Yoshi Oida is completely unique A Japanese actor & director who has worked mainly in the West as a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris he blends the oriental tradition of supreme & studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise & expose depths of emotion In this practical & captivating study of the actor's art written with Lorna Marshall Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method & becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry the wonder of performance dies The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance Throughout Lorna Marshall provides a running commentary on Yoshi Oida's work & methods which help you understand the achievement of this singular theatrical artist ...

A little girl who desperately wants a dog introduces an imaginary Great Dane called Henry into her home Her wish comes true when she is allowed a real Henry Was old Mrs Garrow with her cackling laugh & black cat responsible for her wish coming true? From the number one author for animal magic comes a wonderful new edition of this much loved classic ...

If a gorilla walked out into the middle of a basketball pitch you'd notice it Wouldn't you? If a serious violent crime took place just next to you you'd remember it right? The Invisible Gorilla is a fascinating look at the unbelievable yet routine tricks that your brain plays on you In an award-winning & groundbreaking study psychologists Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons asked volunteers to watch a 60-second film of a group of students playing basketball & told them to count the number of passes made About halfway through a woman dressed head to toe in a gorilla outfit slowly moved to centre screen beat her chest at the camera & casually strolled away Unbelievably almost half of the volunteers missed the gorilla As this astonishing & utterly unique new book demonstrates exactly the same kind of mental illusion that causes people to miss the gorilla can also explain why many other things including why honest eyewitness testimony can convict innocent defendants expert money managers suddenly lose billions Homer Simpson has much to teach you about clear thinking Insightful witty & fascinating The Invisible Gorilla closely examines the false impressions that most profoundly influence our lives & gives practical advice on how we can minimize their negative impact ...

The first in a gripping adventurous series The Invisible Library is the astounding debut from Genevieve Cogman Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case
- permanently Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library which harvests fiction from different realities & along with her enigmatic assistant Kai she's posted to an alternative London Their mission
- to retrieve a dangerous book But when they arrive it's already been stolen London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book Adding to the jeopardy this world is chaos-infested
- the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures & unpredictable magic Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own Soon she's up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger clues & secret societies Yet failure is not an option
- the nature of reality itself is at stake The Invisible Library is followed by the second title in The Invisible Library series The Masked City



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Euridice is young bright & ambitious A talented musician she dreams only of fame & fortune But this is Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s & the one thing society expects of its women to be loving wives & mothers So when her rebellious sister Guida elopes breaking her parents' hearts Euridice sacrifices her own aspirations to marry conventional Antenor spending her days ironing his shirts & removing the lumps of onion from his food As his professional success grows so does her feeling of restlessness Throwing convention to the wind the irrepressible Euridice dreams up an array of creative ventures to escape her humdrum family life to the distress of her tradition-loving husband & then one day the free-spirited Guida suddenly reappears & together the two sisters set about forging their own paths in life With a cast of unforgettable characters The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao is a darkly comic novel from one of the most exciting new voices in world literature ...

A scientist attempts to gain the secret of invisibility While doing so he becomes invisible The government procure his services & he conducts spy missions & solves crimes ...

' The man's become inhuman He has cut himself off from his kind His blood be upon his own head' One night in the depths of winter a bizarre & sinister stranger wrapped in bandages & eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village His peculiar secretive activities in the room he rents spook the locals Speculation about his identity becomes horror & disbelief when the villagers discover that beneath his disguise he is invisible Griffin as the man is called is an embittered scientist who is determined to exploit his extraordinary gifts developed in the course of brutal self-experimentation in order to conduct a Reign of Terror on the sleepy inhabitants of England As the police close in on him he becomes ever more desperate & violent In this pioneering novella subtitled 'A Grotesque Romance' Wells combines comedy both farcical & satirical & tragedy
- to superbly unsettling effect Since its publication in 1897 The Invisible Man has haunted not only popular culture (in particular cinema) but also the greatest & most experimental novels of the twentieth century
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The Invisible Man tells the remarkable story of how Rod Temperton worked his way up from a Grimsby fish factory to become one of the most successful songwriters of all time Born in Cleethorpes in 1949 Temperton embarked on a career in music with the funk band Heatwave for whom he wrote the international hits Boogie Nights' & Always & Forever' before his songwriting talent caught the attention of Michael Jackson's legendary producer Quincy Jones For Jackson's Off the Wall album Temperton penned both the hit Rock with You' & the album's title track Three years later continuing his relationship with the pair Temperton started work on what would become the bestselling album of all time
- Michael Jackson's Thriller
- writing three songs including the now legendary title track & yet despite collaborating with some of music's biggest stars including Donna Summer & Michael Mc Donald Temperton was famously reclusive & seldom gave interviews one of the exceptions being for author Jed Pitman's Sony Award-winning radio documentary on Temperton allowed him unprecedented access to the great man

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With an Introduction & Notes by Linda Dryden Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University & the author of Joseph Conrad & H G Wells The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside & mayhem ensues; in the sleepy county of Kent a miracle food brings biological chaos that engulfs & threatens the entire planet H G Wells's fertile & mercurial imagination never brought us more bizarre & unsettling stories than those revealed in The Invisible Man (1897) & The Food of the Gods & How It Came to Earth (1904) These are stories of extraordinary physical transformations & are at once extremely funny & richly imaginative At the same time Wells poses some very probing questions about the ethical

Dimensions to science & the human capacity for both pity & cruelty Brought together for the first time in this new Wordsworth edition The Invisible Man & The Food of the Gods are two of Wells's most entertaining & thought-provoking works

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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Claude Rains delivers an unforgettable performance in his screen debut as a mysterious doctor who discovers a serum that makes him invisible Covered by bandages & dark glasses Rains arrives in a small English village & attempts to hide his amazing discovery but the drug&s side effects slowly drive him to commit acts of unspeakable terror Actors Claude Rains & Gloria Stuart Director James Whale Certificate 12 years & over Year 1933 Languages English ...