books about: expressive     books:       Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema31 reviews David Sonnenschein Michael Wiese Productions, 2001 Idiotically Competent and Common Sensical The first thing that struck me about the book was how far it veered off sound design right away into the depths of the human psyche, psychology, and aural dynamics. But isn't this exactly what the best movies speak to? This book won't teach you any topical audio crap that will be useless in 5 years, it hits at some of the deepest issues necessary to make truly creative and excellent films. ...             The Expressive Arts Activity Book: A Resource for Professionals3 reviews Suzanne Darley, Wende Heath Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007 An invaluable workbook that health collections will find important THE EXPRESSIVE ARTS ACTIVITY BOOK: A RESOURCE FOR PROFESSIONALS compiles a set of tested activities for use with people in a range of care settings, to help them explore experiences, physical and emotional issues, interpersonal problems and more. It goes far beyond most psychology and educational guides to offer a set of creative ideas and exercises hospital workers, schools and other caregivers ...             Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will ...2 reviews Will Eisner W.W. Norton & Co., 2008 Start creating believable characters immediately Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R35MP82FTR69PO Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative is one of the three Will Eisner instructional books. The other two are Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative and Comics and Sequential Art. I bought the book to learn how to pose characters properly and create strong silhouettes. I'm glad to say that this book provides tons of ...             The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing11 reviews Ann Weiser, Ph.D. Cornell New Harbinger Publications, 1996 Focusing in clear, precise language, simply & briefly presented.... Ann learned Focusing in 1970, during the "first wave" of Focusing teaching. In the mid-1980's, she became the first full-time Focusing teacher. She has probably taught more people to Focus than anyone else - literally thousands, and on every continent. But she didn't start out a Focusing "natural". Initially, learning Focusing left her, in her words, "fascinated and frustrated": ...             Expressive Portraits: Creative Methods for Painting People10 reviews Jean Pederson North Light Books, 2007 Expressive Portraits Creative Methods for Painting People EXPRESSIVE PORTRAITS By Jean Pederson Jean Pederson's book, Expressive Portraits, is a must for every artist's library and, particularly, for the portrait artist. Artists at any level will find Jean's book both innovative and instructive. This well-written and pictorially illustrated book of 125 pages divided into five 5 chapters packs a wealth of knowledge from choosing one's materials to ...             The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (Basic Principles Into Practice ...8 reviews Susan M. Johnson Routledge, 2004 A Seminal Work in Couples' Therapy Susan Johnson's work through Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a great asset to the world of relationship therapies. Her work is in the new direction in therapy - calculated integration versus muddle-headed eclecticism. Johnson's work carefully integrate structural family therapy (Minuchin) with attachment theory (Bowlby) and the experiential therapies. While mainly citing Rogers, this a ...             Live & Learn: Expressive Drawing: A Practical Guide to Freeing the Artist Within (AARP)11 reviews Steven Aimone Lark Books, 2009 Expressive Drawing For those of you who have always wanted to try your hand at creating and involving yourself in the art world, this book will definetly get you started. As an artist, I often hear, "I can't draw a straight line with a ruler". Well guess what neither can I and this book will help you understand that, that is probably a good thing. Free yourself, dive in, buy the book and discover a whole new world. ...             Expressive Handmade Books7 reviews Alisa Golden Sterling, 2007 I really like this book This book is so easy to use and it has such wonderful ideas. I was shocked at how easy it is to make a book. This is a great idea book for homemade gifts. I love it.             Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook3 reviews Susan Johnson, Brent Bradley, ... Brunner-Routledge, 2005 Clarifying the EFT Interventions For me, this book supplied the logical missing piece after finishing the EFT Externship and beginning the supervision process. The book enabled me to reinforce on my own and at my own pace the steps, stages and interventions that I learned in the group context. Using this valuable tool, I was able to slow down and clarify the parts of the model which had been unclesr to me previously. The chapter ...             The Decorated Journal: Creating Beautifully Expressive Journal Pages18 reviews Gwen Diehn Lark Books, 2006 Kicking it up a notch for a beginner like me This book helped me get to the next stage in my beginning art journaling. I learned why paper behaves the way it does when liquid is applied, how different adhesives work and what they're good for--tons of practical stuff for a neophyte to art journaling. I go back to it again and again. It's got great information, and it's a beautiful book to spend time with. I'll grow into it for a long time.             Beyond Paper Dolls: Expressive Paper Personas Crafted with Innovative Techniques and Art Mediums10 reviews Lynne Perrella Stampington and Company, 2006 A sumptuous feast of inspiration Inspirational more than instructional, "Beyond Paper Dolls" is a book that will delight the eye with the artistic creations of the author and other contributors. Rich and sumptuous photography is accompanied by text that explains the artists intentions and includes some tips on how these paper doll creations came to life. Collage and installation artists whose work involves the human figure ...             Cult Magazines: A to Z: A Compendium of Culturally Obsessive & Curiously Expressive Publications1 review NonStop Press, 2009 A meander down the back roads of publishing The nineteen contributors to this 224 page examination of down-market print culture surely know their stuff because the book is crammed with a detailed history of various publishing genres that filled the newsstands from the Thirties onwards. The survey details regularly published titles rather than fanzines or really obscure stuff like Koren's LA style `Wet: the magazine of gourmet bathing'. ...             The Art of Grief: The Use of Expressive Arts in a Grief Support Group (Death, Dying and Bereavement)1 review J. Earl Rogers Routledge, 2007 A Wonderful Guidebook As an expressive arts therapist who has written about creative expression and grief, I am hard to please. I found The Art of Grief to be much more than pleasing. It is an extremely useful book that covers just about anything a helping professional might want to know in order to use the arts to work with grieving clients. The book is well-ordered, easy to follow and has very specific ...             Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames5 reviews Ian Bogost The MIT Press, 2007 *Invitational* Game Criticism... Although Ian Bogost clearly has a vested interest, as a game designer and critic, in the ability of games to communicate powerful, evocative messages, Persuasive Games seriously challenges some pervasive assumptions behind games, reception and interactivity-- taking a run at how games communicate all the wonderful (or terrible) things they are assumed to communicate. Bogost makes several rather ...             Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes3 reviews Robert Hirsch Focal Press, 2008 A Must-Have Book on Alternative Processes Robert Hirsch's Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition, is absolutely fantastic and takes its place as the frontrunner among texts concerned with experimental photography. This new book is wonderfully updated with current information and most importantly; it's a visual and creative feast. The turn of each page is a delight for the eyes, as well as incredible inspiration for trying new ...             Workbook for Aphasia: Exercises for Expressive And Receptive Language Functioning (William Beaumont Hospital)7 reviews Susan Howell Brubaker Wayne State University Press, 2006 Useful Resource Book I am a speech/language pathologist who has used many sections of this book during therapy sessions. There are verbal expressive sections as well as written exercises. I have adapted sections to use in group therapy sessions. I find this book very useful and would recommend it to any working SLP or family member working at home with a person recovering from stroke and aphasia.             Portraits of the Word: Great Verses of the Bible in Expressive Calligraphy1 review Timothy R. Botts Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2002 Portraits of the Word If you appreciate beautiful calligraphy and the word of God, you will love this inspirational book created by a very gifted artist.             The Art of Bowing Practice/3.3398: The Expressive Bow Technique5 reviews Robert Gerle EC Schirmer Music Co, 1991 It's all in the bow!!! Bowing, bowing, bowing, sound cleanliness, no scratching, no accidentally touching neihboring strings, soft and loud, etc, etc. The way you handle the bow distinguishes you between making beautiful violin music and 'just making sounds'. Robert Gerle's approach to bowing is well written and has excellent tips for improving your bowing technique. Concise and clear, Mr. Gerle has made a good effort ...             Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings2 reviews Leslie S. Greenberg American Psychological Association (APA), 2002 My emotional response to reading this says it worth it! I learned about Leslie Greenberg in graduate school from someone who studied with him for a week in Canada. What I learned that quarter was simply profound. Now I have many of Leslie Greenberg's profound thoughts here in my hands. A great thing about this book is that I can recommend it to my friends who have not studied psychology or pscyotherapy and they have access to the material for ...             Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change3 reviews Robert Elliott, Jeanne C. Watson, ... American Psychological Association (APA), 2003 A great place to start, or a good second or third book on the subject... This is a great follow-up to the Process-Experiential book "Facilitating Emotional Change". Well written, and user-friendly, this manual helps to make this approach usable. A therapy book that isn't too theory oriented, which is refreshing. I would highly recommend it.              search for books beautifully, bereavement, calligraphy, cartoonist, compendium, connection, culturally, emotion-focused, emotionally, exercises, experiential, expressive, functioning, innovative, instructional, legendary, materials, persuasive, photographic, possibilities, practices, principles, process-experiential, processes, professionals, publications, receptive, self-healing, techniques, videogames books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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