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Teaching Little Fingers to Play: A Book for the Earliest Beginner (John Thompsons Modern Course for The Piano)

24 reviews
John Thompson

Willis Music, 2005

Great Condition, Fast Shipping!
The product was delivered in superb condition promptly. Would buy from this seller again.

Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

15 reviews
Stuart Brown, Christopher Vaughan

Avery, 2009

One of my Top Ten reads this year
Stuart Brown's "Play" is one of those books that I knew immediately I had to share with those I hold near and dear, most specifically the parents of my grandchildren. It is likewise a book I wish with all my heart had been available 50 years ago, when I was just beginning to raise my own children. This book is a powerful affirmation of all the things we OUGHT to know from the wisdom of the ...

The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)

16 reviews
Sophocles

Penguin Classics, 2000

Translation isn't transliteration
I try to reread Sophocles every few years, both because I enjoy him and because I find him a moral tonic. Since I can only haltingly stumble through his Greek, I always read translations, and I read a different translation each time. When one reads a translated literary work, one is reading a piece of literature that, in a manner of speaking, is "co-authored." Translation isn't, can't, and ...

Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's

17 reviews
Tim Page

Doubleday, 2009

Read this if you grew up without a diagnosis...
If you are an adult who grew up with undiagnosed Asperger Syndrome, you will relate to and appreciate this book. It pains me to see people bashing the book because they bought a memoir when they really wanted something else. For general information on Asperger Syndrome, read Tony Attwood's "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome." Tim Page's book is a memoir about a "twice-exceptional" boy ...

Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship

49 reviews
Mahan Khalsa, Randy Illig

Portfolio Hardcover, 2008

A practical guide on creating winning solutions
This book is an excellent guide for buyers and sellers alike. Much of the book is built on the authors' personal experience which does a few things: it makes the book more credible, more entertaining and provides reinforcement on the concepts being presented. The book does a great job of providing a top level view of a sales process and moving to the detailed aspects of interaction. For ...

The Game of Life And How To Play It

93 reviews
Florence Scovel Shinn

Wilder Publications, 2009

Amazing Book
This book is amazing.....It was hard to part with it to share with a friend.

Theban Plays

1 review
Sophocles

Hackett Publishing Company, 2003

Incredibly Modern and Performable!
After comparing numerous Theban Plays (Fagles, Lattimore, Roche, Fitzgerald and others) I came across the one on Hackett. I find it the most readable, comtemporary, up-to-date, powerful, poetic and most importantly...believable. It reads so realistically that I actually believe what the characters say...which makes me want to perform and see performed this edition by Meineck and Woodruff. ...

Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.

56 reviews
Eric Berne

Ballantine Books, 1996

Always Reason to Re-visit this Classic
This book and its sequels deserve to come to the forefront again. Their insights should be made the cornerstone of much of the popular analysis of family dynamics we see on various TV shows. "Games" was one of the founding books of a branch of psychology that became known as "transactional analysis." However, it would perhaps have been better if psychologists and psychiatrists had simply stuck to ...

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

26 reviews
Stephen Nachmanovitch

Tarcher, 1991

The process of creating
Extremely insightful book about improvisation and creativity, with words of wisdom on every page. Calling improvisation the "default state of mind", Nachmanovich describes the infrastructure of a creative life and analyzes the inner process of making art. The book makes you want to pick up your instrument and enter the infinite world of music. Must-read for the creative artist or any free spirit.

Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus The Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus (Wordsworth Classics of World ...

1 review
Sophocles

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2005

Essential reading for a classical education
I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of loyalty of love and the divine law, she defies Creon, ...

Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School

4 reviews
Barrie Thorne

Rutgers University Press, 1993

Good
How boys and girls play differently. Dyaids (Groups of 2 girls) vs Tryqids and more (Groups of 3 or moreboys)....(If I remember correctly. I found it rather dull s I only read what was required.

Night Play (Dark-Hunter, Book 6)

136 reviews
Sherrilyn Kenyon

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004

This is one of my favorite romance books
I have been a fan of Ms. Kenyon's ever since I picked up a copy of Fantasy Lover soon after it's release. When I finished reading the book all I wanted was... more! I joined her official role playing group and never looked back. Through the Dark Hunter group, and then the Ladies of Sanctuary (also known as DHAD or Dark Hunter After Dark) I met many new friends. A few of those friendships still ...

Medea and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

11 reviews
Euripides

Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Bared to The Wire.
Although writing around 450B.C., Euripedes still holds importance for anyone interested in modern drama. Indeed, I came to Euripedes et al. because of "The Wire" creator David Simon's admission that large parts of his show's plot and characterisation were "stolen" (his words) from the three great Greek tragedians (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Euripedes holds a reputation as ...

Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him

6 reviews
Alanna Nash

It Books, 2010

Best book of the decade!!
I thporoughly enjoyed reading this absorbing, entertaining book. It is superbly written in a splsendid, free-flowing style. I would hope the book can be made into amovie as soon as possible!

The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally

9 reviews
David Elkind

Da Capo Press, 2007

Great book!
Great information, very interesting, awesome information for early childhood educators, teachers, and Naturalists. Important for parents to read and understand the need to let our children develop at thier own rate.

The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Classics)

6 reviews
Plautus

Penguin Classics, 1965

A History Lesson in Funny
Plautus is an important Roman comedian, because he preserves Greek works (The Swaggering Soldier is a re-telling of a lost Greek play, Alazon, or The Braggart), and he shows us some of the similarities between ancient Greek and Roman senses of humor, which are not far from contemporary Western senses of humor. Plautus also influenced other great playwrights. For example, The Brothers Menaechmus ...

Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand

20 reviews

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2009

Awesome!!
This satire of Eat, Pray, Love is one of the smartest, funniest, totally GENIUS books I've read recently. Nothing hipster-intelligent or pseudo-intelligent or gross-out-but-not-actually-funny (ahem, Tucker Max, ahem) about it - just brilliant writing. It flows smoothly and hilariously and makes me want to hang out with this guy. If you have read EPL, the structural and conceptual parallels will ...

No Exit and Three Other Plays

52 reviews
Jean-Paul Sartre

Vintage, 1989

Philosphy and Theatre: Two Masterpieces and Two Lesser Titles
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is extremely difficult to approach, for his reputation rests heavily upon the work BEING AND NOTHINGNESS: AN ESSAY ON PHENOMENOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY--an extremely complex work that many regard as the single greatest work of 20th Century philosophy and which is largely beyond the grasp of everyone but the most gifted philosophers themselves. Fortunately for the rest of us, ...

Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship, Second Edition

12 reviews
Garry L. Landreth

Routledge, 2002

Landreth
One of the best books for play therapy on the market ... if you are working with kids in play therapy ... this book is a must for your library!

You Can't Say You Can't Play

22 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press, 1993

Required reading for preschool & elementary teachers/parents
My child's preschool had this book in their parent lending library and I read it over a few nights. The book goes back and forth between a fantasy story and what happens when a teacher ponders and eventually institutes a policy that Everyone can play.... no excluding another child, or forcing a child into a negative role they don't want during play. The author makes a strong case by ...

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