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The poems in Stephanie de Montalks new collection engage with the world as if through a window cloaked, distanced, guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees. As de Montalk seeks a cure to the life-changing limitations of her physical self, she finds something close to solace in dreaming.

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When Rosalind is banished by her uncle Duke Frederick, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - Orlando, similarly forced into exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her.

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This edition provides a detailed history of the play in production, both on stage and on screen.

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Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students.

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With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy Jacques, this book speaks directly to the twenty-first century. It connects the play to the Elizabethan court and its dynamic queen and demonstrates that the play's vital roots in its own time give it new life in ours.

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Fans of the cult-classic film The Princess Bride can channel their "inconceivable!" ideas and "as you wish" dreams in this unique guided journal, featuring film still, character quotes, and in-world prompts.

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Ever wondered what it's REALLY like to be a Premier League footballer

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An outstanding collection of fresh, zesty poems about identity, sexuality, self-perception and relationships, with a futuristic narrative pulse.

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An analysis, in which, the author rejects the 'pseudoscholarship' of historical criticism - 'that great demon of chronology' - that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists working together in a single room.

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A riveting and insightful account of Bashar al-Assad and his tyrannical regime from the bestselling author of Saddam: The Secret Life.

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Coleman's images are lightning flashes. With lucid spareness this powerful collection contains beautiful and sometimes shocking poetry. The poems vividly and movingly trace experiences inconceivable to most: losing and then fighting to regain mind, movement, voice, words.

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Caution: Contains incidents of insane motorcycle antics, drug use and swearing.

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Combining personal reminiscence with reflections on the history of the place over the years and through the seasons, for the first time this collection brings together writers' impressions of the Pond.

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881. In this biography Andrew Mango looks at his ideals and tactics, his championship of women's rights and his inability to sustain a relationship with women, his nationalism and his belief in a single universal civilization, his drinking bouts and the theories they produced.

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What do ancient Greece and Rome have to do with New Zealand More than you might think. Athens to Aotearoa collects essays from some of New Zealand's most important artistic and critical voices reflecting on their engagement with Greece and Rome and taking aim at New Zealand's complicated take on its classical heritage.

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The study of Fugard's plays and how his work retains an insistent influence in society.

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This is a city that's on the move with over 40'000'000 a year that comes to this town to party like a rock star and have a great time. But there is a dark side also to every smile

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