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At Miami\'s Cherokee Valley Zoo & Conservation Centre, the most dangerous thing that ever happened was the tapir\'s caesarian section. That is until Hurricane Jonas sets itself on a crash course straight towards it. Now zookeeper Bonnie must rush to batten down the hatches and ensure the safety of her animals – and herself. Halfway across the world in the Yorkshire Dales, Bonnie\'s friend Carol feels the repercussions of that tempestuous night. Will she be able to help from afar? Or will the danger they all face turn out to be deeper and darker than a spot of bad weather? Lily Bevan\'s play Zoo is a wildly inventive comedy drama about courage, female friendship and flamingos. It premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018, where it was selected as one of the Guardian\'s Best Shows of the Fringe. It also enjoyed London runs at Theatre503 and the 2020 VAULT Festival. This edition also includes twelve comic monologues for female performers, some of which featured in the BBC Radio 4 series, Talking to Strangers (co-written with Sally Phillips), and were performed by Olivia Colman, Jessica Hynes and Emma Thompson, amongst others. \'Lily Bevan is one of the most consistently astonishing writers of her generation. She has an imagination like no other and her relationship with words is like a marriage between Flaubert and Spike Milligan\' Emma Thompson Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'I just need to hear you say you believe me. You\'ve known me my whole life. Would you be friends with someone capable of doing that?\' When his friend becomes embroiled in a rape allegation, Chris Quinn offers his support. Only the rules keep changing, nothing is clear-cut, and Chris finds himself caught in a tussle between loyalty, love and doubt. Caitríona Daly\'s Duck Duck Goose is a viscerally charged play examining the nature of consent, trust and trial by social media. Full of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity, it was developed as part of Fishamble\'s A Play for Ireland initiative, and first performed by the company in the 2021 Dublin Theatre Festival. Duck Duck Goose won the Writers\' Guild of Ireland Award for Best Theatre Script in 2022. Σελίδες: 88, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen\'s Ghosts and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics.In Ghosts, Osvald Alving returns home only to discover the truth about the father he always looked up to, and learns the horrific effect his father\'s debauchery has had on him. It was Ibsen\'s most provocative drama, stripping away the surface of a middle-class family to expose layers of hypocrisy and immorality. A Public Enemy sets two brothers against each other when one wishes to make public the facts about the polluted water in the public baths of their home town. And When We Dead Wake tells of an artist meeting an old lover by chance and rejecting his wife, in a symbolic exploration of Ibsen\'s own literary life and the sacrifices he made in his work.Peter Watts\'s translation maintains the colloquial tone of the original dialogue. He has also provided an introduction and notes on the texts.Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) turned to journalism and playwriting instead of pursuing a university career. Ibsen was one of the earliest writers to dramatise the individual\'s alienation from society. Although Ibsen was never fully appreciated during his lifetime, he has since come to be recognised as one of the great dramatists of all time and the \'Father of Modern Drama\'.If you enjoyed Ghosts, you might like Ibsen\'s A Doll\'s House and Other Plays, also available in Penguin Classics. Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 13.2x13.2cm

Marlowe\'s seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus\'s encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and its desecration. Σελίδες: 752, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and \'one of the preeminent book people of our time\' (Dave Eggers) - it is a rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in protest and the sense of community and collective conviction felt right. But the assaults continued - on citizens\' rights and long-held compacts, on the core principles of our culture and civilisation, and on our language itself. Words seemed to be losing the meanings they once had and Freeman was compelled to return to their defence. The result is his Dictionary of the Undoing.From A to Z, \'Agitate\' to \'Zygote,\' Freeman assembled the words that felt most essential, most potent, and began to build a case for their renewed power and authority, each word building on the last. The message that emerged was not to retreat behind books, but to emphatically engage in the public sphere, to redefine what it means to be a literary citizen.With an afterword by Valeria Luiselli, Dictionary of the Undoing is a necessary, resounding cri de coeur in defense of language, meaning, and our ability to imagine, describe, and build a better world. Σελίδες: 192, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0114, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Do you understand everything you read in English? To read fluently in all situations you need to practise reading different kinds of texts. Collins Reading presents 20 different texts with exercises to help you develop the skills to read anything you come across. Reading features authentic texts and a wide variety of styles to help you develop your reading skills, such as reading for general understanding and reading for detail. Featured texts include: signs and labelsadvertisementsnewspapersbrochuresrecipesclassic and modern novelssocial networking sitesblogs Collins Reading is part of the new English for Life series and uses authentic material from the Collins Corpus, the world’s largest database of the English language. It is suitable for self-study and classroom use, and can help towards Cambridge FCE preparation. Suitable for Intermediate learners of English (CEF level B1+). Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 18.9x18.9cm

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN *Two stunning, intensely powerful modern classics about race in 20th century America from the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson*In Ma Rainey\'s Black Bottom, the great blues diva Ma Rainey is due to arrive at a run-down Chicago recording studio with her entourage to cut new sides of old favourites. Waiting for her are the black musicians in her band - and the white owners of the record company. A tense, searing account of racism in jazz-era America that the New Yorker called \'a genuine work of art\'.Fences centres on Troy Maxson, a garbage collector, an embittered former baseball player and a proud, dominating father, in 1950s Pittsburgh. When college athletic recruiters scout his teenage son, Troy struggles against his young son\'s ambition, his wife, who he understands less and less, and his own frustrated dreams. \'A prolific and successful playwright who confines his themes to African American culture... The level of his achievement is high. This comes powerfully into view when the play is read, an activity for me that is equal to, and in some ways more fruitful than, seeing its stage production.\' Toni Morrison\'In his work, August Wilson depicted the struggles of Black Americans with uncommon lyrical richness, theatrical density and emotional heft, in plays that give vivid voices to people on the frayed margins of life\' New York Times \'August Wilson has established himself as the richest theatrical voice to emerge in the U.S. since Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller\' Time Σελίδες: 208, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming\' Boston GlobeIn Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed her home and inspired her work. The poems in Dog Songs begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers and become, through her extraordinary vision, meditations on the world and our place in it.Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver\'s most beloved dog Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver\'s life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. Σελίδες: 144, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0608, Διαστάσεις: 13.2x13.2cm

English for Everyone is an exciting and comprehensive self-study course for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course is a unique new series with a visual, engaging, and easy to follow style to make the English language easy to learn. Learn business English by reinforcing key language skills, grammar rules, and vocabulary with listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises. This unique course is easy to use, starting at beginner level and working up to advanced English to help you grow in confidence as you learn. This Business English Beginner Course Book introduces business topics such as meetings and presentations, telephone language, company history, and business lunches.Audio material is provided at every stage through the English For Everyone website and Android/iOS apps to provide vital experience of spoken English and make even tricky phrases easy to understand. Perfect for personal study or to support exams including TOEFL and IELTS, English for Everyone is suitable for all levels of English language learners. Σελίδες: 192, Διαστάσεις: 20x20cm

\'She made some very poor decisions. You tried to warn her. You love her yet, and that\'s a credit to you, but you need to think about what\'s best for Scotland...\' It\'s 1567. James Melville is an intelligent, charismatic and skilled diplomat – and also one of the most loyal servants of Mary Stuart, the troubled Queen of Scots. It\'s a time of political turmoil, and the shocking crimes he has witnessed have shaken him. Now he needs to decide who\'s guilty, who\'s innocent, and who is too dangerous to accuse. Change is coming, but at what price? Mary is an explosive political thriller, and part of Rona Munro\'s breathtaking theatrical exploration of Scottish history. It is the sixth instalment of The James Plays Cycle which began with James I, II and III, performed by National Theatre of Scotland, including a run at the National Theatre in London, and which won the Evening Standard and Writers\' Guild of Great Britain Awards in 2014, and James IV, co-produced by Raw Material and Capital Theatres in association with National Theatre of Scotland, in 2022. Mary received its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London, also in 2022, directed by Roxana Silbert. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'You\'re a wonder. You\'re a window into a wide world.\' Scotland, 1504, seen fresh through the eyes of new arrivals Ellen and Anne, two Moorish women who were expected to take their place at a royal court… but not this one. Both women now have to fight to find and keep a place in the dazzling, dangerous world of the Scottish court of James IV. It\'s a world where war is never far away, words of love and promises of peace are not what they seem, and where poets might turn out to be more dangerous than any assassin. Rona Munro continues her journey through an uncharted period of Scottish history with James IV: Queen of the Fight, which was first presented in 2022 by Raw Material and Capital Theatres in association with National Theatre of Scotland, and directed by Laurie Sansom. It follows the spectacular success of Munro\'s plays about James I, II and III, which were first performed by National Theatre of Scotland, transferred to the National Theatre, London, and were named Best New Play at the Evening Standard Awards. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

It\'s 1975. The Millgarth Incident Room in Leeds is the epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British history, for one of the most notorious serial killers: the Yorkshire Ripper. With public and political pressure mounting, hundreds of officers must work around the clock and resort to increasingly audacious attempts to end one man\'s campaign of terror. Olivia Hirst and David Byrne\'s \'beautifully crafted\' (Guardian) play goes behind the scenes to investigate the case that nearly broke the British police force. The Incident Room was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, transferring to New Diorama Theatre, London, in 2020, ahead of an Off-Broadway run. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Science and religion go head to head in David Baddiel\'s debut play: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers. When physics student Edie seems to prove, scientifically, the existence of God, it has far-reaching effects. Not least for her lecturer, Henry Brook, his marriage to celebrity atheist author Virginia – and his entire universe. God\'s Dice is an electric tragicomedy about the power of belief and our quest for truth in a fractured world. It premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in October 2019, starring Alan Davies as Henry, and directed by James Grieve. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets\' Nick Ropatrazone, The Millions\'I\'ve never read anything by Joyelle McSweeney that wasn\'t totally exciting\' Dennis CooperOne of LitHub\'s Most Anticipated Books for 2024In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikely - River Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunk - McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day. In frank, mesmeric lyrics, Death Styles navigates the opposing forces of survival and grief, finding a way to press against death\'s interface, to step the wrong way out of the grave. Σελίδες: 144, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0723, Διαστάσεις: 12.4x12.4cm

A valuable fresco is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. As international and local art historians argue over who should claim ownership, the fate of the painting becomes a metaphor for the future of the emergent nations of Eastern Europe. David Edgar\'s play Pentecost was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in October 1994. The production transferred to the Young Vic, London, with performances from 31 May 1995. It went on to win the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Play. Pentecost is part of David Edgar\'s trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe, which also includes The Prisoner\'s Dilemma and The Shape of the Table. Σελίδες: 124, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Start learning English as a second language with this visually stimulating course book for adults. Accompanying the English for Everyone Practice Book Level 2 Beginner, this illustrated course book features many vocabulary and grammar tips and tricks for adults learning English as a foreign language.This course book has eye-catching illustrations and step-by-step explanations, keeping content straightforward for easy learning. Packed with listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises presented in bite-sized modules, you can follow the book from start to finish or dip in and out to boost your language skills. All teaching is supported by extensive audio materials, with clips recorded by native English speakers to teach the perfect pronunciation.Immerse yourself in this practical ESL learning material, which includes: Over 1,000 vocabulary and grammar exercisesLay-flat binding, making the book easier to write inExtensive accompanying audio resources that can be accessed via the website and the appThe same unit-by-unit structure as the English for Everyone Practice Book Level 2 Beginner, making it the perfect learning accompaniment.This book is part of DK\'s best-selling English for Everyone series, which is suitable for all levels of English language learners and provides the perfect reading companion for study, exams, work, or travel. As you work through the units, you\'ll cover all the language skills, vocabulary, and grammar needed for the major global English-language exams, including TOEFL and IELTS. Σελίδες: 200, Διαστάσεις: 20.6x20.6cm

Start learning English as a second language with this visually stimulating course book for adults. Accompanying the English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1 Beginner, this illustrated course book features many vocabulary and grammar tips and tricks for adults learning English as a foreign language. This course book has eye-catching illustrations and step-by-step explanations, keeping content straightforward for easy learning. Packed with listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises presented in bite-sized modules, you can follow the book from start to finish or dip in and out to boost your language skills. All teaching is supported by extensive audio materials, with clips recorded by native English speakers to teach the perfect pronunciation.Immerse yourself in this practical ESL learning material, which includes: Over 1,000 vocabulary and grammar exercises Lay-flat binding, making the book easier to write in Extensive accompanying audio resources that can be accessed via the website and the app The same unit-by-unit structure as the English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1 Beginner, making it the perfect learning accompaniment.This book is part of DK\'s best-selling English for Everyone series, which is suitable for all levels of English language learners and provides the perfect reading companion for study, exams, work, or travel. As you work through the units, you\'ll cover all the language skills, vocabulary, and grammar needed for the major global English-language exams, including TOEFL and IELTS. Σελίδες: 200, Διαστάσεις: 20.3x20.3cm

Krapp\'s Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as \'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and important play of its length ever written.\' (Roy Walker)The present volume brings together Krapp\'s Last Tape and Beckett\'s other shorter works or \'dramaticules\' written for the stage. It will be complemented by a forthcoming Faber edition of dramatic works written for radio and screen. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays exhibit the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett\'s dramatic vision. KRAPP \'Here I end this reel. Box - [Pause.] - three, spool - [Pause.] - five. [Pause.] Perhaps my best years have gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn\'t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn\'t want them back. [Staring motionless before him.] Σελίδες: 208, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

**WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2019**‘Vivid, accessible and honest, sometimes uncomfortably so’ Alan Bennett, London Review of BooksIn these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to explore the different ways we grow into our sexual selves and our adult identities. Examining our teenage rites of passage: those dilemmas and traumas that shape us – eating disorders, masturbation, loss of virginity – the poet examines how we use bodies, both our own and other people’s, to chart our progress towards selfhood.McMillan’s award-winning debut collection, physical, was praised for a poetry that was tight and powerful, raw and tender, and playtime expands that narrative frame and widens the gaze. Alongside poems in praise of the naivety of youth, there are those that explore the troubling intersections of violence, masculinity, class and sexuality, always taking the reader with them towards a better understanding of our own physicality. ‘isn’t this what human kind was made for’, McMillan asks in one poem, ‘telling stories learning where the skin/is most in need of touch’. These humane and vital poems are confessions, both in the spiritual and personal sense; they tell us stories that some of us, perhaps, have never found the courage to read before. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 13.2x13.2cm

A Doll\'s House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People\'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I\'ve been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy\'s doll-child\'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading figure in the theatre of his day, sending shockwaves throughout Europe and beyond. A Doll\'s House scandalized audiences with its free-thinking heroine Nora. Ibsen\'s even more radical follow-up, Ghosts, exposes family secrets and sexual double-dealing, while Pillars of the Community and An Enemy of the People both explore the hypocrisy and the dark tensions at the heart of society. This new translation, the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen\'s works, offers the best version available in English.A new translation by DEBORAH DAWKIN and ERIK SKUGGEVIK With an Introduction by TORE REM General Editor TORE REM Σελίδες: 448, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

This selection of John Donne\'s most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion, suicide and duty, the secular and the spiritual that characterized his times.Edited with an introduction and notes by Neil Rhodes. Σελίδες: 400, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered\' - Umberto Eco.These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them admitting ignorance of the future. Amidst the twittering, the thoughts of Jean-Claude Carrière and Umberto Eco come as a breath of fresh air. This thought-provoking book takes the form of a conversation in which Carrière and Eco discuss everything from how to define the first book to what is happening to knowledge now that infinite amounts of information are available at the click of a mouse. En route there are delightful digressions into personal anecdote. We find out about Eco\'s first computer and the book Carrière is most sad to have sold. And while, as Carrière says, the one certain thing about the future is that it is unpredictable, it is clear from this conversation that, in some form or other, the book will survive. Σελίδες: 352, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Give your child the support they need in English These new practice test materials for Cambridge English: Movers (also known as Young Learners English: Movers) support young learners and include comprehensive guidance for both teachers and parents. By working through the practice tests, children will feel ready for what they need to do on the day of the test, and will also have fun whilst they are learning. The book includes:• 3 full practice tests with a colourful and clear design to motivate and encourage young learners, and prepare them for what they will see in the real test• Audio is available online with recordings by young native English speakers The Teacher’s Guide and a Parent’s Guide are available online, and are full of information and support for anyone preparing their child for their first Cambridge English test. For Teachers and Parents (available online)• A full guide to each part of the test• Ideas for exam preparation activities• Model answer recordings for the Speaking paper – recorded by young native English speakers so that learners hear examples of correct English again and again• Cambridge English vocabulary list with the key words learners need to know• Audio scripts for the Listening and Speaking sections• Answer key Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 21x21cm

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MERCURY MUSIC PRIZELet Them Eat Chaos, Kae Tempest\'s new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, and, one by one, we see directly into their lives: lives that are damaged, disenfranchised, lonely, broken, addicted, and all, apparently, without hope. Then a great storm breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each other - and their last chance to connect. Tempest argues that our alienation from one another has bred a terrible indifference to our own fate, but they counters this with a plea to challenge the forces of greed which have conspired to divide us, and mend the broken home of our own planet while we still have time. Let Them Eat Chaos is a cri de coeur and a call to action, and, both on the page and in Tempest\'s electric performance, one of the most powerful poetic statements of the year. Σελίδες: 80, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0927, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm

Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems is a rich and varied treasury which includes not only the famous, best-loved poems you would expect to find - and all the famous poets - but also some wonderful, less well-known works. This is a selection that will enthrall, move and delight, whether the poems are familiar or being read for the first time. Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0109, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

\'These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought\' John Gray, New StatesmanAt the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag with a preface by David Rieff.The sixteen essays represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag\'s life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century\'s preeminent writers and thinkers.\'One of America\'s greatest public intellectuals\' Observer\'Excellent and essential\' Financial Times\'Reads like a greatest-hits album - a little politics, something on photography, some lit. crit. - of Sontag\'s passions\' Daily Telegraph\'Sontag\'s clear thinking . . . shines like a spotlight in dark places\' The Times Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances will flock to his bedside with extravagant gifts in hope of an inheritance. The Alchemist also deals with greed and gullibility, as a rascally trio of confidence tricksters, claiming to have the legendary Philosopher\'s Stone, fool a series of victims who are hoping to make some easy money. And in a wonderfully energetic portrait of Jacobean life, Bartholomew Fair shows a diverse group of Londoners sampling the delights and temptations of the Fair - and the traders, prostitutes and cutpurses who set out to exploit them. Σελίδες: 496, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences\' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers\' Houses, depicts Harry Trench\'s dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fiancée comes from her father\'s income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while he is still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven - who is not inclined to give him up so easily. And in Mrs Warren\'s Profession, Vivie Warren is forced to reconsider her own future when she discovers that her mother\'s immoral earnings funded her genteel upbringing. Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in the 1930s, he has little to say of the nature of totalitarianism: although he satirises Fascist dictators in “Geneva”, the satire is disappointingly mild. Neither did Shaw appear to foresee (on the evidence of these plays, at least) the imminent collapse of the British Empire.But it is Shaw the dramatist rather than Shaw the political philosopher who still holds our attention – even in plays as explicitly political as these. He had a sharp intellect and a quirky sense of humour, and his dialogue still glints and sparkles: he couldn’t write a dull line if he tried. No matter how serious the themes he addresses, the crispness of his writing and his lightness of touch still scintillate.Shaw seems, perhaps unfairly, out of fashion nowadays. But even in these lesser-known works, he demonstrates his matchless ability, still undimmed, to provoke and to entertain. Σελίδες: 464, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Diane Seuss’s signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms of musical and poetic craft—ballad, fugue, aria, refrain, coda—and contend with the works of writers overrepresented in textbooks and anthologies and those too often underrepresented. Seuss provides a moving account of her picaresque years and their uncertainties, and in the process, she enters the realm between Modernism and Romanticism, between romance and objectivity, with Keats as ghost, lover, and interlocutor. In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time’s deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? ‘It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem,’ Seuss writes. ‘You can’t hide / from what you made / inside what you made.’ What she finds there, finally, is a surprising but unmistakable love. Σελίδες: 154, Διαστάσεις: 13.4x13.4cm

Life Lessons from Literature is a must for all bibliophiles, providing a concise and highly accessible bucket list of must-read books that teaches us so many fundamental truths and broadens our minds.‘I read a book one day and my whole life was changed’ ... So confesses the narrator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel The New Life. But what can we learn from reading books? Life Lessons from Literature poses this broad question by examining the works of some of the greatest writers in history.In it, we can draw wisdom from Charles Dickens’ views on poverty and wealth; seek comfort from ideas about love from Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. Yet books are about much more than just romance and money. Through careful examination of over one hundred classic works of world literature, life lessons are also drawn from themes such as conflict and oppression, identity and psychology, showing how literature enriches and informs our understanding of ourselves and the wider world around us.From Brazil to Japan, the Americas to Africa; from Victor Hugo to Mark Twain and Chinua Achebe to Haruki Murakami, you will find literature from around the world in this gem of a book, in which the plots may differ but the themes and the lessons they have to teach us are entirely universal. Σελίδες: 192, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

The play script adaptation of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second book in the City Watch series, part of the Discworld novels.\'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . the best-crafted book I have read all year\' Sunday Express‘Pratchett at his best’ 5-star reader review\'People ought to think for themselves ... The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.\'Times are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork\'s Night Watch.New recruits have been hired to reflect the city\'s diversity, including Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), and Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... full moons aside).What\'s more, Captain Sam Vimes is getting married and retiring from the Watch. For good. Which is a shame, because no one knows the streets of Ankh-Morpork or its criminal underworld better than him.And someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city.The new recruits will need to learn fast ...Men At Arms is the second book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.Praise for the Discworld series:\'[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction\' Mail on Sunday‘Pratchett is a master storyteller’ Guardian\'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest\' George R.R. Martin\'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone’ Daily Express‘One of the most consistently funny writers around’ Ben Aaronovitch‘Masterful and brilliant’ Fantasy & Science Fiction‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own… he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable\' The Times‘The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse\' The Sunday Telegraph‘Nothing short of magical’ Chicago Tribune\'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns\' SFX‘[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world…There\'s never been anything quite like it’ Evening Standard Σελίδες: 208, Διαστάσεις: 12.7x12.7cm

Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Essential vocabulary for AQA A-level German, all in one place.- Supplement key resources such as course textbooks with all the vocab students need to know in one easy-to-navigate place, completed updated to match the latest specification - Ensure extensive vocab coverage with topic-by-topic lists of key words and phrases, including a new section dedicated to film and literature - Test students\' knowledge with end-of-topic activities designed to deepen their understanding of word patterns and relationships - Develop effective strategies for learning new vocab and dealing with unfamiliar words Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

The five plays collected here offer a unique insight into the role of theatre in a situation of oppression. They were produced in close collaboration with their original black amateur casts, drawing on their lives and everyday experiences in the townships. They range from the early apprentice work of the brash but vital Sophiatown plays, No-Good Friday and Nongogo, to the freer, more urgent, and profound New Brighton plays, including the most famous Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island, and the previously unavailable The Coat. Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

World—Ana Luísa Amaral’s second collection with New Directions—offers a new exhilarating set of poems that convey wonder, bemusement and an ever-deepening appreciation of life. Weaving the thread that connects the poem to life, World speaks of our immense human perplexity in the face of everything around us and our oneness with it all. As Amaral notes, all of us, “humans and non-humans, are on the same ontological level, the differences being only a matter of perspective. We are all made of the same stuff as dreams—and stars.” Asked about her thoughts on World, Amaral’s peerless translator Margaret Jull Costa replied: “What I take from this collection of poems is a sense of joy in the ordinary—seeing an ant going about its business, or a bee or a fish, or the feeling of sharing a whole history with a particular table, or watching a very ordinary woman sitting on a train playing with the handle of her handbag. World also brings us meditations on colonisation, slavery and whaling. Like the world, it is full of surprises and full of joy and sadness.” These vibrant, exultant poems invite you to share this marvellous world: Yes, all you need (how easy!) is to say yes. Σελίδες: 144, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0718, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

‘I just think it’s, you know, important to look at the good things that are happening as well.’ In a cramped, crumbling office, four volunteers spend a few hours every Tuesday night on the phone telling strangers that everything is going to be okay. As the outside world disintegrates, they teeter on the edge of their own personal catastrophes. Their hopes and fears become entangled as they try, desperately, to connect with the callers and with each other. Sam Steiner\'s You Stupid Darkness! is an urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart. It was first seen at Theatre Royal Plymouth in February 2019, in a co-production between Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth. Σελίδες: 136, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm