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The memoirs of dancer, producer and director Peter Wright, one of the foremost dance creators from the 1950s to today

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Poverty is not a state of nature, but, as Stepanek shows, can be ascribed to manmade institutions that reflect self-serving and self-indulgent ideologies, poorly tested theories and policies, weak governments, and poverty alleviation programs that are questionably designed and poorly administered.

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A collection of letters and recipes from more than 50 well-known and award-winning children's authors provide insights into their lives, advice to the children who wrote to them, and personal information. Each entry includes the student's letter to the author, the author's response, and a recipe from the author.

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Haven's breakthrough approach to creative writing uses storytelling techniques to enhance the creative writing process. This practical guide offers directions for 38 writing exercises that will show students how to create powerful and dynamic fiction.

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This study looks at how US media has framed issues surrounding euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Using examples drawn from mainstream news publications since the 1970s, Gailey (communication, U. of Tennessee, Chatanooga) shows how pro-euthanasia views have been advanced while pro-life persp

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This book provides teachers and students of literature with a resource that gives them guidance to the philosophical influences on literary criticism and literary figures.

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The breadth of authors covered ensures an historical context for the issues raised by multiculturalism, and the sections on the critical reception of each author address such important issues as the authority and authenticity of the writer to comment on a different culture.

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The diverse peoples, landscapes, and histories of Western North America come alive with these autobiographical excerpts, author profiles, and activities.

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Concentrating on the features and challenges of the short story, contributors from Amiri Baraka to Richard Ford and Jayne Anne Phillips to Janette Turner Hospital discuss their own writing, the writing of others, the short story form, gender, politics, and other issues concerning the writing of short fiction.

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Presents a collection of interviews with contemporary British novelists that offers an insight into the authors' views on contemporary fiction; their influences and themes; readers and critics; and, why they write and their writing process. This title provides a snapshot of the reality of living as a writer.

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Why do writers write How do they react to criticism of their work What inspires them and how do they work Does fiction have any political, ethical or spiritual significance Can we learn more about a book from its author This collection of interviews with British novelists offers an insight into bestselling authors' views on fiction.

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A biography of the well known play Master Class, as well as lessons in creative writing and how to get a play onto stage , this book fascinating insight into the playwright's craft.

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Written for the educated layperson who is interested and concerned about his/her own health care future and the health care future of loved ones, this book will also be a useful reference to the legal profession in determining legal options in health care issues.

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This book is a practical guide to the process of play-writing, from the original inspiration through plotting, structuring and characterisation to the successful realisation of the idea. This revised edition includes a new chapter covering stage realism.

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The first volume of the serial is dedicated to writing, merely for the reason that writing can still be considered in language education to be a skill to which little attention is paid, where as discourses on listening, reading, and especially speaking experienced major advances over the last two decades.

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The first volume of the serial is dedicated to writing, merely for the reason that writing can still be considered in language education to be a skill to which little attention is paid, where as discourses on listening, reading, and especially speaking experienced major advances over the last two decades.

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This annotated bibliography is the first to trace the history of the Writing Across the Curriculum Movement (WAC) and to assess the state of scholarship and pedagogy on the subject today.