Unravels the cultural history of plants from 500-1400, when ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved but overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicines, eating habits and art.
Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.
Between 2020 and 2022, theatre had to adapt and, in doing so, challenged ideas of what was possible, and what was even 'theatre'. Due to the global pandemic, an exceptional and wide range of works made for, or adapted to, brand new conditions and limitations. While these works are defined by interpandemic conditions in the Anthropocene, they serve as portals to thinking about theatre-making in the future. Gathered in this collection are pieces adapted or made for podcast theatre, livestream illusionist interactive performance, audience-uploaded hybrid performance, one-on-one online interaction, lip-synch opera-theatre, climate crisis activist manifesto film/theatre, spoken word and gaming installation art, multi-location broadcast plays, providing an accessible introduction to 'Transmedia' theatre. Transmedia theatre has been a boundary-breaking and rich area of performance since the 1990s, but the (by necessity) explosion of works that were created during the early years of the pandemic signalled a new, exciting, and accessible method by which theatre-makers could share their work and also challenge their own practices. While these specific works are markers of a specific time in performance history, they also point ways forward, not only in terms of form and function, but in how educators, students and fellow practitioners could conceive of re-staging these works in person and/or on digital platforms. For a generation that has grown up online, whose vocabularies of expression are as much digitally native as they are IRL, transmedia theatre, and the realm too of VR and AR story and audience design which it borders, holds a firm place in busting open the realm of the possible.
A complete and modern guide to whisky, from how to taste it to the world's best distilleries, by educator, expert and teacher Kristiane Sherry.
An indispensable guide to the festive season. Includes recipes, crafts and gifts, and tips from planning to hosting.
The new, addictive slow-burn sports romance from the author of TikTok smash hits Collide and Spiral.
An honest and deeply moving graphic memoir from Hayley Gullen documenting her breast cancer diagnosis at 37
A gripping new journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of those who dared to love.
A searing insight into the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.
A football fan's dream come true - every complete UK Panini sticker album 1978-1993 reproduced as facsimiles in one volume.
The ultimate one pot cookbook, packed with recipes that are exciting, easy and actually delicious.
Globally beloved chef Anthony Bourdain's bestselling classic - the hearty, delicious recipes and provocative tricks of the trade from his famed French brasserie where he made his name - with a new foreword by Fergus Henderson
A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present.
Legendary cricket writer Scyld Berry celebrates his reporting of 500 Test matches in this unique portrait of English cricket culture.
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