Features over 30 classic songs to strum and sing, specially arranged for the ukulele. This title includes lyrics, strumming patterns and ukulele chord diagrams.
Offers author's memoirs from the condemned cell , having murdered six people who stood between him and an earldom he hoped to inherit. This book explores and parodies the anti-Semitic attitudes of Edwardian England.
This is the matching songbook to Queen's two-disc album release Queen: Live At Wembley '86 that captured Queen live at the height of their popularity, during a tour which would prove to be the last with their original line up. It features the sheet music to live perfomances of nine of their UK top ten hits, alongside rock 'n' roll covers.
This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the theatre of the absurds and this is demonstrated in both "The Caretaker" and "The Birthday Party".
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times".
A fascinating look at how people really lived, loved and died over the centuries. Why did the flushing toilet take 200 years to catch on? And why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions and more are answered in this juicy, smelly and intimate history of home life. Worsley has become a media star, and will have 2 new series on the BBC in 2012.
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director, and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence. From one of Scandinavia's most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, THE EMPEROR OF LIES chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarc...
Listening to Van Morrison represents Greil Marcus's quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968 with the incomparable Astral Weeks, and continuing in full force to this day.
Explores the problem of how man lives with his fellow man, and also with woman. As opposed to the abstract arguments concerning Man in the universe, this title deals with the practical arguments such as arise between man and his neighbour, his wife, his lover - and also with man's arguments against himself, in the pursuit of happiness.
Follows the careers of six Royal Navy submariners from their graduation from Dartmouth's Britannia Royal Naval College in 1963, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This book explains the nuclear threat and its beginnings in the last days of the Second World War.
In its early history, the cello was a genuine 'bass' violin that came in three sizes and from the thirteenth century was played side by side with viols and later violins. This title presents a history of the lives and work of the cello's great performers and teachers, since the emergence of the solo instrument in the seventeenth century.
After an undistinguished career at Oxford, Stanley Windrush wanders from one escapade to another in the world of paid employment. The unwitting cause of an international furore in his indefinable role at the Foreign Office, he soon loses more jobs in the world of industry. He swiftly decides to take up a post as an unskilled worker.
