At the turn-of-the-twentieth-century, as doctors in Los Angeles helped boosters promote an Anglo-only city of health, and doctors nationwide professionalized, complex cultural changes were happening in maternity care. Issues of race, class, gender, urbanization, eugenics, infant mortality, and the role of modern doctors influenced and complicated the developing maternity culture. Surprisingly, however, a strong counter narrative among physicians challenged accusations against women, while questioning procedures that doctors who valued surgical skills increasingly implemented into maternity care. This book focuses its analysis on “The Southern California Practitioner,” a medical journal founded by influential Angelenos, that published the papers and discussions from local medical meetings alongside jokes, editorials, and articles, from 1886-1922. In its pages, an astounding number of doctors, including many women, contested predictable topics: eradicating midwives, promoting medicalized care, and supporting alternatives to mothers' milk. Gradually, this maternity culture developed within the region's colleges, hospitals, settlements, and public health services.
An Acting for Camera book for actors looking to break into the business, as well as for those who want to transition from onstage acting to film/tv work. This down-to-earth text combines all the best aspects of actor training books: narrative real-life experiences, workbook exercises with journalling, plus on-camera exercises to hone live & self-taped audition techniques. Learn Mahoney's method for doing "homework" and creating character "notebooks" that give a strong foundation to on-camera work. Included are 45 practice scenes with guidelines on how to break down the scene, choose eye lines, find the emotional shift, and make your audition stand out amid hundreds of self-tapes.Known as a versatile actor, Ann is best remembered for her role as "Olivia" on three seasons of The Walking Dead. Selected TV credits include the iconic Gladys Presley in Sun Records, and Guest Starring roles on The Sundance Channel's Rectify, the CW's Hart of Dixie, and The Good Cop for Netflix. Her Film appearances include Bad Moms, Logan Lucky, 99 Homes, and Same Kind of Different as Me, among others. The book draws on Mahoney's 25 years experience both onstage and on camera, as well as 10 years of teaching Acting for Camera on the university level. Mahoney specializes in "telling it like it is," and giving theatre actors the skills and inspiration to become compelling on-camera actors.
Today, graphology is used in courtrooms and banks as well as by psychologists. In Handwriting & Personality, graphologist Ann Mahony now reveals the many elements that are part of handwriting analysis and shows readers how to learn more about their--and other people's--motivations and characteristics.
The battle with the Mouse King beneath the Christmas tree, Clara and the Nutcracker's magical sleigh-ride through the snow, the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Land of Sweets. Recreate these and other favourite scenes from Tchaikovsky's much-loved ballet with this ballet box.
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