books about: play

books about: play

books:

Play

Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 1: Strategic Play

Dan Harrington, Bill Robertie

Two Plus Two Pub., 2004

Best book(s) in tournament poker
I think Harrington's book and it's sequels are the best books ever written about no limit hold'em tournaments. The first part of the series covers strategic concepts about tournament poker, the second part tells how to play in the ending of a tournament, and third part ...

Harrington on Cash Games, Volume II: How to Play No-Limit Hold 'em Cash Games

Dan Harrington, Bill Robertie

Two Plus Two Publishing LLC, 2008

Good for on-line play
This volume completes the series. I play only on-line. The whole section on tells is about betting patterns. On-line thats all you have to go on. So this works great for me. Combine that with the board reading skills I picked up in the first volume and my NL cash game ...

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Vintage, 2004

What Happens To A Dream Deferred?
Produced in 1959, A RAISIN IN THE SUN was the first Broadway play written by a black woman: Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), a memorable author who based the central story on an incident that occurred in her own family and which eventually evolved into a landmark ...

A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL

Stefan Fatsis

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

What a ball!
If you like sports or competing, you'll love this book. It's an Every Man story of a regular guy trying to find out how it feels to be a professional athlete. And for those of us who'll never get a chance to find out, it's a ton of fun. Fatsis takes us inside the ...

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

HarperFestival, 1991

Book is falling apart its so good
Every child I've ever read this too has begged for me to "read it again". It even captures babies attention as well as my six year old son's still, who's read it a gazillion times. This book is so good it's falling apart, it's been read so many times! Time to ...

Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)

Arthur Miller

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998

Rat Race Lost, State of Denial
Hopeless fathers & sons were a favorite theme of Miller. The pressure of failing aspirations. The horror of failure. Drawn between overconfidence and self-doubt. Flashbacks on scenes from a dreary life. Lies to others and oneself. Failures in job and family. The play ...

The Dangerous Book for Boys

Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden

Collins, 2007

Great for the 'boy's' in your home!
I originally bought this book for my son, he's 11. He loves it. Unfortunately my husband and 6 brothers won't give it back to him, yet. They've enjoyed the 'projects' as much as my son has.

Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2003

Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an ...

My New Baby (New Baby Series)

Child's Play International, 2000

Simple and engaging
My DD is 2 1/2 an I am expecting a baby in August. This book is a great conversation starter. I am planning to breastfeed, and it tastefully shows the baby nursing, something which DD has been curious about on the rare occasion she sees someone nursing a baby. If ...

The Crucible (Penguin Classics)

Arthur Miller

Penguin Classics, 2003

The Devil is Precise
On my walk through the LoA edition of Arthur Miller plays I bypass The Enemy of the People, the Ibsen adaptation, which I think is a waste of everyone's time, and go straight to the Crucible, which I had never read, nor watched on stage or screen. Very odd. It is a ...

Ten Little Fingers (Board Books for Babies)

Annie Kubler

Child's Play International, 2003

Great book!
I bought this book for my 8 month old and she loves to pat the pages as I read. It's easy for moms to memorize, too, but not so monotonous that you'd get sick of it the 10th time!

August: Osage County

Tracy Letts

Theatre Communications Group, 2008

"Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed."
A dilapidated, one hundred year-old farmhouse on the plains outside Tulsa has been the home of the Weston family for generations, and Beverly Weston, the family patriarch, has long found refuge in alcohol. His termagant wife Violet takes pills, whatever pills she can ...

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting

Robert Mckee

HarperEntertainment, 1997

Invaluable Resource
This is the only book on screenwriting I have read thus far, and, frankly, it would take a lot for me to read another. I have gained invaluable understanding of the screenwriting process with this book. I reference it continuously and am not disappointed. I find ...

Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2004

Can Love Conquer All?
Innocent love is the most pure... and the sight of those who are in that beautiful whirlwind of its hypnotic clutches is a sight to behold. Is it true? "Is youth wasted on the young." Sometimes, sometimes not. Romeo and Juliet is the most known western love ...

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Baby Board Books)

Child's Play International, 2002

Pictures are great!
This book became one of our favotites at 4.5 months. My son loves looking at the pictures and hearing the song. We have this and row row row your boat. He chooses these two often when choosing stories, and he's only 6 months. The babies in the book are really cute!