Les McGehee's [i]Plays Well With Others[/i] is a breezy how-to book by an improvising pioneer that is part autobiography and part field guide to the life and habits of successful improvisers. It offers rare insights gained through over 20 years of improv experience in how to incorporate humor and positive affirmation of in-the-moment opportunities guaranteed to enhance both your business and personal life. With techniques McGehee uses in MBA and government programs, [i]Plays Well With Others[/i] provides the basics for the layman and clear advanced tricks of the trade for the professional improviser. Cleverly divided into sections that can be read independently, the reader can delve deep or graze into the fields of play McGehee so clearly describes. It contains autobiographical passages illustrating how the improvisational life works, an annotated list of classic improv games for business and entertainment, diary entries of improv tours, statistical references on the successful implementation of improvisational techniques in business, and recommendations on how to further your improv education locally, nationally, and internationally.

Les Mcgehee Plays Well With Others

Mcgehee, Les

Religion & Spirituality

Dalton Pub

Quotes are one of the most engaging and widely used forms of inspiration. For millions, they create an experiential link to the past and cultivate hope for a brighter future. Kimberlie Dykeman engages her readers by tapping this profound power and revealing fresh insights to encourage zestful exploration of how to be exactly who you want to be. Cleverly leveraging the wisdom of generational pioneers like John Quincy Adams and John Lennon, she transforms bite-sized gems into powerful forward-thinking life lessons. [i]Pure Soapbox[/i] defies categorization as it urges readers of every walk of life to examine life's journey and create a path of joyful participation and gratifying purpose. Kimberlie paints a vivid picture of an attainable life beyond society's bigger-better-faster demands. Devoted to enlightening and uplifting the masses, she offers a practical approach to life and its challenges ala "motivation with a swift kick in the pants!" Pure Soapbox delivers a call-to-action that no one can ignore: Try more, do more, be more, love more! Carpe diem.and bring a helmet!

Pure Soapbox...A Cleansing Jolt of Perspective, Motivation, and Humor

Business & Money

Dykeman, Kimberlie

Business Culture

“Sometimes brilliance reflects a pair of turning hands. To catch a glimpse of what this lovely brilliance is like suggests our own hands turn over pages of a book in which such secrets of soul-tending loveliness are shared. The book of poems by poet-mythologist Richard Lance Williams, the secret book of god, offers readers this kind of soulful opportunity. Sometimes, too, what a soulful brilliance is like cannot be too simply told. Because such expression asks us not to name its name too quickly, we must open our ‘selves’ (just a little) to discover how these selves in each of us long here and belong together the way the artist will have rendered them. A remarkable and powerful expression of soul, the secret book of god can only be shared like a quest for the “mythogenic” center of our most deeply held knowing. Like every best kept, the secret book of god is one of Austin’s finer secrets…although, not for long.” ~ Stephanie Pope, MA Poet & Cultural Mythologist author of Like A Woman Falling

The Secret Book of God

Literature & Fiction

Williams, Riichard Lance

Poetry

W. Joe Hoppe powers up the poetry scene with [i]Galvanized[/i], his latest inimitable trip through the world of old cars, new babies, high and lowbrow art, tools of industry, down and outers, and, of course, The American Road. Joe's mighty, mighty heart is on full throttle here. As hypertext pioneer and novelist Michael Joyce says, "Sinister, smartass, delicate, tough all at once . . . " Joe's are poems that last, clear-eyed and accessible, and with a beauty inescapable and unabashedly working class American. Don't mind the grease, this love is bolted to the bone. Joe's a genuine, and these poems are polished paeans to the boldness of an unflinchingly generous heart.

Galvanized

Hoppe, W. Joe

Make sure to purchase only the revised and expanded Author's Edition published by Stikmantica.

Prelude to a Change of Mind (The Lands of Nod)

Stikmanz, Robert

Literary

[i]Lazarus Dying[/i]: the man Jesus raised from the dead is alive and living in New York City. [i]The Fecalist[/i]: an author whose best selling work is his latest poop. [i]Christmas[/i]: she loves you, you love her, she has a gun in your mouth. Welcome to the award-winning short fiction of Owen Egerton. Egerton, a rising star in Austin's growing literary scene, has a gift for vibrant prose and unforgettable characters. Whether exploring the strange world of faith or exposing the absurdities of contemporary Bohemia, Egerton's fiction is dark, funny and packed with the unexpected. His stories thematically complement each other, and as a whole, serve as a poignant, often hilarious, meditation on death. With razor wit and compassionate insight, Egerton has a crafted a work that brilliantly explores the pain and wonders of life knowing that with the turn of any corner death could be panhandling for your soul. It will appeal to the same smart, urban crowd who loves Neal Pollack now or the Bret Easton Ellis of 20 years ago.

How Best to Avoid Dying: Stories

Egerton, Owen

Humor & Satire

Welcome to the world of hospice where no one talks about the weather or other trivialities. Enter Matt, a fledgling screenwriter who volunteers to work with the terminally ill in exchange for a good plot for his next script. He meets the people who work, die and mourn in this world of last moments. In the novel-in-stories style of Tim O'Brien's [i]July July[/i], O'Connell's characters in [i]Evacuation Plan[/i] reveal themselves in poignantly unfolding stories: the gambler who played a risky game involving his wife and his ex-con father, the mortician who was an unwed father-to-be, the daughter whose dying father had no clue about the night her world spun out of control, the nurse who lived among aging neighbors and struggled to hold her own family in place, the drunk who magically encountered himself as a boy. Forgiveness, joy, making the final leap: [i]Evacuation Plan[/i] is the story of a world in which the clock ticks off the final moments for all of us and makes those moments a lifetime.

Evacuation Plan: A Novel from the Hospice

O'connell, Joe M.

Dramas & Plays

This fully interactive work comes as a boxed set including a wisdom book, a journal and three custom dice that allow readers to divine deeper meaning from the book than what is solely printed on the pages. Drawing upon his skills as a poet, storyteller, illustrator and designer, author Robert Stikmanz has produced Nod's Way, a potent companion to his The Hidden Lands of Nod series. Nod's Way, the oracle of the Dvarsh, does not fit handily into familiar categories. It can be read as an authority or guide, like the Tao Te Ching, or it can be consulted as a fortune telling tool, like the I-Ching. Fleshing out the fictional world of the Dvarsh, a non-human people who have developed in tandem with homo sapiens, this central artifact of their culture represents the ancient wisdom and distilled values of the Dvarsh way of life.

Nod's Way: Or Hidden Dragon

New Age & Spirituality

Michael Gilmore is astonishingly good at pulling us into the center of what it means to ache with the power and vulnerability of art and love. He can capture the delicacy of lace caught in a button and equally eviscerate a pompous radio personality with Freudian puns of fish and cigars. Visual and visceral, Restless Astronomy slices into the madness coiled within the simultaneously bloated and anorexic American monster. Gilmore's x-ray insight into our historical blindness is at once bracing and heartbreaking. Poets call us to action that both acknowledges and refutes the power of one ego to determine the destiny of others. Yet, we must also act to face our common humanities. Gilmore trusts that the center will hold in the centrifuge of the human soul.

Restless Astronomy: Poems New and Selected

Gilmore, Michael

This early edition is out of print and no longer has the endorsement of the author. Subsequent to this edition, the novel was extensively rewritten.

Entranscing

United States

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