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A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time"If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book." -Alan Johnson, The SpectatorThough fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the fab four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their influence extends far beyond music and into realms as diverse as fa...

In 1930, Bob Brown predicted that the printed book was bound for obsolescence. The time has come, he insisted, to rid the reader of the cumbersome book. He invented a machine that would allow one to read books and any text extremely fast and in a hyper abbreviated form. He called these abbreviated texts, with em dashes replacing words: readies. He envisioned sending the condensed texts through wireless networks. The Readies, describes these ep...

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This guide offers current and future student affairs practitioners a new conceptual framework for identity-conscious and intersectional supervision.

This new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it.

If pride comes before a fall, so too does greed. When George Jensen discovers his wife Paula?s adultery with the rich and influential Martin Brack, the scene is set for a vengeful campaign of blackmail. Brack soon realises that Jensen will not go away, he must be removed. But there was homework to be done and by its neglect the plan goes disastrously wrong. Jensen is left doubly embittered and very much alive. His response is naked greed, fuel...

Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix's The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven." -Hamish Bowles, Vogue"Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brilliant, eccentric treat." -Anna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal"I ripped through the book with the avidity of Margaret attacking her morning vodka and orange juice . . . The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown subtly e...

Despite popular theology, Christians should not expect to get out of tribulation or the end times. In this fascinating, accessible, book, two respected, award-winning Bible scholars discuss what the Bible really says about the rapture, the tribulation, and the end times. What they show will leave readers full of hope.

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Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix's The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven." -Hamish Bowles, Vogue"Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brilliant, eccentric treat." -Anna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal"I ripped through the book with the avidity of Margaret attacking her morning vodka and orange juice . . . The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown subtly e...

Princess Margaret's storied and eccentric run-ins with the most famous individuals of the twentieth century, alongside her personal trajectory as a glamorous and tragic figure, are considered in this kaleidoscopic biography melding interviews, parodies, dreams, essays and various non-literary forms.

In this work, Craig Brown talks about the thrills and spills of his relentlessly demanding job as the Scottish national football team's manager, taking the reader behind the scenes and into the dressing room with its tensions, decisions and celebrations.

Illustrated with his trademark simplicity, humor, and warmth, Brown takes young readers on a delightful tour of animals' homes. Ages 3-7.

Listeners to Radio Four have long reserved a very special place in the hearts for Wallace Arnold. In Welcome to my Worlds! Wallace Arnold takes us behind the scenes of the worlds of politics, high society, the literary life and the wireless, in all of which he continues to play a crucial role.

Ordinary people. An ordinary street in southern England. Curiosity drives us to peer through seven windows to glimpse the often dysfunctional lives of the people inside, revealing a shifting kaleidoscope of emotions: introversion, self-doubt, remorse, delusion, suppressed bitterness - and sometimes even time for smiling. In Paradise Park the old order is set to change. Time for quiet complacency is running out. Stephen has had enough of his pa...

From one of England's wittiest writers, a "captivating, glittering, engaging, entertaining confection” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) of 101 unlikely encounters between pairs of historical figures from Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud to Marilyn Monroe and Frank Lloyd Wright. IMAGINE THESE UNLIKELY—BUT TRUE—ENCOUNTERS: Martha Graham and Madonna Igor Stravinsky and Walt Disney Frank Lloyd Wright and Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Mo...

bTitle:/b The History of Selkirkshire, or, Chronicles of Ettrick Forest.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include aroun...

101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer.

Brown traces how the faculty evolved past its early defining traits of elitism and exclusivity to its current form - a remarkably diverse body with students of all ages, backgrounds, and academic interests.

Craig Brown was the first Scotland manager to take his side to the European Championship and World Cup Finals in succession. In this autobiography, he talks about his demanding job and takes us behind the scenes to explore its tensions, decisions and celebrations.