Discovering the clown, or the funny book of good acting

A must-have guide for actors both young and old.

Avant canada

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and supporting creative works on a representative array of Canadian, literary avant-garde movements from the past 50 years. Featuring 28 of the best writers and critics in the field, it offers an essential overview of the past, present, a...

Midday at the super-kamiokande

Midday at the Super-Kamiokande is part existentialist cry, part close encounters of the other kind. Think Kierkegaard in a spacesuit, Kubrik in a Left Bank café.

My life in heavy metal

Learn to draw manga women

Learn to create detailed female characters to include in your own comic strip or graphic novel!Professional manga and anime artist Kyachi offers aspiring artists an easy-to-follow approach to drawing manga women. For beginners, it can be intimidating to know where to start when drawing the human ...

You deserve nothing

Set in Paris, at an international high school catering to the sons and daughters of wealthy families, You Deserve Nothing is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality. William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his co...

Seven more languages in seven weeks

Manson in his own words

“Compulsively readable . . . Manson can’t ever succeed in being paroled out of that cell, not as long as people with any sense at all can read this book.”—William S. Burroughs

Listening in the classroom: teaching students how to listen

Listening is the skill learners use the most, but language educators often receive the least preparation to teach this skill. Teaching listening means more than just giving students listening activities and checking for understanding—it means teaching them how to listen. Listening in the Classroo...

The blind owl

Seeing red

A visceral, moving, haunting English-language debut on illness, the body, and human relationships by one of Chile's brightest young authors

Jewish peoplehood

At a time when Jewish communities have become increasingly anxious about weakening Jewish identity, one response strategy is to engage with the concept of Jewish peoplehood as a social phenomenon, in its varied contexts and processes. This volume represents the first in-depth effort to address th...

To the elephant graveyard

On India's northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam's paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India's last licensed elephant hunters and issue a warrant for the rogue's destruction. Readi...

The sound

“Mason is a poet of admirable restraint, of multifaceted and sometimes riotous feeling made more poignant by being held firmly in check.”—RORY WATERMAN, Times Literary Supplement

He brought her heart back in a box and other plays

"One of the American theater’s greatest and least compromising experimentalists…Her dramas are sites of living history, where personal stories of racism’s unhealed wounds mingle with dark tales thieved from the Brothers Grimm and 1940s Hollywood." —Alexis Soloski, New York Times In the titular p...

Rails 5 test prescriptions

Crosslight for young bird

An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crises

Elt power-ups

This book is a powerful resource designed for busy teachers who want to immediately improve their English language teaching practice. ELT Power-Ups: Just-in-Time Professional Learning for Teachers of Multilingual Learners of English is your practical guidebook designed to provide K–12 educators ...

Agile coaching

Crafting rails 4 applications

We will not cancel us

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. “Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous "Harper’s Letter,” signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle ...

Forge your future with open source

The house at belle fontaine

“Tuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story.”—Stephan Lee, Entertainment WeeklyLily Tuck’s The House at Belle Fontaine brings together ten of the award-winning author’s most exquisitely-wrought and captivating stories. These intimate tales traverse time and cont...

Canada's jews

Canada is home to one of the world’s largest and most culturally creative Jewish communities, one of the few in the Diaspora that continues to grow demographically. With its ability to mirror trends found in Jewish communities elsewhere (particularly the United States) while simultaneously functi...

Under nushagak bluff

Against the backdrop of the rising commercial fishing industry in an Alaska Native village, Under Nushagak Bluff is a powerful mid-century tale of women, love, loss, resilience, and the unexpected strength found in storytelling.

Kibbutz: utopia and politics

This biography of Meir Yaari, the leader of Hashomer Hatza’ir and its Kibbutz movement, discusses pivotal issues in the history of the Jewish people and the State of Israel, such as the friction between Zionism and socialism, the Arab question, Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, the absorpti...

The englishman from lebedian

After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia’s northern capital for nearly twenty years. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, his writings have gradu...

Behind closed doors

Seven databases in seven weeks

Jewish ludmir

This volume is a brief history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr-Volynsky, going back to its first historical mentions. It explores Jewish settlement in the city, the kahal, and the role of the community in the Va’ad Arba Aratsot, and profiles several important historical figures, including Sh...

Red channel in the rupture

The poems in Red Channel in the Rupture confront the animal of loss and death, offering readers an aperture through which to absolve what has tried to kill our very souls.

The heart of the goddess

Sacred cross-cultural images of the Goddess combined with myth and meditations are the perfect empowerment tool for all generations in this #MeToo Moment.

Nine things successful people do differently

It's not just who you are—it's what you do.Are you at the top of your game—or still trying to get there?Take your cues from the short, powerful 9 Things Successful People Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world’s most successful people are on display—backed by research that sh...

Soviet jews in world war ii

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945 was known in the Soviet Union. The essays included here examine both newly-discovered and previou...

Task-based language teaching

Why are so many teachers around the world moving toward adopting task-based language teaching? This teacher-friendly guide to understanding and implementing task-based language teaching (TBLT) provides a brief and clear introduction to the key elements of TBLT and highlights practical guidelines...

House divided

A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live.

Acqua alta

"Smuggling, sexual betrayal, high-class fakery and, of course, mafia money make for a rich brew."—The Sunday Times (UK)In “every fan’s first-pick Brunetti novel” (The New Yorker), the brutal beating of a renowned art historian draws the Venetian detective into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta—t...

The outlaw

The dark final volume in former Reykjavík mayor's childhood memoir-trilogy delves into the brutal, relentless despair of his late teens

Storming heaven

Teaching pride forward

Teaching Pride Forward takes queer theory, activism, and practice in new directions. Allyship is complex and multifaceted. How can you, as an ally in the English language teaching field, work effectively and productively on behalf of your LGBTQ+ students and colleagues? How can you be thoughtful...

Raspberry pi

Tea by the sea

From Brooklyn to the island of Jamaica, Tea by the Sea traces a mother’s circuitous route to find the daughter taken from her at birth.

A new sublime

Boitani’s presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. With their emphasis on the mutability and fl...

Saudi america

Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of fracking's impact -- on Wall Street, the economy and geopolitics.

In search of a better world

A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encounte...

Landmarks revisited

The Vekhi (Landmarks) symposium (1909) is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia in the period of crisis that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution. It was published a...

Blooming spaces

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central vehicle for her modernist experiments in poetry and prose. This ground-breaking collection presents the work of the key yet unrecognized figure in the co...

Residue

Ring around the maple

A sociocultural history of children and childhood in Canada from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. It approaches these subjects both thematically and chronologically, with attention to the ways in which world historic events—the Great War, the Depression, the Second World War, the ...

Modern japanese painting techniques

This book makes it easy to create and admire wonderful Japanese-style paintings and portraits!Modern Japanese-style paintings are recognizable by their restrained use of three-dimensionality and perspective, reliance upon expressive lines, and the bold use of color to direct the viewer's eye. The...