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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Tom was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, and the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.' In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark ogaincombines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Promiscuity in Western Literature

    by Peter Stoneley ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski described promiscuity as "feast and feast and feast." The promiscuous person is having fun, getting away with it, and showing no signs of stopping. More often, though, promiscuity has been seen as demonic, as the sign of an uncivilised race, or as a symptom of mental disorder.Promiscuity in Western Literature capitalises on the fact that literature gives us deep ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Tom was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, and the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.' In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark ogaincombines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • A Queer History of the Ballet

    by Peter Stoneley ...
    Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.Presenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter. So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America's deep South before the Civil War, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of Huck's escape from his brutal father and the relationship ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    by Daria Klimentova ...
    Daria Klimentová's sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, who is nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the prima ballerina's career - and marks a metamorphosis after her Black Swan-style torments depicted in BBC Four's Agony and Ecstasy, the gripping documentary series aired last year. There has been a metamorphosis since the 'old ballerina' allowed herself to be browbeaten ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Ballet

    From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course

    by Anna Paskevska ...
    Ballet: From the First Pli; to Mastery is designed as a complement to a beginning student's ballet training. The book opens with a brief description of the benefits of ballet training to young dancers, and then introduces fundamentals and precepts of the technique. Clear photographs show exactly how to execute each movement. Then an eight-year course is presented, taking the student from age 5 or ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Passion to Dance

    The National Ballet of Canada

    by James Neufeld ...
    This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics.Passion to Dance is the story of the National Ballet of Canada – the people who dreamt the company into existence, the determination needed to keep it afloat, the bumps on the road to its success, and above all, its passion for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

    The Making of Tanztheater

    Edited by Royd Climenhaga ...
    Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Wrights & Wrongs

    My Life in Dance

    by Peter Wright ...
    Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years.In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television.Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps

    Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

    by Marlon M. Bailey ...
    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Natalia Osipova

    Becoming a Swan

    Natalia Osipova: Becoming a Swan is an intimate portrait of the work of a ballet superstar, and the story told in pictures of how she prepares for the most iconic role in all of ballet. Features over 150 black and white images of Osipova behind the scenes and on stage, including unique glimpses taken from the wings at Covent Garden. Andrej Uspenski has used his exclusive vantage point as a First ... Read more

    $18.99 USD