Dark & violent Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies Indeed for 250 years
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Shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize & the Shine Strong Award) Tara Bergin returns with her second collection The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx The poems draw on folksong fairytale & theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring & sometimes tragic consequences of translation When she committed suicide in 1898 Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx pioneering sociologist & translator of Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine Emma Both women in their own ways died passionate deaths & Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love intense grief With a sing-song rhythm & dark humour they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers great writers & great readers who like the fancy-dressed children in ' Mask' are both 'themselves & strangers' ' That's all they wanted' ...

From the first steam trains to the high-speed bullet locomotives of today this is a glorious celebration of the history of trains & railways Take a look around the engines of some of the most well-known locomotives in British history such as the Rocket the Mallard & the Javelin along with famous international trains such as India's Palace on Wheels & America's Thatcher Perkins Trace the routes of the most important rail routes in history from the continent-spanning Union-Pacific Railroad & Trans-Siberian Railway to the routes of iconic locomotives such as the Orient Express the Blue Train & the Eurostar & discover the stories of the pioneers of train & track
- including George & Robert Stephenson; Isambard Kingdom Brunel creator of the Great Western Railway; & Fulgence Bienvenue designer of the Paris Metro Rounded out by comprehensive photographic catalogues of the most important trains from each period The Train Book is the perfect gift for any train enthusiast
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Inspired by a true incident during World War II in & The Train& Burt Lancaster plays a French Resistance fighter doggedly attempting to stop a train used by the Nazis (led by Paul Scofield as Colonel Von Waldheim) to steal precious French art treasures in the summer of 1944 Featuring spectacular action sequences expertly directed by John Frankenheimer & The Train& is a truly thrilling war film The Oscar-nominated screenplay by Franklin Coen & Frank Davis superbly recreates the tension of this heroic episode Actors Burt Lancaster Paul Scofield Jeanne Moreau Suzanne Flon Michel Simon & Wolfgang Preiss Director John Frankenheimer Certificate PGYear 1964 Screen Widescreen 1661 Languages English ; French ; German
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; French ; German for the hearing impaired ; Greek ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Swedish Duration 2 hours & 6 minutes (approx)
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The Train Giant is an exciting mixture of city building & traffic management simulation As CEO of a train company the player has to operate positively by erecting businesses & expanding the railway network Through the expansion of freight & passenger traffic more & more Companies will become customers In this way a small town will change into a prosperous city The player has to manage all the details from the timetable to the expansion of the rail network to be a railway superstar Sophisticated ecological system with many details Over 50 carefully modelled trains 30 maps & city layouts 120 different types of buildings Well known buildings

Includes:: the Eiffel Tower Big Ben & the Empire State Building Stock-market with 120 companies Day & night phases Extensive in game-help Plenty of management features

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Suzy is surprised to find a troll building a railway through her house
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When Suzy hears a strange noise in the night she discovers a train roaring through her house But this is no ordinary train This is the magical delivery express for the Union of Impossible Places Whisked on board Suzy's world is turned upside down & she suddenly realizes the fate of the Impossible Places is in her hands 384 pages Bell P G ...

' Amazing' Guardian From the on-screen experts for BBC2's Cat Watch & based on their groundbreaking research
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Written by a team of leading trainers practitioners & supervisors this bestselling classic is the trainee therapist's best friend It identifies & guides trainees through the practical skills & knowledge they'll need to make a success of their training
- from writing essays through to case formulation & on to preparing for their first meeting with a client Along the way it addresses & allays the concerns which are common to all students Now in its fourth edition the book has been fully updated to take account of the significant changes in the therapy professions in recent years It now

Includes:: new & important chapters on Evidence-based practice Working with diversity Reflective practice Using social media technology & online therapy The Trainee Handbook is an invaluable companion & source of information & guidance for all trainees in counselling psychotherapy & counselling psychology & newly-qualified therapists entering into practice


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SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks or explore an old tunnel leading towell who knows where? Listen hard Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed They are the railway lines & services that ran on them that have disappeared & gone forever Our lost legacy

Includes:: lines prematurely axed often with a gripping & colourful tale of their own as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard & grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball Then there are the lost delights of train travel such as haute cuisine in the dining car the grand expresses with their evocative names & continental boat trains to romantic far-off places The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks the yarns of the men & women who operated them & the colourful trains that ran on them It is a journey into the soul of our railways summoning up a magic which although mired in time is fortunately not lost for ever THIS EDITION REVISED & UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS

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