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Tony Harrison has lived the life of a professional snake catcher for twenty years. In this book, he introduces you to the reptiles most commonly encountered in our cities and towns, including some of the most venomous snakes on earth. Tony has spent his whole life surrounded by reptiles. His work and his animals are regularly featured on TV and in movies. That means he has a tale or two to tell. In Snake Catcher, Tony shares entertaining and i...

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A new edition of the collection first published in 1984, now with new award-winning poems.

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Throughout our history trees have been central to our existence. They provide us with vital ingredients for life--food, medicine, materials, even the oxygen we breathe. Ecologically, they are crucial in controlling pollution and moderating the climate, and culturally they are important to our religions, folklore and art. It has also been shown that as well as greening our lives they can improve our health and mental well-being. Remarkable Tree...

More than 60, 000 species of trees are found in an amazing variety of forms, sizes and habitats. Every tree has its own story and here are over 60, selected for their particular resonance and connection with humankind and representing most of the world's major zones and ecologies. In portraits that combine vivid cultural and historical narrative with a firm scientific grounding, the authors reveal the details of trees from around the world, bo...

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Una prima sezione dominata dalle poesie, crude e arrabbiate, contro la guerra in Iraq. Seguono poesie di ricordi personali, che diventano anche rappresentazioni dei mutamenti storici, culturali e psicologici degli ultimi decenni. Infine una selezione delle opere teatrali in versi, dove il gioco con la tradizione greca e latina (che Harrison ben conosce) produce un cortocircuito fra antico e contemporaneo dagli esiti molto postmoderni, e un pro...

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The Kaisers of Carnuntum was performed on 2 June 1995 in the Roman amphitheatre of Petronell/Carnuntum in Austria and has the bloody Commodus, a Roman Emperor and son of the philosopher Marcus Aureliues, returning to the former Roman frontier town.

This fourth collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for stage contains his highly acclaimed translations of Aeschylus, Aristophanes and Euripides. Included are the plays The Oresteia, and The Common Chorus (Parts I and II). This volume contains introductions, written by Tony Harrison, to each of the plays.

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In inglese "v.", cioè versus, significa "contro", e presuppone una battaglia sportiva, ma allude anche a un tipo di poesia che fa scontrare senza paura il drammatico e il comico, l'aulico e il plebeo, temi e stili assai diversi tra loro. Il tentativo di dare un senso alla nostra epoca rappresentando le sue contraddizioni più vistose ha fatto di questo poemetto, apparso nel 1985, un punto di riferimento per le generazioni della cultura postmode...

Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. Channel Four's film of v. won the Royal Television Society's Best Original Programme Award and prompted extreme political and media reaction documented in the book's second edition.

Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937. His poetry includes The Loiners, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, v., which became a cause c¿bre when broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987 and was broadcast again in full on BBC Radio 4 in 2013, and The Gaze of the Gorgon, which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He has written extensively for film, theatreand opera, producing work for the National Theatre, The Metropolitan Opera, the RSC, the BB...

This textbook provides an introduction to the topical subject of constitutional change in Britain. It considers the historical origins of the constitution but its main focus is on recent reforms and their likely impact.It includes chapters on:. The Legislature: The House of Commons and the House of Lords. The Executive. The Judiciary. The Debate over a Written Constitution and a Bill of Rights for the UK. Devolution: Northern Ireland, Scotland...

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A varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen that presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality.

A BOOK YOU CAN WRITE IN! This is not only an exciting fun filled story. It's also a motivational tool that gives a child an "I CAN DO IT" outlook on life. The reader gets to name the main character as well as where the story takes place. By letting the child interact in the book, it will increase the chance of them learning more than they would from just hearing or reading a good story. Within the book there is an empty space for the child to ...