books by Faber & Faber     books:       Proof: A Play38 reviews David Auburn Faber & Faber, 2001 The essence of genius in combination with madness This play captures the essence of mathematicians and some of the ways they do mathematics. Catherine is the daughter of her mathematician father Robert, who was brilliant and revolutionary in his early twenties, but has descended into madness. For the last few years Catherine has suppressed her desire to study mathematics at Northwestern University in order to care for her father. Robert has just ...             Founding Brothers384 reviews Joseph J. Ellis Faber and Faber, 2002 I learned something new about a familiar subject Even though I'd seen and heard multiple items about the founding generation, I was pleasantly surprised that I learned something new from this work...namely that the discussion of the location of the new capital was seriously sidetracked by an abolitionist delegation's visit (which was even blessed by fellow abolitionist Ben Franklin shortly before his death). Highly Recommended, a great yarn.             Lord of the Flies2 reviews William Golding Faber and Faber, 2004 "All we have is the rules" Ever fantasize that you are on an island free from the restraints of society? William Golding has taken that scenario to the nth in this story of a bunch of English boys, plane wrecked on an island during WWII. We see the fabric of society slowly and most assuredly ripping as the rules are discarded one by one. Golding is very graphic in his description of the demise of pigs and plants. One ...             Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division48 reviews Deborah Curtis Faber & Faber, 2007 Excellent Read.... Excellent book.... also in excellent condition.. will get more books from here more...             Pontoon34 reviews Garrison Keillor Faber and Faber, 2007 One of Garrison's best! One of Garrison's best! This novel would make a great movie. Funny and quite in the Lake Wobegon tradition             The Animator's Survival Kit93 reviews Richard Williams Faber & Faber, 2002 easy to follow, with great examples this was the textbook for my principles of animation I class, and it was an immense help. if I was ever confused about how to liven up an animation, or make a movement more believable, I could look in the book for an explanation of a walk, run, jump, or any of a number of movements and get an example of the keyframes at the very least. while it doesn't sit down and explain the 12 principles of ...             Wit : A Play56 reviews Margaret Edson Faber & Faber, 1999 Wit analysis I read this book for a nursing class I am taking. It's a wonderful depiction of hospitalization, giving accurate portrayals of doctors, nurses and patients, which is surprising being written by a lay person. It was an easy read, about 45 minutes. I would recommend this book.             Arcadia: A Play47 reviews Tom Stoppard Faber & Faber, 1994 "In an ocean of ashes, islands of order . . ." Though I am very fond of "The Invention of Love," "Jumpers, " "The Real Thing," "The Real Inspector Hound," and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, " this is Stoppard's best play, his most beautiful and most moving. We get the usual Stoppard erudition and the usual Stoppard wit, but these never distract us from the play's structural felicities. Or its emotional force. Idea-wise, we get ...             William Golding's Lord of the Flies1269 reviews Nigel Williams, William Golding Faber & Faber, 1996 Human pyschology textbook disguised as an adventure novel This book begins a little fuzzy, but by the end of the first few pages the explanation for the boys' current situation is revealed: A plane carrying many British schoolboys crashed on a tropical island, and only some amount of them survive. There are no adults. Sounds like your typical survival-on-a-desert-island beginning, right? In a way, it is. For the most part, this book details the boys' ...             Spring Awakening: A Play1 review Frank Wedekind Faber & Faber, 2007 great play -- feels very contemporary! I heard Franzen speak about how unfaithful the recent NY production was to Wedekind's anarchistic perspective. This is a brash and funny send up of modern society's sexual hypocrisy. Fast read, too.             At Play: Teaching Teenagers Theater5 reviews Elizabeth Swados Faber & Faber, 2006 Leaning the language of drama... Beginning with her personal experiences and attraction to the world of the theater, Swados bridges the gap of her own life with the common experiences of a group of youngsters as they create their own musical theater piece about the dangerous world they inhabit and the small redemptions of daily life as they accomplish their goals. Specifically structured, the exercises begin with personal ...             The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller17 reviews John Truby Faber & Faber, 2008 If You Want To Write With All The Tools! This book by John Truby truly equips you with all of the tools you need to construct a very tight story that will place you levels above the average screenplay (including the ones that sell and have sold for years.) If you are serious about the craft of storytelling for film and want to know you are doing the things that will create a screenplay that is technically stellar, John Truby will show ...             The Shape of Things11 reviews Neil LaBute Faber & Faber, 2001 Wow OK...I read this book in college in acting class b/c we were going to perform the play...first of all, its a very easy and enjoyable read...its about these four college kids...2 couples...this one guys girlfriend seems a little mysterious at times...he is severely whipped, like most other college guys with girlfriends, OK so he's a little more whipped than most people...anyway I read the book and ...             Poisonwood Bible1411 reviews Barbara Kingsolver Faber & Faber, 2000 Merits multiple readings The editorial reviews and the other 1409 reader reviews provide as much commentary on this remarkable book as one might want. Needless to say, I enjoyed the story. It operates at several levels just like life. You might dislike some characters but they all seem real to me, sharply etched. You might not like what they say, it can be provocative, thought provoking. You might even imagine the ...             On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director6 reviews Alexander Mackendrick Faber & Faber, 2005 He changed me When Sandy MacKenrick told my CalArts MFA Thesis committee that my thesis film script was, "long, much too long, and very much too long" and, "doomed to never be completed", I was shocked and terrified. Sandy was one of the most brilliant and irritating people ever to tell a story or to browbeat an egotistical young film student. His films and lectures convey that contradiction -- his every ...             Ariel51 reviews Sylvia Plath Faber and Faber, 2007 Plath and motherhood It seems every morbid well read teenage girl would carry a Sylvia Plath book around school, and I was one of them (I can't speak for the current Extreme Makeover, American Idol, online porn generation) Although I struck the Plath pose in high school, in all honesty I didn't really understand and appreciate her until my late thirties after I was married and had children. As a stay at home ...             It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music Amanda Petrusich Faber & Faber, 2008 "Where lies the boundary between meaning and sentiment? Between memory and nostalgia? America and Americana? What is and what was? Does it move?" --Donovon Hohn, A Romance of Rust Part travelogue, part cultural criticism, part music appreciation, It Still Moves does for today’s avant folk scene what Greil Marcus did for Dylan and The Basement Tapes . Amanda Petrusich outlines the sounds of the new, weird America—honoring ...             The Philokalia, Volume 4: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios ...33 reviews Faber & Faber, 1999 Worth waiting for! Excellent text of the writings of the early Christians. I'd recommend it, and the rest of the series, to anyone who wants to know how the Church started and what it actually believed. My only problem with the order was that it took so long to arrive. 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