The best musical of this century Heaven on Broadway The Book of Mormon achieves something like a miracle -Ben Brantley New York Times A crowning achievement A huge smash success So good it makes me angry-Jon Stewart The Daily Show The biggest Broadway hit in decades-the brilliant brainchild of South Park creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone & Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez-The Book of Mormon is delighting theatergoers nightly with its outrageous irreverent humor & surprising heart Cleverly designed in the same fun spirit as the show this official full-color illustrated coffee table book takes readers behind the scenes with stories from the cast creators & crew Included are the complete book & lyrics to the smash hit Broadway musical extensively annotated plus an original introduction by theater critic & author author Steven Suskin about the creation of the show that Rolling Stone declares is on its march into legend ...

The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of South Park & the co-creator of Avenue Q Features the complete script & song lyrics with 4-color spot illustrations throughout an original introduction by the creators & a foreword by Mark Harris The Book of Mormon which follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get features book music & lyrics by Trey Parker Robert Lopez & Matt Stone Parker & Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of Comedy Central's landmark animated series South Park Tony Award-winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy Avenue Q The Book of Mormon is choreographed by three-time Tony Award-nominee Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python's Spamalot The Drowsy Chaperone) & is directed by Nicholaw & Parker The book

Includes:: an original foreword by journalist Mark Harris (author of Pictures at a Revolution) an original introduction by the authors on the genesis of the show a production history the complete book & lyrics with four-color spot illustrations throughout

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With over 140 million copies in print & serving as the principal proselytizing tool of one of the world's fastest growing faiths the Book of Mormon is undoubtedly one of the most influential religious texts produced in the western world Written by Terryl Givens a leading authority on Mormonism this compact volume offers the only concise accessible introduction to this extraordinary work Givens examines the Book of Mormon first & foremost in terms of the claims that its narrators make for its historical genesis its purpose as a sacred text & its meaning for an audience which shifts over the course of the history it unfolds The author traces five governing themes in particular-revelation Christ Zion scripture & covenant-and analyzes the Book's central doctrines & teachings Some of these resonate with familiar nineteenth-century religious preoccupations; others consist of radical & unexpected takes on topics from the fall of Man to Christ's mortal ministries & the meaning of atonement Givens also provides samples of a cast of characters that number in the hundreds & analyzes representative passages from a work that encompasses tragedy poetry sermons visions family histories & military chronicles Finally this introduction surveys the contested origins & production of a work held by millions to be scripture & reviews the scholarly debates that address questions of the record's historicity Here then is an accessible guide to what is by any measure an indispensable key to understanding Mormonism But it is also an introduction to a compelling & complex text that is too often overshadowed by the controversies that surround it ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven & sold as a slave in the American South Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom
- & of finding her way home again After escaping the plantation torn from her husband & child she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War is shipped to Nova Scotia & then joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing return odyssey to Africa Based on a true story Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three continents & six decades to bring to life a dark & shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave & resourceful woman
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By the Man Booker-winning author Marlon James this is the powerful story of Lilith born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century Even at her birth the Night Women
- a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an isl&-wide revolt
- recognize a dark force in her that they treat with both reverence & fear But as Lilith comes of age & begins to understand her own feelings & identity she dares to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman & as rebellions simmer & unspoken jealousies intensify Lilith's powers & sense of purpose threaten not just her own destiny but the destinies of all the slave women in Jamaica

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Winner of the Garden Media Guild Awards Reference Book of the Year 2016 the Guild of Food Writers Food Book of the year 2016 & the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2016 for Outstanding Achievement Accompanied by a beautiful & comprehensive website of the same name this wonderfully unique book is an indispensable & one-of-a-kind guide It tells the story of the pear from its delightful taste & wonderful appearance to breeding & cultivation following the fruit's journey through history & around the world Beautifully illustrated with 40 botanical watercolour paintings by Elisabeth Dowle The Book of Pears is the most up-to-date & comprehensive guide to the pear Moving through continents & cultures Joan Morgan celebrates the pear's long history as both a fresh & cooking fruit Revealing the secrets of the pear as a status symbol some of the most celebrated fruit growers in history & how the pear came to be so important as an international commodity The pear directory which makes up the second half of the book covers the world's ancient & modern varieties each with full tasting notes & historical geographical & horticultural detail A fully illustrated version of this directory is shown on the author's website wwwthebookofpearsfruitforumnet ...

Indigo bookseller & CP-loving submissive is obsessed with an antiquarian work of sadomasochism which eluded her father all his life Caned roped & shamed through the fleshpots of Europe she will suffer any indignity to prevent Dervil Badon & his transsexual slave Natasha from getting their hands on her prize But Dervil has no intention of allowing a mere submissive to own the legendary Book of Punishment ...

Now fully revised & updated The Book of Saints is a comprehensive biographical dictionary of saints canonised by the Roman Catholic Church It contains the names of over 10000 saints including all modern ones with significant information about their lives & achievements Each section begins with an illustration of a particular saint & the volume

Includes:: a list of national martyrs a bibliography & a helpful glossary Produced by the Benedictine monks of St Augustine's Abbey Chilworth (formerly Ramsgate) this classic resource is now in its 8th edition & is fully revised to include all the saints canonised in the last ten years including Pope St John Paul II & Blessed Paul VI

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Crafted with all the skills that have made his previous books bestsellers The Book of Secrets will be essential reading for Deepak Chopra's huge number of followers worldwide & also appeal to everyone searching for the meaning of life & looking for answers to the questions Who Am I? 288 pages Chopra Deepak MD ...

A sumptuous guide to 600 of the world's weirdest & most beautiful species from the black seed with hair like Donald Trump to pinhead-sized orchid seeds
- The Guardian The book drives home the incredible botanical wealth that is found on our precious blue planet
- The English Garden True time capsules of life seeds are significant items of hope & promise They are the most complex organs plants ever produce & come in an enormously diverse range of shapes sizes & colours; from the impressive coco de mer nut to the microscopic seeds of an orchid to the extraordinary cobalt blue of the traveller's palm pit Seeds are often overshadowed by the adult plant's size & show Here 600 seeds are spotlit each given equal attention each shown as glorious photographs life size & in detail alongside an engraving of the parent plant Every profile

Includes:: a population distribution map a table of essential information & a commentary revealing notable characteristics related species & a diagnosis of the specimen's importance in terms of taxonomy rarity dispersal method & scientific significance Arranged taxonomically this essential reference reveals the variety & importance of seeds to an extent never seen before



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