Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London (9781473825543)

A fresh and colourful look at Shakespeare's London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death. Readers can explore the streets of Shakespeare's London and see the sights he saw, while learning how people ate, drank, misbehaved and had fun. You will discover what it was like to be a tourist in the sixteenth century from the voices of people who came to London during Shakespeare's day. You will travel with them to the major tourist sights and will learn how to get about, where to stay and what to eat and drink. You will visit the royal palaces, London's famous gardens, the Tower of London and Old St Paul's Cathedral. You will discover the pleasure of London's theatres, the sports people played and the shopping they enjoyed. As now, London was famous as a shopping destination. But beware, London is full of people who will pick your pockets or trick you out of your money and you are constantly at risk from the plague or even the polluted water supply. Most of the London Shakespeare knew has been destroyed by fire, war and developers, but a surprising number of buildings and places which he knew still survive.The book contains guided tours which show you to sample the atmosphere and see the sights which Tudor tourists enjoyed.
This title will appeal to Shakespeare lovers, social history fans, fiction and drama lovers, students and anyone with an interest in this fascinating era of London's history.

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• Format Paperback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 234 x 15.24mm | 430.91g
• Publication date 24 May 2016
• Publisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Imprint Pen & Sword History
• Publication City/Country Barnsley, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 8pp B&W illustrations
• ISBN10 1473825547
• ISBN13 9781473825543
• Bestsellers rank 1,432,631

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Overextended and Loving Most of It : The Unexpected Joy of Being Harried, Heartbroken, and Hurling Oneself Off Cliffs (9780849921926)

Would you consider your life stretched to the limit?

Are you a burn-the-candle-at-both-ends kind of gal with lots of room for improvement when it comes to creating margins for rest? But you actually love it and wouldn't want it any other way? Well, so does Lisa Harper.

In her humorous and packed-with-biblical-wisdom way, Lisa shows us that it is possible for a frazzled nature to be glorifying to the Lord. Every late-night conversation with a hurting friend and each precious, adopted child needing a little extra tender loving care-exhausting, yet imperative, ways to be extensions of the gospel. In each of these vignettes illustrating Lisa's overextended life, we learn that even in the middle of our own pure motives and hectic schedules, it is only by resting in God's sovereign mercy that we are able to keep risking our hearts to serve his people and fulfill the callings he has placed on us.

Real life . . . abundant life . . . godly life is about loving Jesus and the people he allows us to rub shoulders with well-which means some days you'll be stretched emotionally and physically. You'll feel overextended. Thankfully God will expand our hearts and calendars to accommodate the calling. He is in the business of supplying us with new mercies every morning . . . new candles to burn, for more lives needing his light.

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• Format Paperback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 213 x 16mm | 209g
• Publication date 10 Sep 2013
• Publisher Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Publication City/Country Nashville, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 0849921929
• ISBN13 9780849921926
• Bestsellers rank 1,019,474

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Twilight Visions : Surrealism and Paris (9780520260818)

Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in "Twilight Visions", the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis - in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect the tumultuous social and cultural transformations occurring in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. Juxtaposing the strange with the familiar, they seek to break down repressive hierarchies. At the same time, they represent a desire to change the world through experimental activities. Introduced by Therese Lichtenstein, with essays by Therese Lichtenstein, Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick, this absorbing volume considers the social, aesthetic, and political stances of the Surrealists as they probed hidden aspects of the commonplace and blurred the boundaries between dreams and reality, subjectivity and objectivity. It is co published by Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

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• Format Hardback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 228.6 x 231.14 x 17.78mm | 907.18g
• Publication date 30 Sep 2009
• Publisher University of California Press
• Publication City/Country Berkerley, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 134 b/w photographs
• ISBN10 0520260813
• ISBN13 9780520260818
• Bestsellers rank 1,646,974

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Henry Taylor (9780847863105)

This definitive survey of over 200 of the painter s portraits and street scenes forms a personal and political portrait of society today. For three decades the iconic artist has worked his way through New York, Los Angeles, Europe, and Africa, documenting what he sees. In his circle are artists, musicians, writers, performers, as well as friends from his ten years as a psychiatric technician. It is the artist s empathetic eye that allows him to imagine his figures with authenticity and grace not better than they are, or more glamorous but part of a big, complicated world. Flat, brushy flows of colour cast figures that often float in surreal landscapes abstracted from the barbeque in the park, or neighbouring street. Suites of Taylor s paintings are reproduced alongside handwritten accounts of the sittings, offering an in-depth understanding of the artist s world. Contributions by Hilton Als, Charles Gaines, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and Zadie Smith touch on the nature of truth, Matisse s concept of original naivete, and the state of the subject. This definitive monograph celebrates Taylor s direct and revealing portraits, offering a tonic to a divisive cultural moment in time.

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• Format Hardback | 272 pages
• Dimensions 254 x 305 x 35.56mm | 2,585.48g
• Publication date 09 Oct 2018
• Publisher Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 200 Colour Illustrations
• ISBN10 0847863107
• ISBN13 9780847863105
• Bestsellers rank 701,429

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Prophetic Preaching : A Pastoral Approach (9780664233327)

Where have all the prophets gone? And why do preachers seem to shy away from prophetic witness? Astute preacher Leonora Tisdale considers these vexing questions while providing guidance and encouragement to pastors who want to recommit themselves to the task of prophetic witness. With a keen sensitivity to pastoral contexts, Tisdale's work is full of helpful suggestions and examples to help pastors structure and preach prophetic sermons, considered by many to be one of the most difficult tasks pastors are called to undertake.

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• Format Paperback | 192 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 12.7mm | 226.8g
• Publication date 09 Aug 2010
• Publisher Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
• Publication City/Country Louisville, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0664233325
• ISBN13 9780664233327
• Bestsellers rank 69,937

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Powerful Voices : The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella (9780472118250)

Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial era. Considered in the context of college glee clubs, barbershop quartets, early-twentieth-century vocal pop groups, doo-wop groups, and contemporary a cappella manifestations in pop music, collegiate a cappella is an extension of a very old tradition of close harmony singing---one that includes but also goes beyond the founding of the Yale Whiffenpoofs. Yet despite this important history, collegiate a cappella has until now never been the subject of scholarly examination.

In Powerful Voices: The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella, Joshua S. Duchan offers the first thorough accounting of the music's history and reveals how the critical issues of sociability, gender, performance, and technology affect its music and experience. Just as importantly, Duchan provides a vital contribution to music scholarship more broadly, in several important ways: by expanding the small body of literature on choruses and amateur music; by addressing musical and social processes in a field where the vast majority of scholarship focuses on individuals and their products; and by highlighting a musical context long neglected by musicologists---the college campus. Ultimately, Powerful Voices is a window on a world of amateur music that has begun to expand its reach internationally, carrying this uniquely American musical form to new global audiences, while playing an important role in the social, cultural, and musical education of countless singers over the last century.

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• Format Hardback | 280 pages
• Dimensions 157.48 x 231.14 x 27.94mm | 557.92g
• Publication date 30 May 2012
• Publisher The University of Michigan Press
• Publication City/Country Ann Arbor, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 4 musical examples, 7 halftones, 3 figures
• ISBN10 0472118250
• ISBN13 9780472118250
• Bestsellers rank 2,422,117

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Feet Of Clay : Discworld: The City Watch Collection (9781473200241)

THERE'S A WEREWOLF WITH PRE-LUNAR TENSION IN ANKH-MORPORK. AND A DWARF WITH ATTITUDE AND A GOLEM WHO'S BEGUN TO THINK FOR ITSELF.

But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's only the start...

There's treason in the air. A crime has happened.

He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not even sure what they dun. But soon as he knows what the questions are, he's going to want some answers.

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• Format Hardback | 352 pages
• Dimensions 172 x 210 x 31mm | 410g
• Publication date 05 Jun 2014
• Publisher Orion Publishing Co
• Imprint Gollancz
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 1473200245
• ISBN13 9781473200241
• Bestsellers rank 4,214

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