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This book includes many new, enhanced features and content.
Overall, the text integrates two success stories of practicing
instructional designers with a focus on the process of
instructional design. The text includes stories of a relatively new
designer and another with eight to ten years of experience, weaving
their scenarios into the chapter narrative. Throughout the book,
there are updated citations, content, and information, as well as
more discussions on learning styles, examples of cognitive
procedure, and explanations on sequencing from cognitive load
theory.
Desires are suppressed and aspirations thwarted for both the staff
and patients of a psychiatric ward. Orderly Oliver pines for
Margaret Thatcher. Dr Rupert wants Nurse Whitehall who wants Dr
Rupert. But Dr Rupert and his wife are trying for a baby and Nurse
Whitehall who is also married has just returned from maternity
leave. As for the patients, Duncan secretly loves Anna who secretly
loves Martin who openly loves no one. Both a love story and a
modern allegory of the state, Picture Ourselves in Latvia confronts
the impossibility of categorising people as either sane or insane.
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Two of Us (Paperback)
Ross Howard
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Two of Us flashes between Honolulu and New York City, shining a
spotlight on the lives of He and She and the social and domestic
pressures leading to the destructive act of He assassinating John
Lennon in December 1980. A showdown between the real and the
fantastic through a haunting cast of characters, Two of Us is a
mind-bending parable of contemporary relevance speaking to gender
expectations, celebrity culture, and gun violence.
One of Manhattan's most established play festivals, the Samuel
French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of
emerging writers, giving them the exposure of publication and
representation. From the initial pool of over 860 submissions, the
Final Thirty plays were chosen to be performed over a period of one
week. A panel of judges comprised of celebrity playwrights,
theatrical agents and artistic directors nominated one or more of
each evening's plays as finalists. The final roun
In the wake of public spending cuts, Arthur wrestles with the
methods set out in Montgomery Swank's 28 Ways to Terminate Your
Existence and Questions You May Have, the one book he has salvaged
from the closure of his beloved library. In the wake of her own
death, his wife Esther reconciles the ghosts of the past with a
hope for the future. A play of two worlds. This elemental and
affecting two-hander explores love, its loss, and the lives we
inherit and impose on others. " - full of both outrageous dark
comedy and deep sincerity - an ultimately compelling night of
theatre" nytheatre.com British playwright Ross Howard is an Edward
F. Albee Foundation Fellow. Frisky & The Panda Man was a
winning finalist in the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play
Festival 2013.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays
examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern
life. In Tilly (An Introduction), a young woman films herself
auditioning to become a surrogate mother. Colour-coded jelly beans
prove the saving of one man's career in Rules of Assortment, and a
football manager introduces his latest acquisition to an assembled
press in Our Prospects For The Coming Season. A son is reunited
with his biological mother in Relinquish, while in The Viewing an
estate agent shows a couple around their dream home to a soundscape
of gunfire and screaming. Finally, in Frisky & The Panda Man, a
conservationist struggles to rationalise his feelings for the last
female panda on earth. Dark, irreverent and very funny, Our Walk
Through The World was first performed at the Old Red Lion Theatre,
London in October 2013. With flexible casting and staging
requirements, the plays may be performed individually or together.
Frisky & The Panda Man was a winning finalist in the Samuel
French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival 2013.
We were advised that French was the language of the true elite when
embarking on the Grand Tour. We were further advised that if one
was residing in the British Isles (as we were), departure should be
from Dover in order that one could go directly to Paris, where the
traveller might undertake lessons in French, and pass the time in
dancing, fencing and riding and otherwise become immersed in the
experience of 'courtly behaviour and fashion'. In the circumstances
we should have felt guilty about departing from Portsmouth and
arriving in Cherbourg with our first stop a rather seedy caravan
park. The last time I received lessons in French, was when
grappling with conjugated French verbs in a class of low-brows that
felt up-lifted when described by the teacher as a bunch of
brainless thugs. Unbeknowst at the time, we would later be given
the opportunity to dance on French soil, while acknowledging that
the cut of our dancing dress may not have passed muster by the
Paris dancing masters. As to fencing and riding, the last time this
was countenanced was the fencing undertaken to keep wandering
wildlife out of the garden and as to riding, I take poetic licence
and include the riding of my trusty cycle. Our journeys, taken in
the footsteps of those 18th Century 'young men of means', took a
variety of forms, followed a variety of routes, and were undertaken
for a variety of reasons. The reasons encompassed leisure,
business, family, curiosity, education and pleasure. The forms
included boats, planes, trains and diverse automobiles. The routes
ranged through France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany,
Belgium, Ireland, Norway, the Czech Republic and Hungary. We
sometimes forgot we were the foreigners, but as we didn't reject
the food, ignore the customs, or avoid the people, all our
experiences were positive and we hope those we met in that mosaic
of nations felt the same way. There is little doubt that travel can
influence us in a variety of ways, but often we do not acknowledge
the humility that should be embodied in travel, which underscores
what a tiny place we occupy in the world.
These travels describe an Antarctic adventure through the wild
Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea the so-called Heart of Antarctica
and the furthest south you can travel by boat. This is the
heartland of the region first explored by Scott and his compatriots
before their untimely disaster. On the other side of the southern
continent we visit those places put on the map by the intrepid
whalers who roamed the southern seas. This is Shackleton country
and we visit South Georgia and Elephant Island made famous by the
heroic exploits of Shackleton and his party and then move on to the
sublime beauty of the Antarctic Peninsula.
This is a journey through Jordan, Syria and includes a short dash
to Beirut. The illustrated narrative looks at both the present day
and historical events that have contributed to the way the people
are, how they seem themselves and how they see others. A more
recent context is the turmoil in the Arab nations across the Middle
East and the progressive removal of yesterday's tyrants and
dictators.
The narrative is of travels through Tajikistan, the poorest country
economically in Central Asia. As the Soviet Union disintegrated,
the economy collapsed, the people suffered extreme privation and
large elements of the country reverted to what became known as a
"yak economy." Shortly after the declaration of independence in
1991, the country descended into Civil War, with open hostilities
between the warring factions only coming to an end in 1997. The
country is still recovering from the economic devastation wrought
by the conflict and today, over half the population is deemed to be
in poverty, surviving on an income equivalent to or less than
US$2.00 per day. Tajikistan is the smallest nation in Central Asia
with over 50 per cent of the land-mass being more than 3,000 metres
above sea level. It is also the most water rich country with lakes,
major glaciers and more than 900 of its rivers over 10 kilometres
in length. The journey follows the border with Afghanistan and
traverses the High Pamirs and the so-called Pamir Knot. This term
identifies the junction of the Himalaya, Karakoram, Tian Shan,
Kunlun and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. Collectively, these
mountains form the roof of the world. The ethnic composition of a
population of 8 million is 60 per cent Tajik, who include the
Pamiris who occupy much of the Pamir region, followed by 23 per
cent Uzbek. The balance is made up of Russian, Kyrgyz and several
other smaller minorities. The majority of Tajiks are Sunni Muslims,
while the Pamiris are almost exclusvely followers of the Ishmaeli
sect of Shia. Tajikistan is a secular republic and elections are
held for the presidency and the parliament. However, since the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the system has been dominated by the
same power structure, and Emomalii Rahmon, the President, came to
power in 1994 following a disputed election, and has remained in
place through a sequence of similarly disputed ballots. His regime
is seen to be corrupt and he has been described as running the
country for his own pesonal profit and is prepared to use threats
and intimidation to remain in power. The narrative considers the
issues of corruption and poverty and how the majority of people
were focused on survival and didn't wish to be distracted by those
things over which they had no control. However, they do know that
the aspirations they have for their children and the future will
not come to pass unless the constraining knot of poverty,
dictatorship and corruption is loosened and brought undone. Only
then with the human spirit prevail.
Egypt and Turkey each have a surfeit of grand archaeological sites
that have excited travellers over the millenia. Being as they are
at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa the sites reflect a
myriad of influences and the consequences of competing invaders and
civilisations that have put their stamp on what remains. But there
is a constant across the ages and that is the people and the need
for them to survive and make their way in the social and economic
environment that prevailed at the time. True travellers have a
curiosity about the local perspective of common issues, how people
satisfy their basic needs and meet the daily challenges. If you
dont experience these social atmospherics you miss the learning
opportunity that travel provides. This journey visits all of the
popular sites and marvels at their wonder, but the book seeks to
avoid becoming a travelogue of sites, that is better left to the
notable guidebooks available today. A more abiding interest is how
the people see themselves and how they view those with whom they
need to co-exist both nationally and internationally, especially
those from different religious and social structures. What is the
nature of the ruling structure - democracy, dictatorship or
theocracy? How does the ruling structure maintain order? How open
is society? These are the questions the true traveller seeks to
have answered during the course of their journey.
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