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| "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference by Thomas D. Cook, Jr., William R. Shadish..." |
| "This long awaited successor of the original CookCampbell Quasi-Experimentation Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades The book covers four major topics in field experimentation"
Price: 56.99 |
| "Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo (Paperback, 1987)" |
| "In its first two years of production in Italy Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people It has since been performed all over the world and become a classic of twentieth-century drama A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who in 1969 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window 'I ought to warn you that the author of this sick little play Dario Fo has the traditional irrational hatred of the police common to all narrowminded left-wingers and so I shall no doubt be the unwilling butt of endless anti-authoritarian jibes' (Inspector Bertozzo Central Italian Police HQ) 'A marvellous concept a zany political farce' (Michael Billington) This edition has been adapted by Gavin Richards from Gillian Hanna's translation and features an introduction by Stuart Hood and a preface by Dario Fo"
Price: 10.49 |
| "A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney (Paperback, 1959)" |
| "A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood&39;s Theatre Workshop company It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1961 The play is about the adolescent Jo and her relationships with those about her - her irresponsible roving mother Helen and her mum&39;s newly acquired drunken husband the black sailor who leaves her pregnant and Geoffrey the homosexual art student who moves in to help with the baby It is also about Jo&39;s unshakeable optimism throughout her trials This story of a mother and daughter relationship set in working class Manchester continues to enthral new generations of readers and audiences Now established as a modern classic this comic and poignant play by a then nineteen-year-old working-class Lancashire girl was praised at its London premiere in 1958 by Graham Greene as having ""all the freshness of Mr Osborne&39;s Look Back in Anger and a greater maturity"""
Price: 10.49 |
| "Our Day Out by Bob Eaton, Willy Russell, Chris Mellors (Paperback, 1984)" |
| "Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose fourteen and free from school 'The skill and zest of the show derive from its success in following the adult argument through while preserving all the fun of a story mainly played by children I have rarely seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness' The Times This edition contains the music to the play"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Up the Line to Death: War Poets, 1914-18 by Methuen Publishing Ltd (Paperback, 1986)" |
| "An anthology of the poetry of World War I this collection is more concerned with the War than with poetry and as such it is a book with a theme There are 72 poets represented here - including Wilfred Owen - of whom 21 died in action Many of the poems have notes and introductions"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht (Paperback)" |
| "This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre London in November 1995 It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions adapting the original rather than offering a close translation In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon The Berlin production of 1949 with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble Considered by many to be one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written and Brecht's masterpiece it remains a powerful example of Brecht's Epic Theatre and pioneering theatrical style"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Structure is Character Characters are what they do Story events impact the characters and the characters impact events Actions and reactions create revelation and insight opening the door to a meaningful emotional experience for the audience Story is what elevates a film a novel a play or teleplay transforming a good work into a great one Movie-making in particular is a collaborative endeavour - requiring great skill and talent by the entire cast crew and creative team - but the screenwriter is the only original artist on a film Everyone else - the actors directors cameramen production designers editors special effects wizards and so on - are interpretive artists trying to bring alive the world the events and the characters that the writer has invented and created Robert McKee's STORY is a comprehensive and superbly organized exploration of all elements from the basics to advanced concepts It is a practical course presenting new perspectives on the craft of storytelling not just for the screenwriter but for the novelist playwright journalist and non-fiction writers of all types"
Price: 15.99 |
| "Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Screenplay by John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The first feature film by the Monty Python team is a mock heroic tale set in medieval Britain with lots of silly things going on besides In a series of sketches and animations the Pythons recount scenes from the Grail legend in which the knights forsake their chorus line can-can dancing in Camelot for a higher aim Typically the Pythons set-up a 'historical' tale which is really a take on the modern world Memorable scenes like Graham Chapman's King Arthur battling with John Cleese's Black Knight until the latter is reduced limb by limb down to a speaking stump of a torso capture both the hilarity and grotesque nature of brutality In scene after scene King Arthur's men are led a merry chase through the countryside encountering life on many different social levels This screenplay edition contains just the script and is supplemented by stills from the film"
Price: 7.49 |
| "4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "448 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of 1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of depression On February 20 1999 aged 28 the playwright committed suicide On the page the piece looks like a poem No characters are named and even their number is unspecified It could be a journey through one person's mind or an interview between a doctor and his patient"
Price: 10.49 |
| "A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "In south side Chicago Walter Lee a black chauffeur dreams of a better life and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to open a liquor store His mother who rejects the liquor business uses some of the money to secure a proper house for the family Mr Lindner a representative of the all-white neighbourhood tries to buy them out Walter sinks the rest of the money into his business scheme only to have it stolen by one of his partners In despair Walter contacts Lindner and almost begs to buy them out but with the help of his wife Walter finally finds a way to assert his dignity Deeply committed to the black struggle for equality and human rights Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 35 A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award Hansberry was the youngest and the first black writer to receive this award"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Blasted by Sarah Kane (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted opened It became the cause celebre of the theatrical year making front-page headlines and outraging critics with its depiction of rape torture and violence in civil war sheer unadulterated brutalism Evening Standard"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Blood Brothers by Willy Russell (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A Liverpudlian West Side Story twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath &39;Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate and destiny it carries one along with it in almost unreserved enjoyment" Guardian One of the longest-running and most successful ever West End musicals Blood Brothers premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Educating Rita by Willy Russell (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Educating Rita about a working-class Liverpool girl&39;s hunger for education is &39;simply a marvellous play painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical half-happy ending&39; Sunday TimesEducating Rita premiered at the RSC Warehouse London in June 1980 Voted Best Comedy of 1980 it was subsequently made into a highly successful film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters NoteBook is available in two different covers"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Miss Julie by August Strindberg (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Miss Julie (1888) written in a fortnight was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece &39;the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama&39; Shocking in subject-matter revolutionary in technique it was fiercely attacked on publication for immorality On Midsummer Eve Miss Julie the daughter of a count sleeps with her father&39;s valet JeanThe subsequent conflict between sexual passion and social position which leads to her suicide is presented with startling modernity The play&39;s premiere at Strindberg&39;s experimental theatre in Denmark in 1889 was banned by the censor and its first public production three years later in Berlin aroused such protests that it was withdrawn after one performance Miss Julie has since become one of Strindberg&39;s most popular and frequently performed plays Commentary and notes by David Thomas and Jo Taylor"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Antigone by Sophocles (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone&39;s rebellious brother Outraged she defies his edict Creon condemns the young woman his niece to be buried alive The people daren&39;t object but the prophet Teiresias warns that this tyranny will anger the gods the rotting corpse is polluting the city Creon hesitates and his fate is sealed Sophocles&39; great tragic play dramatises the clash between the family and the city and with high poetry and deep tragedy presents an irreconcilable but equally balanced conflict Sophoclean heroine Antigone has become a cultural archetype the symbol of personal integrity and an icon of political freedom whilst her coprotagonist Creon can be interpreted as either a civic saviour or a ruthless tyrant This translation by Don Taylor accurate yet poetic was made for a BBC TV production of the Theban Plays in 1986 which he directed"
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| "Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Over the past sixty years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure In his theoretical writings Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of Existentialism His concern however was to relate his theory to human response and the practical demands of living To achieve this he carried his philosophical concepts into his novels and plays and there subjected them to the test of imagined experience His uniqueness lies in the success with which he demonstrated the utility of Existentialist doctrine while creating at the same time works of the highest literary merit Thus Sartre became the populariser of his own literary thought Originally delivered as a lecture in Paris in 1945 Existentialism and Humanism is Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal defence of Existentialism as a doctrine true to Humanism as opposed to a purely nihilistic creed and a plan for its practical application to everyday human life This exploration of one of the central tenets of his philosophical thought has become the essential introduction to his work and a fundamental text for all students of philosophy"
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| "Pony Cavalcade by Norman Thelwell (Hardback, 2017)" |
| "This omnibus edition - now in hardback - contains much of Norman Thelwell's invaluable advice to aspiring equestrians on how to get into the saddle and stay there; each item illustrated with inimitable and deadly clarity From the first publication of Angels on Horseback in 1957 the Thelwell pony entered the language and the libraries of horse-lovers everywhere The angels in Angels on Horseback are children but there is plenty here about their parents Both for those who know Thelwell and for those who have not met him before this book is a savoury at all times but especially after attending a gymkhana Since their debut appearance in Punch over sixty years ago Norman Thelwell's cartoons and drawings have delighted millions of people all over the world His portrayals of sporting pursuits human beings at play the life of the countryside and of course ponies are the products of a unique comic genius"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Passions of Mary Wollstonecraft by Wendy Louise Bardsley (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "In her excellent new novel Wendy Louise Bardsley takes the reader on a journey from Yorkshire to London Wales and Paris as she explores the remarkable life of Mary Wollstonecroft As a young woman Mary copes with a bullying father a subjugated mother sees young friends die in childbirth and from tuberculosis And whilst her elder brother Ned follows an unfettered path to a career as a lawyer Mary is deprived of a formal education All of these experiences combine to shape Mary's ideals for the improvement of the lot of women a subject she pursues passionately throughout her adult life Determined to improve her mind Mary reads writes and associates with learned men of the day Through her writing Mary meets publisher Joseph Johnson who introduces Mary not only to severalfamous writers of the time but also to artist Henri Fuseli with whom she becomes infatuated With the French Revolution raging Mary travels to Paris to experience the terror pervadingthe French capital Whilst there she meets and falls in love with Gilbert Imlay by whom she has a daughter But Imlay proves feckless and the relationship which began so passionately ends in tears Back in London Mary rejoins Joseph Johnson's cultural circle which includes William Godwin who has admired her for a long-time Mary and Godwin marry in March 1797 and in August 1797 their daughter also called Mary and who will grow up to be the future Mary Shelley is born But complications follow the birth and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin dies on 10 September 1797 aged just 38 leaving her seminal work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman as a fitting epitaph to a remarkable story"
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| "Dialogue by Robert McKee (Hardback, 2016)" |
| "DIALOGUE is the follow-up title to Robert McKee's hugely successful STORY Divided into four sections (The Art of Dialogue Flaws & Fixes Creating Dialogue & Dialogue Design) Dialogue teaches how to craft effective speeches for characters McKee uses scenes from classic films and television programmes such as Sideways Casablanca The Sopranos Breaking Bad and Frasier to demonstrate how dialogue is constructed and develops and covers the range of dialogue used on page stage and screen Readers and students are shown how to ensure dialogue holds the reader's or audience's attention how to 'time' dialogue and how to retain motivation and to provide productive information within dialogue The skills outlined allow writers in all spheres to create effective and functional speech McKee dispels a few myths and shows writers how to eradicate bad habits use emotion correctly and to avoid 'empty' dialogue which leads a character and a story into the equivalent of a writing 'cul-de-sac' An insightful work from an author whose guidance can enhance a writer's style and achievements"
Price: 17.49 |
| "The Devil's Advocate by Iain Morley (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The Devil's Advocate a best-selling advocacy manual in both the UK and the Commonwealth brings a fresh approach to the Do's and Don'ts of good advocacy Written with humour and style the title explains clear techniques taking the reader through the practical application of advocacy step-by-step The Devil's Advocate has quickly become the leading handbook and practical guide to advocacy in any adversarial courtroom in any country to be read and carried about by any advocate Iain Morley QC is twenty years call in well-known London criminal chambers prosecuting and defending in the Crown Courts including many high-profile serious crime cases He has taught advocacy skills pro bono to the Inner Temple juniors written much of the teaching materials and taught the teachers - including Silks and Judges Presents the leading book on advocacy bridging the gap between reading about advocacy and how you actually do it Written in a no-nonsense and engaging style to bring a fresh approach to studying advocacy Explains the art of persuasiveness how to make convincing speeches and effective cross examination Describes well-established techniques and exercises used in court for constantly improving questioning and witness control Offers punchy advice and insightful comments on all of the necessary skills and processes involved in advocating Uses examples throughout to illustrate key points and aids knowledge retention Includes a new chapter on the International Criminal Tribunals which require an additional set of advocacy skills due to the dynamics thrown up such as the need for simultaneous translations"
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| "Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence by Michael Freeman (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence is the leading textbook on jurisprudence in the English-speaking world covering the whole field of jurisprudence Combines an authoritative text with extracts from a huge variety of authors extracting the works of more than a hundred jurists Gives critical insight into the texts with detailed and well-documented introductory sections Examines the contributions made to legal theory by leading jurists from the Ancient Greeks to the postmodernists Covers Aristotle Raz Habermas Unger Coleman Perry Kramer Nelken and Iris Marion Young Contains a new chapter on Ronald Dworkin analysing his work Places emphasis on Hart particularly the Postscript and the commentary this has provoked Provides more references to contemporary debates eg positivism v natural law Offers a fuller discussion of justice including global justice"
Price: 36.99 |
| "Construction Law by Professor John Uff (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Construction Law provides the reader with a comprehensive guide to the complex world of construction contracts litigation planning and environmental law Public and EU law statutes safety and building regulations all of which are thoughtfully and comprehensively explained in a clear concise tone that is suitable for both the student and professional reader Includes key coverage of FIDIC NECC JCT and ICE forms"
Price: 28.99 |
| "Commedia Dell'Arte: An Actor's Handbook by John Rudlin (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "There has been an enormous revival of interest in Commedia dell'arte And it remians a central part of many drama school courses In Commedia dell'arte in the Twentieth Century John Rublin first examines the orgins of this vital theatrical form and charts its recent revival through the work of companies like Tag Theatre de Complicite and the influential methods of Jacques Lecoq The second part of the book provides a unique practical guide for would-be practitioners demonstrating how to approach the roles of Zanni Arlecchion Brighella Pantalone Dottore and the Lovers in terms of movement mask-work and voice As well as offering a range of lazzi or comic business improvisation exercises sample monologuesand dialogues No other book so clearly outlines the specific culture of Commedia or provides such a practical guide to its techniques This immensely timely and useful handbook will be an essential purchase for all actors students and teachers"
Price: 29.49 |
| "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "The concept of 'Archteypes' and the hypothesis of 'A Collective Unconscious' are two of Jung's better known and most exciting ideas In this volume - taken from the Collected Works and appearing in paperback for the first time - Jung describes and elaborates the two concepts Three essays establish the theoretical basis which are then followed by essays on specific archetypes The relation of these to the process of individuation is examined in the last section The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious is one of Jung's central works There are many illustrations in full colour"
Price: 32.99 |
| "Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure by Robert de Board (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "'Toad' the famous character in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is in a very depressed state and his good friends Rat Mole and Badger are 'worried that he might do something silly'First they nursed him Then they encouraged him Then they told him to pull himself together Finally Badger could stand it no longer That admirable animal though long on exhortation was short on patience'Now look here Toad this can go on no longer' he said sternly 'There is only one thing left You must have counselling!'Robert de Board's engaging account of Toad's experience of counselling will capture the imagination of the growing readership of people who are interested in counselling and the counselling process Written as a real continuation of life on the River Bank Toad and his friends come to life all over againHeron the counsellor uses the language and ideas of transactional analysis as his counselling method Through the dialogues which make up the ten sessions or chapters of the book Toad learns how to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence He meets his 'rebellious child' and his 'adult' along the way and by the end of the book as debonair as ever he was is setting out on a completely new adventure As readers learn about Toad so they can learn about themselves and be encouraged to take the path of psychological growth and development Best-selling author Robert de Board says 'Toad's experiences are based on my own experiences of counselling people over a period of twenty years Counselling for Toads is really an amalgamation of the many counselling sessions I have held and contains a distillation of the truths I have learnt from practice'Appropriate for anyone approaching counselling for the first time whether as a student or as a client or for the professional counsellor looking for something to recommend to the hesitant Counselling for Toads will appeal to both children and adults of all ages"
Price: 18.99 |
| "Modern Historiography: An Introduction by Michael Bentley (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era from James Boswell and Thomas Carlyle through to Lucien Febure and Eric Hobsbawm and surveys the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment Romanticism the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought the influence of and broadening contact with the New World the Annales school in France Postmodernism Modern Historiography provides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing"
Price: 25.49 |
| "Changing Conversations in Organizations: A Complexity Approach to Change by Patricia Shaw (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Drawing on the theoretical foundations laid out in earlier volumes of this series this book describes an approach to organizational change and development that is informed by a complexity perspective It clarifies the experience of being in the midst of change Unlike many books that presume clarity of foresight or hindsight the author focuses on the essential uncertainty of participating in evolving events as they happen and considers the creative possibilities of such participation Most methodologies for organizational change are firmly rooted in systems thinking as are many approaches to process consultation and facilitation This book questions the suggestion that we can choose and design new futures for our organizations in the way we often hope Avoiding the widely favoured use of two by two matrices idealized schemas and simplified typologies that characterize much of the management literature on change this book encourages the reader to live in the immediate paradoxes and complexities of organizational life where we must act with intention into the unknowable The author uses detailed reflective narrative to evoke and elaborate on the experience of participating in the conversational processes of human organizing It asserts that possibilities are perpetually sustained and changed by the conversational life of organizations This book will be valuable to consultants managers and leaders indeed all those who are dissatisfied with idealized models of change and are searching for ways to develop an effective change practice"
Price: 40.99 |
| "The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture by Theodor W. Adorno (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged His finest essays are collected here offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking At the time Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors In today's world where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media Adorno's work takes on a more immediate significance The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture"
Price: 13.49 |
| "Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases global village and the medium is the message in 1964 no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet No-one that is except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known In 1964 this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman In our twenty-first century digital world the madman looks quite sane Understanding Media the most important book ever written on communication Ignore its message at your peril"
Price: 15.49 |
| "The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Gareth Griffiths, Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin..." |
| "The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India Australia the West Indies and Canada and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture and remains one of the most significant works published in this field The authors three leading figures in post-colonial studies open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text and show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature and language This book is brilliant not only for its incisive analysis but for its accessibility for readers new to the field Now with an additional chapter and an updated bibliography The Empire Writes Back is essential for contemporary post-colonial studies"
Price: 19.49 |
