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    Toast on Toast: Cautionary tales and candid advice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 230min
    In Toast on Toast - part memoir, part "how to act" manual - Steven Toast draws on his vast and varied experiences, providing the reader with an invaluable insight into his journey from school plays to RADA and from "It's a Right Royal Knockout" to the Colony Club. Along the way he reveals the secrets of his success. He discloses how to brush up on and expand your technical and vocal skills, how to nail a professional voiceover, and how to deal with difficult work experience staff in a recording studio. He also reveals the dangers of typecasting, describes the often ruthless struggle for 'top billing', and shares many awesome nuggets of advice. The end result is a book that will inspire and educate anyone who wants to tread the floorboards. It will also inform (and entertain) anybody who simply wants to discover what a jobbing actor's life is actually like. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Berry - as Steven Toast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000167/bk_cnon_000167_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dead Room Farce: A Charles Paris Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 387min
    It's not Beckett exactly, but a three-month run of Not on Your Wife!, a new farce by the prolific British farceur Bill Blunden, is not to be sniffed at by a jobbing actor. Which is why Charles Paris is standing on stage with his trousers around his ankles, playing Aubrey, the older lover of GIlly, wife of Bob, whose young mistress Nicky he is passing off as the property of his neighbor Ted. Rehearsals have gone well, the laughs are coming, and if his marriage is on the skids again there's always the consolation of Bell's - and the uncertain attractions of aging ingenue Cookie Stone. But by the time the troupe reaches Bath a darker mood has set in. Cookie Stone seems to think she and Charles are practically married (if only he could remember what happened!), and Charles' old friend Mark, who runs a recording studio in Bath where Charles is making a talking book, has a drinking problem that amounts to a death wish. But it's not the drink that kills Mark, it's somebody in the cast who has a dirty little secret that Mark must not be allowed to reveal... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frederick Davidson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000402/bk_blak_000402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Art Of Estimating The Cost Of Work
    The Art Of Estimating The Cost Of Work ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: With Special Reference To Unstandardized Operation As In Jobbing Shops Or Repair Work (1915). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Diagnostic Criteria Handbook in Histopathology: A Surgical Pathology Vade Mecum
    The Diagnostic Criteria Handbook is designed to help jobbing histopathologists jog their memory and get through more workload in any working day. Rapid access is facilitated by a bullet-point, tabular and diagrammatic style, as well as by handy anatomical diagrams, guidance on the 'Cut-Up' with emphasis on core 'datasets' and by a special index for frozen section advice, grading systems and scoring systems. The book provides, where useful, differential diagnosis lists and presents diagnostically helpful molecular and immunohistochemical findings. Information is kept up-to-date on a dedicated website www.pathbook.com. The Diagnostic Criteria Handbook in Histopathology is not designed to be an "exam cram" and neither will it serve as a basic text for beginners. Trainees, however, will still benefit from the shear breadth of topics covered in this one small volume: from lab management and lab methods, to autopsy practice, cytology and all sub-specialties in surgical pathology. A chapter on exam technique and mnemonics makes the book also an essential companion for those revising for professional exams. So why clutter your precious desk space with multiple sets of heavy two-volume reference works? Give this handy Vade Mecum a place next to your microscope and see how much time you could save!
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    The Tooth Tattoo: Peter Diamond, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 750min
    Peter Diamond, head of Bath CID, takes a city break in Vienna, where his favourite film, The Third Man, was set, but everything goes wrong and his companion, Paloma, calls a halt to their relationship. Meanwhile, strange things are happening to jobbing musician Mel Farran, who finds himself scouted by methods closer to the spy world than the concert platform. The chance of joining a once-famous string quartet in a residency at Bath Spa University is too tempting for Mel to refuse. Then a body is found in the city canal, and the only clue to the dead woman's identity is the tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth. For Diamond, who wouldn't know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most demanding ever. Three mysterious deaths need to be probed while his own personal life is in free fall.... Peter Lovesey has been hailed by the critics as "superlative", "a master of the genre", "never puts a foot wrong" and the Peter Diamond series as "one of the most enjoyable police series around". This new case for the much-loved detective will bring new praise and much satisfaction for his legions of fans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000692/bk_twuk_000692_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unforgotten, Hörbuch, Digital, 225min
    After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne's most difficult case has finally come to court. His client Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which he witnessed the death of his young daughter by fire. The case is going well, it seems certain Tom will win the compensation that will enable him to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Then Hugh receives an anonymous letter that throws him into an impossible dilemma. To stay on the case is unethical, to withdraw will threaten its success, and Tom Deacon, revealing himself in an entirely new light, makes it clear that such treachery will not be forgiven. For Hugh the dilemma is intensified by the contrast between their lives: Tom is tormented by flashbacks, jobless, with a broken marriage and two children he hardly sees; Hugh with what he regards as a blessed existence, a rewarding life as a jobbing solicitor and an intensely happy marriage to Lizzie, with whom he has two adopted children: Lou is away on her gap year, and fragile, sensitive Charlie who seems to have overcome his personal demons. Then one night Hugh's life changes for ever. His happiness is snatched away, and he, like Tom, must face a lifetime of troubling memories. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Glenister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000366/bk_macm_000366_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Boston Druid and the Wizard , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 705min
    The story opens as Brian is caught by a troll and unintentionally ends up as Champion to the Faerie Queen and betrothed to Maedbh, a teenager he rescues along with some Vikings. Brian is 16 years old and lives with his mom and dad and older brother in a deprived suburb of Dublin city, Ireland. He goes to school where he is the target of bullies. His mother is an alcoholic and his dad is a gambler. At school gets into a fight with Robbo, the school bully, a grandson of the local gangster. He is also running his band with his other 'nerd' friends. His brother, who is his band manager, is using the band as cover to make deliveries for Polar Bear, the local gangster. As Champion, Brian is required to do battle with the Engapmahc, a good-humored monster that is eating sprites. When the Engapmahc captures the Faerie Queen, Brian must undertake the rescue. Druid Lochlain is on the run in Boston USA where he is located by the Drimnagh Witches. How does the Faerie Queen end up as his prisoner while still a prisoner of the Engapmahc? And why does Lochlain call upon the dark forces of Underworld to invade Otherworld? How does Brian the Queen's champion resolve this? His normal life complicates when Brian has to bring Maedbh home. Also Robbo's grandfather decides Brian should be killed as Robbo's first hit as a trainee gangster. How will Brian handle the demands of both a normal teenage life and double jobbing as Champion to the Faerie Queen of Otherworld? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wendy Wolfson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129290/bk_acx0_129290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New Grub St , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1307min
    One of the greatest novels to have come from the 19th century, a realistic, gritty exposure of the lives, loves, intrigue and rivalry that existed in the literary world of London. The art form and culture of writing is becoming a business, expanding rapidly, and profit is more important than integrity of purpose. In the search for a wider readership, editors and publishers look to the poorer educated classes believing that shorter, slighter commercial treatments will sell and thus erudite writers with serious ideas and 'urgent messages for the world' have their work devalued. 'Instead of Chat I should call it Chit-Chat...it would sell like hot cakes. On the same principle...if the Tatler were changed to Tittle-Tattle its circulation would be trebled...An admirable idea! Tittle-Tattle -a magnificent title; the very thing to catch the multitude.' The downward intellectual spiral is of course contrasted by the progress of lightweight, jobbing writers able to turn their pens, with ease, to any task and supply copy with trite, popular appeal. Gissing knew his subject well, and his characterisation of the facile, unscrupulous Milvain, the rancorous Yule, the paranoid and impoverished Reardon all have the note of authenticity, as do the women used and abused by them in their struggle for success and the publication of their work. Truly one of the books from which we should learn, monumental in the telling, the story is an engrossing tale, describing a shabby Pyrrhic victory, at the expense of all those with a reasoning mind, of self-advertisement over artistic endeavour in an ongoing war- of what happens when pen meets penury. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000104/bk_assm_000104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Day Job
    The Day Job - Adventures of a Jobbing Gardener: ab 9.49 €
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    Observare
    Rebekka Fisher is unquestionably the resourceful type. When the Minneapolis jazz/funk musician found herself being treated as an ornament in a mostly-male band, she quit and formed her own band. Puzzled by the low number of female instrumentalists in the music industry, she started a networking organization for women artists and began publishing a newsletter. And just last July, after having a hard time getting a gig at a local club, she again took action. She teamed up with other female artists to hold a benefit concert there that wound up attracting over 300 people and raising $750 for the Family Violence Network. Fisher's strong sense of purpose has been evident since childhood when she began playing piano at age nine. She was the third of four girls. She inherited her father's gift of creativity - Ed Fischer's editorial cartoons are syndicated in over 100 newspapers nationwide and have won him many awards. (He altered the spelling of his last name for FischerToons to avoid being confused with another Ed Fisher.) When Fisher was 13 years old, she heard Carole King's 'Tapestry' album and knew what she wanted to do with her life. 'I also listened to Melissa Manchester,' she remembers. 'She has incredible vocal power. I saw her in concert. A couple of times during her show, she didn't even use a microphone, and everyone could still hear her.' The teenage Fisher was anxious to put her dream into action and tried to form a band. Unfortunately, she couldn't find the same commitment in her friends and had to settle for songwriting on her own and keeping a catalog of her work. The creative outlet also became a form of therapy when her parents began having difficulties in their marriage (they've since divorced). She took up guitar and drums and channelled her pain into her music. By the time she was fifteen, she wound up playing the piano at a resort where she'd taken a part-time job washing dishes. She abandoned the idea of forming her own band and joined an already established one. The format? Heavy metal. 'Yes, I played keyboards in a heavy metal band,' she laughs. 'I really wasn't sure what I was doing there!' She spent her adolescence moving from one band to another. Her first real gig, in keeping with the unusual turn her budding career was taking, was at a deaf school. 'Actually, it went over great,' she says. 'They danced to the vibrations of the music that they felt through the floor. The only glitch was when they started slow dancing to our cover of 'Wipeout.' I tried to tell them that it was a fast song, but they couldn't hear me!' Fisher went on to attend the University of Minnesota and earn a degree in Composition. As she began meeting other musicians and jamming with them, she noticed a difference in the professional behavior between men and women. 'When I'm jamming with women, they're more cordial and polite,' she says. 'I know it's a generalization, but so many times I've seen women jamming and saying, 'You do a solo,' 'No, you solo, it's your turn.' Meanwhile the song is almost over! Men I've jammed with, on the other hand, are more aggressive. They'll play right over you.' Fisher was initially intimated by the more aggressive playing style of the male musicians but still preferred jamming with them. Her determination to hold her own in a mostly-male jam led her to practice harder and sharpen her keyboard skills. Eventually, her more aggressive style of playing won her a nomination for Keyboardist of the Year by the Minnesota Music Academy. Unfortunately, stronger technical skills didn't solve all of her difficulties. 'When you're the only girl in the band, it's hard to feel like a part of the group no matter how well you play,' she says. 'I was left out of the 'guy talk,' which is an important part of band bonding. They just didn't want to talk that way with me around.' Fisher finally gave up the attempts at bonding when she formed the Rebekka Fisher Band. 'I'm more of the boss than a friend,' she says of her relationship with the three men who make up the rest of the band, 'and that's probably for the best.' The Rebekka Fisher Band's first CD was 1995's 'Dream World.' It was followed by a lucky break that led to 1998's 'Observare': an introduction to Matt Fink, formerly of Prince's band Revolution. Fink wound up producing 'Observare' in his home studio. 'I met him through a friend,' Fisher remembers. 'I needed a producer, so it worked out great. He's a nice guy. Since then, he's been a guest speaker at Music Tech, where I teach. He's running his own recording studio and writing music for publishing companies and commercials.' 'Observare' featured a wailing funk song called 'A Different Girl,' in which she recounts her experiences in a mostly-male band before quitting to form her own band: 'I was standing in a corner, behind the lights. I don't rock the boat, the leader gets so uptight. And I feel like I'm living in a vanity case. So get a different girl to take my place.' Not all her listeners were receptive. The press coverage of 'Observare' gave Fisher her first taste of negative reviews, which initially made her want to quit the business. 'That was really tough,' she acknowledges. 'This can be an awful business. But when those reviews came out, I was teaching a class at Music Tech about creating a positive environment, and that really adjusted my attitude. To teach something, you really have to know the material and believe in it.' As she rebuilt her confidence, she also joined the jobbing circuit, playing weddings, corporate events, jams, and fill-in situations. Again, she was struck by the differences between the sexes. She was often the only female instrumentalist. Most of the women artists were vocalists. 'It's hard to be that one person that stands out,' she says. 'I still don't completely understand why there are so few women instrumentalists and why they tend to focus on things like melody line instead of theory. That's mostly what led me to put together Women Sing.' Still in it's formative stage, Women Sing is the start of a networking and resource tool for female artists. The newsletter is written and distributed solely by Fisher and includes profiles of women musicians in history (the Fall/Winter 2000 issue features the 19th century composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia). Eventually, Fisher hopes to become more than a one-woman resource center. 'I'd love to turn the newsletter into a regular magazine covering schools, online classes and networking areas,' she says enthusiastically. 'The best thing would be to go around the country and do women artist showcases. I would love to do that!' She knows it will be a tough road. 'It's hard to promote women in music without coming across as male-bashing,' she says. 'That's not what I'm about, but sometimes the very act of focusing solely on women will be interpreted that way.' She once placed a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'In Goddess We Trust' and started finding pages from the Bible posted on her windshield. Still, she keeps looking for other people to contribute and help her make the organization grow. In the meantime, Fisher has other matters to attend to. She still teaches songwriting classes at Music Tech. She would like to do more benefit concerts. And she and her band recently found the time to release their fourth CD, a five-track collection called 'Inner Spaces.' The songs have an added, subtle electronica influence, adding more fire and intensity to the already powerful funk grooves. Her new work began attracting attention before it was even released. One of the songs, the cool and ominous 'Driving,' is being featured on the soundtrack of an independent film called 'Vixen Highway.' 'When I heard the title,' she says, 'I called to make sure it wasn't a porno film. What's funny is that one of my composition students turned out to be one of the film's directors, so I asked her what it was about. It's a dark comedy, something about a gang of women on the road who kill a lo
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