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Bruce Goldstone ’84 co-produced with world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau, this is a “silent storybook, a reader without words.” Containing a series of striking and playful photographs of Marceau, it is also a charming tribute to that artist’s remarkable, and remarkably long, career.

Bruce Goldstone '84, has worked as an educational publisher for over 20 years. His first book, The Beastly Feast (illustrated by Blair Lent), won a Parent's Choice Silver Honor. In Ten Friends rollicking rhymes and cheerful pictures create a delightful introduction to simple addition concepts.

A native of Bronxville, NY, Bruce has written three books. His latest book, The Orlando Cepeda Story, was recently published by Arte Publico Press in July of 2001. The peaks and valleys in the life and career of a baseball Hall of Famer. A “compelling portrait of a player straining against his boundaries,” by the program presentations manager at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and biographer of another luminary of the game, Roberto Clemente.

Chuck Miller '85 is the author of Warman's American Records, 2nd Edition. Just the thing for the record collector, either active or would-be: an identification and price guide, based on condition, to thousands of music records of all genres, released between 1950 and 2000. Well indexed and illustrated, with historical background, advice on collecting, and bits of trivia thrown in. The author, a longtime collector himself, has written extensively on the subject.

Christopher Wilkinson uncovers a fascinating and unexplored side of American musical and social history in this richly detailed account of Don Albert's musical career and the multicultural forces that influenced it. Albert was born Albert Dominque in New Orleans in 1908. Wilkinson discusses his musical education in the Creole community of New Orleans and the fusion of New Orleans jazz and the Texas blues styles in the later 1920s during his tenure with Troy Floyd's Orchestra of Gold. He documents the founding of Albert's own band in San Antonio, its tours through twenty-four states during the 1930s, its recordings, and its significant reputation within the African American community. In addition to providing a vivid account of life on the road and imparting new insight into the daily existence of working musicians, this book illustrates how the fundamental issue of race influenced Albert's life, as well as the music of the era.

The American playwright’s English adaptations of three classical Chekhov works: The Wood Demon, The Seagull and Three Sisters. See also his adaptation of Pirandello’s Enrico IV and his English version of Strindberg’s Miss Julie (Broadway Play Publishing, 2001, 2003).

Transform today's surplus of investment information into a high-level investment strategy. In an investment climate characterized by rapidly increasing access to information, it has become a real problem to sort out the legitimate financial advice, grounded in traditional analysis, from the constant stream of useless information, or "noise." Such "noise", through technological advances such as the Internet, has become widespread. This overload of information is hurting investors, since it makes real analysis based on factual inference harder to come by. This book steers investors through the "noise" to show them where and how to find solid investment information. This step-by-step guide is based on a very popular presentation the author makes to new private clients at Merrill Lynch.

The definitive “how-to” book on the art of storyboarding, for anyone creatively engaged in film production. Lucidly presented in a step-by-step fashion and aided by an abundance of illustrations, it details how to translate stories into visual images. The author, a filmmaker and educator, is the founder and owner of Filmboards, which has leading film studios and television networks among its clients.

"You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate / As reek o'th'rotten fens, whose loves I prize / As the dead carcasses of unburied men / That do corrupt my air: I banish you!" (from Coriolanus) Kenneth Gross explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking--especially rumor, slander, insult, vituperation, and curse--and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Coriolanus's taunts or Lear's curses force us to think not just about how Shakespeare's characters speak, but also about how they hear, overhear, and mishear what is spoken, how rumor becomes tragic knowledge for Hamlet, or opens Othello to fantastic jealousies. Gross also shows how Shakespeare's preoccupation with "noisy" speech echoed and transformed a broader cultural obsession with the perils of rumor, slander, and libel in Renaissance England.