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Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue

From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks

by Ruby Cohn, Dr Daniela Caselli, Hannah Simpson ...

Series series Methuen Drama Engage
This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theatre.Published posthumously, this renowned theatre scholar's book considers English dramatic dialogue as exemplified in the verbal invention of particular plays. That invention is traced through ... Read more

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This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theatre.Published posthumously, this renowned theatre scholar's book considers English dramatic dialogue as exemplified in the verbal invention of particular plays. That invention is traced through
... Read more
Everything Will Be Okay!

Gentle Self-Care Reminders from Your Pup

by Hannah Simpson ...

This illustrated book is a love letter of positivity to anyone who might need a little encouragement or reassurance, inspired by a rescue pup named Mac.This charming gift is chock-full of playful illustrations and self-care reminders from human's best friend.Hannah Simpson’s lighthearted illustrations perfectly capture the symbiotic relationship between humans and our beloved canine companions. ... Read more

$4.99 USD

This illustrated book is a love letter of positivity to anyone who might need a little encouragement or reassurance, inspired by a rescue pup named Mac.This charming gift is chock-full of playful illustrations and self-care reminders from human's best friend.Hannah Simpson’s lighthearted illustrations perfectly capture the symbiotic relationship between humans and our beloved canine companions.
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Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance

by Hannah Simpson ...

Series series New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
Beckett’s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances – that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as ‘disabled’ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett’s work and a new theorising of Beckett’s treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines ... Read more

$116.99 USD

Beckett’s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances – that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as ‘disabled’ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett’s work and a new theorising of Beckett’s treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines
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Close Friends And Relatives

Collection of Poems

by Bryan Barks, Pilar Saavedra-Vela, Anika Czander, Norman Walter, Gialina Morten, Richard Johnson, Judy Schneier, Hannah Maiorano, Julie Fitzpatrick, Elsa Bonstein, Hannah Su, Nancy Cardoza, Kelly Johnson, James Simpson, Bo Ransom, Ashley Myers, Babitha Marina Justin, Reena Kapoor, Mary Claire Shingleton, nicoline antonovitch, Echo Quinn, Jane Hillson Aiello, Michelle Hawkins MD MPM, Amanda Boyanowski-Morin, Velibor Baćo, Raquel Morris, DIANA BRANTLEY, William McMahon, John LoSasso, Max McCoubrey, Kate MacDonald, John Claxton, Quinn Li, Vera Ivanova, Chelsea Whitlow, Regina Gort, Anna Persky, Kendra Thompson, Maggie Swofford, Andrew Ballard, Russell Willis, Rachel Baila ...

Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from ... Read more

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Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness

Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama

by Hannah Simpson ...

Series series Oxford English Monographs
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical ... Read more

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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical
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Neglected Authors, The - Women - Volume 3

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Hannah More, Rosa Mulholland, Margaret Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Ada Radford, Charlotte Riddell, Olive Schreiner, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair0, Georgia F Stewart1, Netta Syrett2, Ruth D Todd3, Mary Webb4, Catherine Wells5, Eudora Welty6, Leonara Wodehouse7 ...

Narrated by Marie-Pierre8, Elliot Fitzpatrick9, Laurel Ross0 ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
Healing the Hidden Hurts

Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults

by Victoria Drury, Emma Birch, Ann Cartwright, Viv Norris, Lisa Waycott, Claire Carbiss, Kate McInnes, Helen O'Shea, Jonny Matthew, Tricia Skuse, Christine Gordon, Helen Jury, Elaine Simpson, Tamara Gordon, Marie Martin, Hannah Fryer, Jane Macnamara ...

Healing the Hidden Hurts*: Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults* provides a unique collection of professional and personal responses to the challenges that arise in dealing with attachment difficulties.With contributions from social workers, adoptive parents, adoptees, psychologists, therapists, counsellors and other related ... Read more

$36.99 USD

Healing the Hidden Hurts*: Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults* provides a unique collection of professional and personal responses to the challenges that arise in dealing with attachment difficulties.With contributions from social workers, adoptive parents, adoptees, psychologists, therapists, counsellors and other related
... Read more
At the Top of the Grand Staircase

The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah

by L. Barry Albright, Michael A. Arthur, Richard Barclay, Clint Boyd, Donald B. Brinkman, Michael E. Burns, Richard L. Cidelli, Leon P. Claessens, Walter E. Dean, Don DeBlieux, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Andrew A. Farke, James D. Gardner, Terry A. Gates, Gerard D. Gierlinski, David D. Gillette, Martha C. Hayden, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Randall Irmis, Zubair Ali Jinnah, Kirk Johnson, Gy-Su Kim, James I. Kirkland, Douglas Kline, Lindsay Zanno, Michael Knell, Eric K. Lund, Ian M. Miller, Andrew G. Neuman, Michael Newbrey, Randall L. Nyoam, Patrick M. O’Connor, Tomas Prikryl, Eric M. Roberts, Zbynek Rocek, Scott D. Sampson, Joseph Sertich, Leif Tapanila, Edward L. Simpson, Matthew K. Vickaryous, Jelle Wiersma, Thomas E. Williamson, Michael Wizevich, Sarah E. Tindall ...

Series series Life of the Past
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new ... Read more

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The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new
... Read more
Pop Beckett: Intersections with Popular Culture

by Paul Stewart, Paul Stewart, Ken Alba, Jo Baker, James Baxter, Jonathan Bignell, Dilks Stephen, Anna Douglass, David Pattie, John Pilling0, Mark Schreiber1, Hannah Simpson2, Pim Verhulst3, Selvin Yaltir4 ...

Series Book 6 - Samuel Beckett in Company
When Samuel Beckett’s work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Beckett’s work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully understood; the intimate relation between his work and popular culture. Beckett used popular cultural forms; but popular culture has also found a ... Read more

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When Samuel Beckett’s work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Beckett’s work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully understood; the intimate relation between his work and popular culture. Beckett used popular cultural forms; but popular culture has also found a
... Read more
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Pygmalion

Directed by John Tydeman

by George Bernard Shaw ...

Narrated by Anton Lesser, Lucy Whybrow, Geoffrey Palmer, Hannah Gordon, David Burke, Kate Binchy, Frances Jeater, Charlie Simpson, Fritha Goodey, Daniel Philpott, Ben Warwick, Denys Hawthorne ...

Unabridged

2 hours 37 min

Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady. But much of the charm and wit comes from the words and timing in Shaw’s original play. Here are the characters of Professor Higgins, his friend Colonel Pickering, and their charge, Eliza Doolittle. Directed by John Tydeman, this delightful comedy is presented in its original play ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady. But much of the charm and wit comes from the words and timing in Shaw’s original play. Here are the characters of Professor Higgins, his friend Colonel Pickering, and their charge, Eliza Doolittle. Directed by John Tydeman, this delightful comedy is presented in its original play
... Read more

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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

The Definitive Edition

by Anne Frank ...

Narrated by Selma Blair ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

THE DEFINITIVE EDITION • Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.**Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad“The single most compelling personal ... Read more

$24.00 USD

THE DEFINITIVE EDITION • Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.**Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad“The single most compelling personal
... Read more
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Blood Song

by Anthony Ryan ...

Narrated by Steven Brand ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Raven's Shadow Novel
Unabridged

23 hours 5 min

“The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm."Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order—a caste devoted to battle. Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate and dangerous life of a warrior of the Faith. He has no family now save the Order.Vaelin’s father was Battle Lord ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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“The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm."Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order—a caste devoted to battle. Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate and dangerous life of a warrior of the Faith. He has no family now save the Order.Vaelin’s father was Battle Lord
... Read more

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