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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Many people see their lives playing out like a movie they cannot
control. They have come to feel like spectators watching a story
unfold, unable to stop the stampeding consequences. They feel the
die is cast, and nothing they do can alter the outcome. James
MacDonald believes that is a lie. In 10 Choices he says, while
people are where they are in life because of the choices they've
made, they don't have to stay there. This book is about getting
beyond self-help and blame shifting and changing at the deepest and
most profound level...the will. A person's will is what he uses to
choose and act. This book helps readers to discover the heights to
which their wills, truly surrendered to God, can actually soar and
the "10 choices" that can take them there. This impactful book will
prompt readers to make 10 Choices that are sure to change their
lives forever.
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Wild Air (Hardcover)
James Macdonald Lockhart
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R400
Discovery Miles 4 000
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A book about birdsong, from the critically acclaimed author of
Raptor. In Wild Air, James Macdonald Lockhart sets out to write
about a series of birds as though he has his granny's role of
listening to birds' songs and calls and relaying what she heard to
her aged and by then quite deaf father - the famous naturalist
Seton Gordon. From a nightjar's strange churring song on a heath in
the south of England, to a lapwing displaying over the machair in
the Outer Hebrides, he writes about eight different birds who he
has spent most time with, returned to most often and relays what he
hears. The eight species are all representative of a different
habitat. Nightjars on a lowland heath; shearwaters on a mountain
overlooking the sea; dippers on a river; skylarks in farmland;
ravens in woodland; divers on a loch; lapwings on the coast; and
nightingales in dense scrub. Not all of the birds are songbirds in
the traditional sense, though each possesses its own distinctive
music. That music can vary from the strange, as in the weird
gurgling sound a shearwater makes inside its burrow, to the joyous
exuberance of the skylark's song. Sometimes, he hears a lot, and
sees little (shearwaters in the pitch dark); sometimes he sees a
lot, but hears little (black-throated divers on their loch). But in
every case the sounds the birds make become an introduction to
their lives - an audible introduction to the birds and the places
they are found.
Musical Mystery / additional music by Ed Linderman / Casting: 6m,
4f / Scenery: Interior
Scored for seven instruments. May be done with one piano. A
zany, entertaining show that takes a satirical poke at Agatha
Christie mysteries and musical styles of past years. Ten people are
stranded in an isolated English country house during a raging
thunderstorm. One by one they're picked off by cleverly fiendish
devices. As the bodies pile up in the library, the survivors
frantically race to uncover the identity and motivation of the
cunning culprit.
"The audience adored the show."-- N.Y. Times.
"Engaging, funny, refreshing and original."-- N.Y. Post.
"An enchanting spoof."-- N.Y. Daily News.
"Both a spoof and a tribute to Agatha Christie ... played with
fine tuned, flamboyantly melodramatic affectations." -- L.A.
Times.
Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and
pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has
outgrown its clinical origins. In Freaks of History, James
MacDonald presents two dramatic explorations of disability within
the wider themes of sexuality, gender, foreignness and the Other.
Originally directed by Martin Harvey and performed by undergraduate
students at the University of Exeter, Wellclose Square and Unsex Me
Here analyse cultural marginalization against the backdrop of
infamous historical events. MacDonald, who is cerebral palsied,
recognizes that disability narratives are rarely written by and for
disabled people. Therefore, his plays, accompanied by critical
essays and director's notes, are a welcome addition to the emerging
discourse of Crip theory and essential reading for disability
students and academics alike.
Designed for undergraduate performance, "Carnival Texts"
comprises three related dramatic works, all of which have as their
point of departure Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of
carnival, a literary style designed to subvert dominant assumptions
through chaos and humor. Making creative use of post-Brechtian
performance theory, these texts blur the distinction between
spectator and performer in a fascinating exploration of physical,
moral, and cultural upheaval in a postmodern age. Performance
theory is crucial to understanding how performance affects
collective understanding, and this book will be of interest to a
broad range of students of drama and theater.
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth,
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible
perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great
leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book
explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit
of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century
and a half since he governed. Lincoln, as an abolitionist, the
architect of Reconstruction, an avowed Unionist, a wordsmith and
rhetorician, his age's foremost prophet for democracy, and
America's greatest president remains an iconic image in American
memory.
Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for
Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award
in 2011 A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and
Helen Macdonald Of all the birds of the British Isles, the raptor
reigns supreme, sparking the imagination like no other. In this
magnificent hymn to these beautiful animals, James Macdonald
Lockhart explores all fifteen breeding birds of prey on these
shores - from the hen harrier swimming over the land in the dregs
of a May gale on Orkney, to the ghostly sparrowhawk displaying in
the fields around his home in Warwickshire. This is a book that
will change how we think of our own skies.
Sgeulachd Pheadair Rabaid Gaelic Translation of The Tale of the
Peter Rabbit, published in 1902. While holidaying in Dunkeld,
Beatrix Potter wrote her first draft of Peter Rabbit. Not
surprisingly, Mr McGregor appears, as Perthshire is home of the
ancient Clan Gregor. Now, at last, Gaelic-speaking children may
delight in Tales of Peter Rabbit, family and friends.
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The Forge
Alexander James MacDonald
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R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and
powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly
dominated by democracies. In "A Free Nation Deep in Debt," James
Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this political
transformation occurred. The pressures of war finance led ancient
states to store up treasure; and treasure accumulation invariably
favored autocratic states. But when the art of public borrowing was
developed by the city-states of medieval Italy as a democratic
alternative to the treasure chest, the balance of power tipped.
From that point on, the pressures of war favored states with the
greatest public creditworthiness; and the most creditworthy states
were invariably those in which the people who provided the money
also controlled the government. Democracy had found a secret weapon
and the era of the citizen creditor was born. Macdonald unfolds
this tale in a sweeping history that starts in biblical times,
passes via medieval Italy to the wars and revolutions of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ends with the great bond
drives that financed the two world wars.
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