Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts
A keen observer of those about him, in The Water Ball David captures some of the flavor of the times and places in which he has lived, observed, and experienced life s realities: the good and evil that each person inevitably must face as they travel life s road
Third volume in the History in a Year series. October includes daily posts from the Blog of The Conservative Voice, Sydney Conservative, David Daniel Ball. It also includes Wikipedia lists for events, births, deaths and daily holidays and observances. Organised by day, with a forward discussing an aspect of David's Evangelical Christian philosophy. The events are world wide across recorded history. October includes Horatio Nelson's successful attack and death at Trafalgar in 1805, Alexander the Great defeating Darius III at the Battle of Gaugemela (331 BC), or Scipio defeating Hannibal (202 BC). In 1958, NASA was created. In 1962, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson was first broadcast. A mixture of opinion and fact with a conservative point of view.
When you are sitting alone in your home or apartment, what do you think about? Your daily routines? God is with us in the routines, but as Christians we know there is more to life, so let's dig a little deeper. What are your passions? What are you dreams? Why do you get out of bed every morning? What do you hope to accomplish before you die? What do you hope people will say about you after you die? Now let's go deeper still: How have your heartfelt desires been affected by the fall? How can you re-orient your desires to be God-honoring and Christ-centered? "Portrait of the Heart" will help you answer these questions by drawing on the wisdom of more than one thousand scripture verses in 101 short daily studies. Using easy to understand language, it examines the significance of the heart, the snares of the heart, what a wise, disciplined, loving and faithful heart looks like, and more. In addition to the practical scriptural guidance, you will find that each study contains a question to think and pray about during the day as you contemplate what you have read.
Allison realized she'd been awake for twenty-four hours. She hadn't done that since college. It had been the most remarkable twenty-four hours of her life -- hours in which, for better or worse, a choice had been made, a line crossed. There was no going back. Each time she thought about it, she felt the same strange shock: She was a straitlaced civil engineer from Denver, huddled in the bowels of a broken-down cargo boat on the Wan Li Chang Jiang, the Yangtze River. Hunted by police, with her stepson and a baby that wasn't legally hers. "With all that, she was not even heading toward Shanghai, toward home. "Instead, she was heading upriver, deeper into the heart of China...." AS FRESH AS TODAY'S HEADLINES -- THE CHILLING, SUSPENSEFUL STORY OF A MOTHER, A NEWLY ADOPTED CHILD, AND A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TRYING TO SEPARATE THEM... For Allison Turk, the journey to China to claim the daughter she is adopting had been a trying experience, a series of false starts and long waits. Forced to travel without her husband, she makes the trip with her nine-year-old stepson. She hopes it will be a bonding experience, but so far this hasn't happened. When she finally holds the little girl in her arms, however, she knows that the trip has been worth all the effort and ag gravation. In only two days, she will board a plane for home, taking with her the greatest pride and joy she has ever known. Then suddenly everything unravels. Summoned to an emergency meeting of the adoptive parents, Allison is told a mistake has been made -- a "clerical error." The Americans have been given healthy infants rather than children with special needs, for which they are technically qualified, and they are told they must exchange their babies for different children. Allison is faced with a terrible decision: Should she capitulate and surrender the child she has come to love intensely, or risk an attempt to reach the American consulate in Shanghai, where she might at least have a chance to negotiate and keep her baby? Joining with several other American couples caught in the same dilemma, Allison chooses to run. There is a more sinister reason underlying the nightmare than they know about, and their flight spawns a massive manhunt led by a ruthless police colonel wielding all the terrifying apparatus of a police state. What ensues is tense, dramatic, and totally believable -- a race in which Allison not only struggles with her infant daughter and recalcitrant stepson, but is caught in a political tug-of-war that forces her to display a depth of courage and a strength of will she had never known she possessed. Inspired by a true-life incident, China Run takes the reader on a breathtaking chase across China that is gripping, compulsively readable, and frighteningly real.
“An engrossing microcosm of the internet’s Wild West years” (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still powers the internet today: love and sex. In 1994, visionary entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2,500 loan to create the first online dating service, Match.com. Only five percent of Americans were using the internet at the time, and even fewer were looking online for love. He quickly bought the Sex.com domain too, betting the combination of love and sex would help propel the internet into the mainstream. Imagine Kremen’s surprise when he learned that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the rights to Sex.com and was already making millions that Kremen would never see. Thus follows the wild true story of Kremen’s and Cohen’s decade-long battle for control. In The Players Ball, author and journalist David Kushner provides a front seat to these must-read Wild West years online, when innovators and outlaws battled for power and money. This cat-and-mouse game between a genius and a con man changed the way people connect forever, and is key to understanding the rise and future of the online world. “Kushner delivers a fast-paced, raunchy tale of sex, drugs, and dial-up.” —Publishers Weekly
Raising a Prodigal... Broken Marriages... Unfulfilled Promises... Painful Tribulation... Sometimes Love just isn't enough. What do you do when you have done all you can do and the pain of someone's actions are killing you? What do you do when your love just isn't enough? Before God called me to become a full-time pastor, I spent nineteen years teaching and coaching high school students in the public school setting. I have seen countless children make destructive decisions, and have watched as they suffered the consequences of their choices. At the same time, I witnessed the torture of many a mother as they were left at home worrying about the fate of their dearly loved child. These are the times that a mother must sacrifice her worry on God's altar and learn through passionate intercession to hold to the promises He has given in His Word. In my own life I have experienced the Power of a Praying mom. I am still alive because of the prayer of my Mom. James 5:16 teaches us that effective fervent prayer of the righteous avails much. Learn to impact an entire generation as you learn to Pray Momma Pray!
TV Tie-in A fun book for sports fanatics of all ages, 'Soccer Brain' will test the knowledge of even the most devoted football fans. A tie-in to the successful Granada TV quiz show of the same name (now being networked to other channels), the questions are compiled by David Ball, the first-ever Soccer Brain of Britain and an acknowledged expert on all aspects of the beautiful game. Certain to be in huge demand.
In Theater for Trial, David Ball and Joshua Karton use their extensive professional theater experience to give you practical exercises and strategies for connecting yourself, your case, and your witnesses with the jury. They provide tools available to any attorney—such as voice, presentation, and story structure—and show how to empower juries to take responsibility for righting a wrong. This book teaches you how to turn every trial into a powerful production that authentically calls forth your best asset: the simple truth, clearly and effectively communicated. Ball and Karton also teach you how to arm jurors to fight for you in deliberations. They offer techniques to improve how you prepare witnesses, create exhibits, present your client, select jurors, and conduct yourself in ways that frame the facts and the law to best engage your audience: the jury. Ball and Karton combine decades of intensive trial experience with cases from the smallest counties to the halls of the Supreme Court, with lessons from the stage and screen to optimize every moment you’re in trial.
The definitive book about football. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of football are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of football's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates football's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.
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