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365 Ways...Retirees' Resource Guide for Productive Lifestyles
An attractive, easy to use library of information about productive activities that are available to help retirees lead stimulating and fulfilling lives. 365 Ways...^R includes suggestions for how a retiree can become involved in education, environmental activities, competitive sports, volunteering, politics, hobbies, and international...- $63.00
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Alice on Stage: A History of the Early Theatrical Productions of Alice in Wonderland (Revised)
This unique work covers the many stage productions of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The book opens with details of productions of the play during the author's lifetime. The book goes on to give a brief background of Victorian Theater in general and then...- $96.00
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American Playwrights, 1880-1945: A Research and Production Sourcebook
During the years 1880 to 1945, American theatre grew up, moving from entertainment-driven motives and melodramatic formulas to serious confrontations with issues of its time and to an experimentation with forms that would allow those confrontations to be frank and earnest. Many of the...- $83.00
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August Wilson: A Research and Production Sourcebook
When Ma Rainey's Black Bottom opened in 1984, August Wilson was unknown in theatre. By 1988 he was described as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience and was the most acclaimed playwright of his time by 1990. He is one of only...- $120.00
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Barbra Streisand Companion: A Guide to Her Vocal Style and Repertoire
Barbra Streisand has enjoyed worldwide artistic success for more than three decades, and her recordings are a consistent and integral part of her multifaceted professional life. As part of Greenwood's series, Companions to Celebrated Musicians, this volume explores the musical life and style of...- $83.00
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British Playwrights, 1880-1956: A Research and Production Sourcebook
From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the...- $83.00
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British Playwrights, 1956-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook
The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. Due to the contributions of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, and Harold Pinter, the last four decades...- $83.00
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Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions
Compiled as a tool for re-educating the population of the three western zones of Occupation, this catalog lists 395 features, feature-length documentaries, and short films that were forbidden for public exhibition. The Zonal Film Archives originally held some 3200 feature titles and 2500 short...- $70.00
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Century of American Icons: 100 Products and Slogans from the 20th-Century Consumer Culture
Dogs eat burritos, camels smoke cigarettes, and frogs drink beer. Welcome to the Century of the Consumer. In the 20th century, Americans were romanced by consumer culture, which in turn reflected the changing attitudes, priorities, and values of the country. This book compiles entries...- $24.00
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Chemical Composition of Everyday Products
Chemicals, both helpful and harmful, affect our everyday lives. From cosmetics to medications to cleansers to lighting, automotive, and office products, each is composed of a complex blending of elements to perform a specific task. This book analyzes over 100 groups of products, identifying...- $63.00
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Clare Boothe Luce: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Among the most commercially successful female playwrights of all times, Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) is best remembered as the author of The Women (1936), a biting social comedy. Beginning in 1942, she spent less of her time writing plays and turned instead to the...- $70.00
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Clifford Odets: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Best known as a revolutionary playwright of the 1930s, Clifford Odets may have reached his zenith when four of his plays were produced on Broadway in 1935: Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die, Awake and Sing!, and Paradise Lost. His plays, however,...- $88.00
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Federal Theatre Project: A Catalog-Calendar of Productions
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George Kelly: A Research and Production Sourcebook
George Kelly was a pioneer realist in the American theater who not only enjoyed popular and critical success, but also remained true to his own moral vision of theater as an art form despite what he considered vulgar influences that catered to the popular...- $70.00
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Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995. Each entry includes a biographical sketch, a summary of productions,...- $83.00
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John Guare: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Best known for his plays Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare is a major figure in the contemporary American theater. Other notable works by Guare include Bosoms and Neglect, Landscape of the Body, and the Lydie Breeze series....- $83.00
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Lillian Hellman: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Widely acclaimed as one of America's most distinguished female playwrights, Lillian Hellman made an entrance into a largely male-dominated field in 1934 with The Children's Hour, a drama that rocked the literary establishment with its frank treatment of lesbianism while calling attention to her...- $44.00
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Lorraine Hansberry: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Born in the Southside of Chicago in 1930, Lorraine Hansberry and her family moved to a large house in a white neighborhood in 1938. In order to live there, her father had to fight a civil rights case in the Supreme Court against segregationists....- $44.00
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Manpower for Energy Production: An International Guide to Sources with Annotations
Manpower analysis and planning for the energy sector is the cornerstone of any successful national energy program. The human resources aspect of energy problems, however, has received little systematic attention. Responding to the need for a comprehensive information source on this important subject, Professor...- $44.00
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Maxwell Anderson: A Research and Production Sourcebook
One of the most important American playwrights of the 20th century, Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for Both Your Houses (1933), and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Winterset (1935) and High Tor (1936). Though he believed that poetry was the glory...- $70.00
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Productions of the Irish Theatre Movement, 1899-1916: A Checklist
The Irish Renaissance encompassed one of the western world's most powerful dramatic movements. But most lists of productions have only included certain premieres, while ignoring all revivals and the productions of lesser-known theatres. This reference is a comprehensive list of all theatrical productions of...- $120.00
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Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Rachel Crothers had a fascinating and influential career as a woman playwright and director. In the first half of the 20th century, she was a major part of Broadway history, writing for stars such as Tallulah Bankhead, Katharine Cornell, and Gertrude Lawrence. This volume...- $44.00
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S. N. Behrman: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Behrman's prolific career as a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter spans a period from the 1920s to the mid-1960s. As a writer for popular performance, he had to contend with commercial influences and with producers and directors involved in the dynamics of the collaborative...- $70.00
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Sean O'Casey: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Sean O'Casey is recognized as one of the most important Irish playwrights of the 20th century. When he was in his early 20s, he committed himself to the nationalist struggle to free Ireland from English domination. During the Dublin General Strike and Lock-Out of...- $83.00
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Sophie Treadwell: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Best remembered today for her acclaimed 1928 expressionist drama Machinal, based in part on the infamous murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Sophie Treadwell was an innovative American dramatist whose career spanned almost 60 years and nearly 40 plays. A relentless experimenter in dramatic subjects,...- $70.00
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Staging Premodern Drama: A Guide to Production Problems
This wise volume, written by a veteran director and observer of premodern plays, offers good advice for neophyte and experienced directors. Choice- $70.00
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Successful Industrial Product Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review
The 1980's information explosion on new-product development demands a broad-scope, up-to-date review of literature. Calantone and di Benedetto take on the task in this comprehensive annotated bibliography, citing more than 450 articles and books on product innovation and new product development. They have produced...- $44.00
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Susan Glaspell: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Co-founder of the Provincetown Players and one of its leading writers, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for Alison's House (1930) and was also successful as an actress, producer, and novelist. Her plays were compared, often favorably, with O'Neill's. After a period of eclipse,...- $83.00
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T.S. Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Though better known for his poetry, T. S. Eliot wrote seven important plays between 1926 and 1958, of which Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949) may be most produced. Posthumously, he won Tony Awards in 1983 for the musical adaptation...- $83.00
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Terry McMillan: A Critical Companion
The tremendous universal appeal of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale took the book world by storm. With her third novel finally earning her the recognition and respect she richly deserved, Terry McMillan followed up with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, which continued to...- $57.00
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Theatre at Stratford-Upon-Avon, First Supplement: A Catalogue-Index to Productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1979-1993
Shakespearean productions continue to flourish today, with considerable activity at Stratford-upon-Avon in England. This book supplies basic information on Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean plays produced at Stratford-upon-Avon from 1979 to 1993, and makes accessible information on all productions during these years by the Royal Shakespeare...- $83.00
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Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901
This work provides a ready reference to significant productions of plays on the London stage during the period 1837 through 1901 and includes extensive information concerning both plays and players. The compiler's introduction offers a fascinating overview of the cultural and social attitudes toward...- $70.00
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William Saroyan: A Research and Production Sourcebook
William Saroyan, one of the most prolific writers in America, was the first playwright to win simultaneously both the New York Drama Critics' Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize in playwriting for The Time of Your Life in 1940. In spite of his success,...- $70.00
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