The definitive guide to writing music for the stage, by the Composer-in-Residence at the Donmar Warehouse.Music has played a vital part in drama since the earliest days of theatre. For composers, writing music for the stage is an opportunity to exercise their utmost creativity and versatility: a good musical score will both support and enhance the play it serves, and can lift a prosaic moment into something quite extraordinary.In this book, Michael Bruce takes you through t...

An office affair could be dangerous territory, when the boss is involved though, things take a turn, and things heat up!

After a long absence of a male figure in her life, she rekindles the flame with a long term friend.

A Hell of a Life, a memoir of author Michael Bruce, is the first compilation of his extraordinary adventures encompassing decades of travel, dancers, drugs, violence and prison. This book allows you to live vicariously through one man's incredible experiences; not only a hell of a life but a hell of a read.

We are living in a time where identity is uncertain, connection is fragile, and leadership is often confused with influence rather than integrity. Families are stretched thin, students are overwhelmed, workplaces are disconnected, and communities are divided. People of all ages are searching for clarity, purpose, and a way to rise above the noise.This book exists because the world doesn’t just need more information; it needs transformation.It needs leaders who know who they...

A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce

Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. Key quotations provide a sense of style and approach. Just the Arguments is an ...

The Bible has had an immeasurable influence on Western culture, touching on virtually every aspect of our lives. It is one of the great wellsprings of Western religious, ethical, and philosophical traditions. It has been an endless source of inspiration to artists, from classic works such as Michaelangelo's Last Judgment, Handel's Messiah, or Milton's Paradise Lost, to modern works such as Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers or Martin Scorsese's controversial Last T...

A timely and accessible guide to 100 of the most infamous logical fallacies in Western philosophy, helping readers avoid and detect false assumptions and faulty reasoningYou’ll love this book or you’ll hate it. So, you’re either with us or against us. And if you’re against us then you hate books. No true intellectual would hate this book.Ever decide to avoid a restaurant because of one bad meal? Choose a product because a celebrity endorsed it? Or ...

Written with insight and humor, College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone investigates a broad array of philosophical issues relating to student sex.Examines the ethical issues of dating, cheating, courtship, homosexual experimentation, and drug and alcohol useConsiders student-teacher relationships, sexual experimentation, the meaning of sex in a college setting and includes two essays based on influential research projects on ‘friends with benefits’...

The missionary endeavor is as ancient as the Word of God. Our task to make him known, to bring joy to the nations and glory to God, identifies us as his people. Our job must never change until he comes again to reign on this planet. Until then we must keep the essence of his commission as simple and straightforward as possible. There is nothing simpler than the message Paul gave to Titus on the little island of Crete nearly two millennia ago. May our generation obey this once again.

In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western exceptionalism—the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent—is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others.Yet in The Invention of Power, ...