09.08.2024

“TEAM for Actors: A Holistic Approach to Embodied Acting” by Laura Bond

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"Have you struggled with an acting role, realizing you were "not quite there yet" but not knowing what was missing? Have you felt challenged, not sure how to portray a character's needs and actions? TEAM for Actors gives you reliable tools for successful acting and helps resolve a common gap between the mind and body so you can create a dynamic, holistic performance. Based on Laura Bond's twenty years of teaching acting and somatic emotion-regulation techniques, TEAM for Actors provides tangible methods for integrating the thoughts, emotions, and actions of expressive behavior into acting. The book incorporates scientific research, traditional acting approaches, and aspects of the Alba Emoting technique, a reliable method for embodying...>>

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09.08.2024

“Semantic Satiation: What Happens when You Repeat A Word Over and Over Again” by Leon James

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"The author Leon James originally coined the expression "semantic satiation" in his Ph.D. Dissertation at McGill University in 1962. He then published two dozen articles in psychology journals reporting on his findings of what happens when you repeat a word over and over again. In the intervening 56 years since then, semantic satiation has been a research topic in cognitive psychology, advertising, aesthetics, and semantics. In the past ten years the idea of semantic satiation has intrigued many people and has entered the popular discussions in the form of music, videos, chat room discussions, dance, and art. Because of this continued interest in semantic satiation on the part of academic researchers and the popular culture,...>>

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09.08.2024

“The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance” by Laura Tempest Zakroff

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"Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches, as it was collected by Charles Godfrey Leland, brings us a folkloric mixture of myth, poetry, and magical instructions. Wrapped within those pages is the truth that Witchcraft is a revolutionary practice — a means for fighting against social injustices, shifting the balance of power, freeing people from oppression, breaking down political and financial systems that work against the people and nature itself. Witchcraft has long been the tool of the disenfranchised and the marginal. Calling oneself a Witch is in itself an act of defiance, a statement of going against the grain and the status quo of society. Right now, Witchcraft is experiencing another revival that’s...>>

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08.08.2024

“Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy” by Richard Blakemore

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire. The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined by one historical moment: the period from the 1660s to the 1730s, the so-called "golden age of piracy". A groundbreaking history of pirates, Enemies of All combines narrative adventure with deeply researched analysis, engrossing readers in the rise of piracy in the later seventeenth century, the debates about piracy in contemporary law and popular media, as well as...>>

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08.08.2024

“Magic at the Crossroads: The Devil in Modern Witchcraft” by Kate Freuler

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Explore the Forbidden Path of the Ultimate Rebel When you separate the religious dogma from the symbolic nature of the devil, who really is he? Kate Freuler presents the infamous figure as a symbol, not a deity, and reveals how to use this radical philosophy to strengthen yourself and your witchcraft. The devil represents rebelling against all-powerful, oppressive systems of any kind. Through historical references, religious writings, and pop culture, this book explores the intersection between witchcraft and the rebel archetype. Freuler dispels common myths, providing examples from a variety of texts and personal stories about her own connection to this misunderstood symbol. She also shares a variety of hands-on rituals you can use for...>>

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