian tribes encountered are included at the end of each chapter
devoted to the particular leg of the journey. A distinguished
biologist, Paul Russell Cutright will be remembered for this
landmark contribution to our understanding of the world that the
expedition observed and recorded.
From the award-winning author of "The Unreal Life of Sergey
Nabklov" comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered
novel "Immaculate Blue," which explores the lives of four people --
Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia -- and their intermingled and
unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York and Manhattan, the novel
follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives
redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and
alienation. Russell picks up the thread of his critically acclaimed
novel "The Salt Point" 20 years later and tracks the lives of these
friends, some of whom not only lost touch with each other but have
also lost their way. Moving, at times shocking, and always
memorable, "Immaculate Blue" points to where the personal and the
political come together and shape our lives in unexpected way. With
this newest novel, Paul Russell reminds us of why he is one of the
most important voices on the literary scene.
The Gods have been fighting a never-ending war with the Giants and
their strength is failing. One evening, during a terrible storm,
Thor, the God of Thunder, appears to Erik, an ordinary boy. He
sends Erik on a secret mission with his daughter, Trud, to travel
to the Land of the Dead. Erik must bring back the Goddess of
Eternal Life and her magic apples before the Gods weaken and
totally lose their powers. Time is running out. Can Erik rescue the
Goddess from the Giants and prevent the end of the world?
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