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'Papa, why do you dance when you walk?' When Aden's 8-year-old
daughter asks him this one morning in Paris, he is taken aback. The
question is innocent, but the answer is not so simple. Unable to
resist Bea's inquisitive spirit, he moves silkily between memories
of his childhood: from his silent, mysterious mother and the shanty
roofs of his neighbourhood to the malicious attack that changed his
life forever and the ensuing struggle that made him a man.
Anchoring his memories is a Djibouti on the cusp of independence; a
land of shifting deserts and immense heat, French-from-France
ex-pats, and one lonely and sick boy finding solace in books. Why
Do You Dance When You Walk is a poignant and timeless story of the
complexity of family, the value of poetry and freedom, and the
ripple effect of the traumas that stalk our movement.
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The Master (Hardcover)
Nicole Ball, David Ball, Patrick Rambaud
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R621
R505
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The extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou sits halfway between fable
and philosophy. “It was twenty-five centuries ago in the land of
Song, between the Yellow River and the River Huai: Zhuang Zhou was
born without a cry with his eyes wide open.† Welcome to
China in the fifth century BCE, a colorful, violent, unstable world
into which Zhuang is born. Here royals raise huge armies,
constantly waging wars against one another. They have slaves,
concubines. Gold is everywhere. And so is hunger. Born rich and
entitled, Zhuang learns to refuse any official function. His
travels bring him closer to ordinary people, from whom he learns
how to live a simple and useful life. This is how he will become
one of the greatest Chinese philosophers who gave his name to his
legendary book, the Zhuangzi, one of the two foundational texts of
Taoism—a magnificent procession of lively stories in which we
meet dwarfs, virtuous bandits, butchers, powerful lords in their
castles, turtles, charming concubines, and false sages. In this
remarkable bildungsroman, award-winning French novelist Patrick
Rambaud spins out the extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou—a poetic,
cruel, and often humorous tale, halfway between fable and
philosophy.
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The Red Sofa (Hardcover)
Michele Lesbre; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball
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R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the
Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who
left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet
Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past
with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor
she has just left behind, Clemence Barrot. Rocked by the train's
movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clemence, who is old and
whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life
and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clemence loves to
tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating
the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her.
Eventually, Anne's train trip returns her home having not found
Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful herself. "A
luminous novel about desire, a clear text about the joy of living."
Prix Pierre Mac Orlan 2007
"Everything starts with a song and everything ends with another
song," says the narrator of The Divine Song. Paris is an old Sufi
cat who keeps watch over his brilliant yet pathetic master, Sammy
Kamau-Williams, the Enchanter. In Sammy, we recognize the African
American singer-composer, poet, and novelist Gil Scott-Heron who is
best known for his song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." The
Divine Song takes us from the shores of Africa to Sammy's
ancestors' arrival in the Americas in the hold of the slave ships.
From there, Abdourahman A. Waberi takes the characters from
Tennessee--under the tutelage of Lili Williams, Sammy's beloved
African-born grandmother--to New York and the concert halls of
Paris and Berlin, wherever blues and jazz find an enchanted
audience. African tales, religious practices, segregation, the
civil rights movement, addiction, and jail--Sammy's life comes to
encompass the whole of the African American experience. At a time
when social and racial divisions have yet again come into sharp
relief, this lyrical novel by one of African literature's rising
stars is necessary reading for anyone who celebrates the resilience
of art.
This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both
theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or
repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.
Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director
at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts
playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays
stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and
practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme,
exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality,
and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He
includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the
play's most important elements, thus permitting interpretation
based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.
Using "Hamlet" as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for
illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the
kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the
craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to
put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production
specialists) "Backwards and Forwards" is also a fine playwriting
manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of
the playwright.
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Passage of Tears (Paperback)
Abdourahman A Waberi; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball
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R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
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Passage of Tears cleverly mixes many genres and forms of
writing--spy novel, political thriller, diary (replete with
childhood memories), travel notebook, legends, parables,
incantations, and prayers. Djibril's reminiscences provide a sense
of Djibouti's past and its people, while a satire of Muslim
fundamentalism is unwittingly delivered through the other
Djiboutian voice. Waberi's inventive parody is a lesson in
tolerance, while his poetic observations reveal his love and
concern for his homeland.
Three CDs housed in a gatefold digipak featuring original 12 inch
mixes including 'Tainted Love', 'Bedsitter', 'Torch' & 'Soul
Inside'. 28 tracks.
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The Wound (Paperback)
Laurent Mauvignier; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball; Foreword by Nick Flynn
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R605
R499
Discovery Miles 4 990
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“Where is your wound?†asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent
Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have
finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound
lies four decades back in “the Events†that people have
tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian War.
  Chronicling the lives of two cousins—Bernard and
Rabut—both in the present and at the time of the Algerian War of
Independence in the 1960s, we get a full picture of the lasting
effects this event had on the men who were involved. Through the
fragments of their stories we see the whole history of the war: its
atrocities, its horrors, and its hatreds. Mauvignier shows readers
how the Algerian War, always present yet always repressed, has
sickened the emotional and moral life of everyone it touched—and
France itself, perhaps. The epigraph, like the novel, suggests that
wounded men may even become the wound itself.  Â
Global experts, in conjunction with the International Association
for the Study of Lung Cancer, bring you up to date with today's
best approaches to lung cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
IASLC Thoracic Oncology, 2nd Edition, keeps you abreast of the
entire scope of this fast-changing field, from epidemiology to
diagnosis to treatment to advocacy. Written in a straightforward,
practical style for the busy clinician, this comprehensive,
multidisciplinary title is a must-have for anyone involved in the
care of patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies.
Offers practical, relevant coverage of basic science, epidemiology,
pulmonology, medical and radiation oncology, surgery, pathology,
palliative care, nursing, and advocacy. Provides authoritative
guidance from the IASLC - the only global organization dedicated to
the study of lung cancer. Includes new content on molecular
testing, immunotherapy, early detection, staging and the IASLC
staging system, surgical resection for stage I and stage II lung
cancer, and stem cells in lung cancer. Features a new full-color
design throughout, as well as updated diagnostic algorithms. Expert
ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook
experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, Q&As,
and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have
compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift,
Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux "genius," and
Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux's work "is without equal in
the literature of our time." This anthology contains substantial
selections from almost all of Michaux's major works, most never
before published in English, and allows readers to explore the
haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a twentieth-century
visionary.
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and
applications in the field of condition monitoring, plant
maintenance and reliability, as presented by leading international
researchers and engineers at the 5th International Conference on
Maintenance Engineering and the 2020 Annual Conference of the
Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (IncoME-V
& CEPE Net-2020), held in Zhuhai, China on October 23-25, 2020.
Topics include vibro-acoustics monitoring, condition-based
maintenance, sensing and instrumentation, machine health
monitoring, maintenance auditing and organization, non-destructive
testing, reliability, asset management, condition monitoring,
life-cycle cost optimisation, prognostics and health management,
maintenance performance measurement, manufacturing process
monitoring, and robot-based monitoring and diagnostics. The
contributions, which were selected through a rigorous international
peer-review process, share exciting ideas that will spur novel
research directions and foster new multidisciplinary
collaborations.
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The Red Sofa (Paperback)
Michele Lesbre; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball
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R305
R194
Discovery Miles 1 940
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Now in paperback, The Red Sofa is a quiet French novella exploring
love, memory, and the perspective that travel gives us on both. In
The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the
Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who
left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet
Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past
with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor
she has just left behind, Clemence Barrot. Rocked by the train's
movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clemence, who is old and
whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life
and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clemence loves to
tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating
the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her.
Eventually, Anne's train trip returns her home having not found
Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful-herself.
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and
applications in the field of condition monitoring, plant
maintenance and reliability, as presented by leading international
researchers and engineers at the 5th International Conference on
Maintenance Engineering and the 2020 Annual Conference of the
Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering Network (IncoME-V
& CEPE Net-2020), held in Zhuhai, China on October 23-25, 2020.
Topics include vibro-acoustics monitoring, condition-based
maintenance, sensing and instrumentation, machine health
monitoring, maintenance auditing and organization, non-destructive
testing, reliability, asset management, condition monitoring,
life-cycle cost optimisation, prognostics and health management,
maintenance performance measurement, manufacturing process
monitoring, and robot-based monitoring and diagnostics. The
contributions, which were selected through a rigorous international
peer-review process, share exciting ideas that will spur novel
research directions and foster new multidisciplinary
collaborations.
Nico and Maria, Maltese brother and sister, are separated when
young Nico is abducted by Moorish slavers. Taken to Algiers to be
the personal slave of a wealthy merchant, he becomes a pawn in
household politics and sets out to escape. Extraordinary events
lead him to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the
Ottomans. Stranded alone on Malta, Maria must learn to survive
helped only by a group of Jewish refugees. A sweeping historical
epic set against the backdrop of the desperate conflict between
Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire, The Sword and the
Scimitar vividly portrays an irresistible and fast-moving world of
adventure, war, treachery and love.
The second edition of this title represents a compilation of work
completed by Jim Cooper and his colleagues in the Network for
Cooperative Learning in higher education over the last fifteen
years, including eight new chapters were written specifically for
this edition. It presents a look at the history of small group
instruction research, theory and practice and offers a glimpse at
the future of this powerful instructional strategy.
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