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Breathing Life Into Your Characters

By: Rachel Ballon

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Breathing Life Into Your Characters

By: Rachel Ballon

Create Convincing Characters That Readers—and Editors—Can't Resist! It's the question that eternally plagues all good writers: How can you describe the thoughts and feelings of characters who have backgrounds or psychological aberrations with which you have no personal experience? How can you describe the feelings of a drug addict if you've never been one? How can you write about being a prisoner if you've never been to jail? You can do all the research you want, but the question still remains: How do you convincingly portray characters if you've never lived in their skin? In Breathing Life Into Your Characters, writing consultant and professional psychotherapist Rachel Ballon, Ph. D., shows you how to get in touch with the thoughts and feelings necessary to truly understand your characters—no matter what their background or life experiences. She'll show you how to: • Develop a psychological profile for every character • Turn archetypes into conflicted characters • Think like a criminal to convincingly write one • Reveal personalities through the use of nonverbal communication In addition, you'll learn how to effectively use Ballon's "Method Writing" system—taught previously only in her writing workshops—to explore your own feelings, memories, and emotions to create characters of astonishing depth and complexity!

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1599633701

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Breathing Life Into Your Characters

By: Rachel Ballon

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By: Rachel Ballon

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Blueprint for Screenwriting

A Complete Writer's Guide to Story Structure and Character Development

By: Rachel Ballon

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Blueprint for Screenwriting

A Complete Writer's Guide to Story Structure and Character Development

By: Rachel Ballon

Blueprint for Screenwriting demystifies the writing process by developing a "blueprint" for writers to follow for each new screenplay--from original concept to completed script. Author and international script consultant Dr. Rachel Ballon explores the writing craft and emphasizes creativity in the writing process. She blends her expertise in script analysis and writing coaching with her personal experience as a screenwriter to help writers construct their stories and characters. Starting with the story's framework, Dr. Ballon helps readers to understand the key "building blocks" of story structure and character development, including characters' emotional and psychological states, story conflicts, and scene and act structure. She also covers the essential components in the script writing process, such as outlines, script treatments, synopses, and formats. Dr. Ballon devotes a chapter to overcoming writer's block--the writer's greatest obstacle--and offers guidance for taking the next steps once a script is completed. A practical tool for any writer, this distinctive resource: *offers a blueprint for writers to follow, breaking the writing process down into specific, easy-to-follow steps; *stresses the psychology of the characters as well as that of the writer; and *offers first-hand knowledge of the screenwriting process and gives practical advice for completing and marketing scripts. With its unique and insightful approach to the writing process, this book will be indispensable for scriptwriters, fiction writers, and professional writers, and it will serve as a useful text in screenwriting courses.

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Routledge

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1135613842

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9781135613846

Translating the Visual

A Multimodal Perspective

By: Rachel Weissbrod,Ayelet Kohn

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Translating the Visual

A Multimodal Perspective

By: Rachel Weissbrod,Ayelet Kohn

This book offers insights into the translation and adaptation of illustrated texts in an era in which visual texts are perceived as a dominant perceptual frame for interpreting social and cultural phenomena. Using source texts including illustrated books, comics, graphic novels and animated films, the authors analyze their translations and adaptations to address the works as multimodal entities, in which even the replacement of one component affects the entire whole. Interviews with the artists - writers, illustrators and animators - will shed more light on the observations. This volume’s unique focus on the visual mode and the impact of its replacement on the multimodal whole is a topic that has not attracted as much attention as the translation of the verbal component, and will appeal to students and researchers of translation and adaptation, popular culture, media and communication, and children’s literature alike.

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Routledge

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1351694871

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Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman

Catalogue to an Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2003

By: Leonardo (da Vinci),Rachel Stern,Alison Manges,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman

Catalogue to an Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2003

By: Leonardo (da Vinci),Rachel Stern,Alison Manges,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

This handsome book offers a unified and fascinating portrait of Leonardo as draftsman, integrating his roles as artist, scientist, inventor, theorist, and teacher. 250 illustrations.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588390330

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9781588390332

Gender Discrimination in Football. Building a Toolbox Toward Gender Equity in the Beautiful Game

By: Raycraft, Rachel Davidson,Robinson, Rebecca,Zabel, Jolena

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Gender Discrimination in Football. Building a Toolbox Toward Gender Equity in the Beautiful Game

By: Raycraft, Rachel Davidson,Robinson, Rebecca,Zabel, Jolena

The importance of gender and gender-based categorizations cling to the world of sport like no other realm of culture or society in the twenty-first century. While presented as natural, logical, and innate, the differential treatment of men and women and boys and girls in the world of sport is largely the product of over a century of global socialization intent on preserving sport as a male-dominated pastime, lifestyle, and avenue of opportunity. As the most popular sport worldwide, football (or soccer) may be the poster child for lingering gender disparities in sport. Despite women’s presence on the pitch since the turn of the twentieth century, governments and football associations have proactively suppressed their ability to participate in the game through gender stereotypes, underinvestment, precarious professional opportunities, and disrespect. This report describes the various manifestations of gender-based discrimination that shape the game of football today, the role the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) plays in perpetuating this discrimination, and existing avenues for remedy (or lack thereof). The report concludes with key takeaways from the fight for gender equality to date, with an eye toward building a more just world of sport in the years to come.

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Djusticia

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9585597683

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9789585597686

Women, Power, and Property

The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India

By: Rachel E. Brulé

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Women, Power, and Property

The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India

By: Rachel E. Brulé

Cutting-edge research from India finds bargaining power predicts whether electoral quotas can empower women to upend economic inequality.

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395

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Cambridge University Press

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1108835821

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9781108835824

Meet Lionel Messi!

By: Rachel Daniels

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Meet Lionel Messi!

By: Rachel Daniels

Meet Lionel Messi. Messi is one of the most respected footballers in history. Do you know he met his wife when they were children? Learn more about this Argentinian born soccer legend and read about many other popular stars in the Easy Star Biographies series.

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EZ Readers

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1545758913

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What Regency Women Did for Us

By: Rachel Knowles

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What Regency Women Did for Us

By: Rachel Knowles

Profiles of twelve trailblazing Regency Era women—from Jane Austen to Madame Tussaud—who took charge of their destinies and changed the world. In the nineteenth century, women faced challenges and constraints that many of us would find shocking by today’s standards. What Regency Women Did for Us tells the inspirational stories of twelve women who overcame entrenched institutional obstacles to achieve trailblazing success—women such as the German astronomer Caroline Herschel, who discovered a comet that bears her name; the French artist Marie Tussaud whose wax sculptures made her world famous; the great author Jane Austen whose novels continue to delight generations of readers. These women were pioneers, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, authors, scientists, and actresses—women who made an impact on their world and ours. Popular history blogger Rachel Knowles tells how each of these women challenged the limitations of their time and left an enduring legacy for future generations to follow. Two hundred years later, their stories remain powerful inspirations for us all. “Rachel’s fine book looks at how the women of Britain emerged from the shadows of their husbands during the Regency period, inspiring female writers, scientists, etc. to take hold of their own destinies and start to have an influence on the world. Brilliant.” —Books Monthly

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Grub Street Publishers

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1473882265

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9781473882263

Maps of the United Kingdom

By: Rachel Dixon,Ms. Livi Gosling

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Maps of the United Kingdom

By: Rachel Dixon,Ms. Livi Gosling

Take a tour of the United Kingdom as you’ve never seen it before in this fully illustrated set of county maps. Travel through England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and meet the incredible people born there, learn about its proud history, and discover ancient castles, modern feats of engineering and natural highlights while you revel in the nation’s curiosities, from the spectacular, to the quirky, to the downright strange! A fabulous introduction to Shakespeare’s Sceptre Isle, for readers young and old.

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Wide Eyed Editions

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178603025X

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Frankétienne and Rewriting

A Work in Progress

By: Rachel Douglas

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Frankétienne and Rewriting

A Work in Progress

By: Rachel Douglas

Rewriting' in the context of critical work on Caribbean literature has tended to be used to discuss revisionism from a variety of postcolonial perspectives, such as 'rewriting history' or 'rewriting canonical texts.' By shifting the focus to how Caribbean writers return to their own works in order to rework them, this book offers theoretical considerations to postcolonial studies on 'literariness' in relation to the near-obsessive degree of rewriting to which Caribbean writers have subjected their own literary texts. Focusing specifically on FrankZtienne, this book offers an overview of how the defining aesthetic and thematic components of FrankZtienne's major works have emerged over the course of his forty-year writing career. It reveals the marked development of key notions guiding his literary creation since the 1960s, and demonstrates that rewriting illustrates the central aesthetic of the Spiral which has always shaped his Iuvre. It is, the book argues, the constantly moving form of the Spiral which FrankZtienne explores through his constant reworking of his previously written texts. FrankZtienne and Rewriting negotiates between the literary and material ends of the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies, arguing that literary characteristics in FrankZtienne connect with changing political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances in the Haiti he rewrites.

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Lexington Books

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0739136356

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9780739136355

Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire

By: Rachel Stone

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Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire

By: Rachel Stone

What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between Christian moral ideals and social realities, and between religious reformers and the lay political elite they addressed. It uses the numerous texts addressed to a lay audience (including lay mirrors, secular poetry, political polemic, historical writings and legislation) to examine how biblical and patristic moral ideas were reshaped to become compatible with the realities of noble life in the Carolingian empire. This innovative analysis of Carolingian moral norms demonstrates how gender interacted with political and religious thought to create a distinctive Frankish elite culture, presenting a new picture of early medieval masculinity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139503030

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9781139503037

Provence and the Côte D'Azur

The Rough Guide

By: Kate Baillie,Danny Aeberhard,Rachel Kaberry

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Provence and the Côte D'Azur

The Rough Guide

By: Kate Baillie,Danny Aeberhard,Rachel Kaberry

The Rough Guide to Provence and the Cote D'Azuris the most comprehensive handbook you can buy to this stunning part of France. Features include: •Full-coloursection introducing the area's highlights. •Detailedcoverage of every attraction, from the bustling Vieux Port of Marseille to the remote mountains of Haute-Provence. •Discerningreviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, for all budgets. •Informedbackground on local history, books and festivals. •Practicaladvice on exploring the offshore islands and the wild coastal stretches. •Maps and plansfor every area.

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460

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1858284201

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9781858284200

The Rough Guide to Paris

By: Kate Baillie,Tim Salmon,Rachel Kaberry

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The Rough Guide to Paris

By: Kate Baillie,Tim Salmon,Rachel Kaberry

Paris is perpetually full of possibilities, and this "Rough Guide" clues travelers in on the very best of these--from tourist hot spots to the more offbeat and obscure, this guide covers it all. in color.

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1858286816

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Blueprint for Screenwriting

A Complete Writer's Guide to Story Structure and Character Development

By: Rachel Ballon

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Blueprint for Screenwriting

A Complete Writer's Guide to Story Structure and Character Development

By: Rachel Ballon

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Routledge

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1135613842

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Blueprint for Screenwriting

A Complete Writer's Guide to Story Structure and Character Development

By: Rachel Friedman Ballon

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Blueprint for Screenwriting

A Complete Writer's Guide to Story Structure and Character Development

By: Rachel Friedman Ballon

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Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated

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080584922X

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9780805849226

Lost Woods

The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

By: Rachel Carson

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Lost Woods

The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

By: Rachel Carson

When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.

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Beacon Press

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0807085472

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