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Voice and the Actor
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Penny Penny said: "I'm not an actor but I am a classroom teacher some of the time (and even when I teach on line my students have to listen to me on video once in a while), so when I saw this at a used book store I thought I'd see if it could help me use my voice more ...more"
 

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Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer
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DIY U by Anya Kamenetz
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner
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What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
What Technology Wants
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I Live in the Future by Nick Bilton
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The Young and the Digital by S. Craig Watkins
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This book is more balanced and research-based than the average popular press books on the use of digital media by the younger generations. I should point out that I did not read the whole book, only the chapters most relevant to my work (intro, 1,2,4...more
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Republic of Noise by Diana Senechal
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Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Little Heathens
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
read in December, 2011
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I grew up listening to my mom's stories of growing up on a midwestern farm during the Depression, always with that weird mix of "I wouldn't wish the experience on my worst enemy" and "Because I went through it I am morally superior to you mollycoddle...more
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Churchill by John Lukacs
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A quick, easy, enjoyable read that describes the very early days of Churchill's time as prime minister, just as England entered the war. It has a little bit of that "world in a grain of sand" quality; it covers a short time period and a narrow topic ...more
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Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
Why Read Moby-Dick?
by Nathaniel Philbrick
read in December, 2011
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A quick easy read that provides enough new insights that I might go back and re-read Moby Dick again some day, and maybe not even skip the chapter called "Anatomy of a Whale" this time...
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