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Tina: The Inspiring Tale of a World-changing Friendship Between One Man and a Dog
Hope taught me the meaning of life, Tina taught me the meaning of love.
It’s not everyday you meet a golden retriever in Thailand.
When Niall came across a dog shackled to a short chain and in a poor state of health something reminded him of his personal battle with addiction. He knew he had to rescue her immediately – golden retrievers are rare in Thailand – but there was just something about this dog in particular that told him she was destined for more.
He named her Tina, and what she did next is an incredible tale of survival, hope and love. Despite her terrible treatment at the hands of humans, she refused to distrust them or feel sorry for herself, and only opened her heart wider – always with a grin (yes dogs can smile) and a reassuring wag of her shaggy yellow tail.
From the minute Tina was free of her chains, she got on with what needed to be done, inspiring a dog hospital to be built and named after her and helping dogs from all over the world – whether they’re street dogs from Thailand or rescue pups in Montana. The movement behind Tina has not stopped.
This is her story.
Niall Harbison’s book ‘Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Li’ was a No.2 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-08-28.
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Explaining AuDHD: The expert-led guide to Autism and ADHD Co-concurrence (The Explaining… Series Book 1)
‘A masterpiece. On behalf of everyone grappling to understand their unique brains, thank you! Truly life changing’ Alex Partridge, host of ADHD Chatter and bestselling author of Now It All Makes Sense
What is it like to experience both Autism and ADHD?
You’ve probably heard of Autism or ADHD by now. Often thought of as contradictory conditions, much of the discourse around both focuses on their neurological differences. But what about those diagnosed with both? Where do the two conditions intersect and overlap?
Explaining AuDHD is a straight-talking guide for those trying to understand Autism and ADHD as a combined diagnosis. Using real-life stories of people living with AuDHD, this book offers advice for those grappling with a diagnosis, and provides a framework for readers to advocate for themselves and discuss it with loved ones.
Written in accessible prose by Autism and ADHD expert Dr Khurram Sadiq, Explaining AuDHD is a vital resource for anyone questioning their own neurodiversity, undergoing assessment, or making sense of their recent diagnosis..
‘This is going to be a game changer for so many people in the best way’ Ruth Liptrot, Channel Five News
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Floating Home: Lessons from a life less ordinary
When Adam Lind lost his father as a teenager, his grief became a powerful turning point: a catalyst for change. Driven by a deep desire to find meaning and purpose, Adam set out on a journey that would shape the course of his life: first hitchhiking from London to Iran, then returning to embrace an unconventional life aboard a narrowboat, roaming the British Waterways. These life-altering experiences gave him a new lens through which to view freedom, adversity, and what it truly means to live.
In this uplifting book, Adam shares the ten core principles that helped him find freedom and fulfillment, even in the face of adversity. From discovering the power of community, to transforming adversity into opportunity, to understanding why discipline is essential for a meaningful life, Floating Home offers a practical and inspiring guide to living intentionally.
But Adam’s story is just one part of this rich tapestry. Throughout the book, he introduces readers to a vibrant cast of characters from his boating community: the ‘Humans of the Waterways.’ Each shares their own story of why they chose boat life, revealing raw and relatable truths about modern life: the pressure of the housing market, the ache of unfulfilling careers or relationships, or the fear that it’s too late to change. These voices offer a chorus of wisdom, showing that the path to freedom is different for everyone, but the call is universal.
Floating Home is a celebration of life beyond the ordinary, reminding us that purpose isn’t found in the places we live, but in how we choose to live: with courage, connection and a deep sense of freedom.
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Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
From the icy oceans of our poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet earth. Now, with long-term collaborator Colin Butfield, he shares the story of our last great, critical wilderness, and the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe.
Through one hundred years, eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species – and through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science – Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet. And it shows its remarkable resilience: it is the part of our world that can, and in some cases has, recovered the fastest, and in our lifetimes we could see a fully restored marine world, even richer and more spectacular than we could possibly hope, if we act now.
It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed.
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The Short Sunderland: The Legendary WWII Flying Boat (Great Planes of World War Two Book 3)
A compelling history of the most successful flying boat ever to serve the Royal Air Force—the ‘Queen of the Boats’—the Short Sunderland.Ideal for fans of Alexander McKee, Andrew Hendrie, Ken Delve, and Martin W. Bowman.
The story of the Sunderland flying boat began with the innovative Short brothers, Horace, Albert, and Hugh, who, since 1908, were at the forefront of British aeroplane design and manufacturing. Having trained the first Royal Navy officers as pilots in their flying machines and successfully deployed seaplanes during World War One, they were well-positioned in 1933 to meet the RAF’s need for a long-range, four-engine flying boat with armaments, sleeping accommodations, and catering facilities. The result was the Short Sunderland, entering RAF service and history books in 1938.
In this book, Chaz Bowyer traces the evolution of this remarkable aircraft and the valuable contribution it made to the Allied campaign worldwide throughout the Second World War. Bowyer’s research is thorough and exhaustive, drawing on sources that include original documentation, reports, and many first-hand accounts from those who flew or worked on the Sunderland in the UK and abroad.
The Sunderland served the RAF for a total of 21 years, during which it is estimated to have been instrumental in destroying or damaging at least 60 German and Italian U-boats. Operating as part of Coastal Command, it played a vital role throughout the war: protecting shipping routes and convoys, reconnaissance, supplying aid and evacuations, air-sea rescues, and passenger transportation, to name but a few. Post-war, its usefulness endured, supporting the Berlin Airlift, with many aircraft converted for use in civil aviation. Reading this account, it is easy to see why the Sunderland inspired such awe and affection among those who lived and worked with it.
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Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body
Dr Andrew Huberman, host of the world’s leading health podcast, Huberman Lab, and neuroscientist and tenured professor at Stanford School of Medicine, introduces Protocols, an essential guide to improving brain function, enhancing mood and energy, optimising bodily health and physical performance, and rewiring your nervous system to learn new skills and behaviours that can transform your life.
Protocols provides simple, powerful and evidence-based solutions to life’s most common challenges. Designed to improve your mental health, physical health and performance, these guidelines are customisable, allowing you to adapt them to your specific needs. With his clear and engaging style, Dr Huberman explains the scientific principles behind each protocol and how they can deliver immediate, effective results. Protocols is your essential road map for achieving optimal health.
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£15.60£20.90Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body
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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
The extraordinary memoir of an orphan who danced her way from war-torn Sierra Leone to ballet stardom, most recently appearing in Beyonce’s Lemonade and as a principal in a major American dance company.“Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina. For every young brown, yellow, and purple dancer, she is an inspiration!” –Misty Copeland, world-renowned ballet dancer
Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life.
At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is now the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She has appeared in the ballet documentary First Position, as well as on Dancing with the Stars, Good Morning America, and Nightline.
In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet’s most exciting rising stars.
“Michaela DePrince is the embodiment of what it means to fight for your dream.” –Today
“Michaela DePrince is a role model for girls on and off stage.” –NYLON
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The Carpenter and the American’s Daughter: A Tale of Jazz, Dance and Romance in the 1960s
It was the 1960s and times were changing.
Young people were earning more and new styles of music and fashion were evolving. The young were finding new ways to express themselves and were developing a different type of social life from the older generations.
With money in their pockets, they had plenty of pubs and clubs to choose from to put work behind them and mark the end of the working week.
One Friday night destination was a Jazz Club in the centre of the city of Bristol.
People from different backgrounds met there to listen to the music, and dance.
This is the story of some of the young men and women who met, formed relationships and developed bonds of friendship.Read more
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Street Dance Skills & Drills – The BBoy Bootcamp
You need the most effective practice skills and drills to get the fastest results. “Street Dance Skills & Drills – BBoy Bootcamp” includes over 140 pages of the most effective training techniques used by your favorite street dancers all over the world! No matter who you are, the better your practice sessions, the more progress you’ll make and the faster your power and style will improve! With a foreword by BBoy Pioneer Kujo of the legendary Soul Control and Ill-Abilities Crew, these proven techniques break down everything you need to accelerate your street dance results! Barry “GRIZ” Rabkin is the founder of CypherStyles.com, the world’s largest street dance source! GRIZ’s lessons make it easy for beginners of all ages to quickly master advanced concepts and help experienced dancers perfect their own unique styles. GRIZ has spent over a decade professionally performing and teaching street dance, sharing the most effective practice and training theories. His research led him to a degree in Psychology and certification as both a National Council on Strength and Fitness Personal Trainer and a Sports Nutritionist. GRIZ has had the opportunity to learn secrets from hundreds of world class dancers and the “Super Power Practice” book series passes all that focused knowledge on to you. Take your street dancing to the next level! Join the thousands of people all over the world who have already learned street dancing from CypherStyles.com!Read more
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When the Elephants Dance: A Novel
“Papa explains the war like this: ‘When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.’ The great beasts, as they circle one another, shaking the trees and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos and the Japanese as they fight. And our Philippine Islands? We are the small chickens.”Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, in ways both magical and true to life. When the Elephants Dance is set in the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands. Through the eyes of three narrators, thirteen-year-old Alejandro Karangalan, his spirited older sister Isabelle, and Domingo, a passionate guerilla commander, we see how ordinary people find hope for survival where none seems to exist. While the Karangalan family and their neighbors huddle together for survival in the cellar of a house, they tell magical stories to one another based on Filipino myth that transport the listeners from the chaos of the war around them and give them new resolve to continue fighting. Outside the safety of their refuge the war rages on—fiery bombs torch the countryside, Japanese soldiers round up and interrogate innocent people, and from the hills guerilla fighters wage a desperate campaign against the enemy. Inside the cellar, these men, women, and children put their hopes and dreams on hold as they wait out the war.
This stunning debut novel celebrates with richness and depth the spirit of the Filipino people and their fascinating story and marks the introduction of an author who will join the ranks of writers such as Arundhati Roy, Manil Suri, and Amy Tan.
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The Competition: Volume 3 (Maddie Ziegler)
Bunheads meets The Kicks in this third novel in this entertaining middle grade series from New York Times bestselling author, dancer, model, and actress Maddie Ziegler!Harper and her fellow Dance Starz are headed to New York City for the big national competition! Not only will they be up against their arch-rivals, the Belles, but Harper will also face off against her old dance team. Does Harper have what it takes to finally prove that she belongs on the big stage?
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Ballerina Coloring Book For Girls: Perfect Ballet Dancer Gift For Ages 4-8: 34 Beautiful Ballerina Illustrations To Color In
**CUTE BALLERINA TIME!**
“NEW AND IMPORVED, BETTER IMAGES TO COLOR IN”
Does your little one love ballet and ballerinas?! Then they’ll love this ballerina themed coloring book, which includes 34 images of cute ballerinas dancing, performing and having fun! Including cute animal ballerina as an added bonus- Check the back cover for an example.
Simple ballerina illustrations to color in with NO repeats- This ballerina themed book will keep them busy for hours that’s for sure.
There are many benefits through coloring, not only will they enjoy coloring their interest but also the following:
- Improved motor skills
- Improved focus
- Improved hand to eye coordination
- Improved confidence
- Stress relief
- Preparation for school
- Creativity & self-expression
Product details:
- 8.5×11 inches perfect image sizes
- 34 illustrations ( No repeats)
- Single sided- so no bleed through
- Perfect for ages 2-4, 4-8
This Ballerina coloring book is also a handy gift option for daughters, neices or grandaughters
Let your loved one immerse themselves into the ballerina world with this coloring book!
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Everybody Can Dance!
The music starts. You feel the beat.
You clap your hands and tap your feet.
Everybody twist and twirl!
Everybody can dance!
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Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story
Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should. Her father was killed by rebels and her mother died of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela was mistreated and saw the brutal murder of her favourite teacher.
Then Michaela and her best friend are adopted by an American couple, and Michaela begins to take dance lessons. But life in the States isn’t without difficulties. Unfortunately, tragedy can find its way to Michaela in America, too, and her past can feel like it’s haunting her. The world of ballet is a racist one, and Michaela has to fight for a place amongst the ballet elite, hearing the words ‘America’s not ready for a black girl ballerina.’
And yet . . . Today, Michaela DePrince is an international ballet star, dancing for The Dutch National Ballet at the age of nineteen. This is a heart-breaking, inspiring autobiography by a teenager who shows us that, beyond everything, there is always hope for a better future.
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Pocket Guide to Line Dancing Terminology: A Guide for Beginners
Welcome to the wonderful world of line dancing! If you are just starting out, you may be overwhelmed by seeing large groups of people who seem to know all the dances and who can follow the language of line dancing effortlessly. Well, they all began the same way: one step at a time, one dance at a time. This glossary contains the basic line dance steps you’ll need to recognize to make your learning experience easier. After more than 30 years of teaching, the author has broken down each step into its individual parts and assembled them in an easy-to-use and very portable format. Your job is to learn each step so you can begin to enjoy line dancing and become part of that large group on the dance floor!!Read more
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Steppin’ Lively – Line Dance for Beginners
This book, written to help beginners navigate the world of line dancing, contains descriptions of standard step sequences, with step sheets, choreographed by the authors, for 72 dances.Read more
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Choreography – craft and vision: Developing and Structuring Dance for Solo, Duet and Groups
SOFTCOVER SPECIAL Edition KDP
This book offers a comprehensive toolbox of approaches
to analysing and creating contemporary
choreography.Are you ready to deepen your understanding
of the world of dance and the creative
process of choreography?In this book about choreography you will learn
how to develop dance and performance.
In order for you to truly enjoy the process of
choreography, I will offer you tools to help you
enter into a creative flow.
Because ultimately, that’s what it’s all about:
getting into a free flowing joyful process with the
dancers and having plenty of fun along the way,
as you develop a solo, a duet or a group piece for
the stage or a film.You will learn how to expand your repertoire and
how to trigger in your dancers, identification and
connection with your theme.I will present various ways in which you can
develop and structure your work. Tools with
which you can introduce tension, multiple facets,
variety and powerful dynamics into your dances,
allowing a dramaturgy to emerge.You will receive over 120 exercises to inspire you
for your rehearsals or classes.
You can now preview the entire book online for
free or download a reading sample.
Take a look.
It will inspire you and your dancing and it will
improve your choreography.When it comes to choreography, many
dancers are initially lost.
Nevertheless, there are people who can’t
dance and still develop great pieces.
Maybe you’re a gifted mover, but that
doesn’t mean that your material works in one
piece.Even if your movements are great and
others admire you for how you dance, it can
happen very quickly that the sensation of your
skills wears off very quickly and your movements
seem arbitrary. Especially if you have transferred
them to a group. And you ask yourself in such a
moment: What am I doing wrong? My dancers
are great, my movement material is innovative,
but on stage it all seems interchangeable and it’s
just movement. And you think: This is all
pointless.No, that’s not it! It’s about how you deal
with everything. How you connect the dancers
with your ideas and with your material. How you
manage that the dancers make your visions and
your movements theirs. How to get them there
to identify with what moves you. But even that is
not enough.You need to know more about how
dramaturgy works in dance. How you build up an
arc of suspense and what that has to do with
space and rhythm. How to create interesting
contrasts and how to deal with music and
movement.This book covers all of that. You can open
it anywhere and get inspiration for the rehearsal
or class and expand your thought space. But you
can also focus on certain topics such as music
and movement. You can delve deeper into the
work of thematic development and structuring
of access development.In total there are 120 studies and
exercises that you do not have to do one to one.
You can use the exercises as a suggestion and
develop them further in order to get on with
your dancing and choreography.Read more
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I’m Just A 7 Year Old Girl Who Loves Dancing: 7th Birthday Gifts For Girls, Notebook gift for Dancing lovers, Birthday Journal for Dancing lovers, … gift, 120Pages, 6×9, matte…
- This is a perfect notebook as a birthday gift for Dancing lovers.
- Perfect for documenting notes, ideas, organizing thoughts, or even sketching.
- 6×9 inches
- 120 lined pages
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Friends that Dance Together Stay Together: Ballerina Journal and Notebook for Ballet Dancing Class Notes | Workshop Schedule Diary and Task Planner for Ballerinas
“Friends that dance together stay together” – Powerful motivational quote for achieving your ballet goals!
- Inspirational quote on velvety smooth MATTE finish COVER with AMAZING BRIGHT COLORS on the back;
- 110 PAGES with personalized TRACKING pages included;
- 6″ x 9″ dimensions;
- Undated planner as a simple diary to use each and every day to track your tasks, class notes, plans, working on and schedule;
- Space to plan ahead whenever you wish to do so;
- Diary and Planner for those who love to schedule and task every day and who want to keep track of the progress;
- Portable size for school, home or traveling;
- Professionally printedwith rich, colorful, saturated colors on front and back cover.
This is a FABULOUS GIFT!
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Dance-The Sacred Art: The Joy of Movement as a Spiritual Practice (The Art of Spiritual Living)
For many people, the idea of dance is relegated to professionals. But for Cynthia Winton-Henry, dance is the movement of life. In the pages of this book, she invites all of us, regardless of experience, into the possibility of dance/movement as a spiritual practice. Offering simple movement suggestions that even the clumsy among us can try, Winton-Henry opens up a liberating form of spiritual practice that can lead to spirit-centred living in our human bodies. Drawing on her extensive background in movement and dance and her studies and understanding of spirituality, she combines her lived experience to introduce such practices as: · Dance for Soul Retrieval: Movements that can bring serenity, energy, humour, strength and healing · Seven Minutes of Heaven Therapy, or Just Vacation: Movement practices for invoking, blessing, releasing, balancing, discerning · A Few Elegant Forms: Open, loose movement structures to help us follow our own instincts to move DANCE THE SACRED ART is a simple, approachable resource for people at all levels on the movement path who want to explore how dance and movement can be an important element in their spiritual growth. The book, also, includes suggestions for Creating Dancing Community for readers who want to take their dance and movement practices to the next level.Read more
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Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
With their era-defining music and instantly recognisable look, Chic s reputation as pioneers of disco has endured long after the movement itself.
After their initial success in the 1970s with classics such as Good Times , Le Freak and I Want Your Love , Chic disbanded in 1983, with founding members Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards becoming in-demand producers. After Edwards tragic early passing in 1996, Nile Rodgers involvement in Daft Punk s 2013 s smash hit Get Lucky catapulted Chic back to international acclaim. And now, from curating Meltdown in 2019 to headlining festivals all over the world, Nile Rodgers and Chic have arguably never been more popular.
Covering the sweet successes and fallings out of favour, the creative process and encounters with Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Diana Ross, Madonna and others, the acclaimed Everybody Dance explores the highs and the lows of Chic s journey in fascinating detail. With a new foreword by Duran Duran founding member John Taylor and a host of new interviews with Nile Rodgers, Johnny Mathis and many others, to add to those with Ahmet Ertegun, Bryan Ferry and David Bowie, this edition bring their enthralling journey up to date.
A must-read for any disco fan, Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco is the essential story of the legendary band who still get us lost in music, over four decades on.
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Woodland Dance! (Boynton on Board)
The moose plays the cello. The deer, violin. And it’s ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three, time to begin. This mystical, waltzing board book from the one and only Sandra Boynton is a magical book to share with a magical child.Woodland animals heed the call of the fox’s bugle to join the woodland dance in a moonlit glade, dancing all night to the music of the Woodland Dance Trio. As the animals wander off to bed, the Trio plays one last piece to welcome the sun in this rhythmic story that’s a lovely, lyrical way to start or end the day.
They waltz, or they foxtrot.
They pivot and prance.
And they dance. And they dance.
And they dance. And they dance.Read more
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Beginning Jazz Dance
Beginning Jazz Dance is the perfect resource for helping students gain a strong foundation of beginning jazz dance techniques. Written by jazz dance choreographer and professor James Robey, this text prepares students to have a successful experience in a beginning jazz dance technique course. It introduces students to the history, artists, significant works, styles, and aesthetics of the genre so they understand dance as a performing art.Beginning Jazz Dance features 80 photos accompanied by descriptions that visually present the beginning jazz dance technique and dance concepts that will reinforce and extend classroom learning. It also has related online resources that include 55 photos and 125 video clips of basic jazz dance technique. Students can access these photos and videos at any time for their study or practice and will benefit from the wealth of other resources including assignments, worksheets, glossary terms with and without definitions, interactive chapter quizzes, and web links to help students develop their basic knowledge and skills.
Through the text, students learn these aspects of jazz dance:
- The core concepts of jazz dance, the value of studying jazz dance, and class expectations
- The structure of a jazz dance class, the roles of everyone in the studio, and how to be physically and mentally prepared for class
- Tips on injury prevention, nutrition guidelines, and basic anatomy and kinesiology as applied to movement in jazz dance
- Basic body alignment and positions in jazz dance
- Jazz walks, kicks, turns, leaps, and floor work
Beginning Jazz Dance provides students with the context, background information, and basic instruction they need in order to understand the genre and appreciate jazz dance as a performing art. This text and companion online resource is ideal for dance majors, dance minors, and general education students enrolled in beginning jazz dance technique courses. It is also suitable for students in performing arts and magnet schools and high school dance programs.
Beginning Jazz Dance is a part of Human Kinetics’ Interactive Dance Series. The series includes resources for ballet, modern, tap, jazz, musical theater, and hip-hop dance that support introductory dance technique courses taught through dance, physical education, and fine arts departments. Each student-friendly text has related online learning tools including video clips of dance instruction, assignments, and activities. The Interactive Dance Series offers students a collection of guides to learning, performing, and viewing dance.
Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with this ebook.
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Growing up with Michael Jackson Dances: Michael Jackson Coloring Book for Kids: A Black and White Book of Coloring Pages for all ages who enjoy fun and coloring
Here’s to all the Michael Jackson fans and folks who share a passion for coloring and knowledge-seekers!
This special coloring book holds trinkets to shed the life and legacy of the King of Pop with “Growing up with Michal Jackson Dances Coloring Book I have a tribute version to the Icon himself filled with my illustration that I am sure will intrigue you because some of them are intricate ones drawn over and over again to be refined with passion and of course, the book also is a pandora’s box of MJ trivia.
This coloring book promises you and your loved ones that you want to gift this an unforgettable artistic experience.
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Rhythmic Gymnastics: Ribbon for beginners
Let’s learn Rhythmic Gymnastics at home.
You can easily learn how to do the rhythmic gymnastics by yourself with this text.– Contents –
How to grip a ribbon stick
Circle
Snake
Draw figure ‘8’
Catch the tail
Figure ‘V’
Wrapping
Cross over
Handling
Toss
BalanceColoring
R.G. apparatus
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Dance Magic (Autumn Moonbeam)
Autumn Moonbeam loves gymnastics and dance so when Sparkledale Dance Academy have try-outs for their competitive dance team, Black Cats, she thinks it’s the most broom-tastic opportunity ever! Just one problem, Autumn is nervous and worries she won’t make it onto the team. And then she discovers that her nasty neighbour Severina Bloodworth is trying out too. But with her best friend Batty by her side can Autumn overcome her shyness, lack of confidence and magical mishaps to be chosen to join Sparkledale Dance Academy? Enchanting, fun and full of heart, this is a story about growing into yourself, following your dreams and making new friends along the way. With added stunts and magic, of course!Read more
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100 Favourite Ceilidh Dances
From traditional favourites to modern country dances, these 100 Favourite Ceilidh Dances are bound to get your blood pumping. The book includes easy to follow instructions and diagrams, a brief history of Scottish country dancing, and information about the origins of each dance.
Beginners will be expert country dancers in no time, and experts will return again and again to share and call their favourite dances.
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Mr Keynes’ Dance: The compelling historical novel about a remarkable marriage and an intellectual journey
The sequel to the much-praised Mr Keynes’ Revolution.The story of one man’s intellectual journey, and of a very remarkable marriage.
1926. Maynard Keynes has long been a thorn in the side of the British Establishment: an irritant to the Treasury, the Bank of England and his fellow academics alike. Rejected for his radical ideas, he has made an unlikely marriage to a Russian ballerina, her eccentricity charming him almost as much as it infuriates his highbrow Bloomsbury friends. But as the world around them changes, Maynard and Lydia cannot stay cocooned in their private refuge for long.
While Maynard frets about the ever-growing dole queues, and plans his route to power by way of the magnetic Lloyd George, Lydia is tormented by the thought of her family in Leningrad. Exiled by the Russian Revolution, she has found fame and fortune as the star dancer of Diaghilev’s celebrated Ballets Russes. Yet however demanding the role of stage celebrity, it is less challenging than that of the supposedly respectable and fortunate Mrs Keynes: the scrutiny of a crowded theatre less intense than from those convinced her marriage is heading for disaster.
In truth for Lydia and Maynard, marriage was always a gamble, and their life a dance where nobody is quite sure of the steps.
Then comes the Wall Street Crash, followed by a depression the likes of which the world has never seen. A society barely recovered from the Great War seems dangerously close to collapse. In the turmoil of the 1930s, the intellectual Maynard finds that answers must be sought in the most unlikely places.
The story of the man who invented modern economics.
In tumultuous times, it is not enough to hope for calmer waters.
Set during some of the most momentous years of the twentieth century, this novel explores the lives of two figures at the heart of those economic and cultural upheavals: John Maynard Keynes, considered by many as the most important economist of all time, and one of Time Magazine’s most significant people of the twentieth century, and the celebrated and eccentric Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova. Beginning in the “roaring twenties”, with ever-growing unemployment queues and a General Strike that pitches the whole labouring class against the governing elite, their journey takes them from the heart of the Bohemian Bloomsbury Group in Sussex, to Leningrad in Soviet Russia, to New York in the grip of the Great Depression, to the quiet colleges courts of Cambridge. The supporting cast ranges from a Welsh kitchen maid to pioneering socialist Beatrice Webb, fascist leader Oswald Mosley, politician Winston Churchill and writer Virginia Woolf.
A sequel to Mr Keynes’ Revolution, which was much praised for the depth of its research, and the way it deftly interwove economic ideas and history into a story of personal relationships and romance, Mr Keynes’ Dance is another intellectually daring and page-turning historical novel, which continues the tumultuous and surprising story of Maynard and Lydia.
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Ballet | 2024 7 x 14 Inch Monthly Mini Wall Calendar | BrownTrout | Performance Dance Art
Celebrate the grace and beauty of this classical dance form that captures the hearts of people the world over. Ballet originated during the Italian Renaissance, developed in France in the seventeenth century, and has since become an international art form. Invite the seemingly effortless elegance of ballet into your home with this delightful calendar.
- Photography – Enjoy stunning, full-color photographs every single month
- Durable Construction – Sturdy, high-quality paper resists curling and ink bleed-through, and durable binding ensures longevity throughout the year
- Use Right Away – 16-month calendar, 12 full monthly pages and beginning with a bonus spread of the final four months of the preceding year with an additional image
- Compact Size – Small size perfect for areas where space is limited
- Compact Day Blocks – All major holidays and moon phases listed
- Specifications – 16 months (two-page layout September–December 2023, and January–December 2024); 7″ x 7″ (closed); 7″ x 14″ (opened); 28 pages
- BrownTrout Earth-Friendly – Manufactured with sustainable materials, including Forest Stewardship Council®-certified paper and soy ink
- Abundant Gift Options – BrownTrout has over 1,000 calendars representing favorite subjects, themes, and formats to keep you organized
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The Devils’ Dance
On New Years’ Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, he attempts to mentally reconstruct the novel he was writing at the time of his arrest based on the tragic life of the Uzbek poet-queen Oyhon, married to three khans in succession, and living as Abdulla now does, with the threat of execution hanging over her. As he gets to know his cellmates, Abdulla discovers that the Great Game of Oyhon’s time, when English and Russian spies infiltrated the courts of Central Asia, has echoes in the 1930s present, but as his identification with his protagonist increases and past and present overlap it seems that Abdulla’s inability to tell fact from fiction will be his undoing.The Devils’ Dance brings to life the extraordinary culture of 19th century Turkestan, a world of lavish poetry recitals, brutal polo matches, and a cosmopolitan and culturally diverse Islam rarely described in western literature. Hamid Ismailov’s virtuosic prose recreates this multilingual milieu in a digressive, intricately structured novel, dense with allusion, studded with quotes and sayings, and threaded through with modern and classical poetry.
With this poignant, loving resurrection of both a culture and a literary canon brutally suppressed by a dictatorship which continues today, Ismailov demonstrates yet again his masterful marriage of contemporary international fiction and the Central Asian literary traditions, and his deserved position in the pantheon of both.
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The Dance of the Dolls
Caroline Kepnes’s You meets Black Swan in this psychological thriller about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers–identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara Marionetta–with a terrifying climax set in the world of ballet in pre-war London. Fans of historical fiction books with strong female characters and suspense-driven thrillers will be enthralled!“[As a] former ballerina, Ashe’s insights into the world of professional dance elevate this unsettling debut thriller about identical twin sisters and the toxic male attention they attract.”–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
The Dance of the Dolls tells the story of identical twin ballerinas rehearsing for the ballet Coppélia at the recently opened Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. Superficially, even their differences are complementary: Olivia aspires to be the perfect ballerina while Clara is rebellious and independent. Clara has been seeing a pianist at the theater, the passionate Nathan, while Olivia is unaware that she’s cast a spell on Samuel, a bashful apprentice ballet shoemaker who steals into Sadler’s Wells as often as he can to watch her dance. But as the sisters rehearse, danger lurks. The story of Coppélia–about a young man who becomes obsessed with a life-size doll–threatens to become a dark and sinister reality. Samuel dreams of being recognized by Olivia and wonders how far he’d go to achieve his goal, while Nathan, a musical child prodigy, struggles to adapt to adulthood and begins to blur the lines between reality and his dark fantasy world . . .
Ashe has penned one of the most unputdownable books of 2023, perfect for anyone who found themselves captivated by the suspense-driven series and films Dare Me, Black Swan, and Luckiest Girl Alive. The Dance of the Dolls mesmerizes and will fulfill your sister books wish list and penchant for psychological suspense thrillers such as If We Were Villains, by M. L. Rio.
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The Next Step Ofiicial Guide to Quizzes,Dance Tips, Stories etc perfect for fans of dance!
Based on the popular TV show which airs on CBBC, The Next Step Complete Guide is perfect for fans of dance!
Tweens can learn even more about the characters they know and love, learn dance moves and choreograph their own routines, receive hair, makeup and lifestyle tips, and also partake in many entertaining activities and take various quizzes and personality tests including one which will reveal who their perfect duet partner would be!
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Dance of the Starlit Sea
“Hades and Persephone” meets Phantom of the Opera by way of Laini Taylor, in a sensually rendered world that seethes with intrigue and indulges the senses. Welcome to Luna Island.Violet, magenta, deep blood red.
Passion, violence, destruction.Lila Rose Li arrives at her aunt’s cottage with dashed dreams. For years, she pushed herself to become the perfect ballerina her parents would approve of, but after collapsing on stage, she snapped and lashed out violently. Now, exiled to Luna Island, with its sparkling blue waters and rose-covered boutiques, Lila struggles to believe that a girl like her–a natural disaster–deserves good and gentle things.
As the islanders gear up for their beloved tradition, the Angel of the Sea pageant, Lila vows to remain on the sidelines. But the more she learns about the island’s lore, the more she grows suspicious. Luna Island was nothing more than a failed fishing village before angels supposedly came and blessed them with abundance. The pageant is a competition to seek a High Priestess for their commune. To win is to be loved and adored by all, the ultimate blessing.
However, the Angel of the Sea is supposed to reign for seven years, and the previous winner only reigned for one. Something is haunting the island, throwing off the balance the pageant ensures. And as an eerie voice calls to Lila, drawing her closer to the ocean–to its depths–she worries its haunting her, too. The only way to discover what’s really going on, and protect herself, is to win the pageant. But how can a monstrous girl like her ever hope to be crowned by angels?
Kiana Krystle’s enchanting debut simmers with forbidden romance and dark secrets. A lush and sinister blend of paranormal mystery and mythology, wrapped up in fairytale about a teen girl’s hard-earned journey toward loving every part of herself.
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Through a Glass, Darkly
Steeped in classic horror, this chilling contemporary tale deals with secrets long buried, festering guilt, and haunting loneliness. Jack Trent, the most effective criminal investigation officer in the history of the department, is having bad dreams of a child’s murder in a forest at the hands of something indescribable.
But these are more than nightmares—they are visions of the future that Jack has tried for years to suppress. Something happened to Jack in his childhood— something that means he cannot touch another living person and something that killed his mother—and this something has returned to inspire his visions.
In a final race against time, Jack attempts to save a boy’s life in the clearing of Redgrave Forest. Can he face the long-dead Dr. Mendicant and the ancient Darkness of Crowman? Can he face the evil living inside himself? And what will he make of the Doctor’s final, devastating revelation?
“Horrific, haunting, and humane, Hussey’s novel is a disturbing journey into the darkest of minds.” – Tim Lebbon, author of The Last Storm
“Packed with atmosphere and beautiful writing. Hussey delivers an absorbing, creepy read.” – Rev. Peter Laws, author of The Frighteners and The Matt Hunter Series
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Seagull’s Got to Dance: The Second Adventure (Seagulls Don’t Eat Sorbet)
The Seagull Chicks are back!
This time, the Chicks have to attend the season’s opening address by the seagull leader, Sky. It doesn’t sound like fun and Seb especially is bored, at least until the Seriously Seagull dance troupe fly in to perform a dance. Completely mesmerised, Seb suddenly knows that this is what he wants to be – a dancer.
However, his seagull community just work the promenade pinching chips and they don’t believe that any of their seagulls should do anything else. Determined to complete his dream, Seb continues to practice his routines but he gets into trouble, only helped out by his nana and grandad who tell him to go for it.
Will Seb fulfil his dream of being a true dancer?
The next charming adventure in this children’s series, Seagull’s Got to Dance brings a love of dance into Seb’s world. It is ideal for young children, especially those in Blackpool who will recognise the illustrated locations!
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Dance Today: Street Dance
Get to know the steps, performances and dancers who added their signature style to the street dance movement. From Paula Abdul to Justin Timberlake to Jabbawockeez, Today’s Street Dance: More than Locking and Freestyle Moves will have you air-walking, tutting and strutting your stuff.Read more
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Pretending to Dance
When the pretending ends, the lying begins . . .
It’s the summer of 1990 and fourteen-year-old Molly Arnette lives with her extended family on one hundred acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The summer seems idyllic at first. The mountains are Molly’s playground and she’s well loved by her father, a therapist famous for books he’s written about a method called ‘Pretend Therapy’; her adoptive mother, who has raised Molly as her own; and Amalia, her birth mother who also lives on the family land.
The adults in Molly’s life have created a safe and secure world for her to grow up in. But Molly’s security begins to crumble as she becomes aware of a plan taking shape in her extended family – a plan she can’t stop and that threatens to turn her idyllic summer into a nightmare.
Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister, is a fascinating and deftly-woven novel, that reveals the devastating power of secrets.
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The Dance of Life: Allow yourself to hear what vibrates inside you.
This moving book invites you to enter the spiritual world, to discover your true self. Françoise Rambaud tells the story of her life, how she heard voices speaking to her even in childhood – benevolent voices, urging her to speak the truth as she sees it.
Born in France, she has spent much of her life travelling the world, searching for wisdom in other civilisations and countries, and from other enlightened individuals.
She has developed this gift through many voyages of self-discovery and here she describes how true self-knowledge can be achieved.
Absorbing and fascinating, Enter the Vibration, The Dance of Life will enlarge your knowledge of the spiritual world in its quest to help you find yourself in the modern world, with its overwhelming distractions and temptations. A truly unique book.
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Clock Dance
A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of French Braid
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: her mother’s disappearance when she was just a child, being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one, the accident that would leave her a widow in her forties. Each time, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.
So when she receives a phone call from a stranger informing her that her son’s ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter leads Willa into uncharted territory and the eventual realisation that it’s never too late to choose your own path.
**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**
‘Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing’ Rachel Joyce
‘She knows all the secrets of the human heart’ Monica Ali
‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks
‘I love Anne Tyler. I’ve read every single book she’s written’ Jacqueline Wilson
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Fly High Crew: The Green Glow (2021’s most exciting kids’ book from the Diversity dance superstars!)
An action-packed, laugh-out-loud, high-energy story for boys and girls featuring adults taken over by aliens and a brave group of kids who must work together as a team to stop them!
From TV personalities and Diversity street dance superstars, brothers Ashley and Jordan Banjo.
Brothers Trey and Jax spend after-school hours rehearsing with their street dance collective the Fly High Crew, until the evening they see a green beam of light flash out of the sky and are thrown into an out-of-this-world adventure!
Aliens have landed and are mind-controlling all the teachers and adults: can the Fly High Crew work together as a team and save the day?
- Written in collaboration with Alexandra Sheppard
- Full of fantastic art by Dionna Gary Bunn
- For fans of Tom Fletcher and Alesha Dixon.
PRAISE FOR THE FLY HIGH CREW
“exciting and fun filled” – Sevenoaks Bookshop, young reader review
“…full of action, aliens and a tight-knit crew who would do anything for each other. The twists and turns of the alien invasion keeps the reader guessing, putting them fully in the shoes of the adventurous crew experiencing such extraordinary events occurring in their school and homes.” – Matthew age 11, The Reading Zone
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Ballet Kids
My toes tingle with excitement. It’s ballet class today!
Snowflakes are falling softly outside when Thomas and his friends arrive at Mr Elliot’s dance studio. Prancing and whirling and twirling around the room, the boys and girls perfect their steps – first and second position, pliés, curtsies and more. Then, it’s time for the most exciting moment … picking out costumes for their first ever performance: The Nutcracker!
Joyful and spirited, this young celebration of dancing is inspired by the author’s time learning ballet as a child, and will have little dancers, and aspiring dancers, pointing their toes and joining in.
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Dance in Donegal
All of her life, Irish-American Moira Doherty has relished her mother’s descriptions of Ireland. When her mother dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1920, Moira decides to fulfill her mother’s wish that she become the teacher in Ballymann, her home village in Donegal, Ireland. After an arduous voyage, Moira arrives to a new home and a new job in an ancient country. Though a few locals offer a warm welcome, others are distanced by superstition and suspicion. Rumors about Moira’s mother are unspoken in her presence but threaten to derail everything she’s journeyed to Ballymann to do. Moira must rely on the kindness of a handful of friends–and the strength of Sean, an unsettlingly handsome thatcher who keeps popping up unannounced–as she seeks to navigate a life she’d never dreamed of . . . but perhaps was meant to live. Jennifer Deibel’s debut novel delights the senses, bringing to life the sights, sounds, smells, and language of a lush country and a colorful people. Historical romance fans will embrace her with open arms.Read more
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NYC Ballet Fashion Gala: Choreography & Couture
Celebrating the dual art forms of ballet and fashion, this beautiful book explores the creative collaborations between the New York City Ballet and top fashion designers of our age, including Valentino, Dries Van Noten, and Olivier Theyskens among others. Ballet and fashion have long been intertwined. From its creation in seventeenth-century France, classical ballet adapted elements from high style including the ballerina s corseted bodice, tulle skirt, and pointe shoes. The world of fashion happily reciprocated, incorporating balletic style into day and evening wear, a trend that continues to this day. The interrelationship between these beautiful art forms is exemplified by the New York City Ballet s annual Fall Fashion Gala in which the company s young choreographers collaborate with prominent fashion designers on a newly commissioned ballet. From the first gala in 2012 when renowned choreographers Peter Martins and Christopher Wheeldon worked with Valentino, up through the present, the performances have become the most glamorous cultural event of the season with the biggest names in fashion bringing their artistic vision to a never-seen-before ballet. With stunning photography, this book features incredible images of the dancers in motion, with details highlighting their couture costumes. Richly illustrated, with the designers costume sketches complementing the photography, the book also features interviews between the dancers, choreographers and designers, as well as essays by noted fashion writers, illuminating the dynamic process of design and dance.Read more
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Ballet Shoes (A Puffin Book)
Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.
We three Fossils vow to try to put our name into history books, because it’s our very own, and nobody can say it’s because of our grandfathers.
Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are sisters – with a difference. All three were adopted as babies by Great Uncle Matthew, an eccentric and rich explorer who then disappeared, leaving them in the care of his niece Sylvia. When Sylvia starts to run out of money they hit on an inspired idea: Pauline, Petrova and Posy will attend Madame Fidolia’s Children’s Academy of Dance and Stage Training – and take to the stage. But it’s not long before the Fossils learn that being a star isn’t as easy as they first thought…
Ballet Shoes is the magical, warm-hearted and much loved classic tale of three very different girls who work hard to master their talents.
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I’d Rather Be Line Dancing Notebook: Perfect notebook / journal for that person who loves to line dance.
A 120 Paged Notebook for people who love to Line Dance. Ideal gift for birthdays, Christmas or just to show you care. Perfect notebook for yourself to use at work, when you would rather be out line dancing.6X9 inches
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Katie Morag and the Dancing Class (Katie Morag, 2)
Welcome to the Island of Struay, home of one of the best-loved characters in children’s books and as seen on TV – Katie Morag McColl!
Everyone is excited about the new ballet and tap classes. Everyone, that is, except Katie Morag! But the two grandmothers have decided – she will go to ballet and she will wear a frilly skirt! What is Katie Morag going to do?
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