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Endorsed by WJEC, this is a detailed and comprehensive guide full
of ideas and suggestions to help students develop their key Welsh
language skills. With a wide range of solo, pair and group tasks
and activities throughout it is ideal for reinforcing exam skills
across all four units of the WJEC GCSE Welsh Second Language
specification. // Written by experienced authors, examiners and
practising teachers, it offers high quality support you can trust.
// Provides a practical unit-by-unit approach, ensuring that
students have focused coverage of the required language skills. //
Offers spontaneous speaking and translation practice throughout to
allow students to perfect these crucial skills. // Units 1 & 2
are supported by links to digital files to enable further practice
of speaking and listening skills and help to ensure students are
fully prepared for their non-examination assessment. // Plenty of
practice questions and tasks with exemplar responses to see where
extra marks can be gained.
With Grotowski, After Grotowski is a unique and invaluable
insight into the workings of one of theatre's true pioneers,
presented by his closest collaborator. This book charts the
development of Grotowski's dramatic research through a decade of
conversations with his apprentice, Thomas Richards.
Tuscany's 'Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards' is
the enduring legacy of a master teacher, director and theorist, and
home to much of Grotowski's most significant work. Interviewed by
leading scholars, and offering his own intimate accounts, Richards
gives a vivid and detailed view of the Workcenter's evolution,
providing:
- concrete illustration of the Workcenter's distinctive creative
practices
- rigorous discussion of over twenty years of world-renowned
research
- previously unpublished performance photos
- privileged insight into what Grotowski considered to be the
culmination of his life's work.
(Excerpt)
Grotowski knows that to learn something means to conquer it in
practice. One must learn through "doing" and not through
memorization of ideas and theories . . . the axis of this text is a
method, or better yet a practice, finally central to the work of
Stanislavski, and later developed by Grotowski: "physical actions."
Grotowski is inheritor of the mantle of Stanislavski, renowned and
revered for his radical innovation as a director, and for his
seminal manifesto "Towards a Poor Theatre,"
"At Work With Grotowski on" "Physical Actions" by Thomas Richards,
Grotowski's long-time collaborator, is the first available
statement in English of Grotowski's current working practices and
theoretical position in over twenty years.
This is Thomas Richards' inside account of his decade-long
exclusive collaboration with one of the central figures of
20th-century theatre. It reviews in jargon-free terms Grotowski's
developments since the time of "Towards a Poor Theatre,"
With the preface and concluding chapter by Grotowski himself, "At
Work With Grotowski" is not only a portrait of the master at work,
but also Grotowski's personal testimony to a life spent on the
leading edge of the theatre world.
"At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions" will take its
rightful place alongside the dozen or so seminal theatre books of
this century. Richards' account will prove a unique resource for
actors, students, and anyone seriously interested in the best that
the theatre has to offer.
How particular has Southeast Asia's experience of educational
development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct
Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education? Inquiry
into these questions has significant consequences for our
understanding of the current state of education in Southeast Asia
and the challenges it has inherited. This book contributes to a
better understanding of the experience of educational development
in Southeast Asia by presenting a collection of micro-historical
studies on the subject of education, policy and practice in the
region from the emergence of modern education to the end of the
twentieth century. The chapters fathom the extent to which contest
over educational content in schools has occurred and establish the
socio-cultural, political and economic bases upon which these
contestations have taken place and the ways in which those forces
have played out in the classrooms. In doing so, the book conveys a
sense of the extent to which modern forms of education have been
both facilitated and shaped by the region's specific
configurations; its unique demographic, religious, social,
environmental, economic and political context. Conversely, they
also provide examples of the sorts of obstacles that have prevented
education making as full an impact on the region's recent 'modern'
transformation as might have been hoped or expected. This book will
be of interest to academics in the field of Southeast Asian
Studies, Asian Studies, education, nationalism, and history.
With Grotowski, After Grotowski is a unique and invaluable
insight into the workings of one of theatre's true pioneers,
presented by his closest collaborator. This book charts the
development of Grotowski's dramatic research through a decade of
conversations with his apprentice, Thomas Richards.
Tuscany's 'Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards' is
the enduring legacy of a master teacher, director and theorist, and
home to much of Grotowski's most significant work. Interviewed by
leading scholars, and offering his own intimate accounts, Richards
gives a vivid and detailed view of the Workcenter's evolution,
providing:
- concrete illustration of the Workcenter's distinctive creative
practices
- rigorous discussion of over twenty years of world-renowned
research
- previously unpublished performance photos
- privileged insight into what Grotowski considered to be the
culmination of his life's work.
How to craft a dynamic personal essay that will get your college
application noticed. College admissions-that is, admission to the
school of your choice-has become incredibly competitive. Students
and their families prepare from grade school onward to shape school
"careers" that will give them a leg up in applying to selective
colleges. But sterling academic performance, AP classes, high test
scores, and sports and other extracurricular activities are no
longer enough to guarantee a slot at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, or
the Ivies. In Admit One, Thomas Richards focuses on a key aspect of
the college admissions decision, one that makes all the difference
in applications: good writing. This involves mastering the dreaded
personal essay-but more than that, it means "writing" a college
application with a consistent overarching narrative, one that tells
a student's intimate story. Writing has the ability to render the
grain of a student's own voice, fully integrated and fully under
their own control. More than any other element of the application,
strong writing is capable of revealing applicants as individuals
from the inside out, allowing admissions committees to make fine
distinctions between otherwise identical candidates. In plain
language, Richards draws together this sense of writing as central
to college admissions while showing candidates the secrets of
creating an effective, beautifully crafted personal essay. From
selecting words to shaping sentences, building paragraphs, and even
clarifying a voice, Richards's approach is the key to getting a
student's application noticed and read. The resulting essay that
readers craft will come as close as possible to being a trustworthy
representation of a whole person. Treating the college application
as a rigorous intellectual exercise, Admit One contains everything
students need to know in order to present themselves with
clear-edged precision to an application committee.
Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food
chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are
represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its
findings to contemporary concerns about food security.
Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food
chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are
represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its
findings to contemporary concerns about food security.
The period that followed World War II has witnessed a dramatic
change in neurology. From being a discipline in which its partici-
pants were castigated for being interested solely in diagnosis,
usually of disorders of unknown causation without effective
therapy, neurology has evolved into a highly active treatment-
orientated subject. This transition is clearly reflected in the ap-
proach to diseases of the peripheral nervous system, and to the
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) in particular. In a state-of-the- art
review made in 1952, Elkington (1952) observed that no less than
56% of neuropathies remained undiagnosed, and amongst those of
unknown causation he listed GBS. With intensive in- vestigation and
follow-up, the proportion of neuropathies seen at tertiary referral
centres which elude diagnosis is now as little as 13% (McLeod et
al. 1984). Overall, of course, the proportion is even less. This
change is partly because of the introduction of new diagnostic
techniques and partly because of the application of the great
expansion in knowledge evident throughout medicine. In this book,
Professor Richard Hughes has assembled current information on GBS
and related disorders, including chronic in- flammatory
demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), the existence of which was not
appreciated until Austin's perspicacious study published in 1958.
In the Introduction, Professor Hughes gives an account of the way
in which recognition of the GBS emerged and matured, and shows that
it followed, pari passu, with the realisation that paral- ysis and
sensory loss may result from peripheral nerve disorders.
A reinterpretation of a key moment in the political history of the
United States-and of the Americans who sought to decouple American
ideals from US territory. Published in Cooperation with the William
P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist
University Most Americans know that the state of Texas was once the
Republic of Texas-an independent sovereign state that existed from
1836 until its annexation by the United States in 1846. But few are
aware that thousands of Americans, inspired by Texas, tried to
establish additional sovereign states outside the borders of the
early American republic. In Breakaway Americas, Thomas Richards,
Jr., examines six such attempts and the groups that supported them:
"patriots" who attempted to overthrow British rule in Canada;
post-removal Cherokees in Indian Territory; Mormons first in
Illinois and then the Salt Lake Valley; Anglo-American overland
immigrants in both Mexican California and Oregon; and, of course,
Anglo-Americans in Texas. Though their goals and methods varied,
Richards argues that these groups had a common mindset: they were
not expansionists. Instead, they hoped to form new, independent
republics based on the "American values" that they felt were no
longer recognized in the United States: land ownership, a strict
racial hierarchy, and masculinity. Exposing nineteenth-century
Americans' lack of allegiance to their country, which at the time
was plagued with economic depression, social disorder, and
increasing sectional tension, Richards points us toward a new
understanding of American identity and Americans as a people
untethered from the United States as a country. Through its wide
focus on a diverse array of American political practices and
ideologies, Breakaway Americas will appeal to anyone interested in
the Jacksonian United States, US politics, American identity, and
the unpredictable nature of history.
This provocative and theoretically sophisticated book reveals how
capitalism produced and sustained a culture of its own in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
"Richards provides a valuable account of the interaction between
cultural and business development in Victorian England by focusing
on the evolution of advertising. Through an examination of five
case studies, ranging from how advertisers employed images of the
Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to their use of images of women
just before WWI, he argues that the British developed a new type of
culture in the mid and late-19th century--a new way of thinking and
living increasingly based upon the possession of material goods,
commodities. Revising the findings of some earlier scholars,
Richards shows that 'cultural forms of consumerism . . . came into
being well before the consumer economy did.' The 50 well-reproduced
advertising images greatly enhance the value of this study." --M.
Blackford, "Choice"
How particular has Southeast Asia's experience of educational
development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct
Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education? Inquiry
into these questions has significant consequences for our
understanding of the current state of education in Southeast Asia
and the challenges it has inherited. This book contributes to a
better understanding of the experience of educational development
in Southeast Asia by presenting a collection of micro-historical
studies on the subject of education, policy and practice in the
region from the emergence of modern education to the end of the
twentieth century. The chapters fathom the extent to which contest
over educational content in schools has occurred and establish the
socio-cultural, political and economic bases upon which these
contestations have taken place and the ways in which those forces
have played out in the classrooms. In doing so, the book conveys a
sense of the extent to which modern forms of education have been
both facilitated and shaped by the region's specific
configurations; its unique demographic, religious, social,
environmental, economic and political context. Conversely, they
also provide examples of the sorts of obstacles that have prevented
education making as full an impact on the region's recent 'modern'
transformation as might have been hoped or expected. This book will
be of interest to academics in the field of Southeast Asian
Studies, Asian Studies, education, nationalism, and history.
`I consider this book a precious report that permits one to assimilate some of those simple and basic principles which the self-taught at times come to know, yet only after years of groping and errors. The book furnishes information regarding discoveries which the actor can understand in practice, without having to start each time from zero. Thomas Richards has worked with me systematically since 1985. Today he is my essential collaborator in the research dedicated to Art as Vehicle.' - from the Preface by Jerzy Grotowski
"The idea of revolution is to take action. The goal of
revolution is positive change."
-Thomas Richard Harry "Boom A Revolting Situation"
"BOOM " is a tough-minded eye-opening appraisal of American
Democracy that highlights serious lack of choice in today's
political arena. Party identification is unraveling; increasingly
voters opt not to be identified with them. Nothing has yet
developed to fill this void. The result: millions of political
"Independents" with no place to turn come election time except to
these two Parties they apparently reject. Today these non-aligned
conservative and liberal Americans surpass either Democrats or
Republicans. Contrary to some, Independents do represent a powerful
political potential-they just don't realize it yet. A plurality of
our electorate, they have no option other than a least-worst
political choice. That seems a democratic absurdity. That's akin to
political coercion, at best; political disenfranchisement, at
worst.
"BOOM " clarifies the primary historical (and on-going)
antagonism in American politics and identifies what may well be the
political objective of Independents. It then walks its readers
through how this plurality of political orphans might achieve this
goal. It's an option that doesn't rely on the failed ideological
approach of today's duopoly. It could reinvigorate politics and
change the direction of government towards achieving a more
balanced outcome-all within our existing electoral system
The Butterflies of Britain & Ireland provides comprehensive
coverage of all our resident and migratory butterflies, including
the latest information on newly discovered species such as Cryptic
Wood White and the Geranium Bronze. When first published in 1991 it
won the Natural World Book of the Year Award and won plaudits from
all quarters. Fully revised, considerably expanded and reset in
2010, it was judged that year's Guardian Nature Book of the Year.
Now revised again to reflect the latest research findings, and with
up-to-date distribution maps, this remarkable book is THE guide to
the appearance, behaviour, life cycle and ecology of the
butterflies of Britain and Ireland.
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