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  • How to Live in France

    by Ian Blythe ...
    This book has been written to help you understand the differences between the UK and France. After all, if you have children in the UK, the schools have insurance for such things as swimming lessons. As we found out, in France, you have to have your own insurance! We found other differences so I decided to write this book to help others in their new life in France. Of course the laws in France can ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police

    A Cold War Escape

    by Dr Stejarel Olaru ...
    Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ...
    2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner – Silver Medal, World HistoryNadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and went on to collect three gold medals in ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Miruna, a Tale

    by Bogdan Suceavă, Alistair Ian Blyth (Translator) ...
    A village in the Carpathian Mountains, one of the last outposts of pre-modernity, an elderly man, sensing his time is short, tells his young grandchildren tales that weave a family saga covering the real history from the 1870s to the time of the telling. One of the children, now grown, is the re-teller of these tales, while the other, Miruna, perhaps has the gift of second sight. Incorporating ... Read more

    $11.07 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Belle Roumaine

    by Dumitru Tsepeneag ...
    Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ...
    Series series Romanian Literature
    La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe, the novel follows Ana as she seduces café owners, philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a different version of her life story. To some, she’s a former nurse, to others, a former spy. To some she’s French and to others, Romanian. As each new ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare

    by Aureliu Manea ...
    Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ...
    In Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare, visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. Through nineteen Shakespeare plays, Manea sketches the intellectual parameters, the visual languages, and the emotional worlds of imagined stage interpretations of each; these nineteen short essays are appended by his essay ‘Confessions,’ an ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The Art of Innovation

    How art and science have inspired each other, a Radio 4 and the Science Museum collaboration.

    by Ian Blatchford, Tilly Blyth ...
    Narrated by Ian Blatchford, Tilly Blyth, Toby Jones ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 16 min

    The landmark BBC series exploring science in art, developed by Radio 4 in partnership with the Science Museum - with an introduction read by Toby Jones'A real treat' The SpectatorArt and science are often considered to be in conflict, with art dealing in creativity and science in cold, hard facts. But the two disciplines have always been interconnected, taking inspiration from each other and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Book of Whispers

    by Varujan Vosganian ...
    Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres during the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Varujan Vosganian grew up in Romania hearing firsthand accounts of those who had witnessed horrific killings, burned villages, and massive deportations. ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Short Prose

    Volume 1

    by Dumitru Tsepeneag ...
    Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ...
    Series series Romanian Literature
    In the late-1960s Romania, during the relative cultural thaw of the post-Stalinist period, Dumitru Tsepeneag emerged as an innovative writer of short prose and the pioneer of oneirism, a subversive theory and practice of literature that challenged not only socialist realism in particular but realism in general.By the early 1970s, following a cultural crackdown by the totalitarian state, oneirism ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

    by Catalin Avramescu ...
    Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ...
    The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • A Critical Companion to Jane Campion

    by Elsa Colombani, Eurydice Da Silva, Anna Baccanti, Laura Benoit, Katherine Cottle, Wendy Haslem, Sue Matheson, Gilles Menegaldo, Michael Modarelli0, Ian Murphy1, Helen Richardson2, Blythe Worthy3, Hervé Mayer4 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Jane Campion offers a thorough and detailed study of the works of Jane Campion. This edited volume seeks a modern approach by blurring the frontiers between film and television, film theater releases, and platforms, and treats the entirety of Campion's her body of work as a meaningful whole. The chapters explore recurring themes and connections across Campion’s oeuvre, ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Years

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series Book 4 - Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf
    This edition takes the first British edition of The Years as its copy-text, and includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and a full list of textual variants and editorial emendations.Features a comprehensive introduction, detailing the lengthy process of the composition and revision of the novel, and its subsequent publication historyIncludes extensive explanatory notes, ... Read more

    $142.95 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Art of Innovation

    From Enlightenment to Dark Matter, as featured on Radio 4

    by Ian Blatchford, Tilly Blyth ...
    Based on the landmark Radio 4 series, this beautifully illustrated modern history of the connections between science and art offers a new perspective on what that relationship has contributed to the world around us.__________Throughout history, artists and scientists have been driven by curiosity and the desire to experiment. Both have wanted to make sense of the world around them, often to change ... Read more

    $27.59 USD