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Four Plays receives translation by Lynne Alvarez and presents the modern Mexican playwright's strongest works. These are theatrical productions, choosing situations and people uniquely Mexican, but easily understood by all cultures.

Great book! one of my Favorites.

I am a student at Northeastern University and had Scott as my coop teacher. This book will help any college student who is looking for a job get a big head start. It has a lot of resumes and explains why they are good or bad. I was able to tailor my resume around all the aspects of a great resume he had and came out with a masterpiece. Also as college students not many of us have much interviewing skills, especially with large corporations. Scott explains the different interviewing tactics, how to prepare, and how to overcome event he hardest interview. This is the only book i have not sold back and plan on keeping it until long after i graduate.

I don't know why this book went out of print, but it is one of the best sauna books I have seen. If you can get your hands on one, grab it.

This is #2 of a great series about Club Stephanie , a club created by Stephanie and her friends. Now that Stephanie is old enough to go to the pool without her family , she thinks this will be a great summer! But as soon as Stephanie meets Rick a cute life guard at the pool she realizes that it might not be!

This score needs to be in every violinist's library. It's the epitome of Romanticism and all the movements are fantastic!

This limited edition collects some of Lansdale's finest work. This one came before "The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent," and "For a Few Stories More." This is the first and best in the trilogy.

It collects the entire run of "Trash Theater(sp)" that ran in Cemetery Dance magazine. This is where he and author David Webb and the mysterious Gort review such classics as "The Human Tornado" (in my favorite movie review ever... you can't beat Dolemite...), Elvis' "Clam Bake," among many others. It also contains some non-fiction (including the story of the revival group that met across the street from his house and how they used his yard for parking) and fiction (this book, to the best of my recollection, features the play version of "Drive-In Date"). "Drive-In Date" may be one of the most disturbing pieces of fiction ever written. I saw the black and white short film of it a couple of years ago and it was based on the play included here... a must if you can track it down.

This book made me laugh until I cried. It is awesome. You must track it down, no matter the cost.

By the way... why do books by such authors as Tom Clancy and Dan Brown sell millions of copies while far better and more talanted writers such as Hisownself have to be published by small presses and otherwise tracked down in out-of-print editions? This man should be known nationwide... I should not have to introduce people to him... they should already know... Help spread the word and buy this book!

This is a great book for improving overall health and fitness. Simple to use exercises for all. Great advice from a noted surgeon.

Of the two pieces reprinted from Universal and Peters respectively in this volume, it's the former - the tone poem "Pelléas und Mélisande" (Op.5), using the same subject matter as Debussy's opera - that's the more accessible. It follows logically upon "Verklärte Nacht" (Op.4) and "Gurrelieder" (no opus number) both in terms of Schönberg's evolution as a composer from his home-base of Late-Romanticism to Expressionism (a sort of intensified Romanticism) and also in terms of his gradual departure from tonality. This departure didn't happen overnight (though it still was quick! - from "Verklärte Nacht", which is still quite tonal although it modulates a lot, to the "Songs of the Book of the Hanging-Gardens", where complete atonality is achieved, it took only 7 years!). However, once it happened, he never (with one exception - that of a piece commissioned by a school orchestra in the USA) returned to any true sort of tonality.

This earlier piece is still tonal, but it already is more dissonant and less key-anchored compared to the other two works mentioned already, notably Part 1 of "Gurrelieder" (excluding the Song of the Wood-Dove) as well as "Verklärte Nacht". There are fewer traditional cadential-type passages - even at the ending one has no true "V-I" progression of any sort to establish the final d-minor key. Those that remain are ever-more overlaid with (chromatically-linked) dissonance and less pre-cadential preparation so as to make key-establishment less and less definitive (let alone secure!). [Even in the first two pages of the score one can't say that the tonality of d-minor is truly established at all!]

Apparently it was this element that excited Schönberg just as much as inverting the whole idea of music to emphasise dissonance over consonance: whereas the traditional idea is to resolve dissonances into consonances, atonality utterly reverses that flow (with Schönberg, even minor dissonances eventually resolve into stronger discords)! It is this very idea of in essence turning the entire concept of music upside-down that is the essence of such works as virtually everything after Opus 14. So it is with the Three Piano-Pieces of Opus 11, the "Songs of the Book of the Hanging-Gardens" (Opus 15), and - in our case - the Five Orchestral Pieces of Opus 16. Here not only any sort of consonance and tonality is utterly abrogated: the music becomes virtually athematic to boot...

[As a curiosity (if I recall correctly): when Opus 16 was published initially, it was suggested to Schönberg that the individual movements have titles bestowed on them (not given in this publication). The result are the following "non-titles": 1) Vorgefühle (Premonition); 2) Vergangenes (What's Past); 3) Sommerfarben (Summer-Colours); 4) Peripetie (Perpetual-Motion?); 5) das Obligate Rezitative (The Obligato Recitative).]

In all events, there's positively no better bargain in getting to know these pieces than to have this score, which reproduces the definitive editions of both pieces, in hand!! Most unreservedly recommended!!!

Structural similarities to Robert Altman's classic movie are notable in Don Robertson's "A Flag Full of Stars," a novel of American values and personalities. Set against the 1948 Truman-Dewey election, the points of view shift between the business, entertainment, politics, and jus-plain-folks dealing in and affected (or not affected) by not only the upset Truman victory (one character bets marriage with another on the election's outcome) but by the shifting social mores of the post-WW2 era. The ensemble cast acts and reacts with each other in precisely the way ALtman's "Nashville" people did, pairing up, moving on, and going from personal crisis to personal triumph with an American resilience that will make you glad you met these interestingly-drawn characters. I'm amazed this was never made into a movie, and I'm tempted to try my hand at a screenplay myself.