Illustrated Theatre Production Guide delivers a step-by-step approach to the most prevalent and established theater production practices, focusing on essential issues related to the construction of wooden, fabric, plastic, and metal scenery used on the stage. A must-have resource for both the community theater worker who must be a jack of all trades and the student who needs to learn the fundamentals on his or her own, it covers the necessities in great detail, without bogging you down. Offering techniques and best-practice methods from an experienced industry expert, it will allow you to create a foundation on which to build a successful and resourceful career behind the scenes in theatre production.

This third edition has been completely restructured to more effectively lead you through the basics of stagecraft. Through detailed lessons and hundreds of drawings, author John Holloway offers you solutions to the problems that you’ll face every day in a production, from rigging to knot tying to drapery folding. New to this edition are guides to jobs in theatre, construction documentation, and video projection methods, with expanded information on Thrust Theatres, lighting, audio and video practices, and end of the chapter objectives and study points for instructors.

Web of Water: Reflections of Life along the Saluda and Reedy Rivers is an extension of the dedicated work of Upstate Forever on the Saluda-Reedy watershed and the culmination of a partnership with four South Carolina photographers, an Upstate nature writer, and Hub City Press. A collection of essays by John Lane takes the reader on a journey through the Saluda-Reedy watershed, a trip that unfolds through the fine-art photography captured by photographers Tom Blagden, Clay Bolt, jon holloway, and Ben Geer Keys.Situated in one of the fastest-growing regions of the Southeast, the Saluda-Reedy watershed reaches ten counties from the Blue Ridge Escarpment along the North Carolina-South Carolina border to Buzzard's Roost dam on the Saluda River and Lake Greenwood. In fact, all of the land that drains to Lake Greenwood, including the Saluda and Reedy Rivers, Rabon Creek, and all of their tributaries—nearly 1,400 miles of streams and creeks—form the Saluda-Reedy watershed. Nearly 400,000 people live, work, and recreate here in an area encompassing more than 1,500 square miles—and for good reason! Full of natural beauty and rich in biological and historical significance, the Saluda and Reedy Rivers and the spectacular 11,400-acre Lake Greenwood are sources of drinking water, tourism, industry, and cultural significance for the Upstate and for much of the state.Consisting of images collected entirely in the Saluda-Reedy watershed and printed here in South Carolina, this book illustrates the single element that connects our natural resources to our culture, heritage, and quality of life—water! One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of this book will directly benefit the continued work of Upstate Forever on the Saluda-Reedy watershed.

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone.

Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.

'Unfinished Reconciliation' grew out of two conferences held ten years apart, the Biblical Preaching Seminar at Lipscomb University in May 2001, with the theme, “Preaching Social Justice,” and the Christian Scholars Conference at Pepperdine University in June 2011. These academic conferences boldly faced the unsettling reality of racism in our churches. We are still divided by race, not united in Christ. In the decade between the conferences, much reconciliation took place, as ebook. But much work still remains.

'Oggi, forse più che mai, il mondo è di fronte a un bivio. Da una parte, una chiusura spaventosa. Chiusura delle vite, delle aspettative, delle possibilità, delle speranze. Questo è il nucleo dell'attacco capitalista. Questi sono i tempi dell'austerità. Dovrete imparare a vivere nella realtà. Non aspettatevi di trovare facilmente un lavoro. Non aspettatevi di trovare una borsa che vi permetta di studiare. Non aspettatevi neanche di studiare, se i vostri genitori non hanno i soldi. Soprattutto non sognate di creare un mondo diverso. Questa è la dura realtà oggi, scordatevi dei vostri sogni. Ci potevate giocare quando eravate bambini, adesso no, questa è la crisi finanziaria, questo è il regno del denaro. Guardatevi intorno, non c'è alternativa, non c'è altra possibilità che quella di accettare la disciplina del denaro. Guardate gli italiani, guardate i greci, siete stati avvertiti! Forse, se soffrite in silenzio, se lavorate duro, anche senza essere pagati per niente all'inizio, se lasciate perdere i vostri sogni sciocchi, forse allora tra qualche tempo ci sarà per voi un futuro nel capitalismo, se siete fortunati. Dall'altra parte, c'è una spinta decisa verso l'apertura. No, non accetteremo. Non accetteremo le misure di austerità, non accetteremo la disciplina del denaro, non accetteremo la morte della speranza. Non accetteremo le diseguaglianze oscene di questo mondo in cui viviamo...

'Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn, Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state and what are the possibilities of changing society through anti-state movements?...the most important practical and theoretical questions that have risen from the struggles in Latin America and the world in the last fifteen years or so... The book is beautiful, exciting, stimulating... Do read it and also give it your friends.'---John Holloway, from the Foreword

'Raul Zibechi recounts in wonderful detail how dynamic and innovative Bolivian social movements succeeded in transforming the country. Even more inspiring than the practical exploits, though, are the theoretical innovations of the movements, which Zibechi highlights, giving us new understandings of community, political organization, institution, and a series of other concepts vital to contemporary political thought.'---Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth

This, Raul Zibechi's first book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of community power instituted by that country's indigenous Aymara. Dispersing Power, like the movements it describes, explores new ways of doing politics beyond the state, gracefully mapping the 'how' of revolution, offering valuable lessons to activists and new theoretical frameworks for understanding how social movements can and do operate independently of state-centered models for social change.

Raul Zibechi is one of Latin America's leading political theorists, is an international analyst for Brecha (Montevideo, Uruguay), professor at the Multiversidad Franciscana de America Latina, and author of Genealogia de la Revuelta and Autonomias y Emancipaciones: America Latina en Movimiento.

Ramor Ryan is an Irish writer and translator based in Chiapas, Mexico. His book Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile was published by AK Press in 2006.

How do we create a different world? Crack captialism: create cracks, moments or spaces of rebellion in which we assert a different type of doing. That is what we are doing already, every day, everywhere.

John Holloway's acclaimed book, Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate about the most effective methods of going beyond capitalism. Now Holloway takes the debate further, arguing that hope lies in the fact that capitalism is already badly cracked, full of ruptures in the logic of social cohesion. Can these cracks really break the system? Holloway suggests that the force of the crack lies in their common drive against capitalist labour and towards a different type of activity, doing what we consider necessary or desirable. The question of revolution is not how to destroy capitalism, but how to stop creating it and do something sensible instead.

Clearly presented in the form of 33 theses, Crack Capitalism will reignite the debate among radical scholars and activists seeking to break capitalism now.

`Holloway's Change the World Without Taking Power stands alongside Hardt and Negri's Empire as one of the two key texts of contemporary autonomist Marxism'. Alex Callinicos, Capital & Class

`These few pages are among the most powerful and moving in revolutionary thought...Simply magnificent!' Michael Lowy, Bajo el Volcan

Connecting some of the more remarkable events of the last decade?including the rioting in Oaxaca and in the outskirts of Paris and the modern crises of neoliberalism?this critical analysis suggests new strategies for the progressive Left and that forward-moving change is possible. It examines the concept that movements generally develop at times of acceleration and expansion, but ultimately naturally slow down without consideration of their actual effects?stifling new developments, suppressing the emergence of new forms of politics, or failing to see other possible directions. Global in scope and including writings from Leftist struggles, victories, and defeats, this collection of essays ponders the possibility of a winning movement with lasting change and presents opportunities in all corners of the world.

'Se vogliamo cambiare la società, dobbiamo pensarla come qualcosa creata dalle persone e che le persone stesse possono cambiare'. E cambiarla è necessario, perché 'la lotta di classe non è mai stata tanto crudele e violenta come lo è oggigiorno'. Questo volume raccoglie gli appassionati interventi di uno dei più radicali e amati teorici della lotta globale contro il neoliberismo. Holloway ci dipinge nitidamente l'asprezza dei conflitti contemporanei, i nuovi soggetti che ne sono protagonisti, la catastrofe economica e umanitaria verso cui ci sta conducendo il sistema economico dominante nel mondo. Con una originalità di argomenti e con una capacità di convinzione che pochi critici contemporanei del capitalismo riescono a raggiungere, l'autore ci pone di fronte alle più drammatiche sfide del presente.

'Se vogliamo cambiare la società, dobbiamo pensarla come qualcosa che è creato dalle persone e che le persone stesse possono cambiare'. E cambiarla è necessario, perché 'la lotta di classe non è mai stata tanto crudele e violenta come lo è oggi'. Questo volume raccoglie gli appassionati interventi di uno dei più radicali e amati teorici della lotta globale contro il neoliberismo. Holloway dipinge nitidamente l'asprezza dei conflitti contemporanei, i nuovi soggetti che ne sono protagonisti, la catastrofe economica e sociale verso cui ci sta conducendo il sistema economico dominante nel mondo.