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  • Mastering Movement

    The Life and Work of Rudolf Laban

    by John Hodgson ...
    Like Picasso in painting, Stravinsky in music, or Stanislavski in theatre, Rudolf Laban (1879–1958) has been a seminal influence in contemporary arts.This is the first major study of Laban's movement theories and practice, exploring the ideas on mastering movement and giving the reader a practical understanding of balance and harmony in the human body – the core of Laban's thinking. John Hodgson ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Improvisation

    Discovery and Creativity in Drama

    by John Hodgson, Ernest Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1966, Improvisation embodies a revolutionary approach to the production of a play and the teaching of drama. It illustrates the way in which improvised dramatic situations help people to draw upon their imaginative resources and to extend awareness of themselves and others. It shows that drama can be a community activity that is deeply influential. The authors make many ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Literacy and Growth

    A Genealogy of English Teaching

    by John Hodgson, Ann Harris ...
    Series series National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)
    Literacy and Growth is a unique genealogical study of English teaching in the UK and abroad since the 18th century. Focusing specifically on the concepts of literacy and growth, this book explores key moments in the development of ideas about English teaching.Hodgson and Harris reveal the Enlightenment forebears of such contemporary concepts as “cultural capital” and “critical literacy”; the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Bar Stories

    by John R. Hodgson ...
    James Trip Bonham, Jr. was born rich. He grew up with his family in the swanky Holmby Hills of California. He went to college and had no idea what he wanted to be. After all, he didnt need to work; he was a trust-fund kid. In college, though, Trip found unexpected direction, and his direction was drinking. He found comfort in the stories of fellow bar flies. He felt at home.Much to the dismay of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Richard Potter

    America's First Black Celebrity

    by John A. Hodgson ...
    Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Try to Remember … Vietnam

    by John R. Hodgson ...
    Over two and a half million Americans served in the Vietnam War. Of those who served, 58,148 gave their lives. Tyler Taylor is a complex and angry young man who drops out of college after he is kicked off the USC football team. His life is falling apart, his parents are separated, and he is in pain and has lost interest in nearly everything. Almost immediately, though, he is drafted into the army. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • A Dictator Calls

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by John Hodgson ...
    **Longlisted for the International Booker PrizeThe Wall Street Journal, A Best Book of the YearUsing a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on three particular minutes in a long moment of time when the dark shadow of Joseph Stalin passed over the world**In June 1934, Stalin allegedly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Like a Prisoner

    Stories of Endurance

    by Fatos Lubonja ...
    Translated by John Hodgson ...
    The book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania. The prisoners adapt, endure, and generally survive, all in different ways. They may conform, rebel, construct alternative realities of the imagination, cultivate hope, cling to memories of lost love, or devisenincreasingly strange and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Accident

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by John Hodgson ...
    Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna?Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the backseat?How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? And why was his affair with Rovena clouded in jealousy and mistrust?Who wanted them dead?This is the story of the last forty weeks of their lives - a fever dream where love and obsession ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Fall of the Stone City

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by John Hodgson ...
    Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013.In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastër, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night, rumours circulate of a childhood friendship between a local dignitary and the invading Nazi Colonel, a reunion in the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Doll

    A Portrait of My Mother

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by John Hodgson ...
    In this autobiographical novel, Albania’s most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom.“Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible.”In his father’s great stone house ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Traitor's Niche

    A Novel

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by John Hodgson ...
    "Kadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality." —The New YorkerAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD