Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks each book in the ' Very Short Fairly Interesting & Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum & turns it on its head by providing a critical & sophisticated overview of the key issues & debates in an informal conversational & often humorous way 200 pages Jackson Brad ...

' Indispensable & subversive'
- Simon Caulkin The Observer'A highly entertaining polemic This slim volume more than lives up to
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When the police ask the FBI for help Delta Green agents answer the call This is hardly the first serial-killer case where Delta Green has suspected unnatural forces But it might be the most dangerous to body & soul ...

& Heinemann Plays& offers contemporary drama & new editions of classic plays The series has been developed to support classroom teaching & to meet the requirements of Key Stages 3 & 4 The plays are ideal for classroom reading & performance; many have large casts & an equal mix of parts for boys & girls Each play

Includes:: strategies & activities to introduce & use the plays in the classroom "A View From the Bridge" tells the story of Eddie Carbone who agrees to shelter his wife&s cousins who are seeking refuge in New York as illegal immigrants Trouble begins when his wife&s niece is attracted to Eddie&s younger brother There are 13 parts ten of which are male & three female

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Arthur Miller&s play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman & a straightforward man with a strong sense of decency & of honour For Eddie it&s a privilege to take in his wife&s cousins Marco & Rodolpho straight off the boat from Italy But as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them it&s clear that it&s not just as Eddie claims that he&s too strange too sissy too careless for her but that something bigger deeper is wrong
- & wrong inside Eddie in a way he can&t face Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family This Penguin Classics edition

Includes:: an introduction by the author & a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman


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Everything you need to know & do to get the grade you want! Now in full colour updated for the new GCSE & available in a new student-friendly size York Notes for GCSE is now easier to use & easier to read so it's easier than ever to get top marks Written by examiners & teachers to give you an expert understanding of the text York Notes has the most in-depth coverage & analysis of everything from themes & contexts to characters plots & language You'll get the low-down on everything you'll need to demonstrate how well you understand the text & write the best essays There are sample answers essay plans & specialist guidance on understanding the questions you'll be asked in an exam together with an array of handy"es checklists study tips grade boosters & revision activities to help you learn revise efficiently & remember everything you'll need to write the very best answers It's the ultimate guide to revision & exam success For over 25 years York Notes has been helping GCSE students just like you achieve the very best grade they can in their exam So if you're looking for straightforward easy-to-use advice on how to boost your grades to the next level York Notes for GCSE is the only guide you're going to need ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Roger Moore lends humour elegance & lethal charm to his final performance as James Bond in A View to a Kill Bond confronts Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) who has devised a plan to corner the world’s microchip market even if he has to kill millions to do it But before Bond can stop the madman he must confront Zorin’s beautiful & deadly companion May Day (Grace Jones) ...

Vintage Feminism classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book but it was the first great piece of feminist writing In these pages you will find the essence of her argument
- for the education of women & for an increased female contribution to society Her work made the first ripples of what would later become the tidal wave of the women's rights movement Rationalist but revolutionary Wollstonecraft changed the world for women
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Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
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A Vintage Christmas captures the very essence of what Christmas means to us & what real magic can be found written by some of the world's finest authors including Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle Anthony Trollope Laurie Lee E 272 pages Various ...