Illustrated throughout with vivid examples from dramatherapy sessions, An Introduction to Dramatherapy shows how drama can be used in an intentional and directional way to achieve constructive change with individuals or groups. In particular, the book highlights the power of drama as a therapeutic medium because of its foundations in metaphor, power which can be harnessed through the use of techniques such as role play, enactment, story-telling and the use of puppets and masks. The book provides a welcome overview for readers who are new to the field and an excellent starting point for further study.
"The Editors of Reader's Digest Super Word Power" is written by the experts in the field of vocabulary.There are collections of articles and tests previously published in the "Reader's Digest".
"The Editors of Reader's Digest Word Power: An Anthology Of Articles & Tests with an Introduction by Peter Funk" is a Berkley/Reader's Digest book. A classical book of vocabulary written by world leading writers of Reader's Digest.
There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each
a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000
years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time,
linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within
the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular
perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living,
dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human
environment.
Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its illustrative examples from languages around the world, including pidgins, Creoles, and nonstandard dialects.
