New Releases by Michael Townsend

Mr. Ball is back in this latest installment of the popular series. Mr. Ball sets out for his best friend''s birthday party with a VERY large cake. Hilarity ensues as he encounters one hiccup after another, and his cake gets increasingly smaller! Will the party be ruined?

Para todos aquellos que se sienten abrumados por las exigencias y ansiedades de la vida cotidiana, Respira ofrece prácticas para fomentar la relajación, la atención y la concentración. Cuando encuentras el equilibrio en la vida, puedes hacer cosas increíbles: crear, subirte a un escenario, liderar un equipo, emprender un negocio, formar una familia. Pero muy a menudo, frente a los cambios, permitimos que el estrés se apodere de nosotros y nos sentimos descentrados. Michael Townsend Williams, expublicista convertido en profesor de yoga y mindfulness, defiende el «buen hacer», abogando por una vida productiva, pero no a costa de nuestra salud y bienestar. ¿Y cuál es la clave para lograr esto? El aliento. Nuestra respiración, que es la conexión directa entre nuestra mente y nuestro cuerpo, refleja aquello con lo que estamos lidiando en cada momento. Nos avisa cuando algo nos sobrepasa. Con sencillos ejercicios de respiración y elementos de yoga, meditación y atención plena, Respira te ayudará a: • Reducir el estrés y aumentar tu bienestar • Mejorar la concentración y la productividad • Cultivar nuevos buenos hábitos y abandonar los malos • Desarrollar el coraje y la resiliencia ¿Estás preparado para respirar mejor? La crítica ha dicho... «Respira es un libro fantástico sobre algo que hacemos 600 millones de veces en la vida, pero en lo que raramente pensamos.» Michael Acton Smith, CEO de Calm «Perfecto para cualquiera que busque aprender a respirar mejor, encontrar la paz y comprender los conceptos básicos de la atención plena.» Lynchpin Media

This is the special planner which contains an overview of each week. The good spreads include space to write your daily schedule as well as a to-do list. You can see 7 days in one page. Perfect for any use. you can use for personal, work, to do list, Reminder, Achievement in each week, small diary for note of the day and all purpose. Light weight. Easy to carry around. Made in the USA. Everyone need to have the best planner since the first of the year. Give it for yourself friends family and co-worker and Have a great year together. Full Specifications: - Size: 8.5" x 11" inches with lots of blank space and broader lines to write on. - 105 pages - for recording 52 weeks ( 1 Year) Plan - Space For recording Thing To Do, Achievement in each week, Appointment and Reminder .

Aphoristic, quasi-poetic meditation on humor as key to life''s complexities.

Memoir of a life in theatre by Michael Smith, playwright, critic, producer, lighting designer, a key player in the Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement of the 1960s and beyond.

When you get the right balance in life you can do amazing things creating, performing or building a great business. But so often the scales tip and we quickly become overwhelmed, stressed and demotivated. Breathing well is one of the best and simplest ways to achieve and maintain balance and resilience. By using simple techniques, focused breathing can bring the mental clarity, momentum and wellbeing needed to help you move on. Drawing from the latest scientific research and traditional practices including meditation, yoga and mindfulness, Do Breathe will give you all the practical wellbeing and well-doing tips and techniques to change the way you do things - and how you feel while doing them. Included in each chapter are simple yet powerful 5-minute exercises to be practised daily or to provide immediate calm and clarity.

Writing theatre criticism for The Village Voice from 1957 to 1974, Michael Smith lucked into an extraordinarily dynamic period in American theatre. Broadway-style commercialism was stifling innovation in the early sixties. In response, a new alternative theatre emerged in lofts, storefronts, churches, and coffeehouses radiating out from Greenwich Village. This generous selection of reviews from Smith''s "theatre journal" columns in The Voice gives a sense of the range, seriousness, and energy of the brilliantly imaginative artists he encountered in more than a decade of intensive theatre-going,

When you get the right balance in life you can do amazing things: create, perform, lead a team, build a great company, raise a family. But so often the scales tip and we feel overwhelmed and stressed. Michael Townsend Williams, an adman turned yoga teacher and mindfulness coach, is an advocate of ''welldoing'' – leading a busy and productive life, but not at the expense of our health and wellbeing. And key to this? Our breath. The crucial link between mind and body, our breath reflects what we''re dealing with at any given moment. It tells us when we''re out of our depth. With simple breathing exercises and elements from yoga, meditation and mindfulness, Do Breathe will help you to: Reduce stress and increase productivity Improve focus and work flow Cultivate new good habits and drop the bad Build courage and resilience Why not breathe yourself better?

Mr. Ball has hatched a great plan! He will capture a wild, scary beast. He will tame it. He will have the best circus act ever!

MICHAEL SMITH won a Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation for criticism, a Rockefeller Foundation Award for playwriting, an Obie Award for directing, and two Indie Awards for stage lighting. As theatre critic for the Village Voice in the 1960s, he was instrumental in the growth of Off-Off-Broadway. This first of two volumes of his plays contains "More! More! I Want More!" (1965), "The Next Thing" (1966), "A Dog''s Love" (1966), "Captain Jack''s Revenge" (1970), "Country Music" (1971), "Denver Trilogy" (1971-74), "Point Blank" (1972), "Prussian Suite" (1974), and "Cowgirl Ecsstasy" (1976).

Cute kittens, cute puppies, and more! An explosion of cuteness tailor-made for "I Can Has Cheezburger" fans. Janie Jane''s life takes a turn for the cute when she receives an adorable puppy as a birthday present. She and Sir Yips-a-lot do everything together. But before you know it, it''s Janie''s birthday again and she''s got a new, potentially cuter present to unwrap: Lady Meow-meow, "The World''s Cutest Kitty." Wait! Sir Yips-a-lot has always been the cute one in Janie Jane''s life. What if she doesn''t need him anymore? Michael Townsend has crafted a lighthearted romp that will help children--especially those with new siblings--recognize and overcome feelings of jealousy.

John P. Dodd, the light man at the legendary Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village in the early sixties, assisted at the birth of Off-Off-Broadway and collaborated with key figures in New York''s downtown world of theatre and dance. This book, illustrated with rare period photographs, recounts Dodd''s colorful life and career from the unique perspective of playwright and director Michael Smith, drama critic of The Village Voice and his intimate companion in that transformative decade. Smith''s personal narrative, thoughtful recollections by friends and colleagues, and Dodd''s own words attest to his originality and unusual force of character. A year-by-year record of his wide-ranging work as a lighting designer confirms the importance of his theatrical art.

These mostly poem-like artifacts were published as they were written at http://michaeltownsendsmith.blogspot.com. A log of course is a record of a journey-in a ship''s log, location, weather, and daily events. The macrotext of this weblog tracks seasons, moods, happenings, and the national temper; but its real concern is less with external circumstances and more with inner action. The writer''s minimalist, allusive diction skips the mechanics of language and attempts to project mental movement directly, the sense arising with the words.