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  • Ballet Confidential

    A personal behind-the-scenes guide

    by David McAllister ...
    Beyond the formidable combination of tulle and lycra, how much can an audience ever truly understand about the demands of being a ballet dancer? What really is the pain and pleasure of pointe shoes and jockstraps? Can a wardrobe malfunction derail a scene? What happens when injury sidelines a principal dancer mid-show? Here is your tell-all guide, an all-access pass for ballet lovers and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Soar

    A Life Freed by Dance

    by David McAllister, Amanda Dunn ...
    McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass of the TV and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Graveyard Gothic

    Edited by David McAllister, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Dr Eric Parisot ...
    Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media including poetry, fiction, TV, film and video games. The volume also extends its geographic scope beyond British ... Read more

    Was $91.99 USD Now $26.99 USD

  • Imagining the Dead in British Literature and Culture, 1790–1848

    by David McAllister ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers the first account of the dead as an imagined community in the early nineteenth-century. It examines why Romantic and Victorian writers (including Wordsworth, Dickens, De Quincey, Godwin, and D’Israeli) believed that influencing the imaginative conception of the dead was a way to either advance, or resist, social and political reform. This interdisciplinary study contributes to the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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    Soar

    A Life Freed by Dance

    by David McAllister ...
    Narrated by David McAllister ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective glass of the TV and dreamed about becoming the next Rudolf Nureyev. As a little boy taking ballet lessons, he was mercilessly bullied. As a young man joining the ranks of The Australian Ballet, he worried that he would never play the prince ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Ballet Companion

    A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet

    by Eliza Gaynor Minden ...
    A New Classic for Today's DancerThe Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs, including:Practical advice for getting started, such ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nick Groom ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home d�cor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ballerina

    Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection

    by Deirdre Kelly ...
    Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection- the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century, who often led double lives as concubines, through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers in the 1800’s and the anorexic and bulimic ballerinas of George Balanchine, starvation and ... Read more

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  • Horror

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Darryl Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hauntology

    Ghosts of Futures Past

    by Merlin Coverley ...
    Ghosts and specters, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what ... Read more

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  • The Inner Voice

    The Making of a Singer

    by Renée Fleming ...
    The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today’s music sceneThe star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka, soprano Renée Fleming brings a consummately beautiful voice, striking interpretive talents, and compelling artistry to bear on performances that have captivated audiences in opera houses and recital halls throughout the world. In The ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $29.59 USD