Below you will find a list of books and DVDs recommended by Katherine James and Alan Blumenfeld. To purchase these items, simply follow the links to Amazon.
From Katherine:
“When I teach about visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning, I use this original book on NLP by the men who developed these techniques. A must read for anyone interested in this kind of information.”
From Katherine:
“Bernice McCarthy is an educator whose 4-MAT system is the basis for all of my witness preparation work. She is absolutely brilliant and every lawyer who wants to increase his or her ability to work with people needs to read her work.”
From Katherine:
“Bernice McCarthy is an educator whose 4-MAT system is the basis for all of my witness preparation work. She is absolutely brilliant and every lawyer who wants to increase his or her ability to work with people needs to read her work.”
From Katherine & Alan:
“For people interested in more details about actor training, these are the best books we know of.”
From Katherine:
“David’s books are all classics at this point – can’t imagine anyone trying a case without them.”
From Katherine:
“David’s books are all classics at this point – can’t imagine anyone trying a case without them.”
From Katherine & Alan:
“Eric’s brilliant book gives you a very practical, hands-on guide to using his work during your trial.”
From Katherine:
“This is the vocal technique that we use in all our vocal warm up and relaxation products. I met her when I was an undergrad when she was the voice coach of the Royal Shakespeare company. Alan and I studied under her disciples at ACT of COMMUNICATION®.”
From Katherine & Alan:
“Bill Ball was our great mentor. He was, quite simply, brilliant. Some attorneys wonder why we believe so strongly in positive reinforcement in our teaching. They are especially astounded at how well it works with witnesses. Everyone who thinks that “wood shedding” and “boot camp” are the best ways for people to learn need to read the work of this great director to understand our stance on the benefits of positive reinforcement.”
From Katherine:
“This book is great – well, Edward Albee is quoted on the front as saying, ‘Indispensable.’ All I can say is, if it is indispensable for Albee, then it is indispensable for me. I don’t think I have read a clearer or more accurate description of the writer’s, the actor’s and the director’s processes as they work to create a piece of theater. I use it for writing my plays and it is always in the back of my head when I am working on a case.”
From Katherine & Alan:
“This wonderful book is not just for law students – but is a comprehensive guide for all attorneys who love movies and want to learn from them.”
From Katherine & Alan:
“Ever wanted to have the perfect Shakespeare quote for the case you are working on? It’s all here!”
From Katherine:
“Wonder where I get all those great quotes by women? Right here. If you want to expand your horizons past what ‘coach’ says, here’s the book for you.”
From Katherine & Alan:
“Two exceptional books about cognitive science that help to explain how people think about the world and how they make decisions. These are invaluable resources for the advocate.”
Can’t Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain by George Lakoff
From Katherine & Alan:
“Two exceptional books about cognitive science that help to explain how people think about the world and how they make decisions. These are invaluable resources for the advocate.”
From Amazon.com:
“The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor has been the soul of my acting teaching for 30 years. It is based on the later evolved vision of the great master teacher, as revealed to Eugene Vakhtangov and also to Sonia Moore, herself a master teacher. The approach here is clear and usable, and de-mystifies American pre-occupation with emotional substitution techniques dominant since Lee Strasberg’s distortions based only upon Stanislavski’s early work. This approach is accessible for young actors and is encouraging to the nurturing of their talent and development. It encourages emotional honesty without being improperly invasive, so it is good resource material for public school acting teachers and advanced students, as well as acting students from college to conservatory to proprietary school.”
From Amazon.com:
“This second collection of Adler’s papers precedes the material found in the previous collection (Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov, LJ 4/15/99), ending as she begins text analysis. Here Kissel (David Merrick) has taken tapes, transcriptions, notebooks, and other sources to reconstruct an acting course in 22 lessons. What results is Adler at her strongest. Coming from a theatrical family and having studied with Stanislavski, she became an old-fashioned autocratic teacher determined to pass on the best that she knows. She was certainly the best of her generation. The lessons are graduated from very basic matters to quite complex issues of textual analysis and decorum. Though mostly monologs, they include enough exercises and student responses to get the flavor of Adler’s work. Some themes run through these classes: American culture is bankrupt, Lee Strasberg got Stanislavski wrong, and class and its formality must be learned in order to do major plays through the realist period. This is required reading for anyone interested in theater practice. Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State Coll., MA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.”
From Amazon.com:
“Poetry of the Law is the first serious anthology of law-related poetry ever published in the United States. As the editors make clear, though, serious need not imply solemn. Instead, David Kader and Michael Stanford have assembled a surprisingly capacious collection of 100 poems from the 1300s to the present.”
From Katherine:
“This is a truly amazing recording. You can hear the greats argue before The Supreme Court. I listen to it sometimes just for inspiration. Every attorney knows that he or she stands on the shoulders of giants. These folks are giants.”
From Katherine:
“I love this recording – it shows what poets intend (or intended) with their work. I teach with this recording when listening for inflection and orchestration (building ladders). I use Robert Frost when I teach – but sometimes I listen to Gertrude Stein to be reminded of what her real intentions were when she wrote her work. It is a great way to get the horrible readings from high school out of your head.”
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