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Explores a key hip hop album marking the cross over point where the streets and the charts collided.

A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal by the bestselling author of White Mughals

An utterly festive interactive book for children featuring the irresistible Lulu The third book in this bestselling novelty series

An utterly fabulous interactive book for clothes-obsessed toddlers

In the troubled island of Cyprus, the national interests and rivalries of Greece and Turkey still collide, the population remains divided between the Greek and Turkish communities and the country is a cat's paw of outside powers. This book portrays Cyprus as a continuing source of international tension in the Mediterranean and beyond.

To absorb Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is to be taken on a wild voyage with a cast of downtrodden revolutionaries. Despite this notion, the epic themes of the Pogues' second full length record have been overlooked by both critics and biographers. This book discusses the record's articulation of what it is to be magnificently downtrodden.

An invaluable guide to this popular and beautiful canal, providing cruising and background info on the canal, as well as distance maps for each stage, showing locks, bridges and yacht havens, all illustrated with enticing colour photos.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's dazzling comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Love's Labour's Lost in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with three leading directors - Terry Hands, Liz Shipman and Gregory Doran - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

Argues that on "Twenty Jazz Funk Greats", Throbbing Gristle modelled a critically promiscuous way of relating to or inhabiting musical genre, where punk rock was passionate and direct, TG were arch and mysterious. This title explores the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, with key concepts, strategies and contexts.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great drama of ambition, desire and guilt. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Macbeth in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are three interviews with leading directors - Rupert Goold, Gregory Doran and Trevor Nunn - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

Examines the key ingredients in baking (flour, yeast, salt and water), explains the science behind the alchemic processes, and advises on the right kit to get started. This book demonstrates how to make yeast and non-yeast breads, as well as enriched doughs and home-started sourdough, and includes sixty recipes.

At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines. Its influence remains very significant to the history of Europe and the Americas. Maltby provides a concise and readable history of the empire's dramatic rise and fall, with special emphasis on the economy, institutions and intellectual movements.

Explains the ins and outs of collecting, including relevant UK laws, conservation notes, practical tips and identification techniques. This book includes 72 species we are most likely to come across during forays in Britain's forests and clearings. It also contains more than 30 simple mushroom recipes with colour photographs.

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts.

Leading practitioners write polemically about the techniques, intentions, and ethics of documentary theater.

Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives are facsimile editions of the original books published by A&C Black in 1913, containing hundreds of snippets of entertaining advice for a happy marriage, which rings true almost 100 years after they were written.

Tested methods and a ground-breaking scientic study from top marriage guru John Gottman

In the fifth of the River Cottage Handbook series, John Wright reveals the rich pickings to be had on the seashore - and the team at River Cottage explain how to cook them to perfection.

From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. This work tells the story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country.

Presents hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married Shakespeare. This book asks questions, opens fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare.

This fascinating and practical book will help the seasoned gardener find easier and more productive ways of gardening, growing vegetables in particular, and give new gardeners heart.

A classic work for actors and students on understanding and playing Shakespeare. In the first half of the book, Barton attempts an objective analysis of how Shakespeare's text actually works; in the second half he concentrates on the more subjective areas such as irony and ambiguity, passion and coolness.

Who was Monte Melkonian? Europe denounced him as a terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. This book tells the story of what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words.

Describes Master of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric centre in southern California in 1985.

Covers the 1089 bird species from Kenya and Northern Tanzania, including vagrants. All the species are illustrated with full details of the plumages and major races likely to be encountered. Concise text describes identification, status, range, habits and voice with range maps for nearly every species.

In the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York.

This title, written by Paul Gulino, provides a practical and fascinating guide for aspiring screenwriters.

A highly illustrated, practical handbook, covering the different methods of sustainable and eco-friendly construction.

Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5

Drawing on examples from his clients' work and his own, Harold Guskin presents acting as a constantly evolving exploration rather than as a progression toward a fixed goal. He also offers sound and original advice on adapting to the particular demands of television and film.