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ATMOSPHERIC AND FASCINATING' Joe Abercrombie'SPECTACULAR' Django Wexler'OUTSTANDING' Publishers WeeklyFrom New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author Daniel Abraham, co-author of the Expanse, comes a monumental epic fantasy trilogy that unfolds within the walls of a single great city, over the course of one tumultuous year, where every story matters, and the fate of the city is woven from them all.Kithamar is a centre of trade ...

What is the truth about Britain's finances?Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute for Fiscal Studies aim to hold Government to account - without which politicians will get away with their half-truths, elisions and dubious claims.This is a forensic examination - by the man best placed to do so - of the £1 trillion it now costs to run the United Kingdom's economy. To follow the money. To provide an explanation, of where that money c...

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Using the techniques and insights of clowning, this book draws on original workshops and research to provide practical clowning exercises to develop wider acting practice in innovative ways. The book offers guidance and explanation to key concepts in clowning, including the dynamics of the clown-audience relationship, the relationship between script, text and improvisation, and movement and voice, offering fresh and inspiring angles from wh...

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Written by the former Deputy Head of Make-Up and Wigs at the National Theatre, this book opens up a process that very few people will otherwise be privy to, giving perspectives on the preparation before a production and responsibilities during, as well as looking more widely at training, career opportunities and success. It does so through drawing upon some of the most adventurous and challenging productions mounted at the National Theatre and...

This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range of different dramaturgical structures and styles popular today, plays by a diverse selection of writers, and the curr...

From the author of Little Deaths, shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, comes the sensational Other Women.A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they'd kill to protect . . . Six years after the end of the Great War, the country is still in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost forever, and the sea of women they left behind must carry on without them.But Beatrice Cade is not a wife, no...

Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate and longer term aftermath of the Great War on the architecture of Britain and the British Empire during the interwar years. While much attention has been paid by historians to post-war architectural reconstruction after 1945, the earlier developments of the interwar period (1919-1939) have been comparatively overlooked. This volume re...

The highly acclaimed inside history of the whole damn popular music business

- Alle Sehenswürdigkeiten Zentralalaskas auf 350 Seiten - Vorschläge für Wanderungen, Tierbeobachtungen und Outdoor-Erlebnisse - Fundierte Einführung zur Geschichte, Kultur und Natur Alaskas - Empfehlungen zu Unterkünften, Restaurants, Einkaufsmöglichkeiten und Museen - Stadtpläne und Übersichtskarten sowie mehr als 350 Farbfotos Wer Alaskas bereisen will, braucht Zeit. Denn in den unvorstellbaren Weiten des 49. Bundesstaates der USA gelten i...

This introductory textbook takes a global perspective, integrating environmental science, policy, and interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate key challenges in developing a more sustainable future through the UN's SDG framework. Structured around the 17 SDGs, the text covers key concepts, trends, and geographic patterns in sustainability.

The challenge in teaching an introductory course on sustainability is there are many ways to teach it, and many issues to cover. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals offer a cohesive and interconnected set of topics to help address this problem ¿ indeed the SDGs are now the guiding framework for planning and implementing sustainability through 2030. They are the focus of international development efforts, and the lingua franca of s...

Motorisch unruhige Kinder stellen heute - genauso wie vor 30 Jahren - ihre Lehrkräfte, Erzieher, Therapeuten und Familien vor besondere Herausforderungen: Aufgrund ihres Temperaments, ihrer Lebhaftigkeit und Impulsivität haben sie Schwierigkeiten . beim Einhalten von Regeln, . bei der Regulation von Emotionen und . bei der Steuerung ihres Redeflusses. Gleichzeitig sind sie äußerst kreativ, witzig, lösungsorientiert, charmant und engagier...

Jeder kennt sie: Menschen, mit denen fast jede Begegnung zum Hürdenlauf wird. Kollegen, die ständig etwas missverstehen, Familienmitglieder, die herumnörgeln oder beleidigen. Wie kann man mit diesen Menschen so umgehen, dass man dabei nicht auf der Strecke bleibt? Schlagfertigkeit? Ein dickes Fell? Mit diesemBuch gibt die erfahrene Trainerin Silke Weinig allen, die unter Cholerikern, Drama Queens und Dauernörglern leiden, einen gut gefüllten W...

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A sparkling new translation that gives new life in English to Dante's Vita nuova, his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art and power of poetry, and the most widely read of his works after the Inferno A Penguin Classic The Vita nuova is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems interspersed with his own prose commentary. The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Be...

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyze the art and architecture of the archdiocese of Bari and Canosa during the Byzantine period and the upheaval of the Norman conquest. The book places Bari and Canosa in a Mediterranean context, arguing that international connections with the eastern Mediterranean were a continuous thread that shaped art and architecture throughout the Byzantine and Norman eras. Clare Vernon has examined a ...

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state - the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking an...