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Going Long

The Art of Long-Form Improvisation for Stage and Screen

By: Jo McGinley

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Going Long

The Art of Long-Form Improvisation for Stage and Screen

By: Jo McGinley

Improvisational comedy has exploded over the last several decades. But the short, game-based version of improv—as seen on shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?—is of little help when it comes to successfully pulling off long-form improvisation. Long-form provides exciting new challenges and opportunities for improvisational performers that go beyond comedy. It demands an expanded skill set, careful preparation, and genuine courage. Drawing on author Jo McGinley’s more than thirty years of experience onstage and in the classroom, Going Long provides a clear and practical framework for both beginning and experienced improvisers. It includes mental exercises specifically developed for long-form work, best practices for rehearsals and collaboration, techniques for connecting with the audience, tips on crafting stories within specific genres, and principles for making in-the-moment decisions that support an overarching narrative.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493077945

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9781493077946

The Poetics of the American Suburbs

By: Jo Gill

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The Poetics of the American Suburbs

By: Jo Gill

The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature.

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394

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Springer

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1137340231

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9781137340238

Math Memories You Can Count on

A Literature-based Approach to Teaching Mathematics in the Primary Classrooms

By: Jo-Anne Lake

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Math Memories You Can Count on

A Literature-based Approach to Teaching Mathematics in the Primary Classrooms

By: Jo-Anne Lake

Explores ways to teach math principles using children`s books, shows how to connect children with real-world math, and encourages linking text with relevant manipulatives in a hands-on, minds-on, problem-solving environment. Book lists, suggested activities, assessment strategies. and reproducible graphic organizers are included. Primary level.

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130

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Pembroke Publishers Limited

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155138227X

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The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

By: Jo Gill

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The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

By: Jo Gill

Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first collection in 1960. Plath's own writing has been supplemented over the decades by a wealth of critical and biographical material. The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the poetry, prose and autobiographical writings of Sylvia Plath. It offers a critical overview of key readings, debates and issues from almost fifty years of Plath scholarship, draws attention to the historical, literary, national and gender contexts which frame her writing and presents informed and attentive readings of her own work. This accessibly written book will be of great use to students beginning their explorations of this important writer.

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153

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Cambridge University Press

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1139474138

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9781139474139

Women's Poetry

By: Jo Gill

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Women's Poetry

By: Jo Gill

This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers--predominantly although not exclusively writing in English--from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe.Women's Poetry offers a thoroughgoing thematic study of key texts, poets and issues, analysing commonalities and differences across diverse writers, periods, and forms. The book is alert, throughout, to the diversity of women's poetry. Close readings of selected texts are combined with a discussion of key theories and critical practices, and students are encouraged to think about women's poetry in the light of debates about race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and regional and national identity. The book opens with a chronology followed by a comprehensive Introduction which outlines various approaches to reading women's poetry. Seven chapters follow, and a Conclusion and section of useful resources close the book.

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248

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748629939

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9780748629930

Katy Perry

California Gurl

By: Jo Berry

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Katy Perry

California Gurl

By: Jo Berry

Lifting the lid on the chart-topping, girl-kissing, trend-setting princess of pop In 2006, Katy Perry was on the brink of packing it all in and giving up - Hollywood had almost got the better of her. Two hit albums later and she practically owns the place. The gorgeous singer, best known for her flirty hit 'I Kissed a Girl', likes to flaunt her feminine side with inch-long eyelashes, maraschino-cherry lips, and playful retro outfits like polka-dotted hot pants and tube dresses, but Katy's path to fame was far bumpier than her glamtastic image lets on. Raised in Santa Barbara, California, she started her musical career in the church, her parents were both born-again Christian pastors. Her first album, released in 2001, was Christian gospel and the rules for her early years were 'no pop, no snacks, no boys'. At 16 she dropped out of high school and made the move to L.A., and her life was forever changed. It took more than eight years of false starts, winning and losing three record contracts, before she scored the million-selling album One of the Boys. But once `Ur So Gay' was declared by Madonna as her song of the year, 'I Kissed a Girl' ignited all that controversy, and Katy met her husband-to-be Russell Brand and so became one half of one of the most exciting and endearing Hollywood couples, Katy Perry was propelled to the top of the Hollywood A list. Jo Berry's insightful and honest biography reveals the incredible story of the life and loves of the artist and performer Katy Perry.

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240

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Orion

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1409133621

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9781409133629

Integrating Complementary Medicine into Veterinary Practice

By: Paula Jo Broadfoot,Richard E. Palmquist,Karen Johnston,Jiu Jia Wen,Barbara Fougere

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Integrating Complementary Medicine into Veterinary Practice

By: Paula Jo Broadfoot,Richard E. Palmquist,Karen Johnston,Jiu Jia Wen,Barbara Fougere

Integrating complementary treatment options with traditional veterinary practice is a growing trend in veterinary medicine. Veterinarians and clients alike have an interest in expanding treatment options to include alternative approaches such as Western and Chinese Herbal Medicine, Acupuncture, Nano-Pharmacology, Homotoxicology, and Therapeutic Nutrition along with conventional medicine. Integrating Complementary Medicine into Veterinary Practice introduces and familiarizes veterinarians with the terminology and procedures of these complementary treatment modalities in a traditional clinical format that facilitates the easy integration of these methods into established veterinary practices.

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927

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John Wiley & Sons

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0813804434

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9780813804439

Souls

A Portrait of Belfast, a Memoir

By: Jo Fredell Higgins

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Souls

A Portrait of Belfast, a Memoir

By: Jo Fredell Higgins

Jo Fredell Higgins relocated to Belfast from 1979 to 1980 in an effort to understand the Irish psyche. Her interviews with the men and women of this troubled city provide a portrait of everyday life in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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408

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Tate Publishing

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1618628933

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9781618628930

Extraordinary Putting

Transforming the Whole Game

By: Fred Shoemaker,Jo Hardy

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Extraordinary Putting

Transforming the Whole Game

By: Fred Shoemaker,Jo Hardy

The co-author of the classic Extraordinary Golf offers an innovative approach to improving the overall game by focusing on putting, which accounts for more than one third of the strokes in a typical round. Not just a tips-and-techniques book, Extraordinary Putting features a series of illustrated exercises that will help golfers: - Develop the inner freedom to trust themselves and recognize self-imposed barriers - Find the peace of mind that comes from letting go of mental chatter and self-judgments - Increase awareness, allowing golfers to pay attention to their experiences - Understand the differences in those experiences from stroke to stroke - Master the art of self-coaching

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212

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Penguin

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1101099186

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9781101099186

Helping Relationships in Mental Health

By: Steve Morgan,Jo Campling

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Helping Relationships in Mental Health

By: Steve Morgan,Jo Campling

How do you respond to the distress of a man who is sitting before you, in his own flat, towels draped around his shoulders, newspaper wedged beneath the brim of his hat, an upturned frying pan over his hat and a partially filled washing-up bowl balanced on top of the frying pan? He holds the bowl with one hand and a cigarette in the other, while he force fully proclaims the secret services have placed someone in the flat above to drop radioactive dust down on him all day and all night. To start with, you could offer him a light for his cigarette. The most likely medical response would be to consider increasing his antipsychotic medicine, though a cursory glance at his medical history suggests that inpatient admissions and large mUltiple prescriptions of injections and tablets have failed to eradicate the distressing fears that the secret services have occupied the ward above. Perhaps all the increased medication will achieve is to stop him going upstairs intent on retribu tion. It may even leaden his limbs sufficiently to make his current balanc ing act too difficult to sustain.

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210

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Springer

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1489932240

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9781489932242

Of Age

Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era

By: Frances M. Clarke,Rebecca Jo Plant

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Of Age

Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era

By: Frances M. Clarke,Rebecca Jo Plant

Enormous numbers of boys and youths served in the American Civil War. The first book to arrive at a careful estimate, Of Age argues that underage enlistees comprised roughly ten percent of the Union army and likely a similar proportion of Confederate forces. Their importance extended beyond sheer numbers. Boys who enlisted without consent deprived parents of badly needed labor and income to which were legally entitled, setting off struggles between households and the military. As the contest over underage enlistees became a referendum on the growing centralization of military and political power, it was the United States, more than the Confederacy, that fought tooth and nail to retain this valuable cohort. How far could the federal government breach the sanctity of the household when the nation's very survival was at stake? Should military officers bow to the will of local and state judges? And what form should the military take to ensure victory while remaining true to the nation's republican principles? As they detail how Americans grappled with these questions, Clarke and Plant introduce readers to common but largely unknown wartime scenarios-parents chasing after regiments to recover their sons, state judges defying the federal government by discharging boys, and recently enslaved African American youths swept up by Union recruiters. Examining the phenomenon from multiple perspectives-legal, military, medical, social, political, and cultural-Of Age demonstrates why underage enlistment is such an important lens for understanding the Civil War and its transformative effects"--

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449

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Oxford University Press

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0197601049

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9780197601044

Community and Public Health Nursing

By: Cherie Rector,Mary Jo Stanley

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Community and Public Health Nursing

By: Cherie Rector,Mary Jo Stanley

Community and Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 10th Edition delivers an engaging introduction to the principles of public health nursing and employs a highly visual, student-friendly approach to guide students in developing the understanding and skills to confidently promote health, foster disease prevention, and protect at-risk populations — including older adults, homeless populations, veterans, refugees, and the LGBTQ community — whether practicing in acute care or community and public health settings. Extensively revised and featuring a wealth of real-world examples, this updated edition reflects today’s most prominent public health issues and empowers students to provide the most effective nursing care wherever they may choose to practice.

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1690

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975123050

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9781975123055

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

By: Mary K. Mannix,Fred Burchsted,Jo Bell Whitlatch

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Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

By: Mary K. Mannix,Fred Burchsted,Jo Bell Whitlatch

An excellent starting point for both reference librarians and for library users seeking information about family history and the lives of others, this resource is drawn from the authoritative database of Guide to Reference, voted Best Professional Resource Database by Library Journal readers in 2012. Biographical resources have long been of interest to researchers and general readers, and this title directs readers to the best biographical sources for all regions of the world. For interest in the lives of those not found in biographical resources, this title also serves as a guide to the most useful genealogical resources. Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

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609

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American Library Association

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083891294X

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9780838912942

Dream Come True

The LeAnn Rimes Story

By: Jo Sgammato

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Dream Come True

The LeAnn Rimes Story

By: Jo Sgammato

THE DAZZLING RISE OF A YOUNG COUNTRY STAR Last summer, "Blue, " sung by LeAnn Rimes but originally written for Patsy Cline, became the fastest rising single of all time. Her album of the same name debuted at #1. And it all happened before her fourteenth birthday. Who is this singer with the incredible voice, the youngest ever artist ever nominated for a Country Music Association Award, and winner of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist? Jo Sgammato traveled from Nashville to LeAnn's hometown of Pearl, Mississippi, then followed her path to Dallas and beyond to reveal her inspiring life. From singing at eighteen months through dazzling performances at talent shows, opry stages and sports arenas, here is the heartwarming story of a determined young singer and an American family whose dedication made A DREAM COME TRUE.

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184

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0345416503

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9780345416506

The Poetics of the American Suburbs

By: Jo Gill

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By: Jo Gill

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Book's by Jo McGinley

Going Long

Going Long

The Poetics of the American Suburbs

The Poetics of the American Suburbs

Math Memories You Can Count on

Math Memories You Can Count on

The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath

Women's Poetry

Women's Poetry

Katy Perry

Katy Perry

Integrating Complementary Medicine into Veterinary Practice

Integrating Complementary Medicine into Veterinary Practice

Souls

Souls

Extraordinary Putting

Extraordinary Putting

Helping Relationships in Mental Health

Helping Relationships in Mental Health

Of Age

Of Age

Community and Public Health Nursing

Community and Public Health Nursing

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

Dream Come True

Dream Come True

The Poetics of the American Suburbs

The Poetics of the American Suburbs

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