This bestselling book by one of the world's foremost voice & acting coaches is a classic in its field Practical passionate & inspiring it teaches how to use the voice fully & expressively without fear & in any situation Patsy Rodenburg has trained thousands of actors singers lawyers politicians business people teachers & students her book distills that knowledge & experience so that everyone can enjoy the right to speak This second edition contains new revisions & additional content taking into account the effect of social media on communication skills the need for empathetic listening how scientific discovery now illuminates why & how voice exercises work & cultural & global issues of ethics & storytelling ...

' We should write because it is human nature to write' Julia Cameron For those jumping into the writing life for the first time & for those already living it the art of writing will never be the same after reading this book Provocative thoughtful & exciting The Right to Write will draw you back again & again as you seek to liberate & cultivate the writer residing within you This isn't a book of rules which can stifle creativity
- it's a book about using writing to bring clarity & passion to the act of living The secret is in breaking loose from the grip of your established thought process to unleash the wave of creativity which is striving to express itself With the techniques & illustrative stories in The Right to Write you'll learn how to make writing a natural & intensely personal part of your life You'll also discover the details of Cameron's own writing processes the ones she uses to create her poetry plays essays novels & bestselling books including the world famous The Artist's Way
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In 2009 Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975 when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker & naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide In the years that followed Demjanjuk was twice stripped of his American citizenship & sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as " Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka--only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history Finally in 2011 after eighteen months of trial a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28060 Jews at Sobibor a death camp in eastern Poland An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuk's bizarre case The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention & a vital meditation on the law's effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history ...

In The Righteous Mind psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' & 'freedom' mean such different things to different people? Why is it so hard to see things from another viewpoint? Why do we come to blows over politics & religion? Jonathan Haidt reveals that we often find it hard to get along because our minds are hardwired to be moralistic judgemental & self-righteous He explores how morality evolved to enable us to form communities & how moral values are not just about justice & equality
- for some people authority sanctity or loyalty matter more Morality binds & blinds but using his own research Haidt proves it is possible to liberate ourselves from the disputes that divide good people'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times'A truly seminal book' David Goodhart Prospect'A tour de force
- brave brilliant & eloquent It will challenge the way you think about liberals & conservatives atheism & religion good & evil' Paul Bloom author of How Pleasure Works ' Compelling a fluid combination of erudition & entertainment' Ian Birrell Observer' Lucid & thought-provoking deserves to be widely read' Jenni Russell Sunday Times Jonathan Haidt is a social & cultural psychologist He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1995 & is currently a visiting professor of business ethics at New York University's Stern School of Business He is the co-editor of Flourishing Positive Psychology & the Life Well Lived & is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

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Though an Englishman by birth he reacted violently against the political order of eighteenth-century England & in favour of radical reform RIGHTS OF MAN & COMMON SENSE are the two short books in which he elaborates his political & social theories in vivid simple prose which can still be read with pleasure & excitement today 360 pages Paine Thomas ...

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner one of the best-known & best-loved poems in the English language a grizzled old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding & tells a terrifying story He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an albatross awakened the wrath of ocean spirits met Death himself & must now walk the earth for ever & share his tragic tale of sin guilt &
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- redemption This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's longest major poem features illustrations by Gustave Dore the most remarkable wood engraver of the nineteenth century & an introduction by writer & journalist Ned Halley Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER & ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship & published for the first time in 1798 It is the story of a nightmare voyage to the South Pole told by the sole survivor the bright-eyed ancient mariner whose wanton killing of an albatross a bird of good omen brought misfortune on the ship & all its crew The poem is brilliantly illustrated by Mervyn Peake His powerful arresting images perfectly express the qualities of the text its gothic atmosphere & supernatural terrors ultimately softened by pity & the hope of redemption ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it ...

JACK FLETCHER IS ON THE RUNWith no sensei to guide him he has just his wits & his swords against many new & unknown enemies as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki & perhaps home But the Shogun's samurai are hot on his trail Barely escaping their clutches Jack runs headlong into a trap Kidnapped by ninja & led to their village deep in the mountains Jack has no means of escape The only question is who will kill him first
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JACK FLETCHER FACES HIS TOUGHEST CHALLENGE YETAfter a snowstorm forces him to take shelter Jack comes across a village in need of protection from raiding mountain bandits Torn between moving on or helping Jack is persuaded to stay & fight the villagers' cause But Jack is the first & only samurai to do so Now he must enlist other warriors to the villagers' aid before the bandits return to steal their harvest No easy task when the reward is so little & he is a foreigner If only he had his friends to call on Using the Ring of Fire can Jack overpower the bandits & win? ...