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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. These techniques and exercises were evolved in the a ...Show more
In Defence of Politics by Bernard Crick
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Faced with political scandal, broken promises and the seeming impotence of governments in the face of economic globalization, cynicism about politics is rampant in the established democracies of the west. Meanwhile, the 'Arab Spring' of 2011 saw people out on the streets willing to put their lives on th ...Show more
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading light in the generation of thinkers who come of intellectual age in 1968, his work deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers from Plato and Lucretius, throug ...Show more
Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history - from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic - Victor Klemperer is regarded as one of the most vivid witnesses to a tumultuou ...Show more
Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze; Constantin V. Boundas (Translator); Mark Lester (Translator); Charles J. Stivale (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Logic of Sense is one of Deleuze's seminal works. First published in 1969, shortly after Difference and Repetition, it prefigures the hybrid style and methods he would use in his later writing with Felix Guattari. In an early review Michel Foucault wrote that Logic of Sense 'should be read as the boldes ...Show more
Logics of Worlds - Being and Event II by Alain Badiou; Alberto Toscano (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory ...Show more
Mindfulness by Martin Heidegger; Parvis Emad (Translator); Thomas Kalary (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Written in 1938/9, Mindfulness (translated from the German Besinnung) is Martin Heidegger's second major being-historical treatise. Here, Heidegger develops some of his key concepts and themes including truth, nothingness, enownment, art and Be-ing and discusses the Greeks, Nietzsche and Hegel at length ...Show more
Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A great statesmen, a masterful historian whose writings won him the Nobel Prize for literature and a war-time leader with few peers, Sir Winston Churchill is remembered perhaps most clearly today for the sheer power of his oratory: the speeches that rallied a nation in its darkest hour and steeled that ...Show more
Philosophy - Principles and Problems by Roger Scruton
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how philo ...Show more
Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles - championing the legal, moral and political right ...Show more
The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
On October 11th, 1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally erupted into the conflict that would become known as the Second Boer War. Two days after the first shots were fired, a young writer by the name of Winston Chu ...Show more
The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus by Martin Heidegger
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Martin Heidegger is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century. A major figure in the development of phenomenology, his work also profoundly influenced many of the intellectual movements that followed in his wake, from Sartre's Existentialism to Derrida's deconstructionis ...Show more