The best allegory ever written now retold in easy-to-understand modern English, making it clearer and more forceful to the modern reader.

With more than 300,000 in print, this elegant retelling of John Bunyan's classic by James H. Thomas follows Christian as he leaves his home in the City of Destruction and begins a long journey to the Celestial City. His adventure is full of encounters with interesting people, such as Faithful, Hopeful, and Ignorance. Traveling through places such as Vanity Fair and the Valley of the Shadow of Death, he reaches his heavenly home and learns rich lessons during the journey. The story has immediate application for everyday life.

Later on, Christian's wife, Christiana, decides to join her husband in the Celestial City. As she travels, Christiana comes upon a different set of people, such as Greatheart, Mercy, and Honesty. Her story illustrates how Christians follow different paths but with the same destination: eternity with Jesus.

It has been more than thirty years since the term flash fiction was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories collected here speak to the diversity of the American experience and range from the experimental to the narrative, from the whimsical to the gritty. Featuring fiction from writers both established and new, including Aimee Bender, K-Ming Chang, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Bryan Washington, Robert Scotellaro, and Luis Alberto Urrea, Flash Fiction America is a brilliant collection, radiating creativity and bringing together some of the most compelling and exciting contemporary writers in the United States.

What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always--and everywhere--been a form of experiment, of possibility. A new entry in the lauded Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, this collection includes 86 of the most beautiful, provocative, and moving narratives by authors from six continents, including best-selling writer Etgar Keret, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah, Korean screenwriter Kim Young-ha, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Argentinian Queen of the Microstory Ana María Shua, among many others. These brilliantly chosen stories challenge readers to widen their vision and celebrate both the local and the universal.

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers, Seventh Edition, teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to evaluate its potentials for performance and production.

This new edition features new and revised content, including an analysis of two new plays, Kalidasa's Shakuntala and Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba; information for the theatre designer integrated in chapters throughout the book; and an expanded appendix on critical approaches to script analysis. Explorations of both classic and unconventional plays are combined with clear examples, end-of-chapter summaries, and stimulating questions that will allow actors, directors, and designers to immediately incorporate the concepts and processes into their theatre production work.

An excellent resource for students of acting, script analysis, directing, playwriting, and stage design courses, this book provides the tools to effectively bring a script to life on stage.

Modern loneliness and the absence of intimacy amongst London's millions are the ills suffered by the quirky yet deeply melancholic 30-something, Joseph Bogart.

Weighed down with emotional baggage and feeling lost amidst a mass of failed relationships, Joseph uses his sharp wit and tragicomedy to fight the hopelessness gnawing at him.

Through his trials, we discover if Joseph is able to find a successful way out of his life of 'quiet desperation'.

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At the dawn of a new era, a new age -- a new Babylon -- secret knowledge and wisdom of the greatest empire in history, originally guarded and hidden by the most progressive ruler of western civilization -- Nebuchadnezzar II -- now stands open to all, freshly recovered and translated from the deserts of Middle East... unearthed beyond time and space from ancient Mesopotamia The tablet collection known as the Sajaha Series first relayed to the public in 1991 is in the German language: Das Buch der Sajaha: Neunzehn Schriftsatze der Babylonianischer Sehek, would have appeared as The Book of Sajaha - Nineteen Writings of the Babylonian Seer-had it ever been produced in English. More recently Max Cold Champion& Aldo Espinosa released another edition in 2009, again in German, titled: Sajaha: Die Prophezeiungen fur ein Newes Zeitalter Babylon, Nebukadnezar und der Dritte Sargon. Sajaha: Prophecies of a New Age of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar and the Third Sargon.]The Mardukite edition of THE LOST BOOK OF SHAYAHA: SEER OF MARDUK (Liber S) marks a new phase in the Mardukite work-featuring the prophecies, visions and advisement of a great Babylonian seer -- Sajaha accounts of a future rise of New Babylon from her point of view. As you reflect upon the lines of this tablet series, the prophecies and visions most surely conjure vivid imagery to mind, not to mention what the intended audience for them would have been thinking-for they were once the private possession of the Babylonian king of Sajaha's time, King Nebuchadnezzar II, a supporter of a progressive fruitful and benevolent pro-Mardukite era of Babylonian Renaissance for nearly half of a century EDITION NOTE: Previously published as Sumerian Wisdom & Anunnaki Prophecies: The Book of Sajaha-the-Seer

All of the stories in this book are exceptionally short, revealing themselves in no more than 300 words. With a foreword by Robert Shapard and an afterword by Christopher Merrill, this book brings you fresh approaches to an exacting form that demands precision, a species of brevity that is surprisingly expansive. Writers say the pieces are hard to compose, but readers say they are easy to appreciate, a pleasure to envision, a wonder to watch life spun out and painted in small places. Real and surreal, lyrical and prosaic, here are 135 stories by 89 authors, certain to make you think.

SECOND EDITION UPDATED APRIL 2017. Sketch Engine is an online corpus resource used by students, teachers and language professionals in many parts of the world. The book, Discovering English with Sketch Engine, is intended primarily for students and teachers of English as a foreign language. As the reader undertakes hundreds of guided discovery tasks, many aspects of language and linguistics are taught and experienced. In the process, the reader acquires the practical skills of working with corpus software, and processing and interpreting the data that searches return. This book takes its readers on a voyage of guided discovery that ultimately equips them with the knowledge and skills to formulate, ask and solve language queries about morphology, vocabulary, grammar, discourse, pragmatics and stylistics. This is a skill for life.

There is an easy way to get out of boredom, depression, frustration, anger, stress, etc. negative feelings. Just do something creative and share it with friends and foe in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. avenues. You will get some appreciation and little bit of criticism, all negative energy around you will be replaced by creative positive energy. Here are 25 Doctor Who scenes to help you spread your creative wings. Color them as you like, then show it to your near and dear ones. They will most likely appreciate your creative art. It will de-stress you, you will forget about your worries and failures for few hours.

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers, Sixth Edition teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to evaluate its potentials for performance and production.

This new edition offers a more streamlined experience for the reader and features new and revised content, such as a fully updated chapter on postmodern drama, new sections on Associative Thinking and Ambiguous Terms in the Introduction, and revised appendices featuring The Score of a Role and expanded treatments of Functional Analysis for Designers and Further Questions for Script Analysis. Explorations of both classic and unconventional plays are combined with clear examples, end-of-chapter summaries, and stimulating questions that will allow actors, directors, and designers to immediately incorporate the concepts and processes into their theatre production work.

An excellent resource for students of Acting, Script Analysis, Directing, and Playwriting courses, this book provides the tools to effectively bring a script to life on stage.

DISCOVERING ENGLISH WITH SKETCH ENGINE is a book thatsees its readers answering hundreds of language questions from language corpora. This WORKBOOK provides users a structured space in which to make their notes on the questions. In addition, there are quiz questions for each chapter, some with a language focus, some with a linguistic focus, an answer key, tasks based on diagrams in the book, discussion questions concerning issues that arise in each chapter and questions formatted for slip-swapping group discussions. The book also contains a GLOSSARY of terms related to grammar and syntax, vocabulary and semantics, discourse and pragmatics, corpus and general linguistics, and language education.

Operating a personal computer/Laptop requires more than just dealing with PC/laptop itself. There are some parts of computer which one must become familiar with such as: hard drive, RAM, motherboard, VGA cable, cooling fan, screen, just to name a few.

This book, A STEP-BY-STEP ILLUSTRATIVE GUIDE ON HOW TO TROUBLESHOOT LAPTOP & PC AND HOW TO REPAIR HARD DRIVE is full of solutions to various kind of problem you are facing on your PC/laptop. Most have lost data on the PC/laptop because they have no knowledge on how to fix some problems on it.

This book will be of immense benefit to you on how to troubleshoot your pc/laptop problems within a very short time without going to repairers.

A STEP-BY-STEP ILLUSTRATIVE GUIDE ON HOW TO TROUBLESHOOT LAPTOP & PC AND HOW TO REPAIR HARD DRIVE focuses on:

Common problems in laptop and how to troubleshot it

Common problems in Personal computer and how to troubleshoot it

How to repair hard drive/disk

How to delete temporary file on Pc/Laptop and many more.

The goal of this book is to help you solve different kinds of problem facing your computer with full pictorial illustrations.

Temple of Dagon

A notorious treasure-hunter seeks brave adventurers to assist him in acquiring valuables from a recently discovered ruined temple in the middle of the sea. The ancients of Atrotiri were said to have incredible knowledge, power, artifacts, magic, and more ... before the sea swallowed their civilization. It was said they made pacts with evil beings and reaped tremendous rewards, now lost to history.

Can your heroes retrieve the lost treasures - or will they and their belongings add to a future archaeologist's find?

Steve Harvey's Barber Says It All (An Extra Ordinary Look at Hair Care) is a motivational tool for hair care industry professionals and it is a short autobiography that reveals the impact the Steve Harvey has had on the author's career and his personal growth. It gives the reader a broad view of the hair care industry through the personal experiences of the author. The book highlights a 12 step action plan for industry professionals that can help them achieve greater success in the industry and at the same time it also highlights areas of improvements for the industry as whole. Although the author targets hair care industry professionals, the self-improvement techniques that he presents in this books can be adopted by professionals in any field.

A look at China, it's people and the state of the nation. Often very funny yet highly serious and sometimes shocking.

Steve Harvey's Barber Says It All (An Extra Ordinary Look at Hair Care) is a motivational tool for hair care industry professionals and it is a short autobiography that reveals the impact the Steve Harvey has had on the author's career and his personal growth. It gives the reader a broad view of the hair care industry through the personal experiences of the author. The book highlights a 12 step action plan for industry professionals that can help them achieve greater success in the industry and at the same time it also highlights areas of improvements for the industry as whole. Although the author targets hair care industry professionals, the self-improvement techniques that he presents in this books can be adopted by professionals in any field.

At the dawn of a new era, a new age -- a new Babylon -- secret knowledge and wisdom of the greatest empire in history, originally guarded and hidden by the most progressive ruler of western civilization -- Nebuchadnezzar II -- now stands open to all, freshly recovered and translated from the deserts of Middle East... unearthed beyond time and space from ancient Mesopotamia The tablet collection known as the Sajaha Series first relayed to the public in 1991 is in the German language: Das Buch der Sajaha: Neunzehn Schriftsatze der Babylonianischer Sehek, would have appeared as The Book of Sajaha - Nineteen Writings of the Babylonian Seer-had it ever been produced in English. More recently Max Cold Champion& Aldo Espinosa released another edition in 2009, again in German, titled: Sajaha: Die Prophezeiungen fur ein Newes Zeitalter Babylon, Nebukadnezar und der Dritte Sargon. Sajaha: Prophecies of a New Age of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar and the Third Sargon.]The public release of The Book of Sajaha-the-Seer (Liber S) marks a new phase in the Mardukite work-featuring the prophecies, visions and advisement of a great Babylonian seer, Sajaha: accounts of a future rise of New Babylon from her point of view. Commentary, new translations and the original German transliteration manuscript are included within this concise volume of 'Sumerian Wisdom & Anunnaki Prophecies: The Book of Sajaha-the-Seer: Babylonian Cuneiform Wisdom Tablet Series of King Nebuchadnezzar II & Prophetic Visions for a New Babylon Rising' edited by Joshua Free.As you reflect upon the lines of this tablet series, the prophecies and visions most surely conjure vivid imagery to mind, not to mention what the intended audience for them would have been thinking-for they were once the private possession of the Babylonian king of Sajaha's time, King Nebuchadnezzar II, a supporter of a progressive fruitful and benevolent pro-Mardukite era of Babylonian Renaissance for nearly half of a century EDITION NOTE: Mardukite-English translation developed by the Mardukite Chamberlains as an unpublished companion to Book of Marduk by Nabu as derived from the German text.An original publication developed by the Mardukite Truth Seeker Press in conjunction with the Mardukite Research Organization Mardukite Chamberlains] & with a grant from NexGenSys NexGen Systemological Society]MRO Archive# Cycle 5 (2013) Chamberlains Catalogue Designation: Liber-S - Year-5]

A Director's Guide to Stanislavsky's Active Analysis describes Active Analysis, the innovative rehearsal method Stanislavsky formulated in his final years. By uniting 'mental analysis' and 'études', Active Analysis puts an end to the problem of mind-body dualism and formalized text memorization that traditional rehearsal methods foster.

The book describes Active Analysis both practically and conceptually; Part One guides the reader through the entire process of Active Analysis, using A Midsummer Night's Dream as a practical reference point. The inspiration here is the work of the Russian director Anatoly Efros, whose pioneering work led the way for a reawakening of theatre in post-Soviet Russia. Part Two is the first English translation of Maria Knebel's foundational article about Active Analysis. Knebel was hand-selected by Stanislavsky to carry his final work forward in unadulterated form for succeeding generations of directors and actors.

A Director's Guide to Stanislavsky's Active Analysisprovides the first detailed explanation of Active Analysis from the director's perspective, while also meeting the needs of actors who seek to enhance their creative involvement in the process of play production.