This book bridges eastern and western perspectives on the body to formulate a movement approach to performance that could be the basis for a Stanislavski based acting class or a performance class that is some combination of actors, dancers and performance artists. The exercises are concise, clear and guide the reader through increasinly levels of self-awareness and application of this knowledge to performance.

This book is great. The concept of feel, fuse and follow integrated me with my body in ways I never thought possible.

This book was a revelation to me in integrating my physical life with my imagination. The easy to follow explorations guided me from an understanding of my body to new ways of moving and working with a script. I found its focus on breathing and imagery expanded my ability to create a character.

I already play very well, and bought this for someone else, but I was amazed at how easily this book builds up thru the steps. I wish this book was available when I was learning!!!!!

One of the best guitar tuition books Ive come across. Simple and effective text with some wonderful and interesting music pieces - simply wonderful - and it looks good too.

the best tuition manual for electric guitar i have seen in age

Our oral history of the tales of "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" have certainly changed! This is an excellent source for anyone hoping to find the roots of the fairy tales which we all know and love today. Perrault's prose is surprisingly terse, which may grate with the modern conception of these tales, but he also holds nothing back. Thankfully, Philip and Simborowski include all of his tales, even the dark and disturbing "Donkeyskin," which has been left out of most translations. I have used this book as pleasure reading, but it really shines when I pull it off the shelf for serious essays and presentations. Philip and Simborowski provide helpful anecdotes on Perrault's life and the stories themselves, rounding out a work as complete as Perrault's original.

This is a lovely book with beautiful illustrations of Perrault's classic fairytales. At the end of the book Philip spends at least a page briefly discussing each fairy tale and it's history. If you want more in depth criticism of fairytales, check out his text on Cinderella or works by Zipes or Warner. If you want a beautiful book of fairy tales, this is great.

I bought this for my 3 year old not really knowing what to expect. When it arrived my daughter wanted to open it immediately and read it. She loved the beautiful pictures. I loved the simple words. A great introduction to Jewish traditions, thoughts and prayer that you can build on at home.

This book is one of the best I've ordered so far. The writing is in large bold print and there are only a few sentances per page, so it holds a toddler's attention. There is a great message and the illustrations are adorable. Great children's book!

I am only half way through "Stomping Out The Darkness" and I already am compelled to tell others about this book. If you are at all interested in buying this amazing book, do it. You will not regret it. You might never realize the amazing gift you have been given when Jesus died on the cross for your sins. I have no words to describe this book except a miracle. Dave Park and Neil are amazing men. If you are not at peace in your life, you can change it. This book shows you how. God Bless You

Stomping out the darkness is one of the most influential booksI have ever read. It not only teaches you the basics on your identityin Christ, which so many Christians miss out on, but it also shows you pratical applications for them. Please, if you buy any book this year, BUY THIS ONE. It will change your perspective and your life.

I am teaching Physical Science, an intro to science freshman course, at a high school in NH. I asked my students to find some information on who discovered the parts of the atom for homework. Most of my students didn't have much success with the internet, their science text book, or other text books. However, one of my students brought in this book. It had a full page on the information that I was looking for, plus other references on other aspects of the atom. The atom wasn't the only topic that I was impressed with. In general it contains an excellent, basic description of most fundamentals of science. For a teacher that is trying to find new ways of presenting information, it is truely a find. It is also a great companion for the student that might have a little trouble in the sciences. There are wonderful, full-color illustrations to accompany simple, yet well written and content filled text. In short, I was very impressed with this book. Not to mention the author was also involved in another of my favorite books "The Way Things Work". If I could require this book for my students, and reccommend it to all science teachers, I would.

Rabbi Orkand, and his wife, Joyce, an elementary school teacher, write on a level that will be enjoyed, and understood by children. Generations should share this book.

The songs in this book are dated from 1966 to 1976, though the book didn't appear until 1978. Neil Young has a long history in music, and it has been easy for other performers to pick up and do songs that have been scored as this book has, with a separate treble staff for the vocal parts, and chord charts for guitar chords throughout. A footnote at the beginning of "The Loner" explains how to make the guitar different, "Tune first and sixth strings to D (D A D G B D)" (p. 29) to play the chords in that song. This is not the same as "Sugar Mountain," "Tune all strings down one whole step to a D-based tuning." (p. 21).

I had an early video of his "Rust Never Sleeps" concert, in which Neil Young sat down by himself at a piano and played, note for note, the song "After the Gold Rush" as it appears on pages 54-57 of this book. The last page is mainly devoted to singing the line, "Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun" twice, after "All in a dream, all in a dream the loading had begun." I realized that it would take a lot of preparation to get that far, but the time which I devoted to reaching that destination was some of the most worthwhile musical efforts that I have ever attempted.

There are 35 songs in NEIL YOUNG ~ DECADE. Fans of particular concerts, like WELD, might consider most of these songs very early in Neil Young's career. The book is copyright 1978, Weld didn't come along until 1991, and only includes "Cinnamon Girl," "Cortez the Killer," "Like a Hurricane," and "Tonight's the Night": only four of the 35 songs in this book. Fans of Buffalo Springfield might appreciate "Expecting To Fly," and people who sing harmony might see if matching the notes in the book is easier than trying to pick parts off the recorded version. The piano introduction for the song "Cinnamon Girl" has the kind of bass line that I find most interesting in the written music, jumping around slightly before it becomes the melody, and a vocal harmony is also provided. This book helped me learn how much is going on in music besides the melody. The complications for the song "Southern Man" take pages 58-61, while "Helpless" fits on pages 62-63 fine. I have a tendency to like songs called "I Believe in You," and the song on pages 64-66 asks the question like he is really worried about "Am I lying to you when I say that I believe in you?" "Oh, oh" coincides with "la la la la" after that.

Then we get "Heart of Gold" on pages 71-73, "Ohio" on pages 74-75, "Old Man" on pages 78-81, "Harvest" on pages 90-94, "The Needle and the Damage Done" on pages 96-99, and I already mentioned some of the more recent numbers. The last song in the book is "Long May You Run" from 1976, suggested for Bright Country Style. You might have heard a few of the other songs in the book, but these are the ones I think you ought to play, if you want to learn something. I hope you can play them better than I can.

I'll lay my cards on the table, I am what is commonly called a Neil Young obsessive so I wouldve been driven to buy the book whatever it was like. So no surprise I have a library full of, how shall I put this politely, mouse food. When I bought Sylvie Simmons' book on Neil Young I was a bit disappointed on first viewing to see that it wasn't very long - I've always loved her writing in MOJO magazine, especially of course when she's written about Neil Young, so I would have loved something the length of the Jimmy McDounough book (which I also bought). But do you know what? She packed more information and real insight into that short space than McDounough did into his huge tome (and actually I liked that too). So I'd say to any Neil Young fan, check Miss Simmons' book out, you won't be disappointed

OK, so Distant Soil has one of the basic principles of sci-fi: People from another planet take over the earth, someone has to stop them. One of the great things about this graphic novel, however is the unique blend of physic powers, realism and the traditional space odyssey along with a colorful cast. The plot in the 1st book isn't really 5 stars, but of course the characters are just being introduced as their circumstances, but DS1 serves as a necessary component in the long run. If you buy this for anything buy it for the artwork. Though in black and white, Colleen Doran is one of the best illustrators I have ever laid eyes upon, her artwork so intricately detailed you feel these people are real. (Watch out it was published in the 80s: mullets and short shorts for men.) Even the dreamy sequences that take up a full page are remiiscent of Japanese manga. But don't listen to my stupid rambling, buy it for yourself and decide!

This book has been around ahwile as the artist/author began work on it while still a high school girl. This only makes the depth of characterization in the story and drawing skill displayed here even more remarkable! "A Distant Soil" tells the tale of a fifteen year old girl, Liana, (strongly resembling the author herself) who inherits an amazing power, the power of the Avatar, able to draw on the collective psionic force of all the people of her father's (Aeren's) homeworld. Having fled to Earth as an exile many years before and leaving two half human children hidden there, children who are exploited for their psychic abilities, it turns out that he was a rebel who was helping the current Avatar overthrow the ... government of his world. Now that Liana has grown to be an Avatar herself, she is a danger to her own people and is under an assasination order. How Doran manages to fit Arthurian legend and everything else but the kitchen sink into this tale (now in three volumes--and I am waiting with bated breath for the fourth) is a long story you had better read yourself...just make sure you do read it. I can't recommend it enough! Later volumes get even better!

As an avid manga fan, I picked this series up reluctantly. The art, while *good*, did not qualify as beautiful to me; the 80s clothes looked ugly, the characters introduced too quickly... However, after reading it... I love the dialogue, I love the characters, I enjoy the set-up and plot very much. Colleen combines a bit of everything, and it comes out on top... the dialogue is great, I laughed outloud at points, which anyone who is honest will have to admit does not happen often. If you like fantasy, epic scope, psychics, Arthurian legend, smart-mouthed punks, adorable gay couples, bizarre clothing, aliens, death, love, and heavy doses of humor, give this series a try!