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A Raisin In The Sun (Paperback)
Deirdre Osborne; Lorraine Hansberry; Volume editing by Deirdre Osborne
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A Raisin in the Sun is a classic American play: a groundbreaking
1950s civil rights drama and has a strong claim to be the greatest
play of the black American experience. Deeply committed to the
black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry's
brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she
was only 34. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a
black woman to be produced on Broadway and won the New York Drama
Critics Circle Award. Hansberry was the youngest and the first
black writer to receive this award. She was also the first person
to be called 'young, gifted and black'. The play is set in south
side Chicago, where Walter Lee, a black chauffeur, dreams of a
better life, and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to
open a liquor store. Humane and heart-rending, the play depicts
characters and a whole society with complexity and reality. This
Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a
scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic,
social and political context, and on the themes, characters,
language and structure of the play, as well as a list of suggested
reading and questions for further study and a review of performance
history.
Gloucestershire's strategic location straddling the Severn is
reinforced by Bristol's importance as a port. The Forest of Dean
and the Cotswolds are densely populated by prehistoric hillforts
and Gloucester, Cirencester and Winchcombe were important
throughout the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The Normans built
substantial castles at Bristol, Gloucester and Berkeley, scene of
Edward II's murder, with many more of earth and timber. Many
figured in the conflicts between rival factions culminating in the
Battle of Tewkesbury. In the Civil War, Bristol underwent two
sieges and Gloucester another and one of the last battles, at Stow,
followed continuous skirmishing. The next centuries saw volunteer
forces established, formalised by the State by the end of
Victoria's reign, to counter threats external and internal. A
nascent aircraft industry would develop into aircraft factories and
airfields in the First World War with further development of
training and aircraft storage facilities for the newly formed RAF
during the inter-War period. Anti-invasion defences were
constructed in the Second World War, but the primary effort was in
logistics: bases for arriving US troops; RAF and USAAF training
airfields and depots; and communications facilities. This last
aspect, along with intelligence gathering, continued into the Cold
War and beyond.
The Best in Show series is an outstanding global success. Sally
Muir and Joanna Osborne are back - this time with designs for 25
wild animals. There is something here for everyone, with
instructions for knitting spots, stripes, fur, scales, trunks,
wings and beaks! The animals are surprisingly easy to make. It will
only take a few evenings to create yourself an exotic pet or
reproduce your favourite species. These knitted animals in
miniature are much easier to look after than the real things - they
don't need feeding, they won't make a mess and they take up hardly
any room. This book is a real zoological tour of the globe with
animals from all over the world. Patterns include tiger, crocodile,
penguin, cheetah, anteater, ring-tailed lemur, camel, giraffe,
panda and kangaroo. Idiosyncratic descriptions of the various
species accompany beautiful photography, making this book
irresistible for both keen knitters and wildlife enthusiasts.
Veteran instructional coaches A. Keith Young and Tamarra Osborne
provide practical advice for trainers seeking high-leverage
strategies for successful professional trainings.How do you see
yourself as a trainer? Are you occasionally extraordinary, or do
you flail about a bit? Are you connected to a helpful community of
other trainers, or are you just starting out and feeling isolated
and alone in your job? Do your workshops end with thunderous
applause, or do you have nightmares about participants gazing into
the middle distance and leaving with little more than they started
with? Odds are, you've experienced multiple successes and
failures—and that's OK! Regardless of your starting point or
previous experiences, Training Design, Delivery, and Diplomacy
outlines the essential components you need to build a powerful
training program. Young and Osborne (coauthors of The Instructional
Coaching Handbook) present dozens of strategies to help both novice
and expert trainers avoid common (and not-so-common) training
pitfalls, enabling the design and delivery of powerful sessions
where folks walk away energized with new skills and understanding.
They also introduce valuable tips for engaging participants and
managing challenging behavior with diplomacy. Finally, they offer
guidance on building and maintaining an effective train-the-trainer
program and suggestions for conducting virtual activities in an
online setting. If you feel a bit lost in your own workshop
planning, this is exactly the little presentation skills book
you've been looking for!
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Taken/Taken 2 (DVD)
Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Xander Berkeley, Katie Cassidy, …
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A double bill of fast-paced action thrillers. In 'Taken' (2008),
Liam Neeson stars as Bryan Mills, a former CIA secret agent living
in the US, who is obliged to resurrect the skills he learned in his
old job after his estranged 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace)
is kidnapped by sex slave traffickers while travelling with a
friend in Europe. In the sequel 'Taken 2' (2012), Murad (Rade
Serbedzija), the father of a kidnapper killed by Mills (Neeson) in
the first film, makes a bid for retribution by taking Mills and his
wife (Famke Janssen) hostage in Istanbul. Now their daughter, Kim
(Grace), must swing into action and act swiftly to save her
parents.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Over the past decade,
digital geographies has emerged as a dynamic area of scholarly
enquiry, critically examining how the digital has reshaped the
geography of our world. Bringing together authors working at the
cutting-edge of the field, and grounding abstract ideas in case
studies, this Research Agenda looks at the ways in which technology
has altered all aspects of society, culture and the environment.
Chapters explore four key themes: the role of technology
infrastructures; the ways that winners and losers are created at
the digital margins; the power of the digital to create new spaces;
and the ways that the digital is changing research methods.
Critically outlining the state of play around these topics, each
chapter unpacks a case study related to pioneering research,
suggesting possible avenues for research that digital geographers
might pursue. The Research Agenda concludes with an identification
of three priority areas for future work: the intimate nature of our
relations with technology; approaches to resisting the power of
technology companies; and finally, the need for more
interdisciplinary approaches to examining digital geographies.
Rooted in the subject areas of technology, geography, sociology and
political science, A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies will
be greatly valuable to human and socio-cultural geographers, and
digital social scientists with an interest in how the digital
affects society and space.
"Thomson Exam Essentials: First Certificate Practice Tests" have
been fully updated to the specifications of the new FCE exam
starting in December 2008. It features: 2 fully guided Tests with
Essential Tips; 6 complete tests; all the essential information on
the exam at-a-glance on a special cover flap for easy reference;
quick guide to encourage self-study; special section on the
Speaking Paper in full colour, includes additional helpful phrases
and expressions; Separate Writing Bank with fully writtenout model
compositions, useful language and notes on content and
organisation; Objective Mark Sheets that enable students to
practice copying their answers as in the actual exam; and,
additional practice by using ExamView[registered]Pro CD-ROM.
With a series of 'music in care' books aimed at supporting adults
through a range of life's situations using music, John Osborne has
collaborated with a new young author to bring fresh perspective on
how the power of music can affect a young person's life. Coping
with moving to a new school can be a difficult and challenging time
for any young person but it can be even more problematic if you are
on the autistic spectrum. This book tells the story of Luke Fiddes
a remarkable young man and talented musician. It explains how Luke
became aware of his different and special status and how he learnt
to manage this. It also contains a self help manual for all young
people which is designed to help deal with the struggles of
adolescence using personalised music. This heartwarming, funny and
frank account of Luke's journey gives a remarkable insight into
some of the challenges but also the surprising benefits of living
with Asperger syndrome. "I love my autism because I love music."
Luke Fiddes
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Thunderbirds (DVD)
Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Sophia Myles, Ben Kingsley, Brady Corbet, …
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This live-action, big-budget family blockbuster brings Gerry
Anderson's cult classic 1960s puppet sci-fi TV series to the big
screen. Directed by Jonathan Frakes, the film follows the
intergalactic adventures of the Tracy family, headed by former
astronaut Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), who lives with his five sons on
the top-secret Tracy Island, which also houses the headquarters of
the top-secret International Rescue organisation. When villainous
criminal 'The Hood' (Ben Kingsley) orchestrates an elaborate plan
to remove Jeff and his four eldest sons temporarily from home, so
that he can invade the island and attempt to steal some of the
organisation's most valuable equipment, it is left to Jeff's
youngest son Alan (Brady Corbet) to save the day...
Music is central to our experience of the world around us. it is a
primary source of the way we experience, understand and interpret
the world in which we live. It is one of the core experiences that
define us, unite us and enrich us. This book arose out of John's
professional care experience and personal experience as a carer for
his father who had dementia. As a musician he understood the power
of music to enrich the quality of life. This practical, fun and
interactive book is designed to help people to draw together those
pieces of music that are most significant to them. These become a
compilation that can travel with them on their dementia journey and
can be used in therapeutic ways to reconnect to their memories and
impact on current mood.
Having been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer John realised that
specially chosen pieces of music have a major role in supporting
people who are going through complex medical procedures. This book
is practical, fun and interactive. It helps people to choose music
that will support them in particular aspects of their treatment and
to apply this therapeutically, to help cope through diagnosis,
treatment and to aid healing and recovery.
A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked
to conceal... A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from
Agatha Christie's acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into
a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an
isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of
her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to
murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover
story. But is it possible that Laura Warwick did not commit the
murder after all? If so, who is she shielding? The victim's young
half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother? Laura's lover?
Perhaps the father of the little boy killed in an accident for
which Warwick was responsible? The house seems full of possible
suspects... THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is considered to be one of the
finest of Christie's plays. Hailed as 'another Mousetrap' when it
opened on 12 August 1958 in the West End, it ran for 604
performances over the succeeding 18 months and has been staged many
times around the world over the last 40 years.
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Spider's Web (Paperback)
Agatha Christie; Adapted by Charles Osborne
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A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha
Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that
mustn't be discovered... Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED
GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing
her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife
of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I
were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library,
what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out
when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with
an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house
guests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the
murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party
(but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the
motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police
inspector that there has been no murder at all...
Located in the exact geographical center of Los Angeles County's
South Bay district, Lawndale was originally barley fields, then
chicken ranches and small farms, growing vegetables for sale in
nearby Inglewood and Redondo Beach. Retaining some of its rural
character even after World War II, Lawndale gradually transformed
into suburbia along with nearby communities, fighting all the while
to retain its own identity and staving off aggressive annexation
bids by surrounding cities. Finally in 1959, Lawndale incorporated,
ending civic contentiousness. Despite the bustle of the high-end
Galleria at South Bay, as well as Lawndale's close proximity to
some of the most tourism-friendly beach cities in California and
its bisection by L.A.'s busiest freeway, the I-405, the city's
neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles International Airport
retain the quiet ambiance evinced by its bedroom-community name.
David and Michael Sanderson are brothers, inseparable since childhood from each other and from their neighbor Kay Richards, a complicated young woman involved in a passionate and obsessive love affair with David. One spring night, while at home on a break from college, the threesome embarks on a night of adventure and experimentation, driving recklessly through the Connecticut Valley. Stopping at the French King Bridge, David -- full of hubris and hallucinogens -- dares to jump, mistakenly believing he'll be able to swim ashore. With this one act, he sets in motion an inexorable chain of events that indelibly alters the lives of everyone involved. Told through the alternating voices of Kay, Michael, and David's father, Kevin, The River Road is a closely observed and psychologically penetrating narrative of the accusations, murder investigation, and courtroom battle that follow.
"Young people now more than ever need the tools and resources to
support their mental wellbeing and help fulfil their potential.
This book will be invaluable in helping them achieve this." --DAME
KELLY HOLMES "This is truly a brilliant book! Having worked with
young people for over 25 years in both sport and education, this is
quite simply a MUST read!" --DREW POVEY from Channel 4's Educating
Greater Manchester "Paul's wonderful book, crammed with insight,
action, humour and hope will help you create a better future, not
only for yourself but for all of us." --RICHARD GERVER, Speaker,
author and education expert "A hugely helpful book for both young
people and adults alike. I loved it." --DR KATE MIDDLETON,
Psychologist and director of the Mind & Soul Foundation
Discover how to make the most of being You! YESSS! The SUMO Secrets
to Being a Positive, Confident Teenager uncovers the secrets of
overcoming the challenges and also embracing the opportunities of
one of life's most difficult stages: the teenage years. YESSS! is
full of vibrant, exciting advice that will motivate and equip
readers to overcome the insecurities and confusion that can often
characterize our teenage years. Sunday Times bestselling author and
speaker, Paul McGee aka The SUMO Guy, shows teenagers (and the
people who both care for and support them) how to harness practical
strategies to: Take responsibility for their lives Own and
understand their feelings Build a more positive mindset Develop a
healthy image of themselves Realize that it's OK to not always feel
OK Recover from setbacks and develop perseverance Aspire, set
goals, and dare to dream Perfect for every teenager and all those
involved in supporting them, YESSS! shows young people what it's
like to live with confidence, resilience, hope, and happiness.
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Rhinos at Recess
Mary Pope Osborne, AG Ford
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Black Coffee (Paperback)
Agatha Christie; Adapted by Charles Osborne
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A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha
Christie’s stage play by Charles Osborne Sir Claud Amory’s
revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen.
Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the
lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions
asked. When the lights come on, he is dead, and Hercule Poirot and
Captain Hastings have to unravel a tangle of family feuds, old
flames and suspicious foreigners to find the killer and prevent a
global catastrophe. BLACK COFFEE was Agatha Christie’s first
playscript, originally performed in 1930 and made into a now
rarely-seen film the following year. Combining her typically
beguiling plot and sparkling dialogue with his own faithful
narrative, Charles Osborne’s novelisation is ‘A worthy addition
to the Christie canon’ (The Spectator)
When Christmas-hating Sam moves to Holly Cross, he thinks he's
found the perfect home, until he discovers that, each year, Holly
Cross transforms into the most Christmassy village in the whole
country... Blythe is just one sale away from being Real Estate
Agent of the Month, so she twists the truth to sell a home to city
boy Sam, who is looking for the perfect house in the perfect
location. Little does he know he's just bought a cottage in the
middle of the most Christmassy village in the country. And if
there's one thing Sam loathes, it's Christmas. Sam's arrival puts
Holly Cross's chance to win the title of Britain's Most Perfect
Christmas Village now in jeopardy, and the villagers are soon up in
arms. Meanwhile, Sam is in his own personal hell surrounded by
fairy lights and everyone is looking to Blythe to fix things. But
as the festive season looms, maybe there's more than just Christmas
in Holly Cross for Sam to fall in love with...
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Afternoon on the Amazon Graphic Novel
Mary Pope Osborne; Adapted by Jenny Laird; Illustrated by Kelly Matthews, Nichole Matthews
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The #1 bestselling chapter book series is now available as graphic
novels! Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked away to the Amazon
rainforest on a high-stakes adventure with brother-and-sister team
Jack and Annie! Watch out for that crocodile! Get ready for a wild
ride as Jack and Annie find themselves in the Amazon Rainforest on
a dangerous journey. From killer ants to vampire bats, they never
know what they'll run into next! Soon, they're hopelessly lost (and
a monkey seems to be stalking them. . . what's that about?). Can
they find their way through the jungle before it gets dark?Â
For the first time experience this gripping adventure as a graphic
novel, bursting with vibrant full-color art that brings the magic
to life! Get whisked away with Jack and Annie in more Magic Tree
House Graphic Novels! Knight at Dawn: The Graphic Novel Mummies in
the Morning: The Graphic Novel Pirates Past Noon: The Graphic Novel
Night of the Ninjas: The Graphic Novel
If, as Walter Benjamin believed, 'historical understanding is to be
viewed primarily as an afterlife of that which is to be
understood', what are the afterlives of the central concepts of
modern European philosophy today? These essays reflect on the
afterlives of three such concepts - 'the transcendental', 'the
universal' and 'otherness' - as they continue to animate
philosophical discussion at and beyond the limits of the
discipline. Anthropology, law, mathematics and politics each
provide occasions for testing the historical durability and
transformative capacity of these concepts.
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