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Jurassic Hunters (DVD)
Eric Roberts, Vernon Wells, Casey Fitzgerald, Sara Malakul Lane, Rib Hillis, …
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R66
Discovery Miles 660
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Rib Hillis and Eric Roberts stars in this low-budget sci-fi action
feature. An explosion at a mine in Montana inadvertently unleashes
a group of fearsome prehistoric dinosaurs that proceed to cause
havoc on the nearby town. Cowboy Val Walker (Hillis), who has
returned home to get a job and hopefully reunite with his
ex-girlfriend Sky (Casey Fitzgerald), teams up with his estranged
dad Trent (Roberts) and tries to use his rodeo skills to fight off
the giant predators before they completely destroy the town.
Featuring new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Rachel
Khong, Louise Erdrich, and more, the tenth and final installment of
the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman's, which explores all
the ways of coming to an end Over the course of ten years,
Freeman's has introduced the English-speaking world to countless
writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to
Valeria Luiselli, while also spotlighting brilliant writers working
in English, from Tommy Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last
issue, this unique literary project ponders all the ways of
reaching a fitting conclusion. For Sayaka Murata, keeping up with
the comings and goings of fashion and its changing emotional
landscapes can mean being left behind, while in her poem
"Amenorrhea," Julia Alvarez experiences the end of a line as
menstruation ceases. Yet sometimes an end is merely a beginning, as
Barry Lopez meditates while walking through the snowy Oregonian
landscapes. While Chinelo Okparanta's story "Fatu" confronts the
end of a relationship under the specter of new life, other writers
look towards aging as an opportunity for rebirth, such as Honorée
Fanonne Jeffers, who takes on the role of being her own elder,
comforting herself in the ways that her grandmother used to.
Finally, in his comic story "Everyone at Dinner Has a Max von Sydow
Story," Dave Eggers suggests that sometimes stories don't have neat
or clean endings--that sometimes the middle is enough. With new
writing from Sandra Cisneros, Colum McCann, Omar El Akkad, and
Mieko Kawakami, Freeman's: Conclusions is a testament to the
startling power of literature to conclude in a state of beauty,
fear, and promise.
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.
Evoking childhood memories and lifelong relationships with humour,
poignancy, and preternatural clarity, What Possessed Me also
explores the natural world and landscapes in various parts of
England, Wales, France, and Greece. Another theme is the work of
teaching and other professions seen from the vantage points of
provider, recipient, and witness. There are salutes to writers like
Edward Thomas, Dannie Abse and Jack Gilbert who, we are told, 'put
his life into poetry.' Separate sequences celebrate years of
occasional visits to Llandaff Cathedral and its surrounding
landscape, and the delights and political revelations of a stay in
Athens. This is a book diverse in its moods and subjects but
unified by an infectious openness to the moment and to life's joys
and sorrows, and an unfolding sense of accumulating experience and
insight. It is illuminated by a recurrent sense of inspiration, of
'what possessed me.'
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Poems New and Old
John Freeman
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R912
Discovery Miles 9 120
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When research is so connected to personal interest, experience, and
familiarity that objectivity becomes a moveable feast, the line
between documentation and invention blurs to near-invisibility.
John Freeman asks what it means to locate oneself into research
findings and narrative reports, and what happens when one's self
goes further and becomes the research. Subjecting received truths
to a series of hard questions, readers are taken on a journey
through self-performance; traumatic memoir; the lure of weasel
words; emotional evocation; the vagaries of memory; creative
nonfiction; cultural appropriation; illusion masquerading as truth
and the complex ethics of university research. Case studies from
international autoethnographers run through the book and appendices
provide invaluable advice to university researchers and
supervisors. The result is a work that sheds new light on forms of
narrative research that connect writers' personal stories to the
participatory cultures under investigation.
Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia provides a fresh
examination of utopia and education. Adopting an interdisciplinary
approach and drawing on literature and the visual arts as well as
traditional non-fiction sources, the authors explore utopia not as
a model of social perfection but as the active, imaginative
building of better worlds. Utopian questions, they argue, lie at
the heart of education, and addressing such questions demands
attention not just to matters of theoretical principle but to the
particulars of everyday life and experience. Taking utopia
seriously in educational thought also involves a consideration of
that which is dystopian. Utopia, this book suggests, is not
something that is fixed, final, or ever fully realized; instead, it
must be constantly recreated, and education, as an ongoing process
of reflection, action, and transformation, has a central role to
play in this process.
Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply
divided America-including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay,
Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat,
Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more America is
broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit
any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present
itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas,
the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to
unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is
systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the
long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only
the American Dream but our very lives. In Tales of Two Americas,
some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond
numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this
divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and
poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are
shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a
suffering that touches so many people.
This insightful and practically-focused collection brings together
different approaches to actor training from professionals based at
universities and conservatoires in the UK, the US and Australia.
Exploring the cultural and institutional differences which affect
actor training, and analysing developments in the field today, it
addresses a range of different approaches, from Stanislavski's
System to contemporary immersive theatre. With hands-on focus from
some of the world's leading programmes, and attention paid to
ethical control, consent and safe practice, this book sees expert
tutors exploring pathways to sustainable 21st century careers.
Designed for tutors, students and practitioners, Approaches to
Actor Training examines what it means to train as an actor, what
actors-in-training can expect from their programmes of study and
how the road to professional accomplishment is mapped and
travelled.
Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia provides a fresh
examination of utopia and education. Adopting an interdisciplinary
approach and drawing on literature and the visual arts as well as
traditional non-fiction sources, the authors explore utopia not as
a model of social perfection but as the active, imaginative
building of better worlds. Utopian questions, they argue, lie at
the heart of education, and addressing such questions demands
attention not just to matters of theoretical principle but to the
particulars of everyday life and experience. Taking utopia
seriously in educational thought also involves a consideration of
that which is dystopian. Utopia, this book suggests, is not
something that is fixed, final, or ever fully realized; instead, it
must be constantly recreated, and education, as an ongoing process
of reflection, action, and transformation, has a central role to
play in this process.
What makes a particular performance 'great'? The Greatest Shows on
Earth offers an address that focuses sharply on theatre as
performance: as an event that can stir the blood, the spirit and
the brain like nothing else. The result is a book about fourteen
outstanding theatre events from a dozen countries. In discrete,
production-focused chapters, work from Peter Brook's King Lear
through to the Sydney Olympics Opening Event is approached by a
team of international scholars and practitioners, each describing
in print that which existed in time and space and, most
significantly, within specific contexts. What binds these chapters
together is the conviction that whilst liveness disappears in a
moment, spectatorship can translate into documentation that adds
something to a work's value ... even as so much else can never be
captured in words. In wrestling with ephemerality and memory, The
Greatest Shows on Earth does more than make a case for what makes
certain theatre great, it foregrounds analysis with emotion and
writing with the type of first-person engagement that is usually
edited out rather than invited in. John Freeman lectures in
Performance Studies at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.
He has written extensively on theatre, art, pedagogy and research
for numerous international journals, newspapers, magazines, books,
government and funding agencies, galleries, festivals and
consultancy panels. The Greatest Shows on Earth is his fifth book.
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary
American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as
Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra
Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and
anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American
short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and
mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst
of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in
1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short
stories from all genres, including-for the first time in a
collection of this scale-science fiction, horror, and fantasy,
placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen
King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond
Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson.
Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now
editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing
work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by
Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast
the shape and texture of today's enlarging atmosphere of literary
dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter
of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff,
George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas
by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure
trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.
This is the definitive practical guide to getting the most out of
your digital SLR camera, written by top working photographer, John
Freeman. Full of inspiring photography and professional tips, it is
ideal for all keen amateur photographers and those aspiring to move
over from using a traditional film SLR camera. The digital single
lens reflex (DSLR) camera is now the must-have camera for all
serious amateur photographers. Whether you already own one or are
thinking of making the move from a point-and-shoot digital camera
or a film SLR, this practical guide will provide all the help,
advice and inspiration you need. Chapters include: understanding
the DSLR system, seeing the picture, photographing landscapes,
nature, people, architecture, still life, action, getting more from
your DSLR and post-production techniques. Updates include: New
product images and updated technical information.
Tracing the Footprints is aimed at students, teachers,
practitioners and lecturers involved in the documentation of
practice. On a surface level, it documents the construction of a
performance project, 'At Last Sight, ' which was made with a group
of final year UK undergraduates. Beyond this, and more importantly,
the book serves as a unique document of the activities involved in
articulating the processes of live performance. What the book
demonstrates is that theatre making is not just one process but
many; all linked, interwoven, impossible to disentangle
The latest installment from "a powerful force in the literary
world" (Los Angeles Times) Freeman's turns to one of the greatest
elevating forces of life: love In a time of contentiousness and
flagrant abuse, it often feels as if our world is run on hate.
Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and
most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed
series, Freeman's Love asks this question, bringing together
literary heavyweights like Tommy Orange, Anne Carson, Louise
Erdrich, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk alongside emerging
writers such as Gunnhild Oyehaug and Semezdin Mehmedinovic.
Mehmedinovic contributes a breathtaking book-length essay on the
aftermath of his wife's stroke, describing how the two reassembled
their lives outside their home country of Bosnia. Richard Russo's
charming and painful "Good People" introduces us to two sets of
married professors who have been together for decades, and for whom
love still exists, but between the wrong pair. Haruki Murakami
tells the tale of a one-night stand that feels like a dying sun.
Together, the pieces comprise a stunning exploration of the
complexities of love, tracing it from its earliest stirrings, to
the forbidden places where it emerges against reason, to loss so
deep it changes the color of perception. In a time when we need it
the most, this issue promises what only love can bring: a solace of
complexity and warmth.
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Maps (Paperback)
John Freeman
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R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
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For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and 'one
of the preeminent book people of our time' (Dave Eggers) - it is a
rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the
election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was
the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in protest and
the sense of community and collective conviction felt right. But
the assaults continued - on citizens' rights and long-held
compacts, on the core principles of our culture and civilisation,
and on our language itself. Words seemed to be losing the meanings
they once had and Freeman was compelled to return to their defence.
The result is his Dictionary of the Undoing. From A to Z, 'Agitate'
to 'Zygote,' Freeman assembled the words that felt most essential,
most potent, and began to build a case for their renewed power and
authority, each word building on the last. The message that emerged
was not to retreat behind books, but to emphatically engage in the
public sphere, to redefine what it means to be a literary citizen.
With an afterword by Valeria Luiselli, Dictionary of the Undoing is
a necessary, resounding cri de coeur in defense of language,
meaning, and our ability to imagine, describe, and build a better
world.
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