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• Nordic Larp (Stockholm: Fea Livia, c2010), ed. by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola (PDF in Finland)

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• The Drama, by Henry Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Shakespearean Representation: Its Laws and Limits (London: E. Stock, 1908), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)
• Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Joseph Litvak (HTML at UC Press)

• Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), ed. by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer (in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1890), by Karl Sittl
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Introduction to Kinesics (An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gesture) (Washington: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952), by Ray L. Birdwhistell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gesture and Rank in Roman Art; The Use of Gestures to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1963), by Richard Brilliant (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts, by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', trans. by Thomas Seltzer (Gutenberg text)

• The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Edward L. Chase (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Time of Roses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Der Römische Mimus (in German; extracted from K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna; 1854), by Karl Joseph Grysar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Roberta E. Pearson (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Roberta E. Pearson (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Stage Costuming (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Agnes Brooks Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994), by Patricia Bizzell (page images at Pitt)
• Genre Across the Curriculum (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by Anne Herrington and Charles Moran (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• Language Connections: Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (c1982), ed. by Toby Fulwiler and Art Young (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Distributed Interactive Simulation of Combat (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Advanced Algebra II (3 linked ebooks for a high school course), by Kenny M. Felder (HTML with commentary at cnx.org)

• Abstract Algebra: The Basic Graduate Year (electronic edition, 2002), by Robert B. Ash (PDF files at UIUC)

• A Course in Algebraic Number Theory (c2003), by Robert B. Ash (PDF files at UIUC)

• Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima: Teacher's Guide (a Big Read guide; Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, ca. 2006), by Catherine Tousignant and Erika Koss, contrib. by Liz Hernandez (multiple formats at archive.org)

• New Trends in Architectural Education: Designing the Design Studio (1995), by Ashraf Salama (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down in inner web page section for chapter links))
• Education of Architects and Engineers for Careers in Facility Design and Construction, by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images at NAP)

• Roman Art: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2007), by Nancy L. Thompson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Fundamentals of Mathematics (c1989), by Denny Burzynski and Wade Ellis (PDF files with commentary at cnx.org)
• Adapting Instruction in Arithmetic to Individual Differences (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1941), by Leo J. Brueckner (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Comparison of Especially Designed Art Activities With Traditional Art Activities As Used With Intellectually Handicapped Children and Youth (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, 1961), by Esther Mills, Richard Wiggin, and Jean Hebeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Teacher: A Book for Children and Teachers (Worcester, MA: Davis Press, 1946), by Pedro J. Lemos (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beginnings of Art in the Public Schools (New York et al.: C. Scribner's sons, c1924), by Margaret E. Mathias (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applied Art: Drawing, Painting, Design and Handicraft, Arranged for Self-Instruction of Teachers, Parents and Students (Mountain View, CA et al.: Pacific Press Pub. Assoc., 1920), by Pedro J. Lemos
  • color page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; black-and-white images, not all matching those in HathiTrust copies
• Fine and Industrial Arts in Elementary Schools (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1912), by Walter Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studying Art Abroad, and How to Do It Cheaply (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879), by May Alcott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• With Brush and Pen: A Manual of the Newer and More Artistic Phases of Public School Art Instruction (New York: J. C. Witter Co., c1897), by James Hall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Art Recreations, by L. B. Urbino (page images at MOA)

• Roman Art: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2007), by Nancy L. Thompson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• A Masterwork of Byzantine Art: The David Plates: The Story of David and Goliath (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2001), by Esther M. Morales, Alice W. Schwarz, Michael Norris, and Edith W. Watts (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2003), by Elizabeth Hammer, contrib. by Felicia Blum and Maxwell K. Hearn
  • PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org
  • page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google

• Greek Art, From Prehistoric to Classical: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2000), by Michael Norris, contrib. by Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth Johnston Milleker, Sean A. Hemingway, and C. S. Lightfoot (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• The Art of Ancient Egypt: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1998), by Edith W. Watts (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

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