Author: Ralph Henry Barbour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Football stories
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Secret Play
Author: Ralph Henry Barbour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Football stories
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Football stories
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Secret of Play
Author: Ann Pleshette Murphy
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9781405337892
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Secrets for raising healthy, creative and caring children from birth to 8 Help your child to be happier, healthier, more caring and creative by understanding and encouraging what they do best - play. Through play, children explore the world around them, develop an understanding of who they are, boost their brainpower, strengthen relationships and experience the healing power of a shared laugh. From a 1-year-old scribbling to an 8-year-old building models, find out about the value of play at each age and stage, drawing on the latest research on brain development, emotional growth and learning. You'll learn which ideas, toys and games are developmentally appropriate and pick up tips on playtime ideas, homemade fun and more. Follow it age-by-age, stage-by-stage and dip in and out as your child plays and develops. Essential for any parent.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9781405337892
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Secrets for raising healthy, creative and caring children from birth to 8 Help your child to be happier, healthier, more caring and creative by understanding and encouraging what they do best - play. Through play, children explore the world around them, develop an understanding of who they are, boost their brainpower, strengthen relationships and experience the healing power of a shared laugh. From a 1-year-old scribbling to an 8-year-old building models, find out about the value of play at each age and stage, drawing on the latest research on brain development, emotional growth and learning. You'll learn which ideas, toys and games are developmentally appropriate and pick up tips on playtime ideas, homemade fun and more. Follow it age-by-age, stage-by-stage and dip in and out as your child plays and develops. Essential for any parent.
Play Anything
Author: Ian Bogost
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096506
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096506
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.
The Secret Life of Plays
Author: Steve Waters
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848420007
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters. Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing - scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images - to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism. Almost uniquely amongst accounts of playwriting, Waters' book looks at the ways in which good plays move their audiences, generating powerful emotional responses that often defy conventional analysis. The Secret Life of Plays is for playwrights at any stage of their career, and will inspire and inform drama students as well as working actors and directors. Most of all it is for anyone who has ever laughed or cried in the theatre - and wants to know why. 'Theatre is a live medium, about bodies, sweat and feeling, even if it is informed by ideas and reason. How a thing composed of words manages to carry within it the currents of energy that generate that impression of life is what I want to explore...' Steve Waters 'Steve Waters' book is like his plays: clear, elegant and stimulating throughout' David Edgar
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848420007
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters. Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing - scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images - to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism. Almost uniquely amongst accounts of playwriting, Waters' book looks at the ways in which good plays move their audiences, generating powerful emotional responses that often defy conventional analysis. The Secret Life of Plays is for playwrights at any stage of their career, and will inspire and inform drama students as well as working actors and directors. Most of all it is for anyone who has ever laughed or cried in the theatre - and wants to know why. 'Theatre is a live medium, about bodies, sweat and feeling, even if it is informed by ideas and reason. How a thing composed of words manages to carry within it the currents of energy that generate that impression of life is what I want to explore...' Steve Waters 'Steve Waters' book is like his plays: clear, elegant and stimulating throughout' David Edgar
The Secret in the Wings
Author: Mary Zimmerman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810129876
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humor. The framing story concerns a child and the frightening babysitter with whom her parents leave her. As the babysitter reads from a book, the characters in each of the tales materialize, with each tale breaking off just at its bleakest moment before giving way to the next one. The central tale is told without interruption, after which each previous tale is successively resumed, with each looming disaster averted. As in Zimmerman’s other productions, here she uses costumes, props, sets, and lighting to brilliant effect, creating images and feelings that render the fairy tales in all their elemental and enduring power.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810129876
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humor. The framing story concerns a child and the frightening babysitter with whom her parents leave her. As the babysitter reads from a book, the characters in each of the tales materialize, with each tale breaking off just at its bleakest moment before giving way to the next one. The central tale is told without interruption, after which each previous tale is successively resumed, with each looming disaster averted. As in Zimmerman’s other productions, here she uses costumes, props, sets, and lighting to brilliant effect, creating images and feelings that render the fairy tales in all their elemental and enduring power.
The Secret Hen House Theatre
Author: Helen Peters
Publisher: Nosy Crow
ISBN: 0857630660
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Since the death of her mother, Hannah's family life has been somewhat chaotic. Her father is absorbed by running their dilapidated farm, and the four children are increasingly left to their own devices. These include "farming" each room of the house, looking after an enormous pet sheep called Jasper, and writing and directing plays in a disused hen house. But when the farm is threatened with demolition, Hannah determines to save it and realise her dreams at the same time... Shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize, this is a brilliant story of eccentric family life where the children's imaginations run as free as the farmyard animals. From the award-winning author of Evie's Ghost, Anna at War, The Farm Beneath the Water and the Jasmine Green series for younger readers, this is perfect for fans of Iva Ibbotson and Philippa Pearce.
Publisher: Nosy Crow
ISBN: 0857630660
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Since the death of her mother, Hannah's family life has been somewhat chaotic. Her father is absorbed by running their dilapidated farm, and the four children are increasingly left to their own devices. These include "farming" each room of the house, looking after an enormous pet sheep called Jasper, and writing and directing plays in a disused hen house. But when the farm is threatened with demolition, Hannah determines to save it and realise her dreams at the same time... Shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize, this is a brilliant story of eccentric family life where the children's imaginations run as free as the farmyard animals. From the award-winning author of Evie's Ghost, Anna at War, The Farm Beneath the Water and the Jasmine Green series for younger readers, this is perfect for fans of Iva Ibbotson and Philippa Pearce.
The Secret Garden
Author: Hodgson B.F.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521055061
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : ru
Pages : 237
Book Description
«Таинственный сад» – любимая классика для читателей всех возрастов, жемчужина творчества Фрэнсис Ходжсон Бернетт, роман о заново открытой радости жизни и магии силы. Мэри Леннокс, жестокое и испорченное дитя высшего света, потеряв родителей в Индии, возвращается в Англию, на воспитание к дяде-затворнику в его поместье. Однако дядя находится в постоянных отъездах, и Мэри начинает исследовать округу, в ходе чего делает много открытий, в том числе находит удивительный маленький сад, огороженный стеной, вход в который почему-то запрещен. Отыскав ключ и потайную дверцу, девочка попадает внутрь. Но чьи тайны хранит этот загадочный садик? И нужно ли знать то, что находится под запретом?.. Впрочем, это не единственный секрет в поместье...
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521055061
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : ru
Pages : 237
Book Description
«Таинственный сад» – любимая классика для читателей всех возрастов, жемчужина творчества Фрэнсис Ходжсон Бернетт, роман о заново открытой радости жизни и магии силы. Мэри Леннокс, жестокое и испорченное дитя высшего света, потеряв родителей в Индии, возвращается в Англию, на воспитание к дяде-затворнику в его поместье. Однако дядя находится в постоянных отъездах, и Мэри начинает исследовать округу, в ходе чего делает много открытий, в том числе находит удивительный маленький сад, огороженный стеной, вход в который почему-то запрещен. Отыскав ключ и потайную дверцу, девочка попадает внутрь. Но чьи тайны хранит этот загадочный садик? И нужно ли знать то, что находится под запретом?.. Впрочем, это не единственный секрет в поместье...
The Stanislavsky Secret
Author: Irina Levin
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9781566080798
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Everyone in theatre knows his name but only a few know Stanislavsky's last work. He died before writing any of his final discoveries for print. Only his colleagues and their pupils knew them. They are the ones, since 1938, who have been refining Stanislavsky's final ideas of modern theatre. Now, finally this book summarises these last concepts in an orderly text for teachers and students. In six comprehensive chapters the authors reveal Stanislavsky's method to help actors to transform themselves into believable and fascinating stage characters.
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9781566080798
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Everyone in theatre knows his name but only a few know Stanislavsky's last work. He died before writing any of his final discoveries for print. Only his colleagues and their pupils knew them. They are the ones, since 1938, who have been refining Stanislavsky's final ideas of modern theatre. Now, finally this book summarises these last concepts in an orderly text for teachers and students. In six comprehensive chapters the authors reveal Stanislavsky's method to help actors to transform themselves into believable and fascinating stage characters.
The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Burnett
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425050956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425050956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
The Bobbsey Twins and the Play House Secret
Author: Laura Lee Hope
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
ISBN: 9780448080185
Category : Mystery and detective stories.
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The toy the Bobbsey twins buy as a Valetine gift soon puts them on the trail of two men conducting a fraudulent antique business.
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
ISBN: 9780448080185
Category : Mystery and detective stories.
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The toy the Bobbsey twins buy as a Valetine gift soon puts them on the trail of two men conducting a fraudulent antique business.