books by Northwestern University Press     books:     Northwestern Unive...      Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (SPEP) Edmund Husserl Northwestern University Press, 1970 . . . the Spirit alone is immortal. Written at the end of his career and on the eve of the Holocaust, the Crisis stands, I believe, as one of the greatest one volume educations in print today. Unlike his more "technical" works which rigorously deal with phenomenology in itself, the Crisis is more of a ...             The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays Lionel Trilling Northwestern University Press, 2008 Relevant moral issues.... On Sunday 7/30/00, The New York Times carried a review of "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent" -- an article by Edward Rothstein entitled, "Dated? Perhaps, But His Insights Remain Powerful" -- Rothstein's insights are useful and I agree with most of them, but I ...             Metamorphoses: A Play Mary Zimmerman Northwestern University Press, 2002 I got a chance to perform in Metamorphoses at my university! I was cast in this play and trust me when I say this is a great script. Not because of what it contains- but because of what it doesn't. Mary Zimmerman has left so much of her play open for interpretation, and we certainly took that to heart. The poetry of Ovid is ...             Master and Margarita: A Critical Companion (AATSEEL) Northwestern University Press, 1996 Critical Companion a Citical Resource Master and Margarita: A Critical Companion (AATSEEL) This is optional reading for a book group of mature, non-specialist readers of the novel that I am currently facilitating. They love it! It makes the novel less baffling for some of them, and reassures ...             The Sylph (European Classics) Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire Northwestern University Press, 2007 This ranging epistolary novel follows Julia Grenville, a Welsh beauty who knows little of the world until her marriage to the older Lord Stanley. Through Julia?s letters to her sister, readers learn more of Julia?s new life in London?her unfaithful husband, her miscarriage, her disillusionment with the city and its fashions. Other letters reveal ...             The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt Ellen B. Hirschland, Nancy Hirschland Ramage Northwestern University Press, 2008 Prescient spinsters This is a beautiful book that vividly recounts the story of two Baltimore sisters who never got married and who, in the early XXth century, became two of the foremost modern art collectors in the United States. Following a chronological pattern, it is full of ...             The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History ... Maurice Merleau-Ponty Northwestern University Press, 1964 excellent introduction to the philosophy of the body and Merleau-Ponty's Work After teaching and writing about the phenomenology of the body and Merleau-Ponty for three decades, I am often asked what of his works to start with and I usually say this one for the more serious reader. The essays are engaging and complex and go to the heart of ...             Improvisation for the Theater 3E: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques (Drama and Performance ... Viola Spolin Northwestern University Press, 1999 If you can only buy one book. In fact any other book you may buy will have most of spolins ideas. If you are guiding any one in an improvisational education. this is the best. It is very important for improvisers to learn about comedic improv through spolins techniques. all other forms of improv is ...             Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook Viola Spolin Northwestern University Press, 1986 My bible! As a teacher of drama to many low-income, urban, and "difficult" adolescents, this is the book that I find most useful, alive, and inspiring! Simply wonderful for anyone trying to bring the best out of young actors!             The Visible and the Invisible (SPEP) Maurice Merleau-Ponty Northwestern University Press, 1969 Merleau-Ponty's Last Work The Visible and the Invisible is the last work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, left unfinished by his untimely death. (Does anyone really have a timely death?) In this volume from Northwestern University Press, the unfinished text is appended by the working notes for the ...             Process: An Improviser's Journey Mary Scruggs, Michael J. Gellman Northwestern University Press, 2007 Great For Actors and Improvisor's Being new to Chicago and Second City, I purchased this book to get a better understanding of improv and who better to learn from then author Michael Gellman. I found that the format of the book made it an easy read and it really got into the details of Second City ...             Sofia Petrovna (European Classics) Lydia Chukovskaya Northwestern University Press, 1994 Chilling Account How friends turned away when a family member was "taken away" and left those remaining alone to starve since no one could employ them. This reads like a true account of the Stalinist Purge times but is under the label of fiction. Even as fiction, the author was in ...             The Twelve Chairs (European Classics) Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov Northwestern University Press, 1997 A cutting satire Firstly, I read the book in Russian so I make no claims about this particular translation. Ilf and Petrov were two satirical writers who were very popular in the Soviet Union. Of course during the writing of this book (and its sequel the Golden Calf), it was ...             War with the Newts (European Classics) Karel Capek Northwestern University Press, 1996 Will the Newts Have Need of Me? Of all the science-fiction books I read in my teenage years, this is the one that stimulated my mind the most, and the one I've re-read most often. It's the story of a discovery of another intelligent species, not in space but on an island lost in the Pacific. The new ...             The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt Ellen B. Hirschland, Nancy Hirschland Ramage Northwestern University Press, 2008 Prescient spinsters This is a beautiful book that vividly recounts the story of two Baltimore sisters who never got married and who, in the early XXth century, became two of the foremost modern art collectors in the United States. Following a chronological pattern, it is full of ...          products you might be interested in search for books improvisation, intelligent, metamorphoses, phenomenological, phenomenology, transcendental      toavi.com    web we recommend Will the Newts Have Need of Me? randomly chosen DVD: The Cat From Outer Space